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Entity Gaming announces new Dota 2 Roster

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Entity Gaming announces new Dota 2 Roster

This announcement comes just in time for the ESL India Premiership Masters League.

While the team retained the trio of Krish “Moon”Gupta,Amit “Zapheto” Malwal and Shahab “Divine” Saleha , there have been 2 new additions to the team.

Ilaan ‘HMY’ Baluyot and Sandro ‘LUCIANO’ Aguinaldo, who were stand-ins for the COBX Masters event held on 5th-7th April, have now departed the team.

They have been replaced by Travis “Castaway” Waters(South Africa) and Kenji “Saiba” Dela Cruz (Philippines).

Photo: ENTITY GAMING

Entity Gaming had the following announcement to make:

At Entity Gaming, we’ve always believed in pushing our boundaries and scaling new heights. That being said, we present our Dota 2 roster! We believe that this team has what it takes to wreak havoc in the competition.

Alongside Moon, Zapheto, and Divine, we now have Travis “Castaway” Waters returning to the #ETGFAMILY and introduce Kenji “Saiba” Dela Cruz to our Indian fans! Keep cheering for us!

The current Entity Gaming Dota 2 roster is as follows:

  • Travis “Castaway” Waters
  • Krish “Moon” Gupta
  • Kenji “Saiba” Mendoza
  • Amit “Zapheto” Malwal
  • Shahab “Divine” Saleha

They will be next seen playing in the Masters League of the ESL India Premiership Summer Season starting today, to which they return after a gap of 2 years.

StarLadder Major Qualifiers details revealed

Malav Popat
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StarLadder Major Qualifiers details revealed

StarLadder has revealed the dates for the open qualifiers for the Major which will be hosted in Berlin, Germany. The Major will be in the Mercedes-Benz Arena which has previously hosted the grand final of the 2015 League of Legends World Championship last year’s PUBG Global Invitational.

The qualifiers begin next month, with all games being played on FACEIT. The qualifiers will be for Europe, CIS, the Americas and Asia regions.

After the open qualifiers, the winning teams will move onto the closed qualifiers.

There has been an update in the subregions which will be seen in the  Qualifiers. The Americas has been split into North and South America and Asia will see a qualifier for Central & South Africa.

Europe

Eight slots for closed qualifier in total

  • Open Qualifier #1 — May 25-26
  • Open Qualifier #2 — May 28-29
  • Open Qualifier #3 — May 31 – June 1
  • Open Qualifier #4 — June 3-4

CIS

Eight slots for closed qualifier in total

  • Open Qualifier #1 — May 24-25
  • Open Qualifier #2 — May 27-28
  • Open Qualifier #3 — May 30-31
  • Open Qualifier #4 — June 2-3

Americas

North America

Eight slots for closed qualifier in total

  • Open Qualifier #1 — May 25-26
  • Open Qualifier #2 — May 28-29
  • Open Qualifier #3 — May 31 – June 1
  • Open Qualifier #4 — June 3-4

South America

Eight slots for closed qualifier in total

  • Open Qualifier #1 — May 20-21
  • Open Qualifier #2 — May 23-24

Asia

Oceania

Eight slots for closed qualifier in total

  • Open Qualifier #1 — May 19-21
  • Open Qualifier #2 — May 22-23

East Asia

Four slots for closed qualifier in total

  • Open Qualifier #1 — May 13-14
  • Open Qualifier #2 — May 16-17

Middle East & North Africa

Four slots for closed qualifier in total

  • Open Qualifier #1 — May 13-14
  • Open Qualifier #2 — May 16-17

Central & South Africa

Four slots for closed qualifier in total

  • Open Qualifier #1 — May 14-15
  • Open Qualifier #2 — May 17-18

Southeast Asia

Four slots for closed qualifier in total

  • Open Qualifier #1 — May 14-15
  • Open Qualifier #2 — May 17-18

China

Eight slots for closed qualifier in total

  • Open Qualifier #1 — May 19-20
  • Open Qualifier #2 — May 22-23

Below, you can find the whole schedule of the closed Qualifiers

  • Europe closed qualifier — June 10-12
  • CIS closed qualifier — June 8-10
  • NA closed qualifier — June 12-14
  • SA closed qualifier — June 4-6
  • Oceanic closed qualifier — May 31 – June 2
  • Central & South Africa closed qualifier — May 23-25
  • East Asia closed qualifier — May 27-29
  • China closed qualifier — June 6-8
  • MENA (Middle East and North Africa ) closed qualifier — May 24-26

Global Esports ventures into PUBG

Bhavya Shah
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Global Esports ventures into PUBG

Global Esports have been venturing into projects after projects. From acquiring a training facility in South Korea to signing multiple rosters in India, Global Esports have come along ever since.

Earlier this week, the organization signed a Dota 2 roster. Prior to Dota 2 squad, it’s CS:GO lineup went through a major overhaul since the Polish duo departed. Global Esports is also close to signing Matt “dayv1d” David, according to our sources. Matt has worked alongside Order, Avant Gaming and Counter Logic Gaming throughout his career.

