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Astralis Leads, CLG upsets at the start of ESL Cologne

Kanishka Thakur
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Astralis Leads, CLG upsets at the start of ESL Cologne

The ESL One Cologne started with the first match between Astralis and Dignitas. It was a Best of 1 and the map decided was Overpass.

Astralis took a quick lead in the starting of the game as ‘device’ clutched an amazing 1v2 round securing them a first round win. This followed by Astralis taking a comfortable lead by 5-0 and taking control over the map. On the other hand Dignitas were really struggling with their CT-site hold. Inspiste of giving away few rounds dignitas came back in the game and picked up some important rounds in the first half and closed the half with the scoreline of 8-7 in the favor of Astralis. In the second pistol round Dignitas pulled off an amazing A site execute to secure the round, that followed by two anti-Eco rounds to secure a 10-8 lead. Although Dignitas didn’t stay behind for long and cameback with ‘Karrigan’ clutching a very important round and then closing the map with a scoreline of 16-12.

Image courtesy :- hltv.org
Image courtesy :- hltv.org

The second match of the ESL One Cologne was between Gambit and Counter Logic Gaming. The map that was decided was Dust2.

Gambit started pretty well by winning the first pistol round and then taking a lead of 7-1 in the map. But with the help of ‘spaze’, the North Americans came back in the game and closed the first half with a scoreline of 8-7 in the favor of Gambit. The second half pistol round started with ‘koosta’ getting a double kill to secure the round. Gambit forced in the second round and with the help of ‘Adren’ the team managed to win the force buy. Gambit later on picked some important rounds and closed the map with a scoreline of 16-13.

Easy win for Na’Vi and NiP at the first day of the Majors

Kanishka Thakur
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Easy win for Na’Vi and NiP at the first day of the Majors

The third match of the Day 1 of the ESL Cologne was between Natus Vincere and Flipside Tactics. The map that was decided to be played was Train.ย The first round of the map started with Flipside winning the pistol round with the help of ‘Blade’ and surprising everyone.

Image Courtesy :- hltv.org
Image Courtesy :- hltv.org

However Na’Vi didn’t stay back for too long and pulled right back after on a force buy and added four more rounds to take them to a significant lead. Despite of ‘Worldedit’ winning an important clutch round, Na’Vi closed the first half with a scoreline of 13-2. Flipside then comeback in the game by winning opening five rounds on the CT-side but then ‘GuardiaN’ helped Na’Vi to close the map 16-7.

The fourth match of the ESL Cologne was between Ninjas in Pyjamas and OpTic Gaming. The map that was decided was Dust2.

The first pistol round saw some amazing picks by ‘pyth’ securing NiP the first pistol round. NiP took control over the map and were leading 8-0 comfortably. Later OpTic Gaming managed to win three rounds to close the half with a scoreline of 11-4 in the favor of NiP. In the second pistol round ‘Get_right’ saved the round with an amazing 3k. Later on NiP closed the map with a scoreline of 16-4.

FaZe upset fnatic at Group D first game

Deepak Ojha
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FaZe upset fnatic at Group D first game

With uncertain turn out of events, FaZe beat Fnatic at ESL One Cologne 2016 group stages in the opening match sending the Swedish side to the lower brackets. FaZe just managed to take over dust2 with a nomimal margin of a couple rounds closing the game atย 16-14.

Even though with strong start, Fnatic wasn’t able to grab the grip of the game versus FaZe in the opening rounds, after being down inย the first half 8-7 fnatic weren’t able to dominate the scoreline in the next phase of the game and fell short of 4 match points only to lose the map 14-16 against FaZe which showed their best performance since their inception. Aizy, who contributed the most in the impact rounds completely outplayed fnatic multiple times during their attempt to get the control of the map back when it was gone.

Fnatic KRIMZ

It looked very promising at the time when fnatic played their regular ‘timeout’ card and were able to win a couple of rounds followed by a couple of more to tie the scoreline at 13-14ย but it was Aizy who took them down completely with his massive 3 kills putting a halt once again to the hopes of the Swedish side.

