Team Brutality is at it once again, taking slow and steady steps, they have successfully crouched their way into the finals of ESEA League Season 21 (Asia / Pacific) finals beating, Mahameru in semi-finals, will face the thai lineup Signature in the finals on 22nd of April, 2016.
After being knocked out of the PGL Asia Minor qualifiers against Team Overcome, Brutality seemed morally down as they were the fan favorites who were not able to conquer victory over an undergod org. They took criticism seriously and were able to drift all the way to compete and win the semifinal against Indonesia’s one of the strongest lineup, Mahameru.
Team Brutality stands tall
Being the online Indian team in not only top-10 figures, but in the top 2 definitely makes us even more proud. The only Indian CSGO lineup to have been playing consistently and repeatedly making us, Indians, proud of themselves at Asia Pacific region. The powerhouse lineup with Ankit ‘V3nom’ Panth leading the rally followed by, Ad1, astaRRRRR, Kundya, fox and RiX, alltogether the most powerful Counter Strike: Global offensive lineup alltime from India.
The finals against Signature will be held on Friday, 22nd of April which will be available at GOTV. Tune in to support your favorite team at ESEA League Season 21 finals.
Right on time, Na`vi’s star player GuardiaN reportedly is back into their official lineup after a two-weeks-break following an elbow injury. ‘Starix’ took the responsibility meanwhile in the absence of their star AWPER, where they performed well even without GuardiaN in the group stages and managed to secure a spot into the playoffs.
After the MLG Columbus majors, too many professionals suffered uninvited pains in their elbows and wrists for which they decided to see a therapists.
Fnatic’s superstar Olofmeister also revealed about his severe injury for which he took a break even as big as escaping a major like DreamHack Malmö. Last night, G2.Esports’ shox shared his pain on Twitter and announced that he is also looking to seek some medical treatment after he’s back in France.
So much pain in my hand since few days, defintly need to go to doctor….
Natus Vincere are the prime favorites at this moment after, Luminosity got knocked out by TyLoo the last day. Playoffs begins tomorrow where we will be witnessing the Na`vi pilot back in action, we will see how it goes with them after he’s back from a major injury.
Team LDLC.com have closed down their White and Blue CS:GO squads, the org. declared Wednesday.
The news nearly takes after the flight of two players from LDLC White, Timothée “Demon” Démolon, who was obtained by Team EnVyUs on March 8, and Alexandre “bodyy” Pianaro, who was hired by G2 Esports on April 9.
While the French association’s squads have discovered what’s coming to them of progress — LDLC White won Assembly Winter 2016 and LDLC Blue won Underdogs Season 2 — the organization is better known for its past program, which now plays as Team EnVyUs. nV’s present lineup flew the Team-LDLC standard amid DreamHack Winter 2014, where they crushed Ninjas in Pajamas 2-1 to take the Major title.
LDLC Blue’s chief, Grégory “geekory” Caboche, said in an announcement that the choice to break up the groups was mixed.
“It’s not with trouble that I keep in touch with this message, a remarkable inverse!” he said. “The enterprise ought to end one day, this will undoubtedly happen, simply an issue of time. This adventure in Team-LDLC closes today.
“What Team-LDLC give us is precious. The opportunity to remain nearby this structure was a remunerating knowledge.”
It’s obscure whether the squads will keep on playing as independents. Additionally not specified in the public statement is regardless of whether LDLC’s ladies’ squad, LDLC Female, is influenced by this choice.
Here’s LDLC White’s former roster:
Matthieu “matHEND” Roquigny
Simon “Fuks” Florysiak
Antoine “to1nou” Pirard
TyLoo have knocked out the 2-week-ago champions of MLG Columbus, Luminosity from DreamHack Masters Malmö with a 2-1 triumph in the decider match (16-14 on Cache, 7-16 on Overpass and 16-12 on Inferno).
