Cone needs only to recall 2006 loss to Purefoods to prove 3-1 lead not safe


BARANGAY Ginebra coach Tim Cone knows full well that now is not the time to celebrate, even though the Kings hold a commanding 3-1 lead over Meralco in the PBA Governors’ Cup Finals. While Cone has won more championships than any other coach in league history, he also had major setbacks, including blowing a 3-1 lead in the semifinals. Cone recalled the time he lost a 3-1 lead when the Alaska Aces were stunned by Purefoods Chunkee Giants in the semifinals of the 2006 Philippine Cup, the final two games of which were decided by an average of just two points. The Chunkee Giants eventually won the championship in six games in the finals against Red Bull Barako with Marc...

XIZT LEAVES FNATIC


fnatic have announced that they have bid farewell to Richard "Xizt" Landström with immediate effect. The Swedish tactician leaves fnatic after spending the last four months on the bench, with a recent report linking him with a move to Dignitas to reunite with three of his former NiP teammates. Xizt returned to fnatic in May 2018 following a first stint with the organization between 2010 and 2012. He led the team to victory at PLG Grand Slam and to runner-up finishes at StarSeries i-League Season 7 and IEM Sydney 2019 before stepping down from the active lineup in August together with Simon "twist" Eliasson after run of poor form that culminated with a failed qualification campaign for the StarLadder Major. Xizt parts ways with fnatic. fnatic ended the year on a high note with Maikil "Golden" Selim and Robin "flusha" Rönnquist back on the...

WePlay!’s next event will feature Team Secret among seven other teams


WePlay! Dota 2 Tug of War: Mad Moon is set to take place in little over a month and the first of four teams to receive a direct invite to the event has now been confirmed as Team Secret. After the amazing success of the recent WePlay! Bukovel Minor, which became the most watched Minor in Dota 2 Pro Circuit history, the organisation will return next month with their next event. The WePlay! Dota 2 Tug of War: Mad Moon event will take place from 19th to 23rd of February and will feature eight of the best teams from around the world fighting for a prize pool of $300,000. Four of the teams are winners of previous Tug of War events; Radiant,...

ESL, DREAMHACK SIGN FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT WITH CSPPA FOR ESL PRO TOUR


ESL, DreamHack and the Counter-Strike Professional Players' Association (CSPPA) have reached an agreement for the participation framework for players competing in the ESL Pro Tour. The agreement, described by all parties involved as the first of its kind in esports, is modeled after similar deals in traditional sports and represents "a group effort to ensure continued growth and professionalization for competitive CS:GO in a way that accounts for the needs of players as well as tournament organizers." The partnership between CSPPA and the two MTG-owned tournament organizers is effective immediately and will cover all competitions in the ESL Pro Tour, a new global circuit that will be launched by ESL and DreamHack later this month and will combine over 20...

Na’Vi considering benching GuardiaN


The 28-year-old has been a target of criticism since leaving FaZe to rejoin the Ukraine-based organization in September, with poor displays at StarSeries i-League Season 8 and EPICENTER 2019 seeing his average rating drop to 0.95 over the four-month period. After the Berlin Major, Natus Vincere had decided to part ways with his historic leader of the team, Danylo "Zeus" Teslenko. Teslenko was retiring after about ten years with Na'Vi, with the exception of a spell with Gambit. It was Kirill "Boombl4" Mikhailov who took over the lead under the tutelage of Andrey "B1ad3" Gorodenskiy as coach. To replace him, the Ukrainian organization brought in Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovács, a former member of the organization who had just been dropped by FaZe Clan....

RENEGADES CLINCH FINAL IEM KATOWICE BERTH


Renegades conquered the IEM Katowice 2020 Oceania Closed Qualifier going through the upper bracket and winning the final against ex-Genuine to secure a spot at the $500,000 event in Poland. Renegades made their first online qualifier count after bringing on Jordan "Hatz" Bajic, the former ORDER player who has taken over Ollie "DickStacy" Tierney’s spot on the roster. They did so by beating Airborne, Paradox and the aforementioned ORDER in the upper bracket on their way to the grand final. ex-Genuine on the other hand lost their first upper bracket match to ORDER and had to claw their way back through the lower bracket, taking revenge on Ricardo "Rickeh" Mulholland, Karlo "USTILO" Pivac and company in the lower bracket final to face Renegades in the qualifier's final match. The grand final kicked off on ex-Genuine’s map pick, Train. The underdogs, who started a map down due to coming from the...

DOTA 2: FIVE HEROES THAT STOOD OUT IN THE BUKOVEL MINOR


After a couple of very interesting days for every Dota 2 fan, the Bukovel Minor came to an end. This was WePlay!’s first attempt to host a DPC tournament and it was an amazing success. According to sources, this was the most viewed Minor in Dota 2’s history so far, which is just mind-blowing. Apart from the amazing production, this Minor was also very interesting due to the meta. Even though the Outlanders Update has been out for some time now, it still has many surprises. With that said, let’s take a look at five of the top heroes at this incredible Minor.  Phantom Lancer Slowly but steadily, PL is reclaiming his throne as one of the best carries in Dota 2....

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Patch Notes | January 13 2020


he team at Valve has revealed the latest CS:GO patch notes for January 13, 2020. The newest changes landing in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive are mainly centered around Studio, one of the more recent maps added to the game. The latest patch also addresses a few smaller issues, including a problem with the Operation Shattered Web UI element, and also throws in an all-new search bar. CS:GO Patch Notes | January 13, 2020 Update The bulk of the changes mentioned in the latest Counter-Strike: Global Offensive patch notes are focused on new map Studio. Users who like to play the map in casual will note a number of different changes, while Workshop-focused users will instead see the latest version appear in general matchmaking. These changes include an overhaul for...

Nordavind completes its CS:GO roster with NaToSaphiX and HS


Norwegian organization Nordavind officially signed Niels-Christian “NaToSaphiX” Sillassen and Kevin “HS” Tarn to its main CS:GO team today. Nordavind was down to only three players after Haris “H4RR3” Hadzic’s release and Håkon “hallzerk” Fjærli’s departure at the end of 2019, who will reportedly join Christopher “GeT_RighT” Alesund, Patrik “f0rest” Lindberg, and three former Ninjas in Pyjamas’ players on Dignitas. NaToSaphiX has been a free agent since he was released from Heroic in August 2019. He helped the Danish team rise through the world rankings and most recently won cs_summit five in December with mousesports when he temporarily replaced Özgur “woxic” Eker on the lineup. HS, on the other hand, has been mostly competing in tier-two tournaments. He played on GamerLegion for six months in 2019 but...

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...

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