Interestingly, fnatic did manage to get some impossible rounds as they moved ahead with the ratings to make it 14-15ย with flusha’s multi kills and JW’s 1v2 CZ clutch. The aggression in the last round was so evident as fnatic were hungry and desperate to move to overtime, but it seemed that FaZe did their homework properly and were able to read the situation. All thanks to kioSHima’s headshot on to olofmeister which got them to the B site wide-open leaving fnatic dispersed in the map and hopeless as JW took the responsibility and wasn’t able to win the last round 1v3-clutch. Fnatic now moves to the lower brackets and will face G2 tomorrow. Interestingly, one from G2 and fnatic will be surely getting eliminated and that’d be a huge upset when people expect both the teams to be at the playoffs.

SK wins their first map against heavyweights G2

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SK wins their first map against heavyweights G2

It was a treat to watch two of the top teams in the world compete atย the majors inย the early stages of the game. G2, which is already sailing the ship on the edge of the world, who beat SK Gaming last week got defeated toย them in the first match with a tough scoreline of 16-11 after being neck-to-neck for the most of the map.

The match begin with G2 starting off in the terrorist side where ‘fer’ denied the push by taking two headshots in the very first round which led to SK winning the first map followed by the anti-ecos in which ‘fer’ got couple of kills in the second and the third round making it 3-0 in favor of SK. RPK’s two kills helped G2 winning the fourth round as they came back in the rifles making it 3-1 and 303 further after SK were forced to pistols. However, in the seventh round, fnx shattered the dreams of the french when both the sides were rifles with his two kills making the score 4-3 favoring the SK, and the following rounds to make it a 5-3 which forced G2 to tec9-armors. Shox and co. were able to bring it back from the tec9-eco round followed by the next round where Rpk went huge by getting 3 kills and the scores tied yet again to a 5-5.

SK. FalleN

After a couple of easy rounds in the bank of G2, Scream pulled of an amazing 1v2 post-plant clutch at the B bombsite, smartly tricking the SK side by spraying them down from an unexpected angle making the scores 8-5. The Brazilian captain quickly responded back with 2 scout kills, stealing a couple of back and forth rounds, ending the half 8-7 favoring the french side.

Although after a couple of delayed losses favoring the SK side, SmithZ stepped up to get 7 massive kills in 2 consecutive rounds followed by a clutch by Rpk to make it 11-10 favoring them. The couple of following rounds were sort of mishap where Brazilians completely outplayed the Frenchmen taking the scoreline ahead to 14-11 and closing the first match 16-11. The first match of the Group of death surely got us amazing content and experience of the major. Unfortunately, only two of the four from Group D will make their way to the playoffs, and the three of them are the favorites of the majors already!

Team Brutality wins Novaplay’s Supernova

Deepak Ojha
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Team Brutality wins Novaplay’s Supernova

Team Brutality wins Novaplay’s Supernova CS:GO championship held in Banglore on 3rd of July, 2016, making it their longest win-streak back-to-back in the majors. They were awarded with โ‚น2,00,000 in the bank and a respect to carry forward in the next event.

The finals were a bit not like the finals as Team Brutality comfortably were able to clinch the championship title by defeating top Indian CS:GO teams and making themselves once again the Number 1 CS:GO team in India without a doubt. The debatable topic whether they are good only during online events is no longer logical as this is their power-pack victory even though when teams like Overcome and Wolf were fellow participants.

Novaplay

There is nothing much to talk technically about their game as the victory came in with two back to back wins leaving the last map untouched as they won 16-5 on cache, followed by 16-3 on dust2 in the grand finals versus Team Kungfu Pandits.

Team Brutality attend the event with their regular lineup, V3n0m, RiX, Fox, Kundya and astarrrr; whereas, The Kunfu Pandits were,ย Ribbi, AKS, Petrichor, Marzil and Moon.

The event, however, turned out to be unexpectedly great after the controversial decisions by the organizers led the unwanted vibes of negativity crawling around the fest with lots of different opinionsย edging their impact on the outcome of the event. We were at the event to witness some amazing Counter Strike as the organizers left no stones unturned in making this one of the biggest and successful LAN event this year.


The production, scheduling, technical and all the other aspects of the event were exceptional. The likes of Bleh andย Aequitas at the analysis-cum-casting desk also addedย cheese to the dish as they were flawless in their non-stop 9 hours run. Novaplay’s Supernova was overall a sweet deal for the Counter Strike community with added perks at the LOFT38 pub which also had Comedy Industry’s veteran Abish Mathew as the stand-up comedian for the night.

