Following the vetoes, the game between BOOT -d[S] and Grayhound commenced on Dust 2, with the Aussies kicking it off on the T-Side. The vetoes are as follows.
BOOT-d[S] removed Overpass
Grayhound removed Train
BOOT-d[S] removed Cache
Grayhound removed Mirage
BOOT-d[S] removed Nuke
Grayhound removed Inferno
Dust2 was left over
The pistol and anti-eco went in favour of the Singaporean Squad. However, the Aussies were quick to strike back with four of their own rounds. The rest of the half was neck to neck but the Aussies took it in their favour with a scoreline of 9-6.
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Grayhound continued their domination and picked up the first two rounds of the half till BOOT reacted with putting two of their own on board and Grayhound put another back before BOOT hit the gas and stringed three rounds together. However, Grayhound did not tolerate their dramatics and looked to end the game early and moved to match point. BOOT did not show signs of giving up and pushed the game to 15-13. However, a team kill from bobosaur foiledtheir plans and Grayhound closed the game with a 16-13 scoreline.
After a successful trial period with HellRaisers, Christian “loWel” Garcia Antoran has joined the ranks of HellRaisers.
Recently, HellRaisers were trialing loWel from Movistar Riders to aim to complete the roster. This announcement comes after Movistar Riders, replaced loWel with Raรบl “DeaTh” Jordรกn Nieto.
This breaks the long standing Movistar Riders, who have had the same roster since their inception. LoWel gets back onto the server with his former mates from mousesports such as Tomรกลก “oskar” ล ลฅastnรฝ and coach Sergey “lmbt” Bezhanov.
HellRaisers will be seen in action at ESL Pro League in April with this new roster.
The match between Global Esports and BOOT -d[S] took place on Dust2 after the vetos took place. The vetos were
Global removed Mirage
BOOT-d[S] removed Overpass
Global removed Train
BOOT-d[S] removed Cache
Global removed Nuke
BOOT-d[S] removed Inferno
Dust2 was left over
Global Esports began on the T-side. The Indian Squad was getting dominated in the first half and were only able to pull back 3 rounds in total on the attacking side due to complete domination by the Singaporean side due to their unbreakable defense.
However, the Indian team raised the hopes of a comeback by showing some promise on the CT-side where they showed some strength on the Dust 2. However, their success was short-lived as the Singaporeans were here to end the game quickly and finished the game with a scoreline of 16-9.
MVP PK has won the 2nd match of group B in the COBX Masters 2019 by beating Signify 16-11
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The pistol round was won by MVP after a close affair, and after winning the anti eco, Signify won the first gun round and raced on to a 3-2 lead on their CT side.
However, the home side did not have anything to show in the preferred side as they lost all 10 of the remaining CT rounds.
At 12-3, it was all but over as MVP got on to the preferred side, but after winning the pistol and anti eco, there was some hope at 12-5 and after winning the gun round, the crowd rallied behind the troops as Signify won the first 6 rounds to get to 12-9. Rising star Deathmaker was particularly really good in the game, getting 24 frags to his name.
However, when a comeback was looking set at 12-9, Signify lost an unlikely eco round to MVP who had just 2 guns coming into it. While HSK was poor in the 2nd half, losing AWP duels consistently, as Signify won the next 2 rounds to make the game competitive.
Ultimately though, their lack of money in the closing stages proved to be deciding, as the Korean team closed out the match by winning a string of rounds and breaking their money, winning 16-11 in the process.
It was a good showing from the Indian side as they showed some fight and potential to compete with some of the best in Asia. Their next match will be played against Thai Team Alpha Red in a straight shootout for the playoffs.
Respawn already had many problems with the update 1.1 and after a day another problem came to light when some players reported that were receiving leaving penalty.
As the name suggests leaving penalty is given when a player leaves the game early before the conclusion of the match. In case of battle royale games like Apex Legends, it would mean when either all your teammates die or you are completely dead.