Recent social media updates from their official handles also suggest that they could sign a Fortnite lineup ahead of $40M Fortnite World Cup. However, they have signed a four-man PUBG lineup and the players are quite well-received in the Indian PUBG circuit:

  • Vishal ‘AMF’ Shah
  • Karan ‘Gr1MO’ Puri
  • Himadri ‘Roy’ Roy
  • Shubham ‘Saddieboy’ Parth

It would be interesting to see what this roster brings on the table in upcoming tournaments. Indian scene will be witnessing plenty of PUBG events in the months to follow as IGZ and several others have stepped up to deliver.

Groups for IEM Sydney 2019 revealed

Bhavya Shah
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Groups for IEM Sydney 2019 revealed

As IEM returns to Sydney, ESL, earlier today has announced the division of sixteen teams in two groups for the Intel Extreme Masters: Sydney 2019. $250,000 USD is on the table as teams from across the globe will fight for the title from April 30 – May 05. The premier event will be hosted at Qudos Bank Arena with a capacity to accommodate 21,000 fans.

Teams are segregated into two groups on the basis of ‘ESL World Rankings’. Initial matches will be best of one matchup while the other encounters are supposed to be best of three expect the grand finale being a best of five battle. Vertigo which recently made its entry into active map pool will not be in action, instead, cache will stay in the map pool.

Group A:

  • Team Liquid
  • BOOT -dream[S]cape
  • mousesports
  • BIG Clan
  • Ninjas in Pyjamas
  • EUnited
  • MVP PK
  • Renegades

Group B:

  • FaZe Clan
  • Chiefs Esports
  • ViCi Gaming
  • NRG Esports
  • Fnatic
  • Heroic
  • Grayhound Gaming
  • MIBR

Stay tuned for further updates.

ESL One: Cologne 2019 Asia Open Qualifier #2 – Breaking Down Day 1

Bhavya Shah
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ESL One: Cologne 2019 Asia Open Qualifier #2 – Breaking Down Day 1

Seventy-one teams participated in the second qualifier of ESL One: Cologne 2019. All the matches on the first day were best of one matchup and four undefeated teams have advanced to the semi-finale — Absolute, Recca Esports, EHOME, IPET Gaming. Amongst the four teams, two will advance to the Asian Closed Qualifier which will be held in later in May. Alpha Red and BTRQ have already secured their slot in the closed qualifier through the first open qualifier.

Semi-Finale matchups for Open Qualifier #2 will be held today:

15:30 (GST +5:30) – Recca Esports vs Absolute
18:30 (GST +5:30) – EHOME vs IPET Gaming

Indian powerhouses have once again disappointed us. Hovering around with constant roster shuffles and jumping teams after teams have led to minimal stability and functioning amongst the best.

Global Esports lost to Revolution 16-4 on Inferno in their initial match. Entity Gaming did not participate in the qualifiers due to reasons not known. After a month long bootcamp, Entity CS:GO squad landed in India yesterday which could possibly be a reason behind their absence. God Particles with little to no hopes lost to EHOME in the round 3 while Signify ended their stint against IPET Gaming 16-11 in the fourth round of second qualifier.

Team NXL were overwhelmed by Daimaru Gaming in their opening matchup. NASR were almost close to advancing to semi-finale but Recca eventually came out on top as they took Mirage 25-23 over NASR. FrostFire also went down in round three along with GodParticles and Made In Thailand. Portal Esport, Pakistan powerhouse also went down in the round four in a one sided affair against Alter Ego.

Vici and Freeman to part ways after IEM Sydney

Malav Popat
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Vici and Freeman to part ways after IEM Sydney

WingHei “Freeman” Cheung will leave the active lineup of ViCi after the end of IEM Sydney, the player has revealed in his Instagram.

In an Instagram made by the young gun, he states that he will be leaving ViCi to seek new opportunities and not due to difference in the attitude between the teammates. Freeman has been a part of the organisation since 2 years and has attended multiple events and most importantly the IEM Katowice New Challengers Stage, where the team placed 9-11th. In fact, Freeman was the first player from HongKong to ever attend a major following victory over North on Dust 2 and Inferno from the Minor-Play in the tournament.

In his own statement, Freeman said:

“I will leave ViCi after IEM Sydney, reason being I would like to seek for new challenges. Contrary to rumours saying that ViCi kicked me due to toxic behaviours, I am leaving the team on behalf of my own decision instead of getting kicked. Indeed, I used to criticize my teammates back then in the older ViCi lineup, but that’s because I was young and ignorant back then. Ever since the new ViCi lineup, advent and other ViCi members have gave me great guidance, and I’ve also matured. You may ask advent’s opinions on this matter. Lastly, I’d like to thank everyone’s support and especially thank advent and others in ViCi for looking after me these two years. P.S. A photo of advent ?” (translation thanks to u/InXaneGZ. Following this post, Freeman has made his Instagram account private and only select people can view the post

After IEM Sydney, ViCi will be reduced to:

  • Zhuo “advent” Liang
  • WeiJie “zhokiNg” Zhong
  • ZhiHong “aumaN” Liu
  • Andrew “Kaze” Khong

Photo: HLTV

Team Vitality gets into partnership with HKS Sports & Entertainment

Malav Popat
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Team Vitality gets into partnership with HKS Sports & Entertainment

Team Vitality, The French Organisation, have announced that they will be setting up a new esports facility for their CS:GO and League of Legends teams thanks to their partnership with HKS Sports and Entertainment.

