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World Esports Championship 8th edition at Jakarta, Indonesia

Arpita Tewari
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World Esports Championship 8th edition at Jakarta, Indonesia

International e-Sports Federation (IeSF) hereby announces that IeSF has selected the primary official games to be
played in the 8th IeSF World Championship 2016 to  be held in Jakarta, Indonesia.

The official games are League of Legends (LoL), Counter-Strike Global Offensive (CS:GO), and Hearthstone. IeSF has finalized negotiations with the game developers which are Riot Games, Valve Corporation and Blizzard Entertainment. IeSF has decided to open the participation of all titles to all people regardless of gender, age or disabilities.

World Esports championship Jakarta

This is the first time that ‘CS:GO’ has been selected as an official title for IeSF’s e-Sports World Championships. CS:GO is one of the most popular games in Indonesia, the host country of the 8th IeSF World Championship.

League of Legends was previously the official title for the 7th e-Sports World Championship – Seoul 2015. IeSF and Riot Games agreed to limit participating players to amateur players, who have not participated in LCS or LOL Semi Pro events in 2016 in order to expand LOL amateur base world-wide.

Hearthstone has again been selected as an official title for the third consecutive year from the 6th e-Sports World Championship, Baku (2014) until the 8th e-Sports World Championship, Jakarta (2016). In the 7th e-Sports World Championship, Milos Perovic, Hearthstone player from Serbia, led his country to become the overall champion by winning 1st place in Hearthstone.

IeSF World Championship is the only international e-Sports competition based on nationality. The 7th World Championship held in Seoul, Korea boasted 180 participants from 33 countries, and the overall champion was Serbia. Indonesia participated in the host city bidding process of the 8th IeSF World Championship and IeSF Board Members reviewed all the host city candidates for 8th e-Sports World Championship. After reviewing all of the candidates, IeSF Board selected Jakarta, Indonesia as the host city for 8th e-Sports World Championship. Member nations of IeSF which participate IeSF World Championship will hold National Qualifiers to qualify players who represent their countries.

The total prize pool is 54,000 USD, which is broken down to 20,000 USD for each team title, 4,000 USD for the individual title, and 10,000 USD for overall champion nation. According to the performance of each National Federation and quality of national qualifying rounds, IeSF will be supporting 200,000 USD for athlete travel.

8th e-Sports World Championships 2016 will be held from 6th to 9th of October, 2016 in Ancol Beach Auditorium, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Brutality wins over Scorchers 2-0 in the first ever NVIDIA India FPS Battle series

Deepak Ojha
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Brutality wins over Scorchers 2-0 in the first ever NVIDIA India FPS Battle series

NVIDIA India kicked off with a latest series, FPS Battles which featured two top Indian teams battling it out for the pride where Team Brutality beat Team Scorchers with a 2-0 (16-2 in de_overpass and 16-10 on de_mirage) strong board in a best-of-three match-up.

We witnessed an amazing series of maps between India’s top two CS:GO teams with outcome of Team Brutality coming out on top of the best-of-three arrangement. Significantly, this was one of the unique battles which was supported and organized by NVIDIA India with SoStronk servers adding up the cheese. The match was casted by the CS:GO community veteran Bleh, joined in by casual streamer Captain Arya.

Team Brutality was playing with, V3nom, RiX, Ad1, fox and Excali as a stand-in. And on the other side, Scorchers had their full lineup after they recently got a new player, the lineup, Ace, Manan, MithilF, PokerF and Ribbiz.

Overpass statistics. © SoStronk.
Overpass statistics. © SoStronk.

The first map, de_overpass was started well off with Brutals taking the pistol and the following rounds with ease having no players dead on anti ecos and were comfortably able to grab another couple of rounds, the scorelines headed towards 4-0. Shockingly though, PokerF pulled of a massive play with a P250 taking down three Brutal riflers back-to-back which helped Scorchers gain their first round on the board. They couldn’t follow it up and Brutality were able to eventually come back stronger in the sixth round. MithilF’s strong presence on B site charmed some stars but only to make it look darker when V3nom replied back with two quick kills taking the round back under control before stronking a 6-1 comfortable lead. With a followup beautiful 1v2 clutch by Excali which even steered the scoreboard 7-1.

Ace however, after lots of hard-work and made convincing attempts to carry his team, was unfortunate to do so even with him going massive on certain rounds. The score on the first half ended up with Scorchers winning only two rounds which were the only rounds they won in the whole map and Brutality clinched the victory comfortably with a 16-2 scoreline led by the stand-in Excali who showed us some quality CS:GO shots!

