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 3rd to 6th 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 4th to 6th 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.
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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.
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.
With the much ‘no one saw this coming’ experience faced by the attendees at Shangai Majors this year, Team Secret the winners of Shangai Majors held in China were reportedly robbed of their laptops and other valuables soon after the majors ended as posted by them on Instagram.
The Shangai Majors which saw a breathtaking run for a week or so was smoothly covered around and the execution led the community persuasive to appreciate the efforts Valve and the organizing team put in to make this one of the biggest and successful majors for DotA II this year. Shangai Majors was previously even roped up in the controversy after Valve’s chairperson Gabe Newell instantly fired the production house responsible for the broadcast.
Teams are shouting at the staff here as the majority of everyone's gear has been either packed away, lost or stolen.
The victims however are not Team Secret solely, a tweet following by the official handle @TeamSecret revealed that almost every participating team had their stuffs stolen, lost or packed away somewhere not belonging to their residence and the staffs reconcile it as ‘clean up’ of the practice area.
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Formerly a tweet by Swindle’s official handle also warned that the gears might as well get stolen because of lack of security and locking at the practice area, which was most probably of all went unnoticed.
“This is what all the teams have woken up to this morning. These are the practice rooms. What remains is hopefully all our gear, we had laptops in this room and a ton of other personal stuff. No heads up about this was given to the teams.” – TeamSecret on Instagram.
Fnatic took another international Counter-Strike title in Katowice today, proving once again that they are one of the most elite sides ever to play the game.
The Swedish side’s seventh $100,000 win came in emphatic fashion—with a 3-0 win against Luminosity Gaming.
Though the scoreline was one-sided, the surging Brazilian side gave the decorated team a run for their money with two games going into over time.
In game one Fnatic had to fight back from 11-1 down on Overpass to win 19-17 in overtime, before taking the second game 16-3. The final game of the series was another close affair where Fnatic had to come from behind, this time overcoming a 7-1 deficit. With the game split evenly at 15-15 Fnatic took four straight overtime rounds to secure the championship.
Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer proved once again to be the difference maker for his team throughout the tournament, ending the event on an even 300 kills.
With their win in the final, Fnatic also avenged their best-of-one loss against Luminosity in the group stage—their only loss in the tournament.
Astralis had momentum on their side in the group stages, being the only team to finish with a perfect five wins. But after Fnatic defeated Virtus.pro in the quarter finals, Astralis were the next side to fall.
Tempo Storm placed in the top six, with this being their first major event. EnVyUswill have a lot of work to do ahead of the MLG Major in Columbus in just over three weeks—they finished bottom of their group.
Valve has unexpectedly let go the host of its Dota 2 Shanghai Major competition, James “2GD” Harding, alongside the generation organization in charge of shows of the recreations. Organization boss Gabe Newell affirmed the rejection of Harding on Reddit, including that “James is an ass” and not somebody Valve will be working with again later on. As to generation of competition telecasts, Newell trusts Valve will have the capacity to locate another accomplice to supplant KeyTV before the headliner commences on March second.
Dota 2 is Valve’s most prevalent Steam diversion, creating gigantic incomes off in-amusement buys and now supporting four noteworthy competitions for every year, each charging prize pools in the a great many dollars. The Shanghai Major will distribute $3 million among the 16 partaking groups, with the victors gathering $1.1 million. Not awful for a week of indicating and clicking, however even as Dota opponents the prize pools of expert games, it proceeds with slack severely regarding polished skill and generation quality in the background.
As the host of the English-dialect telecast and board dialogs, Harding was accountable for directing the discussion in the middle of matches and keeping viewers entertained amid snippets of downtime. He opened the principal day’s show by infusing “cunts” into his presentation (comfortable start of the video above) and conveying an extended and clumsily got masturbation joke. In an ensuing clarification of occasions in Shanghai, Harding clears up that he was let go mid-show in the wake of making another disagreeable joke in a later telecast.
