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ESL Pro Tour Scheduled for 2020 ESL and DreamHack will be teaming up together in 2020 to launch a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive global circuit tour in 2020, called the ESL Pro Tour. The Pro Team is said to have over $5 million in prizes. The Pro Tour will link over 20 different ESL and DreamHack tournaments and leagues across five continents and will be organized in two different levels: The Challenger and the Masters. Players competing in the DreamHack Open, the Mountain Dew League and the ESL National Championships will have a chance to qualify for the Masters, which will…

Epic’s Fortnite Battle Rages On We previously reported on the issue with Epic Games and their flagship title Fortnite and how things were almost seemingly running out of control with Season X and the B.R.U.T.E. After intense pressure from fans, the player base and popular streamers, Epic has finally scaled back the importance and the power of the newly-introduced Mech. The mech has a decreased maximum number of rockets that can be fired in a single charge from 10 to 6 and also has a reduced fire rate of the rockets by 56%. The B.R.U.T.E. will no longer grant materials…

Tencent Teases 2020 World League for PUBG Mobile The PUBG Mobile Club Open (PMCO) have also come to an end at the Estrel Congress Center in Berlin, which saw 26 teams battle it out for supremacy for their share of a $400,000 prize pool. The competition kicked off with 16 teams from 10 different regions playing against each other, leaving 5 open spots to head into the Grand Finals. Sixteen teams then went head to head in the Spring Global Finals, where the winner was determined, and TOP Esports took the number one spot, taking home $180,000. The final results…

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100 Thieves Declares that Yassuo is Going to Join as a Streamer 100 Thieves, which is considered to be a renowned esports organization as well as lifestyle brand based in North America, has made the declaration that one individual under the name of Hammoudi “Yassuo” Abdalrhman (also referred to as Moe) is on the way to join the League of Legends in the role of a streamer. Streamer of 100 Thieves Hammoudi “Yassuo” Abdalrhman used to perform the role of a streamer for none other than Counter Logic Gaming and, at present, he is going to transform to 100 Thieves.…

Arrests Made in Australian CS:GO Debacle Victoria police in Australia have arrested six professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) players on suspicions of match-fixing. The Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit and the Organized Crime Intelligence Unit teamed up on the investigation dating back to March, after they were tipped off from a betting agency. There is no word yet on who the players are or which teams the players are from, but a total of six arrests have been made in this instance. The information from the betting agency that tipped off the authorities was that the players in question planned to…

The International The Winners the Losers and Everything Else This weekend saw the conclusion of the world’s largest esports event, The International Dota 2 Championships. With an absolutely massive prize pool of $34 million to play for, 18 teams gathered in Shanghai, China, to take part in the ultimate battle for supremacy in esports. OG, the winners of the tournament, took home a massive $15 million for winning the competition over Team Liquid in the grand finals. OG make history as they are not only the first team to win two TI finals but also the first-ever back-to-back winners, as…

Liquid Takes Fourth LCS Title Team Liquid spent their weekend taking a fourth consecutive League of Legends Championship Series title, to end the LCS Summer Split playoffs over the weekend. Liquid took on Cloud9 in the final, winning the best-of-five series 3-2. Liquid was the top seed going into the playoffs as their group stage performance put them at 14 and 4 going in, with Cloud9 and Counter Logic Gaming at 12-6 in second and third respectively. As a result of the seeds, both Liquid and Cloud 9 went into the semi finals of the playoffs, while teams like SoloMid,…

ESL Confirms Team Liquid, IEM Beijing, and Astralis First to be invited to Beijing It will be interesting to note that ESL has finally revealed preliminary information regarding the subsequent IEM (Intel Extreme Masters) event which is going to take place in Beijing-Haidan in China. In fact, Astralis, as well as Team Liquid, happen to be the very 1st teams which have the distinction of receiving direct invites. This event is going to take place in the city of Beijing on 9th to 10th November this year. Incidentally, Intel Extreme Masters is going to be the subsequent stop in the…

Changes and a Battle Pass Incoming After the recent Major completion in Raleigh, Ubisoft has announced that the new season of Rainbox 6 Siege will be coming, known as Ember Rise, and in it, there are a bunch of new changes including a trimmed map pool and a Champions rank. People have often spoken about the competitive map pool rotation in R6 and it seems that Ubisoft is listening. The Year 4 Season 3 update with Ember Rise will see Fortress, Hereford Base and Theme Park all get the axe. Shockingly, as fun as the Hereford Base redesign was, the…