ABLEJ JOINS W7M ON LOAN


W7M have added Rinaldo "ableJ" Moda Junior to their roster as part of a six-month long loan arrangement with FURIA Inagame. ableJ joins the Brazilian organization as a replacement for Leon "ryotzz" Felipe, who found his two year tenure with W7M brought to an end at the close of 2019. In the interim, the team utilized former player Lucas "YJ" Yuji as they looked to earn a spot at the WESG 2019 Brazil Finals through the online qualifier. There, W7M were quickly sent packing following a 1-2 loss to Lincoln "fnx" Lau's RED Canids, who went on to secure qualification for the event themselves. The 21-year-old former FURIA player spent just over three months playing under the organization's academy roster, competing in the Aorus League in Brazil and more recently failing to qualify for Brasileirão Season 2 through Relegation. ableJ is the second player to...

ZELLSIS, DAZZLE LEAVE SINGULARITY


Singularity have parted ways with Jordan "Zellsis" Montemurro and Will "dazzLe" Loafman, the organisation has announced. The departure of the two players comes after a recent period in which the team failed to achieve any form of success, with Singularity crashing out of the IEM Katowice open qualifiers and DreamHack Open Leipzig closed qualifier in the quarter-final stage. dazzLe had joined up with Singularity in October, when the entire team went through a roster overhaul before ESL Pro League Season 10 Americas, while Zellsis was recruited a month later to replace Collin "wrath" McSweegan. "We have not been able to grind the results we would have liked to accomplish," Singularity CEO Atle S. Stehouwer said in a statement. After the holiday break the dynamics of the team were not at the level wished from everyone involved." Singularity are currently left...

ESL OPENS REGISTRATION FOR RIO MAJOR QUALIFIERS


ESL has opened the registration process for the open qualifiers for the ESL One Rio Major. The qualifying process for the first Major of 2020 will kick off at the end of January and will run for approximately two weeks to determine half of the 96 teams who will be competing in the closed stage. The Americas region has been divided into two sub-regions, North and South America, while Asia has been broken down into just five regions after Central & South Africa - which had been created for the StarLadder Major - was removed. All open qualifiers will be played on the ESEA platform and will feature a single-elimination bracket with best-of-one clashes until the semi-finals, which will be...

DreamLeague Season 13: THE LEIPZIG MAJOR: Prizes and Teams!


DreamLeague Season 13: The Leipzig Major, the first Major event of the decade, is set to begin this Saturday January 18,2020. Here’s everything you need to know. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The second Major of the Season. First Major of 2020. The Leipzig Major is the second Major championship of the 2019-2020 Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) season, and is also DreamLeague’s fifth DPC event and second Major championship since the circuit started in 2017. The Leipzig Major will run from January 18-26 in Leipzig, Germany. The tournament will start with a preliminary Group Stage from January 18-19 and will be followed by a one day break before the Main Event, to be held from January 21-16. The last three days of the tournament...

LeBron James reportedly thinks Jason Kidd is ‘the only person alive who sees the game of basketball with his level of clarity’


When it was leaked that the Lakers had serious interest in hiring Jason Kidd as an assistant coach, not everyone was on board with the idea, and rightfully so. In the four years Kidd served as a head coach, he had a losing record of 183-190, including a 23-22 record in his final season with the Milwaukee Bucks. In the season after Kidd was fired, his replacement, Mike Budenholzer, led the Bucks to an NBA-best 60-22 record. Generally speaking, that’s not a great look. It’s also worth mentioning that Tyronn Lue — who the Lakers offered the head coaching job to before Frank Vogel — didn’t like the idea of having Kidd on his coaching staff, which played a role in talks between the two parties breaking down. There was one person that...

Valve Changes Ranked Matchmaking System Again


Amidst concerns of a declining player base and complaints about the lowering match quality, Valve has changed the Ranked Matchmaking system once again. This drastic change is one of many experiments that Valve is trying, to stabilize the declining Dota 2 player base. According to Valve, Players will now receive or lose a fixed 20 Points for Party Games and 30 Points for Solo games instead of variable MMR. The Dota 2 developers have also removed the Fast/Slow Queue system and have replaced it with Ranked Roles and Ranked Classic (Where all 5 roles have to be selected). Players will need to queue 1 Ranked Classic Game, to earn 4 Ranked Roles tokens. Both Core and Support MMR will be...

Fnatic Team Director on the Leipzig Major: “This is when we basically say that our season officially begins”


Fnatic placed just 9th-12th at the first Major of the season, which to some came more of an unfortunate result, as the team is regarded as one of the best coming from Southeast Asia.In preparation for DreamLeague Season 13: The Leipzig Major, Fnatic bootcamped in London for two weeks, and in between their training schedule, they’ve made a video to update their fans on how they are planning to move forward into the season and to explain a bit the poor form they showed at the Chengdu Major.“I thought it was a holiday, like we went there for fun. I was not prepared at all for it,” Daryl Koh “iceiceice” Pei Xiang bluntly said in Fnatic’s video. Eric Khor, Fnatic...

