Defending champions Orange net an easy walkover during round one of the Gigabyte eSports Tournament group stage against G7, while the Filipino teams look strong with five of their representatives scoring wins in their first match of the day.
GEST May \ Group stage
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SkyNet iZone 125 3 1 0
MSIEvo GT Fire 0 0 0
Badburn eNcy 0 0 0
Invasion...
Since the viewership success of this January's HomeStory Cup IV, project initiator Dennis "TaKe" Gehlen has announced the date and the coming qualifiers for the July 5-8 event.
Similar to the last edition, five qualifiers will lead up to the event. Each qualifier victor will receive a spot at HomeStory Cup V and an all expenses paid trip to Krefeld, Germany where the event is held.
Players who has already qualified for the coming tournament are Mihaylo "Kas" Hayda and Ilyes "Stephano" Satouri. The duo ended top two in an invitational tournament held in May. Unfortunately the latter mentioned is unable to attend the event.
The rest of the participants will be decided by the tournament organizers.
HomeStory Cup V qualifiers
North American Qualifier...
Benedict 'Hyhy' Lim Han Yong (C)
Daryl 'iceiceice' Koh Pei Xiang
'xy-' Toh Wai Hong
Nicholas 'xfreedom' Lim
Jonathan 'Loda' BergTeam Zenith has announced on their Twitter account that Jonathan Berg, alias Loda, has joined the Singaporean side to fill the vacant spot.
Today Team Zenith announced the Swede as their fifth, and GosuGamers assume this means Berg will move to Singapore.
Team Zenith lets us know on their social media channels, with updates saying their last player is "a mainstay in the Dota Allstars community. He played for top ranking teams and bring a wealth of experience with...
http://www.gosugamers.net/poker/images/poker/ShaunFDeeb.JPGIt seems like every few days we are reporting about Shaun Deeb winning another SCOOP event. Actually, it doesn?t just seem that way; it is exactly what is happening. Deeb?s third SCOOP title of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker came, once again, in a Stud Event. This time it was event 26-H, the $2,000 Stud High/Low with a $75k guarantee.
The field of 74 created a $148,000 prize pool, nearly doubling the guarantee, with several big names making up the top 12 in the money finishes. Theo "Theo J" Jorgensen finished in 11th, followed by Kristian "CharismA3" Martin in 10th and Sorel "zangbezan24" Mizzi in 9th, all cashing for $4,070.
Deeb entered the eight handed final table with the chiplead and never let off the gas, personally eliminating several of his opponents including Clayton "slammedfire"...
http://www.gosugamers.net/poker/images/poker/TheMicros.JPGIt?s been four months since the last episode of The Micros was released. For those not familiar, The Micros is a series of animated video shorts revolving around poker and featuring three online grinders named Chase, Max, and Balls. Fans of the series will be disappointed to learn that future episodes are not yet planned for production, but will be delighted to hear that they can now get their Micros fix via a web comic strip.
"As it turns out, animation is really 'spensive, so instead of struggling to put out an episode every few months we're going to post web comics featuring the same characters hopefully a few times a week," Says co-creator John Wray. "If and when we get sponsored we'll get back to making cartoons, but in the meantime we hope you enjoy these."
The new web comic can be viewed via The Micros facebook page,...
http://www.gosugamers.net/poker/images/poker/WilliamChampion.JPGWilliam Champion bagged 129,700 in chips at the end of Day 1a, the first flight of the PokerStars UK and Ireland Poker Tour Dublin Main Event at the CityWest Hotel. Champion is a fast-talking 46-year-old data storage engineer and father of four, hailing from Northern Ireland. He describes himself as poker enthusiast, noting that he plays live tournaments in Paris four to five nights a week, reading books on strategy when he?s not at the tables.
The majority of Champions chips came in a big hand versus Barny Boatman in which he turned top set and got paid on all three streets. Champions 129,700 in chips is well above the average of 32,802, but several other players are trailing close behind. Paul McCaffrey trails slightly with 112,000, Marc McDonnell is just behind him with 106,600, and Michael Farrelly and Graeme Crozier...
With the MLG Spring Arena 2 about to kick off in New York, the most prominent players of both the Korean as well as the foreigners? scene will display not only their skill, but also the very new and interesting draft system.
The Tournament
With a total of 32 players this event will feature the pantheon of StarCraft 2 pro players, with names such as DongRaeGu, Stephano, Ganzi, MMA and MC, who had the opportunity to step in after MarineKing was unavailable to attend. An online, invite-only qualifier was held to determine...
