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ESL Cologne 2019 announced with $300K for CSGO

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ESL Cologne 2019 announced with $300K for CSGO

ESL Cologne 2019 returns to the Cathedral of Counterstrike, the German esports giant has announced. The schedule is set for the three-day LAN Finale in July. LANXESS Arena welcomes from 5th to 7th of July 2019.

The defending champions, Natus Vincere will be likely among the invited ones, alongside other 11 teams. Whereas, two European teams will have the chance to qualify. Asia & America too will have one slot each.

The prize pool of the event has been set to $300,000 with the winners taking home $125,000. Subsequent to the 2018 installment.

US Federal Trade Commission To Investigate Into CSGO Cases

Mayank Jain
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US Federal Trade Commission To Investigate Into CSGO Cases

The Federal Trade Commission today consented to examine video game loot boxes (similar to CSGO skins cases). Following an official demand by US Senator Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.).

In a Congressional oversight board hearing prior today, FTC director Joe Simons avowed Sen. Hassan’s ask for that plunders be explored. The trade occurred in a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing that was chiefly centered around information security issues, yet which went into different domains.

Hassan said that the loot boxes will โ€œrepresent a $50 billion industry by the year 2022,โ€ likely referring to a report.

Game developers regularly incorporate loots enclosed in their diversions, which offer in-amusement lifts and prizes, which are optionally available also to purchase. The practice has thrived as of late, especially following colossal achievement in recreations like the FIFA franchise, though with complications.

Adding to the report, the Senator cautioned that kids are especially powerless to loots and that they speak to a “close connection” to betting.

Earlier this year, Senator Hassan wrote to the Entertainment Software Rating Board to ask how games with loot boxes are rated. The ESRB later added an โ€œin-game purchasesโ€ label to games that include loot crates.

Not long ago, Senator Hassan kept in touch with the Entertainment Software Rating Board to ask how recreations with loot boxes are evaluated. The ESRB later included an “in-game purchases” name to games that incorporate loot cases.

Netherlands & Belgium had a couple of months ago, completely banned the purchase and usage of Loot boxes.

FaZe invited to IEM Sydney

Parth Gada
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FaZe invited to IEM Sydney

FaZe clan have been announced as the first European invite in IEM Sydney 2019 which takes place from March 30-April 5 2019 in the Qudos Bank Arena.

The defending champions join Renegades as they will look to reclaim the $250000 event, featuring 3 teams from Asia, 3 from Oceania and a team each from the European and American qualifiers along with the 8 invited teams.

FaZe won the 2018 edition of the tournament amidst much surprise, storming through favourites Astralis 3-0 in the Grand Finals with stand-in Richard โ€œXiztโ€ Landstrรถm replacing Olof โ€œolofmeisterโ€ Kajbjer, with Ladislav โ€œGuardiaNโ€ Kovรกcs bagging the MVP award.

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Astralis win Esports Championship Series Season 6 – Finals

Bhavya Shah
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Astralis win Esports Championship Series Season 6 – Finals

Astralis doesn’t seem to halt because it’s their era. Danish squad brings home yet another trophy beating MIBR without dropping any map in the best-of-three grand-finale and grabbed whopping $250,000 USD. Undoubtedly, Nicolai “device” Reedtz came out on the top to grab his 11th HLTV.org MVP award and lead his squad to another triumph. Although, MIBR got a victory over Astralis in the group stage, Fallen and co. couldn’t produce the same result in the finale.

MIBR banned nuke and dust II while the Danes removed cache and train. Mirage was set to be the decider as Astralis picked up inferno and MIBR chose overpass. It was a nail-biting encounter at Esports Stadium, Arlington as both the maps ended with Astralis getting a slight edge over their opponents.

Inferno: Astralis 16–14 MIBR

Overpass: Astralis 22–20 MIBR

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Via HLTV.org

With the victory, Astralis’ core – dupreeh, device & Xyp9x surpass $1M USD in terms of prize money. Earlier this month, Astralis earnings in 2018 surpassed $2MN USD.

