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ESL announces IEM Melbourne for August ESL has announced its return to Australian soli with a US $250,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Intel Extreme Masters tournament, which will be held in Melbourne and will culminate on August 22-23. IEM Melbourne will mark ESL's first venture into the Victorian capital city and its fourth venture into the Australian soil. Previously, we had three Intel Extreme Masters stops in Sydney, from 2017-2019. ESL is set to host an S-Tier CS:GO tournament in Melbourne later in August as a replacement event for IEM Sydney, which is usually hosted sometime in May. Instead of…

Riot Games set to nerf top lane Soraka in the next League of Legends patch Unconventional picks have become a staple of League of Legends. No matter which season or which patch we are looking at, there is bound to be at least one unusual champion pick, which somehow works. While there have been countless cases when an unconventional pick worked in the professional League play, it's the most recent one that took the world by storm. Top lane Soraka came out of nowhere in Season 10 of League of Legends, and the players did not need long to…

Overwatch League Season 3 won’t have a Russian coverage Blizzard Entertainment has reportedly decided to cut Russian coverage of the official Overwatch Season 3 streams without any further notice to the Russian commentary desk. Overwatch League has gone through some major changes throughout the last few months, but none of those changes were as sudden and shocking as Blizzard's decision to cut the Russian on-air talent from providing commentary of the 2020 season of Overwatch League. The information about this incident did not come from Blizzard themselves, but rather from a senior commentator Pavel "Rillion" Shabalin, who revealed the…

Magic: The Gathering World Championship XXVI – favourites and players to watch The Magic World Championship XXVI is slated to begin on Friday, February 14 at Honolulu, Hawaii, where we will see 16 of the best Magic: The Gathering players duke it out in the culminating MTG event of the season in a bid to be crowned as the world champions and pocket the largest slice of US $1,000,000 prize pool. The 2019 Magic World Championship will mark the most prestigious and best-paid Magic event in its history where seven players earned their spot through wins at a tabletop…

Magic World Championship XXVI – favourites and players to watch The Magic World Championship XXVI is slated to begin on Friday, February 14 at Honolulu, Hawaii, where we will see 16 of the best Magic: The Gathering players duke it out in the culminating MTG event of the season in a bid to be crowned as the world champions and pocket the largest slice of US $1,000,000 prize pool. The 2019 Magic World Championship will mark the most prestigious and best-paid Magic event in its history where seven players earned their spot through wins at a tabletop or Arena…

Chicago Huntsmen defeat Dallas Empire for the second time this season The rivalry between Chicago Huntsmen and Dallas Empire just got much more one-sided, as Seth "Scump" Abner and his squad handed Dallas Empire their second head-to-head loss this Saturday, February 8, during the London Royal Ravens' homestand tournament in London. Chicago Huntsmen and Dallas Empire met in round two of Group A following their commanding wins over Los Angeles Guerrillas and Seattle Surge and while many expected it to be a close and exciting clash, it was more the latter than the former, as Chicago Huntsmen swept the…

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare leaks for Season 2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 2 begins on Tuesday, February 11, with an update 1.14 which is said to introduce some massive changes to the widely-popular First-Person-Shooter, including some exciting content. While there were no official announcements what we can expect with the arrival of the new season, there were already some leaks, suggesting we could see a couple of new weapons, new operators and the return of the iconic CoD map among other things. Ever since Modern Warfare Season 2 was announced, there has been a lot of…

TaZ and NEO start a new CS:GO team Filip "NEO" Kubski and Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas have announced they will join forces to create a new Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team in a bid to continue the legacy they have created in their successful career as Counter-Strike pros. TaZ and NEO are two prominent names in the CS:GO scene, mostly known for their success during Counter-Strike 1.6. Back then, they were a part of a Golden Five Polish line-up, which won three World Cyber Games titles, two Electronics Sports World Cups and Intel Extreme Masters I. The Polish duo played together…

Seth Manfield joins Team Envy as a MTG pro Team Envy have decided to expand their portfolio of esports games they're involved in by signing Magic: The Gathering Hall of Famer and one of the most prominent names in the MTG esports scene Seth Manfield. The announcement of Seth Manfield's signing to Envy surfaced on Thursday, February 6, on Envy's official Twitter page, which marked Envy's first entry into the MTG esports scene. Seth Manfield is an American TGM professional player who started his career in 2007 when he made his debut at Pro Tour Geneva 2007. Since then…

Dendi officially reveals his Dota 2 roster The International 2011 champion Danil "Dendi" Ishutin has been his own Dota 2 roster for a few months now, but it was not until this Thursday, February 6, that he officially unveiled the full lineup and all the details about his new team dubbed B8. Dendi is a player that needs no special introduction to anyone who is even remotely familiar with Dota 2 pro scene. As the champion of the inaugural International tournament and three-time finalist, Dendi has made a name for himself as one of the best Dota 2 players…