Author: Arseny Kuzminsky
âPursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.â – Henry David ThoreauSummer 2011, Germany. Clinton “Fear” Loomis, Dominik “Lacoste” StipiÄ, Per Olsson “Pajkatt” Lille, Sivatheeban “1437” Sivanathapillai, and Alexandru “ComeWithMe” Craciunescu came to participate in The International under the flag of Online Kingdom. It was the dawn of the Dota 2 esports era and an exquisite move from Valve to present its new creation to people: a few weeks before the start of the tournament, the developers provided the players with a ready-to-play game build so that Cologne’s Koelnmesse would undoubtedly attract…
Offline, exciting, emotionalIt’s here! The official professional esports season, Rainbow Six Siege North American League, is finally back. The road to the next Six Invitational opens today: the first stage of the league leads to a set of rating points and the Six Major, which will be held in May.Ten teams play Bo1 matches throughout the month, earning points (3 for a win, 2 for a win in overtime, 1 for a loss in overtime). At the end of the matches, the top 4 teams are determined, and they’ll go directly to the Major. In addition, the entire league takes…
Tim “AceOfPyrite” Leaver shares his thoughts before R6S EUL starts.The long-awaited first stage of the Rainbow Six Siege European League starts today. Ten teams will clash for a month, four of which will receive direct invites to the May Six Major. The battle for rating points and 50,000 euros starts on March 28 and finishes on April 2.As noted in 2022âs R6S European League Guide, there will be a very tight fight. Almost all analysts, commentators, and even spectators are betting on BDS Esports to win the league beforehand: the team has been known for their performances in the league…
Welcoming the ten teams of the EUL’s Stage 1After a long break, the official Rainbow Six Siege esports season is finally back; congratulations to all of us! The teams had enough time to relax since the Six Invitational, to make transfers (and some were even too dramatic), and now they are charged for the battle to get to the first Major! So let’s figure out what to expect from the first stage of the R6C EUL.Brief introduction: The European League starts on 28 March and ends on 2 May. This month, ten teams will play among themselves in the single…
Russian teams will not participate in the R6:Siege European League Stage 1Last night Rainbow Six Siege Esports official Twitter announced that the Russian teams are no longer part of the Rainbow Six Siege European League. source: @R6esportsTeam Empire has confirmed this informationUbisoft banned both Russian teams Virtus.pro and Team Empire. However, players can still participate in the league. So, for example, the ex-Imperials roster will continue playing under the PWNZ tag.Virtus.pro refrains from posting any news, and therefore it is unknown if they will participate in the league. Judging by the experience of PWNZ, they potentially could.We recall that earlier,…
World-famous football club PSG has signed a Rainbow Six Siege team. The squad will be based in Japan, as the official statement says. PSG.R6 will start playing the game pretty soon, on March 26, joining NTT Docomo’s Rainbow Six Japan League.Rainbow Six Siege is very popular in Japan, having a three-tiered league with Open Qualifiers and lots of players thriving for competitive R6S. Last year, the Japan scene’s prize pool was 52,000,000 yen (approximately $440,000), and it included Japan League, Japan Championship (2nd tier), and Japan Open tournaments. Unlike last year, the Japan League has increased from eight to ten…
Can Liquid continue their run? Will the newcomers manage? Is Nigma back? And more to be figured!The DPC 2021/22 Season is coming back after a short break, and the second and hopefully a full-fledged DPC tour is about to start: DPC WEU Division I, better known as DreamLeague Season 17, launches tomorrow, March 15. The Participants will compete for precious points and prize money, concluding the online league in Stockholm at a LAN event, our first live-audience tournament for god knows how long.But we’re here to talk about the league, right? As always, the online part lasts a month and…
The North American Spring DPC League begins shortly! We’ve waited long enough, now six weeks of top-notch daily Dota. Then, the new season ends with the Major in Stockholm, Sweden, and it’s scheduled to be held with the audience!But let’s get back to the main course as the dessert is still far away. The first tour of the season showed that EG had significant problems, which Quincy Crew and Team Undying, who had long been charged for victories, took advantage of. So now it is almost impossible to predict the league’s development and how the silverware will be distributed because…
A preview of the $270k+ USD tournament in Dubai hosted by Galaxy Racer: the five biggest storylines to watch out for.Galaxy Racer’s Gamers Galaxy: Dota 2 Invitational Series Dubai 2022 tournament, a sudden announcement on the Dota 2 competitive horizon, will start March 2.The LAN event, held in one of the most important cities on the planet, will host ten of the top teams in the world from several DPC regions. In addition, 1 million dirhams, or about $272,000 USD, is at stake.The home tournament for the well-known Nigma Galaxy team, and their younger relative Nigma Galaxy SEA, promises to…
He’s not an objective, thank god!The long-awaited moment has arrived! More than a hundred days have passed since the last major patch, Dota fans were exhausted by the anticipation, and Valve finally blessed us with a new update. Many exciting things happened here: neutral creeps were reworked, Valve corrected the map, new artifacts were added (basic and neutrals), Techies has been revised (by the way, you can read about it here; we wrote a small guide on the updated hero) … But the main character, who was teased over the past few days, naturally, became Primal Beast.Before the release of…