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MIBR signs tarik

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MIBR signs tarik

After his exit from Cloud9, the North-American star player, Tarik โ€œtarikโ€ Celik is all set to replace Ricardo โ€œboltzโ€ Prass on the Made in Brazil (MIBR) roster. After acquiring the service of Jake โ€œStewie2Kโ€ Yip on the last day of March 2018, when the American prodigy replacedย Epitacioย “TACO” de Melo on the active line-up, tarikโ€™s arrival seemed to be quite unexpected.

Ricardo โ€œboltzโ€ Prass had joined SK Gaming (Later MIBR) since the October 2017. During his tenure with FalleN and co, he has won EPICENTER 2017, BLAST Pro Series: Copenhagen 2017 and ESL Pro League Season 6 Finals along with several playoffs appearances. 22-year-old will be reuniting with his former teammate Jake, who would play alongside the legendary Brazilian trio. This duo led the first ever North-American team to a major victory when Cloud9 won the ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018.

https://twitter.com/mibr/status/1018193511567450113

Celik will be making his first appearance under the MIBR banner on July 21 against Team Liquid at the ELEAGUE Premier: Atlanta.

Tarik โ€œtarikโ€ Celik:

To be completely honest, I thought Cloud9 would be the last team that I compete under. They are an amazing organization that truly went above & beyond my expectations. Many people are unaware of what goes on behind the scenes, but I really want to make clear that Cloud9 does all they can for their players. It’s very difficult for me to make this decision but I’m confident that we will meet again at the top. Tim, Tyler, Soham and Will are people that are much more than teammates to me, and I only wish them the best of luck moving forward. The first American team to win a major, no one can take that away from us.

Although this decision was incredibly hard on me, I can’t help but say that I’m very excited to start working with my new teammates on MIBR. The sole reason I want to make this change is simple…I want to win, and I will do anything in my power to make that happen. Having the opportunity to play with the legendary core of SK and reunite with my former teammate is extremely thrilling for me. It won’t be an easy road, nor do I think we will become the best team overnight, however I’m willing to bet that we will make it work one way or another.

And so the Clouds settled over the horizon…an Immortal was born.

MIBRโ€™s new roster will look like:

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ทย  Gabrielย “FalleN”ย Toledo

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ทย  Fernando “fer” Alvarenga

๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ทย  Marcelo “coldzera” David

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธย  Jake “Stewie2K” Yip

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธย  Tarik “tarik” Celik

 

Photo via MIBR

ESL prepares for IEM Katowice 2019 Major

Pranav Nalawade
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ESL prepares for IEM Katowice 2019 Major

ESL will host the first major of 2019. This status is given to Intel Extreme Masters: Katowice which will be held from February 14 to March 3. Twenty-four teams will compete for a million dollars. This is reported on tournament organizer’s official website.

The championship will take place at three different venues. The preliminary stage (the former offline qualification) will be held from February 14-20 in ESL Arena. The group stage of the tournament will be hosted from February 21-24 ar the International Congress Centre, where up to a thousand fans can be accommodated. The playoff stage will be held at Spodek Arena from February 28 to March 3.

ESL, for the first time in the last two years, is invited to host the major. ESL’s last championship that had the major status was ESL One Cologne 2016. Of the twelve major tournaments held so far, ESL has organized five.

For those that arenโ€™t familiar with the Major format, the top eight teams from the previous Major playoffs are automatically invited to the next event andย are called โ€œLegends.โ€ Those eight teams are then joined by eight teams that advance from theย โ€œNew Challengersโ€ stage, which contains 16 teams.

 

Photo by ESL

 

eXTREMESLAND 2018 announced

Pranav Nalawade
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eXTREMESLAND 2018 announced

The third edition of the eXTREMESLAND LAN has been announced, with the 2018 tournament once again set to feature a $100,000 prize pool and 16 teams from the Asia Pacific region in competition.

 

According to the press release, the LAN spots will be distributed in the following way:

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China #1๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ China #2
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Oceania ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ณ Mongolia
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ India๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Japan
๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท Korea๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ญ Philippines
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡พ Malaysia๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฌ Singapore
๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ญ Thailand๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Indonesia
๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡ณ Vietnam๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ผ Taiwan
๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Middle-East๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท Turkey

 

Na’vi win the ESL One: Cologne 2018

Bhavya Shah
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Na’vi win the ESL One: Cologne 2018

Natus Vincere has won the best-of-five grand-finals against BIG at the Lanxess Arena, in Cologne. Na’vi removed Cache while BIG banned Mirage. Later, Na’Vi picked up Overpass and Train, whereas, their counterpart picked up Dust II and Inferno. Nuke was left over.

