The players list for the upcomming MLG has been made public. There are many players, and the list contains some big names also.
There is to mention that different from other MLG's this time the really big names are not there.
Some well known players are: TLO, Grubby, iNcontroL, Golden, Dragon, Apocalypse, CatZ, DeMuslim, HUK, HyuN, HwangSin, Illusion, NaNiwa, Ostojiy, Polt, qxc, soO, sC, SaSe, TheStC, ThorzaiN, viOLet, YugiOh, Sound
The action will start on 28'th of June and will end on 30'th of June
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Today in a Twitter post, the mexican terran player announced that he will be leaving Team 8 as of today.
The reason behind this move is the fact that KeSpa is lowering the number of players by 4 and he is one of those four players.
MajOr posted:
"It was a nice experience, i dont regret anything i done here so far, im happpy with the choices i made mistakes or not."
This makes for the following roster in Team 8:
Argo(C)
Check
Cure
Neige
Pigbaby
Savage
Terminator
TRUE
TY
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The russian DotA 2 team Rox.KIS has been baned for 1 year from all SLTV Series events. Same time, team captain, Solo was banned for lifetime from all SLTV Series.
This decision came as in their last game against zRage, Solo's team suddenly left the game withou any tech problems involved.
Later, the organizers of SLTV series found ou the reason, it seems Solo made a bet against his team on a live money betting site, and his team had to lose, so he decided to pull out his team from the game. The admins found out and decided to ban Rox.KIS for one year, the other member of the team for 3 and Solo for the perpetual ban.
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The second season of WCS Europe is about to start, at the line-up we have 32 players ready to duke it out once again in order to make it to the second finals and grab those o so important WCS points that will allow them to make it to BliZZcon 2013.
The players were splited into eight groups of four players. Groups are as follow:
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
MVP
Stephano
TLO
DIMAGA
Tefel
Shuttle
TAiLS
Dayshi
Beastyqt
MC
MaNa
HasuObs
elfi
sLivko
MMA
dukdeok
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
ThorzaiN
LucifroN
forGG
Happy
BabyKnight
Bly
Grubby
ToD
Ret
uzer
Bunny
SortOf
Welmu
NaNiwa
VortiX
TitaN
The action will resume of 25'th of June.
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After securing NEEd for SEAT sponsorship only one week ago, EG has announced yet another sponsor, as , the clothing manufacturer J!NX decided to partner up with them.
They will be providing all the Hoodies, T-Shirts and everything in between for Jaedong, iNcontroL, DeMuslim, Xenocider, Revival, ThorzaiN, Stephano, aLive, JYP, Oz, Suppy, Machine and HUK
With this, the list of sponsors gets stacked even more, as they already have Kingston HyperX, Monster Energy, NEED for SEAT, RaidCall, Razer, IN win and so on.
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Some time ago, Ownaj sponsored Grubby in his Starcraft 2 road, this was back in Wings of Liberty. The contract ended and now Ownaj has announced that they have decided to sponsor yet another player.
Announcing via a twitter post, the eSport clothing manufacturer has posted the following:
"Also we're proud to announce we will be a personal sponsor of @SeleCTKR in his return to SC2! ¯\_(?)_/¯"
With this sponsorship, SeleCT can now secure his training for the new expansion Heart of The Swarm.
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RedBull has decided once again to take a look at the eSport scene, after the first event held by them, we see once again the same format on the table.
Eight players will take part at a tournament, in the RedBull headquarters at the second event under their brand, RedBull Training Grounds The players will duke it out for a total of $5,000 in cash prize.
The eight players are Golden, Kane, Grubby, puCK, ViBE, DeMuslim, Sound. They will show new tactics, discuss their weaks and strenghts and will battle for the prizemoney.
