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Fortnite Dr Lupo, timthetatman, LIRIK to announce new deals with Twitch By Olivia Richman News Overwatch Winter Wonderland brings legendary skins, winter game mode By Olivia Richman Counter-Strike woxic out for CS Summit, NaToSaphiX to stand in for mousesports By M Alzamora

League of Legends

Louis Vuitton launches League of Legends collection, sells out Syed Mujtaba Naqvi 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 …

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Some call for Twitch to ban Sweet Anita for Tourette’s syndrom tics Olivia Richman 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 …

Dota 2

Latest Dota 2 update changes bounty runes and guides Steven Rondina 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 …

Counter-Strike

Virtus.pro to acquire AVANGAR CSGO roster, reports indicate M Alzamora Reports point towards legendary Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team Virtus.pro purchasing AVANGAR’s roster in its entirety. Virtus.pro is in the latter stages of purchasing AVANGAR’s CSGO roster wholesale, according to a report from DBLTP’s Jarek “Dekay” Lewis. The AVANGAR organization currently fields an international team of players which includes a CSGO Major winner in Dauren “AdreN” Kystaubayev and the aggressive AWPer Dzhami “Jame” Ali. AVANGAR has existed since 2017, but burst onto the international CSGO …

Counter-Strike s0m leaves Envy for Gen.G, sicK stands in for IEM Katowice qualifiers By M Alzamora Dota 2 LGD Gaming gets put on blast by fans for strange new logo By Steven Rondina League of Legends League of Legends All-Star 2019 sees viewership drop By Syed Mujtaba Naqvi

League of Legends

Bwipo defeats Uzi for the All-Star 2019 1v1 championship title Syed Mujtaba Naqvi Fnatic’s top laner Gabriël “Bwipo” Rau won the League of Legends All-Star 2019 one-on-one tournament after defeating Jian “Uzi” Zi-Hao in the finals. All-Stars is an event full of entertainment and friendly competitions. Its one-on-one tournament is one of the most amusing All-Star competitions for League fans, as their favorite players get put to a different sort of test. While some pro players shine with teamwork and synergy, this tournament …

Counter-Strike

Mousesports win ESL Pro League Season 10 with sweep of Fnatic M Alzamora The ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals wrapped up with a showdown between Fnatic and mousesports. The grand finals matchup that few were expecting took a surprising turn of its own, as mousesports scored a quick, clean, 3-0 victory to take home the top prize. The match could’ve gone either way in theory, but Fnatic started slowly and never really hit a higher gear. Mousesports was composed both emotionally and strategically, and …

Fortnite

FaZe Banks opens up about Jarvis’ future with FaZe Clan Olivia Richman Ever since Frazier “FaZe Jarvis” Kaye was permanently banned from Fortnite for using an aimbot hack, FaZe Clan owner Ricky Banks has been quite vocal about Epic’s decision.  Now, Banks is opening up about Jarvis’ future with the organization and within the battle royale game he was forced to leave. Speaking to TMZ, Banks stated that the chances of Jarvis playing Fortnite is “zero.” Still, there’s “potential” in Jarvis creating …

Counter-Strike

shroud down to one third of his viewers since moving to Mixer Olivia Richman Stream Metrics has just revealed that popular streamer Michael “shroud” Grzesiek has seen a drastic decline in viewership since he moved to Mixer at the end of October.  The tweet declared that their own data shows shroud’s livestream audience in November was one third the size of his Twitch reach in October when it came to US viewership. In fact, shroud’s viewership on Twitch before moving platforms was 1.62 times larger …

League of Legends servers face issues in some regions for Clash Olivia Richman League of Legends The much anticipated return of Clash was met with a few major bugs.  Clash was relaunched as an open beta in all regions, allowing players to compete in the tournament mode once again. But glaring issues seem to be plauging Clash just like the mode’s previous launches.  One Reddit user said that Clash in the Oceania server, located in Australia, was loading on the old map, which doesn’t have alcoves …

Fortnite streamer Daequan reveals 2020 plans, opens up on hardship Olivia Richman Fortnite For a while, it was starting to look like Fortnite pro Daequan “Daequan” Loco was leaving the streaming scene. His once daily YouTube uploads had ceased and it was hard to catch one of his sporatic live streams.  This weekend, Daequan revealed that he’d be coming back with more content in 2020.  “I’m slowly getting back into the swing of things as 2019 winds down. I will be in 100% …

