Author: BLIX.GG

Liquid announced it’s player Richard “⁠shox⁠” Papillon and coach Eric “⁠adreN⁠” Hoag are stepping down from team’s active lineup to explore other options for the future.Liquid’s management did not disclose who will replace shox and adreN.The changes come after a poor start of the year for Liquid, whose best result in 2022 has been 5-8th places at ESL Pro League Season 15. Other than that, the North American squad failed to make it out of BLAST Premier Spring Groups, after which they were then knocked out in the Showdown, and also fell in the group stages at IEM Katowice, PGL…

Position 5 support Jaron “monkeys-forever” Clinton has left Arkosh Gaming’s Dota 2 roster, without specifying any reasons.”Well with that def loss my time with Arkosh is officially over. Sometimes one of your players just doesn’t show up xD It was a fun year but I’m gonna be focusing on streaming and maybe I’ll make a team for next season, who knows! Thanks for all of the support <3,” he noted on Twitter.Before that, Arkosh Gaming received a forfeit defeat in the match against The Cut and flew out of the North American qualifier for The International 2022.Current lineup of Arkosh…

Former Natus Vincere in-game leader Kirill “Boombl4” Mikhaylov has joined Bebra, a CS:GO team founded by streamer Vyacheslav “Buster” Leontiev.According to Buster, the competition is scheduled from September 12-15. The participants will include Entropiq, K23, 9 Pandas, Aurora gaming, Forward, Avangar, TAG and others. More details about the LAN are not known at the moment.At the end of August this year, Boombl4 was invited to the BenchedHeroes to participate in the RMR qualifiers before IEM Rio Major 2022. According to Rodion “fear” Smyk, a team member, Boombl4 had refused to join them then.Boombl4 got kicked from NAVI at the end…

As BLIX.GG had predicted, American esports organization TSM signed Gasher and Snake to complete its Rainbow Six Siege roster.TSM has been looking for new players due to the departure of Brady “Chala” Davenport at the end of July and Emilio “Geometrics” Leynez in August.Snake came to TSM from Vipers eSports. He already was in TSM on trial in June-July.Gasher played in Aqualix from 2021-2022. He won North American Challenger League 2022: Stage 2 with this squad in June this year.TSM’s R6 roster is now:Matthew “Achieved” SolomonJason “Beaulo” DotyBryan “Merc” WrzekGasherSnake

Brazilian eSports organization Team oNe eSports has parted ways with Rainbow Six Siege player Lorenzo “Lagonis” Volpi.20-year-old Lagonis joined Team oNe as the in-game leader in March 2021. was Team oNe’s in-game leader. He won with them the Copa do Brasil – Season 2022: Stage 2 in August this year.It is not yet known who will replace Lagonis in the team and with whom he will continue his sports career.Team oNe’s current roster for R6 is:Team oNe eSportsLeonardo “d4sh” LopesGabriel “Maia” MaiaRenato “rhZ” Luiz

Tournament operator ESL has announced the decision not to host IEM China 2022 which was scheduled for December. The reason is the epidemiological situation in China which led to restrictions on holding international events.At the same time, ESL hasn’t abandoned plans to hold a major championship in the Asian region. Holding the event in China will be considered when forming the competitive calendar for 2023.ESL also postponed the EPL Season 17 Conference, the qualifying tournament for the ESL Pro League. To avoid scheduling conflicts with the BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2022, the EPL Season 17 Conference has been moved from…

Swedish esports organization Ninjas in Pyjamas has signed a Finnish professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player Aleksi “Aleksib” Virolainen.The 25-year-old esportsman came to NIP from G2 Esports, where he has been playing since January this year. He started to find a new team in July.To make room for Aleksib, NIP has benched Nicolas “Plopski” Gonzalez Zamora, who has performed for the team since 2019.NIP management also announced that Aleksib would be the new in-game leader and the squad would use English for communication. Before the appearance of Alexib, the NIP’s CS:GO roster included Swedes and a Dane (Danish is close to…

Chinese professional League of Legends player Mingyi “Spica” Lu has parted ways with American-based esports organization TSM.”TSM has terminated my contract so I am a free agent effective today. Thanks to all the fans for the 4 years of overwhelming support and I’m excited for what’s coming next,” he noted on Twitter.The 21-year-old jungler left TSM after a loss to Evil Geniuses in the 2022 LCS Championship.He joined TSM in 2019 where he first played for the academy team from 2019-2020, after that he was transferred to the primary lineup.TSM’s current LoL roster is:Colin “Solo” EarnestHuang “Maple” Yi-tangTony “Instinct” NgJohnathan…

Denmark-based esports tournament organizer BLAST Premier is preparing to hold spring CS:GO Major in 2023 in France, Dexerto reported citing its own sources.It’s unclear at this time which city will host the tournament but most likely it will be Paris. The circuit is expected to take place between May 8-21.It will be the first CS:GO Major in France and also the first organized by BLAST since the company’s founding.Earlier, Jaxon.gg reported that BLAST and another event operator Perfect World sent applications to Valve to organize a CS:GO Major in 2023.Before, BLAST’s managing director Charlotte Kenny said in an interview with…

After Chinese esports organization Invictus Gaming left Rainbow Six Siege pro scene, the former team decided to continue playing under the name Tyde.Since the star duo Jack “Jigsaw” Gillies and Matin “SpeakEasy”, which was the base of the “super team” project, left the team earlier, Tyde invited Tex “Tex” Thompson and Hafiz “ShibeNuts” Al Fayyed Bin Yahaya.Tex is an Australian Rainbow Six Siege player who last played for Fnatic. Since the end of 2021, he has been inactive. ShibeNuts makes the first steps in a tier-1 team.The core of Tyde used this name earlier in 2016 and returned to it…