Barangay Ginebra took the lead again after Game 3 of their Finals Run


Ginebra won game 3 of PBA Governor Cup last January 12, Sunday at Smart Araneta Coliseum with a final score of 92-84. It was a tight game at the first half with just a 1pt lead by GinKings, 43-42. The score stretched away to 20pts lead by GinKings after the 3rd quarter. Even though the Bolts make an effort to catch up an 11 point lead, still wasn't enough until the last minute of the third quarter. Meralco was scoring poorly outside the arc the whole game, 6-24 3pts field goals only. An unexpected scene happened at the third quarter as Raymond Almazan had an awkward fall after making an offensive thrust. Leaving the game at 6 minute mark. Almazan...

Nigma are victorious at the first DPC event of 2020


We had reached the final day of the first Dota 2 Pro Circuit event of 2020 as the WePlay! Bukovel Minor would come to an end with the lower bracket finals followed by the grand finals. The first order of business for the day at the Minor would be the lower bracket finals between Nigma and Geek Fam, as both teams were looking for a rematch against Royal Never Give Up to find some revenge for earlier defeats. Unfortunately for the Southeast Asian squad, even after a magnificent tournament, they were unable to match up to a Nigma that were still struggling in many ways. While the first game could easily have gone the way of GF, Nigma found their...

John Wilson becomes first player to reach MPBL 1,000-point milestone


San Juan-Go for Gold star John Wilson etched his name in Chooks-to-Go/MPBL history when he became the first player in the two-year-old league to reach the 1000-point club on Saturday. Heading to their match-up against the Pasig Sta. Lucia-Realtors, the 32-year-old swingman was not aware of the milestone he was about to reach. It was only when a staff member approached him right before tipoff that he became fully aware of what was about to unfold. However, instead of forcing things, Wilson stuck to the game plan and let things come to him. “Actually nung magju-jump ball nga e, binulungan ako nung isang staff na kailangan ko four points lang,” shared Wilson, a native of Binangonan Rizal. "Sabi ko, ‘Relax...

TSM building NA CSGO lineup for planned return in the pro scene!


Team SoloMid is in the first steps of returning to Counter-Strike with a new lineup according to a report from Rush B Media. The organization which has been without a team for three years will be piecing together a new lineup rather than acquiring a previously built one. Former eUnited player Anthony “vanity” Malaspina is being tagged as the in-game leader for the squad according to the report. vanity had been with eUnited since February of 2019 before being released to start 2020. He’ll be reuniting with current eUnited player Kaleb “moose” Jayne in the new roster. Two players that have been floating around between teams for awhile Hunter “SicK” Mims and Yassine “Subroza” Taoufik will be rounding out the riflers for...

DREAMHACK LEIPZIG NA CLOSED QUALIFIER BRACKET


The bracket for the closed stage of the North American qualifier for DreamHack Open Leipzig has been determined, where eight teams will battle for a single spot at the $100,000 event. Almost 90 teams took part in the NA open qualifier bracket, through which Chaos, Gen.G, INTZ, and Triumph emerged victorious in order to earn spots in the closed portion of the event, set to play out on Sunday. The quartet of qualified teams will be joined by the invited sides of Cloud9, Complexity, eUnited, and Singularity in the closed portion of the tournament, with Johnny "JT" Theodosiou and company looking to secure qualification to their second offline event after earning a spot at IEM Katowice 2020 earlier this week. Complexity, meanwhile. will look to claim revenge against the newly signed North American roster...

Is Nigma set to pull off another one of its rosters’ trademark Lower Bracket championship runs?


We all know the iconic lower bracket run from Nigma right? Formerly known as "Team Liquid" as they always dominate their opponents in the Do-or-Die series! But can they pull off another trademark run in WEPLAY! BUKOVEL MINOR this time?  A struggling Nigma Esports squad stays alive at the WePlay! Bukovel Minor after overcoming the resilient Gambit Esports in an intense, back-and-forth series, 2-1. Nigma advance to the Lower Bracket Finals against Geek Fam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pguFe6Lf9xM   Game one Gambit opened the series with a high-damage, ranged tri-core of Drow Ranger for Kiyalbek “dream`” Tayirov, Storm Spirit for Danil “gpk” Skutin, and a position-4 Puck for Danial “XSvamp1Re” Alibaev, with Maxim “Shachlo” Abramovskikh on Abaddon to man the frontlines. Meanwhile, Nigma opted for a tri-core...

The fight of the PandaS comes to and end as Nigma moves to playoffs stage!


Group stages at the WePlay! Bukovel Minor came to an end a short time ago and with that there are now only four teams remaining in the tournament who have made their way into the playoffs of the event. Opening the day at the WePlay! Bukovel Minor we saw Ninjas in Pyjamas being the first team eliminated from the tournament from Group A. Following that it was the winner’s match which came up next and while Geek Fam looked fantastic on day one, Royal Never Give Up breezed passed the Southeast Asians and placed them in a tough elimination battle against Team Spirit. On a high from their victory over NiP, it was expected that Spirit would put up a...

