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For some teams, the Counter-Strike 2 season has ended and a small break awaits before teams rip back in ahead of the Shanghai Major in November. For others, however, the show continues: This time, it’s the Emirates to host an S-tier event with YaLLa Compass kicking off June 5. 12 teams will head to Abu Dhabi to contest for the lion’s share of a whopping $400,000 USD prize pool, and apart from the regulars, a few challengers have emerged hoping to add a trophy to the cabinet. From Asia’s finest in The MongolZ to the lofty heights of Astralis and…

Karmine Corp are looking to right the wrongs they have made in 2024, and what better way to do it than stomping a bunch of retired League of Legends world champions?  KC took a resounding victory over LCK legends on June 2, a team that consisted of four former world champions, including Jang “MaRin” Gyeong-hwan, Kang “Ambition” Chan-yong, and more. The show match was part of LG’s Life’s Good, Let’s Play event. Despite KC winning the official series 2-0, the teams played a third match with more unconventional picks from the KC side. Coming into the 2024 LEC Summer Split,…

NRG, one of the first organizations to show interest in Apex Legends, returned to the North American competitive league today after leaving the scene for over half a year. The org is picking up one of the hottest free agent rosters leading up to the Split Two regular season. The official NRG X (formerly Twitter) account announced the new roster on May 30, made up of Brandon “oh Nocturnal” Singer, Ryan “Reptar” Boyd, and Brandon “FunFPS” Groombridge, alongside coach Haris “hodsic” Hodzic. Nocturnal, Fun, and hodsic were all part of the recently dropped XSET roster that failed to make the…

At this year’s Perfect World Counter-Strike 2 Major in Shanghai, the regional qualifier events will not feature open qualifiers for either Europe, North America, or South America for the first time in the illustrious history of the Majors. Tournament organizer Perfect World released its complete schedule for the Shanghai Counter-Strike Major early this morning, revealing that Europe, North America, and South America would have closed qualifiers in August, but no open qualifiers. Smaller regions like Oceania, the Middle East, East Asia, and the hosts China still retain a single open qualifier followed by another single closed qualifier. We gladly announce…

The latest Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series tournament in North America is set to take place this weekend. YCS Indianapolis 2024 will be held at the Indiana Convention Center from June 1 to 2. Hundreds of Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game players are expected to show up and battle it out for the right to be crowned the latest YCS champion. There’s a lot to look forward to at this event, including potentially getting the chance to see some of the high-rarity reprints recently released in the 25th Anniversary Rarity Collection 2 set in action. The Snake-Eye archetype has dominated the competitive Yu-Gi-Oh!…

It’s time for the final push to qualify for CoD Champs 2024. The 2024 Call of Duty League Major Four qualifiers kick off on May 31 and run through June 23, giving each team seven more online matches to try to earn the best seeding possible for the last regular-season LAN in MW3. Here’s the qualifier schedule for May 31 to June 2. Image via Call of Duty League Major Four will take place from June 27 to 30 but will be held without fans in California after the Carolina Royal Ravens backed out as the event’s host. After this…

After winning back-to-back titles, MOUZ were on their way to an almost-perfect Counter-Strike 2 season. But their dreams were shattered by Stewie2k-supported G2 Esports, who eliminated them from IEM Dallas 2024. The two teams met in the lower bracket semifinal in Texas, with MOUZ being the favorites to take the matchup. In the end, siuhy’s men won the last two CS2 events—BetBoom Dacha Belgrade and ESL Pro League Season 19. However, their spell came to an end after G2 came back on Ancient to take the series 2-1 in their favor. Stewie2K’s heroics aided them in achieving this feat. G2…

ENCE announced changes to its Counter-Strike 2 roster on May 29. Two players were benched and two new were signed in their place. While the community thinks one change makes perfect sense, they’re baffled with the other. The two players who ended up being cut from the CS2 roster are rifler dycha and AWPer hades, and they’re replaced by veteran sdy and young talent Paavo “podi” Heiskanen. Dycha has been in a lackluster form for a few months now, amassing negative stats in numerous tournaments this year. The benched sniper hades, on the other hand, has been a stand-out player…

Faker’s Hall of Legends skins aren’t even available on the League of Legends servers yet, but fans of the game are already hypothesizing which professional star is going to be the next inductee into the prestigious club.  Many players on the League subreddit have agreed that the most likely candidate to next receive a Hall of Legends skin is former LPL AD carry Uzi, who had a decade-long career and etched himself into the League history books before retiring after the 2023 season. Many still look back on Uzi as the greatest ADC to ever play the game.  China is…

After recently getting a glimpse of the latest commemorative skins for esports icon Faker, the League of Legends community is banding together to point fingers at Riot Games for creating the “biggest insult imaginable” for fans of the pro player. In a scathing post on the League subreddit, fans gathered together to blast the upcoming skins, which have been set at multiple ridiculous price points. Marketed as celebratory skins for Faker’s induction into the Hall of Legends, Riot stunned the League community by setting bundle prices at a range of $40 to an outrageous $450. For some, a slap in…