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Global Esports parts ways with Kamil and Zorineq

Malav Popat
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Global Esports parts ways with Kamil and Zorineq

Global Esports, the Indian organization, have parted ways with the Polish duo of Kamil ‘kamil’ Kamiล„ski & Adrian “Zorineq” Koล‚odziejski.

The Polish duo were brought into the team when Global Esports signed a new roster on the 4th of March 2019 alongside Sabyasachi โ€œAntidoteโ€ Bose, Rahul โ€œt1toSAVAGEโ€ Sridhar and Tejas โ€œRexyโ€ Kotian and Chinmay โ€œPokIโ€ Mehta who was transferred from Entity Gaming.

With the Poles onboard, Global Esports qualified for COBX Masters through the closed Indian Qualifiers but failed to make it to IEM Sydney after losing to NASR in the closed qualifiers.

In their Facebook post, Global Esport mentioned that they are preparing for the โ€œfor roster changes in the upcoming CS seasonโ€.

A statement from Rushindra Sinha, CEO and Founder at Global Esports said:

We had spoken to them only about Cobx so they made arrangements only till mid-April. They have other personal commitments back home. We are working out a way to possibly work long term in the future but are currently in tryouts for their roles. This was our first foray into CS and our team is only 1 month old. We have 9 other teams/games that we handle and manage. We now see the growth and potential for CS and so weโ€™re going to dedicate more resources to our CS team

The Global Esports roster now is down to:

  • Sabyasachi โ€œAntidoteโ€ Bose
  • Rahul โ€œt1toSAVAGEโ€ Sridhar
  • Tejas โ€œRexyโ€ Kotian

ESL India Premiership announced for 2019 with INR 1.1 crore in prize pool

The Crew
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ESL India Premiership announced for 2019 with INR 1.1 crore in prize pool

Indiaโ€™s longest running esports league is set to kickoff from 26 April. The flagship esports league assures year long esports action with three seasons for an overall prize pool of 1.1 crore INR.

NODWIN Gaming has brought the Indian gaming community under one roof with ESL India Premiership. Pillaring the efforts and aspirations of the Premiership and professional gaming are our title sponsors OMEN by HP, they have been a driving force for the gaming ecosystem by giving gamers access to premium gaming peripherals which has transformed their gaming experience by multiple folds.

On the journey, for the fourth consecutive year is the high-performance, gaming peripheral manufacturer, HyperX. Global processor giants Intel continues its valuable partnership with ESL India Premiership along with Hotstar, our streaming partners for the second consecutive year.

OMEN by HP ESL India Premiership continues its tradition of bringing the gamers of the country together for one mega tournament running throughout the year. 2019 marks a major change as we bring in a new addition to the official game titles in the form of Brawl Stars for mobile gaming while retaining our three major titles, Clash Royale, CS:GO and Dota 2.

We will also see an upgraded tournament format and revised prize distribution structure while rewarding the consistently performing teams in the form of prizes during the league. The new season will start with 8 teams in the Challenger and Masters League, while Starter Cups remain an open door for fresh new talent to come in and compete with the big names in the league.

Additionally, the CS:GO champions will get a chance to participate on a global stage and represent the country with a direct invite to the Asia Qualifiers of ESL Pro League.

Entering a new chapter, the quest for new champions begin with a whole lot of fresh challenges spanning through 2019. 3 big season finals to crown the national champions, a massive prize pool on the line for the victorious. A leveled up Indian esports awaits you.

NiP, Alliance, Gambit & 2 more teams opt out of ESL One Mumbai 2019

Abhishek Dave
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NiP, Alliance, Gambit & 2 more teams opt out of ESL One Mumbai 2019

Five confirmed teams at ESL One Mumbai 2019 have dropped out of the tournament, one week prior to the event. The competition will continue to be played with substitute teams.

