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MAD Lions stun G2 Esports and advance into round two of LEC Spring Playoffs This Friday, MAD Lions produced one of the biggest upset wins in the history of League of Legends European Championship (LEC) when they took down the reigning kings of Europe G2, and with that guaranteed themselves a top-three finish in the 2020 LEC Spring Split. MAD Lions defeating G2 in round one of LEC Spring Split playoffs was something no one expected to see, yet a result we had to accept, as it was not the reigning LEC champions and 2019 World Championship runners up…

Former Cloud9 member LemonNation has tested positive for COVID-19 Former Cloud9 support and current manager of Team Radiance Daerek “LemonNation” Hart has announced he has tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this Thursday. The 30-year-old League of Legends veteran made a Twitter post on Thursday, unveiling he has tested positive for coronavirus, by adding a picture of his results, jokingly stating he is now a "corona boy". Although not highly deadly amongst younger population, COVID-19 has proven to be no joking matter, as it not only spreads extremely quickly, having infected over 1 million people worldwide and caused over 53,000 deaths,…

Evil Geniuses win North American division at ESL One Los Angeles Online Major Evil Geniuses further cemented themselves as the top North American Dota2 team by winning ESL One Los Angeles 2020 – Online: North America after making easy work of Quincy Crew in the grand finals this Thursday. Evil Geniuses began their journey into ESL One Los Angeles 2020 – Online: North America on Saturday, March 28, when they faced off against ex-Chaos Esports roster, who returned to play under Quincy Crew. Although a match that was slated to end in EG's favour, Tal "Fly" Aizik and co.…

HellRaisers bench team; part ways with ANGE1 and crush HellRaisers have announced the departure of Igor "crush" Shevchenko and Kirill "ANGE1" Karasiow, while unveiling the rest of the CS:GO team has been benched. In a shock announcement, which surfaced earlier this Thursday, HellRaisers unveiled two of their key members in ANGE1 and crush have decided to leave the team, ushering HellRaisers to bench the remaining three members in Žygimantas "nukkye" Chmieliauskas, Vadim "Flarich" Karetin and Ivan "AiyvaN" Semenets, effectively meaning the Ukrainian esports organisation is left without an active CS:GO roster. The announcement comes after a series of disappointing…

Keen Gaming announces massive roster changes for their Dota2 squad Keen Gaming have announced a huge roster reshuffle in their Dota2 team amid the departure of four of their players, who opted to leave the Chinese esports organisation this Thursday, April 2. Keen Gaming's venture into 2019/20 season has been less than impressive, and although the Chinese Dota2 squad has made a few roster changes at the beginning of the season, the new additions to the roster did not bring any notable results. Shortly after their 13th-16th place placement at The International 2019, Keen Gaming made some big roster…

Team Unique returns to Dota2 with ex-Gentlemen roster Team Unique have announced their new Dota2 project, assembled from of ex-Gentlemen roster, which marks the Russian esports organisation's fourth Dota2 squad since their entry in the competitive scene in summer of 2019. Team Unique assembled their first Dota2 team in July 2019, when they acquired Uvajenie.Hope roster. Unique's first Dota2 project, however, did not last for long, as the Russian organisation decided to drop their lineup in September following a streak of disappointing results, which included failed attempts at CIS Open Qualifiers for The International 2019 and a fifth-place finish…

BIG announce TuGuX as a head coach of their Academy CS:GO team Tugay "TuGuX" Keskin has been appointed as the new head coach of BIG's Academy CS:GO team, the German esports organisation announced earlier this Wednesday. This marks the return of TuGuX, who has been out of the competitive CS:GO scene for almost three years, since he parted ways with ex-Dark Passage stack in May 2017, and his first tenure as a coach of a Counter-Strike team. The German Counter-Strike pro began his career in 2008, when he played for some smaller German Counter-Strike: Source teams, including EnRo GRIFFINS…

AGO unveil their new CS:GO roster Shortly after announcing their plans of owning a seven-man CS:GO roster, AGO unveiled their main five players who will represent the team in the upcoming months. Earlier this month, when AGO signed Oskar "oskarish" Stenborowski as the seventh member of the roster, the team coach Mikołaj "miNirox" Michałków unveiled AGO's plans of having two players for each position in their squad, which would allow them to change out players if needed, due to fatigue or other factors that would require a roster swap. After signing their seventh member, all AGO players were slated…

33 set to join OG for ESL One Los Angeles Major Neta “33” Shapira will stand-in for OG during ESL One Los Angeles Major, as a replacement for Topias "Topson" Taavitsainen, who has found himself stranded outside of Europe. OG announced a full lineup for their ESL One Los Angeles Dota2 Major venture, which will feature Sumail “SumaiL” Hassan, Martin “Saksa” Sazdov, Johan “N0tail” Sundstein and two stand-in members in Sébastien “Ceb” Debs and 33. The roster change comes due to the COVID-19 outbreak, which saw both Topson and Yeik “MidOne” Nai Zheng stranded outside of Europe and unable…

Combo Breaker cancelled amid COVID-19 pandemic Combo Breaker 2020 has been officially cancelled this Wednesday, due to the team's concern regarding the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic. Combo Breaker is one of the biggest Fighting Games esports tournaments of the year, so it's understandable to see the announcement has left the whole Fighting Games community in shock, while the organiser Rick “The Hadou” Thiher and his team have their own problems to deal with, as they have to issue refunds and cancel all previous preparations for the event. The unfortunate announcement surfaced on the official Combo Breaker website, with a…