Finalists for Northeast Esports Championship unveiled

Bhavya Shah
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Finalists for Northeast Esports Championship unveiled

In an initiative to evolve North-East India’s esports scenario, Nodwin Gaming came up with a unique yet interesting tournament, Northeast Esports Championship. Earlier this year, Nodwin announced this venture at the Indian Gaming Show in Bengaluru. Northeast Esports Championship hosted three titles which are popular across the subcontinent – CS:GO, FIFA’19 and Mobile Legends.

The LAN Qualifiers for the Closed Qualifier were held across 6 cities namely Silchar, Aizawl, Imphal, Kohima, Guwahati and Shillong while the remaining 2 teams qualified via Online Qualifier. Eight teams for each title came down to Guwahati to secure their slots in the finale alongside tickets for Dreamhack Mumbai.

Sagar Vyas, Nodwin Gaming:

This was a pleasure for me to be on the ground and conduct all qualifiers successfully. The North-East scene has been neglected since quite some time but the enthusiasm within them is no less. This event had my personal touch since I was quite emotionally attached with it and I’d like to wish the best to all finalists heading down to Mumbai for the finale.

Two teams from each title will be heading down to Mumbai during December 21-23 at Dreamhack India for the grand-finale of Northeast Esports Championship Cup. All the matches will feature a best-of-three format.

Finalists:

CS:GO –

Flashback Gaming

Team Insainity

FIFA’ 19-

Samin


Mobile Legends –ย 

Team Xenomorphsย 

Team BFF

 

G2 Esports completes CSGO squad with JacKz, Lucky

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G2 Esports completes CSGO squad with JacKz, Lucky

As we informed of shuffle to our readers a couple of weeks ago, the move has now been made official by the Spanish organization. Both ‘SmithZz’ and ‘Ex6TenZ,’ were placed on the inactive list, before the replacement occurred.

Audric ‘JaCkz’ Jug and Lucas ‘Lucky’ Chastang have officially joined the roster on November 26, keeping intact the all-French squad that also features longtime G2 players Richard ‘shox’ Papillon, Alexandre ‘bodyy’ Pianaro, and Kenny ‘KennyS’ Shrub.

G2 Esports

Lucky & JacKy were colleagues of the same team 3DMax. G2 Esports now looks like:

  • Richard โ€œshoxโ€ Papillon
  • Kenny โ€œkennySโ€ Schrub
  • Alexandre โ€œbodyyโ€ Pianaro
  • Audric โ€œJACKZโ€ Jug
  • Lucas โ€œLuckyโ€ Chastang

Entity announce signing of Serbian Pro SoLo

Parth Gada
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Entity announce signing of Serbian Pro SoLo

In a Facebook post, Entity Gaming have announced the signing of Serbian pro-Darko โ€œSoLoโ€ Mitiฤ‡, who has been free agent since March.

Entity have made it very clear that they would not hesitate to look overseas to bolster their squad, having picked up fellow Serbian Dan โ€œdavโ€ Miljaniฤ‡ just a few weeks back, and continuing the trend of Indian CS teams picking up overseas players.

Veni, Vidi, vici
Our CS:GO roster has achieved amazing success with a flawless streak so far. We at entity aren’t just…

Posted by Entity Gaming onย Thursday, November 22, 2018

The 29-year-old last played competitively for Without Warning, and lost a close match to LDLC in the ZOTAC Cup Masters 2018 Closed Qualifiers. Although not announced, it is likely he will be seen in a coaching capacity, having coached German Organisation Valiance for half a year, and helped them win the VIP Adria League Season 1 and runners-up positions at Esports Balkan League: Season 1 Finals and CSGOFAST Cup #3.

He is set to join immediately, with Entity having a commanding 8-0 record at the ESL India Premiership Fall Season.

