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League of Legends Excel Esports parts ways with Caedrel before LoL 2021 shuffle By William Davis League of Legends T1, Faker to appear on BTS’s new variety show Run BTS By William Davis News Overwatch isn’t dying yet, boasts 10 million monthly players By Olivia Richman

League of Legends

LPL coverage saw a big increase in the 2020 LPL Summer Split William Davis The best Chinese League of Legends league, the LPL, has grown a lot over the course of 2020 with many new international fans tuning in. Having a total of 16 teams in the LPL has made it the most competitive league in 2020. The Chinese teams have managed to pick up the Worlds trophy two years in a row but were recently stopped by Korea’s DAMWON Gaming in the 2020 …

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Is Aphelios good in the top lane? How to play Aphelios top William Davis Aphelios is starting to pop up in the top lane after being thrown out of the bottom lane meta a few patches ago.  Aphelios entered League of Legends in December 2019 and quickly took over in the bot lane as one of the strongest picks. Riot had trouble balancing the complex marksman and ultimately ended up gutting him this year after months of dominance in both solo queue and professional …

Counter-Strike

CSPPA announces player committee to work on world ranking rules M Alzamora The Counter-Strike Professional Players Association has announced a player committee dedicated to working on refining the rules that dictate its own world rankings. In a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive world where there exist several different sets of world rankings that claim to be definitive, the one organization that should be focusing on player health and well-being wants in on the ranking game too. A one-page press release distributed on November 2 …

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Did Effort just leak LS and Polt joining T1 as coaches? William Davis A big offseason leak might have happened recently live on T1 support Lee “Effort” Sang-ho’s stream.  T1 recently released coach Lim “Comet” Hye-sung as well as head of strategy and analytics Gary “Tolki” Mialaret, and will now be looking for new additions to the coaching staff for the upcoming season. Some of the new additions might already be leaked after Effort shared a private discord chat by accident on stream.  …

News DrLupo denies that his Twitch community is toxic and racist By Olivia Richman League of Legends These are the best builds for new LoL champion Seraphine By William Davis News Pokimane has limited donation amounts for her fans on Twitch By Olivia Richman

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Team Liquid and TF Blade split up for mysterious reasons William Davis Team Liquid has parted ways with streamer Ashkan “TF Blade” Homayouni, the organization announced on Twitter. TF Blade started as a streamer, but became a substitute player for Team Liquid Academy and the LCS main roster. The team supported his ambition to reach rank one in every server and helped him do so with various bootcamps. Today we are parting ways with @tfblade. Ashkan has been integral in the TL …

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Sneaky shows a lot in Halloween cosplay of Azur Lane Casablanca Olivia Richman “Happy Halloween!” So how does the League of Legends community celebrate this spooky holiday? With another cosplay from Zach “Sneaky” Scuderi, of course! The former League of Legends pro dropped an adorable game-related cosplay on Halloween for all of his fans.  Happy Halloween! Azur Lane Casablanca????: Lynn???? @squarenoodles pic.twitter.com/hkS02l3GAT — Zach Scuderi (@Sneaky) October 31, 2020 The cosplay was based on Casablanca from the Chinese mobile game Azur Lane. The …

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Riot Games reveals list of franchises for 2021 LCK season William Davis Riot Games has revealed the final list of franchises that will compete in the 2021 LCK season and beyond. After a long process, Riot Games has selected 10 organizations that will be part of the LCK next year. The selected teams are: DAMWON Gaming DRX Afreeca Freecs Gen.G T1 KT Rolster SANDBOX Gaming Team Dynamics Hanwha Life Esports hyFresh Blade Nine out of the 10 teams selected were part of …

Counter-Strike

Vitality’s Nivera substitution leads to BLAST Premier win M Alzamora Team Vitality won a close match against BIG with the most effective substitution fans have seen so far in pro Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Map substitutions are the newest addition to tournament level CSGO, with organizers starting to allow teams to substitute players in between maps for the first time in the game’s esports history. In Vitality’s close series against BIG at BLAST Premier, it seems to have made a huge …

The best champions to climb with before ranked season 10 ends William Davis League of Legends The ranked season is coming to an end, so it’s time to put in the last effort in solo queue to hopefully climb a few last ranks before the preseason kicks in. But what are the best champions to climb with in this final sprint? The current state of solo queue is pretty diverse and there are a lot of viable options for every role. The season 10 meta seems …

Team Liquid wins first event since 2018 at ESL One Germany Steven Rondina Dota 2 The current Team Liquid roster pulled off its greatest tournament victory ever. Liquid has won ESL One Germany, defeating Natus Vincere in 3-1 fashion. This is the biggest win for the tight-knit team and their biggest paycheck since forming in 2017. The series initially looked ready to close in potentially record-breaking fashion. Liquid secured dominant, 30-minute victories in the first two games of the finals. Both maps saw Liquid get …

