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CR4ZY reportedly selling its entire CS:GO team to a North American organization CR4ZY, a Croatian esports organization reportedly sold its entire Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster to an unnamed North American organization, with the official announcement set to surface sometime in the upcoming days. Reports surfaced this Monday, unveiling that CR4ZY have supposedly made a deal with another esports organization, which will buy their entire CS:GO roster. The name of the NA organization in question is as of today still shrouded in mist, yet it was said, more information should become available in the upcoming days. Due to the recent…

Nigma defeat RNG to clinch WePlay! Bukovel Minor title After their shaky start of the Dota 2 WePlay! Bukovel Minor, Nigma managed to find their stride, put their talent on full display and made an incredible comeback to claim the title of champions and a ticket leading to DreamLeague Season 13: Leipzig Major. Nigma entered WePlay! Bukovel Minor as heavy favourites to go the distance as many esports bookmakers and analysts saw them as a team to beat. That on its own is not surprising, considering their star-studded lineup, which features Amer "Miracle-" Al-Barkawi, Aliwi "w33" Omar, Ivan Borislavov…

FunPlus Phoenix Reveal their Worlds champion skins Kim "Doinb" Tae-sang revealed his squad decided on Gangplank, Lee Sin, Malphite, Thresh and Vayne as the five League of Legends champions which will receive the FunPlus Phoenix World Championship skins later this year as a commemoration for their success at 2019 World Championship. As it has become a tradition, each year after the League of Legends World Championship ends, the titleholders get to pick five champions, which then receive their own World Championship skins in commemoration of the team's success. The tradition of releasing "World Championship skins" began in Season 1…

TSM sign Snaski and Mognus to their Rocket League roster Team SoloMid announced the signing of Joonas "Mognus" Salo and coach Nicolai "Snaski" Vistesen Andersen to their Rocket League team, who will help the North American organization in their venture into Rocket League Championship Series Season 9, set to kick off on February 1, 2020. The announcement surfaced this Saturday, January 11, on TSM's Twitter page, where the NA organization unveiled Mognus and Snaski as replacements for Yanis "Alpha54" Champenois and coach Jake "Jake" Edwards, who left the team at the start of the month. https://twitter.com/TSM/status/1216041522812026881 Mognus has started…

Delayed payments in Overwatch Contenders league It was reported Blizzard are late on payments for season two of Overwatch Contenders league, as confirmed by several Overwatch players, who stated that their payments either arrived late or were failed to be made even months after the season concluded. Late payments have been plaguing the esports scene since its inception and while the issue is much more prevalent in some small-time tournaments and lesser-known esports titles, it's rather shocking to see the problem has spread into the Overwatch competitive scene as well. While Overwatch Contenders is notorious for low viewership and…

What can Dignitas achieve in 2020 LCS season? With the 2020 LCS season just around the corner, this is a perfect time to look over the North American LoL teams, what they bring to the table and how will they stack up against what can easily be described as the most stacked lineup in the LCS history. Only two more weeks separate us from the clash between Team Liquid and Cloud9, who will open the 2020 LCS Spring Season on January 25, 2020. How exactly the upcoming North American LoL season will go down is at this point anyone's…

HellRaisers replace scoobyxie with AiyvaN HellRaisers, a Ukrainian esports organization announced earlier this Friday, they are parting ways with Alexander "scoobyxie" Marynych, who was immediately replaced by Ivan "AiyvaN" Semenets as the team's new AWPer for their 2020 CS:GO roster. HellRaisers made a post on their official website this Friday, January 10, titled "HellRaisers.CS:GO Roster Changes", where they unveiled the team will part ways with their AWPer scoobyxie, who will be replaced by AiyvaN as the team’s new AWPer and the fifth member of HellRaisers. Scoobyxie is a 22-year CS:GO player, who started his career as a professional in…

FURIA and Ninjas in Pyjamas crash out of Bukovel Minor FURIA and Ninjas in Pyjamas became the first two teams to crash out of the WePlay! Bukovel Minor 2020 after failing to stack up with the competition in the group stage, and are now sent home packing with $12,000 each. WePlay! Bukovel Minor 2020 took off on Thursday, January 9, featuring eight teams from six regions including Gambit, Team Spirit, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Fighting PandaS, Nigma, Royal Never Give Up, Geek Fam and FURIA Esports. All eight teams travelled to Bukovel hoping they can rise to the top and…

Hearthstone expands its competitive scene for 2020 season Blizzard unveiled their planned expansion for the Hearthstone Masters Tour for 2020 season by doubling the number of events from previous years, each with the minimum US $250,000 prize pool with an added bonus from crowdfunding. As revealed earlier this week, Blizzard has announced ESL and DreamHack as the operators of the Hearthstone Masters Tour, which will allow the expansion of Masters Tour events from three to six events for the 2020 season. The announcement comes only a couple of days after Blizzard revealed Warcraft III and StarCraft II are both receiving…

Miro announces his return to Overwatch competitive scene Former Overwatch pro, Gong "Miro" Jin-hyuk has announced on his personal Facebook account he is set to come out of the retirement and make a return to the Overwatch competitive scene after over 16 months since he temporarily retired. Miro's announcement surfaced earlier this Thursday on his Facebook account, where he made a post, which read: "Hello all. I'm currently FA and looking for an OW team. There were some personal problems at the time of retirement but those are now solved so I want to give it another chance to…