The ELEAGUE Season 1 Group D will see :- fnatic, FaZe, dignitas and TSM fight for a spot in the playoffs. Here is a Preview about the four teams competing in the Group D.
Fnatic :- Fnatic will play the ELEAGUE with their much awaited star player ‘olofmeister’ who returns back after a very long time. In an interview ‘dennis’ mentioned that they had to change a lot of their gameplan for the stand-in ‘wenton’ who was playing for fnatic in the absence of ‘olofmeister’.Fnatic finished a 3-4th place in the ELS Pro League Season 3,losing to G2 in the semifinals.The fans are expecting a great comeback by ‘olofmeister’ which can give the team a boost and win the upcoming tournaments.
Dignitas :- Dignitas has been performing quite well in the recent lan and online events.They successfully qualified for the ESL One Cologne last week which gave them confidence to win the upcoming games.They are currently ranked #13 as they have been quite consistent from a long time.Also ‘RUBINO’ and ‘konfig’ are in a great form which might make dignitas a likely candidate for second place in the group D.
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FaZE :- FaZe and Dignitas have now been like rivals from past couple of weeks and seeing them compete in the group will be very interesting. FaZe were one of the first two teams to qualify for the Major. With FaZe having the highest cumulative rating at the event as a team and highest ranked player in rifle ‘rain’. FaZe can be a nightmare for TSM and dignitas and can even upset fnatic in the group stage.
TSM :- The North American team who qualified for the ECS Season 1 finals but hasn’t really left a mark in the current scene. ‘cadiaN’ will be standing in for TSM in the place of ‘Twistzz’. With the help of ‘autimatic’ and ‘FNS’ the team could do very well and can also surprise their fans and as well as the teams in the group. However they are still very likely to finish as the fourth seed.
The Group D of the ELEAGUE Season 1 begins today at 21:00(Indian Standard Time) as fnatic will take on TSM in the first match of the group stage. We will keep you updated for the rest of the matches, stay tuned.
Soon after the prosperous launch of Flipkart Accessories Carnival the previous month, Flipkart is back once again with the second edition of the accessories bonanza which will have offers raining down on electronics. The online festival will run 3 days starting today. Visit Flipkart.com in between 14th, 15th and 16th June to avail the offers.
Be it your hobby or essentials, there will be heavy discounts on all the accessories products ranging from Headphones, powerbanks to pendrives and hard drives for storage. The brands participating in the Flipkart Accessories Carnival are subsequent in promoting their brands via the Mega sale, which will be running straight for 72 hours for your convenience.
The carnival begins today and will be extended till June 16, which means you’ll have enough time to compare, seek advice or even doublethink before looting the products at the discounted price.
Flipkart Accessories Carnival
Flipkart Accessories Carnival will be a monthly event happening on the Flipkart’s website which will feature a different type e-Tailing. The components of the sale will cover all the requirements for our daily usage, you can buy  external hard disks if you like to have backup of your important files, stereofied earphones mainly for gaming and music lovers. Or you can get a flat 50% off on powerbanks if you are a traveler and mobile gamer.
Other than the sale, Flipkart will also introduce a contest for the people with intelligent brains, they’ll ask five questions on their facebook page and the users giving the correct answers will be randomly chosen, who will be awarded with Flipkart eVouchers worth INR 2,000 each. Make sure you tune in to their official page to win the prize. Also, tune in to Flipkart.com’s website to attain maximum discounts on the products.
If you are a participant of The Flipkart Gaming Online Championship, now is the time to buy some discounted gaming products at your possession!
Prominent multiplayer online fight stadium (MOBA) amusement, League of Legends, is the most recent game authorized to be held inside Australia’s biggest multisport college occasions, the Regional and Australian University Games. League of Legends, the swiftly played game is played by 27 million individuals every day.
Created by Riot Games, League of Legends sees two groups of five intense champions, each with an extraordinary outline and play-style, fight straight on over various war zones and different types of game modes. The authorizing of an esport into the Unigames program takes into account more understudies to get required in speaking to their colleges and TAFEs at a local and national level.
The new incorporation is in light of the developing era of gaming sportspeople.
The tertiary training group is grasping new innovations, for example, games as apparatuses to expand engagement of college understudies in game on grounds.