But in case of Apex Legends things are a bit different as the game have a revive system in place where if a teammate is unable to pick a player up in time, they go into revive state where a flag comes up with a timer. Some players tend to leave the game as soon as they get downed and die, not waiting for this revive state to finish. This triggered the leave penalty script and handed soft ban to such player after 3 matches. Although the time was short, players were frustrated with this change as nothing was mentioned in Patch notes about the early leaving penalty being enabled.
Respawn were quick to respond and said that the change was unintentional and wasnโt meant to ship with update 1.1. They said this change was too early to be implemented and was only meant for internal testing. Due to some error with the script the penalty was enabled accidentally. They shipped a hotfix across all platforms and disabled the early leaving penalty.
Although they didnโt say if the penalty will be released in future update or not. Many games have a feature like an early penalty system to stop griefing and tackle the problem of players having to queue longer for games and then being unable to find a match successfully. With respawn testing this feature, itโs only a matter of time before it is enabled across all platform.
Epic the creator of Fortnite just announced that they wonโt allow players to use stretched resolutions in competitions or arena and the game will be locked at 16:9 resolutions. This update comes just days before the Fortnite World Cup event.
Previously players were able to switch 16:9 aspect ratio to 4:3 making the resolution stretched which helped in increasing fps as well as made spotting enemies easier in many cases. Playing with stretched resolution in competitive tournaments gave an advantage to these players making it unfair for those who preferred to play in 16:9 aspect ratio. Although this change is debatable and many donโt favour it but some pros like Ninja think that it is for better, as the players with stretched resolution had an unfair advantage and now with this change, the playing field will be levelled amongst pros.
But some pros came out opposed this change and took twitter to talk about it. Players like team Liquidโs Jake โPOACHโ Brumleve said:
Here's one thing I'll say, at SS it looked like things were moving in the right direction. This decision proves to me that either the suits at EPIC strong armed this or EPIC is actually moving backwards when it comes to competitive development and communication between players.
Although some had a neutral stance on this and questioned why change something so significant when a tournament is nearby. Luminosity gamingโs SypherPk said :
Can I be honest? a part of me is happy that I donโt have to play stretched even though I liked the benefits it gave.
However, theyโre doing this last minute after players thought for sure theyโd be playing stretched after they allowed it at the Secret Skirmish.
Epic is yet to comment anything on this and rather took the silent approach, than trying to do damage control. Community is in uproar with this change since time to qualify for world cup event is closing in. For players to get used to new settings it will take time and some argue that it is unfair for them and they wonโt be able to qualify now with such a significant change coming on short notice.
Swole Patrol have been org-less since a long time and were in desperate need in one before the start of ESL Pro League Season 9. The slot earned by Braxton “swag” Pierce and Jordan โZellsisโ Montemurro by being promoted from ESEA MDL Season 29.
The team consists of swag, the only standing member of the team after the IEM Sydney Qualifier saw three member of the team being picked up by eUnited and s0m leaving later on to join Team Envy. The second player is Subroza who was replaced by freakazoid on Ghost and had been teamless since. Next up is Gage “Infinite” Green who has been accused of using a racial slur on LAN and was also removed from Team Singularity citing issues in the personality between the players which hampered their progress. Lastly, Zellsis will be completing the roster who was being trialed by Cloud9. However, that plan did not materialise and the North-American Organisation parted ways with him.
Lazarus is no stranger to the CSGO scene. The organisation used the banner of SetToDestroyX, before undergoing rebranding. They have a female Counter-Strike team called Lazarus fe who last stood second at WESG.
The Swole Patrol Roster, now Lazarus, will debut on LAN in ESL Pro League group B, where they have been matched against compLexity, Ghost, and Liquid.
Allan “Rejin” Petersen has joined the ranks of mousesports as a head coach, completing the roster.
Rejin was a part of Tricked, where he was in charge of the main, academy roster as well as their esports school program.
Happy to announce the missing piece to the puzzle – welcome new CS:GO head coach Allan @RejinCS Petersen!
๐ฌ "Today a new chapter begins. Looking forward to work with these extremely talented players, and represent this legendary organization. Letโs bring home some trophies!" pic.twitter.com/lm7OpeLikr
In his own statement, Rejin expresses his excitement to join the roster,
Today a new chapter begins. Looking forward to work with these extremely talented players, and represent this legendary organization. Letโs bring home some trophies!
