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.
My Journey started as a normal café gamer in Goregaon where I just used to play with computer. Some people thought that I play more better than average and suggested me to play fifa events which I had zero idea about, but since it was related to FIFA I thought of giving It a try, so I went to play FIFA professionally for the first event which was organized by Zapak Gaming malad and I experienced some next level shit, reaching till semi finals was a big thing for me as I was not aware of the rules and the formats.
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 – 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
Manila Major Update – Day 4 concludes with the departure of three teams namely the fan favorites Natus Vincere, The home team from South East Asia – Fnatic and the Starladder i-League winners Vici Gaming.Reborn. Team Liquid & LGD Gaming will proceed in the lower bracket.
Analysis of all the games for Today.
Natus Vincere V/s Team Liquid
GAME 1 AnalysisWinner : Team Liquid
Team Liquid with a solid push lineup was expected to end the game between 20-30 minutes with the pushing power brought to the table by MATUMBAMAN’s impressive Lone Druid and FATA’s Dragon Knight, but Na’Vi was able to hold up the game till 40 minutes and at the end of the day the damage output from solo physical damage dealer i.e Juggernaut was not enough to sail Na’Vi’s ship to next end.
GAME 2 AnalysisWinner : Team Liquid
Na’Vi with their most comfortable heroes were not able to pull out the game as they fail to defeat Team Liquid after getting Lycan and Dendi’s Queen of Pain. Fata and Matumbaman were able to pull out the game will some excellent plays from Jerax’s Tusk and Kuroky’s Jungling Beastmaster.
Natus Vincere will finish at 7th – 8th position and take home $105,000
The performance expected from the english talent at the Analyst desk from Maybe’s Invoker was delivered with a dominant KDA of 13 and score of 12/2/14. Vici Gaming Reborn failed to withstand against Maybe’s Invoker after their last pick Ursa which brought a surprise to the table.
GAME 2 AnalysisWinner : Vici_Gaming
LGD Gaming starting up with Tidehunter first pick for xiao8 were not able to out farm nono’s Alchmist in game 2 after Maybe’s Invoker was banned in the final phase. Nono’s Alchemist had about 10 k extra net worth from the highest farmed hero on the side of LGD Gaming
GAME 3 AnalysisWinner : LGD Gaming
Game 1 was Maybe’s Show, Game 2 was Alchamist’s and Slark overfarming the opponents with amazing teamfighter Axe in team. Game 3 can be said as a stomp from Maybe and Aggressif with KDA’s 19 & 17 respectively. Maybe and Aggressif are surely the shining stars of the team but captain xiao8 on his Enigma with some good black holes enabled his bag the win.
Vici_Gaming Reborn will finish 7th – 8th Position and take home the prize many of $105,000
Both teams picked up greedy position 4 supports i.e Axe for Fnatic and Doom for Team Liquid. With some doom gank on Midone’s Invoker FATA was able to easily farm up and take the towers by using the ultimate. On the other hand Matumbaman was leading the net worth chart with 10k above Mushi’s Sven with a KDA of 8. With such heavy push line up on Team Liquid and damage amplification from Slardar, the game ended at 51 minutes which was a significant hold from the side of South East Asians.
GAME 2 AnalysisWinner : Team Liquid
As Fnatic tools did not work out in their way in game 1. Mushi came out with Medusa mid and a Phantom Lancer for Midone at the safe lane. The burst damage from Slardar and Naix Infest bomb allowed Team Liquid to constantly gank the PL. Addition of riki to the roster opened the doors for Team Liquid to keep the enemy in the Smoke screen and avoid the Stone Gaze from Medusa or a Dopple Ganger from Phantom Lancer. With that Team Liquid takes down the home team at the Manila Major and knock them out of the tournament.
Fnatic will finish top 6 and take home the prize money of $202,000
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All the teams playing at the Manila Major were fighting to finish off for the first eight positions to receive an invite for The International 2016. Since now the eight positions are declared, Team Secret and Evil Geniuses with their past poor performances with some losing streaks are sure of not receiving and invite for The International.
As the Defending champions, there are chances that EG may receive one but there are much lower chances for Team Secret to get one since the team was under performing after the departure of w33 and misery.
As both the teams are now probably aware of this situation that they are not receiving and invite for TI6. Universe departs from Team Secret and a usual player swap between EG and Team Secret occurs. Firstly it was RTZ and after the loss of Manila Major (Which is still ongoing) Universe decides to get back to his previous team EG.
The empty position of Team Secret will be taken by Bulba who becomes a free agent after Universe joins EG. Team Secret will be taking on Bulba to complete their roster.
Team Secret may not have any other options regarding the players as the previously kicked w33 and Misery who are most likely to not come back. Other known player who will fit the lineup of Team Secret are already playing in a team and roster for TI6 is locked.
With this decision of both teams, Team Secret and Evil Geniuses will have to play the open qualifiers of TI6 and fight all the way from there. It will also effect the chances of a team to qualify that will be taken by these teams if they succeed to qualify from the open qualifiers.
As this is a serious matter where all the priorities are given to the players instead where most of the decisions are to be taken by the organisation. If the organisations fails to keep the teammates together, the teams will be of course facing problems in the coming future. There is no statement yet from the Manager of Evil Geniuses about the situation.
With this it is finally concluded that EG will finally participate at TI6 with the roster they won at TI5.
Welcome home, @UniverseDota. I saw the blue blood pouring out of you. Let @FearDotA wipe away the tears. Back-to-back TI winners incoming!
FlipSid3 and Renegades were the two groups aligned for the opener of qualifier for the following major, ESL One Cologne 2016. Before the end of the match the CIS side were triumphant, 16 – 9 on Mirage, and hence ready to secure the better seed for the following round of play.
FlipSid3 got off to an awesome begin as they could win their T side gun round with An execute and tailed it up by ruling on both hostile to ecos. Rebels then put a count on their scoreboard on the primary firearm round, which they won neatly with an end goal to attempt and get themselves back in the diversion.
Image Courtsy; hltv.org
Renegades tied it up, 3 – 3, however FlipSid3 immediately countered by taking control of mid and overwhelming the CT side to recover the lead. The Australian group was at last ready to grab another round on the tenth to keep it at a focused 4 – 6, yet just quickly.
A 2 versus 3 after plant win by Yegor “markeloff” Markelov andAndrey “B1ad3” Gorodenskiy on the following round put the Ukranian side ahead 4 – 7, constraining Renegades on a twofold eco and decreasing their odds at taking the guide.
While Renegades could finish off the half by taking the last two rounds of the half, which finished 6 – 9, FlipSid3 packed away the second gun round of the guide and could cruise easily to triumph, 16 – 9, in spite of a last push by Renegades which was short of what was needed.