“The understudy engagement opportunities that outcome from the quickly expanding notoriety of esports crosswise over grounds in Australia has surely snatched our consideration,” Australian University Sport CEO Don Knapp said.
“AUS is quick to advance understudy experience through the League of Legends stage so far another method for extending our compass to more extensive grounds groups.”
“This is an energizing time for League of Legends players as esports turns out to be all the more generally perceived as an aggressive game. To be the best, League of Legends requires mental quality, cooperation and correspondence, so it’s much the same as numerous other group activities,” said Daniel Ringland, Head of esports at Riot Games Oceania. The Regionals for League of Legends will be held online for the Eastern, Southern and Northern areas, and in addition New Zealand and Wildcard (counting Western Australia and districts not secured by the four gatherings) from 5-7 July 2016.
The Regional University Games will serve as the qualifying rivalry for a scope of games, including League of Legends, at the 2016 Australian University Games (25-30 September) in Perth.
ESL One Cologne 2016 groups have been drawn and G2. Esports has been placed alongside fnatic, FaZe and Luminosity which will definitely to be a group to lookout for. The event begins on 5th of July in Cologne, Germany.
At the ESL One Cologne Offline qualifiers, 16 teams fought for the 8 challengers spot, which will be facing off the legends at ESL One Cologne Majors 2016, competing for a breathtaking US$1,000,000 pool. The ESL One Cologne 2016 groups were drawn with the impact of the newly introduced Swiss system, from which eight challengers were listed in the groups according to their winning speed.
ESL One Cologne 2016 groups
Group A – Liquid, Virtus.pro, mousesports, EnVyus
Group B – Luminosity, FaZe, fnatic, G2
Group C – Astralis, CLG, Gambit, dignitas
Group D – Natus Vincere, NiP, OpTic, Flipsid3
Interestingly, there will be a close match-up in Group C and B since all the teams have been performing really week. After Luminosity’s and Fnatic’s breathtaking performances in the majors and G2’s team performance in the recent times, it will be very entertaining to see which two team will take the spot. Group B will surely have a major upset in the closure stage while the rest groups seems pretty balanced and predictable. The match format and other important information for travelers has been shared by ESL recently.
ESL One Cologne 2016 is around the corner and the list of participating teams are now finalized. With Valve, giving opportunities to the underdogs from CSGO Minors in different regions, there were lots of teams with promising performance over at the ESL One Cologne offline qualifiers.
The main event will run from 5th to 10th of July, the group stages will be played in a different location, on LAN though, and the major play-offs will be hosted infront of thousands of offline crowd and millions of online fans watching the action live on ESL Twitch. The playoffs will take place on Stage in LANXESS Arena.
ESL One Cologne 2016
List of Teams
The list of participating teams are from two sets, qualified teams and legends (invited).
The format of the game will be pretty simple. Four groups will be drawn each having four teams. Two teams from each groups will be advancing to play-offs. The first set of matches will be played in a best-of-one format whereas, the decider matches will be best-of-three.
Eventually, the eight-world-best teams will be competing in front of a crowd in the LANXESS arena. The advanced teams will face-off in a single elimination bracket, each match consisting of a best-of-three series to draw out the winners and takers of the million dollar prize pool and a Major champion title holder.
G2. Esports beats Cloud9 to become the final team from the ESL One Colonge Main qualifiers to be at the ESL One Colonge Major 2016.
The head-to-head battle between G2 and Cloud9 have always been nasty for Cloud9 as they’ve been losing constantly to the Frenchmen and have now been scored to a 1-6 over G2.Esports.
With the latest introduction of the Swiss format, where the first three-map winners get qualified and loosers go home, G2. Esports’s massive performance lead the team to victory and they’ll be playing alongside the likes of Challengers and ofcourse the CS:GO legends.
G2’s recent performance has boosted the morale of the team and the organization as a whole since they’ve been subsequent in terms of their gameplay and consistency, with such an adequate leadership by Shox backed by ScreaM’s filthy one-taps, G2. may as well surprise us at the Majors by beating some of the world-class teams when we see them in the next month at Colonge.
Although Shox and n0thing has been present in all the previous majors played, the record goes broken as Jordan and co. will not be taking part at the Colonge.