Mirage statistics. ©SoStronk.
Mirage statistics. ©SoStronk.

The second map started with a different tone with Scorchers getting off the mark very first round with additional followups but only later denied by Excali once again who took a massive triple kill in an eco rounds, the first round for Brutality. They won the second and the following round which destroyed Scorchers economy, forcing them to eco on the fifth round with scores tied 2-2. There was no looking back for Brutals henceforth a 7-2 strong lead before the first phase. The first half concluded on a regular 9 round lead for the counter terrorists, with Scorchers hoping to win the pistol to bring it back from 6-9 in their favor. The second half of the game was even more reluctant on Scorchers part as they were being completely denied by Brutals, V3nom took the charge for the map only to rip off the opponents in a fashionable way, leading duals, clutches triples and quad kills, V3nom made his presence felt in the second map, steered his team to success on the second map with 16-10 and in a much stronger way. 

Overall, Nvidia India FPS Battles did turn out to be successful with 200+ concurrent viewers on the stream and over thousands of impressions and interactions. Scorchers had all the support from the CSGO fans in India, unfortunately they couldn’t please the base. It seemed quiet a few times that they had communication problems, however their individual performances did impress the audiences as they had an exciting Friday evening experience from the likes of Ace and PokerF, and were done for today. Brutality all-together came-up as a team even though with 2 stand-ins to win the first ever Nvidia India FPS Battle series comfortably with 2-0 figures, declining the need of a third map whatsoever. And Bleh, who deploys eargasm to the viewers!

We thank Nvidia India for hosting the party and SoStronk which served meals, without their awesome tech the fest wouldn’t have been possible.

When was the first ever eSports event? – Esports timeline

Deepak Ojha
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When was the first ever eSports event? – Esports timeline

 

With a future that seems to promise Olympic recognition and tens of billions in annual revenues, eSports is in the rudest possible health. Countless competitors, epic audiences, a massive betting market – eSports is but further proof that the geek shall inherit the earth.

This Infographic by RightCasino beautifully explains the historical emerge Esports industry has been onto.

Esports timeline

 

Thermaltake India Beats the Heat with Cool Innovations

Raja Pratap Singh
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Thermaltake India Beats the Heat with Cool Innovations

Thermaltake, the leading global PC component brand and their gaming gear brand Tt eSPORTS, showcased their innovative range of gaming PC cabinets, power supplies, cooling products as well as accessories at an event held in Mumbai.

The event was graced by Thermaltake India distributor for the West and North Region, Savera Digital India Pvt. Ltd. and their partners. Gamers, modders and enthusiasts also attended the event.

Disty & HQ team

Mr. Jerry Lee, Director, Integrated Sales and Marketing-Thermaltake expressed his appreciation towards the Indian gaming and modding community. He said, “The PC Market in India is currently in a very interesting space, our direction is to become the no. 1 PC Brand in India. We also wish to communicate to our partners, that we have not just high end, but also a wide range of entry level products available in our portfolio.”

Mr. Nil Bhowmik, Country Business Head (India)-Thermaltake, spoke about the potential of the PC Gaming industry in India highlighting the competitive advantage of Thermaltake products. Mr. Kenneth Chang, Thermaltake’s India Account Manager of Integrated Sales and Marketing, spoke about the importance of providing a platform for modders which is a growing community in India. He also spoke about proprietary initiatives like the Smart Power Management (SPM) service platform (dps.thermaltake.com) which allows users to control and monitor their PSUs remotely and also understand their PC power consumption behavior.

Thermaltake Core P5 Casemod

With the PC gaming and modding community growing in India, the demand for high end PCs has seen an upward trend in the recent times. Thermaltake has captured the imagination of gamers by showcasing its most popular products like the Core P5 ATX Wall-Mount Chassis including a casemod by Indian modder Pramod Hambir, the Core V51 Riing Edition Window Green Mid-Tower Chassis, the Smart DPS G Gold (650/750W) smart power supply, Versa Chassis Series, and AIO Liquid Cooling Systems.

Featured Tt eSPORTS gaming gear include the POSEIDON Z RGB Gaming Keyboard, the VENTUS Z Gaming Mouse, the CRONOS GO Gaming Headset, and many more. Most of these products are already available in India. The brand also plans to add more and more new products in its portfolio in the months ahead.
Leading brands like Nvidia, ADATA and Viewsonic were also present as technology partners at the event.

Customers and partners can connect at [email protected] or visit www.thermaltake.com for any product information.

WESA’s first exit, FaZe Clan calls it quit

Deepak Ojha
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WESA’s first exit, FaZe Clan calls it quit

As reported by IGN, FaZe Clan is all set to follow an exit from the very controversial organization, World Esports Association – WESA. The exit comes after the team was forced to sign an agreement of exclusivity which would bar them from participating else where, hence the exit.

