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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…

LEC and LCS changes due to coronavirus fears League of Legends European Championship (LEC) and League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) will be making some changes to fans' experience for the remained of the split due to the COVID-19 coronavirus concerns. Both LEC and LCS have made announcements earlier on Friday, March 6, revealing changes that are coming to both leagues in the response of the global COVID-19 epidemic, which already infected over 100,000 people worldwide. The official LEC Twitter page made a post, unveiling the 2020 Spring Finals will be held at the LEC Studio in Berlin, Germany…

Apex Legends Global Series Major postponed amid coronavirus concerns Electronic Arts announced they will be postponing the inaugural Apex Legends Global Series (ALGS) Major tournament due to the growing concerns of the worldwide epidemic that is COVID-19 coronavirus. The California-based video game company released a statement on Friday, March 6, explaining that the first Major tournament of Apex Legends' ALGS series will be delayed to a further date, while the ALGS Online tournament, which was scheduled for March 21 and 23 will still be played as initially intended. ALGS was first announced back in December 2019, as an international…