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Big esport event Gfinity London will be held in London this July. The impressive prize purse $110,000 will be shared between Call of Duty and League of Legends.Here the promo video:The participants of Gfinity London Call of Duty are:
Team Curse
Unite Gaming
Ozone Giants
Envyus
TCM Gaming
compLexity
Impact
aAa
Prophecy
Optic Gaming
Teams in League of Legends discipline:
Pride FC
Heimerdinger's Colossi
Mousesports
Ozone Giants
Anexis
Team Dignitas
TCM Gaming
Curse Academy
Organizers behind World Cyber Games have revealed details of WCG 2013.In the grand final we will see battles in 7 gaming disciplines plus 2 promo titles. Event will be held from 28th of November till 1st of December in Kunshan, China.Need to notice that per organizers this WCG will be the last for legendary game Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne.Official gaming list of WCG 2013:League of LegendsStarcraft 2: The Heart of the SwarmWarcraft 3: The Frozen ThroneWorld of TanksCross FireFIFA 2014Promo titles:NiZhan (Assault Fire)QQ Speed
The groups for the upcomming Starcraft 2 tournament at DreamHack Eizo Summer 2013 have been announced, out of the total 32 groups, only few catch an eye at the first glimpse.
For example we have Group 14 with Najzmajs, Sting and PoYo , than there is Group 15 with TargA, SortOf and MaddeLisk, apart from these two the rest have two pro players and two unknown players, but it's not hard to see some upsets.
The sad part is that a bunch of the Korean players such as viOLet, Polt, Symbol, DongRaeGu, SuperNova and monchi, Naama, SaSe, XlorD canceled their participation. To replace them, the organizers have brought in some local players and Life.
The action will start tomorrow, with the first group stage.
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It was announced that the guys behind nexon have decided to host a DotA2 tournament.
With a prize purse of $1,700,000 in cash prize this will be the biggest DotA2 tournament Korea has seen so far.
The prize is divided in 4 separate tournaments, the first being Nexon Starter League with t total of $10,000 in cash prize. This event will have it's sign-ups opened on 13'th of June till 23'rd of June.
The other three tournaments are: Nexon Heroes League, Nexon AllStars League and Nexon Sponsorship League. The prize money is yet to be revealed for these three, but they will get the rest out of the big cash.
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It did not came as a shock when the news surfaced that the spanish team of Karont3 has disbanded, since the departure of the Durand brothers LucifroN and VortiX and now ViPro, the team was left with only LoLvsxD in the roster.
That made the guys behind the team close the SC2 team. Moreover the team was removed from Acer TeamStory CUP.
Every game that Karont3 played or had to play will be an autoloss with [5-0].
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The new season of the russian online tournament was announced. With a total of $9,000 in cash prize, this is one of the biggest online tournament on the market.
Gathering players all across the Globe, the fifth season of Ritmix RSL promises to be the best so far.
Two groups out of the total eight have already been played.
The groups are as follow:
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Strelok
RET
Life
Symbol
SuperNova
Jim
HerO
MacSed
SortOf
TheStC
qxc
Polt
MaNa
White-Ra
LoWeLy
Scarlett
Group E
Group F
Group G
Group H
VortiX
MMA
Bly
sLivko
TitaN
goswser
HasuObs
ToD
Bomber
HyuN
Harstem
TLO
CatZ
HUK
LucifroN
Dayshi
Player advances in Ro16
Player is eliminated
The prize distribution is as follow:
1. - $4,000
2. - $2,000
3. - $1,000
4. - $500
5/8. - $300 each
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Almost all big names will take part in upcoming Dreamhack Summer Counter-Strike Global Offensive championship except VeryGames and NaVi.As in DH Summer DOTA 2, there are 16 participants, but prize purse is slightly lower and equal to ?23,500. Organizers just published the draw results and now Dreamhack Summer CS GO groups looks as follow:
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
NiP
Curse
Virtus.pro
fnatic
Western Wolves
Cph Wolves
ESC Gaming
LDLC
Refuse
Epsilon
Raiders
ALTERNATE
Team X
/10/
BYOC #1
BYOC #2
Prize distribution:1. - ?8,2002. - ?4,7003/4. - ?2,930 each5/8. - ?1,170 eachSchedule of Dreamhack Summer CS GO:15th June - BYOC tournament, games in Groups A and B16th June - games in Groups C and D17th June - playoff stageWe will keep updating this news with streams, results, brackets, standings and other actual information from DH Summer CS GO event. Stay tuned!
