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Cloud9 part ways with kioShiMa

Malav Popat
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Cloud9 part ways with kioShiMa

Cloud9, the North-American organisation, have announced that they will no longer use the services of Fabien “kioShiMa” Fiey.

kioShiMa leaves the organisation, less than 6 months after being signed by Cloud9. He first acted as a stand-in for the organisation at BLAST Pro Series Copenhagen.

With the 6 LAN events he attended with Cloud9, the French player averaged a rating of 1.06 and helped them so reach the finals of  ELEAGUE CS:GO Invitational. The team were unable to reach the playoffs stage at IEM Katowice Major.

In an interview, kioShiMa said, “I really appreciate Cloud9 giving me the opportunity to play professional CSGO again. I’m looking forward to what’s next for me in my career and I wish Cloud9 the best.”

With this change, Cloud9 lose their major slot as majority of the lineup who played at IEM Katowice have left the team. The team lost Robin “flusha” Rönnquist and Jordan “Zellsis” Montemurro.

Currently, the team is trialing Daniel “vice” Kim to complete the team. The team will be seen in action on the 12th of April BLAST Pro Series Miami.

With kioShiMa’s departure, Cloud9 now have:

  • Timothy “autimatic” Ta
  • William “RUSH” Wierzba
  • Maikil “Golden” Selim
  • Daniel “vice” Kim (trial)
  • Ronald “Rambo” Kim (coach)

Entity Gaming shifts CSGO Bootcamp to Serbia

Bhavya Shah
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Entity Gaming shifts CSGO Bootcamp to Serbia

Entity Gaming’s manager, Sid Joshi was teasing fans since a couple of days with several status updates and pictures on social media. Nonetheless, the Mumbai based organization has eventually lifted the curtain and it’s CS:GO bootcamp has moved to Europe, Serbia to be precised.

To up our game we have decided to bootcamp in this beautiful European country starting today! Can you guess where our bootcamp is located ?

Posted by Entity Gaming on Sunday, March 31, 2019

Previous week, Entity also got into a partnership with Kingston’s HyperX and its CS:GO division has had decent run at IEM Sydney SEA Qualifiers. However, they couldn’t punch their tickets for COBX Masters Mumbai as they lost in the hands of Signify in COBX Masters Open Qualifier finale.

They have recently acquired a four man PUBG-M roster and collaborated with a couple of streamers as well. Last week, Entity Gaming also signed a Dota 2 roster which comprises of Krish ‘Moon’ Gupta, Amit ‘Zapheto’ Malwal and Shahab ‘Divine’ Saleha.

On being questioned about the time span, Sid Joshi said that the squad will be bootcamping in Serbia for a period of one month. Later on they plan to get back to India and compete at India-SEA level. Indian Counter-Strike circuit is heating up with the likes of Entity Gaming, Global Esports and Signify. All three teams are equipped with couple of foreign firepower and the competition for the throne has rose to a level never witnessed before.

It would be interesting to analyze and watch Entity’s gameplay after a period of one month as they return back home after practicing against European teams.

Sega announces multiple titles for Tokyo Olympics 2020

Prateek Jain
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Sega announces multiple titles for Tokyo Olympics 2020

Sega, a brand well known for producing multi-million-selling game franchises including Sonic the Hedgehog, Total War, and Yakuza, and world’s most prolific arcade game producer, just announced a bunch of games for Tokyo Olympics 2020 including Tokyo 2020 Olympics The Official Video Game, Mario & Sonic AT Tokyo Olympics, Mario & Sonic AT Tokyo Olympic Arcade Game and Tokyo 2020 Sonic Olympics.

https://twitter.com/SEGA_OFFICIAL/status/1111806814213988352?s=20

Sega will start by releasing Tokyo 2020 Olympics The Official Video Game in summer 2019 for Sony PS4 and Nintendo Switch , followed by winter 2019 release for Mario & Sonic AT Tokyo Olympics on Nintendo Switch and Mario & Sonic AT Tokyo Olympic Arcade Game sometime in 2020.

Sega also stated a worldwide release of Tokyo 2020 Sonic Olympics mobile game to be available for iOS and Android in 2020.

It comes at no surprise that Sega is focusing on Sony PS4 and Nintendo release first as they are more popular in their homeland Japan. Sadly, this also confirms that they don’t have plans to release any game on Xbox or PC as of now. But still this comes as an exciting news for long time fans of Mario and Sonic series to be getting games focused on Olympics featuring their favourite characters.

With this Tokyo Olympics 2020 becomes the first ever Olympics to feature an official video game and this may pave way for esports to be included in next Paris Olympics 2024. As the BBC reported this may help push the narrative of Esports to be included in the official line-up of the Olympics games.

Razer partners with Team Alliance

Prateek Jain
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Razer partners with Team Alliance

In a post Team Alliance announced that Razer, a brand well known amongst gamers for their top-notch gaming peripherals, will form a long-term strategic partnership with Team Alliance.