Ninjas in Pyjamas along with Alliance & Gambit Esports have qualified for OGA DotA PIT Minor 2019, and hence have chosen to prioritize that over ESL One Mumbai 2019.

Chaos Esports Club & J.Storm on the other hand dropped out of the event due to other commitments, ESL announced on their website.

The new groups and schedule is as follows:

ESL One Mumbai 2019

Group A
Natus Vincere (CIS)
TNC Predator (SEA)
compLexity (NA)
Team Team (NA)

Group B
Keen Gaming (CN)
Mineski (SEA)
The Pango (CIS)
Signify (India)

Photo credits: ESL.gg

Smooya to stand-in for Renegades at ESL Pro League Season 9; JKAEM may miss out as well

Malav Popat
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Smooya to stand-in for Renegades at ESL Pro League Season 9; JKAEM may miss out as well

Owen “smooya” Butterfield, who had benched by BIG, has been loaned out to Renegades for ESL Pro League Season 9 Americas.

Smooya has been out of competitive play since February, after deciding to bench himself from the BIG roster, saying that he was not enjoying himself in the roster and was not able to make himself a better player.

Chants of โ€œSMOOOYAAAโ€ will return once again as Smooya will play for Renegades at ESL Pro Season 9 Americas instead of Gratisfaction, who has been declined a visa by the immigration as โ€œinternationally recognised enoughโ€ according to his tweet.

The Aussie team have also announced that if jkaem is unable to obtain a visa for the event, the team will use Stephen “reltuCโ€ to stand-in for this event.

At ESL Pro Season 9 Americas, Renegades will be playing against eUnited, INTZ, NRG and Renegades in Group A of the tournament. In this tournament format, the winner of each group goes to the season finals while the second and third-placed teams will play one more group stage event.

This move could potentially be damaging for Renegades who recently broke into the top 5 world rankings according to HLTV, after coming 3-4th at StarSeries i-League Season 7.

The Renegades roster for the event will look as:

  • Justin “jks” Savage
  • Aaron “AZR” Ward
  • Jay “Liazz” Tregillgas
  • Joakim “jkaem” Myrbostad (in doubt)
  • Owen “smooya” Butterfield (stand-in)
  • Stephen โ€œreltuCโ€ Cutler (stand-in if jkaem cannot get a visa)

Cover Photo courtesy of HLTV.org

Anonymous Millionaire Setting Up Real Life Battle Royale On A Private Island

Maรซl Valentin
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Anonymous Millionaire Setting Up Real Life Battle Royale On A Private Island

A tycoon is searching for somebody to enable them to plan a 100-man fight royale-motivated occasion to occur on a private island. The champ of three-day Airsoft challenge will be granted ยฃ100,000.

The hidden individual behind the challenge is still in the beginning times of sorting out the occasion yet it sounds like nothing could turn out badly, isn’t that so?

Alright, we should rundown this rundown together: unknown mogul, private island, last-individual standing challenge. Most likely we’ve seen enough movies to know how this is going to turn out.

Regardless of whether it doesn’t transform into an island slaughter, we’ve all observed the Fyre Festival narrative. Most likely this is going to finish up with 100 individuals left on an island for three days with no sustenance and only a huge amount of Airsoft weapons for organization?

The job of gamemaker is being promoted on Hush, a site intended to concoct inventive approaches to part tycoons from their cash, selling things like top of the line billiards tables, personal jets, and islands.

As indicated by a post on its solicitation board (by means of the Daily Star), it’s searching for “somebody who can help structure the field for a 100-man fight royale propelled occasion.” The individual who nets the agreement will be very much redressed, winning ยฃ45,000 for multi week’s work.

Hush Hush says it was “drew nearer by one of our clients, who was watchful for a private island, for help in setting up the title. We will likewise be dealing with enrollments for the occasion when the time comes. Challengers will be given Airsoft weapons, ammunition and contact delicate body protection for a three-day occasion.

The ‘last individual standing’ will win a ยฃ100,000 big stake.

