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International team Faze Clan has announced a change to their Counter-Strike roster. Their on and off In-Game Leader Karrigan will be benched effective immediately. The decision is not a huge surprise since the player has seen diminishing time as the primary IGL in the team. Faze Clan - The Best Team that could not be the best. The Faze Clan roster, when it came into existence, was by far the best team on paper. Comprising of players such as Karrigan, Olofmeister, Guardian, Niko

Car Maker Porsche has partnered with iRacing to host the World Championship Series. This is a further commitment to the growing esports industry. The Porsche iRacing World Championship Series will feature a total of forty teams competing in an online environment. All the matches take place online and are spread out throughout the year. The matches take place over ten racing weekends. Porsche and iRacing.  Porsche and Iracing have had collaborations in the past. However, this new tournament is the first step that

The Blast Pro Series Lisbon came to an end with Astralis emerging as the winners. They take home a prize money of $125,000 after defeating Na'Vi 2-0 in the Grand finals. Immediately following the end of the event, Blast Pro Series has already announced the first invite for its net tournament. Made in Brazil will attend the Blast Pro series, Sao Paolo. The event will take place across two days from 22nd March till 23rd March. The official webpage for Sao Paolo sees

The Blast Pro Series Lisbon has just come to an end and Astralis, yet again, emerge as the winners. The tournament was the final Blast Pro Series for 2018 and we will see the tournament circuit for Blast Pro resume next year. Astralis' win at this tournament cements their position as the best team in the world, yet again. They are your current CS:GO Major Champions having won the FaceIT London Major with considerable ease. Over the past few months, they followed it

Dreamhack's first venture into India commences with the Dreamhack Mumbai 2018. The event will be a breakthrough event for esports in the region. The tournament will feature a prize pool of ₹2,500,000 which amounts to around $34,911. It is not a big amount by today's standards, however, it is a big step forward for Indian esports. The community recently suffered a huge setback from 'Forsaken' episode where he was caught cheating. They will partner with Indian Company Viacom 18 to coordinate the operations

One of the most iconic Dota 2 players in North America has now joined a team for the upcoming year. Clinton "Fear" Loomis will be joining the J.Storm Dota 2 roster. He is a very versatile player and has played all positions and roles over his illustrious career. This is why he is a perfect part of any Dota 2 team. He recently played the Position 2 on Evil Geniuses. He is part owner and former player for Evil Geniuses. Together with Evil

The Flash Wolves League of Legends team has announced multiple changes to their roster for the 2019 season. The team which won six straight LoL Masters Series titles will try to field a relatively new team for this season. Many of the players for their new roster feature a very fresh and raw look. This is quite a departure from their previous roster which included experienced players on their roster. The team will add three new players to their team for the upcoming

Virtus Pro has announced that it will cease its Counter Strike Global Offensive operations effective immediately. This decision comes as the team failed to qualify for the European minor. This is a big blow to the organisation which was one of the best teams in Counterstrike at a time. The original Virtus Pro roster comprised of members from the Golden Five. These included Kuben [ as coach ], Taz, Neo and Pasha [ who joined at a later date]. There were aspirations that

The Chinese government has been trying to regulate the release of new titles in esports. The government wants to ensure that young Chinese players are not unduly influenced by western games. As a result, they set up the Online Ethics Review Committee a few months ago. The priority task of this group was to review various esports titles and check their compatibility with the nation's laws. In the first batch, the committee took up 20 titles for review. These included multiple popular games

The PLG Grand Slam is slated to begin in a few hours. However, one of the teams in attendance at the event guccixD will be using two stand-ins at the event. They will be using Shuaib "D0cC" Ahmad and Adil "ScreaM" Benrlitom as stand-ins for their roster. The two players will be joining the existing members as follows: Kristjan "fejtZ" Allsaar. Erik "truth" Hansen Dyrnes. Bayram "bramz" Ben Redjeb. Scream: The perennial stand-in Adil "ScreaM" Benrlitom will be a stand-in for the team

