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kioShiMa replaces Maikelele in FaZe

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kioShiMa replaces Maikelele in FaZe

FaZe org. announced on their official Facebook page that they have officially acquired kioShiMa in their CSGO roster after the Maikelele, the ex-NiP star, announced its departure.

Maikelele however hasn’t been officially departed from the organization as a whole, there might be some future endeavors waiting for him at the FaZe organization which isn’t clear at the moment just as yet. The transfer value perhaps, is also undisclosed as to what amount the FaZe paid to acquire the EnVyUs front-runner.

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The organization in a facebook post, informed:

Today, we are welcoming on kioShiMa from Team EnVyUs to join our starting lineup in replacement of Maikelele.

For the time being, Maikelele is still a part of our organization, and what comes next for him will be a matter we’ll all sit down to discuss in the near future.

However, we are in this scene to do one thing & one thing only, and that is win. Kio is a proven champion, one of the most decorated and experienced players on today’s Counter Strike scene, and together with him we will fight for the winning culture that we strive to provide. We do this for our fans, we do this together, and we will keep building.

Thank you to Hastr0 from nV in facilitating this change. More news to come soon.

 

FaZe’s change to their roster just comes before their appearance at DreamHack Masters Malmo, where they face Virtus.Pro, EnVyUs and TempoStorm. The now lineup of FaZe is kioShiMa, rain, fox, aizy and jkaem. Follow FaZe on facebook for their regular updates.

Congressman accused of spending $1300 campaign funds on Steam games

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Congressman accused of spending $1300 campaign funds on Steam games

Rep. Congressman, Duncan Hunter, from California, a.k.a. The Vaping Congressman, spent $1,302 on Steam Games from October 13 to December 16 according to the filing, a “personal expense — to be paid back.” According to year-end financial disclosure.

The Federal Election Commission submitted a letter to Hunter’s campaign treasurer on Monday asking for further explanation.

The letter also raised questions about a payment of $1,650 in September to Christian Unified Schools of El Cajon, which Hunter’s spokesman, Joe Kasper, said was a donation misidentified as a personal expense.

Multiple transactions made on credit card by his son

According to The San Diego Union-Tribune reports, Joe Kasper, Congressman Hunter’s spokesman, the congressman’s teenage son used his father’s credit card for one game. Several unauthorized charges resulted after the congressman tried to close access to the website.

Kasper said that Congressman Hunter is trying to have the unauthorized charges reversed before repaying his campaign account.

The Congressman’s Spokesman said,“There won’t be any paying anything back there, pending the outcome of the fraud investigation, depending on how long that takes.”

In 2013, Hunter wrote a passionate op-ed for Politico defending the value of video games against their haters. “With fingers pointing in nearly every direction, video games are often, but wrongly, identified as a catalyst for violence.”

Unfortunately, the year-end disclosures do not identify what games Congressman Hunter was accidentally paying for, or why he (or his son) paid so much for them. The FEC has allowed the congressman time until 9th May to respond.

DreamHack Malmö 2016 groups drawn

Raja Pratap Singh
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DreamHack Malmö 2016 groups drawn

DreamHack have announced the groups for the upcoming $250,000 DreamHack Masters Malmö, taking place from April 12-17 in the Malmö Arena.

The groups will have four teams battling out in each group in a best-of-one, where the final decider match would be played in a best-of-three.

DreamHack Malmo 2016

The first three days will be played off stage in the Malmö arena, but covered by the broadcast team from DreamHack’s studios in Stockholm, which means everyone will get a day off on Friday before the playoffs begin, as shown in the full schedule further below.

The tournament will be played in the Malmo arena from 12th to 17th April with Friday being a day off before the playoffs commences. Here are the groups inclusive of both qualified and invited teams for the DreamHack Masters Malmo.

Groups drawn

Group A: Luminosity, Liquid, Mouseposrts, Tyloo
Group B: Na’Vi, G2, CLG, Godsent
Group C: Astralis, NiP, Dignitas, Lounge gaming,
Group D: Virtus.Pro, EnVyUs, Tempo Storm, FaZe

Official Trailer

A week prior to the $250,000 tournament it has been announced that fnatic would miss the tournament due to Olof “olofmeister” Kajbjer’s arm injury, and G2 will fill up their slot. With fnatic leading the charts at the HLTV.org’s list of world’s best Counter Strike: Global Offensive team, Luminosity has a great chance of overtaking the Swedes and get themselves the crown.