As it is as of now arranged, the occasion is expected to most recent three days, with 12 hours of rivalry every day. Contenders will at that point camp throughout the evening. Sustenance, outdoors apparatus and all the fundamental hardware will be given.”

LDLC signs new CSGO roster

Malav Popat
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LDLC signs new CSGO roster

LDLC, the French organisation who released their roster a week ago, have rebuilt their roster and re-entered the international CSGO scene.

LDLC had faced roster troubles when they saw Alex “ALEX” McMeekin and Franรงois “AmaNEk” Delaunay, who joined Vitality and G2 respectively.

Even Logan “LOGAN” Corti left the team to join the team what is now known as ex-3DMAX. The team added three new played but were released released the whole roster post poor results, making them free agents.

However, post that incident, the organisation decided to re-enter the scene and have signed a whole new roster.

The first player to join the team is Turkey Engin “MAJ3R” Kรผpeli. MAJ3R played for Space Soldiers who faced multiple issues regarding the salaries provided and the team and organisation parted ways. MAJ3R comes back to a francophone project after representing the Turkish roster for 2 years.

Next up, are XMS and SIXER. Both of these players are no strangers to the french organisation. They played in the team before they were released by the organisation.

For the fourth player, LDLC have decided to trial out roden. Roden played on a team called unKnights. Roden is a 21 year old upcoming player who will take the role of a rifler and have a trial period with the team at  ESL Championnat National and Charleroi Esports.

Lastly, the team have gone for Happy. ย Vincent “Happy” Schopenhauer is the last key in this roster. He had been benched by Vitality due to inter-roster issues with relation to the attitude of the players.

While playing for Vitality, Happy won DreamHack Open Atlanta 2018 but were unable to get any more accolades to their names. Happy comes back to the roster, 4 years later, and completes the roster. ย 

Astralis rock-solid at #1 CSGO team in the world

Md. Naseer Fuad Khan
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Astralis rock-solid at #1 CSGO team in the world

HLTV.org released their ranking as of April, 2019. Even though the dynamics of the rankings has changed in one way or the other, Astralis still remains unchanged.

Not to sway away the fact that the leap followup rank on the #2 position has a point difference of almost 100%, which is quite commendable feat for the Danish roster.

The following are the rank standings:

  • Astralis
  • Natus Vincere
  • Liquid
  • ENCE
  • Renegades
  • NiP
  • FaZe
  • fnatic
  • MIBR
  • NRG

Astralis is headed with 1000 points, whereas the second-placed Natus Vincere are at 533 points, followed up by Liquid & ENCE, having 478 and 446 points respectively.

MVP PK sweeps victory at COBX Masters

Malav Popat
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MVP PK sweeps victory at COBX Masters

The finals of COBX Masters was played between MVP PK and Alpha Red. Prior to the final, MVP PK had not dropped a single map throughout their tournament. On the other hand we had Alpha Red, who scraped a victory against Signify to seal their playoff spot and shocked Grayhound to make it to the Grand-Finals. Following the vetoes, the maps played were Inferno,Mirage and Train.

The vetoes of the maps are as follows:

  • MVP PK removed Cache
  • Alpha Red removed Nuke
  • MVP PK picked Inferno
  • Alpha Red picked Mirage
  • MVP PK removed Overpass
  • Alpha Red removed Dust2
  • Train was left over

The first map was Inferno which was picked by MVP PK, who started on the CT side. Alpha Red picked up the first pistol round. A force buy gamble by MVP PK did not help them.

Alpha Red were able to propel themselves to 3 rounds. Alpha Red were not able to bring their momentum to the first buy round and succumbed to MVP PK, who then proceeded to tie the score at 3-3. MVP PK continued to thrash Alpha Red, and ended the half with a scoreline of 12-3, dominating the team from Thailand.

In the second half, MVP PK continued their domination and picked up the pistol round and the following force-buy round, pushing the score to 14-3. MVP PK easily pulled of a clean sweep and ended the map with a scoreline of 16-3.