With the map cache, TyLoo began dominating at the very first two rounds of the half in the wake of denying Luminosity section into the B bombsite during eco rounds. A third-round purchase from Luminosity paid profits and controlled the Brazilians to string six adjusts together – their brightest spell on the guide. After an eco round, TyLoo hit back on a full purchase and took after that up with an insane round from Wu, who won a 1vs3 grip inside B.
The Brazilian group surrendered one more round before taking two in succession, making it 14-9 to support them. After a strategic respite and a triple execute from HaoWen “somebody” Xu, TyLoo went on a fabulous run, winning seven rounds in succession to secure the guide 16-14.
The second map, was Overpass, and the primary half was a finished victory as Luminosity raged to a 9-1 lead tailing some awesome Terrorist play. TyLoo then at long last figured out how to keep down the Brazilians in the wake of calling a timeout, taking an aggregate of four rounds before the end of the half.
Everything came down to Inferno, where TyLoo got out to a 4-0 begin as Luminosity attempted to stay aware of the pace of the Chinese. The accompanying round then went the Brazilians’ way, yet TyLoo recaptured control of the game and kept on racking up rounds till they finished off the final game at 16-12 in their favor.
As good as it may feel, India’s one of the top Counter Strike: Global Offensive lineups, Team MxB are ready to take the lead India into the PGL KeSPA Asia Minor Qualifiers after Brutality, D5, Overcome and Scorchers were unsuccessful in putting together.
Team MxB, the semi-consistent roster leaded by Bhavin ‘HellRangeR’ Kotwani are into the quarter finals of the PGL KeSPA Asia Minor qualifiers hosted by SoStronk. The roster which formed not before a week ago managed to eliminate some of the top CSGO rosters of our country with international level skilled players and even gave a tough fight to the UAE stars Riskygaming.
We managed to catch-up with Mohit ‘Spawn’ Wakle, who shared the team’s graceful win over some of the top notch players and the experience that followed with the participation.
Placed 2nd with Mixed MxB at Tranzaneca Gaming League.
Arpita Tewari: Hi Mohit, tell our readers a little bit about yourself and your association with Team MxB.
Hey! Great to be here, this is Mohit from Team MxB, I joined the team recently.. like a week back, been a CSGO player for a year and was formerly playing Condition Zero (6 years+ :P).
Our lineup for the event was Bhavin “HellrangeR” Kotwani, Shailesh “Blackhawk” Dalvi, Akshay “Kappa” Sinkar, Mohit “Spawn” Wakle, Tapan “Yoshimitsu” Potnis.
AT: A week! that’s very least compared to your performance at the PGL Asia qualifiers. You faced and beat India’s current-best lineup, Team Scorchers, was it an extra-ordinary effort from your side or it was just your day?
They were good but maybe it wasnt their day, we got some crucial rounds, we never played the map (overpass) together, nor we had any extraordinary strategy. Our IGL was doing a great job and we were sticking to the basics.
AT: You were playing at a godspeed with some 30+ odd frags, did that change the scenario?
No.. actually it is a team game and we were playing just like one.. we don’t care about the number of kills or scores.. we knew what our bottom-fragger was doing and were happy with everyone’s performances.
AT: You comfortably beat Scorchers, what do you think about Brutality?
They are a great team.. they play great at every level.. just that we had our day.. and yes we wish to play against Brutality to contest our skillset and be certain about how well we give our opponents a rough.. competition.
AT: That’s very sporty! Other than Scrochers, which other teams did you face?
Before scorchers, we played 3 teams, MYC , Accuracy and DNA, where we beat them 16-5, 16-4 and 16-3 respectively, and yes we felt very confident then. 🙂
AT: It was a never-seen journey, I mean, nobody saw this coming from your team at this Minor even when bigger teams were present. Where do you see yourself from hereon?
I actually don’t know, we haven’t decided anything yet something. we will let everyone know when it is finalized, i think i still lack alot on lan aswell as individual play I need to improve.
