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Riot Squad part ways with coach weber Riot Squad Esports have announced mutual parting with their CS:GO head coach Brandon "weber" Weber after just over five months since his arrival at the North American esports organization. The British coach and analyst joined Riot Squad Esports on August 24, 2019, as a replacement for Josh "shinobi" Abastado, who transitioned Riot Squad Academy coach position. Unfortunately, weber's five-month tenure with the North American organization has come to an end this Wednesday, January 29, when Riot Squad announced the mutual parting on their official Twitter page. During his five-month stint with Riot…

Overwatch League will introduce hero pool Season three of Overwatch League is rapidly approaching and it seems like it's about to get much more interesting, according to the recent announcement from game director Jeff Kaplan, who unveiled 2020 OWL will introduce Hero Pools feature, starting with OWL week 5. Jeff Kaplan announced the addition of Hero Pools to Overwatch beginning March 5, 2020. The said feature will also be implemented into the Overwatch League starting on March 7. With the Hero Pool system, Overwatch will remove one tank hero, one support hero and two damage heroes from the list…

Pokrovac becomes the world first Legends of Runeterra player to reach Master rank The Czech Hearthstone champion ikuláš "Pokrovac" Dio has become the first player in the world to reach Master rank in Legends of Runeterra this Wednesday, as announced by LoR official Twitter page. Legends of Runeterra (LoR), a Riot Games-owned free-to-play digital collectable card game has been live for barely five days, and it seems five days is all Pokrovac needed to climb the ladder and become the world-first LoR Master rank player. Since the game was released back on January 24, 2020, a lot of esports…

Overwatch League 2020 power rankings – Top 10 teams The 2020 Overwatch League is set to take off on Saturday, February 8, when we will get to see the top 20 OWL teams duke it out for the largest slice of US $5 million prize pool and the title of Season 3 champions. San Francisco Shock are entering the season as the reigning champions and the main favourites to do it again. While it's hard to forget their dominant run in 2019, the biggest question here is whether they will live up to the expectations and hoist the trophy again…

SumaiL joins OG Dota 2 team The two-time International champions OG have announced the arrival of Syed "SumaiL" Hassan as the third member of their Dota 2 roster, following the departure of three of their key players earlier this week. OG made a massive announcement earlier this Tuesday, January 28, unveiling the arrival of former Evil Geniuses member and 2015 International champion SumaiL, who will join forces with Topias "Topson" Taavitsainen and team captain Johan "N0tail" Sundstein in OG venture into 2019/20 Dota Pro Circuit season. "Once a rival who lived evil he’s now a precious ally who wants…

New game mode announced for Call of Duty Mondern Warfare Activision announced earlier this Monday that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare will receive a new game mode, which will combine Team Deathmatch and Domination to introduce Deathmatch Domination alongside more customization for the fan-favourite Gunfight mode. According to the blog post on the official Activision website, the CoD publisher is seemingly not ready to stop releasing new updates and features for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. This Tuesday, January 27, the newest CoD title is set to receive a massive update, which will introduce more customization options for the…

Blizzard looking to award loyal Overwatch League viewers Since it was announced Overwatch League will be moving to YouTube, the fans started asking whether they will receive emotes and in-game drops while watching OWL, like it was the case in previous years. While there was no official confirmation to date, OWL commissioner Pete Vlastelica made an announcement, Overwatch is looking for a way to give back to the community. Last week Activision Blizzard announced Overwatch League will be following the footsteps of Hearthstone and Call of Duty League move to YouTube as the exclusive streaming platform for the 2020 OWL, which…

Dendi unveils his own esports organization B8 After months of waiting, Danil "Dendi” Ishutin one of the most iconic Dota 2 players in the history of the game, has decided to reveal the name and other details about his own esports organization B8 earlier this Monday. Dendi has announced he is planning to launch his own esports organization in September 2019 and later in December introduced the line-up for his Dota 2 team, while refusing to reveal any further details about what was soon to be his own esports organization until this Monday. Dendi's new esports organization B8 which…

LCS doubles viewership numbers of LEC in Week 1 of 2020 season The rivalry between the North American and European professional League of Legends leagues is as old as time with both sides trying to one-up the other in any way possible. However, looking at the viewership numbers of Week 1 of League of Legends Championship (LCS) and League of Legends European Championship (LEC), it seems like North American LoL scene found another thing to rub in LEC's nose. The cross-Atlantic rivalry between LEC and LCS started way back in 2011 with the first season of League of Legends…

Ceb leaves OG Dota 2 active roster Sébastien "Ceb" Debs announced this Monday, January 27, he will no longer be a part of OG Dota 2 active roster and will instead look to for another way to remain involved with the team. The reigning two-time TI champions OG have gone through a rollercoaster of emotions in the last couple of days, seeing how three of their players decided to leave the active roster, leaving OG with only two active members. It all started on Saturday, January 25, when Anathan "ana" Pham announced he will extend his break from Dota…