“Ana is the Mike Tyson of Dota” says Captain N0tail


Johan "N0tail" Sundstein has been quite active on Social Media following OG’s triumph at TI9. He has been interacting with fans and has been offering up opinions on a variety of topics including League of Legends and the Majors/Minors. Earlier today, in response to theScore esports who awarded the ‘Hard Carry of the Year’ to Ana, OG’s captain sang high praises of his carry. He stated: “This guy is literally the Mike Tyson of DotA, I've laughed and cried for my enemies when I see what he does to them. Over the years Ana has shown where an open mind can take you as a player.” https://twitter.com/OG_BDN0tail/status/1217930233384443905 © Vignesh Raghuram

Report: Valve Announces Plans to Change the CS:GO Major Invitational System


Valve has announced plans to change the way teams are invited for a Major, replacing the current Major invitation system with a ranking system, according to a report by HLTV. This ranking system will utilize two extra tournaments leading up to the Fall Major. This information was sent to all the main tournament organizers via an email in which Valve explained this new ranking system. According to this document, teams will earn points through the Spring Major - ESL One Rio, scheduled to take place in May along with two other tournaments, leading up to the Fall Major which will take place from 2nd - 15th November. These three tournaments combined will determine a ranking, according to which the top-eight teams...

The story of Nisha: How to become a Dota 2 star in a CS: GO country


Dota2 as a phenomenon in Poland Dota2 has never been particularly popular in Poland. When you mention this country in the context of esports and notable players and teams, most people’s first reaction would be the once-famous Virtus.pro CS: GO roster, while Polish Dota2 rosters that have at least minimally shown themselves on the pro-scene are not observed. But even with all these facts added up, Michal "Nisha" Jankowski and Dota2 found each other. And this symbiosis over a long distance was a phenomenal success and brought us a new, original, and most importantly a very skillful player. Early start Nisha joined his first Dota2 team at the age of 13. According to him, he got to know this game mostly...

fnatic sign Golden permanently


fnatic have confirmed that they have signed Maikil "Golden" Selim on a permanent basis from Cloud9. The 25-year-old has committed his future to fnatic after helping the team to return to the top during a highly-successful loan at the end of 2019. fnatic won DreamHack Masters Malmö, ending a 19-month long trophyless period, and finished in second place at StarSeries i-League Season 8 and at the ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals to end 2019 sitting third in the world rankings. Golden has joined fnatic on a permanent basis This will be Golden's second stint as a full fnatic member after playing for the team between August 2017 and June 2018. The Swedish in-game leader, who had been promoted from the organisation's academy squad, led the team to victories at IEM Katowice...

FACEIT to shut down ECS and focus on B-SITE League


FACEIT will pull the plug on the Esports Championship Series (ECS) to produce the 'B Site' league, DBLTAP reports. The decision will mark the end of one of the most important competitions on the tournament circuit since 2016, when the ECS came to life following a partnership between FACEIT and Twitch. The report comes at a time when the organisers of the B Site league - a temporary name - and ESL, who run the ESL Pro League, are engaged in a tug-of-war for some of the best teams in the game. Since the two leagues will run concurrently, teams will have to commit to just one of the competitions, with Cloud9, MIBR, Gen.G, Dignitas and MAD Lions having all...

Dreamhack reveals Anaheim closed qualifier invites


DreamHack has revealed the eight teams who have received direct invites to the closed qualifiers for the Anaheim event. Among the European invitees are Heroic, who recently came through the qualifier for DreamHack Open Leipzig, and the CR4ZY squad, who are on the brink of completing a transfer to another organisation. The North American qualifier will see Gen.G debut their full lineup after Hansel "BnTeT" Ferdinand played his final match with TYLOO, finally claiming the spot that was temporarily filled by Hunter "SicK" Mims. Both qualifiers will take place on Sunday, January 19, with a total of three LAN slots on offer, two of which will be going to the home region. The LAN finals of the $100,000 tournament will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center on February 21-23, with MIBR, ENCE and FURIA being the standout invitees. Below...

71 returns to coaching seat with Keen Gaming


Following Zhang ‘LaNm’ Zhicheng’s departure to Team Sirius from earlier this week, Keen Gaming refresh their ranks with the veteran coach Tang “71” Wenyi. As one of the most experienced coaches in the professional scene, 71’s experience dates back from DotA 1 days and the very first The International, where he was behind EHOME’s roster that placed second with a 3-1 loss to Na’Vi. He is also the man behind the successful days of Team DK back in 2013-2014. More recently, 71 was Mineski’s coach when they lifted the DAC 2018 trophy, and wrote history for the Southeast Asia region by becoming the first team to win a Dota 2 Major for the region. A couple of months before TI9,...

Nordavind confirm hallzerk departure


Nordavind have confirmed that Håkon "hallzerk" Fjærli will continue his career elsewhere after almost two years with the organisation. In a video posted on Twitter, Nordavind thanked the player for his service and wished him luck on his future endeavors, without confirming, however, the report linking him with a move to Dignitas to play alongside four of the players who were part of the iconic NiP squad that went 87-0 at the beginning of CS:GO and won the ESL One Cologne 2014 Major. hallzerk had been the longest standing member of Nordavind prior to his benching on Wednesday, when the organisation confirmed the double signing of Niels-Christian "NaToSaphiX" Sillassen and Kevin "HS" Tarn. He averaged a 1.15 rating during the 22 months he spent on Nordavind, helping the team to win the LOOT.BET Smack My Beach Cup and the ESEA Advanced league in Season...

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