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Twitch bans several accounts for unauthorized CSGO Berlin Major streaming

Raj 'Stan' Shah
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Twitch bans several accounts for unauthorized CSGO Berlin Major streaming

The Dota 2 Ti views went up to a million this year, and we expect the same from the csgo community.

The CSGO community on twitch is experiencing an unusual ban wave as the popular broadcasters are having their channel taken down whilst the StarLadder Major.

The 2nd Major of this year has some good hype to see their favourite teams play some quality CS. And the twitch community is giving their share by tuning in with their fans to share this huge a moment.

But numerous copyright strikes are stopping this from happening, many streamers were taken down by the DMCA.

The second Major of 2019 has a lot of viewers hyped to see the biggest CSGO teams don the stage once again. As various storylines will undoubtedly unfold, Twitch streamers are tuning in to share the biggest moments with their audiences.

But it seems like copyright strikes are stopping these channels in their tracks, as numerous streamers are pointing to DMCA takedowns from StarLadder as the reason for the unexpected bans.

While StarLadder did a great effort at bringing their streams tuned into thousands of viewers on Twitch and GOTV.

But, Twitch streamers tuned into the GOTV Version in-game, major twitch streamers like Erik ‘fl0m’ Flom, Andre ‘nooky’ Utesch, and more have been banned, apparently with no reason given, after streaming the StarLadder Major on their channels.

Full list of banned CSGO streamers

  • mch_AGG
  • pelaajatco
  • nookyyy
  • 1ukeofficial
  • maleK_CSGO
  • gabepeixe
  • dimaoneshot
  • viperdemon
  • mchfps
  • Ryu7z

The tournament organizers themselves have it written in their StarLadder Major 2019 Official Rulebook and Regulations that they have all broadcasting rights including “video streams (e.g. PoV streams), radio streams, GOTV, replays, demos or TV broadcasts.”

In fact, The IEM Katowice had the same kind of Stipulation but they didn’t much enforce it on a huge community.

In StarLadder’s case, they’ve been handing crucial DMCAs to channels that Twitch has no choice but to oblige by. Although some streamers are saying that these harsh strikes to their channels came with no notice.

Garena’s Free Fire becomes the World’s Most Downloaded Mobile Battle Royale Game

Maël Valentin
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Garena’s Free Fire becomes the World’s Most Downloaded Mobile Battle Royale Game

Free Fire, the world’s most popular mobile battle royale game, was designed to deliver the premium battle royale experience to players all across India. Garena’s first self-developed game set out to address a need with players who wanted a highly immersive and enjoyable social battle royale game, designed specifically for mobile phones.

Free Fire allows users to enjoy the premium mobile battle royale experience on almost any smartphone, and its quicker gameplay with smaller maps offers an engaging and immersive experience every round.

Free Fire

The social and interactive elements of Free Fire, including  its unique guild system and story arcs for main characters in the game, ensure  players are always enjoying the game with those around you.

Free Fire’s deliberate design and social gameplay has grown rapidly to become a favourite all over the world. As of May 2019, Free Fire has more than 450 million registered users, and over 50 million peak daily active users.

Free Fire was the third most downloaded mobile game and the most downloaded battle royale game globally across the Google Play and iOS App Stores combined in the second quarter of 2019, according to App Annie. It also continued to be the top ranking game by monthly active users in Latin America in the second quarter, according to App Annie.

Free Fire has one of the largest and most engaged global games community. Garena World 2019, which hosted the first-ever Free Fire World Cup, saw close to 270,000 attendees over the 2-day event. Free Fire World Cup attracted more than 27 million online views in total and recorded peak concurrent viewers of over 1.1 million on YouTube. Additionally, the recently concluded Free Fire Pro League Brazil 2019 saw close to 13 million views on YouTube alone.

To download and enjoy Free Fire for free, visit:

Google Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dts.freefireth

iOS App Store: https://apps.apple.com/US/app/id1300146617?mt=8  

WoW Classic becomes the most watched game on Twitch in less than an hour after its launch

Prateek Jain
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WoW Classic becomes the most watched game on Twitch in less than an hour after its launch

The launch of World of Warcraft Classic was one of the most anticipated and hyped launch of any MMO game in 2019. The excitement around it was through the roof and many were waiting on Twitch to watch their favourite streamers play the game.

Just within an hour after its official launch, the viewership of the game on Twitch skyrocketed to more than 1 million viewers. This sudden rise of viewers boosted the game to #1 spot on Twitch. Even at the time of writing this article the game is sitting on #1 spot with almost 500k viewers.

Many veteran WoW streamers were also surprised by the numbers. One such streamer- Asmongold was sitting at his all-time highest number of 300k viewers and other streamers were also averaging 50k viewers.