Team Alliance is widely known for their dota 2 team winning first The International in 2013. Team Alliance was co-founded by Razer in 2013, at that time they only had Dota 2 players. Right now, Team Alliance have a roster of players across many popular esports titles including Dota 2, PUBG, Fortnite and more. They also have a line-up of popular streamers like Henrik “AdmiralBulldog” Ahnberg, one of the biggest Dota 2 streamer on Twitch.

As a part of partnership with Team Alliance players will be getting latest gears from Razer. By working with Razer, Team Alliance will also have access to Razer’s extensive player-inclusive research and development program. Alliance will also have input on Razer’s new products.

Razer’s CEO, Min-Liang, on partnership said:

Razer helped create Alliance in 2013 because we saw an esports team that shared many of our core values. Since then, Alliance has continued to build their organization and community with a spirit of teamwork, fairness and dedication that has seen them achieve great success. I’m proud to once again partner with Alliance and, with the backing of Team Razer, Alliance are going to build a formidable line-up this year to make a huge impact within the esports arena.

Followed by Jonathan Berg, CEO and co-founder of Alliance saying:

Today, I am absolutely thrilled to welcome Razer back as one of our main partners for the coming years. When I first started competing under Alliance, Razer was one of the first partners to come on board and support us. In 2013 when we won the Aegis at The Internationals, it was with Razer. Armed with Razer’s high-performance esports peripherals, our players and talents will now surely be ready for any stage or competition. Razer is a true pioneer in esports, made for gamers, by gamers – as a new player-owned organization, we cannot wait to continue growing the next big superstars of esports together.

With the partnership coming to life Team Alliance hopes to repeat the success of 2013 and claim the next “The International.”

Photo: Alliance

Drake invests in another esports venture

Prateek Jain
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Drake invests in another esports venture

Drake, the famous Hip-hop/Rap artist, ventures into gaming again with investing on a player wagering site- Player’s Lounge.Players’ Lounge started as an organization focused on creating live gaming competitions in New York, later shifted to the worldwide online platform.

 

This comes as no surprise as Drake has reportedly shown interest in gaming for a long time and his desires to venture more into gaming.Just a year back Drake was seen playing fortnite with Ninja live on stream, from then he went with different gaming ventures such as Funding the gaming org 100 Thieves.

 

In a post on Medium the CEO of Player’s Lounge, Austin Woolridge said that the organisation has secured a $3 million funding from various sources which included some big names such as Comcast, Drake and Strauss Zelnick. With the latest funding talks completing, Player’s Lounge will be looking to add more games and streaming capabilities to the platform. Today, Players’ Lounge offers tournaments in a variety of games, including Apex Legends, Fortnite, and FIFA.

With this investment Drake will be officially be joining other big orgs in gaming ventures. Drake later on commented that this is just starting and he is looking to invest more into gaming.

 

Dreamhack to use Vertigo at Rio event

Prateek Jain
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Dreamhack to use Vertigo at Rio event

The Swedish giants Dreamhack on Friday announced that they will be using the latest update of CS:GO in the upcoming Dreamhack Open Rio Event, which is stated to start on April 19,2019.

The latest update brings in changes to the active map pool, removing Cache and replacing it with Vertigo. Although this update has rather met with disapproval from fans and pros overall, saying that the map isn’t ready to be played actively and needs significant changes. It is yet to be seen how Valve will be taking on the feedback that the community and pros are providing for Vertigo, but one thing is sure that Valve will be going forward with this approach and won’t be removing Vertigo anytime soon.

The team list for the tournament currently looks as follows:

  • Furia
  • Sharks
  • Luminosity
  • Avangar
  • Valiance
  • AGO
  • eUNITED
  • South America qualifier

Dreamhack will be first tournament organisers to include the updated Active map pool in their tournaments, starting with Dreamhack Open Rio. This gives teams almost 3weeks to prepare for Vertigo.

Photo: HLTV

Team URUGUAY signed by GamerLegion

Malav Popat
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Team URUGUAY signed by GamerLegion

GamerLegion, the German organisation has made an entrance into the professional Counter Strike after signing the Team URUGUAY lineup.

Team Uruguay have been picked up by an organisation shortly after their inception in February. The teams have been showing solid progress and are close to make it to the top 50 teams according to the HLTV rankings.

Team URUGUAY signed by GamerLegion

However, it was not a smooth sailing journey. Shortly after going public, NiP swooped in and snatched William “draken” Sundin away. The team held on and continued competing, with Denis “grux” Gutaj and Tim “nawwk” Jonasson as stand-ins.

Now, the team has signed Tim “nawwk” Jonasson from x6tence Galaxy. Nawwk is regarded as one of the most promising players hailing from his country. In x6tence Galaxy’s semi-final run at DreamHack Winter, he leads the team a with a 1.20 rating.

In a statement, Ex6TenZ said he was happy to jump back into the server, “”I am super happy to start a new adventure under Team GamerLegion. This is my first international team and there‘s a lot of work ahead of us since we start from zero, especially for me since it’s my first time calling in English. I‘m ready for this challenge and can’t wait to climb the ranks!”

