Fighting Pandas are acquired by CR4ZY


By: Bob Tagulob A few weeks before the minor, Fighting Pandas faced some difficult times after Jacky ‘EternaLEnVy’ Mao and Jingjun ‘Sneyking’ Wu left the team. With the team down to 3 players, the organization started to look for players that will be able to fill the void that was left by the departing players.  Fighting Pandas found Oliver ‘skiter’ Lepko and Maurice ‘KheZu’ Gutmann to complete their roster. With the roster now completed, this team has started to get ready for the minor this coming March 5-8, 2020. They also dropped the Fighting Pandas name. CR4ZY took over the former Fighting Pandas team. This organization was known for its CS:GO team and later on, they sold their CS:GO team...

Where is the first team to win The International?


by: Bob Tagulob Natus Vincere is the first team to win The International. Winning the first million-dollar in Dota2 history is certainly a big victory and a major success in their lives. This lineup consists of Ivan "Artstyle" Antonov, Danil "Dendi" Ishutin, Dmitriy "LighTofHeaveN" Kupriyanov, Clement "Puppey" Ivanov, and Alexander "XBOCT" (pronounced hwoʊst) Dashkevich. Led by Artstyle, this lineup became known for their aggressive playstyle, wombo combo plays, and amazing plays from all over the map. Their legendary plays are all over the internet but the question is, after winning the first “The International”, where are the members of this legendary team at this moment? Dendi and Puppey still continue to pursue their journey as a player Let’s start with the most famous player in...

Natus Vincere dominates the IEM Katowice Playoffs


By: Bob Tagulob Na’Vi impressed the world with their skills during the playoffs with perfect execution and fantastic individual performances as they did not lose a map during the playoffs of IEM Katowice 2020 Playoffs.   During their match against #3 ranked in the world Team Liquid, s1mple had a duel against EliGE during the whole match as they both top fragged their respective teams. s1mple had an 86 ADR while EliGE had 101.8 ADR. Although EliGE technically won his duel against s1mple, s1mple got the nod in this duel as Na’Vi winning the match in 2-0 fashion as they won Dust2(16-11) and Mirage (16-13). After winning against Team Liquid, they have a bigger task at hand because waiting in the...

IEM Katowice’s Playoffs have sudden changes


by: Bob Tagulob The playoffs of IEM Katowice will be played behind closed doors due to the Silesian Governor's concerns amid the coronavirus outbreak, it has been announced. Even though there are no confirmed cases of coronavirus in Poland, this decision was made and surprised people as Katowice city and ESL assured that the event will continue according to what has been planned.   As of the moment, ESL is contacting ticket holders to give them a full refund due to the sudden change of this tournament. The original plan to prevent this outbreak is that the would implement mandatory health checks for every ticket holder to potentially refrain ticket holders with high temperatures from entering the venue.    This...

Can the Philippines host The International 2021?


By: Bob Tagulob With Valve announcing that The International 2021 is open for hosting proposals for the biggest Dota 2 event in 2021, do you think we can have this event here in the Philippines? Venue Philippine Arena Front View in Bulacan In terms of places that can handle this big event, I do believe that Philippine Sports Arena is most suited of being the place that will handle this event due to the number of people that it can accommodate may reach up to 55,000 people and a lot of extracurricular activity can be accomplished in this venue.  Fans Filipino fans cheering during Manila Major 2016 Filipino dota2 fans are the best in the world, as shown in the...

Boston Celtics team is retiring Kevin Garnett’s number in honor of his great career


The Boston Celtics announced that the NBA Champion in 2007-2008 season and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame finalist, Kevin Garnett, will retire his jersey number (5) in next season. He will be joining with other Celtics legends who also receive the team's topmost honor. Kevin Garnett's number will be elevated in the TD Garden rafters in next season campaign for Bolton Celtics.   https://twitter.com/celtics/status/1228125029604392962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1228125029604392962&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nba.com%2Farticle%2F2020%2F02%2F13%2Fceltics-will-retire-kevin-garnett-number-official-release   After the announcement of his jersey retirement Kevin Garnett express his gratitude in a statement https://twitter.com/TimBontemps/status/1228127142053060608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1228127142053060608&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbssports.com%2Fnba%2Fnews%2Fceltics-to-retire-kevin-garnetts-jersey-during-the-2020-21-season%2F   When he was traded to Boston Celtics from Minnesota Timberwolves in 2007-2008 season. He made five All-Star games out of his six season in Celtics, And selected three All-Defensive First Team honors, one All-Defensive Second team honor,...

Devin Booker will replace Damian Lillard in NBA All-star game and 3-point contest


Phoenix Suns' guard Devin Booker will replace the injured Damian Lillard in this weekend's NBA All-Star Game and 3-point contest. Damian Lillard suffered a right groin strain in late 4th quarter against Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night. Damian Lillard said after the game that he would not compete in either the 3-point contest or All-star game. Damian Lillard also said that he would like to see a deserving player like Devin Booker in his interview after the game. Booker was one of the notable player who was snubbed in all-star game in last month announcement. https://twitter.com/NBCSNorthwest/status/1227798601155448832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1227798601155448832&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbssports.com%2Fnba%2Fnews%2Fdamian-lillard-to-miss-all-star-game-and-3-point-contest-due-to-groin-strain-devin-booker-named-replacement%2F   Devin Booker earned his first NBA All-star selection in his fifth season. The former Kentucky star was becoming the Sun's first all-star since...

