DreamHack Open Leipzig match-ups and schedule announced


DreamHack have revealed the opening match-ups and full schedule for DreamHack Open Leipzig. The action in Leipzig will kick off on Friday, January 24, where the recently-signed Virtus.pro roster will take on BIG in the first of six best-of-one matches. Later, DreamHack Open Sevilla victors. North. will butt heads with Sprout, followed shortly by a North American face-off in Cloud9 versus Renegades. Rounding out opening matches is a Danish derby between Heroic and MAD Lions, who recently impressed at the IEM Katowice European open qualifier, securing one of two closed qualifier slots on offer. Concluding day one will be the winners' matches of both groups, deciding two semi-finalists of the tournament. The $100,000 tournament will take place at the Leipziger...

Ginebra Kings one win away from reclaiming throne over Meralco Bolts


The Meralco Bolts came in with Raymond Almazan. The Barangay Ginebra Kings responded by playing their usual deadly game. The Bolts ripped the game apart with big salvos in the middle quarters and pulled off a 94-72 win to move on the brink of reclaiming the PBA Governors' Cup diadem at the Smart Araneta Coliseum Wednesday. Coach Tim Cone and his troops take their first of three cracks at wrapping up a third Governors' Cup crown in four years in Game Five Friday at the MOA Arena in Pasay City. Game Six and Game Seven, if necessary, will be played at the Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan. "Obviously Raymond Almazan's injury has changed the complexion of the series. He showed...

Envy bench FugLy, he unveils internal issues with TwitLonger


Jacob “FugLy” Medina has been benched from the active roster of Envy the North American organization has revealed. FugLy joined the Envy lineup in March 2019 alongside Sam “s0m” Oh and Bradley “ANDROID” Fodor, both of which are no longer members of the active lineup. s0m has made the move to Gen.G’s new squad while ANDROID is also benched on Envy. According to the organization, “additional roster change information” is “coming soon https://twitter.com/Envy/status/1217544506586943488 This move didn’t come without a bit of drama though as FugLy took to TwitLonger to reveal an interesting story about how this all played out. He walked readers through the struggles of the team’s roster from the removal of Aran “Sonic” Groesbeek without the team’s knowledge to that...

DreamLeague Season 13: The Leipzig Major groups announced


The group stage of DreamLeague Season 13, of the second Major of the 2019-20 Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) season begins in just three days time, on the 18th of January in Leipzig, Germany. The sixteen teams that will fight for glory, a share of the $1,000,000 prize pool and 15,000 DPC points, will start their journey in a GSL, best-of-three series group stage format. All four groups, each with four teams on them, will be played on the first two days of the tournament, January 18-19. At the end of the group stage play, the top two teams from each group will be seeded in the playoffs upper bracket, while the bottom two from each group will fight for survival...

CS:GO Charity Showmatch – GODSENT vs GRID


GODSENT and GRID will be broadcasting a charity showmatch featuring the organisation’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster and members of GRID’s staff. The event will be a best-of-three event, with unconventional twists and turns to raise money for the companies’ chosen charity: Barncancerfonden. https://twitter.com/GRIDesports/status/1217112813451251718 The event will take place on Friday 17th January at 13:00 CET and will feature some unconventional features, including substitutions, random money injections, and mixed teams. The chosen charity which the tournament will aid is the Barncancerfondon, the single largest financier of childhood cancer research in Sweden. GRID has already pledged €500 to the project and will also match donations from viewers during the first map, up to the value of €1,000. The majority of the funds collected by Barncancerfonden will be...

Singularity sign second CS:GO team from Denmark


Singularity has signed a second team to the organization as first reported by Dust2.dk. The Danish roster is headlined by Daniel “mertz” Mertz who had been inactive since his time with Heroic came to an end in May 2019. While held to the bench of Heroic mertz participated in various qualifiers and online events before ultimately being released from the organization in November 2019. https://twitter.com/SNG_Esports/status/1217129673613873154 Singularity’s former lineup will still be contracted to the organization and serve as a representative in North America’s ESL Pro League while the new lineup competes in Europe. SNG confirmed that “both teams are active, representing Singularity and receiving support.” “For a long time in Team Singularity, we have had the desire to represent a Danish...

ICE CHALLENGE GROUPS, INITIAL MATCHUPS, TALENT ANNOUNCED


The organizers of ICE Challenge have announced the group stage distribution, opening matchups, and full talent lineup of the $250,000 tournament. The group stage of the tournament will be played in a best-of-three GSL format during the first two days of the event (February 1-2). Each group will see three teams advance to the single-elimination playoffs (February 4-6). As the highest-ranked team of all the participants, mousesports headline Group A, where they will be challenged by three teams ranked between the 16th-19th spot, Heroic, Virtus.pro, and MAD Lions. Aleksib's OG will face his former team ENCE in the opening round Group B features a wider variety of teams when it comes to their position in the world ranking, with the other top-ten side in attendance, Natus...

forZe signed Gentlemen


forZe decided to expand their multi-gaming and enter a new discipline. Earlier, insider Alexei 'OverDrive' Biryukov announced that the composition of Ivan 'VANSKOR' Skorokhod could go under the wing of this organization. Representatives of the club announced their decision to sign the five Gentlemen on their website. The new tag is not the last innovation in the ranks of the team of Ivan Skorokhod. Now, instead of Alexander 'pio_65' Zalivako with e-sportsmen will play Alexander 'Gibkiy' Tkachenko. The role of the manager of the Dota squad took on Gleb '41dota' Antokhin. Gentlemen put together a roster last October. For 3 months, five players managed to take part in a number of events, but their main achievement is the victory at...