Only 3 days left before the big esports event Dreamhack Summer 2013.In DOTA 2 gaming discipline we will see 16 teams which will fight for $45,000. In this news we will provide all information about results, standings, bracket, streams, groups and other actual news related to DOTA 2 at Dreamhack Summer 2013.Organizers have revealed the draw results and groups are:
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
4FC
Virtus.pro
NaVi
Alliance
eL Pride
Team Dignitas
Evil Geniuses
fnaticEU
Mousesports
TCM
Flip.Sid3 (ex AL)
Quantic Gaming
Team Liquid
Uebelst-gamynG
BYOC #1
BYOC #2
It was today announced that the XMG protoss player, monchi will have to skip the near future events such as DreamHack Summer 2013, HomeStory CUP 7 and probably the entire second season of WCS Europe due to a complication.
Two years ago he suffered a motocross accident, he underwent surgery, but it seems that there are some complications as his arm got infected. He now need to have yet another surgery, and will have to rest his arm for a long period of time.
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The first details for WCS Korea Season 2 were announced at the end of the first season. This time it's KeSpa's turn to host the tournament, OnGameNet will therefor handle the second season of WCS in Korea.
They has already secured a sponsor in Auction.co.kr, and the season will start on 18'th of June. OnGameNet will handle Premier Division, while Gom.Tv will handle the Challenger League ( Code A)
Just as Gom kept the Code S brand for the first season, OnGameNet will use the brand Starleague for the second season.
Gom.Tv will return to handle third season of WCS in Korea.
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Last night, first edition for GIGABYTE Pro League took place. With a single elimination Bracket, the eight players that made it trough duked it out for the total prize purse of ?3,000.
The final game saw Snute take on Squirtle, the protoss player wasn't suppose to play this tournament, but since Symbol could not attend due to personal reasons, Squirtle was called in to step in the zerg;s shoes and see what he can do.
The final was rather one sided as Squirtle proved to good for Snute and took him down [4-0]. Third place decider will see Kas take on Dayshi this week in order to see whom takes ?300 home.
Final standings:
1. LG-IM.Squirtle - ?2,000
2. Liquid`Snute - ?700
3. Emprie.Kas/ Mill+Dayshi - ?300
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If earlier this week the american team announced a new sponsor, this time they have announced a new player.
It's all about the swedish player ViPro whom was announced as a player for compLexity today.
CEO of compLexity stated:
"In our continuing effort to develop and support up and coming StarCraf2 talent we are pleased to have viPro as part of our team. We look forward to a great year with him"
With this move, coL now have:
TheStC
Hendralisk
qxc
Ryan
Ryze
Sasqatch
TriMaster
ViPro
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After a string of disappointing results at The International 3: Eastern Qualifier, DOTA 2 Super League and G-1 League, managers have decided to change the lineup of Vici Gaming.From today Linsen 'Fy' Xu and Xuntao 'XTT' Xu became the free agents. At this moment VG has three players in a roster only, but we should expect that new players of Vici Gaming DOTA 2 will be announced soon.Current line-up of Vici Gaming: Tianyu 'Cty' Chen (in-game leader) Gong 'ZSMJ' Jian Chao 'Fenrir' Lu + TBA+ TBA
Gaming division of DELL company Alienware has organized online cup in DOTA 2 called Alienware Cup. Despite to online format of the event, prize purse is big and equal to $60,000.There are 8 participants and 7 of them are from Asia. The only team from Europe is Natus Vincere, which is sponsored by Alienware as well.Event will kick off on 16th of June and will over on 5th July.Groups are:
Group A
Group B
Invasion MUFC
Invictus Gaming
LGD Gaming
Natus Vincere
LGD International
Orange Esports
Rattlesnake
Team Zenith
Team DK
TongFu
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The first season of the WCS Championship has ended, with 16 players from the three regions gathered in Seoul, Korea to battle for the $150,000 in cash prize.
The final game saw once again as in WCS Korea INoVation taking on yet another Woongjin Stars player, this time the protoss player sOs. The final was rather one sided as INoVation took map after map to make it [3-0].