The server are finally stable after the release when many people had problem logging in to Battle.net. And Blizzard apologize for the problems that this caused.
Diablo 3 was released on the 15th of may and the server administrator have had a rough couple of days where they didn't expect this much problems.
We sincerely regret that your crusade to bring down the Lord of Terror was thwarted not by mobs of demons, but by mortal infrastructure.
The servers cold not handle the enormous pressure when people around the world started to login and Blizzard apologize that they didn't prepare enough before the release.
As of late last night, specifically 11:50 PM PDT on May 15, all systems have been online and running relatively smoothly.
They also say that they are working on the server 24/7 and all the servers have been working since May 15, 11.50 PM PDT.
The problem with the servers have pushed back the release of the real money...
Everybody gets tired from killing demons each second. Good thing is that although well hidden, Whimsyshire is very much accessible. Let's see how do we get there!
In the very beginning, there were cows. Cows with supposedly no other meaning but just grazing on Tristram grass before it got burned multiple times and soaked with demon blood. And then, there were more cows but this time unified under a bovine monarchy and all armed with halberds, ready to defend their milk and socketed gothic plates, of which they have aplenty.
As twenty Sanctuary years pass, we land at Diablo III - the hottest game of summer 2012. The larger part of the players got immediately immersed in the signature, straightforward trait of the game - kill demons, kills bosses, switch difficulty, kill more demons and bosses. But the few other click the play button with only one thought in mind:
Is there a cow level?
No, there isn't. There's something different and better or at least more...
GosuGamers broadcaster and show host for GIGABYTE E-Sports Tournament International DotA Cup 2012 predicts this weekend's group stage.
- "Former champions MSI-EvoGT, Invasion-Red who took down Mineski last month in the group stage, and newcomers Badburn all will be looking to make their mark," says David "GoDz" Parker.
GEST May \ Group A
Redspade
SkyNet
Invasion ReD
MSIEvo GT
Badburn"Badburn have a very good chance to cause upsets"
MLPts
Na`Vi3
VP3
M53
mTw3
3
DTS3
NEXT.kz0
aL0
CLG0
LFS0
Darer0
zNation0
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twiSta and SingSing at the Dota2 Star Championship. Photo by: Ulrich Hanten\GOSUGAMERS
In an interview that was published before the sign-off of Fire, Chinese player WehSing "SingSing" Yuen explained the recent changes in the team as well as the pressure coming from The International.
SingSing admits that the signing of Black was a bit rushed, as the "TI2 pressure" is really getting to them.
- "However, everyone of us has the right midnset and we work very hard; I think our team has a huge potential, just need to adapt a few details," said SingSing.
"More...
Sivatheeban "1437" Sivanathapillai replace Georg "Fire" Krug after personal and synergy clashes with the team.
- "It was absolutely necessarily to make this change rather sooner than later," said team captain Visar "twiSta" Zymberi.
Following the pickup of Dominik "Black Reitmeier, the German organization Mousesports announces yet another lineup switch. Fire, playing utility player in the quintet, had apparent dissents with the rest of team and was dismissed from the team with immediate effect.
- "It's always hard to release a team member, but this time for me it was even harder to say good bye to a friend. After trying for so long to settle down and focus on the game it was impossible for us to do so," said twiSta. He added, "I rushed myself into things cause of the pressure I felt about the upcoming events, but I came to realize that the team is more...
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The Swedish powerhouse gives farewell to two players in order to prepare for The International 2012. Loda and Smugullig volutarily left the organization to make room for both MiseRy and Lacoste.
There were winds of change surrounding . The Dane superstar was a "stand-in" for the team in StarLadder's LAN final and he have been playing with them ever since while was rarely seen with the team. Their good performance in Kiev and 's announcement of a line-up without MiSery made the replacement even more logical. After a couple of weeks, he was seen using the organization's tag but the expected official announcement wasn't made until today.
confirmed the replecement throught it's website but smulgullig wasn't the only one who left the team: , who built the team from scratch with his ethernal sidekick Akke, announced his departure...
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The Swedish powerhouse gives farewell to two players in order to prepare for The International 2012. Loda and Smugullig volutarily left the organization to make room for both MiseRy and Lacoste.
There were winds of change surrounding . The Dane superstar was a "stand-in" for the team in StarLadder's LAN final and he have been playing with them ever since while was rarely seen with the team. Their good performance in Kiev and EG's announcement of a line-up without MiSery made the replacement even more logical. After a couple of weeks, he was seen using the organization's tag but the expected official announcement wasn't made until today.
confirmed the replecement throught it's website but smulgullig wasn't the only one who left the team: , who built the team from scratch with his ethernal sidekick Akke, announced his departure too. The...