Harding’s arrival to the Dota facilitating seat took after a long rest from the diversion and was broadly invited because of his persisting ubiquity subsequent to serving as the normal host of The International, the chief Dota 2 rivalry. In the wake of his rejection and Gabe Newell’s open trashing, Harding has found a great deal of backing from inside of the gaming group, huge numbers of whom are just as irritated with Valve for the poor generation of the competition telecasts.
The early matches in the Shanghai Major have been tormented by specialized issues, intruding on amusements with long defers and conveying a rough, uneven affair for the group of onlookers. In-diversion sound issues have been coordinated by breaking down mouthpieces for observers and experts, and the general feeling has been one of disorder. Pundit Owen “ODPixel” Davies totals it all up with the accompanying tweet:
Valve clearly didn’t feel Harding’s uncouth funniness was in accordance with the picture the organization needs to extend, in any case it’s the creation inconveniences that are liable to bring about greater cerebral pains for Newell and co. This is a long way from the main Dota 2 competition to experience the ill effects of insufficient offices, backing, or generation shine. It was trusted that when Valve presented the present Majors framework, beginning with a competition in Frankfurt before the end of last year, things would enhance and everybody would have the capacity to appreciate some untainted, high-class gaming rivalry. Sadly, it appears like Valve and Dota simply haven’t advanced to that point yet.
After announcing our tournament The World Championship we are ecstatic to announce a series of leagues that we will hold around the world with 64,600 USD up for grabs. As the name “Rising Stars” suggests, these leagues will be seasonal leagues aiming to support the grassroots CounterStrike: Global Offensive scene. The main goal is to support nonTier 1 teams as they work their way to become truly top teams. In fact, we plan on helping these teams in more ways than just helping them gain exposure. In the future we hope that these teams can become shareholders and partners of the event, to share the profits and successes of the event.
There will be four leagues in four regions (Europe, North America, South America and Southeast Asia). In total, 64,600 USD will be given out in these four leagues, while 12 online qualifiers will determine which teams qualify for these leagues. Although originally this was a 50,000 USD guaranteed prize pool tournament, it will now grow to 64,600 USD if the teams finish all of their matches.
YOUR ESPORTS ENTERTAINMENT LTD PRESENTS A SERIES OF COUNTERSTRIKE: GLOBAL OFFENSIVE LEAGUES: “RAZER RISING STARS” AWARDING 64,600 USD
Statement from Your Esports Entertainment Ltd. CEO, Mohamed “Availer” Zardab:
“Your Esports Entertainment is proud to present the next chapter in the CS:GO tournament and league circuit. The Razer Rising Stars League (RSL) will be a worldwide league available in 4 regions. It is a league that is designed to develop grassroots CS:GO, to give opportunities to new undiscovered teams and players and to create a stable backbone league for mid tier teams as a stepping stone to the top tier echelons of CS:GO.
The league is designed to hone and promote new and raw talent. While also our main goal is to help develop the brands and image of tier 2 and lower teams. We also hope to share in our success with the community and with these teams with future seasons having the league members receiving a percentage of the profits of the league so that the success of the league is the success of the teams, and the success of the teams will equal the success of the league. We hope to build up the teams involved and to build up the scenes in the various parts of the world to
create a stable grassroots ecosystem for CS:GO.
The community will also have a chance to take part in the leagues with 50% of the slots given to open qualifiers that will be powered and hosted on the incredible Razer Arena platform. Razer Arena also share our vision of developing CS:GO at the ground level and are with us fully at making sure this will be a successful endeavour.
We will also make sure that with the completion of our studios in Belgrade that we will offer the best possible production value and quality in CS:GO regardless of the level of CS that we will be broadcasting. The Razer Rising Stars League will be a league to watch this year, but not only watch, also takepart in.”
