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Counter-Strike CLG’s missharvey talks women in esports and sexism in CSGO By Olivia Richman League of Legends Cowsep discusses move to Facebook Gaming, mental health struggle By Olivia Richman League of Legends Riot Forge teases new games with four pieces of preview art By William Davis

Counter-Strike

Quick tips and guides for Shattered Web Week 4 missions M Alzamora Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s week four Shattered Web missions are a sniper’s paradise, but we’ve still got some quick tips that will help the stars roll in. Shattered Web’s week four operation missions are all focused around the SSG 08 Scout and the AWP. While there’s a MAG-7 thrown in the mix for this week’s Guardian mission, snipers are king. This week will be fairly simple for players familiar with the …

League of Legends

LoL fans want to remove TFT from future All-Star events William Davis Teamfight Tactics was the least popular part of the All-Star Event and fans are asking Riot Games to avoid including this game mode in future events. The All-Star Event took place from December 5 to December 7. Through three days, professional players, online personalities, and content creators gathered at the Esports Arena Las Vegas to compete in a series of events. Teamfight Tactics, the newest game mode in League of …

Counter-Strike

MiBR drops LUCAS1, adds meyern ahead of CS Summit 5 M Alzamora MiBR announced the signing of Sharks Esports player Ignacio “meyern” Meyer in a video on the organization’s official Twitter account. The signing comes a week after rumors surfaced that the Brazillian team was scouting him as a replacement for Lucas “LUCAS1” Teles. According to another tweet from MiBR, LUCAS1 is no longer on the roster. It is not clear whether he is a free agent or has been benched from the team. …

League of Legends

Soulbound class comes to Teamfight Tactics with patch 9.24 Syed Mujtaba Naqvi Teamfight Tactics has been updated with patch 9.24, the final patch of the year. The patch added a new Soulbound class together with Senna, Lucian, and Amumu. Improvements to the interface and some balance changes were implemented as well. Riot Games announced that the new class featuring Senna and Lucian will be joining the second TFT set a few weeks ago. The two new units, alongside Amumu, are now available …

Counter-Strike Cloud9 is interested in ATK CSGO roster, according to reports By M Alzamora Counter-Strike ESL One Rio will be the first CSGO Major in Brazil and of 2020 By M Alzamora Counter-Strike Furia Esports’ HEN1 out of CS Summit 5 due to visa, guerri in By Steven Rondina

Counter-Strike

summit1g apologizes to Sweet Anita for his girlfriend’s comments Olivia Richman Twitch personality Sweet Anita was in the spotlight earlier this week after she was called out by another streamer for yelling racial slurs and anti-semetic statements. Some agreed with the streamer, wondering why Sweet Anita was yet to be suspended from the platform for using racial epithets when other streamers saw harsh punishments for the same explitives.  The difference? Sweet Anita has Tourettes syndrome, which causes her to have uncontrollable tics. …

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Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai invests $10 million in G2 Esports Olivia Richman Brooklyn Nets owner and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder Joe Tsai has just invested in G2 Esports.  Tsai invested $10 million into the esports franchise, valuing G2 at $100 million. The organization is hoping to expand its presence in Asia thanks to this investment. According to the South China Morning Post, there are more gamers in China than there are people in the United States, making it a lucrative market …

League of Legends

Schalke 04 completes 2020 LEC roster with Gilius signing Nina Forneloza Schalke 04 has finally completed its roster going into League of Legends’ 2020 LEC season by signing Erberk “Gilius” Demir for the team’s jungler position.  Fans will not have seen Gilius since the 2018 Spring Split, where he competed on the starting roster for Team Vitality. Vitality ended that season in fourth place and Gilius was replaced by Mateusz “Kikis” Szkudlarek. He has also represented G2, Giants, and Unicorns of …

League of Legends

Patch 9.24 live in League of Legends with Braum, Diana changes Syed Mujtaba Naqvi League of Legends is ready for patch 9.24, the final update of the year. The patch will implement a number of champion balance changes, updates to runes, visual updates, and more. Riot has taken time since the start of preseason to collect player feedback and identify features that felt out of place. Patch 9.24 is bringing new Dawnbringer, Nightbringer and Sugar Rush skins, the Legend of the Poro King game …

Christmas comes early for CSGO snipers in Shattered Web week 4 Steven Rondina Counter-Strike Operation Shattered Web continues on with the start of week four and it’s going to delight any snipers out there. The latest roundup of missions revolves around the AWP and the SSG 08 rifles. The two weapons are used in each of the missions, which allow players to earn up to six total stars. The stars earn credit towards the higher value rewards from Shattered Web, most notably the agent …

Astralis’ Xyp9x, k0nfig talk ghosting and crowd impact on events M Alzamora Counter-Strike Counter-Strike features a long history of excited fans cheering on players live. Several incidents with these excitable crowds over the years have brought one issue to the forefront of the CSGO community time and time again. The problem is that fans like to see their team win. It’s an understandable feeling, one that every sports fan can identify with. Unlike in most traditional sports, however, fan support in CSGO can …