Gamespot's Rod "Slasher" Breslau delivers a great interview, featuring the extensive answers of Sundance DiGiovanni. Rod and Sundace explore the topic of the recently announced MLG/KeSPA collaboration as well as the impact it will have on the world of eSports.
So why KeSPA and what does "exclusive partnership" mean? Sundance points KeSPA's rich history as the reason for the first part of the question, saying that "a lot of the history around one of our most popular games is locked up in South Korea with KeSPA". He also hopes that by this partnership, foreign fans and players will grow to understand how the association has operated in the past and how will it work from now on.
The "exclusivity" aspect is also explained in details and these are Sundance's words:
- "What this means is that outside of Korea, we're the official partner for KeSPA. We're the tournament KeSPA...
Take me to the coverage hub
The third North American qualifier for the Global Gaming Alliance Cup peaks from behind the corner. Tomorrow, we'll know the 19th grand finalist for the final event in December.
GGA Cup #2 Highlights
Mineski and Orange, winners of GEST February and April, share group in this coming weekend's May edition of the GIGABYTE E-Sport Tournament International DotA Cup 2012.
Last tournament champions, Orange, will once again be paired against Philippines' best. The GEST April on-lookers could witness Orange's mighty run through the upper bracket, taking down Mineski, MSiEvo-GT and iZONE to claim the first prize of $1,500 USD. Starting on Saturday at 06:00 CET, they will defend their title as the GEST champion. Their group, C, is however no walk in the park, with first edition winners Mineski, fresh from qualifiers Pacific.UST, the Indonesian team deperruku more known as Velocy, and Myanmar quintet G7.
We will also witness the GEST March winners and recent third place finalist, MSIEvo GT, go up against...
With the second season of GSTL 2012 coming on May 28th, teams around the world have started forging alloys to build stronger, more versatile rosters. Thus, GOM's team league just got more awesome, knowing that there will be more foreigners competing and MC will not be left behind.
The first duo is that of Evil Geniuses and SlayerS, team house partners since October 2011, and the leading Korean team will welcome HuK, Thorzain, JYP and Puma in its GSTL roster. SlayerS' founder, Yo Hwan "Boxer" Lim had this to say:
- ?I believe that the SlayerS-EG joint team is the strongest team in the league, and while we have not done well since our two consecutive titles, we would like use this joint team opportunity to win our third title.?
In the other news, SK.MC is back in the GSTL and since they are currently a one-man team, SK-Gaming have partnered up with Incredible Miracle to see the "Boss Toss" compete in the team league.
Finally,
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Dan "ViBE" Scherlong - the American zerg player that parted ways with It's Gosu on May 7th, finds a new home at the newly reformed ROOT Gaming.
The resurrected yesterday ROOT Gaming got one player bigger today as the roster of Catz, Drewbie, Kiwikaki, Destiny, Slush and Fayth welcomes the former It's Gosu zerg ViBE.
Today we're extremely proud to announce Dan "ViBE" Scherlong will be joining our family!
We have known this for a little while now, Dan is a good friend of a lot of us in ROOT Gaming as well as a fantastic and an incredibly talented player.
we first set eyes on ViBE in the beta, where he came out of nowhere and showed his incredibly high apm was accompanied by a brilliant brain! unfortunately for us, when we decided to pick him up, sixjax had already contracted him and we got left without a ViBE.
ROOT Gaming...
With Gosu's 0-2 loss to Keita Gaming two days ago, teams are now neck to neck in standings despite the American team pulling slightly ahead of the rest. Swedish duo Keita and Infused as well as Ukrainian outfit DTS stand at 6 points a piece.
GosuLeague \ Division 1 \ Standings
GDPts
317
INFS316
Keita216
DTS106
M5115
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Our fifth qualifiers conclude with French team Blast and Europe mix SkyGaming earning their slot in GosuLeague Division 2.
Have a team and you want to play in GosuLeague? Try your luck in the sixth qualifier. Registrations open later at 20:00 CET.
MassPro's run in the qualifier
Blast > bye
Blast > ush
Blast > DHSF
Blast > Super!
Not Found's run in the qualifier
SkyGaming > Old Spice
SkyGaming > awe
SkyGaming > TMNT
SkyGaming > ...
Rooftrellen, the Treant Protector uproots himself and joins the battle. Along with a wide set of gameplay changes and bug fixes we get to hear the new dialogs for Earthshaker, Pudge, Storm Spirit, Shadow Fiend, and Doombringer in this week's patch update.