 

HLTV.org’s list of team world ranking promotes Luminosity ahead of VP, Navi, NiP, EnVyUs and Astralis

Arpita Tewari
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HLTV.org’s list of team world ranking promotes Luminosity ahead of VP, Navi, NiP, EnVyUs and Astralis

The HLTV’s module of listing the world’s best Counter Strike: Global Offensive has been updated and Luminosity, the Brazilian powerhouse have now managed to beat some of the world’s best known organizations including the swedes, Ninjas In Pyjamas, Polish lineup Virtus.Pro, the Ukranian stomped Natus Vincere and the danish Astralis (ex-TSM).

Following the fascinating performance at the majors, MLG Columbus 2016, Luminosity earned ton loads of respect and (not-to-forget) cash. Two back-to-back impressive performances where they went through the semis of a grand major, Katowice 2016, where the world best fnatic managed to defeat them and conquered the title. Despite having lost to fnatic even in this majors, FalleN and co. thrashed almost all the heavyweights and made their way to finals to beat Na’Vi comfortably convincing with a 2-0 in a best-of-3 grand finals.

Picture courtesy: HLTV.org
Picture courtesy: HLTV.org

The ranking however is in a way technically analysed which would put the top tier teams to shame as Luminosity has beat each of those to compete and fight the elite, fnatic for their spot.

The CS:GO world team rankings are:

  1. fnatic
  2. Luminosity
  3. Natus Vincere
  4. Astralis
  5. Virtus.Pro
  6. EnVyUs
  7. Ninjas In Pyjamas
  8. G2
  9. Liquid
  10. mousesports
  11. Dignitas
  12. CLG
  13. Cloud9
  14. TempoStorm
  15. FaZe

In Columbus, Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo and his men were not able beat the Swedes (fnatic) however went through the Major with wins against mousesports, NiP, Virtus.pro, Liquid, lastly Natus Vincere, the last group being their opponent in the consistent battle for second place.

The most disappointed organization in the list above from my opinion is EnVyUs, which does have potential but aren’t able to perform well and despite their major wins against fnatic and french rivals Titan, they under-performed.

We will wait to see, how good the Brazilian squad proves out to be after beating all the world’s best teams but fnatic. The future of the Brazilians seems bright.

Dendi now the first one to have played the highest number of games for a team

Raja Pratap Singh
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Dendi now the first one to have played the highest number of games for a team

Danil “Dendi” Ishitun has played 1,039 ticketed games on Natus Vincere as indicated by datdota’s details, breaking the record for most diversions of Dota 2 played on one group.

The record was beforehand held via Airat “Silent” Gaziev, who played 1,037 ticketed amusements for Team Empire before leaving the association in February. Dendi broke 1,037 ticketed recreations on Saturday, after two wins against Polarity in the EPICENTER European Qualifiers brought him up to 1039 ticketed amusements.

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“In today’s Dota, it is constantly more hard to discover players who are so faithful to their group and to their fans, yet Dendi keeps on putting stock in his standards and gives his strong shoulders to bear on Natus Vincere’s objectives and dreams,” Na`Vi expressed in a public statement.

The players nearest to breaking the record are Joakim “Akke” Akterhall, who has played 889 ticketed diversions for Alliance, and Jonathan “Loda” Berg with 878. Alexander “XBOCT” Dashkevich, has played 941 ticketed amusements with Na`Vi, yet as he exited the group in October, is not right now fit for breaking the record.

‘Silent’ still holds the record for most expert, ticketed amusements played, at 1,201, as per datdota.

Team YouPorn loses CSGO division

Raja Pratap Singh
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Team YouPorn loses CSGO division

Team YP, the esports branch of YouPorn, which ventured into Counter-Strike in November with the marking of the male group known as Phenomenon, one of the rising lists in the CIS scene, has now been left with a CSGO division.

Under the new association, and in the wake of getting two experienced players as Vadim “DavCost” Vasilyev and Vladislav “curve” Svistov, the group figured out how to secure a spot at the MLG Columbus logged off qualifier, however visa issues kept them from going to the occasion with their full lineup.

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In a disclosure to HLTV.org, Svistov revealed the differences with YP’s management:

“We would like to thank Team YP for everything they did for us and wish them the best of luck!, Unfortunately, our plans for the future were not the same. Our line-up was created three months ago, and we do not want our growth to stop. “Our goal was to reach the Major, but we could not play with our full line-up, so we failed to qualify. “We will be playing in all the qualifiers for big events and also in tournaments we get invited to. “Until we find a new organisation, we will play under the tag Phenomenon. All organisations interested in us can reach us via email at [email protected].”