MVP PK looked to bring their same form on the second map, Mirage, which was picked by Alpha Red. The Koreans brought the same momentum to the first half and ended it with a scoreline of 14-1. However, Alpha Red had not completely given up and turned the game to a scoreline of 15-15, pushing it to overtime. During overtime, MVP PK were able to scrape a victory and won the series with a scoreline of 19-17, in their favor.

Finals Scoreline:

  • MVP PK 16-3 Alpha Red (Inferno)
  • MVP PK 19-17 Alpha Red (Mirage)

COBX Masters Standings:

  • 1. MVP PK – $60,000
  • 2. Alpha Red – $20,000
  • 3-4. Grayhound – $10,000
  • 3-4. BOOT-d[S] – $10,000
  • 5-6. Signify
  • 5-6. Global

Shroud reveals more detail about his hand injury

Prateek Jain
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Shroud reveals more detail about his hand injury

On March 11th popular twitch streamer, Shroud had a hand injury which made him unable to stream games as he was given bed rest. But, yesterday on his stream he revealed more details about the operation and shared his post-operation X-rays, while casually chatting with his viewers.

Photo via SHROUD

Shroud said the doctor-in-charge had recognised him and altered the procedure in such a way that he wouldnโ€™t feel much pain afterwards and get back top streaming faster. Although the injury will take time to heal but the acute pain would be lesser to some extent, he will be able to do some short and light stream sessions.

shroud x-ray

shroud x-ray – Clipped by RSDtv

The streamer later went on and showed his fans some of the X-rays from the injury, with his left elbow containing a metal plate and said, โ€œThatโ€™s my little metal boy right thereโ€ after pointing out the uniquely placed plate to his viewers.

shroud x-ray pt 2

shroud x-ray pt 2 – Clipped by RSDtv

Shroud is known widely for his godlike aim and extensive knowledge about games and how good he can get in a game within such short period of time. He is no stranger from professional scene as he previously played for Cloud 9 CS:GO team where he won many tournaments including 2nd place finish at ESL cologne 2017.

Cover photo courtesy of DEXERTO.

FC Barcelona expands further into esports with new Rocket League team

Prateek Jain
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FC Barcelona expands further into esports with new Rocket League team

FC Barcelona the Spanish football club, just signed a new Rocket League team which will be playing itโ€™s match in Rocket League Championship Series (RLCS) on April 7th. The team formerly played under the name โ€œSavage!โ€. They earned their spot in RLCS last season after competing in lower tier series.The team will compete in the most important competitions such as the Rocket League Championship Series and international events such as DreamHack.

This will be 2nd Esports team of the club with first being in Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) for which they signed a team in 2018. Their PES team is actively participating in most tournaments and have shown good potential to even win some.

In a blog post FC Barcelona shared details on roster saying :

The Barรงa roster will include the Spaniard Adriรกn “Bymateos” Mateos and the British players David “Deevo” William and Daniel “Bluey” Brian, both winners of the most recent Rocket League Championship Series. Furthermore, the Frenchman Yanis “Alpha54” Champenois, a promising young player who has already made a name for himself in the competitive Rocket League scene, will also be part of the squad.

The manager of the team Robert “Roken” Kendall said:

Being part of FC Barcelona is the greatest thing that any athlete can achieve, so I am deeply honoured to lead this team,” says the coach. In his view, “the fact that FC Barcelona is joining the Rocket League is a success for both the club and the community.

FC Barcelona isnโ€™t the only football club to field teams in Rocket League. French club Paris Saint-Germain have a team named PSG Esports, whichhas been around since September 2017 and haswon the DreamHack Leipzig tournament in 2018.

Although FC Barcelona wonโ€™t be the last one fielding an Esports team in addition to normal teams. Many other Clubs have expressed interest in Esports as of late and may even field teams soon.

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