Razer Rising Stars Europe League:
The Razer Rising Stars Europe League will run from March 15 May 1 and will receive the lion’s share of the prize pool; 20,000 USD. 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 bestoftwo 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 league simply ends with the following prize distribution:
1st 10,000 USD
2nd 5,000 USD
3rd 3,000 USD
4th 2,000 USD
5th16th 500 USD (for each team if it finishes every match)
As mentioned above, there will be four online qualifiers awarding 8 spots in the league. Each qualifier will be capped at 128 teams and will be played in a bestofone, single elimination bracket. All four qualifiers will be streamed from the Round of 16 forward. Links to the qualifiers are below:
Invited teams for Europe: LoungeGaming, LDLC White, ALTERNATE aTTaX, EFrag.net eSports Club, CPH
Wolves, Orgless, DenDD
Razer Rising Stars SouthEast Asia League:
The Razer Rising Stars SouthEast Asia League will run from May 1 June 1 and will have teams competing for 10,000 USD. It will feature 10 teams, 4 of which will be invited while 6 will join from 3 online qualifiers.The format of the league will see all 10 teams participate in a round robin format. Each team will play each other in a bestoftwo match awarding 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie and 0 points for a loss. After every team plays their 9 BO2 matches, the league simply ends with the following prize distribution:
1st 5,000 USD
2nd 3,000 USD
3rd 2,000 USD
4th-10th 200 USD (for each team if it finishes every match)
As mentioned above, there will be three online qualifiers awarding 6 spots in the league. Each qualifier will be capped at 128 teams and will be played in a bestofone, single elimination bracket. All three qualifiers will be streamed from the Round of 16 forward.
Razer Rising Stars North American League:
The Razer Rising Stars North American League will run from April 15 May 15 and will have teams competing for 10,000 USD. It will feature 12 teams, 6 of which will be invited while 6 will join from 3 online qualifiers.The format of the league will see all 12 teams participate in a roundrobin format. Each team will play each other in a bestoftwo match awarding 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie and 0 points for a loss.
After every team plays their 11 BO2 matches, the league simply ends with the following prize distribution:
1st 5,000 USD
2nd 3,000 USD
3rd 2,000 USD
4th10th 250 USD (for each team if it finishes every match)
As mentioned above, there will be three online qualifiers awarding 6 spots in the league. Each qualifier will be capped at 128 teams and will be played in a bestofone, single elimination bracket. All three qualifiers will be streamed from the Round of 16 forward.
Razer Rising Stars South American League:
The Razer Rising Stars South American League will run from March 15 April 15 and will have teams competing for 10,000 USD. It will feature 8 teams, 4 of which will be invited while 4 will join from 2 online qualifiers.The format of the league will see all 8 teams participate in a roundrobin format. Each team will play each other in a bestoftwo 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, the league simply ends with the following prize distribution:
1st 5,000 USD
2nd 3,000 USD
3rd 2,000 USD
4th10th 200 USD (for each team if it finishes every match)
As mentioned above, there will be two online qualifiers awarding 4 spots in the league. Each qualifier will be capped at 128 teams and will be played in a bestofone, single elimination bracket. All three qualifiers will be streamed from the Round of 16 forward. Links to the qualifiers are below:
In a tragic outcome from one of the most anticipated event in Asia, Team MongolZ who conquered the IEM Taipei qualifiers slot will not be participating at MLG Columbus Qualifier following U.S. Visa denial. Although they are trying to attend IEM Katowice which will be happening in Poland later this year.
The mainstream discussion after the IEM Taipei was how well the team performed following all the odds. The level of dedication they had shown in terms of travelling entirely into a different nation to compete with the best of the best.
The MongolZ were the underdogs at the event and still managed to loud the crowds of their existence in the pro-scene which was predetermined as they were not considered a Tier 2 team then.
Why was VISA Denied?
U.S. Embassy at Mongolia denied their VISA application following the unavailability of their returning proofs. Such the procedure at U.S. Embassy for VISA purposes is a messy yet standard method to get VISA approved for everyone. And failing to do so by the applicants The MongolZ got them detained from attending the MLG Columbus Qualifiers.
Even though they got denial of VISA for MLG, they are no less concerned about attending the Katowice either happening later this year at Poland and hoping to get a good game experience.
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Luminosity
mousesports
FlipSid3
FaZe Clan
Splyce
EnvyUs
Virtus.Pro
Astralis
Gambit