AT: What do you think is the key to beating such professionals at this stage, you got eliminated at the door of success, what will you do to improve yourself the next time you play at this stage?
First of all, fix a roster, practice hard on a lot of things, improve basics .. and with a good team .. maybe we can achieve. first of all need to fix lineup that’s the key.
There are alot of roster shuffle, sometimes they are good, but most of the time arent helpful to our community and the respective teams.
AT: How was your experience overall at this event?
It was a great experience overall.. playing and beating the top team in India surely gives you a lot of confidence to practice hard and be better the next time.. also shootout to the other players and teams.. coming forward and actively participating in these events.. SimpleX.G is one of those good teams which recently formed and are practicing a lot and hard with their lineup.
AT: Well, thank you Mohit for sharing your experience with us, it was great to have you with us. Good luck, practice hard and get better results the next time. Till then, Adios!
Pleasure talking to you, apologizes if I was bit rude. Feels good sharing my thoughts and experience with a larger audiences, Thanks and keep it up. Our community needs more like you. To make an impact further at a larger stage.
Edit:While writing this, Team MxB gave a tough fight to Riskygaming and were defeated by them with a scoreline of 16/10.
Reported by the team manager itself initially, Cloud9’s fREAKAZOiD is no more a part of the active Counter Strike: Global Offensive roster, he will however remain in contract with Cloud9 till the early 2017 as a part of the contract. Team Liquid’s adreN will be stepping in to complete the lineup as reported by Tres ‘stunna’ Saranthus.
With no details whatsoever or any controversial upbringing, Cloud9 has announced the departure of fREAKAZOiD from their official CSO roster, this Cloud9 roster change was not foreseen, and comes as a shocker for everyone. The reason of the departure however isn’t yet clear.
We have tried to contact the management to get a clear vision of the picture as of why the change was made, but haven’t got any response as of publishing this article.
Cloud9 roster change
Tres ‘stunna’ Saranthus, in a press release on Cloud9’s official website acknowledged the extended support from Team Liquid and adreN:
“In light of this adjustmenet, the team will be using in Eric ‘adreN’ Hoag of Team Liquid (@TeamLiquidPro) as a stand-in. We would like to thank Team Liquid for this gesture!”
This change is getting a mixed response from the community, a part of it is supporting fREAKAZOiD and wondering if this is related to his personal life, whereas a section of gamers are criticizing him as an individual and human being, and clearly are happy with his departure from the roster. Earlier, he was ridiculed for bullying ‘s1mple’ in his stream during a live match, for which whole of Cloud9 management apologized.
It even can be the role of this incident, which has played part in this unfortunate event, but as delayed it may seem to be, Tres, would have mentioned this in the official release instead he choose to keep this under a hood and ask anybody who wanted to know to email him separately at [email protected].
The World Cyber Arena has announced the Asia-Pacific qualifiers for the WCA 2016 finals which are taking place this December.
After the reveal of the WCA 2016 Finals and its Chinese qualifier, the organizers of one of the biggest events in the region have unveiled information about the qualifiers for Asian and Oceanic teams. The qualifier will begin online until the final four teams head to the finals to fight it out at LAN for their spots.
Twelve invited teams from Asia and Oceania have been split into four groups, each one featuring a high seeded team with two low seeded teams. The low seeded squads will play an online B03 to decide which team will advance to face the high seeded of their group. The last match will decide the winner of the group, and decide who will advance to the next stage. The online groups can be found below.
Group A: TheMongolZ, dream[s]cape, xqr
Group B: Immunity*, inchk1ng, nxl
Group C: MVP. Karnal*, threats, DeTonator
Group D: MVP Projekt*, Mikeski, Signature
India didn’t get a slot in the open qualifiers even though the region was Asia-Pacific, we have reached out to the organizers of the event to respond of the same, will be updating the article once hearing back from them. The winners of the groups will advance to the LAN finals in Beijing, China for the 2016 WCA APAC division, which will take place from May 19-21. The two finalists of the tournament will qualify for WCA 2016 which features a $200,000 prize pool.