What more shocking is, the organization which took a bold turn and played against the odds were reportedly fined $50,000 for penalties as they didn’t show consent towards WESA.

World Esports Association

FaZe Clan was among the several other top tier organizations who were being called as the founding members of the World Esports Association. The coming week, FaZe would officially affirm their departure after confirming the same with WESA acting commissioner, Petro Fringuelli. This comes after ESL, the brainchild being WESA was forcing organizations to sign up the exclusive agreements before FaZe showed disagreements.

From Reddit community even, things weren’t looking stronger from the very beginning, they were raised eyebrows ever since the WESA launch prototype image was reportedly leaked. The question however remains about the remaining members of the association on how they will be moving ahead with this exclusivity if the reports are meant to be true.

ESL India Premiership Guide – DotA 2

Vishal 'Arrow' Gupta
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ESL India Premiership Guide – DotA 2

ESL India Premiership Guide

 

play-esl-premiership-logo

ESL India Released a Guide for all the players looking forward to Participate in the tournament.

The Guide Specially Focus On the Dota 2 ( Defense of the Ancient’s II ) Section

As many of the players are new to ESL website, ESL India has released a survival guide to make it easier for the community to commence with their matches.

Players facing Difficulties Finding and playing ESL India Premiership Matches can follow the steps below:

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s)

1: Where do I see the brackets?

  • Teams can easily view the brackets on ESL India Premiership page For Starter #1 which is ongoing Cup. For Later Cup’s Players can visit Premiership Website Which will follow you to the Next Starter Cup when they are Released.

2: Will there be any admin to contact?

  • No, the matches has to be played by both the teams without the supervision of any administrator.

3: How do I contact the opponents?

  • Team captain have to contact the opponent team’s captain on the ESL Match page and discuss the timings mutually within the allotted days which you can find here.

4: What is Match Page/ Where can I find it ?

  • Simply go to the bracket > Find your match > click on ‘vs’ > The webpage opened is your match page.

It is important for every captain to discuss about the timings on the match page, Once discussed captains can add each other and proceed with the match. Why? It will allow the ESL Admins to keep a track on match and avoid any further disputes as the match page serves as a proof that your team has reported while the other team has not shown up.

5: My opponents are not replying on the match page.

  • Go to the match page > Leave a message to your opponents  > If the opponents are failing to report till the second last day of the allotted time (Find it here), Admin’s will allot a fixed time on the last day of the round. Teams not showing up on the Fixed time allotted by admins will be disqualified and the present team will be given a walkover.

Example : Team A V/s Team B. Match has to be played in the time bracket of 4 days i.e 16th of May – 19th of May. Team A reported on On the Match page on 16th of May and Team B has not replied till the second last day i.e 18th of May. Admins will allot a fixed time for the last day (19th May) which will be compulsory for both the teams. Still if Team B fails to report, Team A gets a walkover and they proceed to the next round.

6: Player not available

  • All the players participating in the ESL India Premiership have to be registered and Should be in the current lineup of Team. Defaulters will be Disqualified.

7: The Bracket is empty for the opponent slot

  • Since there is no opponent for you (Usually during first rounds) You get a default walkover and team proceeds to the second round.

8: Game Rules & Side/Pick Decision.

  • Side – Team to the left Side on the ESL Match Page Will Decide The Side.
  • Pick – Team to the right side on the ESL Match Page Will Decide The Pick.

ESL India Premiership

 

Detailed Steps and information for Completion of matches.

1: Read the Email send by ESL for fixed Matches which will be live streamed. (Always sent to captains)

2: Check the brackets on ESL Play India Premiership (Dota 2) Website.

3: Find your match in the brackets.

4: Click on “vs” to Proceed to the match page.

5: Talk to your opponents on the match page itself and mutually decide the timings. (It is necessary to show your presence on the match page to avoid any future disputes due to no show on time)

6: After deciding the time, Captains have to send the match time confirmation email to [email protected] Team details and match timings decided.

7: Play the match on decided timings.

8: Post match procedure :

  • Winning team have to upload a screenshot on the match page and update the score.
  • Losing team should update the score on the match page. If losing team fails to update score they will not be allowed in further starter cups.

9: If there are any queries, Captains can always raise a ticket on ESL website. Any misconduct has to be reported by raising a ticket on the ESL Website.