Standhardinger wins BPC trophy, Durham is best import


From chief backup to the PBA Governors' Cup's Gatorade Best Player of the Conference. NorthPort's Christian Standhardinger, who lurked under the shadows of five-time MVP June Mar Fajardo during his time with fully-stacked San Miguel Beer, came into his own as the Batang Pier's top gun and his breakout performance was aptly rewarded with his first BPC accolade. Standhardinger beat no less than Fajardo for the top plum in the season-ending tournament. The Fil-German amassed 1,011 total points in the final tally, getting 396 statistical points, 433 points from media votes, 32 points from player votes, and 150 points from votes from the PBA, to win it over Fajardo (657) as well as TNT's Jayson Castro (615), Columbian Dyip's rookie...

Radar of Cache found out to be Non-Identical to the Actual Map


It seems as if the radar on Cache might be broken. A tweet by SCOPE.GG reveals that the radar of Cache is not identical to the actual map in two places. This is the first time that such a thing has been noticed on the recently reworked map and brought to everyone’s notice. The two spots on the map which are identical are as follows, On the B-site there is this supposed extra room represented on the radar, which has been shaded in such a way so as to represent a place which is lower or higher than the ground level. But in reality, there is nothing of that sort on the map, as the access to that room has not been provided...

WePlay! Bukovel Minor team and hero statistics: Doom and Phantom Lancer look strong in the current meta


The second DPC Minor of the year has ended and as expected, Team Nigma, who were the favorites, won the event and booked their spot in the Leipzig Major. Nigma’s start to the tournament was not the best, but as they often do, they picked up as the tournament progressed. RNG gave Team Nigma a tough fight in the grand finals, but the inability to close out games cost the Chinese team. Let’s take a look at the team statistics for the Bukovel Minor. Team statistics for the Bukovel Minor Hero Statistics for the WePlay! Bukovel Minor Total games played: 40 Total heroes picked: 79 Number of heroes unpicked or unbanned: 35 Most picked hero: Rubick (23 games, 11 wins,...

Phoenix CS:GO roster signed by Endpoint


British organization Endpoint has picked up a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster with the signing of the Phoenix lineup. Endpoint’s previous lineup had lasted only four months before disbanding, however, they’ve brought back the teams in-game leader Robin “robiin” Sjögren as part of the new lineup. robiin joined up with the former Epsilon roster, however, only Kia “Surreal” Man and Joey “CRUC1AL” Steusel remain from that lineup as the team underwent several changes.The lineup managed to qualify for WESG 2019 World Finals by defeating the likes of Heretics and LDLC among others in the West Europe Closed Qualifier. They would also manage to earn a runner up finish at the GG.BET Winter Cup where they fell to Heroic in the grand...

byali & kamil join ex-Virtus.pro MDL roster


Paweł “byali” Bieliński and Kamil “kamil” Kamiński have joined up with the ex-Virtus.pro team as they make their way on to the squads MDL roster. The team was down to just three players after the departure of Michał “snatchie” Rudzki and Michał “MICHU” Müller. These moves came after the Polish lineup was replaced by the ex-AVANGAR lineup under the Virtus.pro banner. This will be byali’s reunion with Janusz “Snax” Pogorzelski as he returns for his third time to this roster, even though the players have changed over the years. In his time between he played for many mix teams, however, there wasn’t much success to write home about. Both snax and byali were once on the top of the world...

DreamHack Open Leipzig schedule & first round unveiled


The full schedule and opening matches for the upcoming DreamHack Open Leipzig event has been unveiled. The event is scheduled to begin on Friday, January 24, in Leipzig, Germany and run through the 26th at the Leipziger Messe. With $100,000 on the line, several teams are in the running to win the event with Cloud9, Virtus.pro, Heroic, BIG, and more in attendance. https://twitter.com/DreamHackCSGO/status/1217121697444376576 Full schedule and first-round matchups for DreamHack Open Leipzig: Friday, January 24 05:00  –  Virtus.pro vs.  BIG 06:30  –  North vs.  Sprout 08:00  –  Cloud9 vs.  Renegades 09:30  –  Heroic vs.  MAD Lions 11:00  – Group A winners’ 12:30  – Group B winners’ Saturday, January 25 05:00  – Group A elimination 08:00  – Group B elimination 11:00  – Group A decider 14:00  – Group B decider Sunday, January 26 05:00  – Semi-final #1 08:00  – Semi-final #2 12:00  – Grand final The...

OG have confirmed their attendance at the next Major qualifiers


While the qualifiers for the next Major are still about a month away, the two-time TI winners, OG, have confirmed that they will be participating – for the first time this Dota 2 Pro Circuit season. DreamLeague Season 13 is the next Major on our DPC calendars, beginning in just three days from now but following our trip to Leipzig, Germany, we will be heading across to North America – Los Angeles to be specific, with ESL ONE LA being the next Major stop off. The qualifiers for the third Major of the DPC season are set to take place from February 9th to 14th, while the actual event is slated to run from March 15th to 22nd 2020. While no teams have...

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