Astralis won the ESL Pro League Season 8 LAN Finals after a dominant 3-1 performance over Team Liquid. The two teams met once more in the finals of ESL Pro League. The best team in Europe faced off against the best North American team. While the series started with a strong performance by the North American team. The dominance with which Team Liquid defeated Astralis on Map 1 definitely gave a scare to eat Danish fans. But the Danish team was led by

TNC Predator has announced that Carlo "Kuku" Palad will be taking a personal break. The past few weeks have not been easy on the Philippines player. He used a racist word in a pub match, which offended the Chinese players. However, it was the aftermath of this incident which truly caused a bigger controversy. The TNC Predator team lied about the reason for his usage of the word initially. Upon seeing proof of their lies, TNC did try to take remedial action, but

Valve has added a Battle Royale mode to Counter-Strike with their latest Danger Zone Update. The Update which saw the Counter-Strike Social twitter account build up hype for around two days arrived on Thursday. With this update, Valve also joins the popular Battle Royale genre with its classic game Counter-Strike. The Danger Zone update will see sixteen players [ up to a maximum of eighteen ] compete in a match. The matches last for ten minutes long and have multiple missions and side-quests

The Blast Pro Series Lisbon will take place on two days starting on the 14th of December. The tournament will see several top teams in participation and we expect exciting matches on screen. It has a $250,000 prize pool. The Blast Pro Series Lisbon will take place at the Altis Arena, Lisbon. With just a week to go for the event, RFRSH has already announced the broadcast team for the tournament. We will see top tier casters and analysts at the event. https://twitter.com/BLASTProSeries/status/1071073096432402432

BiliBili Gaming announced the addition of Lee “Kuro” Seo-haeng to their roster. This marks the end of the LCK Journey for the player, at least for now. He will join Bilibili Gaming and hope to help the team advance further than this year. Lee “Kuro” Seo-haeng is one of the best known mid-lane players in the LCK. The player has a very controversial ( at times ) style of play. However, there is little doubt that he remains one of the best players

The Overwatch League season 2 will see road shows, according to the latest official information. It will not throughout the season, but only for a few matches. Most of the matches will still take place at the Esports Arena in Los Angeles. Season 1 of the Overwatch League was a phenomenal success for the League, teams as well as sponsors. The franchise buy-in price for Season 2 saw a spike in the price. As we get closer to the commencement of Season 2,

Optic Gaming has announced the addition of Joshua “Dardoch” Harnettm to their League of Legends roster. The announcement came via a tweet from the esports organisation. They refer to his jungling abilities and the high mechanical skill of the player. https://twitter.com/OpTicLoL/status/1070122422257504257? Dardoch burst onto the scene when he joined team Affinity in 2014. He amazed everyone with his high skill-ceiling. The player was one of the wonders in the scene and there was no doubt that he would have an illustrious career. Subsequently,

The Creator of Fortnite, Epic Games has announced its very own Games store. The 'Epic Games Store' will be a place for developers to publish their games and an alternative to Valve's Steam. For now, the Epic Games Store takes a 12% cut, allowing developers to take an 88% cut. This is in stark contrast to Valve's 30% cut from the developers. The case of Games stores taking a huge cut of the developers' earnings is an issue in the recent months. Epic

Blizzard constantly releases regular events in their FPS game Overwatch. We have seen multiple events in the past such as Junkenstein's Revenge and the Winter Wonderland event. This year the Winter Wonderland event will see its return to the live client as well. The event goes live on December 11th according to this tweet by PlayOverwatch Twitter Handle. https://twitter.com/playoverwatch/status/1069984902735511552?s=21 The Winter Wonderland sees the entire Overwatch universe covered in snow. It is more visible in certain maps than others, King's Row is the

Valve has finally broken its silence and released a public statement on the Chongqing Major - TNC Predator controversy. After weeks of stoic silence from the game developer Valve's statement could not come any later. The statement is a harsh truth that TNC Predator is not the victim here. The organization has tried to sway public opinion in their favour despite having an open communication line with the organizers and Valve. Their attempts at covering up the incident and later swaying public opinion