Na’Vi lost the opening match of the group-stages against G2 14-16 and reached the grand finals all the way from the lower-brackets. Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev and co. went onto a spree defeating Gambit Esports 2-0, Cloud9 2-0 and ENCE eSports 2-1 to go past the groups. Na’vi demolished fnatic 2-0 and Astralis 2-1 in the playoffs to secure a slot in the grand-finals.

On the other hand, BIG surprised Liquid 16-7 in the opening match while they, later lost to fnatic 0-2 and took a step down entering the lower-brackets. BIG defeated Renegades and MIBR 2-1 to enter the playoffs. Being the underdog, BIG shocked G2 and FaZe in quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively to meet Na’Vi in the grand-finals.

Overpass, being the Na’Vi’s first pick, they started on the Terrorist side while the Germans decided to choose to defend the bomb sites. BIG began with a B-site retake structure in the pistol round, letting Na’Vi plant the bomb. Later, they were able to retake the bombsite pretty efficiently to grab the first round in the bag. It was a back and forth half where Na’Vi eventually lost to force-buys, twice and the first half ended 8-7 favouring Na’Vi. Na’Vi, on the CT side, pushed a-long in the pistol round to get an edge over the Germans and they won the pistol round convincingly. The Ukranian squad didn’t crumble in the following two rounds against the pistols, leading to a 11-7 scoreline. tiziaN and nex won the twenty-second round in a 4vs2 scenario. Although, Na’Vi took over the first map 16-10.

Dust II has been one of the best maps for BIG. Na’Vi started off on the CT side winning the pistol round and the following two rounds against the pistols. BIG won the first buy-round but unfortunately, they lost the following round. Nex begin the sixth round with two impressive entry kills at the A-bomb site. Later, Na’Vi crumbled against the force-buy and they first half slightly favoured BIG 8-7. tabseN begin the second pistol round by getting all five defending the A-bomb site. BIG concluded the following two rounds against the Ukranian force-buys. In the twenty-first round, nex turned the tables with an incredible ace, getting four kills near the mid-doors. In following rounds, electronic-inspired an incredible post-plant 1vs4 clutch at the B-bombsite making the score-line 13-11 favouring his opponents. Since then, Na’Vi couldn’t fight back and the home team won Dust II 16-11.

Third map was train and BIG started on the defensive side on Na’Vi’s pick. Na’Vi went for an outer take but BIG outclassed Zeus and co. BIG won four straight rounds untill Edward clutched an intense post-plant 1vs2 on the outer-bombsite. The tenth round had no encounters until the bomb-plant and BIG had to retake the B-bombsite against five alive terrorists, which obviously, they couldn’t. The first half ended up 8-7 with in favour of the home team. BIG rushed the inner bombsite in the pistol round and started off winning the pistol. The scores tied up 10-10 after the twentieth round. Later, BIG couldn’t grab anything and the map went into Na’Vi’s bag 16-10.

Inferno was picked up by BIG although Natus Vincere is pretty comfortable with the map. In the pistol round, Germans for a quick banana control on the T-side, a quick triple kill from electronic saved the day for Ukranian squad. Once again, scores tied at 4-4 after the eighth round. For the fourth time, the scoreline after the first half was 8-7, but this time, favouring Natus Vincere. The half ended with an impressive quad-kill at B-bombsite from none other than s1mple. Germans could only bag one round in the second half and Na’Vi closed down the map 16-8 to triumph over the Germans.

Final Score :ย 

  • Overpass: Na’Vi 16–10 BIG

  • Dust II: Na’Vi 11–16 BIG

  • Train: Na’Vi 16–10 BIG

  • Inferno: Na’Vi 16–8 BIG

ESL One: Cologne 2018 final standings & prize distribution:

1. Natus Vincere – $125,000 USD

2. BIG – $50,000 USD

3-4. FaZe – $22,000 USD

3-4. Astralis – $22,000 USD

5-6. fnatic – $11,000 USD

5-6. G2 Esports – $11,000 USD

7-8. ENCE eSports – $7,500 USD

7-8. MIBR – $7,500 USD

9-12. Renegades – $6,000 USD

9-12. mousesports – $6,000 USD

9-12. Cloud9 – $6,000 USD

9-12. North – $6,000 USD

13-16. Ninjas in Pyjamas – $5,000 USD

13-16. Team Liquid – $5,000 USD

13-16. Gambit Esports – $5,000 USD

13-16. B.O.O.T-d[S] – $5,000 USD

 

FACEIT Minors – Preview

Bhavya Shah
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FACEIT Minors – Preview

FACEIT has revealed the talent crew and groups for the regional minor which would be held from July 7-22 at the Twickenham Stadium, London. Thirty-two teams would be participating in four regional minors – America, Europe, CIS and Asia over the span of sixteen days. Two teams from each minor would determine the eight teams appearing at the FACEIT Major’s New Challengers Stage. The prize pool for each regional minor would be $50,000 USD.

