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Pyth retires from CS:GO, moves to VALORANT Jacob "pyth" Mourujärvi retired from the competitive CS:GO scene in order to pursue a career in VALORANT, the Swedish CS:GO pro announced this Thursday. Pyth announced his retirement in a Twitlonger post, where he declared his nine-year-long CS:GO career has come to an end. In the announcement, the Swede talked about how during the past three years, since he left Ninjas in Pyjamas, he felt like he was unable to get back to the level he once was on while claiming that he struggled to find a place where he felt like…

Greyy leaves Paris Eternal and retires as Overwatch pro Overwatch League flex support Luís “Greyy” Perestrelo has announced he is leaving Paris Eternal and retireing from professional Overwatch due to mental health concerns and loss of passion of the game. The 26-year-old Portuguese flex support has officially retired from the Overwatch professional scene this Thursday, April 7, ending his three-year-long career as an Overwatch pro, which began in early 2017. Greyy joined Paris Eternal in November 2018, shortly after the team was formed, and has remained the sole representative of Portugal in the Overwatch League since. He also played…

Perkz and Caps will be switching positions for 2020 LEC Summer Split After winning their seventh League of Legends European Championship (LEC) title in the Spring Split, G2 Esports are looking to switch things up, or better yet, switch things back as they were with Rasmus "Caps" Winther moving back to the mid lane, while Luka "Perkz" Perković is set to return to his old position as the team’s ADC. There has been plenty of talk in the offseason about the switch and while Perkz and Caps hinted the swap could happen numerous times before, we never got to…

JKap and Gunless benched ahead of Call of Duty League Florida Home Series Chicago Guntsmen and OpTic Gaming have announced they're benching two of their players in Peirce "Gunless" Hillman and Jordan "JKap" Kaplan ahead of the Florida Home Series in a bid to find better success in the second part of the 2020 Call of Duty League (CDL) season. Chicago Huntsmen, currently the second-strongest team in the CDL have decided for a massive roster change this Monday, when they moved Gunless to the bench in favour of Jordon "General" General, the 2018 CWL Pro League All-Star unveiled on…

Vancouver Titans release Overwatch Roster The Vancouver Titans have announced they're dropping their entire active Overwatch League roster this Wednesday, due to the internal struggles caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement named "A letter to our fans" surfaced on Vancouver Titans' official Twitter page, where Tim Holloway, the esports director at the Aquilini Entertainment (Vancouver Titans’ parent company) spoke to the fans and explained the situation that has caused the inevitable release of Titan's Overwatch roster. Mr Holloway started the announcement by thanking the fans for their patience during these difficult times, during which the organisation was dealing…

Gen.G announce VALORANT roster Although VALORANT is still in its closed beta phase, that does not stop many prominent esports organisations from trying to get themselves ahead of the curve and start assembling their own professional VALORANT roster, in a bid to have it ready once Riot Games' tactical first-person shooter releases in summer of 2020. Only a week after the game was announced in March, the three-time League of Legends world champions T1 became the first esports organisation to sign a player for VALORANT in former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive pro Braxton "Braxton" Pierce. It did not take long…

Gpk will stand-in for Team Spirit Dota2 team Danil "Gpk" Skutin will replace Yegor "Ergon" Kozlov at Spirit for the upcoming WePlay! Pushka League and Epic Prime League games as a stand-in player, the Russian Dota2 team has announced. Gpk has joined Anton “DyrachYO” Shkredov, Vasily “AfterLife” Shishkin, Alexander “Immersion” Hmelevskoy and Mihail “Misha” Agatov in their journey through WePlay! Pushka League and Epic Prime League as unveiled by the Russian Dota2 team. He will replace Ergon, who is reportedly having health problems, however, Spirit did not specify what kind of health issues their No.2 is dealing with. "Unfortunately,…

New Warzone game modes coming in Season 4 Since its release on March 10, 2020, Call of Duty: Warzone proved to be a massive hit amongst CoD players and others alike, and while it's free-to-play nature might have contributed to its huge popularity, Warzone has without a doubt proved to be one of the biggest game releases of 2020 so far. While running around the massive and at the same time very well sized map, either trying to remain the last squad alive in the battle royale game mode or scavaging the map and eliminating other teams in order…

Duos for Call of Duty: Warzone confirmed Call of Duty: Warzone developers confirmed today that Duos are coming to the game in the near future, although retrained from unveiling the exact date when the new long-awaited feature will find its way in CoD's battle royale game. The developers explained it might take a while longer before Duos will be added to Call of Duty: Warzone since there are many bugs that need to be worked out before and even then the developer team needs to figure out which core modes work the best as permanent additions and which will…

Riot Korea set to host an LCK/LPL online tournament Recent reports unveiled Riot Korea are planning on hosting an online League of Legends tournament, which will feature teams from League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) and Pro League (LPL). The LCK-LPL event is said to take place sometime in the upcoming weeks, ahead of the summer splits in both Asian leagues and will act as a replacement for this year's Mid-Season Invitational, which got cancelled last month due to the growing fear of COVID-19 pandemic. The ins and outs of the upcoming event are still a mystery, seeing how…