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After announcing that Efrag is going to be doing another World Championship this year, we are pleased to announce that they are also going to be doing a series of leagues which they will hold around the world with a total prize-pool of $64,600.

As the name “Rising Stars” suggests, the leagues that we will be holding will be seasonal leagues that are aimed to support the grassroots of the Counter­Strike: Global Offensive scene. The main goal of this league is to support teams that don’t get a lot of recognition and also non­tier 1 teams with them wanting to one day, reach that goal which with this league, we can help with.

As well as us planning to help these teams get exposure, in the future we also hope to have these teams as shareholders and partners of the events with us sharing the profits and success of it with not only ourselves but also the teams involved.

During the Razer Rising Stars, there will be four leagues in four regions (Europe, North America, South America and Southeast Asia). In total, $64,600 will be given out in these four leagues, whilst 12 online qualifiers will determine which teams will qualify for these leagues. Although originally the prizepool was $50,000, this has now risen to $64,600 as all teams who complete all of their matches will receive $500.

All of the Razer Rising Stars League matches will be streamed in several languages on the platform, Azubu. These languages will be; English, French, German, Russian, Finnish, Serbian, Polish and Spanish.

List of all different streams:

● English: ​www.azubu.tv/efragtv

● French: ​www.azubu.tv/efragfr

● Polish:​www.azubu.tv/efragpl

● Serbian:​www.azubu.tv/efragrs

● Finnish:​www.azubu.tv/efragfi

● German:​www.azubu.tv/efragger

● Russian:​www.azubu.tv/efragru

● Spanish: ​www.azubu.tv/efrages

Razer Rising Stars Europe League:

The Razer Rising Stars Europe League will run from 15th March 2016 until 1st May 2016 and will have a prize pool of $20,000. It will feature 16 teams, 8 of which will be invited while 8 will join from 4 online qualifiers.The format of the league will see all 16 teams participate in a round­robin format. Each team will play each other in a best of two match awarding 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie and 0 points for a loss. After every team plays their 15 BO2 matches, the prizes will be paid out dependent on each teams placement. (shown below)

● 1st: ​$10,000 USD

● 2nd: ​$5,000 USD

● 3rd: ​$3,000 USD

● 4th: ​$2,000 USD

● 5th­-16th: ​$500 USD (for each team if they finish every match)

For the Razer Rising Stars European League there were four qualifiers in which 734 teams registered and over 3,600 players played in best of one matches. These teams were split into the four qualifiers with Space Soldiers and Orbit (Ex­Epiphany Bolt as they were known at the time) qualifying from the first qualifiers, Bpro Gaming and miMo qualifying from the second qualifiers, PENTA Sports and Team Refuse qualifying from the third qualifiers and Recursive and eSuba securing the final spots after qualifying from the fourth and final qualifiers.

Some of the teams that didn’t make it through but were close to qualifying were; Arcade, Epsilon, GameAgents, RCTIC, gBots, K1ck.es and Revival who all played really well in their matches but not enough to qualify.

The full list of teams (Invited and qualified) participating in the European League are:

E­Frag.net Esports Club, Space Soldiers, LoungeGaming, Team Orbit (ex­Epiphany Bolt), Orgless Bpro, CPH Wolves, miMo, ALTERNATE aTTaX, PENTA Sports, LDLC White, Refuse.pl, DenDD, eSuba, Ancient, Recursive.

Links to the qualifiers:

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2231/razerrisingstarseuropeanleaguequalifier25231

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2232/razerrisingstarseuropeanleaguequalifier25232

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2233/razerrisingstarseuropeanleaguequalifier25233

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2234/razerrisingstarseuropeanleaguequalifier25234

Razer Rising Stars South America League:

The Razer Rising Stars South American League Qualifiers are currently in progress with participating teams and players still going up due to them still being open for more teams to enter.

The League for South America will have a prizepool of $10,000. It will feature 8 teams, 4 of which will be invited and the other 4 being qualified teams from the online qualifiers. qualifiers.The format of the league will see all 8 teams participate in a round­robin format. Each team will play each other in a best of two match awarding 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie and 0 points for a loss. After every team plays their 7 BO2 matches.