With the game being “most-watched game” on Twitch right now, other streamers have also joined the hype train and are streaming the game. Shroud is also part of this hype train and currently, he is streaming the game on his channel.

But that’s not all, the game also saw a sharp rise in player logins. Many players reported about long login queues. Blizzard also confirmed reports of “very high demand” and in response, they added several more Realms (worlds) to handle the ongoing queues.

In total Blizzard had to open up an additional 8 Realms which makes the total number of launch available Realms to 29. Out of these, the majority are PvP type Realms.

Blizzard couldn’t have wished for any better launch time than this. Currently, all other games are struggling with updates and are losing viewership numbers. Previous #1 game on Twitch- Fortnite is having struggles with its latest Season 10 update which wasn’t well-received by players and due to which many streamers are having the struggle to pull the numbers and enjoy the game.

Only time will tell if WoW Classic will be able to retain this momentum and stay at the top. The excitement might go down a bit and the numbers will settle to give a clear picture. But nonetheless, the game is enticing and nostalgic at the same time for most of its players which should be enough to keep them entertained and ready for future content updates. 

CompLexity Disbands Full Dota 2 Roster

Dhairya Jhaveri
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CompLexity Disbands Full Dota 2 Roster

Team complexity one of the pinnacles of the NA dotes decides to drop their entire Dota 2 roster post-TI shuffle. Well, after Mineski players posting on their social media handles that they are actively looking for a team its evident that the roster shuffle season has officially begun.

Just a day after from when Lake took Twitter to express his disappointment at the early departure of coL from StarLadder Berlin CS: GO major and his interest in obtaining fresh tier-one players, compLexity announced that they were releasing their entire Dota 2 roster.

After, underperforming for the entire DPC season and not being able to qualify to The Internationals, a roster change was inevitable. But the most shocking factor here is that they decided to drop Zakari ‘Zfreek’ Freedman who is considered as the backbone of coL Dota 2 squad. Complexity expressed their gratitude towards him for his five years of service in coL, in a highlights/personalized message via. All their social media handles. The message reads along with the video: “For five years, Zfreek has been a rock for #COLDota, functioning as a crucial pillar of our Dota division. Zfreek is an exceptional person and player, and we look forward to when our paths cross again.”

As the founder & the CEO of Complexity, Jason Lake thanked Zfreek for his 5 years of Tenure at Complexity.

Post-TI shuffle and roster changes post-TI (The International) is an exciting phase for the community, some unexpected changes happen during this time, the main objective for this is to find the right synergy, the right players for the organization. Having a synergetic, friendly roster can go a long away for example- OG. More changes await.

StarLadder CSGO Major New Legends stage first matchups revealed

Raj 'Stan' Shah
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StarLadder CSGO Major New Legends stage first matchups revealed

StarLadder revealed the fixtures of the first round for the Legends Stage! Starting off this Wednesday.

Defending Major Champions ‘Astralis’ has their matchup against the underdogs ‘DreamEaters’ This major is totally going to be interesting of the very beginning.

In the second match ‘Liquid’ the current No.1 Team will be facing ‘CR4ZY’ and Ukrainian ‘Natus Vincere’ will be playing against ‘G2’ it would be another interesting match up for the day, this clash will surely hype up the audience.

And then the end game ‘mousesports’ vs ‘FaZe’, This gives Karrigan another opportunity to take revenge from his former team.

Fixtures for the first round:

Photo via StarLadder
  • ENCE vs. AVANGAR: 15:30 pm IST.
  • Astralis vs. DreamEaters: 16:45 pm IST.
  • Renegades vs. NRG: 18:00 pm IST.
  • Team Liquid vs. CR4ZY: 19:15 pm IST.
  • Vitality vs. North: 20:30 pm IST.
  • FaZe Clan vs. mousesports: 21:45 pm IST.
  • Natus Vincere vs. G2 Esports: 23:00 pm IST.
  • Made in Brazil vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas: 00:15 am IST.

The New Legends Stage will run from Wednesday through The top eight sides will earn spots in the playoffs, which will be held from Sept. 5 to 8. at the Mercedes-Benz Arena.

DreamEaters advance to the StarLadder Berlin Major New Legends Stage

Raj 'Stan' Shah
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DreamEaters advance to the StarLadder Berlin Major New Legends Stage

DreamEaters: A CIS based Russian squad advanced to the Starladder Berlin Majors,
They managed to win 2-0 against ForZe in the elimination match.

ForZe were the pure favourites here, but the underdogs DreamEaters made it to the Challenger Series.

They had to go through the CIS Closed Minor Qualifiers, they never had it easy for them. They barely made it to the Russian Qualifiers on the last spot.

Vladislav “Krad” Kravchenko the MVP so far he’s got some crazy talent to showcase on stage.

CIS teams have gained very little popularity so far, they often have to play Qualifiers online with more than 100 ping against European Teams which is always a bit of a disadvantage.