Different from WCS Korea, this time, the Woongjin Stars player could not come back from that deficite, and had to recognize defeat and tap out the final at the [4-0] scoreline.
The final placement is:
1. STX Soul.INoVation - $40,000 + 3000 points
2. Woongjin Stars.sOs - $20,000 + 2000
3/4. Woongjin Stars.Soulkey, LG-IM.MVP - $10,000 + 1500 points each
5/8. Samsung KHAN.RorO, EG.aLive, Mill+forGG, Axiom.Alicia - $7,000 + 1000 points each
9/12. Liquid`HerO, Liquid`TLO, EG.Revival, LG-IM.KangHo - $5,000 + 750 points each
13/16. ROCCAT DIMAGA, EG.Stephano, Axiom.Ryung, AZUBU.Symbol - $5,000 + 500 points each
With this win, INoVation has secured the leading spot in the points rank. Based on the points rank the players will take part at BliZZcon 2013. The points rank looks as follow:
1. INoVation 4100 points
2. MVP, Soulkey 3100 points each
4. sOs 2850 points
5. HerO - 2650 points
6. aLive, forGG, Revial 1850 points each
9. Stephano 1675 points
10. Alicia, RorO 1600 points each
12. TLO 1500 points
13. DIMAGA, KangHo, Ryung, Symbol - 1350 points each
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The american based team has announced that they have secured a new sponsor for the entire team. The L337 Gaming Motherboard company has decided to sponsor the american team.
The CEO of compLexity stated:
"We're very happy to be sponsored by the new L337 Gaming Motherboard," said Jason Bass, COO of compLexity Gaming. "The board was specifically designed for gamers and overclocking and we're confident our fans will enjoy the benefits of this new product."
The contrat for the time being is a one year long, and includes sponsorship for all the division compLexity has.
compLexity gaming have:
qxc
TheStC
Sasquatch
TriMaster
Hendralisk
Ryan
Ryze
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We already informed you that one of the best "support" in the world of League of Legends Eduard 'Edward' Agbaryan has left Gambit Gaming. He got "free agent" status and was open for offers. Team Curse didn't spend too much time and invited Edward shortly. In the new team Eduard replaced Keenan 'Rhux' Santos who will stay with team as stand-in.Edward will move to California and will stay in Curse's house. Per gossips he has some relatives in California and if it's true, acclimatization will go way smoother.Updated line-up of Team Curse: Joe 'Voyboy' Esfahani - Top Brandon 'Saintvicious' DiMarco - Jungler Jacky 'Nyjacky' Wang - Midlaner David 'Cop' Roberson - AD Carry Edward 'Edward' Abgaryan - Support Keenan 'Rhux' Santos - stand-in Aaron 'Swain Gretzky' Bean - stand-in Brad 'OneBadBrad' Watson - stand-in
With the next MLG comming fast, we now have some first details, first of all if the prize purse for an MLG used to have around $20,000 for the winner, this time the entire prize purse is set at that mark.
Second the casters list has been revealed, there will be only one stream with five casters that will take a share at shoutcasting.
The five are some of the best Starcraft 2 has to offer: Day[9], TotalBiscuit, DjWheat and the two MLG casters Axeltoss and Axslav.
The tournament will feature an Open Bracket that will have a total of 128 players.
With the event close new informations will be revealed soon.
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The american based team announced their latest addition to the roster.
TREME, a Code A player, former player of team ZeNex.
CEO of Quantic Gaming stated:
"I am extremely happy with the addition of TREME to our roster. He is a great player who also has a great attitude towards the game.With the addition of TREME, I hope that we will be able to do better in individual leagues as well as team leagues in the future."
As stated they wish to use him specially in team leagues as he is known for the All-kills.
With this move Quantic now have:
Apocalypse(C)
MaSsan
TREME
HwangSin
HyuN
Ostojyi
Center
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It was announced that the young terran player, Xenocider has signed a contract with the biggest team in North America.
It is a long story behind this move, but it seems that for a long time the player wanted to be part of EG and finnaly now he is.
