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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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

EVO Blunder Upsets Higher Powers EVO 2019 hosted the Tekken 7 Grand Finals recently and saw the tournament organisers make something of a mistake in doing what they do best. The hosts, who didn’t intend to do so, upset Bandai Namco in what they thought was a really cool idea and perhaps a little bit of a joke, during the competition. Just before the finals of the Tekken 7 tournament, EVO featured a short video with the voice of the Metal Gear protagonist, David Hayter. The famed voice actor made a mention of it on Twitter, stating that EVO didn’t…

Six Major Raleigh Concludes as Team Empire Claims Victory This weekend saw the conclusion of the Six Major Raleigh 2019, the second major Rainbow Six tournament of 2019, with Team Empire emerging as the winner. Sixteen teams went head to head in a double elimination bracket between 12 and 14 August, which left the top two from each group going up against each other in the Playoffs. Team Empire and G2 Esports had some really impressive runs from the group stages. They were placed in Groups A and B respectively, and both topped their group by a reasonable margin. Empire…

Main Event for TI9 Ready to Go The International 9 After a week of Dota 2 during the group stages at The International 9, the main event is now ready to kick off. The Main Event will feature an upper bracket and a lower bracket which consist of eight teams from each group in the qualifying stages. One of these top 16 teams in the world will take home their share of the TI9 prize pool. Group A of the group stages saw PSG.LGD put on a sterling performance, winning 13 games across the board and only losing 2. Likewise,…

Champion Series, Twitch Blunders and the Dreaded Mech It has only been a few weeks since we saw a bunch of brand-new esports players enter the millionaire ranks in gaming from the Fortnite World Cup, the Champion Series is about to get underway. The Champion Series: Weekly will feature three rounds each week, running from 17 August until 15 September. From there, the Champion Series: Season Finals will head through Heats 1 to 4, with group stages from all regions being played for in the first two heats, and the 2nd set of two heats consisting of only EU, NAE,…

An Autobattler-Like Experience Provided by Robot Panda’s Innovative Game Hero Chess I am an ardent gaming buff and whenever I succeed in finding out an innovative as well as brand-new autobattler title out there, I feel rather intimidated and scared by seeing one particular pitch. Let me reveal the reason why I feel like that anyway. As a matter of fact, while many of these games boast by asserting that there are more than 50 heroes that you can play with, this undoubtedly suggests that it is going to play in the same identical fashion as the original Auto Chess.…