Masayoshi manages to win CSGO and LoL games at the same time Jared Wynne News For most players, it takes all their effort to focus on the game. But one Twitch streamer has proven that it’s possible to multitask while gaming at the highest levels and still be successful. “Masayoshi” may be best known for his Twitch streams featuring League of Legends, but on December 2 he took his gameplay to a whole new level by playing two different games simultaneously and still coming out …

Apex Legends and other esports take over The Game Awards Olivia Richman Apex Legends The Game Awards are coming on December 12 and nobody is more excited than Respawn Entertainment. Except perhaps for Mirage.  The Apex Legends prankster recently made waves on Reddit when he appeared on a funny tweet where he can be seen taking credit for Apex Legends’ many nominations in the upcoming rewards show.  “Can you believe it? (Obviously, yes), your boy Mirage is nominated for ‘Best Competitor in a Battle …

Fnatic, mousesports face off for ESL Pro League Season 10 championship M Alzamora Counter-Strike After a wild week of action, the ESL Pro League’s Season 10 grand final is less than a day away. Surprisingly, the final showdown won’t feature top teams Team Liquid or Astralis. Instead, Fnatic and mousesports will face off in a best-of-five where brains will meet brawn for the lion’s share of a $600,000 prize pool. Fnatic and mousesports had oddly similar runs in the event. In an odd coincidence, both teams struggled …

KT Rolster reunites Kuro, TusiN, and Aiming, completes 2020 LCK roster William Davis League of Legends KT Rolster has reinvented itself, completing its new roster for the LCK 2020 season. The massive shakeup comes after the organization narrowly avoided relegation after both splits in 2019. KT is taking a new approach in 2020, running a seven-men roster in the upcoming season. Jeon “Ray” Ji-won and Kim “SoHwan” Jun-yeong are the top laners for KT in 2020. Ray is playing in the LCK for the first time …

Map drawing returns to CSGO in 2019 after being gone for a year M Alzamora Counter-Strike After almost more than a year, Counter-Strike: Globel Offensive developers have again enabled the ability to draw on the in-game map for players. Players are understandably happy after CSGO developers reactivated a long-time feature of the game. The ability to draw on the map was removed with the introduction of the Panorama user interface update in June of 2018. While technically a beta, fans flocked to the update to check …

Griffin adds Untara and Naehyun, rest of roster uncertain William Davis League of Legends After months of controversy and internal struggles, Griffin announced its first round of signings ahead of the 2020 LCK Spring Split. Griffin is making good on its promise to rebuild, announcing two new players for its starting roster. Those players are former T1 top laner Park “Untara” Ui-jin and former DragonX mid laner Yoo “Naehyun” Nae-hyun. Untara joins the team after one split in Turkey playing with 1907 Fenerbahçe Esports. The …

Dota 2 caster Sheever is winning her battle against breast cancer Syed Mujtaba Naqvi Dota 2 Prolific Dota 2 caster Jorien “Sheever” van der Heijden gave fans a short update on her battle with breast cancer on Twitter. “Recent MRI check: all clear”, Sheever tweeted. “Will receive checks once a year for a while.” Naturally, the news was very well-received by the entire Dota 2 scene. A slew of pro players, organizations, and casters including Paul “Redeye” Chaloner, Theeban “1437” Siva, and Team Secret responded to the tweet …

LEC and LCK win All-Star 2019 regional rivalry showmatches Syed Mujtaba Naqvi League of Legends The first two days of League of Legends’ All-Star Las Vegas 2019 event have finished. The three-day event features a number of festivities including a one-on-one tournament, a Teamfight Tactics charity event, and several other showcases.  The highlight to this point has been a pair of regional rivalry showmatches. Fans had a chance to enjoy two proper five-on-five games that pitted the LCS against the LEC, and the LCK against the LPL. …

Evil Geniuses discuss roster, NA competition, roasts LCS teams William Davis News Evil Geniuses answered all of the burning questions from fans in a Reddit AMA. The team talked about the decision making behind the roster, its goals for 2020, and offered some insight into the business side of esports. CEO Nicole LaPointe Jameson, CGO Phil Aram, LCS director Greg Kim, general manager Andy Barton, and team operations Sabrina Wong took part in it. The first step on Evil Geniuses’ plan was …

Autimatic, daps, koosta leave Cloud9 for new Gen.G CSGO team Steven Rondina News Gen.G Esports has officially entered the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene. The organization confirmed the addition of former members of the Cloud9 roster in Timothy “autimatic” Ta, Damian “daps” Steele, and Kenneth “koosta” Suen. The team also added Cloud9 assistant coach Chris “Elmapuddy” Tebbit, who will seemingly take on head coaching duties. “We are honored to join the CSGO community and welcome three veteran players as the core of our CS …

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