Coody Coners, GM of EG stated:
"We, as an organization, have historically been criticized for not fostering up and coming talent with our StarCraft 2 division. In our opinion, this is often over-exaggerated, but it?s still something that we know we need to work on.
While it's thrilling to have a roster filled with superstars and legends, we understand that it's important to invest it talent that is growing and will continue to grow.
I'm optimistic that with the right support Libo will grow as a player, and that we as a team will benefit from having him on board.
Welcome to the team, Libo."
With this move, EG now have:
iNcontroL(C)
DeMuslim
ThorzaiN
Revival
Jaedong
Stephano
Xenocider
Oz
aLive
Machine
JYP
HUK
Suppy
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With the European Quallifier almost over, we know the first players out of the total 32 that will attend HomeStory CUP, starting on 20'th of June.
So far the players had to quallify in order to make it to the event, the rest of 24 players remaining will be invited by Take.
The players that quallified are: CatZ, Hendralisk, qxc, Seed, Maru and from European Quallifier we can see Bunny, Morrow, PandaTank, MarinLord or Bly make it.
THe event will hand a total of $25,000 in cash prizes.
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Ukranian esports organization Natus Vincere decided to open DOTA 2 female division as well. From today, former Darer.fm will represent NaVi's clan tag.DOTA 2 female is not popular among viewers and we have only few events per year, but definitely such move will make NaVi more popular.Captain of the team Anastasiya 'PerfectVoid' Dmitrenko commented:We are very happy to cooperate with such famous organization as Natus Vincere. I'm sure that our cooperation will make female's esports more popular in the world. Our 5 will add maximum effort to prove that we are "Born To Win"! Line-up of NaVi DOTA 2 Female: Anastasiya 'PerfectVoid' Dmitrenko Mariya 'MooNka' Malakhovskaya Masha 'Inverno' Gunina Sonya 'Sofi' Romanova Leya 'Leayh' Zyuarina{linkr:related;keywords:dota;limit:5;title:More+News}
Last Cup of EMS One Summer CS GO is completed. Some big names including NiP didn't take part on it, because they have secured the spots for the group stage based on results from previous cups.Final saw likes LDLC and Copenhagen Wolves. In case of win by Danes, they could be the only two time winner of EMS One Cup, but historical moment didn't happen. LDLC which is becoming stronger day after day, won the battle [2:0] per maps.Third and fourth places were shared among Virtus.pro and ESC Gaming.Group stage of EMS One Summer CS GO will be held on 10-13 of June.{linkr:related;keywords:counter-strike;limit:5;title:More+News}
Former DOTA 2 team Absolute Legends hold "homeless" status for one week only. Within that week they have played under Space clan tag. Today we happy to inform you that potentially big team found new home in face of Flip.Sid3 Tactics. This organization is not popular among esports community yet, but with such acquisitions everything will change soon.Manager of the team Hectora 'Fros T' Rosaria already made sure that team will take part at Dreamhack Summer 2013 DOTA 2.Line-up of Flip.sid3 DOTA 2 team: Brian 'MaNia' Strandby Mikkel 'miGGel' Berg Jonathan 'Unicornxoxo' Arge Christoffer Ryze Winthe Jesper 'Miracle' Nyhlen{linkr:related;keywords:dota;limit:5;title:More+News}
UPDATE: Now we are know 14 of 16 participants of Dreamhack Summer 2013 DOTA 2. Additionally to listed below participants, we will see Quantic Gaming, TCM, 4FC, Space, eL Pride, Uebelst-gamynG. Last two teams will be determined after BYOC tournament.
The participants for the DotA 2 tournament in DreamHack Summer have been revealed. A total of 16 teams will line at the start, with 9 invited teams, two BYOC qualifiers and another five qualified teams.
So far we know eight out of the 9 invited teams: Alliance, Team Dignitas, Team Liquid, NaVi, fnatic.EU, Virtus.Pro, EG and Mousesports.
Along side the 2 BYOC qualifiers, there are 4 online qualifiers and the 7'th qualified player will be the winner of Minsk Championship
The tournament will take place in Jonkoping, starting on 15'th of June till 17'th of June, a total of $45,000 in cash prize is on the line.
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