With almost 150 teams battling their way for the title of the ESL India Premiership Starter Cup #1. It all came down to the top two teams, Brutality and Invisible Wings. The finals were ofcourse best-of-3 game where Brutality managed to win the series match-up by 2-1 after being down 0-1.
The first map that was picked up by Brutality was Dust2 and Mirage being picked by Invisible wings and overpass being randomly chosen as the third map of the game.
The first map begun as Brutality starting on the CTside won the first pistol round with the help of three amazing kills by “fox”. The 4th round saw a buy coming from Invisible wings and they winning the round, making the scoreline 3-1. Astar helped his team and tried to close the halftime score 9-6 in the favor of Invisible wings. The second half started with Antidote picking up three kills and pulling off a great pistol round for Invisible wings. Brutality again tried to comeback in the map but Invisible wings closed down the map with the scoreline of 16-13 surprising everyone.
The second map of the game was Mirage that was Invisible wings’s pick and they started on the Tside of the map and with Superman clutching a 1v3, they managed to win the first pistol round. But then Brutality went left behind for quite long and came back stronger and steadily took a lead of 5-2 and from there they closed the first half with a scoreline of 10-5. In the second half pistol round Brutality made a great execution at the B bombsite that lead them to a win in the pistol round. But with Psy taking in some amazing kills in the CT Side Invisible wings once again started to come back in the game but Astarr didn’t really let that happen and Brutality closed the map with a scoreline of 16-12.
The third and the final map of the game was Overpass and Invisible wings started on the CT Side and took the first pistol round with the help of Superman’s three amazing USP Kills. But then Brutality’s eco rush went pretty well and with the help of Adi, they equaled the scoreline to 1-1.Brutality then took over the map completely and winning the first half of the map with a scoreline of 11-4.The second pistol round saw a great execution by Invisible wings and with Energy picking up three glock kills they started to comeback in the game. But with Astar and Rix pulling down some amazing rounds Brutality closed down the map and the game with a scoreline of 16-8.
Team Brutality winning the ESL India Premiership Starter cup #1 and proving that they are the best team in the country, yet again.
The ELEAGUE Season 1 Group C has finally come to an end with a nail biting finals against Astralis and Counter Logic Gaming. Astralis who defeated NRG in the semi finals and CLG who secured a 2-1 win over SK.
The first map in the Group C finals was Mirage and things started pretty well for Astralis as they won the first pistol round of the game with the help of ‘Dupreeh’ and ‘Device’.Astralis had totally taken control of the map and was dominating CLG,but ‘jdm64’ took a crucial quad kill and CLG somehow managed to close the half with a scoreline of 11-4 in Astralis’s favor. In the second pistol round a strong B hold by CLG helped them to win the round and comeback in the game.But ‘Device’ and ‘Kjarbye’ were just not giving up and winning on the anti-Eco made them even more confident and they closed down the map 16-7.
The second map of the game was Dust2 and this time ‘Pita’s quad kill in the first pistol round helped CLG win the round.With the help of ‘Device’ Astralis somehow managed to win the fourth round but ‘jdm64′ pulled a breathtaking 1v4 clutch putting CLG up 4-1.’Kjarbye’ helped Astralis pick some important rounds and closed the first half with a scoreline of 9-6 in the favor of CLG. In the second pistol round CLG’s quick retake earned them a win.But then with Astralis’s great T Side executions they advanced to a scoreline of 15-9 but then ‘hazed’ leaded his team closer to the scoreline of 15-15 and the map went into overtime.With the help of ‘jmd64′ and “pita’ CLG sealed the map winning with a scoreline of 19-16 and surprising everyone.
The final map of the game was Overpass and the first pistol round saw some amazing kills by ‘pita’ that helped CLG securing the round. Slowly CLG continued to get picks and took a lead of 7-2.Yet again ‘Kjaerbye’ and ‘Device’ helped Astralis get some necessary rounds and narrowed the first half scoreline 8-7 in the favor of CLG. In the second pistol round a strong B-site execute by Astralis made them win the round and some sick picks by ‘karrigan’ and ‘dupreeh’ made Astralis leading the scoreline by 13-8. Astralis finally closed the map with a scoreline of 16-11 and winning the Group C of the ELEAGUE Season 1. Astralis won over CLG in a toughbattling score line of 2-1 in a best-of-three.