The team will hop into the server in the semi-finals of the $100,000 tournament against Valiance. They have also been invited to Charleroi Esports which will be played in Belgium.

GamerLegion are now:

  •  Hampus “hampus” Poser
  •  Tim “nawwk” Jonasson
  •  Adil “ScreaM” Benrlitom
  • Kévin “Ex6TenZ” Droolans
  •  Kevin “HS” Tarn
  •  Christian “chrille” Lindberg (coach)

 

COBX Masters Mumbai CSGO Analysts Revealed; Features bleh

Bhavya Shah
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COBX Masters Mumbai CSGO Analysts Revealed; Features bleh

COBX have revealed the analyst desk lineup for the COBX Mumbai, which will be held from 05th-07th April 2019. CS:GO desk will comprise of:

  • Desk Host – Jordan ‘Elfishguy’ Mays
  • Analyst – Sudhen ‘bleh’ Wahengbam
  • Analyst – Rami ‘Dare_Dev1L’ Rahman

Casting duo of James Bardolph and DDK will also be casting all the CS:GO matches at the LAN event. MVP.PK and Grayhound Gaming are directly invited for COBX Mumbai. Global Esports, Signify, Alpha Red and B.O.O.T-dreamScape are remaining four teams which willl come down to Mumbai.

Earlier this week, organizers also announced Yes Bank and Monster Energy as their title sponsor and energy partner respectively. COBX also added Sony LIV as their digital streaming partner and the event is expected to be streamed live on Sony LIV. Pinda Rika “pindaPanda” Dorji will be the stage host for $200,000 premier event.

Yesterday, COBX also revealed to the Dota 2 analyst desk, which consists of Gareth, Shaneomad and dragondrop. Dendi alongside Tigers and Aachen City Esports are respective invitees for Dota 2. Four qualified teams for Dota 2 are – DeToNator, Exclamation Mark, Signify and Entity Gaming.

Monster Energy announced as Energy partner for COBX Masters

Parth Gada
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Monster Energy announced as Energy partner for COBX Masters

COBX Gaming has announced Monster Energy as their official energy partner for COBX Masters 2019 set to take place in NESCO, Mumbai from April 5-7.

Apart from banners and product placement on stage, Monster Energy is set to provide its energy drinks for free in the arena for viewers to enjoy.

While financial details of the partnership remain undisclosed, the scale of the tournament could make it significant. Apart from inviting multiple international teams like Grayhound, the Indian mix is equally exciting, with the $200,00 competition set to be an intense and close battle.

You can book your tickets for the main event here.

Vertigo replaces Cache in the CS:GO Active Duty map pool

Malav Popat
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Vertigo replaces Cache in the CS:GO Active Duty map pool

Following the conclusion of the IEM Katowice Major, Valve has elected to temporarily remove Cache from ranked matchmaking.

This marks the first change of the year to the Active Duty lineup made by Valve.

Vertigo, the newly revamped bomb defusal map will be replacing Cache in the Active Duty map pool. This means that Vertigo will be played at the next CSGO major in August, the StarLadder Berlin. Other international events will also be playing with Vertigo in the game.

Over the past few updates in 2019, Valve has been making changes to Vertigo. However, Vertigo has never experienced any competitive play on it. Thus making meta and strats on the map unknown to us, leading to organizers choosing to implement the new update later on in the year.

Below are the most recent changes to Vertigo in today’s update.

  • Added new cover in bottom of mid, that doubles as a ramp towards “window” to B site
  • Pushed up CT spawns slightly
  • Prioritized spawn positions, CTs will be biased towards forward spawns, Ts biased towards rear spawns
  • Added corner railing to catwalk on B site
  • Blocked two-man boost on top of spools in CT spawn
  • Blocked angle over wall when going down stairs from B site towards T spawn
  • Tweaked T stairs up to bombsite B
  • Tweaked layout of T spawn slightly
  • Updated bombsite target models on sites
  • Elevator shaft injuries now count towards the injury statistic
  • Fixed various clipping issues

However, the Active Duty map pool now consists of Vertigo, Dust II, Inferno, Mirage, Nuke, Overpass, and Train. Over and above these changes, the new update also brings about a new music kit in the famous song “EZ4ENCE” and a new sticker capsule called “Feral Predators.”

Gameplay

  • Grenades will no longer go through closed doors in certain rare circumstances.
  • Players can no longer pick up weapons through walls or without direct line-of-sight.

Misc.

  • Fixed certain textures sometimes not rendering when running with -d3d9ex launch option.
  • Fixed an issue causing certain areas to not render correctly when spectating a player with zoom-in activated.
  • Fixed items removed from user’s inventory sometimes showing up in loadout and buy menu incorrectly.
  • Fixed player disconnect messages to have neutral names when communication preference is set to sanitize player names.
  • Added “consecutive_round_losses” value for each team to Game State Integration output.
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