» SourceDota 2 Test Build Update
May 16, 2012
GAMEPLAY
- Enabled Treant Protector!
- Ancient Apparition: Fixed Ethereal and Guardian Angel blocking Ice Blast's shatter
- Batrider: Fixed bug with refreshing old stacks of...
After winning the Oceanic DREAMHON Qualifier and securing their all-expenses paid trip to Sweden for the DreamHack Summer Tournament, the Frenetic Array HoN Team has released a video to remind everyone why they are a hot favourite at this summer?s event.
The video, made by a newly formed HoN video company, HoNGlacius, uses Honcast, S2Games and Frenetic Array footage to form a highly detailed and action packed ?HoN Movie? that will surely give you the jitters.
Check out the video here
Members from the World of WarCraft guild MethodEU was the first players to take down Skeleton King on Inferno difficulty.
Paulo 'CatZ' Vizcarra has announced the return of ROOT Gaming following his discharge from Team Complexity.
CatZ discussed the announcement in more detail in a self-interview in which he revealed the new roster and future plans for the team. Here's a sample:
MeanCatZ: Is this something that you, drewbie and the rest of the guys have been planning for a while or is it a last minute kind of thing?
ROOTCatZ: we have a ROOT Gaming chat on skype, for a few months now, we've been talking about this day and making plans to re launch for a long while, figuring out the logistics and making plans to make this team unique and successful in the eSports scene, we all missed ROOT so much. We couldn't really talk or hint about this any what sooner though, as we were under contract to a team (compLexity) that has been great to us and we have great respect for, so we had to wait until our contract...
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One of the leading Korean progaming teams Old Generations is no more. This comes as a confirmation to the rumors from five days ago that the team had lost its main sponsor and had had all players' contracts cancelled.
On May 11th, Thisisgame.com published two articles stating that eSports Holding--the now officially former oGs sponsor--had discontinued the partnership with the team, wanting to focus on League of Legends and team Xenics Storm in particular. The same source said that every player's contract and that of team coach TheWind had been cancelled but that they were planning to rebuild the team anew under a different name.
Today, May 16th, those rumors were confirmed by an article at Naver.com. When will the old oGs be reborn, with what name and with which players on it remains to be seen.
Source:
Evil Geniuses interviews their own, Jacob "Maelk" Toft Andersen to talk about the competitiveness between League of Legends and Dota 2, Dota 2's chances of becoming a big eSports title and how he sees Valve's "free-to-play but with a twist" strategy.
A major bug has been found. It's trigged when adding a shield to your templar on lower levels and it will give you an error 3006 message. This will cause the game to crash.
It seems like it is the Demon Hunter's templar that causes Diablo 3 to crash. There are many reports about this bug in the Blizzard forum and also the site Eurogamer reports about it as well. writes:
"Don't trade your equipped shield with the Templar, The game boots you out, and you can't log back until Blizzard notices and fixes this issue."
There has been no official word from Blizzard at this point, but there will probably be an update within a week or so when they fixed a couple of bugs.
Source: Kotaku
It's Gosu continue their reign at the top of the table after a convincing 2-0 victory over Enro during the playday 4. Meanwhile, the match between Mousesports and Team Infused will be postponed to a later date, leaving a break in the current standings.
GosuLeague \ Division 1 \ Standings
GDPts
307
DTS105
INFS214
Keita114
NEXT.kz114
...
Europe mix MassPro (mPro) and all-Portuguese Not Found (404) went through the fourth qualification bracket for second season's division 2 pool.
Have a team and you want to play in GosuLeague? Try your luck in the fifth qualifier taking place tomorrow, May 16 at 16:00 CET.
MassPro's run in the qualifier
MassPro > The Flaming Marshmallows
MassPro > Bosnia and Herzegovina Making You Mad
MassPro > eEriness
MassPro > Black Sheep Wall
Not Found's run in the qualifier
Not Found. > No Life...
The groups for the second season of the SLTV Pro Series were made public yesterday. Among the teams we see teams as Infused, Fnatic, It's GoSu but also the former Keita squad, Evolution and Western Wolves.
The 32 teams will after the group stage trim down to only 16 as top two from each group qualify for the second stage.
The top two at the end of the season get, aside from $700 and $500 USD respectively, a slot in the next Star Series season. Third and fourth place will be paired up with the Star Series bottom two teams in a direct relegation match.
SLTV Pro Series Season 2 Group Stage
Group A Group B Group C Group D
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