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21 teams submit applications for LCK franchising As revealed this Thursday, 21 teams have submitted their applications to become one of the franchised teams in the League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) in 2021 season. LCK have announced their intentions to franchise the league for 2021 season in April when the league organisers also welcomed all esports organisations who wish to become a part of LCK to send in their applications. With this announcement, LCK became set to join League of Legends European Championship (LEC), League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) and League of Legends Pro League (LPL) as…

C0ntact sign Snappi to their CS:GO roster Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer has officially joined c0ntact this Monday, which confirmed speculations that surfaced earlier this month. The Danish CS:GO veteran has endured quite a turbulent period of his esports career as of late, seeing how he played for four different organisations in a span of only three months. After getting benched by Heroic, the 30-year-old in-game leader was originally set to join a Mongolian CS:GO team TIGERS where he would play alongside Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield, but the plan fell through after TIGER's old roster improved their performance and won the ESL…

Giants looking to acquire Copenhagen Flames CS:GO roster Spanish esports organisation Vodafone Giants are in talks with Copenhagen Flames about acquiring the Danish Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster. As revealed the two esports organisations have begun the talks about a possible CPH Flames roster buyout, which Giants are looking to place under the banner of x6tence's organisation. With this move, the Copenhagen Flames CS:GO roster would fill in the void that was left behind by the departure of x6tence's former CS:GO roster, which consisted of Morís "OMG" Cid, Jonathan "JonY BoY" Muñoz, Nicolás "NikoM" Miozzi, Tomás "tomi" Guardia and Matias…

ESL looking to return with LAN tournaments in August Electronic Sports League (ESL) is exploring the possibility of turning the upcoming ESL One Cologne into the first LAN event since the COVID-19 pandemic forced the competitive CS:GO scene to transition to online play. ESL One Cologne was initially scheduled for July 6-12 but was officially postponed to August, weeks after the German government suspended all large events until the end of August due to the coronavirus pandemic. In May, when ESL announced the postponement of ESL One Cologne, it was initially said that the competition would be held as…

FATE revamp their CS:GO roster FATE announced the signing of a new roster, which will see three new players join Martin "Mar" Kuyumdjiev and Nikolay "niki1" Pantaleev in the new-look Bulgarian CS:GO team. This Saturday, FATE announced a new CS:GO roster, which will see the Jordanian esports organisation keep ahold of Mar and niki1 who have been offered new contracts and will now join forces with Ivan "Patrick" Ivanov, David "harn" Benchev and in-game leader Yanko "blocker" Panov. The initial plan, as announced by FATE was to keep ahold of Viktor "duplicate" Mitev as well, before agreeing to sell…

Dust2’s B doors flipped, better player visibility and more with June 10 CS:GO update The latest Counter-Strike: Global Offensive update, which went live on Wednesday, June 10 has introduced a plethora of adjustments, including changes to several maps, better player visibility, as well as other miscellaneous changes to Valve's prized tactical first-person shooter title. Valve patch notes for the Wednesday's update revealed a couple of small changes that went live on Mirage, Inferno, Train, Cache and Overpass, as well as flipped B bombsite doors on Dust2, effectively reverting it to the Counter-Strike: 1.6 version. The alteration to Dust2 B…

OG.Seed disband following ownership conflicts OG.Seed, the secondary Dota2 team of two-time back-to-back The International champions OG, have pulled the plug on their Dota2 project following multi-team ownership conflicts. As unveiled in the announcement, the OG.Seed project was launched with intentions to "mentor another Dota team, share the knowledge that we [OG] have accumulated throughout all these years of competition, and help them build a solid foundation by providing them with the necessary tools to help them improve," however due to The International 10 postponement amid COVID-19 concerns, the uncertainty of Dota2 competitive calendar and the transition to regional tournaments, managing…

CR4ZY announce their entry into League of Legends A Croatian esports organisation CR4ZY announced the establishment of their own League of Legends roster, which will compete in the seventh season of Esports Balkan League (EBL). CR4ZY, a prominent esports organisation, mostly known for their Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota2 teams have announced their entry into the League of Legends competitive scene with a new European roster. With this move, CR4ZY will continue building their recognition as one of the biggest esports organisation in the region. "The new chapter for us has just started," read the announcement on their official website.…

Hiko retires from Counter-Strike A veteran Counter-Strike player Spencer "Hiko" Martin has announced his retirement from competitive CS:GO scene this Thursday, in a bid to pursue a career in VALORANT. Hiko announced his retirement during one of his Twitch streams, where the 30-year-old CS:GO legend also unveiled he will become the inaugural member of 100 Thieves’ VALORANT roster. "I think it's my official coming out to say that I have officially retired from CS:GO," said Hiko. "To the people that supported me the whole time, through CS, through the Liquid, Cloud9, OpTic and Rogue days, I hope you continue…

HECTOz joins Copenhagen Flames Ex-Wygers Hector "HECTOz" Jensen has become the fifth member of Copenhagen Flames' CS:GO roster, the Danish esports organisation announced on Tuesday. HECTOz will complete the Danish CS:GO roster only a couple of weeks after Copenhagen Flames parted ways with their AWPer Asger "farlig" Jensen, who left for GODSENT as a replacement for Mikail "Maikelele" Bill on May 22. This marks one of many roster changes Copenhagen Flames have gone through since the turn of the year and their fourth signing in the last four months. In February, CPH signed Rasmus "HooXi" Nielsen and Ismail "refrezh"…