Participants:

American Minor: July 7-11

  • Group A –

Nรฃo Tem Como

NRG Esports

eUnited

Swole Patrol

  • Group B –

Furia eSports

Rogue

compLexity Gaming

Team Dignitas

CIS Minor: July 10-13

  • Group A –ย 

pro100

HellRaisers

TBD

PLINK-TECH

  • Group B –ย 

AVANGAR

Team Spirit

forZe

Monolith Gaming

Asian Minor: July 16-20

  • Group A –ย 

Signature Gaming

VG.FlashGaming

SZ Absolute

Renegades

  • Group B –

TyLoo

5Power Gaming

Uniquestars

Tainted Minds

European Minor – 19-22 July

  • Group A –

OpTic Gaming

ENCE eSports

3DMAX

LeftOut

  • Group B –ย 

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Team Kinguin

Sprout

Red Reserve

Map pool

Cache-Dust 2-Inferno-Mirage-Train-Overpass-Nuke

Format:

Group stage will feature double-elimination (GSL) format. Initial matches would be best-of-one while the rest of them would be a best-of-three encounter. Top two teams from each group would advance to the playoffs. Playoffs will also have a double-elimination best-of-three scenario. All the four regional minors would follow the same format.

Prize-pool Distribution:

1st: $30,000 USD
2nd: $15,000 USD
3rd-4th: $5,000 USD

Broadcast Crew:

Photo via Faceit

Stream:

All the matches would be streamed live on FACEIT TV.

Additional information regarding the Minors can be found on FACEIT Major’s website and the article will be updated as more details are released.

ESL One: Cologne 2018 – Preview

Bhavya Shah
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ESL One: Cologne 2018 – Preview

ESL One: Cologne 2018 begins tomorrow and it’s time to hype up for one of the most renowned events of the year. As usual, LANXESS Arena in the old-cultural city of Germany, Cologne, would host the premier event. Sixteen teams would fight for a whopping prize pool of $300,000 USD from July 3-8. Out of sixteen teams, eleven teams were directly invited while the rest of them qualified through European Qualifiers, North-American Qualifiers, Asian Qualifiers and the winner of GG.Bet Majestic also secured a slot at the LAN event.

Teams are divided into two groups and the opening matches would be a best-of-one encounter while rest of the group stage matches would feature best-of-three format. The winner from both the groups would directly advance to semi-finals whereas the second-place and third-place teams would compete in the single elimination best-of-three quarter-finals. The grand-final would be a best-of-five.

Coverage

Participants:

Photo via ESL

Prize-pool Distribution:

1st: $125,000 USD
2nd: $50,000 USD
3rd-4th: $22,000 USD
5th-6th: $11,000 USD
7th-8th: $7,500 USD
9th-12th: $6,000 USD
13th-16th: $5,000 USD

Map poolย 

Cache-Dust 2-Inferno-Mirage-Train-Overpass-Nuke

Talent Lineup

Photo via ESL

Round #1 match-ups:-

Group A:

  • Astralis vs Ence eSports

  • Ninjas in Pyjamas vs Cloud9

  • mousesports vs Gambit Esports

  • G2 Esports vs Natus Vincere

Group B:

  • FaZe Clan vs B.O.O.T-dream[S]cape

  • Renegades vs MIBR

  • Fnatic vs North

  • BIG vs Team Liquid

 

Streams:

More information on the ESL One: Cologne 2018 can be found on ESLโ€™sย website, and this article will be updated as more details are released.

Elon Musk’s five OpenAI’s ready to battle at The International 8

Mayank Jain
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Elon Musk’s five OpenAI’s ready to battle at The International 8

OpenAI Five, a similar AI that has methodicallly figured out how to ace prepackaged games like Chess and Go, will play with an entire five-man Dota 2 group against a portion of the amusement’s best proficient players at The International 8 in Vancouver.

Since its Dota 2 make a big appearance at The International 7, the group behind OpenAI has completed a lot of work on enhancing more ethereal ideas, for example, its cultivating and laning. Or then again, rather, it’s enhanced its own. The AI group hones by playing matches against itself, enabling it to adjust and build up its capacitiesโ€”to such a degree, to the point that it’s possessed the capacity to beat a group of 5,500 MMR players. While OpenAI Five is yet to test its courage against an expert group, players over 5,000 MMR section just make up 1 percent of the general Dota 2 playerbase, as per MMR following site OpenDota.

