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Call of Duty League set to return with online matches this week Call of Duty League is set to return with an online format starting this Friday, April 10, with the previously scheduled Dallas Empire homestand fixtures, as announced by the CDL organisers today. The inaugural season of Call of Duty League began on January 24, 2020, with the Launch Weekend in Minnesota, where CoD fans from all over the globe got a chance to tune in and see all 12 teams compete against each other in the first-ever franchised Call of Duty competition. Shortly after the Launch Weekend…

Heroic bench Snappi and es3tag Danish CS:GO team Heroic have announced they have moved Marco "Snappi" Pfeiffer and Patrick "es3tag" Hansen to the inactive roster with immediate effect this Sunday, April 5. The news comes during a tough period for Heroic’s CS:GO squad, who were on the brink of getting signed by FunPlus Phoenix, but saw the deal fall through, following es3tag's announcement he has agreed to join Astralis, which did not go well with the Chinese investors. “Heroic has during the last month experienced somewhat of a turmoil, but is finally back on track,” read the announcement from…

Pro100 part ways with pipsoN CIS-based CS:GO team pro100 have announced the departure of their head coach Daniil "pipsoN" Mescheryakov, who is no longer tied with the Ukrainian esports organisation as of Saturday, April 4. The announcement comes just days before pro100 were slated to attend LOOT.BET Season 6, leaving the CIS CS:GO squad without a coach in their venture into the remainder of their competitive schedule. Fielding the likes of Georgi "WorldEdit" Yaskin, Jan "wayLander" Rahkonen, Mareks "YEKINDAR" Gaļinskis, Dmitriy "dimasick" Matvienko and captain Aleksei "NickelBack" Trofimov, pro100 have recently secured spots in three upcoming online competitions including…

Team Spirit bench iLTW and part ways with nongrata Team Spirit have announced the departure of Alexey “nongrata” Vasilyev and benching of Igor “iLTW” Filatov, who was moved to the team's inactive roster. The announcement comes shortly after Team Spirit made a couple of roster changes to their Dota2 team earlier this month, then they signed Vasily "AfterLife" Shishkin and Anton "DyrachYO" Shkredov, who will replace ILTW and nongrata, with the former moved to a inactive roster and nongrata leaving the team for good. The two veteran Dota2 players have been tied with Team Spirit for just under six…

Ray, Black^ and AhJit join LGD International LGD International have announced the signing of three new players to their Dota2 squad in midlaner Dominik “Black^” Reitmeier, support Raymond “Ray” Then and safelaner Lai “Ahjit” Jay Son. The announcement surfaced earlier this Friday when the prominent esports organisation took on Twitter to unveil their new quintet of players who will fight under LGD.Int banner. LGD International first appeared in the competitive Dota2 scene in October 2012, when the organisation announced its first international squad, which consisted of Sivatheeban "1437" Sivanathapillai, Rasmus "MISERY" Filipsen, Per Anders Olsson "Pajkatt" Lille, Braxton "Brax"…

MAD Lions stun G2 Esports and advance into round two of LEC Spring Playoffs This Friday, MAD Lions produced one of the biggest upset wins in the history of League of Legends European Championship (LEC) when they took down the reigning kings of Europe G2, and with that guaranteed themselves a top-three finish in the 2020 LEC Spring Split. MAD Lions defeating G2 in round one of LEC Spring Split playoffs was something no one expected to see, yet a result we had to accept, as it was not the reigning LEC champions and 2019 World Championship runners up…

Illuminar announce new CS:GO roster Polish team Illuminar announced a new-look CS:GO roster with the signing of Mikołaj "mouz" Karolewski, Arek "Vegi" Nawojski, and Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski on Friday. Illuminar went through quite a few roster changes since the turn of the year, starting on February 10, with the benching of Daniel "STOMP" Płomiński Oskar and "oskarish" Stenborowski, who was later acquired by AGO. At the start of March, more roster changes were announced, when Illuminar acquired Grzegorz "jedqr" Jędras from Wisla Krakow, who has now found himself benched alongside Illuminar's former in-game-leader Michal "mono" Gabszewicz to make space…

Former Cloud9 member LemonNation has tested positive for COVID-19 Former Cloud9 support and current manager of Team Radiance Daerek “LemonNation” Hart has announced he has tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this Thursday. The 30-year-old League of Legends veteran made a Twitter post on Thursday, unveiling he has tested positive for coronavirus, by adding a picture of his results, jokingly stating he is now a "corona boy". Although not highly deadly amongst younger population, COVID-19 has proven to be no joking matter, as it not only spreads extremely quickly, having infected over 1 million people worldwide and caused over 53,000 deaths,…

HellRaisers bench team; part ways with ANGE1 and crush HellRaisers have announced the departure of Igor "crush" Shevchenko and Kirill "ANGE1" Karasiow, while unveiling the rest of the CS:GO team has been benched. In a shock announcement, which surfaced earlier this Thursday, HellRaisers unveiled two of their key members in ANGE1 and crush have decided to leave the team, ushering HellRaisers to bench the remaining three members in Žygimantas "nukkye" Chmieliauskas, Vadim "Flarich" Karetin and Ivan "AiyvaN" Semenets, effectively meaning the Ukrainian esports organisation is left without an active CS:GO roster. The announcement comes after a series of disappointing…

Evil Geniuses win North American division at ESL One Los Angeles Online Major Evil Geniuses further cemented themselves as the top North American Dota2 team by winning ESL One Los Angeles 2020 – Online: North America after making easy work of Quincy Crew in the grand finals this Thursday. Evil Geniuses began their journey into ESL One Los Angeles 2020 – Online: North America on Saturday, March 28, when they faced off against ex-Chaos Esports roster, who returned to play under Quincy Crew. Although a match that was slated to end in EG's favour, Tal "Fly" Aizik and co.…