Phenomenon’s roster consists of the following players:

Dmitriy “Dima” Bandurka
 Dmitry “S0tF1k” Forostyanko
Vadim “DavCost” Vasilyev
 Vladislav “arch” Svistov
 Anton “kibaken” Kolesnikov

Hitbox grabs broadcasting rights with ESL, DreamHack and Wargaming

Sajid Paik
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Hitbox grabs broadcasting rights with ESL, DreamHack and Wargaming

Streaming service Hitbox has marked a two-year manage ESL for the majority of the competition coordinator’s esports substance and restrictive Portuguese and Russian show rights for DreamHack.

The Twitch contender, which is developing in ubiquity in Russia and Brazil, likewise secured the rights to give spilling to English, Russian, and Polish scope of the World of Tanks fantastic last one weekend from now.

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Universe of Tanks designer Wargaming.net turned into a noteworthy shareholder in the spilling organization in the wake of contributing $4 million a year ago and securing a seat for Sean Lee, the organization’s boss methodology officer, on the governing body.

“We are delighted to partner with these influential organizations within the esports arena,” said Martin Klimscha, Hitbox’s CEO and co-founder. “Working with ESL, DreamHack, and Wargaming provides our global community with the unique content they want, while at the same time allows us to expand to an even larger worldwide audience.”

ESL cut a comparable two-year bargain a month ago with Azubu, marking over “elite substance and showcasing joint efforts.” It’s not right now comprehend what either Hitbox or Azubu will be accepting as far as select substance delivered by the Turtle Entertainment-possessed organization. Neither one of the wills be the selective gushing stage for any occasions ESL holds, nonetheless.

fnatic to miss DreamHack Malmö

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fnatic to miss DreamHack Malmö

In what comes not as a shocking news, DreamHack have announced that fnatic will not be participating at the $250,000 DreamHack Masters Malmö because of Olofmeister’s injury.

According to a statement from DreamHack, it is uncertain how serious Kajbjer’s injury is or how long it will take to recover from it, reports suggests he is soon going to get medical treatment done on a priority basis.

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Jesper “JW” Wecksell’s Tweet also reveals that the team is looking for a replacement who will stand in for Kajbjer during his recovery.

The facts and shifting the focus on what would have been the impact if Olofmeister was fit enough, fnatic had an extensive chance on winning the Masters. Olofmeister, considered world’s best Counter Strike player would be surely disappointed over this unfortunate event, he, as a player have won many hearts and titles.

Alongside, being nominated as Player  of the Year at Game Awards 2015 with KennyS, he was also named as the best player of 2015 by HLTV.org.

Alibaba to host WESG, a $5.5 million eSports event

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Alibaba to host WESG, a $5.5 million eSports event

Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant has now declared that it will have a worldwide CS:GO competition with $1.5 million in prize cash. The event will start progressing in the month of April and will be hosted by its very own Alisports.

The occasion, called the World Electronic Sports Games (WESG), will occur in December, in China, and will pay out an aggregate of $5.5 million over the esports competitions that will be held.

An aggregate of $1.5 million will be partaken in the CS:GO competition, which is an unequaled high prize pool for the game, surpassing the $1 million that is on offer at the Majors and the $1.2 million that will be in question in ELEAGUE per season.

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The primary release of the WESG will happen in Alibaba’s nation of origin, however the Chinese organization is keen on facilitating future occasions everywhere throughout the globe and has welcomed different nations to submit applications for the 2017 emphasis. In the interim, Alisports – Alibaba’s branch will be accountable for the occasion.

Facebook Basketball game is a hidden treasure in Messenger

Arpita Tewari
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Facebook Basketball game is a hidden treasure in Messenger

Easter Egg are exciting hidden treasures which makes us happy more than the Christmas surprises, particularly when Easter itself is practically around the bend? Facebook Basketball game is here.

Well an astonishing mystery highlight has quite recently developed, and this is the way you can play Facebook Messenger’s BasketBall game.

Facebook Basketball game

Facebook Basketball game

Before you begin stressing over extensive trick codes and geeky secondary passage sections, stress not. It is very easy to enable the game. Just tap the emoji after you send it over to your friend, and the game would be ready!

Once you’ve guaranteed you’re running the most recent update of Facebook Messenger, simply send a b-ball emoji to a companion.

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