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FIFA eMLS continues to grow with two League Series While still in its early phases, the popularity and appeal of eMLS has been growing steadily over the past few years and if Season 2 is to go by, eMLS should see good omens for 2020 season, which could become the biggest year for the league to date. The third season of eMLS took off on January 10 with Series 1 at Philadelphia, which saw a fierce battle between 25 FIFA teams who duked it out for the title and US $7,500 in prize winnings that comes with it. In…

Ninjas in Pyjamas return to Europe and qualify for ESL One Los Angeles After returning back to Europe, Ninjas in Pyjamas have made it through ESL One Los Angeles 2020 Europe Closed Qualifier, meaning Peter "ppd" Dager and the company secured themselves a ticket for the third Dota 2 Major of the season. Ninjas in Pyjamas have gone through quite a lot of changes in the last few months, which included roster reshuffles and change of region, all in hopes to achieve better results. Ninjas in Pyjamas spent the first set of Major qualifiers on the North American soil,…

Riot Squad release its CS:GO team Riot Squad have announced the organisation and its CS:GO team have decided to part ways earlier this Thursday, February 13, following a streak of underwhelming results. Riot Squad explained their decision behind the temporary exodus from the CS:GO scene in a TwitLonger post, where the North American organisation talked about their goals and ambitions for the future. "We’ve maintained an organizational goal of making it to Pro League this season, however between the changes within ESL and our inability to qualify through MDL finals, we’ve decided to take a break and regroup on…

AGO bench mhL from their CS:GO roster A Polish CS:GO squad AGO have announced they are benching their main AWPer, Miłosz "mhL" Knasiak, who will be temporarily replaced by the team's substitute player Maciej "F1KU" Miklas. The announcement surfaced earlier this Tuesday, February 11, when AGO unveiled they are moving the 17-year-old AWPer to the inactive role in the squad where he will be doing "individual work" for the next couple of weeks, according to AGO's Tweet, which read: "By the decision of our coaching staff, sniper mhL will spend the upcoming weeks on individual work in the areas…

Overtime acquires Evade’s Fortnite Team Overtime, a sports network, which focuses on young, digital-native sports fans announced they have bought Fortnite esports team Evade for an undisclosed fee, in a bid to grow the company's fan base and its popularity. Overtime's acquisition of a Fortnite team is the latest in a series of moves by the sports network, which aims to expand into gaming. The company's CEO Dan Porter talked about their latest move, stating the company has always been interested in gaming from day one. "This move is about developing scale. We want to be the top gaming…

Call of Duty Battle Royale game leaked Following the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 2, players were greeted with a short cinematic, which teased a Battle Royale game mode, with more leaked images starting to appear on social media shortly after. The CoD: Modern Warfare Season 2 cinematic proved to be a unique way of Infinity Ward's attempt to tease a new Battle Royale game mode, which went overlooked by many players. However, if we take a look at the final five seconds of the cinematic, it unveils a large scale map with several smaller skirmishes…

ESL announces IEM Melbourne for August ESL has announced its return to Australian soli with a US $250,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Intel Extreme Masters tournament, which will be held in Melbourne and will culminate on August 22-23. IEM Melbourne will mark ESL's first venture into the Victorian capital city and its fourth venture into the Australian soil. Previously, we had three Intel Extreme Masters stops in Sydney, from 2017-2019. ESL is set to host an S-Tier CS:GO tournament in Melbourne later in August as a replacement event for IEM Sydney, which is usually hosted sometime in May. Instead of…

Riot Games set to nerf top lane Soraka in the next League of Legends patch Unconventional picks have become a staple of League of Legends. No matter which season or which patch we are looking at, there is bound to be at least one unusual champion pick, which somehow works. While there have been countless cases when an unconventional pick worked in the professional League play, it's the most recent one that took the world by storm. Top lane Soraka came out of nowhere in Season 10 of League of Legends, and the players did not need long to…

Overwatch League Season 3 won’t have a Russian coverage Blizzard Entertainment has reportedly decided to cut Russian coverage of the official Overwatch Season 3 streams without any further notice to the Russian commentary desk. Overwatch League has gone through some major changes throughout the last few months, but none of those changes were as sudden and shocking as Blizzard's decision to cut the Russian on-air talent from providing commentary of the 2020 season of Overwatch League. The information about this incident did not come from Blizzard themselves, but rather from a senior commentator Pavel "Rillion" Shabalin, who revealed the…

Magic: The Gathering World Championship XXVI – favourites and players to watch The Magic World Championship XXVI is slated to begin on Friday, February 14 at Honolulu, Hawaii, where we will see 16 of the best Magic: The Gathering players duke it out in the culminating MTG event of the season in a bid to be crowned as the world champions and pocket the largest slice of US $1,000,000 prize pool. The 2019 Magic World Championship will mark the most prestigious and best-paid Magic event in its history where seven players earned their spot through wins at a tabletop…