The team have finally found a coach who will be standing behind them during all games and help them in developing strategies for future tournaments.
Mousesports, with the completed lineup as follows, will be seen in action in ESL Pro League Season 9 Europe, Leicester, UK. The event begins on the 12th of April and concludes on the 23rd of May.
ELEAGUE the organisers of many popular Esports tournament just announced that it will be partnering up with AXE for more than under a multi-platform marketing deal where both will be producing custom branded content to be aired across tournament.
AXE, a Unilever company, makes a wide variety of products from deodorants, soaps to body washes. The company announced that it will be extending the partnership with ELEAGUE and create custom content that will feature behind the scenes of an event and an interview segment entitled, โYouโre Hotter When Youโre Chill presented by AXE.โ
This news comes just a daybefore the ELEAGUE x Rocket League Game Zone event, in which AXE is official partner. The event will commence on April 5th at the NCAA Final Four Fan Fest, Minneapolis. The four-day Rocket League competition will include the best Collegiate Rocket League teams.
As ELEAGUE continues to innovate with new fan experiences, we are thrilled to bring on brands likeAXE that really get the excitement of esports. They are a perfect fit to activate around ELEAGUEโsyoung and passionate audiences.
Seth Ladetsky, Senior Vice President of Sales for Turner Sports ( Eleague) said it in a statement.
This partnership will help both companies to produce content aimed directly for younger audience. Acting as its official personal care partner, Axe will advertise and promote its products through ELEAGUEโs digital, social, and television channels. It will also host live activations and on-site competitions at ELEAGUE events. And as for ELEAGUE they will be able to advertise tournaments with special deodorants and feature in AXE advertisements.
Prince Harry visited the YMCA in South Ealing, west London, on Wednesday, where he attended an event on mental health initiative talking about the dangers of social media, declaring it โmore addictive than drugs and alcoholโ during the session.
Photo via: CityNews Toronto
The focus of the event was too aware parents about the issue of mental health of their kids and how easy it is for kids to absorb negative influence easily and hard for parents to get rid of it. Many believe that the issue arises with the rise of ease of access to social media and how it remains non regulated against these negative influences.
Photo via: Verge
Prince Harry said: โThereโs too much negativity surrounding mental health and it must be so hard for young people to talk about it. โSocial media is more addictive than drugs and alcohol, and itโs more dangerous because itโs normalised and there are no restrictions to it. โWe are in quite a mind-altering time, but quite an exciting time, because everyone in this room has the opportunity to make a real difference.โ Later on, he suggests that games are bad for kids and have a bad influence. He said: โA game like Fortnite, for instance, may not be so good for children. Parents have got their hands up; they donโt know what to do about itโ.
Later on, he said: โItโs like waiting for the damage to be done and kids turning up on your doorsteps and families being broken down. Fortnite shouldnโt be allowed. Where is the benefit in having that game in your household? โItโs created to addict โ an addiction to keep you in front of a computer for as long as possible. Itโs so irresponsible.โ
What Prince Harry was suggesting is that games like Fortnite are to addictive for kids and make them irresponsible and hampers growth of their minds. The addictive nature of these games makes it hard for parents to control kids and at times kids will stay put on their gaming device for long hours to only play Fortnite.
Although this news wasnโt taken lightly by fans on twitter and many started calling Prince Harry a hypocrite and being patronizing. Some of the highlights are as follows :
Prince Harry should keep his nose out. Stick to brutally shooting animals and let us continue to not harm anybody while playing #fortnite please. Sticky fricking beak ๐
— what's the point ๐๐๐ (@beckyboo_13) April 4, 2019
Prince Harry wants @FortniteGame banned ๐.. man obvs can't get a win
There were many responses to this news but those were too brutal ( too much gore ) to share on this article with people actually going out of their way and asking Prince to mind his own business and leave the game alone. Whatโs your take on this, will banning a game actually solve any of these issues with access to other similar games with same theme?
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