Other than Counter Strike: Global Offensive, Novaplay had a Cosplay event as well which turned out to be great with Vijay Sinha assistingย the viewers on from the stage and participating turning out to be in huge numbers. Supernova, as the website says, plans to continue their run for 4 different cities other than Bengaluru which is obviously a great news forย the community.

Team Overcome beat Wolf-Invisible wings at ESL Starter Cup #2 CS:GO finals

Deepak Ojha
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Team Overcome beat Wolf-Invisible wings at ESL Starter Cup #2 CS:GO finals

The ESL Starter Cup #2 finals played between Team Overcome and Team Wolf (now Invisible Wings)ย had an unfortunate turn out of events when Team Wolf’s boot-camp was hit by internet failure which led them to forfeit the second map (11-11 in cobblestone at the time of disconnect) after losing the first one 7-16 on mirage. Team Overcome became the ESL Starter Cup #2 CS:GO champions.

We were expecting a breathtaking battle between two of the India’s top 5 teams with similar skill levels competing against in the ESL India Premiership Starter Cup #2 CS:GO finals, which turned out to be rather one-sided upset in the first map only to finish the best-of-three battle with forfeitย in the second map after Team Wolf faced connectivity trouble. As a matter of fact Team Overcome clinched the victory 2-0 in a best of three grand finals affair to be called ESL Starter Cup # CS:GO champions, they will be qualified for the LAN finals alongside Team Wolf which will be held in Hyderabad very soon.

As a matter of fact Team Overcome clinched the victory 2-0 in a best of three grand finals affair to be called ESL Starter Cup # CS:GO champions, they will be qualified for the LAN finals alongside Team Wolf which will be held in Hyderabad very soon.

Team Overcome

Team Overcome

Putting some light on Team Overcome, who are not yet well renowned in the industry. The team was formed a couple of months ago and have had a good run all throughout their journey. Not winning any major events but were definitely in the top four in almost all the national tournaments held.

Their major wins were marked in Mangima 2016 Pune which held earlier this year, Team Overcome stood 3rd at Mangima, 4th at Lenovo India Gaming Week and Videogame Fest,ย Bangalore, they were also the runners-up at TPLinks ClanWars Season 4. Their latest two achievements were recorded today when they stood 4th at Novaplay’s Supernova being eliminated by Team Brutality (16-13) who later on went ahead winning the event.

PalmDesert becomes the first steam user to reach level 1000

Kanishka Thakur
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PalmDesert becomes the first steam user to reach level 1000

Renowned power player PalmDesert has become the first Steam user to reach the steam level over 1000. He was the first one to reach that level and Valve hadn’t even created a proper icon for level 1000 at the time.

PalmDesert

He owns 5,029 games and 3,372 pieces of DLC. He also has a total of 58,666 items in his steam inventory that keeps on increasing. Steamโ€™s entire library is made up of 7,481 games and add-ons.

His most played game is Left 4 Dead 2, he spent 943 hours playing it. You can watch his steam profile here.

 

EnVyUs win ELEAGUE Group F defeating VP 2-0

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EnVyUs win ELEAGUE Group F defeating VP 2-0

EnVyUs have won the ELEAGUE Group F last 2-0 over Virtus.pro (16-11 on Train and 16-8 on Cache) and progress to the playoffs of the $1.4 million competition.ย The 6th week of broadcast finals at Turner’s $1.4 million ELEAGUE competition was between two main ten groups, Virtus.pro andEnVyUs.

The first map, Train, the Polish side’s pick, and it was the Poles who got off to an encouraging start on their CT side as Paweล‚ “byali” Bieliล„ski got a triple kill on the pistol round and Jarosล‚aw “pashaBiceps” Jarzฤ…bkowski secured an against eco quad kill in the second round that incorporated a blade kill.