Clearly, Open AI Five has likewise built up its very own playstyle, as laid out in a blog by the OpenAI group. It’s obviously exceptionally enthusiastic about setting up ganks in the early diversion to the detriment of its own sheltered laners’ ranch, anxiously changes into the mid-amusement, and (bar players observe) permit bolster players a ton of gold and XP in the early amusement.

The innovation that permits the self-learning process is enormous, however the result is justified, despite all the trouble: A sum of 128,000 CPU centers lets OpenAI Five increase 900 long periods of experience over the whole five-player group every dayโ€”enabling it to learn parts of the amusement at a stunning pace. Just a couple of days in the wake of beginning the test, OpenAI Five went from being a totally confused chaos, unfit to accomplish even the most fundamental of errands, to challenging rune produces and ganking. Truth be told, Open AI Five executed its systems so well that it even got proficient DotA 2 observer William “Rush” Lee singing its gestures of recognition.

“The cooperation part of the bot was simply overpowering. It feels like five caring players that know a decent broad procedure,” he was cited as saying in the OpenAI group’s post.

A year ago at Key Arena, Dota 2 geniuses like The International 1 champion Danil “Dendi” Ishutin were scarcely ready to set up a battle against OpenAI. We should trust that an outfit of the best Dota 2 brings to the table can improve the situation.

Snax replaces STYKO in mouz

Pranav Nalawade
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Snax replaces STYKO in mouz

On June 26, Janusz “Snax” Pogorzelski had left virtus.pro ESEA roster. Although, Janusz, on his official Facebook page, regarded it as a misclick. Earlier, DBLTAP had hinted the STYKO-Snax move. The Polish prodigy would debut with the international roster against Gambit at the ESL One Cologne in the upcoming week.

Janusz has been playing for Virtus.pro since last five years and he has won several prominent titles – DreamHack Las Vegas 2017, DreamHack Open Bucharest 2016, ELEAGUE Season 1, StarLadder i-League Invitational #1, ESL ESEA Pro League Invitational and EMS One Katowice 2014. Piotr โ€œmorelzโ€ Taterka, one of the rising stars in the domestic Polish scene will be standing-in for Virtus.pro till mid-July.

Janusz “Snax” Pogorzelski: “From now on, I am a mousesports player. I’m really happy to join a new team and I think we all needed a fresh start. Of course, Iโ€™m a bit sad that im leaving my 2nd home that is Virtus.pro, but sometimes you need to go forward and stop looking back. I hope this will be a good change for both sides and that my former mates at VP will wish me luck, as I wish them the best to get back to form and to be on the top again. Cheers to everyone out there, we will be great. I’m grateful for my time and the entire management of the Virtus.pro organization.”

Piotr โ€œmorelzโ€ Taterka: โ€œIโ€™m very flattered that I got a chance to play for Virtus.pro. It was an amazing feeling to hear a call asking you to play in such a team. Excitement barely left me after winning final against AGO in Polish Esport League, and the very next day I get such a huge surprise. I understand this is a great lesson for me, big chance and a way to verify my skills. I will do my best. I am motivated as never before.”

Roman Dvoryankin, Virtus.pro General Manager: โ€œItโ€™s been a hard decision, but team future is our top priority. The rebuilding process we started earlier this year continues as we see Snax leaving. Weโ€™ve had some amazing moments together and his name will always stay in VP history. I would also like to thank mousesports for their professional approach โ€” we know that Janusz in good hands. Weโ€™re pleased to welcome Piotr in our team. Iโ€™m looking forward to see him playing in the next tournaments. Iโ€™d like to assure our fans that weโ€™re committed to bringing our CS:GO squad back on track. We need your support in the upcoming months.”

Jakub โ€œkubenโ€ Gurczyล„ski, CS:GO team coach and manager: โ€œWe are glad to welcome morelz as a newcomer. Virtus.pro organization sees a great potential in this guy. We hope that in a short time he will be able to find a common language with the rest of the team. As for Snax โ€” we will always keep memories of the good time we spent together.โ€

Cengiz Tรผylรผ, CEO of mousesports: We are glad to welcome Snax to our CS:GO roster after a very eventful week. Once we realized that Snax was open to leave the legendary Golden Five lineup and to join mousesports, he immediately became our number one priority. I would like to thank the Virtus.pro organization for the smooth negotiation process on short notice, which allows us to see Snax’ mousesports debut at ESL ONE Cologne next week.”

mousesports roster would look like:

Tomรกลก “oskar” ล ลฅastnรฝ

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Chris “chrisJ” de Jong

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Miikka “suNny” Kemppi

๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช Robin “ropz” Kool

๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Janusz “Snax” Pogorzelski

๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Martin “STYKO” Styk (Benched)

Entity Gaming signs Excali and HuNtr for Marzil and psy

Bhavya Shah
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Entity Gaming signs Excali and HuNtr for Marzil and psy

As per an exclusive revelation to TalkEsport, Entity Gaming, is set to bring changes to its active CSGO lineup. For, Simar “psy” Sethi is moved to inactivity and Agneya “Marzil” Koushik’s tenure with the organisation has ended.