The big men for Gilas Pilipinas announced


Gilas team manager Gabby Cui on Tuesday confirmed that Alaska frontliners Vic Manuel and Abu Tratter are joining the pool gearing up for the first window of the FIBA Asia Cup Qualifiers against Thailand on February 20 and Indonesia on February 23. Together with Phoenix Pulse's Justin Chua, the 6-foot-4 Manuel and the 6-foot-7 Tratter completed the troika of new-arrived bigs for the Nationals, who were hit by withdrawals from NorthPort's Christian Stanhardinger, Blackwater's Mac Belo and Barangay Ginebra's Japeth Aguilar. Standhardinger and Belo begged off to continue rehab on their injured knee while Aguilar declined so he can go on his honeymoon. The new additions join the original cast of Poy Erram, Isaac Go, Marc Pringis, and Troy Rosario...

IEM MELBOURNE WITH $250,000 IN AUGUST ANNOUNCED


ESL has announced its return to Australia with a $250,000 Intel Extreme Masters stop in Melbourne, which will culminate on August 22-23. The final stages of the event will headline the 2020 edition of the Melbourne Esports Open, held at the Melbourne & Olympic Parks and its 15,000-seater Rod Laver Arena, home to the Australian Open. IEM Melbourne will mark ESL's first venture into the Victorian capital and its fourth venture into Australia as a whole, where the tournament organizer has previously hosted three Intel Extreme Masters stops in Sydney from 2017-2019. Details about the CS:GO tournament are scarce at the moment, but so far it's clear it will match the size of the previous two Sydney editions with $250,000 in...

North coach MITHR bids farewell


North have parted company with coach Torbjørn "mithR" Nyborg, the Danish organisation announced on Tuesday. In a Twitter post, North thanked the 30-year-old for his service but did not give more details about the reason behind his dismissal. mithR leaves North almost a year after being named as Alexander "ave" Holdt's replacement. During his time at the helm, he guided the team to victories at GG.BET Ice Challenge 2019 and DreamHack Open Sevilla. The announcement comes just weeks after North crashed out of DreamHack Open Leipzig in the group stage following defeats to Danish rivals MAD Lions and Heroic. This was the team's first tournament after the recent roster changes, which saw Mathias "MSL" Lauridsen return to the squad, replacing Jakob "JUGi" Hansen. North are slated to play at the upcoming DreamHack Open event in Anaheim, where they have been paired with forZe, FURIA and Endpoint in Group A. The...

ESL Katowice match-ups revealed


ESL have revealed the first match-ups that will be played at this year's IEM Katowice. IEM Katowice is slated to get underway in two weeks, running from February 24 to March 1, when 16 teams will descend upon the eponymous Polish city to fight for the lion's share of a $500,000 prize pool and to earn the title of first-ever ESL Pro Tour Masters Championship winners. The 16 teams have been divided into two eight-team groups that will play a best-of-three double-elimination bracket that will see the winners go to the semi-finals and the second and third-placed teams from each group go to the quarter-finals as the high and low seeds, respectively. Group A  Astralis  FaZe  Natus Vincere  fnatic  Vitality...

Kevin Durant decided to leave Warriors halfway through the 2018-2019 NBA season


There were lots of rumors regarding what Kevin Durant would do in last season leading all the way up to the start of free agency, Durant already decided that he would not stay in Golden state warriors. On a recent episode of Showtimes basketball 'All the smoke' Host with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, Durant revealed that he decided to leave the Warriors midseason in 2018-2019 NBA season. "I knew just about the halfway point through the year" Kevin Durant said "I could feel, you know, the separation between the two. Everybody was just waiting on me to make a decision on free agency coaches, to my teammates, to the media  it's like January and I'm like, 'Yo, I'm just...

Dreamhack Open Anaheim groups and matcheup announce


DreamHack has announced the group distribution and opening matchups of the upcoming Open stop in Anaheim, California. The $100,000 tournament features teams from all over the spectrum, with the highest-ranked side being ENCE at No.11, who will be looking to get back on their feet following an underwhelming showing at ICE Challenge at the beginning of February. Meanwhile, Endpoint bring out the rear as an organization who controversially retained their spot at the event, having won ESL Premiership Winter with their previous lineup, which only Max "MiGHTYMAX" Heath was a part of out of the current five. The Finns have been placed in Group B, where they are joined by MIBR and two constellations that were put together at the end of last year in Complexity and Gen.G, for whom the Open stop...

ICE CHALLENGE 2020 AND BLAST PREMIER GROUP A FANTASY RECAP


With ICE Challenge 2020 and Group A of BLAST Premier Spring Series having concluded, we announce the winners of the HLTV x 1xBet League cash prizes and reveal the list of best performers at the two events. Denis "electronic" Sharipov's MVP performance may not have been enough to help Natus Vincere to a win over mousesports in the grand final of ICE Challenge, but his strong showing throughout the tournament ensured that he was far-and-away the best player when it came to Fantasy. Despite his top performance, the winning team for ICE Challenge Fantasy, selected by shadow_11, did not include electronic, with the lineup instead featuring Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev alongside the mousesports duo of Finn "karrigan" Andersen and David "frozen" Čerňanský. Two additional in-game leaders, Aleksi "Aleksib" Virolainen and Kirill "Boombl4" Mikhailov, rounded out the roster, with the same lineup and different roles being utilized by the third place team in...

NEO, TAZ TO SPEARHEAD NEW PROJECT


Filip "NEO" Kubski and Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas have announced that they will stick together in a new team, with a recruiting process already underway. The Polish pair had reunited in December after almost two years apart, briefly playing together in a team called ARCY, who ended up disbanding in January following roster instability and a series of sub-par displays. Details about the project are still scarce at this stage, though in a press release it is explained that "a recruitment process is being conducted to establish cooperation with the most talented and promising players in the Polish CS:GO scene." "It’s obvious that Neo and I needed time to work through our past," TaZ said in a statement. "When you have played with someone for so many years, spent so much time together and...

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