Esports

Dreamhack Mumbai takes place from 21st to 23rd of December 2018. This is the first time that Dreamhack has entered the Indian esports scene. It is a great step forward for the development of the local esports scene. Dreamhack has announced Team Mineski as their first Dota 2 team to receive an invite. There will be a total of ESL has been hosting tournaments in India for the past few years and in addition, there has been incremental involvement in Indian esports by

Fnatic has announced the addition of Tim ‘Nemesis’ Lipovšek to their team. The Worlds 2018 Finalist recently lost Rasmus ‘Caps’ Winther after a phenomenal season with the team. The Fnatic roster was the only hope for the West as we headed into the last few matches at Worlds 2018. Fnatic has historically always been the most successful European team and I count myself lucky that the opportunity to join arose as I enter my first competitive split. I see playing in an already

Chengdu Hunters and Los Angeles Gladiators have made a few changes to their Overwatch League rosters for Season 2. The new season of the Overwatch League starts on the 14th of February 2019. Chengdu Hunters add Kyo, Garry and Yveltal. Chengdu Hunters is one of the new teams for Season 2 of the overwatch League. The Chengdu Hunters team is owned by HUYA Inc., a leading game live streaming service in China. The organisation has partnered with Royal Never Give up to help

One of the most well known top lane players in the NA LCS, Kevin “Hauntzer” Yarnell will be joining Golden Guardians. The player is with TSM since 2015 and has repeatedly put up amazing performances. He helped TSM through a very successful period from 2015. Together they won two world championships and won three LoL Championship Series titles. Recently TSM added a new Top Lane player in the form of Sergen “Broken Blade” Çelik. At the same time, they let go of Hauntzer

The Chongqing Major qualifiers are currently underway in different regions of the World. Over the past few days, we have seen the culmination of South America, the CIS as well as the South East Asia Qualifiers. Each of these regions will have a total of two teams qualifying to the Chongqing Major in China. The South American qualifiers saw Test123 and Pain Gaming emerge as the victors of the qualifiers. Test123 managed to defeat Pain Gaming in the Upper Bracket finals and secure

The Chongqing Major 2019 qualifiers are currently underway. With South America and the CIS Qualifiers coming to an end, we now have four more teams at the Chongqing Major. Here are the winners from South America and the CIS qualifiers for the Chongqing Major. South America Qualifiers Test123 Pain Gaming CIS Qualifiers: No Pangolier Virtus Pro The South American Qualifiers see Pain Gaming and Test123 qualify The South America qualifiers saw both former Pain Gaming teams qualify to the Major. Test123 is not

Toronto Defiant has announced the addition of Jun-sung Asher Choi Joo-seong "RoKy" Park to their Overwatch roster. With this announcement, they have now finally announced their entire roster. Toronto Defiant is one of the eight new Overwatch League franchises for Season 2. With the addition of these new teams, there are now twenty Overwatch League teams. The new season of the Overwatch League will start on the 14th of February 2019. https://twitter.com/torontodefiant/status/1067540922559283200?s=21 Asher was a part of the Los Angeles Gladiators for Season

ESL One Cologne is one of the most well-known and consistent tournaments in esports. ESL One Cologne started off as a risk for the tournament organisers. However, their belief in the region and the development of esports has helped the growth of Counter-Strike and esports in general. ESL One Cologne 2019 will take place on July 5-7, 2019 at the Lanxess Arena. It will feature a prize pool of $300,000. The 'Cathedral of Counter-strike' will feature the world's best teams in attendance. With

The International 2018 Champions, Team OG has announced their complete roster. Joining OG will be Per Anders 'Pajkatt' Olsson Lille. Recently OG announced the departure of Ana from their Dota 2 team. Despite winning The International 2018, OG has not had any good start to this season's DPC. The team took off time to allow their players to recuperate and take a break. They decided not to attend the Kuala Lumpur Major. This decision to give up a claim to a prize pool

G2 esports has announced changes to its Counter-Strike roster. The team will move Edouard Smithzz Dubourdeaux and Kevin Ex6tenz  Droolans to the inactive roster. Replacing the two on the team will be two players from 3DMAX. The two players joining the team are Audric "JaCkz" Jug and Lucas "Lucky" Chastang. https://twitter.com/G2esports/status/1067116515454066688 This decision comes after months of poor results and the lack of any real positives for the team. Despite giving Ex6tenz enough time with the squad, they were unable to show improvement.