Invited; Qualified;

NTN, KeyD Stars, Santos.Dexterity, g3nerationX, TBD

The league’s following prize distribution:

● 1st: ​$5,000 USD

● 2nd: ​$3,000 USD

● 3rd: ​$2,000 USD

● 4th­10th: ​$200 USD (for each team if they finish every match)

Links to the qualifiers:

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2235/razerrisingstarssouthamericanleaguequalifier25231

https://arena.razerzone.com/tournaments/details/2236/razerrisingstarssouthamericanleaguequalifier25232

Razer Rising Stars North American and South­East Asia League:

All of the qualifiers for both of these Leagues are due to begin soon. The schedule for all of the leagues will be announced soon.

Abacus Peripherals Pvt. Ltd. in association with Antec, Nvidia Inno3D and Zion RAM sponsored Gaming Events of two IT festivals of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology – IIT Kanpur and IIT BHU.

Established in 1959 as one of the first Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Kanpur organized their tech festival TECHKRITI from 3^rd to 6^th March, which saw a massive crowd of around 4000 be a part of the event. IIT BHU, located in the heart of Banaras organized Technex’16 from 4^th to 6^th March. This 3 day event pulled a crowd of more than 5000.

The IT festival had numerous e-games such as FIFA’16, CG:GO and NFS-Most Wanted, also events such as Robo Wars and Drone Fight didn’t lose a chance to attract eyes of the crowd. Apart from technical events there was spectacular display of band performance by Farhan Akhtar and Mohit Chauhan and astonishing speeches by personalities like Hamid Karzai (Hon’ble former President of Afganistan), Amit Sethi (CIO of Axis Bank), Jorge Cham (Creator PHD comics) and many other great personalities as part of their Tech Talks. Their speeches were a source of inspiration for many youth. The annual tech festival at IIT provided India’s brightest minds a platform to showcase their talent, knowledge and skill all under one roof.

Vipul Modi, VP- Marketing & Sales at Abacus peripherals Pvt. Ltd, “We have been regularly associated with IIT BHU, and we are glad to associate with IIT, Kanpur this year. We are extremely pleased and excited to be part of such worthwhile events, not only they are worthwhile, but also they showcase a level of enthusiasm that’s hard to find anywhere else.”

Sponsoring these events serves the major purpose of Abacus Peripherals to motivate the young and budding gamers of India to take their talent, skill and love for E-sports to a whole new level.

About Abacus Peripherals Pvt. Ltd. :-
Abacus Peripherals Pvt. Ltd. is the national distributor of computer components and peripherals distributing brands like Zion RAM, Biostar Motherboards, Genius PC peripherals, Antec PC components (gaming cabinets & power supplies), Nvidia Inno3D graphic Cards etc. successfully across India for over 18 years.

Spilling stage Azubu will be the main spot to watch certain ESL eSports scope taking after the understanding of a two-year bargain between the pair.

The arrangement doesn’t gift selective gushing access to ESL occasions, for example, ESL One, IEM and the ESL Pro League (despite the fact that Azubu will stream these), however provides Azubu with elite substance and showcasing joint efforts, for example, permitting, dispersion and deals representation.

The deal commences instantly.

“As eSports keep on developing exponentially everywhere throughout the world, drawing bigger crowds who need to inundate themselves in the diversions, encounters and way of life, it turns out to be progressively imperative for us to band together with the best stages to give access to our occasions and also more esteem to brands who need to contact those groups of onlookers,” ESL’s SVP of offers and business improvement Nik Adams said.

“Azubu’s achieve, client experience and energetic devotion to the eSports way of life are second to none.”

Azubu’s VP of business advancement Abe Gottesman included: “Azubu’s association with ESL will offer both organizations some assistance with growing and extend their achieve, which will eventually better serve the violently developing eSports gatherings of people.

“This joint effort is more than a substance and deals representation relationship. Azubu and ESL are deliberately adjusted on giving brands a more important and inventive approach to interface with the enormous eSports demographic on a worldwide level and to convey Azubu’s eSports group the best eSports programming discovered anyplace on the planet.”

In December Azubu got a $59m money infusion for obligation financing, the potential ramifications of which rely on upon your translation. Obligation financing offers advantages over vanilla speculation, and has been utilized by large portions of tech’s enormous players. Nonetheless, it’s a less secure system that can reverse discharge down the line if the cards don’t fall effectively.

