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ESPN will host VALORANT Invitational with teams from seven esports titles ESPN Esports announced its own VALORANT Invitational tournament, featuring teams made up of players from other esports titles including League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Fortnite ane more. The ESPN's VALORANT Invitational is set to begin on Monday, April 20, pitting professional esports players from various esports titles against each other to determine which esports best prepared its players with the needed skills to dominate in VALORANT. As revealed, there will be a total of eight teams from seven different game titles, including CS:GO, Fortnite, LoL, PUBG, Rainbow…

CS:GO surpasses Dota2’s all-time concurrent player peak The gaming industry continues to boom and while most games be it a multiplayer game or more single-player oriented game titles are experiencing a massive increase in their player base, it's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which came to the fore as one of the most popular games on Steam, breaking the platform's concurrent player base number of over 1.3 million. Dota2 and CS:GO, as two of the most popular Steam titles have been steadily rising throughout the last couple of months, which is not all too surprising, given that most of the global…

Evil Geniuses announce exodus from Rainbow Six Siege A prominent North American esports organisation Evil Geniuses announced their departure from Rainbow Six Siege competitive scene, shortly after it was unveiled they will not be participating in the Rainbow Six Siege Pro League. The shock announcement of Evil Geniuses' exodus from the R6S competitive landscape comes shortly after it was revealed Luminosity Gaming won't be attending Rainbow Six Siege Pro League, and have also declared their departure from the scene, effectively meaning R6S lost two of the most exciting teams. Evil Geniuses' announcement was a huge shock for both fans and…

CR4ZY bench dOBRIY and dERZKIY, add DemQQ and 7oX1C CR4ZY have decided to bench the Bulgarian duo Igor "dERZKIY" Radosavlevich and Roma "dOBRIY" Rusak in favour of Sergiy "DemQQ" Demchenko and Evgeniy "7oX1C" Motsevoy, meaning CR4ZY will now field an all-Ukrainian CS:GO roster. The announcement of the abrupt roster change surfaced earlier this Thursday, when CR4ZY unveiled their new-look, all-Ukrainian roster with the addition of DemQQ and 7oX1C. The roster change comes barely two months after the Ukrainian squad signed for the Croatian organisation, which sold its entire CS:GO roster to c0ntact Gaming in January 2020. Since February when…

Windigo still waiting for their $500,000 WESG tournament winnings March 17, 2019, marked a historical day for Bulgarian Counter-Strike scene, as Windigo, then ranked only #30 in the world, won the World Electronic Sports Games (WESG) $500,000 tournament, which was at the time the third-largest prize in Counter-Strike history. Windigo's run through WESG 2019 was one for the books, as the Bulgarian squad not only topped their group, which featured ENCE, Movistar Riders and Fnatic, but later edged past MiBR (then ranked #5 in the world), swept G2 Esports (then ranked #17) and closed out the tournament with a…

Bad News Bears part ways with crashies; sign dazzLe Will "dazzLe" Loafman will replace Austin "crashies" Roberts as the new rifler for Bad News Bears, as announced by the North American CS:GO team this Wednesday, April 15. The announcement comes shortly after Bad News Bears concluded their FLASHPOINT Season 1 appearance under the FunPlus Phoenix banner, where Peter "ptr" Gurney and co. finished at a respectable seventh-eighth place after failing to make it past round one of the playoffs. According to reliable sources, crashies decided to step down from the Bad News Bears roster and move away from the…

League of Legends 10.8 patch notes; nerfs, buffs, jungle changes and more League of Legends Patch 10.8 is here and with it, we will get introduced to another set of massive changes coming to the Summoner's Rift, including nerfs to both Aphelios and Senna, while jungle is set to receive big changes, which will award aggressive junglers who are not afraid to jump into action in the early game. As it's the case with any patch, there are bound to be some changes to the League's meta, but with 10.8, we just might see some massive changes to how…

Luminosity Gaming R6S players in dispute with Ubisoft over Pro League kick Luminosity Gaming's Rainbow Six Siege team has accused the game developer Ubisoft of preventing them from continuing to compete in the Pro League following LG's decision to exit the league. The story first surfaced on Tuesday, April 14, when Kian "Hyena" Mozayani made a Twitter post, explaining the situation he and his team have found themselves in, while also claiming that Luminosity Gaming's Rainbow Six Siege team is apparently being held back from competing by Ubisoft. All this comes just before the rumoured LAN R6S league Ubisoft…

JD Gaming lock in a playoffs spot in the LPL JD Gaming have locked in a spot in the 2020 League of Legends Pro League (LPL) Spring Split playoffs, after picking up a commanding 2-0 win over Rogue Warriors earlier this Monday. JD Gaming League of Legends squad proved to be one of the biggest surprises of the season with their phenomenal performance, which earned them a ticket for the playoffs for the first time since 2019 LPL Spring Split. However, things can get much better for this Chinese squad, as they can, in theory, pick up the no.1…

Heroic part ways with LOMME Frederik "LOMME" Nielsen has decided to part ways with Heroic, the Danish esports organisation announced on Monday, April 13. LOMME's departure comes at the heels of the recent turmoil in the Danish esports organisation, which was in talks with FunPlus Phoenix for a possible roster takeover. The deal eventually fell through after Patrick "es3tag" Hansen announced he will be leaving Heroic to join Astralis in summer, which did not sit well with the Chinese esports organisation, who decided to back out of the deal. That incident ushered roster moves in Heroic, who benched both…