Sethi had injured his hand in July 2017 and since then, he is suffering from Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). During the time he heals back, the organization would focus on his ‘out of game skills’.

Agneya recently made it to the OpTic India roster and he has decided to leave Entity Gaming to join the North-American organization. It was a strenuous task for him to attend Entity’s bootcamp in Mumbai and side-by-side pursue his Engineering in Bengaluru. Hence, the star player has decided to further continue his career under the OpTic banner which would possibly be setting up a bootcamp for the Indian franchise in the capital city of Karnataka.

Sid Joshi, manager of Entity Gaming reclaimed that the new roster will dominate the Asian CSGO fraternity. In his words “Complete India dominance and Asian recognition.”

This duo, alongside Bhavin “HellrangeR” Kotwani, Anuj “Amaterasu” Sharma and Aaqib “Falken” Dingankar has won ESL India Premiership Winter LAN Finals 2017 and secured second place at ESL India Premiership Summer Season LAN Finals 2018.

Karan “Excali” Mhaswadkar and Ishpreet “HuNtr” Singh would be replacing the departing duo – Agneya “Marzil” Koushik & Simar “psy” Sethi.

Earlier, on June 2, TalkEsport had already reported the Marzil-Excali move. Karan and Ishpreet have already played for Entity Gaming in the past alongside Tejas “Ace” Sawant, Ayush “astaRRR” Deora and Bharath “ribbi” Reddy.

Entity Gaming’s upcoming roster for the new season

  • Bhavin “HellrangeR” Kotwani
  • Anuj “Amaterasu” Sharma
  • Aaqib “Falken” Dingankar
  • Karan “Excali” Mhaswadkar
  • Ishpreet “HuNtr” Singh
  • Simar “Psy” Sethi (Inactive)

This comes as a shocking news for the winners of ESL India Premiership Summer Season LAN Finals winner – Team Invictus, since, only two out of five from the winning line-up would continue further. Bharath “ribbi” Reddy has announced retirement. Whereas, Excali-HuNtr duo have found their new home in Entity Gaming.

PUBG Global Invitational 2018 officiates Intel as title sponsor

Deepak Ojha
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PUBG Global Invitational 2018 officiates Intel as title sponsor

The PUBG Global Invitational 2018 will be the biggest esports competition in the historical journey of Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds, and Intel will lead the charge as the overall backer of the occasion.

Tuesday, June 26th: PUBG Corporation declare that driving PC gaming innovation organization Intel has been named as the authority overall backer for the biggest Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) esports event ever; The PUBG Global Invitational 2018.

Being named the authority overall supporter of the PGI 2018, Intel will control the majority of the competition’s PCs with the eighth Generation Intelยฎ Coreโ„ข i7-8700k processors. The hardware will facilitate driving gameplay and competition execution for every one of the expert groups that will contend at the occasion.

PUBG Global Invitational 2018

PUBG Global Invitational 2018

โ€œWeโ€™re delighted to join forces with Intel for PGI 2018. The first global PUBG esports tournament hosted directly by PUBG Corp.,โ€ said Richard Kwon, CMO, PUBG Corp. โ€œWe believe the commitment Intel is making to the event will help us in further unlocking the potential of PUBG esports. We continue to expand our efforts to audiences around the world.โ€

With the great innovation of Intel driving the occasion, PUBG Corp. is hoping to make a sprinkle in the industry. PUBG’s PGI 2018 aims to change the spectrum of the esports tournaments.

PUBG’s prize pool for PGI 2018 is larger than Valve’s Major

The PUBG Global Invitational 2018 will see 20 of the very bestย teams on earth. They will travel to the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin, Germany. The teamsย vie for an offer of the $2,000,000 prize pool from July 25th to the 29th. The teams will punch their ticket to the competition through anchoring triumph in qualifiers facilitated in their separate districts.

Earlier in March this year, HyperX backed PGL PUBG Spring Invitational. The event posted in Romania, had a prize pool of $100,000.

More details about PUBG Global Invitational 2018 are available at their official portal.

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