Author: BLIX.GG

Riot Games has announced creating two new Valorant Challengers Leagues for Italy and Portugal.Earlier, both regions were included in the Valorant Regional League Spain and Riot had decided to make separate tournaments for these countries.“Italy has an incredibly high gaming population, with Valorant being one of the country’s most popular FPS titles. The fan interest is there, and streamers have also begun capitalizing upon this, too, helping to grow the Valorant community in the region… Portugal has also got an invite to the Valorant soirée – and no, we don’t mean because Pearl is inspired by the nation. The region…

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CS2

Ex-Natus Vincere in-game leader Kirill “Boombl4” Mikhaylov forms a new CS:GO team for BetBoom, insider Aleksey “OverDrive” Biryukov reported on its Telegram channel.”It is said that Boombl4 and BetBoom are putting together a roster. Perhaps they have already formed, and there will be very good players. But it is rumors at that time,” he said.BetBoom is a Russian esports organization and it has a Dota 2 roster as well.Boombl4 got kicked from NAVI at the end of May. His resignation was accompanied by scandals about drug use and a high-profile divorce, about which he gave a candid interview.Later, he joined…

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CS2

The Czech-Russian esports organization has parted ways with Igor “Forester” Bezotecheskiy.”Decided to leave the core of Entropiq roster,” he said very briefly in VK.Earlier in October, the organization put its roster on transfer for two main reasons. First, the team didn’t reach their goals in 2022. In addition, the nationality of all players is Russian, making business difficult after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.After Forester’s departure, Entropiq’s squad has shrunk to three players and a coach.Entropiq CS:GO’s lineup is:Aleksey “NickelBack” Trofimov (in-game leader)Vladislav “Krad” KravchenkoNikolay “mir” BityukovDmitriy “hooch” Bogdanov (coach)

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CS2

Team Falcons has decided to move to the bench Bryan “Maka” Canda.To replace Maka, Falcons has returned from the inactive Jayson “Kyojin” Nguyen Van, who was benched with Nicolas “Keoz” Dgus in August making room for Nathan “NBK-” Schmitt and Kévin “misutaaa” Rabier.Kyojin will be substituted while the organization will find new athletes for its CS:GO lineup.Team Falcons are now:Ali “hAdji” HaïnoussJordan “Python” Munck-FoehrleNathan “NBK-” Schmitt (in-game leader)Kévin “misutaaa” RabierJayson “Kyojin” Nguyen Van (stand in)Steeve “Ozstrik3r” Flavigni (coach)

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Russian esports organization Virtus.pro signs Alexander “StrangeR” Solomonov, Timur “Ahilles” Kulmukhambetov and Ivan “4SV” Karpov on Dota 2 management positions. StrangeR is taking over the position of Head of Dota 2, Ahilles becomes the new roster coach and 4SV steps in as team manager.”The qualifiers for The International this year gave us a lot to think about, revealing the most pressing issues. To solve them, we recruited people with experience: StrangeR proved his managerial abilities a long time ago, assembling competitive squads in the CIS in conditions of limited resources over and over again; Ahilles has coaching qualities that will…

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CS2

Norwegian esports organization Apeks has parted ways with CS:GO player Richard “shox” Papillon.”After much deliberation, we have mutually agreed for shox to explore his options. He will not be a part of our active roster moving forward. This is due to a difference in vision on how to proceed with our in-game team development. Richard has been nothing short of a stellar professional throughout this process and we are doing everything we can to help him find a home where he can thrive. We are actively looking for a replacement,” said the Apeks statement.The 30-year-oldFrench veteran had joined Apeks in…

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Head coach Park “March” Tae-won and Dota 2 player Kenny “Xepher” Deo have left T1.The organization said goodbye to the head coach on Twitter, after which Xepher announced that he is leaving the team and is ready for relocation.March has been coaching the T1 roster since October 2020. Before that, he played for TNC Predator for a year. Who will become the new coach of the team is still unknown.Xepher joined T1 in November 2020, where he came from Geek Fam.Also, Carlo “Kuku” Palad is one step away from leaving T1. He announced that his contract with T1 has ended.…

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Alexander “TORONTOTOKYO” Khertek is thinking of leaving Team Spirit, Escorenews reported citing its own sources.According to the outlet, he is considering creating a new Dota 2 team with Vitalie “Save-” Melnic, who is inactive in Virtus.pro, and Egor “Nightfall” Grigorenko from Evil Geniuses.Neither Team Spirit nor Vitus.pro or Evil Genius have commented on the information yet.Also, sources do not say who could be the fourth and fifth players in the new squad.TORONTOTOKYO has been with Team Spirit since 2020. Together with the organization, he became the champion of several DPC seasons, The International 2021 and PGL Major Arlington 2022. However,…

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LoL

G2 Esports and League of Legends player Marcin “Jankos” Jankowski have parted ways for the 2023 season after five years of cooperation.In his video, Jankos explained the reasons for this decision. He also noted he is not going to retire.”So I do want to still compete I did not intend or retiring I also actually didn’t really think about leaving G2 but then G2 also made a decision that they want to try with a different giant for next year,” he said.The 27-year-old Polish athlete joined G2 at the end of 2017. With the team, he won quite a few…

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CS2

Spanish CS:GO player Pere “sausol” Solsona Saumell joins Movistar Riders, the organization announced on Twitter.He has to replace Raúl “DeathZz” Jordán Nieto, who has been benched.Earlier, the upcoming transfer was reported by the Portuguese outlet Fraglider.26-year-old DeathZz has been playing for Movistar Riders since August 2021. It is obvious, the reshuffle was provoked by the poor results of the Spanish squad in recent times.Movistar Riders took the last places at the RMR in Malta and the ESL Pro League Season 16; at the ESL Challenger at DreamHack Rotterdam 2022 they ranked 5th-6th.22-year-old sausol did not have time to play for…

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