Unquestionably however, content rights seem, by all accounts, to be the instrument with which Azubu plans to tackle the joined may of Twitch and YouTube

On the off chance that you have a Nvidia design cards it’s prescribed that you abstain from introducing the most recent 364.47 and 364.51 drivers until further notice. As reports have been pouring through Nvidia’s official GeForce forums, redditors and various websites of the 364.47 GeForce drivers bringing about an extensive variety of significant issues and the in this manner discharged 364.51 drivers having not successfully determined them starting yet.

The driver release version 364.47 is creating chaos with the rigs of gamers as the driver seems to be broken, Nvidia has officially confirmed about.

The driver version released for stabilizing the compatibility of GeForce cards with Tom Clancy’s: The Division Game was reportedly broken and not ready for usage. Following the update, users are facing numerous types of issues with their computers. Some have alleged that their Operating System got corrupted whereas, few complain of a hardware failure.

How to resolve?

What we suggest is, rolling back to the previous stable driver version. You may boot your computer in ‘Safe Mode’ and thereafter uninstalling the latest driver version installed.

UPDATE: Nvidia updates that it has rolled out another update version 364.51 to fix the errors and compatibility. The driver has been submitted to MicrosoftWHQL to get their driver version certified, the update would go live as soon as Microsoft passes it forward.

The first two groups for the upcoming major have been announced, featuring teams like NiP, Fnatic, Luminosity and FaZe.

MLG have announced the groups A and B in two short videos on their Instagram today. The videos can be found in this post as well.

The groups have been drawn based on seeds from the previous major, DreamHack: Cluj-Napoca, as well as results from the Lan qualifiers for the major, where the 1st pool features the top 4 and pool 2 is the 5th-8th place finishers from Cluj. Pools 3 and 4 are determined by the qualifiers, the group winners from the LAN qualifiers are pool 3 leaving the 2nd place finishers in the groups in pool 4.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BCyXnA8QliG/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BCyXz_Jwlik/

MLG Columbus Groups

Group A
 Ninjas in Pyjamas
 Luminosity
 mousesports
 FlipSid3

Group B
 FaZe Clan
 fnatic
 Splyce
 Team Liquid

The final two groups are to be drawn and announced tomorrow and revealed on the MLG instagram account.

Remaining teams:

Pool 1
 EnvyUs
 Natus Vincere

Pool 2 
 Virtus.Pro
 Astralis

Pool 3
 G2.Esports
 Gambit

Pool 4
 Counter Logic Gaming
 Cloud 9

The biggest sports network in Canada is jumping on the esports bandwagon. The Sports Network, aka TSN, is starting a section covering pro gaming.

TSN is the latest of many sports media companies to invest into esports coverage. ESPN, Yahoo, and Sky have all recently thrown their hats into the ring, so it’s no surprise that TSN, often called the ESPN of Canada (with good reason—ESPN owns 20 percent of the company) is also diving in.

The self-titled “Canada’s Sports Leader” will offer both text and video coverage of esports games, specifically mentioning League of Legends, Dota 2, Call of Duty, and Counter-Strike, but also including many other titles, based off their launch content. The TSN esports page already has coverage from this weekend’s intense slate of esports events, including IEM Katowice, highlights from the Dota 2Shanghai Major, and more.

Welcome to TSN esports!

Competitive gaming is an undeniable phenomenon and Canada’s Sports Leader is diving head first into the fray with wall-to-wall coverage of the biggest titles, teams, personalities and events.

From League of Legends and Dota 2 to Call of Duty and Counter-Strike, we’re bringing you all the latest news and results, original features and even a few thoughts of our own along the way.

Esports has exploded into the mainstream over the past few years and the snowball is only getting bigger. In a 2016 report by market research firm Newzoo, gaming audiences reached more than 130 million frequent viewers last year with an additional 125 million occasional viewers.

The report also highlights the record growth of the market with revenues expected to grow by more than $100 million in 2016 and eventually reach the $1 billion plateau by 2019.

It’s clear that fans can’t get enough of esports and we’re ready to answer the call.

With streaming services like Twitch and live events being held all over the world, competitive gaming has never been more alive. TSN esports intends to satisfy the cravings of our audience as the most reliable outlet for premier gaming content.