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Weirdest DOTA 2 News from Recent Weeks When it comes to e-sports, nothing dominates the news like DOTA 2. The massive online strategy game is going strong as ever, basically defining e-sports. The game is not without its good, bad, and the utterly weird, however. Here’s a roundup of some of the most unusual DOTA 2 news this month for those who keep tabs on the game: Valve Bans Toxic DOTA 2 Players for 20 Years Valve recently updated the matchmaking system in DOTA 2. Bundled with the software patch was a new system to ban “bad actors” until 2038.…

Magic’s Esports Plans for 2020 Wizards of the Coast, developer and publisher for Magic: The Gathering Arena has announced the plans for the next season of Magic esports. In addition, the tabletop game will also see a timeline laid out for players who wish to compete competitively too. In a post on the blog site, they talk about how big a year it has been for Magic esports. And that’s actually true. There have been a number of esports events such as the Mythic Championship series that has been running since February, including a bunch of other, smaller tournaments such…

Switch Becomes More Competitive with Overwatch and Smash Bros The highly competitive team-based hero shooter, Overwatch, will soon be coming to Nintendo Switch, as announced at the Nintendo Direct presentation yesterday. It comes as something of a surprise as Blizzard hasn’t exactly been too keen to develop on Nintendo’s handheld platform, but nevertheless, it’s happening on 15 October. In fact, Jeff Kaplan, Blizzard’s Overwatch director, said last year that they would be open to a Switch port, but admitted that “it would be a challenge”. However, that is something that should be put in the past, because it’s here and…

F1 New Balance Esports Pro Series to Kick Off As the 2019 F1 New Balance Esports Pro Series draws closer, all ten of the official Formula 1 Esports teams have announced their rosters for the competition. Set to begin on 11 September, the run up to the Pro Series will consist of four live shows, the first at the GFinity Arena in London. The champions will take part in each show and the winning team will get a chunk of that $500,000 prize pool on offer. Some notable changes for this series will see a new team enter the fray…

ESL Pro Tour Scheduled for 2020 ESL and DreamHack will be teaming up together in 2020 to launch a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive global circuit tour in 2020, called the ESL Pro Tour. The Pro Team is said to have over $5 million in prizes. The Pro Tour will link over 20 different ESL and DreamHack tournaments and leagues across five continents and will be organized in two different levels: The Challenger and the Masters. Players competing in the DreamHack Open, the Mountain Dew League and the ESL National Championships will have a chance to qualify for the Masters, which will…

Epic’s Fortnite Battle Rages On We previously reported on the issue with Epic Games and their flagship title Fortnite and how things were almost seemingly running out of control with Season X and the B.R.U.T.E. After intense pressure from fans, the player base and popular streamers, Epic has finally scaled back the importance and the power of the newly-introduced Mech. The mech has a decreased maximum number of rockets that can be fired in a single charge from 10 to 6 and also has a reduced fire rate of the rockets by 56%. The B.R.U.T.E. will no longer grant materials…

Tencent Teases 2020 World League for PUBG Mobile The PUBG Mobile Club Open (PMCO) have also come to an end at the Estrel Congress Center in Berlin, which saw 26 teams battle it out for supremacy for their share of a $400,000 prize pool. The competition kicked off with 16 teams from 10 different regions playing against each other, leaving 5 open spots to head into the Grand Finals. Sixteen teams then went head to head in the Spring Global Finals, where the winner was determined, and TOP Esports took the number one spot, taking home $180,000. The final results…

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100 Thieves Declares that Yassuo is Going to Join as a Streamer 100 Thieves, which is considered to be a renowned esports organization as well as lifestyle brand based in North America, has made the declaration that one individual under the name of Hammoudi “Yassuo” Abdalrhman (also referred to as Moe) is on the way to join the League of Legends in the role of a streamer. Streamer of 100 Thieves Hammoudi “Yassuo” Abdalrhman used to perform the role of a streamer for none other than Counter Logic Gaming and, at present, he is going to transform to 100 Thieves.…

Arrests Made in Australian CS:GO Debacle Victoria police in Australia have arrested six professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) players on suspicions of match-fixing. The Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit and the Organized Crime Intelligence Unit teamed up on the investigation dating back to March, after they were tipped off from a betting agency. There is no word yet on who the players are or which teams the players are from, but a total of six arrests have been made in this instance. The information from the betting agency that tipped off the authorities was that the players in question planned to…