Here’s how to make a new jump throw bind in CSGO M Alzamora Counter-Strike Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s best smokes are often the hardest ones to throw, but a jump throw bind makes them much easier. Jumpthrow binds are probably the most complicated bind to make in CSGO, but a few additions to a player’s autoexec.cfg file make them that much easier. The problem is that jumpthrows aren’t just one command. They use several commands grouped together under what CSGO’s engine calls an alias. Unfortunately, …

Worlds 2020 Finals had 2nd-highest viewership in esports history William Davis League of Legends The 2020 League of Legends World Championship ended with a bang in the final between DAMWON Gaming and Suning. Millions of viewers tuned in to watch DAMWON win the Summoner’s Cup, the first time for a Korean team since 2017. The final was decided in four games, with the series hitting a peak viewership of 3.88 million viewers, excluding Chinese platforms per Esports Charts. 3.88M Peak Viewers on #Worlds2020 Grand …

Only 8 Worlds 2020 Pick’em players had perfect scores Olivia Richman League of Legends Part of the fun of the League of Legends World Championship is predicting the matches.  After DAMWON defeated Suning in the finals to become the champions, eight Pick’em participants had perfect scores at the end of thee event. That means all eight of those viewers predicted the end result of all four main event groups and notched perfect brackets during the knockout stage.  Those eight viewers will receive an Alienware …

New MIBR roster debuts against Astralis at BLAST Premier M Alzamora Counter-Strike MIBR’s revamped roster will face Astralis in their first match ever, and it will be a tough one. Formerly Brazil’s best team, MIBR has undergone some serious roster changes in the past month, and their first test definitely isn’t going to gently ease them into this new era. After the organization benched longtime stars Epitácio “TACO” de Melo and Fernando “fer” Alvarenga, in-game leader Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo decided to remove …

LoL fans livid over Worlds 2020 finals crowd dissing DAMWON Olivia Richman League of Legends League of Legends viewers were excited to finally have hype around the Worlds 2020 finals, delivered by a live audience of over 6,000 fans. But it didn’t go as expected, at least not for eventual champions DAMWON Gaming.  When DAMWON was introduced on stage for the finals, the audience was deafeningly silent. Some clapping could be heard here and there, but the Chinese audience was largely unenthusiastic as DAMWON’s roster …

Omen and Sova see the highest pick rate in Valorant First Strike NA Qualifier Fariha Bhatti News Valorant first strike NA qualifiers revealed Omen, Sova, and Jett as the most played agents by the professional players. Among the three agents, Valorant’s shadow hunter dominated the top spot on the majority of the maps with a pick rate of 98%.  Riot’s tactical shooter Valorant largely relies on aim. It’sone of the reasons why Counter-Strike: Global Offensive professionals are finding easy wins in Valorant. However, agent abilities can make …

DAMWON’s Canyon is awarded with the Worlds 2020 finals MVP award William Davis League of Legends It has been the perfect World Championship for DAMWON Gaming jungler Kim “Canyon” Geon-bu. After an intense final at the 2020 League of Legends World Championship, DAMWON Gaming could lift the Summoner’s Cup as the first Korean team since 2017 after beating Suning. The best-of-five series went in favor of DAMWON 3-1 and the biggest reason for that was Canyon.  The @oppo MVP of the #Worlds2020 Final: Canyon! pic.twitter.com/qxQeq6Dz3P — …

DAMWON Gaming is the 2020 World Champions after beating Suning William Davis League of Legends After weeks of high-quality games at the 2020 League of Legends World Championship, the 10th winner of the Summoner’s Cup has been crowned. DAMWON Gaming won the trophy after the most intense Worlds final in years. Both teams were neck-to-neck for the most part, but the Korean overlords were too strong in a hard-fought series.  DAMWON GAMING ARE THE 2020 WORLD CHAMPIONS! ???? #Worlds2020 pic.twitter.com/5ugqBGJ0cs — LoL Esports (@lolesports) October …

Riot Forge reveals first look of Ruined King: A League of Legends story William Davis League of Legends Riot Games just released the trailer for its new game, Ruined King: A League of Legends Story. League of Legends fans have a new title to look forward to in early 2021. Ruined King is a single-player story-driven turn-based RPG game developed by Airship Syndicate. Ruined King is the first game developed under Riot Forged, a partnership between Riot Games and independent studios. Riot first announced Ruined King in 2019 …

s1mple banned from Twitch again, says it’s for homophobic slurs Steven Rondina Counter-Strike Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev is in trouble with Twitch moderators. Again. The Natus Vincere star has been banned from the streaming platform. Again. This is his fourth time being banned from Twitch. Twitch hasn’t issued a statement on the matter, but s1mple suggested that the ban came from his using homophobic language. Again. He touched on the matter on Twitter shortly after it was announced: It’s funny that I get banned …

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