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Super Smash Bros. PGR season at a standstill due to coronavirus concerns As announced earlier this Thursday, March 12, Super Smash Bros. PGRU is being suspended until further notice amid coronavirus outbreak and travel restrictions. The announcement was made public on PGstats' official Twitter page, where the organisers claimed PGR and TTS will be frozen, with no further events including CEO Dreamland will count towards player rankings until travel is again safe worldwide. PGstats also explained that depending on the length of the freeze, this may lead to only one ranking at the end of the year. "This decision was…

ESL One Los Angeles 2020 tournament preview ESL announced the opening series schedule and groups for the event ahead of the ESL One Los Angeles Dota2 Major, which is set to begin on Sunday, March 15 with the opening fixtures in Group A and B. ESL One Los Angeles 2020 will be the third Dota2 Major of 2019/20 Dota Pro Circuit season, with 16 teams in attendance which will compete for the largest slice of US $1,000,000 and 15,000 DPC points, with $300,000 in tournament winnings and 4,850 DPC points reserved for the champions. Less than a week prior…

Schedule for FLASHPOINT Season 1 announced FLASHPOINT has released the full schedule for its inaugural season of the league, which is set to kick off on Friday, March 13 and run through April 19. A day prior to the season start, FLASHPOINT will also hold an event where teams will draft themselves into one of three groups. The inaugural season of FLASHPOINT CS:GO tournament will be held entirely in the company's Los Angeles studio including the finals, which were initially planned to take place in Stockholm, however, due to coronavirus concerns, the organisers opted to play out the whole…

ESL Pro League Season 11 schedule revealed ESL have publicly announced the schedule for the upcoming ESL Pro League Season 11 group stage, set to begin on Monday, March 16, with 24 teams in attendance and US $350,000 on the line. ESL Pro League Season 11 group stage is set to begin at the start of the next week and will run through April 4 in Malta, before the tournament changes location to Denver, Colorado for the finals. The group stage will feature a total of 24 CS:GO teams, which includes Astralis, Complexity Gaming, ENCE, Evil Genuises, FaZe Clan,…

FunPlus Phoenix will expand into CS:GO with Heroic’s roster A Chinese esports organisation, FunPlus Phoenix, have announced their expansion into the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive esports scene with the acquisition of Heroic's roster. FunPlus Phoenix are mostly known for their League of Legends squad, which hoisted the Summoner's Cup at 2019 World Championship to establish themselves as the strongest LoL team in the world. The Chinese esports organisation also fields teams in Fortnite and PUBG and will now expand into CS:GO in a bid to expand their successful esports brand into the biggest and most popular FPS title. Instead of…

AGO sign Oskarish to their CS:GO roster Polish CS:GO team AGO have announced the signing of Oskar "oskarish" Stenborowski to their organisation earlier this Monday, March 9. The Polish pro will arrive at the team from Illuminar as the seventh member of AGO's CS:GO roster. Oskarish made the announcement public via his Twitter page, "from today on I am going to represent AGO," he said, while expressing his excitement about joining what he believes is the best Polish CS:GO team. "I am really happy that I found a new home that quick. I do believe, that they have best…

Everything we know about Call of Duty: Warzone The heavily-anticipated Call of Duty battle royale game, dubbed CoD: Warzone is officially going live on Tuesday, March 10, and based on early gameplay footage, as well as the official trailer, it will introduce some interesting features which will shake up the battle royale genre. At the beginning of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 2, players got introduced with a "Classified tab" in the main menu and although not much was known about it, the tab started to show a 24-hour countdown earlier this Monday, March 9. Despite the fact…

Heretics, Complexity, Ninjas in Pyjamas and Fnatic, first four teams to qualify for the European Minor The closed qualifiers for European Minor Championship – Rio 2020 has come to a close this Sunday, March 8, with Heretics, Complexity, Ninjas in Pyjamas and Fnatic as the top four teams who secured a spot at Minor where they will compete for a ticket leading to Rio Major. Europe Minor Championship – Rio 2020: Closed Qualifier began on S Saturday, March 7, with 16 European teams in attendance, which competed in a double-elimination bracket, where a best-of-three (bo3) format was in place…

Aster defeats Alliance to win StarLadder ImbaTV Dota 2 Minor Team Aster went the distance and won StarLadder ImbaTV Dota2 Minor with a commanding 3-1 win over Alliance in the grand finals, which were played earlier on Sunday. March 8. With that, the Chinese roster pocketed US $75,000 in tournament winnings, 140 DPC points and the final ticket leading to ESL One Los Angeles Major. StarLadder ImbaTV Dota2 Minor began on Thursday, March 5, in Kyiv, Ukraine, and it marked the third Dota2 Minor tournament of Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) season. There were a total of eight teams in…

HellRaisers part ways with Gilgir, add ROdjER to Dota2 team Just over a month after announcing their new Dota2 roster, HellRaisers unveiled they will be removing Georgiy "Gilgir" Svistunov from the team and replace him with Vladimir "RodjER" Nikogosyan, who will take over number four position for the next set of Dota Pro Circuit qualifiers. The announcement surfaced earlier on Saturday, March 7, when HellRaisers took on Twitter to unveil RodjER as the new arrival to the team. The experienced Dota 2 veteran will now join forces with Alexander "Nix" Levin, Arslan "xannii" Shandjanov, Gleb "Funn1k" Lipatnikov and captain…