Winter Wonderland 2019 brings new game mode, shelves Skirmish William Davis News The holiday season has arrived once again and Overwatch is bringing the festivities with the biggest installment of the Winter Wonderland event yet. Winter Wonderland 2019 features three unique game modes, seven new winter-themed skins, and an all new intermediary mode that will be sticking around after the holidays come to a close. Mei’s Snowball Offensive and Yeti Hunter are making a return during this limited event. A brand new …

Jake, Pine retire from Overwatch League competition gabhernandez News Two Overwatch League veterans are saying goodbye to the professional scene. Kim “Pine” Do-hyeon and Jake “Jake” Lyon have announced their retirements from the OWL. Pine was a formidable DPS player for the New York Excelsior, best known for his clutch Widowmaker plays. He was a fan favorite during the inaugural OWL season and was considered the best DPS player in the league by fans. He was constantly making seemingly …

Guides & builds for new Dota 2 hero Void Spirit mid & offlane Steven Rondina Dota 2 Void Spirit is one of Dota 2’s most enigmatic heroes. Two of his abilities suggest that he is a roaming support that sets up kills. The others suggest he is a pursuit-focused carry built around his basic attack. In reality, the hero is something else entirely. Early signs indicate that Void Spirit’s greatest strength lies in his AOE magic damage potential. Top players have been looking to amplify his abilities …

2020 Service Medal revealed as winter patch comes to CSGO M Alzamora Counter-Strike When Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players are throwing snowballs more than they’re throwing smoke grenades, it’s officially December in CSGO. Valve released the annual holiday patch on December 9, and it’s filled with everything that a Counter-Strike holiday update is usually filled with a few small exceptions. The map’s chickens have their Christmas sweaters on once again, it’s snowing in the main menu, and there are piles of snowballs stacked around …

Dr Lupo, timthetatman, LIRIK to announce new deals with Twitch Olivia Richman Fortnite At a time when many big name streamers are leaving Twitch for competing broadcast platforms, one leak has come as a surprise to the gaming community.  According to esports journalist Rod “Slasher” Breslau, popular streamers Dr Lupo, timethetatman, and LIRIK will be announcing later today that they are signing multi-year Twitch deals today. Slasher followed up the tweet by claiming the deals are for “millions of dollars per year,” according …

Overwatch Winter Wonderland brings legendary skins, winter game mode Olivia Richman News After a brief delay, Overwatch’s Winter Wonderland update should be arriving tonight.  For a while, fans wondered if there would even be a Winter Wonderland update anymore, but Blizzard vice president Jeff Kaplan dispelled those rumors on the game’s forum.  “We’ve been seeing quite a bit of misinformation being spread about our December patch. The patch is scheduled to go live next week. Short of some unforeseen circumstance causing a …

woxic out for CS Summit, NaToSaphiX to stand in for mousesports M Alzamora Counter-Strike Mousesports revealed this morning that their star AWPer, Özgür “woxic” Eker, will not attend the upcoming CS Summit 5 tournament in Los Angeles, California due to visa issues in an official tweet. The team also revealed that Niels Christian “NaToSaphiX” Sillassen will stand in for woxic this weekend during CS Summit 5. This is an unlucky turn of events for mousesports, especially after woxic’s stellar performance during the December 8 grand final of ESL Pro League Season …

Louis Vuitton launches League of Legends collection, sells out Syed Mujtaba Naqvi League of Legends World famous fashion brand Louis Vuitton launched a clothing collection in collaboration with League of Legends. The merchandise sold out in Europe within an hour after its launch. The collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Riot Games isn’t anything new. The new collection is rather another product of the partnership. The two organizations started working together for the 2019 World Championship, where Louis Vuitton designed a case for the Summoner’s Cup …

Some call for Twitch to ban Sweet Anita for Tourette’s syndrom tics Olivia Richman News Sweet Anita has gotten big on Twitch for embracing her Tourette’s syndrome tics. Her 300,000 YouTube subscribers and 500,000 Twitch followers are constantly entertained by her dirty outbursts, as well as her general streaming. But recently, some of Sweet Anita’s uncontrollable tics have rubbed some viewers the wrong way. On December 9, Sweet Anita was live streaming when she abruptly said “kill the Jews” while discussing her tics, which she …

Latest Dota 2 update changes bounty runes and guides Steven Rondina Dota 2 A tweak has been administered to Dota 2 version 7.23c, bringing some UX updates as well as a change to bounty runes. The Outlanders Update brought a slew of changes to Dota 2 including Neutral Items, a heavily changed map, and outposts. Though Valve undoubtedly invested a great deal of time and effort into making the update a reality, not all features in the game were updated to reflect these …

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