The Group C of the ELEAGUE Season 1 saw some amazing plays by the teams and Astralis emerging out as a winner in the finals. The Group D of the ELEAGUE Season 1 will be starting off in the next week and will feature front-runners in the likes of Fnatic, FaZe, Dignitas and TSM. We will keep you updated for the rest of the matches, stay tuned.
An alleged CS:GO scammer was reportedly sentenced to a 30-day trial after having being deceived two fellow CS:GO players of costly and valuable items. The expensive skins were for about $700. Skins where Nicolai “Nille” Pedersen was one of the two people who were exposed to fraud.Nille decided to report it, and it gave surprising paw when the police show interest in the case.We have chosen to hear the whole scenario from Nille’s point of view, where he tells the story from start to finish.
Nicolai “Nille” was one of the people, who got scammed. He got scammed for 1.510 Danish Kroner (approx. $230). When he didn’t receive payment for his knife (which was supposed to be sent to his bank account following the weekend) and he got blocked/deleted from all contact options by the scammer, he reported it to the police.
After a few days, he was contacted by police due to another person reporting the same scammer to the police also. The police showed interest in the case and prosecution ensued.
After a few months, “Nille” was called in to stand witness in court, where he meet his scammer and the other person, who also got scammed. The scammer made no attempt to defend himself.
Conviction and judgment for the scammer:
30 days of unconditional jail
40 days of community service
Compensation of stolen skins from the 2 victims. Total: 5000 Danish Kroner.
In the end: “Nille” has still not received his 1.510 Danish Kroner as of today despite the conviction. Hopefully, they will come soon.
Then I learnt about big players which were coming there to play and one of them was.. (don’t want to mention name). He won the game and I was like fan of his gameplay and wanted to meet him, discus about the scene, the professional scene and more but I forgot “With great skill comes bigger ego” I was quite frustrated about this and that was the day when I decided to take this seriously and become better than him, compete with them and beat him with confidence!
It was when I was in my 10th standard and unfortunately I didn’t have computer, for which I had to literally pull off the typical Indian drama of ‘Not eating food until wishes fulfill’. I was quickly able to manipulate the emotions of my parents and able to get the computer followed by the hardcore practice session to be the best in the then version of FIFA. To some of you it might seem odd, but trust me I used to FIFA for atleast 17 hours a day. The repeated career mode sessions and what not. Eventually, I learnt some nasty tricks and tried them in local event with grace and success. Later, I participated in the first ever MAJOR of my professional run, WCG. I had to travel to Delhi all the way to participate in the qualifiers only to know that I will not be able to participate from a different city? Damnit.
Today, when I re-call that I think it was for good as it burnt me from within and I encraved the passion of competiting and winning it from my Home city, Mumbai. But luck wasn’t favoring me when I was informed I can’t even pariticpate in the Mumbai event since I have breached the rules and travelled to Delhi. But still as being a Mumbikar pateli pahele, I went to the Mumbai event and then I knew I wont be allowed to play, but took a chance, was about to lose hope, till the time I heard of one of the best CS 1.6 teams of India that time, Ate. Gaming and some people told me to talk to Ben Varghese as he was the a renowned personality that time and a known personality in the gaming field.
I had the only option to approach him and play my final card of requesting him. Luckily the noise was heard and I was allowed to participate. I was the first runner-up of that event but that too, was something auspicious to me. Just after WCG, I got an opportunity to join India’s one of the best gaming squads if I win DSK Supinfocom and for that I didn’t leave any stone unturned. I did everything which I could to help myself sprinting the way of success. Non stop practices, sleepless nights and undisputed passion got me the reward. I won the first ever DSK gaming event. It was shocking for then existing FIFA community to see an underdog clinched a major event but they didn’t know my burning spirit inside and since then there was no stopping for me.
The turning point of my career was during ESWC, the big-pot International event for which I was excited and thrilled at the same time.