The Taiwanese manufacturer of computer hardware and peripherals recently announced the addition of it newest range of series, Racing motherboards. As the name sounds cool, the design is even cooler which gives you temperament of fast speed and velocity. Biostar B150GT5 Racing Motherboard is the newest addition to the Racing segment and we are ready to go through the product for our readers.
As we receive this beautiful piece of Motherboard from Abacus Peripherals, the feel gives you chills when you see the naked board electrified. The packaging, design and quality is commendable and as we approach towards un-boxing, it will become better with time. Here we go.
Biostar B150GT5 Racing Motherboard
The Packaging
We all have had our good, great, bad and worse experiences with packaging stuffs from hardware companies, where it is a high-end peripheral or your regular bread and butter, the product’s 70% of performances and 100% of consumer’s psychology depends upon the packaging of the product. And Biostar knows that somehow.
The Features:
There is a lot to discus about this fantasy. It is thrilling, it is overwhelming and what not. The features are too much to discus so we decided to shortlist some of the important one’s to make the purchasers aware of what are they buying, the technical specification will however appear in the next section. (and no I am not depended on the psychological part completely)
Hi-Fi
On Board Amplifier
Location Detecter
Blu-ray Audio
Higher Audio Output 24 bit / 192KHz
Hi-Fi Power
Smart Ear
Optimize Sound and Audio Volumes with a user-friendly GUI
HDMI 4K2K
DVI
DX12
SATA Express 16gb/s
USB 3.0
DUAL DDR4
Solid Caps for durability
Charger Booster
Moisture-proof PCB for all kinds of working environment
BIOS Virus Protection
Super Surge LAN protection
Electrostatic Discharge protection
Viviv LED DJ
GT Touch
EXCLUSIVE Racing UEFI BIOS
Durable Box Header
Product Specification
The Product
Interest of conflict or the feel of contradictory thoughts, what hurts you the most? If you are a gamer, you’d love to have a see-through cabinet so that you can keep starring at the inside and find this extra-ordinary piece of stuff. But if you aren’t lucky enough to have a space close to your computer screen, you’d feel naive to have it somewhere out of your vision.
The classical type of motherboard which is easy-to-assemble and you’d be quiet convinced as well by looking at the way the ports and chips are covered. Gone are the days when you had to hire professional hardware engineers to setup your MoBo, Biostar eliminates that hesitation and motivates you in installing the motherboard yourself and experience the fun.
Closer look
Equipped, BIOS Interface
Not your regular blue background with DOS fonts and formats. The Biostar BIOS Interface looks cooler than any other usual available. BIOSTAR has reskinned the UEFI interface, a portion of the well-being reporting gadgets have been re-masterminded while the fundamental menus have stayed in the same area as some time recently.
The Main segment tells us some data with respect to the current BIOS fabricate, the at present introduced RAM amount and running rate, however here we will be additionally ready to choose the interface dialect and change the framework date/time:
The advanced section gives us an overview of the settings available:
ACPI Settings
Smart Fan Control
IT8625 Super IO Configuration
Hardware Monitor
CPU Configuration
SATA Configuration
Network Stack Configuration
NVMe Configuration
Offboard PCIe SATA Controller
USB Configuration
Benchmarks and Advanced testing results
If you are not a hardcore Hardware enthusiast, this is not for you. Head over to the conclusive report of this product to get to know our opinion on this product in this price segment. But if you like to screw the nails yourself check out below the performances benchmarks and motherboard depth information from some of the bench-markers available.