VALVE’S TI9 TRUE SIGHT DOCUMENTARY GETS A RELEASE DATE AND NEW TRAILER


THE HYPE TRAIN IS COMING! GET INSIDE OF THE MOST HYPED MATCH Valve has announced that the latest installment of its True Sight documentary series, which features the historic Grand Finals matchup between OG and Team Liquid at The International 2019, will be premiering on January 28. While the documentary can be watched on the official Dota 2 YouTube channel on its release day, there will also be a premiere event in front of a live theatre audience at the Babylon Theatre in Berlin, Germany. The premiere event will start on 7:00 p.m. CET (January 29, 2 a.m. GMT+8) and will also be streamed live on the official Dota 2 Twitch and SteamTV channels. Members of the featured teams will also be making an appearance at the live premiere, so if...

Chaos add smooya to complete roster


Just a week after announcing the benching of Gage “Infinite” Green Chaos Esports Club has unveiled his replacement as none other than Owen “smooya” Butterfield. Infinite was benched as part of a mutual decision by the players. The English AWPer was recently released from BIG Clan as they moved back to an all-German lineup with the additions of Nils “k1to” Gruhne and Florian “syrsoN” Rische. He posted his desire to continue to compete and in the North American region in particular and it seems it didn’t take long to find a new home as this announcement comes just 9 days later. Joshua “steel” Nissan and company will be competing in the 33rd season ESEA’s Mountain Dew League which starts in...

Meralco Bolts tied the score with the help of their bench players


Game 2 ended with a final score of 104 - 102 in favor of the Meralco Bolts. Meralco bench players had exploded from outside the arc on their 2nd game finals match-up of Philippine Governor's Cup 2019 season. They had a field goal of 16-38 over GinKings 9-30. John Pinto started the bench power to fuel up their game in the early half, shooting 4-5. Followed by Durham and Amer later. Even Almazan got an early 2 fouls at the half, he returned to game and contributed 15 points and nine rebounds. Bolts had a 17 lead after the halftime.  But in the start of the second half time the GinKings rallied to tie the score at 70 but Bolts...

FaZe, G2 qualify for IEM Katowice


The first day of the IEM Katowice Europe closed qualifier has been brought to an end, with FaZe and G2 securing the two wins necessary to claim spots at the tournament in Poland. FaZe kicked off their closed qualifier campaign against ARCY, and struggled on the CT side of Nuke in their first map after the winter break, securing just five rounds. However, they were able to bounce back on the offense and claim the win on their map pick, before displaying a similar T-side on Dust2 to take the series 2-0. Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer was the standout performer in the match, finishing with a 1.35 rating and 11 first kills. The international roster then faced ENCE, who previously overcame Illuminar 2-1. The series kicked off on Mirage, which went FaZe's way after their...

Ex-MVP PK “xeta” to fill the slot on TyLoo


TyLoo's empty slot on their roster will be filled by "xeta" (ex MVP PK player). Their roster had a vacant due to the departure of "BnTeT". He was acquired by the newly formed team Gen.G esports. BnTeT just finished playing at his last match "IEM Katowice Open Qualifier" before flying to North America. "xeta" who is a South Korean player joined TyLoo via free transfer following his contract expiry on MVP PK. He will be taking a the AWP role from BnTeT. He help his former team to win eXTREMESLAND 2018 Asia Finals and Cobx Masters. New TyLoo roster: Yulun "Summer" Cai YuanZhang "Attacker" Sheng HaoWen "somebody" Xu WingHei "Freeman" Cheung Seon-Ho "xeta" Son LiKan "ryk" Lou (coach)

EE’s Fighting Pandas pull off a Massive Upset over Nigma at the Bukovel Mino


They’ve actually pulled it off! NA hopefuls Fighting Pandas managed to pull off the biggest upset of the new year yet. They managed to beat Team Nigma 2-1 and secured a place in the winners match. The TI9 Runner Ups came into this tournament as favourites but they failed to live up to their expectations in their opening match. With this victory, Fighting Pandas are just 1 win away from a place in the playoffs.   https://twitter.com/WePlayEsport/status/1215302082573500416 Fighting Pandas vs Nigma Game 1: The first game started with Nigma snowballing to a massive lead after multiple pickoffs on Bryle’s Shadow Fiend. With all three of their cores leading the networth charts, Nigma looked like they were on cruise control. But EE...

FURIA Esports are the first team eliminated from the Bukovel Minor


The WePlay! Bukovel Minor had been in full swing all day and the final series of the day would see the first team eliminated from Group B as Nigma and FURIA Esports went head-to-head. While the South American team of FURIA were considered heavily the underdogs, especially in such a tough group, Nigma were dismantled by Fighting PandaS earlier in the day – which put them in a very dangerous spot at the Minor. While it would still be an extremely tough series for FURIA, they had a chance to give themselves a brief respite in Bukovel. As expected, Nigma were able to take the first game of the series but it was not for a lack of FURIA fighting...

VICI qualify for IEM Katowice 2020 over TyLoo


ViCi won the IEM Katowice 2020 Asia Closed Qualifier best-of-five grand final in only two maps thanks to their upper-bracket advantage over TYLOO to secure a spot at the event in Poland. ViCi completed a clean run through the IEM Katowice 2020 Asia Closed Qualifier bracket dropping just two maps in the process to punch their ticket to Poland. They made their way through the upper bracket with victories over Alpha Red, AUGUST, and Bren. The other finalist was TYLOO, who were playing their last matches with this roster before Hansel "BnTeT" Ferdinand takes off to North America to join his Gen.G teammates. The Chinese team beat Mazaalai in the first round, but were knocked to the lower bracket by Bren in the second. YuLun "Summer" Cai and company finally managed to claw their way back with victories over the other two...

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