Author: BLIX.GG

CS2

Polish esports organization AGO Esports has unveiled the CS:GO roster for the new competitive season.AGO signed Michał “snatchie” Rudzki and Grzegorz “jedqr” Jędras from disbanded Wisła Kraków and acquired Tomasz “phr” Wójcik from Illuminar Gaming.Besides, the org staff returned Eryk “leman” Kocięba from the bench.From the previous roster retained their places rifler Damian “Furlan” Kisłowski and coach Mikołaj “miNIr0x” Michałków.The updated AGO roster played its first matches even before the official presentation. The Poles competed in two open European qualifiers for the next RMR tournament, where they had failed.

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CS2

Valve assigned CS:GO version 1.36.8.4, which is supposedly a Source 2 port with the same ID as the version already available to all users on the classic engine – 730, dataminer Aquarius reported.He noted that before CS:GO 1.36.8.4 appeared with ID 730, the developers created a backup copy of the shooter. After that, they updated some client/server settings and localization files.The official release date of CS:GO on the Source 2 engine is still unknown. Valve representatives also did not report on the update in the game. However, towards the end of June, rumors appeared that the transition would take place…

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R6

Hikaru “Li9ht” Osawa, Tsukasa “Merieux” Asano and Masashi “Siru” Miyamoto have been benched from Fnatic’s Rainbow Six Siege squad.The esports organization had put them up for transfer.Li9ht explained that this decision resulted from a conflict with the coaching staff.”That’s why I got fired from FNC! The reason is that it is difficult to repair the relationship with the coach manager. It is very disappointing that we have been competing in APAC since the GUTS era and it ended like this. I have a lot of motivation, so I’m looking for recruits as players or coaches!” he noted on Twitter.He hinted…

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LoL

Game developer and esports tournament organizer Riot Games and legendary jewelry brand Tiffany & Co have presented the redesigned Summoner’s Cup for the upcoming League of Legends Worlds 2022.”The new Summoner’s Cup was designed to honor that past, while celebrating the next chapter of LoL Esports. Made of sterling silver, fine silver, stainless steel, brass, and wood, the Summoner’s Cup weighs 44 pounds and stands approximately 27 inches. The modern design was brought to life over a span of four months totaling 277 hours by Holloware workshop craftspersons,” Riot noted in a statement.Tournament organizers have also established a new tradition…

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CS2

Israeli professional esports organization Finest has loaned Aleksander “hades” Miskiewicz from ENCE and parted ways with Guy “anarkez” Trachtman in their CS:GO roster.”Known for his impressive showing with ENCE, Olek serves as the strong and feared player we’re looking for as we take our roster forward to the next steps,” Finest noted in a statement.22-year-old hades returned to active competition after being benched in early August. ENCE benched Polish AWPer to make room for former Movistar Riders’ AWPer Alvaro “SunPayus” Garcia.hades took the place of anarkez in the Finest’s active CS:GO roster. 22-year-old anarkez was the longest-standing Finest player who…

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R6

Jack “Jigsaw” Gillies and Matin “SpeakEasy” Yunos have left Invictus Gaming’s international Rainbow Six roster.Reports of the two players leaving came a week after coach Ellis “GiG” Hindle became inactive and began exploring options in other teams. 20-year-old Australian player Jigsaw came to Invictus Gaming from Team Bliss in February this year. 21-year-old Singaporean player SpeakEasy joined the team earlier, in June 2021. His previous team was Giants Gaming.With IG players ranked fourth at Asia-Pacific League 2022 – South Division – Stage 2. The mass exodus obviously puts an end to the “super-team” project. That was the name of the…

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R6

Brazilian esports organization has benched Gleidson “GdNN1” Nunes from their active Rainbow Six Siege’s roster before starting Stage 3.According to the w7m esports statement, this was a joint decision of the esports organization staff and the team. GdNN1 is open to negotiations and proposals. For its part, GdNN1 said that he did not agree with this decision.”As some of you already know I am no longer part of the W7M, as I told them I did not agree with the decision for a few reasons. One of them the time I was informed of this with only 2 days left…

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CS2

18-year-old Israeli player Dorian “xertioN” Berman from MOUZ academy team MOUZ NXT has joined the main MOUZ CS:GO roster. He will replace Aurimas “Bymas” Pipiras, who had been benched.xertioN is the third player who joined the main MOUZ roster from the academy. This trio also includes German Jon “JDC” de Castro and Hungarian Ádám “torzsi” Torzsás. Moreover, the current main team coach has also been transferred from the academy. All of them moved to their current places this year.The young Israeli is very happy about the promotion. He said that the transition to the main squad of MOUZ was his…

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Team Liquid carry Lasse “MATUMBAMAN” Urpalainen decided to retire from Dota 2 esports not later than the end of The International 2022, he revealed in an interview with ESPORTS.gg.”It’s not so much about motivation for me, especially as my career is coming to an end in two months. Maybe earlier if we don’t qualify for TI. I heard a nice quote from Magnus Carlsen recently, he was asked about motivation level and he said ‘probably no motivation, but I’m still trying’. So I’m just going to stay the same and although I’m not motivated I’m still trying my best. Then…

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Valorant developer and esports tournament organizer Riot Games has decided to investigate allegations that some Valorant teams didn’t eceive prize money from regional leagues.Earlier, esports outlet Dexerto.com reported that Israeli organization NOM Esports had failed to pay almost $10,000 in salaries to their former Valorant team.NOM Esports, in turn, stated that they have not received prize money at any of the stages of VRL East Surge. “We are sad about the fact that until today and after a lot of ignored repeated requests to the VRL East Surge, the prize money that NOM Esports and the players have won hasn’t…

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