Made in Brazil player, Fernando "fer" Alvarenga is ruled out of the Blast Pro Series Lisbon. The player will be out of the tournament due to medical reasons. The player will undergo surgery for his right ear on the 14th of December. In an interview to ESPN Brasil, Fer confirms that he will not be taking part in the Blast Pro Series Lisbon Tournament. Blast Pro Series Lisbon will take place on the 14th and 15th of December at the Altice Arena. It

Danish team Heroic has emerged as the winners of the Toyota Master Bangkok tournament. They defeated Chinese team Tyloo 3-2 in the Grand finals of the event. The tournament was held in the Indoor stadium Huanmark in Bangkok. The $100,000 event had a best of five Grand finals which saw Heroic compete against the Chinese team Tyloo. They won the series 3-2 and claim the prize of being the Toyota Master Bangkok. Throughout the series, the games were extremely close. The first two

Danish team Astralis has asserted its dominance yet again on the International stage. Astralis won ECS Season 6 LAN finals. This is their third tournament victory since winning the FaceIT Major. They faced Made in Brazil in the Grand finals. While the individual maps were close, the final score of the series was 2-0.   For Made in Brazil, this performance definitely raises hopes for the team's future. They have been improving with each tournament and they also have much better results now.

The Dota 2 scene has been embroiled in a controversy recently. Two professional players [ Skem and Kuku ] using racial terms in pub matches and in a competitive match. The derogatory term with racial overtones is specific to a particular trait of the Chinese people. As such it was only right that the Chinese community was up in arms over this usage. We saw multiple teams, professional Chinese players, as well as Perfect World, join the chorus demanding action. Naturally, Valve takes

Renegades is the first team to receive an invite to IEM Sydney 2019. Considering the event takes place in Sydney, Australia, it is only fitting that the Australian team receives the first invite. ESL has hosted tournaments all over the world and one of the most successful of these new venues in Sydney. IEM Sydney [ previously ESL One Sydney ] has drawn massive live audiences and a very energetic one at that too. The tournament sees a lot of support for Renegades,

Mineski has added their fifth member to the Dota roster. Johan "pieliedie" Åström will be joining the team effective immediately. The team has been without a complete roster since Mushi parted ways with the team on the 11th of November. Mushi has been an integral part of the Mineski roster and helped the team make a name for itself on the international stage. His experience and his ability to help the team grow around him were invaluable to the Mineski team. However, they

Recently Niko from Faze Clan made some allegations on social media. These allegations were against several players, but it also included the current CS: GO Major Champions, Astralis. The allegation was on Twitter and this points to potentially Astralis using unfair vision settings in order to gain an advantage over smoke grenades in the game. https://twitter.com/fazeniko/status/1065730619597033472?s=09 The tweet drew sharp responses from the community as well as several professional players in the game. They were unsure whether Astralis actually uses such unfair means

The first day of Esports Championship Series Season 6 LAN has come to an end. Two teams have already secured their place in the semifinals: Made in Brazil and Ninjas in Pyjamas. Made in Brazil definitely looks much stronger than their former selves. The team has been under the guidance of YNK for several months now. We did see glimpses of their performance at the Major, but with limited practice time before the Major, it was not fully efficient. YNK helped the team

Team Ukraine has pulled out of the WESG 2018 LAN Finals. The winners of WESG 2017's decision not to attend WESG 2018 LAN finals was a huge shock for the tournament organisers. Team Ukraine won WESG 2017 EU and CIS LAN finals last year. They had the same lineup [ with Markeloff playing in place of Ange1]. They declined the tournament organiser's invitation and that leaves the event one team short. There is only one month left for the event and this news

The Esports Championship Series Season 6 is set to start in a few hours. The best teams in the world will compete at the Esports Stadium in Arlington. With a total prize pool of $660,000, this tournament is the culmination of one of the two biggest leagues in Counterstrike. The tournament will see a total of eight teams compete in a double elimination GSL Format. The eight teams will play out in two groups of four teams each. Each team gets two chances