Sagar Vyas with the famous female pro gamer zAaz
People from all across the country were fighting for THAT one life-changing spot. Unfortunately, I couldn’t make my way to the top for which the spirit inside of me got fueled a little bit and my inner conscious persuaded me to practice for a bit longer and harder for the next season in 2012. I waited for a-loooooooong-year to fight for the slot and represent India abroad. I won the Mumbai qualifiers of ESWC 2012 and proceeded to play the national qualifiers in Goa. The sheer dedication and my uttermost hardwork resulted in the win and I got the opportunity FINALLY to be the Indian representative of FIFA in Paris. (yea, baby!)
Despite being very little active on the scene and beating some consistent professionals at that time, I got tremendous support from the community, I got good-wishes, best-of-lucks, people were obliged of how I made them proud and some were even disappointed…… yeaaaaaaaaaaaah! I’d like to thank, Team NSD, Ate.Gaming, Brutality and organizations like TalkEsport who boosted my morale and allowed me to enter into the comfortable zone for a long-awaited-tensed-journey!
In ESWC, to my hard-luck I was placed in the toughest group which had the 1st and 2nd best of the world FIFA players. Imagine playing your first event international and facing the world best in your very first game. I definitely improved my game a lot with defensive skills to match myself at the International level. I beat “ovvy” which was at that time FIFA’s second world best player and who later on managed to win the event coming from the loosers bracket. I qualified the group stage proceeding to round of 16 where my journey ended. But I defenitely got placed in the “Hall of Fame” of ESWC when my name was flashed in the Top 10 FIFA players in the world with the Indian flag hoisted.
Lovesx with the famous CS:GO player pasha
Thumbsup with GeT_Right
The one and only f0rest!
CounterStrike God – NEO!
That was one of the greatest of experience I ever had. After returning back from ESWC, I got the deserving attention. My hard-work was paying me back with the fame I got and the interviews media outlets were publishing. But somewhere deep inside I was aware of the lack of scope in the professional gaming scene at that point of time. It was next to impossible for me to convince my family that even after winning hundreds of events I was only able to bring home “goodies” and you guys know it too. The future was never bright with Goodies. I quit the scene after winning a local event. Today, after the couple of years gap when I experience and see professional gaming going to an alltogether different level, I feel that my passion finally has a home and a career to fulfil my essential needs.
I am not bragging about myself being the representative of India overseas, there were a lot of them which represented India and failed miserably in doing so. I mentioned this because I was being bullied at times for not having a “fan-page” or a huge “fan-base” because I never made fans, I made.. friends. This long-post was not to send you people to boredom but you make you feel excited of me returning back to the scene once again with loads of surprises! And R4!dforce is going to change the way you guys see eSport events in India! You guys will see me playing FIFA 17 again and I assure you that I will not let anyone down. You can follow my page for regular updates, check out my achievements and links below!
About Sagar:
Sagar “lOvEsx” Vyas
Sagar “lOvEsx” Vyas, 23, Is a Professional Fifa Player (India). Winner of major tournaments. And has represented India at ESWC Paris finishing top 10 in world.
Achievements –Â FiFa Pc/Xbox/Ps3 :
1) Winner @Wcg Mumbai .
2) Winner @ DSK SupInfocomm 2011.
3) Winner @ Thakur College of Engineering.
4) Runner-Up @ Masakre 2011 at Jaipur.
5) Winner @ Navi Mumbai Mayor Cyber Gaming Championship 2011.
6) Winner @ DSK Game Kshetra 2011. (2nd – 4th Dec, 2011).
7) Winner FiFa’11 PC @ Rhythm’12 at Atharva College of Engineering (2nd – 4th Mar, 2012).
8) Winner FiFa’11 PC @ IEEE Fest at Ahtarva College of Engineering (13th Mar, 2012).
9) Winner Fifa 12 ps3 @ 603 The Gaming Cafe by Games 4 u.
10) Runner-up GoG Banglore .
11) Runner-up Zinklo Tournment Mulund.
12) Winner @ Delhi “Lets Fifa 12”.
13) Winner @ Eswc Qualifiers Mumbai.
14) Winner of Eswc National Finals (GOA).
15) Top 16 in World Eswc .
My gears
Controllers: Xbox 360, Sony PS3 , Thrustmaster.
Keyboard: Steelseries 6Gv2
Mouse: Steelseries Xai
Mousemat: Steelseries Tayloo
Headset: Steelseries Siberia v2