Final Thoughts
Keeping in mind the name-tag of the segment, Biostar made the Racing B150GT5 a mainstream board for regular users and high-end usage which means, there is not much to tweak other than what’s already available from the manufacturer. If you are a high-end user with no intentions of tweaking or overclocking, this defines the product. For much to grab the attention and added feather to the cap, an extra LED strip is spared in the box which can be connected to the headers. The base clock however, differed while comparing it with Gaming Z170X which had values over 100Mhz of the CPU frequency. But as said, the difference in performance of the board is inconsequential.
Other than another board look, we could see a re-skin of the UEFI interface, and RACING B150GT5 does likewise accompany a RACING GT programming, which permits us to perform more conformists, incorporating work with the LED setup (Vivid LED DJ). So far we have seen that the LED setup from RACING GT application is somewhat risky in light of the fact that it doesn’t fill in as it ought to (blending between modes, does not spare settings, tossing a blunder at startup) furthermore it is 100% subject to the applications, implying that in the event that you don’t utilize the application, you won’t have the capacity to turn on the LEDs.
We have proposed a few arrangements like the incorporation of the LED setup inside UEFI, yet we were informed that with the present equipment setup it is unrealistic. We do expect an overhauled RACING GT application which will illuminate the “invalid pointer” blunder and will make sparing of profiles inside the application conceivable.
FaZe org. announced on their official Facebook page that they have officially acquired kioShiMa in their CSGO roster after the Maikelele, the ex-NiP star, announced its departure.
Maikelele however hasn’t been officially departed from the organization as a whole, there might be some future endeavors waiting for him at the FaZe organization which isn’t clear at the moment just as yet. The transfer value perhaps, is also undisclosed as to what amount the FaZe paid to acquire the EnVyUs front-runner.
Today, we are welcoming on kioShiMa from Team EnVyUs to join our starting lineup in replacement of Maikelele.
For the time being, Maikelele is still a part of our organization, and what comes next for him will be a matter we’ll all sit down to discuss in the near future.
However, we are in this scene to do one thing & one thing only, and that is win. Kio is a proven champion, one of the most decorated and experienced players on today’s Counter Strike scene, and together with him we will fight for the winning culture that we strive to provide. We do this for our fans, we do this together, and we will keep building.
Thank you to Hastr0 from nV in facilitating this change. More news to come soon.
FaZe’s change to their roster just comes before their appearance at DreamHack Masters Malmo, where they face Virtus.Pro, EnVyUs and TempoStorm. The now lineup of FaZe is kioShiMa, rain, fox, aizy and jkaem. Follow FaZe on facebook for their regular updates.
Rep. Congressman, Duncan Hunter, from California, a.k.a. The Vaping Congressman, spent $1,302 on Steam Games from October 13 to December 16 according to the filing, a “personal expense — to be paid back.” According to year-end financial disclosure.
The Federal Election Commission submitted a letter to Hunter’s campaign treasurer on Monday asking for further explanation.
The letter also raised questions about a payment of $1,650 in September to Christian Unified Schools of El Cajon, which Hunter’s spokesman, Joe Kasper, said was a donation misidentified as a personal expense.
Multiple transactions made on credit card by his son
According to The San Diego Union-Tribune reports, Joe Kasper, Congressman Hunter’s spokesman, the congressman’s teenage son used his father’s credit card for one game. Several unauthorized charges resulted after the congressman tried to close access to the website.
Kasper said that Congressman Hunter is trying to have the unauthorized charges reversed before repaying his campaign account.
The Congressman’s Spokesman said,“There won’t be any paying anything back there, pending the outcome of the fraud investigation, depending on how long that takes.”
In 2013, Hunter wrote a passionate op-ed for Politico defending the value of video games against their haters. “With fingers pointing in nearly every direction, video games are often, but wrongly, identified as a catalyst for violence.”
Unfortunately, the year-end disclosures do not identify what games Congressman Hunter was accidentally paying for, or why he (or his son) paid so much for them. The FEC has allowed the congressman time until 9th May to respond.