10: In case of urgency you can reach our Administrator ‘Vishal “Arrow” Gupta’

For Further Queries about the Tournament, One can always Visit the Official ESL India Premiership Website

The impact of Big Four audit firms in eSports market research

Deepak Ojha
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The impact of Big Four audit firms in eSports market research

The global eSports market is at peak, companies are investing and gamers are participating. Everything is going into the right direction. The prize-pool distributed across the whole eSports industry amounted to $65 million in the year 2015. According to the marketing and research intelligence companies like Newzoo and SuperData, the enormous growth recorded to be gradually growing at a healthy and steady rate.

Everyday when people tend to recognize the word eSports and discus the market size, the figures are in billions and time period in not more than couple of years from now.

Esports market research

Reporting and analysis are the business tools to determine the status of the industry and market size. Earlier, when PwC reported the massive revenue potential in the Esports industry which was over $500 million, market strategists and researchers were given an opportunity to reconcile the factual figures to assure the enormous developing industry to the masses.

“Esports is reaching some kind of tipping point.” “eSports: Bigger and smaller than you think”

Deloitte’s Director of research in Technology and Media, Duncan Stewart called eSports market research as “all over the place”,they also added “esports advocates overestimate the current market size” which was definitely a blow to the industry with millions of fan followings and billions of content on the frontline.

Up until now, it’s been only a couple of pages. But what if the Big Four really start digging into esports? Chris Lederer, who was involved in the creation of the PwC report, stated that

“Large professional service companies are now covering, talking and consulting on the esports business. Lots of global players start to enter. We hear our own clients talk about it. I would say it makes a story.”

Is it the beginning of the “Big Four of esports”? It very well could be. For smaller-scale specialists like Newzoo and SuperData, it means a remarkable amount of competition. There is no comfort zone anymore; there is no guaranteed publicity.

KPMG, E&Y, Deloitte and pwc might enter into Esports market research

Esports is an extremely one of a kind business sector, however. Brands from more conventional organizations happen to commit a considerable measure of errors when they first enter the stage. Just as of late, it was Bud Light’s crusade declaration that left us with only destructive weariness. Also, the same is valid for PwC’s and Deloitte’s reports. Rather than truly sparkling a light available, both organizations viewed themselves as fulfilled by an exhausting wrap up of what was—pretty much—definitely known.

Indeed, Deloitte shook things up a little with their theory of esports being “greater and littler than you might suspect.” And yes, PwC’s study which asserted that a bigger number of ladies are included in esports than men was useful for a ton of features. Be that as it may, in the more noteworthy plan of things, both reports scarcely touched the most superficial layer.

That doesn’t imply that one of the Big Four wouldn’t be fit for understanding a strong esports study. Deloitte and PwC utilize somewhere in the range of 200,000 experts around the world. Both create income of more than $30 billion every year. It would lift esports statistical surveying to another level. It would be a distinct advantage simply like when previous NBA player Rick Fox purchased a spot in the LCS, ESPN established an esports vertical, or TBS reported their own particular League.

In the standard keep running of things, developing specialty markets—which have been ruled by expert organizations until then—as soon as possible pull in the huge cash. All of a sudden, since quite a while ago settled brands enter the space and claim their domain. Whether it’s expert groups, media associations, or business sector knowledge organizations, the pattern is self-evident: huge fish eat little fish.

All you need to know about World Esports Association – WESA

Deepak Ojha
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All you need to know about World Esports Association – WESA

Earlier today, an image was posted by a Reddit user (now deleted his account), which seemed to be a back-drop for some announcement being ruled out by an organization, or firmly association called WESA, abbreviated, World Esports Association. The image was leaked prior to the announcement by the printer who was given the job-work, unfortunately he leaked something which wasn’t supposed to be made public that way, out of excitement.

Although this is still unclear about what WESA will actually do, the presumption can be made upon the involvements of the biggies and the association title.

World Esports Association

From what the name suggests to be, association is “a connection or cooperative link between people or organizations. ” which in simpler form means, a group of people organized for a joint purpose. The purpose maybe something to do with events, companies, participation and could be sponsors as well. World Esports Association can also be defined as a resistant organization and group of people which, if collaborate or agree to each other, will not be able to adhere and do business elsewhere.

From what we could derive from the leaked image, it has names of some of the world’s biggest eSports organizations, ESL, fnatic, Na’vi, Virtus.Pro, HellRaisers, mousesports, Ninjas In Pyjamas, and EnVyUs. Astralis has been left out due to unknown reasons.

What possibly will be the role of WESA

An organization or an association of this level with some of the world’s biggest organization as their committers will surely be very powerful. A representative of the association will have the powers in decision making in every terms. For an instance, if ESL organizes a WESA-limited event, no teams other than the WESA-supported ones will be able to participate in the event and it also goes vice-versa. The WESA cooperated teams and organizations might as well not be allowed to participate elsewhere or other events organized by non-ESL management.