EnVyUs win ELEAGUE Group F

EnVyUs win ELEAGUE Group F

EnVyUs at long last turned around the tide in the eighth round as Dan “Zenith” Madesclaire grabbed two AK passages to put a round on the board for nV, making the score 7-1 with VP driving. The following round saw French AWPer Kenny “kennyS” Schrub secure three slaughters with his mark weapon and the principal half abruptly contracted in the score as nV tested all the more effectively; the half eventually finished 9-6 for the Poles.

Vincent “HappY” Schopenhauer and his group against started a Virtus.pro early B-site hit and the similar player gathered three USP kills to secure the second pistol round for the French group. EnVyUs pushed forward to a 14-4 score before a quad execute fromJarzฤ…bkowski put some wind in the Poles’ sails. The accompanying round saw a five-on-five group battle from the two groups at Mid and EnVyUs apparently looked weaker with Schrub left in a one-versus-two and with very little data, yet the AWPer still in some way or another won the round and took match point.

Virtus.pro figured out how to win a couple of more adjusts in a last stand situation, yet an EnVyUs pistol buy on the 24th round saw Dรฉmolonsecure two Five-Seven kills in A fundamental and help his group close out the second map 16-8. You can check our complete coverage of ELEAGUE on our events page.

National eSports training centre in UK backed by British Government

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National eSports training centre in UK backed by British Government

An eSports representing body has framed to develop and advance the UK scene – and it arrangements to open a National Training Center.

The new British eSports Association is upheld by the UK Government and has been set up to encourage nearby ability and ‘speak to aggressive video gaming at all levels’.ย The affiliation has been framed today, taking after power from the UK Business Secretary Sajid Javid. It will go about as the National Governing Body for eSports in the United Kingdom.

As an autonomous non-revenue driven association, the British eSports Association will be led by recreations industry veteran Andy Payne OBE, with Chester King in the part of acting CEO. It will be situated at Pinewood Studios, and will work with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to speak to players at all levels.

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The British eSports Association expects to ‘build up the grassroots eSports scene in the UK, nurture future ability, support existing experts and give the framework to make future British worldwide champions’. The overseeing body’s site will soon be found over at www.BritisheSports.org, where it will contain news on occasions, groups and alliances, and also guidance for players and guardians.

National Training Centre

The UK Government has effectively fiddled with eSports, having additionally sponsored the Olympics-style eGames competition which happens in Rio this late spring. The genuine amusements and groups for that are required to be reported soon. “The foundation of the British eSports Association is an imperative activity in assisting the believability of the eSports business in the UK,”commented Jules Robinson, Head of Business Development, Pinewood Studios.

“Pinewood is eager to be a piece of this National Governing Body for eSports, and is planning to have another National Training Center for eSports to help with grassroots and future British Champions.”

Andy Payne included: “I am an admirer of the work of different games affiliations, for example, British Cycling, and I am extremely certain that on the off chance that we invite and grasp all gatherings in the UK eSports scene, we can convey a scope of advantages to all players, from expert to novice in the UK after some time.

“These are energizing times in eSports and the time is on the right track to construct this association from the grassroots up.”

Throughout the following three months the British eSports Association will accumulate input from the UK eSports part to guarantee it ‘completely speaks to the interests of people, groups, diversion distributors, and supporters alike’.

Drama continues as Invisible Wings disbands current roster to sign Wolf

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Drama continues as Invisible Wings disbands current roster to sign Wolf

Invisible Wings, one of the top most eSports organization in India is set to leap a major step in uniting their players as they sign Team Wolf and bid adieu to their current roster. The organization will now have the fresh line of players as they move ahead from ex-JMD Gaming roster.

Our sources suggest us that there is another big shuffle incoming in the Indian CS:GO scene as Invisible Wings releases their current CS:GO squad which was based in Calcutta. They will now be hiring the top line of players including:

  • Tejas ‘Ace’ Sawant,
  • Mithil ‘MithilF’ Sawant
  • Simar ‘Psy’ Sethi
  • Ritesh ‘Ritz’ Shah
  • Manan ‘Manan’ Bhat

The switch comes in after the previous roster was unable to show their maximum performance as told to us by our sources close to the organization. Interestingly, the ex-Invisible Wings did perform well during their run in the organization, they came 2nd in ESL India Premiership Starter Cup #2 beaten by Brutality. They were even the runners-up at IGL Season 1. We willย wait and watch to confirm the authenticity of this deal very soon.

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