The move comes happens shortly after Tej Kohli, from Rewired GG, invested €20 million in the French teams. With the money received, Team Vitality aims to set up a state of the art training centre for their CS:GO and League of Legends teams and will also feature a store and an office.

However, full details about the training centre have not been revealed but we know for a fact that it will serve as a new headquarters for the organisation.

Photo: Vitality

Mobile Premier League raises $35.5M led by Sequoia India, Times Internet

Pranav Nalawade
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Mobile Premier League raises $35.5M led by Sequoia India, Times Internet

Bengaluru based eSports platform Mobile Premier League (MPL) has raised Series A investment of $35.5 million led by Sequoia India, Times Internet, and GoVentures.

The funds will enable the recently-launched mobile gaming platform to invest in products and user growth in India. MPL had raised a $5-million seed round from Sequoia and BeeNext last year.

MPL was co-founded by ex-Zynga executive Sai Srinivas Kiran and Shubh Malhotra. Both Malhotra and Kiran earlier co-founded CREO, a hardware start-up that was acquired by Hike Messenger in 2017.

Currently, the MPL platform claims to have over 25 million registered signups across both Android and iOS. A large part of MPL’s user base is from non-metro cities, according to the company’s chief executive Sai Srinivas Kiran.

In a statement to Inc42 cofounder and CEO, Sai Srinivas Kiran G said that “the funds will help Mobile Premier League step up its growth plans, and will be used to improve the product and for user growth in India.” Prior to this round, the company raised $5 Mn in seed funding from investors such as BEENEXT.

MPL’s latest funding round also comes at a time when fantasy gaming start-ups have been mopping up large rounds from tech investors in India and abroad. Mumbai-based fantasy gaming PORTAL Dream 11 had raised around $100 million from China’s Tencent in September last year.

ESL INDIA PREMIERSHIP Masters League DOTA 2 Teams Announced

Prateek Sahoo
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ESL INDIA PREMIERSHIP Masters League DOTA 2 Teams Announced

The new season of the ESL INDIA PREMIERSHIP starts in just a few days, with the various starter and challenger cups starting tomorrow.

The ESL INDIA PREMIERSHIP Summer Season 2019 has INR 1,10,00,000 up for grabs.

Earlier today, ESL India announced the teams who will participate in the MASTERS LEAGUE of ESL India Premiership 2019.

The teams are as follows:

  • Entity Gaming
  • GOFIGURE
  • Goliath Gaming
  • Global Esports
  • Signify
  • Taskus Titans
  • The Council
  • Unknown Cartels

Although Signify seems to be the favourites coming into the event, the newly formed Global Esports and erstwhile Entity gaming could pose them a challenge.

Na’Vi makes changes to their Dota 2 roster

Prateek Sahoo
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Na’Vi makes changes to their Dota 2 roster

Despite a great showing at ESL ONE MUMBAI, which saw Na’Vi finish 3rd, NAVI.DOTA 2 roster underwent changes today. These changes are made keeping in mind the upcoming minor and major qualifiers, which will be the last for the current DPC season.

First up, Akbar “SoNNeikO” Butaev, who missed the ESL ONE MUMBAI event due to health issues, returns to the active line-up in place of Mikhail “Misha” Agatov,who stood in as captain at ESL ONE Mumbai and did a commendable job in his absence.

Now coming to the second change. The team’s position 4 support player, Evgenii “Chuvash” Makarov, moves into an inactive role within the team. His place will be taken by Emil “Zayac” Emilzhanov(transferred from The Pango). Zayac has played for renowned teams like Vega Squadron and MVP Revolution as well, earlier in his career.

Statement from Na’Vi.Dota 2 manager, Igor ”caff” Sydorenko:

It happens sometimes that a team reaches a certain limit and in order to progress further, it is necessary to make some changes. Chuvash is a good player and a team-mate, I wish him good luck and I am sure he will be able to fully open up as a player in a new team.

In turn, I am pleased to welcome Bakyt to the team. I believe that he will bring a lot of new ideas and strengthen us before one last leap to the main tournament of the year.

Statement from Jaroslav Komkov (CEO Winstrike):

On the part of Winstrike and The Pango, we want to thank Bakyt for his participation in «Pangoliers». He proved himself to be an incredibly gifted player and his Techies is forever in our hearts. We wish him good luck in NAVI and hope to see some great games in near qualifiers.

The full Na’Vi roster is:

  • Vladislav ‘Crystallize’ Krystanek
  • Idan ‘MagicaL’ Vardanian
  • Evgeniy ‘Blizzy’ Ree
  • Evgeniy ‘Zayac’ Makarov
  • Akbar ‘SoNNeikO’ Butaev

Soon the renewed NatusVincere Dota 2 team will gather for a bootcamp in Kiev, starting the preparation for the upcoming major and minor qualifiers, and other events.

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