Krad couldn’t believe any of it was real and couldn’t stop his tears during the post-match interview, where he talked about where they came from and how difficult it was to get where they’re right now! They totally deserved this spot, they’ve fought all the good opponents so far and yet getting 3-2 (They lost against G2 and CR4ZY) (Won against NRG and VITALITY)

They’ll have to repeat their past performances and stay strong to get into the Playoffs, it’d be a pleasure to see them on stage.

Fnatic plans on forming a younger CSGO Roster

Raj 'Stan' Shah
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Fnatic plans on forming a younger CSGO Roster

A new phase for fnatic starts off as they miss their chance to get into the Berlin Majors.

This is the first CSGO Major Fnatic will miss as an organization. Fnatic has been in the eye since the first season due to their sudden downfall with the current lineup.

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Recently Andreas Samuelsson, team director at Fnatic, and star player Jesper “JW” Wecksell took part in the AMA on Reddit where they mentioned about forming an “All Swedish CSGO Team” with a new InGame Leader.

They also announced that “Xizt” and “Twist” have been benched, allowing Younger player for a chance to stand-up to rise fnatic again!

Samuelsson also shred some light on the insides of the fnatic as well where he said “There’s nothing wrong with the team nor the players they had great chemistry, the only factor was the consistency as a team in the past one year they only managed to get into the Finals of 2 ‘Tier 1’ events.”

So soon we’ll get to see an all-new lineup of fnatic and hopefully, they’ll be back with a blast into the next majors!

TI9 champions OG won more money than top Wimbledon players

Parth Gada
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TI9 champions OG won more money than top Wimbledon players

While we all know how much Esports has grown in the past 2 years, an esports player winning as much or even more than top Sportsmen was unprecedented. Until now.

The International 9, DOTA’s biggest annual event, saw a prize pool of over 30 million dollars. With OG winning the tournament and getting a sweet $15.6 million, it meant that even if the prize money was distributed equally among the players, each member would receive a whopping $3.1 million in their kitty.

If we compare that to traditional sports, it makes this number even more astounding. The winners of this years’ Wimbledon Championship, Simona Halep and Novak Djokovic, received $2.7 million while Tiger Woods was awarded $2.09 Million for his performance at the masters. This, despite the fact that the two sports are more popular than traditional sport.

This achievement, however, has to be taken with a pinch of salt. While this event happens only once a year, Wimbledon and the masters are just one of many huge events that offer similar prize money. Another difference is that the majority of earnings of traditional sports players is via sponsorships and brand deals, while esport players rely a lot on prize money.

Nevertheless, this is a step in the right direction for esports fans and professionals and this trend only seems to be getting more frequent.

Ninjaboogie, Raging Potato & Nikobaby part ways from Mineski

Dhairya Jhaveri
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Ninjaboogie, Raging Potato & Nikobaby part ways from Mineski

It seems like the roster shuffle season has started already a day after The International 9 ended. Roster shuffles normally happen after The International ends nothing out of the blue here. Organizations and players decide where to stick with the current roster or actively start looking for other options.

Mineski, a team that fought their battle for the TI dream right from the open qualifiers to the main event and putting up a good fight against some of the greatest teams in the Dota 2 universe. It’s no doubt that Mineski has surpassed all the expectations.
Michael “ninjaboogie” Ross Jr., Ryan “Raging Potato” Jay Qui and Nikolay “Nikobaby” Nikolov have all posted on their social media pages stating that they’re looking for a team

After these three professional players announced on Twitter that they’re actively looking for teams it indicated that they are no longer a part of Mineski. Meanwhile, Kam “Moon” Boon Seng and Damien “kpii” Chok have not announced anything yet, they might stay. However, these two players can speak Mandarin now Mineski can sign five Mandarin-speaking players. SEA organization with a Chinese lineup can be possible.

DotA 2: OG tops the charts of highest earning esports players after consecutive Major wins

Rounak Sengupta
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DotA 2: OG tops the charts of highest earning esports players after consecutive Major wins

Proficient Dota 2 squad OG, in a split second turned into the most astounding earnings esports players on the planet with a second International triumph at TI9, bringing home over $15 million for their triumph.

The International is Dota 2’s greatest and most esteemed competition of the year, one which has a little base prize pool set by developer Valve that is then added to with crowdfunding from the game’s energetic fanbase.

The International 2019 outperformed the Fortnite World Cup to have the most astounding prize handbag in esports history when it was reported the competition would have over $33 million in prizes when it started in Shanghai not long ago.

While the opportunity to end up moment tycoons was constantly an extraordinary selling point, notwithstanding, numerous Dota 2 fans likewise trusted TI9 to be the competition that had the most obvious opportunity in the game’s history of delegated a recurrent International champ.

Image source: ESL/Helena Kristiansson

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