The new roster has been updated as follows:ย 

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Karan “Excali” Mhaswadkar

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Bhavin “Hellranger” Kotwani

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Anuj “Amaterasu” Sharma

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Simar “Psy” Sethi

๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ David “Dav” Miljaniฤ‡

๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธย ย Darko “soLo” Mitiฤ‡

Also read: Serbiaโ€™s Dav picked up by Indian org. Entity Gaming

 

 

 

 

Dreamhack Open Winter 2018 – Talent Lineup & Teams revealed

Bhavya Shah
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Dreamhack Open Winter 2018 – Talent Lineup & Teams revealed

Dreamhack returns to Jรถnkรถping, Sweden as the organizers set to host the concluding Dreamhack Open of the year. Dreamhack Open Winters 2018, being the seventh and the last one, will be held at Elmia Convention Center from November 30 to December 2. Eight teams will be attending the event over the span of 3 days. Six teams are directly invited while the two qualified from North-America Qualifier and Europe Qualifier respectively.

Participants:

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท G2 Esports

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ OpTic Gaming

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Heroic

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Team LDLC

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ compLexity Gaming

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎย ENCE eSports

๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐Ÿ‡ฆย Bravado (NA Qualifier)

๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ชย x6tence Galaxy (EU Qualifier)

The event will feature a generous prize pool of $100,000 as the teams will be divided into two groups. Dreamhack Winter will feature double-elimination GSL format in the groups while the playoffs will be single-elimination best-of-three. The analyst desk will feature the likes of Asian expert, Sudhen “Bleh” Wahengbam.

Talent Crew:

Host –

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Tres “stunna” Saranthus

Commentators –

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Mohan “launders” Govindasamy

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Conner “Scrawny” Girvan

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Hugo Byron & ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Niels “rizc” Topp

Analysts:

๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Jacob “Pimp” Winneche

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Sudhen “Bleh” Wahengbam

All the matches will be streamed live on Twitch.

 

Nike signs $1bn merchandising deal with League of Legends Professional League – LPL

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Nike signs $1bn merchandising deal with League of Legends Professional League – LPL

According to multi-party media news, League of Legends Professional League (LPL) issued an official apparel announcement to the clubs in the league.

The announcement said that LPL has reached a strategic cooperation with an international first-line sports brand. In the new season, the brand will provide clothing, accessories, and shoes for representatives of all club members, coaches, team leaders, translators, and analysts.

As a member of the alliance, all clubs are subject to a new agreement between the alliance and the brand on team uniforms.

On the afternoon of the 19th, several sources close to LPL and Nike confirmed to Lazy Bear Sports that the “international first-line sports brand” in the announcement was Nike.

At present, the basic cooperation intentions of both parties have been reached, and Nike will receive the total naming rights of the LPL Alliance uniforms. Earlier reports on the Internet said that Nike is expected to spend 1 billion yuan to sign a five-year contract with LPL.

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Cloud9 Confirm Signing of kioShiMa Permanently

Parth Gada
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Cloud9 Confirm Signing of kioShiMa Permanently

The 24-year-old was a stand-in for the NA organisation since the BLAST Pro Series in Copenhagen and now is confirmed as the permanent 5th as Cloud9 finally have a stable roster.

C9 Coach Soham โ€œvalensโ€ Chowdhury said

Our search to find that elusive form from earlier this year has been long and gruelling, but hopes are high. Fabien has already made a great impression, both as a teammate and player, and the team is ready to build on our exciting first step at Copenhagen. We are looking forward to show you a revitalized Cloud9 leading into the next major.

Cloud 9 CEO and Owner Jack Etienne was thrilled at the acquisition.

I’m so proud of the way we’ve built this team and kioShiMa has been a great addition to the C9 family already. We’re all excited to see what the team can do in competition!

Fabien โ€œkioShiMaโ€ Fiey now becomes the 3rd European player in the roster along with fellow Swedes flusha and Golden, as they join fellow Americans RUSH and autimatic. His first match as a permanent player will be at the ECS Finals on November 22.

The completed roster is as follows:

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Timothy “autimatic” Ta

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ William “RUSH” Wierzba

๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Maikil “Golden” Selim

๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Robin “flusha” Rรถnnquist

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Fabien “kioShiMa” Fiey

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Soham “valens” Chowdhury

Photo courtesy of HLTV

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