This kind of barrier and its relentless operations will limit the community in a specified dimensions which will be under control of WESA. With absence of Valve’s interference and community discussions, the organizations and the law makers at WESA would possibly have the control over all of the participating organization with their mutual consent.

Disgraceful and unethical move

Not only on Reddit and its threads, perhaps the community heavy weights are also expecting something which will not be healthy and worthy for future of the game since everything will be limited and entitled to the decision makers of WESA. In other words, the game, organizers, participants will be entering into a political venture which will be under the control of the association and everything.. without the game possessor, Valve.

WESA’s response

Old eLeVeN on a break, EHOME left with four man Roster

Vishal 'Arrow' Gupta
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Old eLeVeN on a break, EHOME left with four man Roster

The recent rumors of ‘eleven’ being kicked from team EHOME is been clarified by the Organisation as they announced that eleven is not kicked from the team.

Eleven decided to put up a break on his professional gaming carrier until the end of Ti6.

old elevenRen ‘eLeVeN’ Yangwei

Ehome’s Management Stated:

“Due to his grandfather’s recent health issues, along with his own personal desire, eLeVeN has chosen to take a break until after TI6 in order to spend time with family and recharge. Since joining EHOME, he’s been a great contributor and friend and we support his decision no matter what it is. When the time comes, eLeVeN will be welcomed back into the EHOME family fully. ”

Source : Ehome’s Twitlonger

The reason for elevens decision to take a break till the end of ti6 is also because of their recent performance which lead them in a position of not qualifying for big LAN events and even failing to qualify for the The Manila Majors.

Eleven also stated that he will return back to the scene after TI6 and most likely to the same team.

Old Eleven Leaves for a break, Ehome Left with 4 man roster.

Due to Eleven’s departure, Ehome is now left with 4 players. The organisation will soon announce the last member of team who will play as a stand in for team team during the absence of their position one (Carry) player i.e Old Eleven.

As Ehome did not register any substitute player on the Valve’s team registration, departure of “Old eleven” from team will result in the loss of opportunity from getting direct invites at TI6. As the rules states disqualification of any organisation that changes roster after 27th of March. Ehome now have to either transfer a player from another team, Or look up for the free agents to complete their roster to participate in further tournaments during course of Old Elevens break

EHOME current roster:

Ren ‘eLeVeN‘ Yangwei
Wang ‘old chicken‘ Zhiyong
Daryl Koh ‘iceiceice‘ Pei Xiang
Zhang ‘LaNm‘ Zhicheng
Lu ‘Fenrir‘ Chao

Natec Genesis announce CSGO 1vs1 online event #BETHEBEAST

Arpita Tewari
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Natec Genesis announce CSGO 1vs1 online event #BETHEBEAST

The polish computer hardware maker Natec Genesis has announced a CS:GO 1v1 online event for CS:GO India community for which the prize-pool will be Rs. 6,000 and the event will begin in June first week with 128 participants.

After several reports of Natec Genesis planning to launch in India was being circulated, there was a sheer speculation of the launch. The wide range and the inexpensiveness of the product created a great impression and the company got an immense feedback from the community in return.

Genesis-product-list

Natec Genesis 1v1 CS:GO online event for India

The online CS:GO 1 versus 1 will be starting from June 2016 and will feature three different aim maps, the slots will be limited at 128. The prize pool however is quiet interesting, even though the format of the game is 1 versus 1 and the sole purpose of the event revolves around boosting the brand presence in the field, the prize pool has been overwhelmed with the fact of the matter.

The prizes will be distributed in a regular format for winners, first runner-up and a second runner-up, with no registration fees whatsoever the company will give out a total of Rs. 6,000 in cash and some goodies. The registrations is now open here.

1st prize – 3000 in cash 
2nd prize – 2000 in cash
3rd prize – 1000 in cash

Bonus: MVP – Gets official Natec Genesis gaming products. (Determined based on performance)

The event will see a single elimination format with best-of-1 ruling out for the initial rounds and a best-of-three at later stages. The event is scheduled to be in the late evening hours everyday whereas, semi-finals and finals will be on weekends. All the games will be hosted on a server provided by Drag2Death.

While talking to the distributor of the brand, Lalit Jain, Sunder Electronics, he said: “India is an eSports developing nation, with the right push and investments, India can be the best eSports market in the world in near future.” We will be conducting DotA 2 and FIFA events at a later stage after successfully commencing the first one.” added Lalit.

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