Author: BLIX.GG
Brazilian professional esports organization Imperial Esports has said goodbye to its coach Luis “peacemaker” Tadeu, confirming BLIX.GG report.”Out of Imperial & Free agent – I will be doing a stream next week (TBA) in English & PT-BR going through past 6 months in Imperial, talking about my departure and what im looking for the future,” peacemaker noted in Twitter.The peacemaker’s departure comes amid the team’s poor results over the past few months. Following a performance at PGL Major Antwerp 2022, where Brazilians ranked 9-11th, the team was eliminated in the early stages of the following five championships.According to BLIX.GG report,…
Wilson “poloson” Koh and Daryl “iceiceice” Koh joined Team SMG Dota 2 lineup.By hiring two Singaporeans, the Malaysian esport organization has completed its team.32-year-old iceiceice recently left Team Secret. 26-year-old poloson came from Chinese Ybb Gaming, the second Dota 2 team of Xtreme Gaming.Team SMG ranked sixth at the DPC SEA 2021/2022 Tour 3 and retained their slot in the league’s first division.Team SMG’s Dota 2 lineup is:Yeik “MidOne” Nai ZhengKam “Moon” Boon SengDaryl “iceiceice” KohTue “ah fu” Soon ChuanWilson “poloson” Koh
Ex-VELOX CS:GO player Antonio “MartinezSa” Martinez Sánchez has joined Spanish esports organization Movistar Riders.He will take the place of Alvaro “SunPayus” Garcia, who recently left the team. SunPayus is expected to move to ENCE.MartinezSa has no experience in performing at the tier-1 squads. So he and the team will have to work to overcome the growth problems by the start of ESL Pro League Season 16 on September 21.Movistar Riders are now:Alejandro “mopoz” Fernández-Quejo CanoAlejandro “ALEX” Masanet Candela (IGL)Raúl “DeathZz” Jordán NietoDavid “dav1g” Granado BermudoAntonio “MartinezSa” Martinez SánchezGalder “bladE” Barcena (coach)
Professional multigaming organization Team Empire has recruited a test Dota 2 roster that will enter the arena as Team Empire Hope.The new roster includes:Alexandr “krylat” KrylatovSemyon “Desperate-” ShvetsovAlexei “Mastery” VinchevskyDenis “smN” KonshinAnton “antoha” Marchenko.The new team will debut at Winline Dota 2 Champions League Season 14 on August 16.On August 10, Team Empire management announced the disband of the previous Dota 2 roster due to unsatisfactory results. All team members became free agents, and none joined the new team.Later, Team Empire CEO Sergey “Nevod” Nevodnichiy suggested that the club would not qualify for The International 2022.
Danish esport organization Copenhagen Flames has announced the signing of a new CS:GO roster after selling an old one.For the in-game leader position, Danish club invited Thomas “birdfromsky” Due-Frederiksen from ECSTATIC. Among new roster are two ex-MAD LIONS, Thomas “TMB” Bundsbæk and Johannes “b0RUP” Borup. Also on the team are young AWPer Iulian “regali” HarjÄu from Fnatic Rising and Rasmus “raalz” Steensborg from Sprout. The new head coach is Benjamin “cube” Stabell.All of them are Danes except 19-year-old regali. He is Romanian.Earlier, Copenhagen Flames had sold the old CS:GO team. First, Danes tried to sell the squad as a whole…
Tickets for the main annual Dota 2 event The International 2022 went on sale on August 13 at 10:00 am Singapore time (2:00 am GMT) and sold out in just 15 minutes.Now tickets have appeared on third-party sites with a considerable markup: $1,000-$1,500 per ticket.Initially, the tickets costed 88 SGD (64 USD) for each game day of the main part of the tournament and 498 SGD (362 USD) for both days of the final stage of The International 2022.Earlier in the blog, Valve had promised to restrict people from buying no more than five tickets for each day for one…
Belarusian esportsman Gennady “Astral” Motuz has rejoined PuckChamp’s Dota 2 roster.This is evidenced by the data of the Valve teams registering on the website.PuckChamp hasn’t made any official announcements about this yet. Currently, the team’s roster includes two more people: Nikita “young G” Bochko and Abdimalik “Malik” Saylau.Astral’s return is highly likely related to Valve’s rules.With the three players at the core of the team from the last DPC season, PuckChamp retained the opportunity to play in the regional qualifiers at The International 2022.A few weeks ago, Astral was leaving the team together with Andrey “Dukalis” Kuropatkin, Alexander “krylat” Krylatov…
Dataminer and YouTube-blogger Maxim “gabefollower” Poletaev reported that Valve would not release the Source 2 game engine in August.’Source 2 ain’t happening this month. few days ago I got a confirmation that few new maps was officialy accepted. still, it might be smth big like an operation. mapmakers who got accepted are very careless, they just talking about it everywhere, even when it’s strictly prohibited by valve,’ gabefollower noted.The official release date of CS:GO on the Source 2 engine is still unknown. Valve representatives also didn’t report on the game updates. However, at the end of June, rumors appeared that…
Team Liquid is in negotiations with Virtus.pro to transfer CS:GO player Mareks “YEKINDAR” Gaļinskis from Russian to a European esports organization.”We are working with YEKINDAR to hopefully have some good long term news soon,” Team Liquid General Manager Steve Perino reported on Twitter.Earlier, Liquid confirmed that they would play with YEKINDAR again at the BLAST Premier Fall Groups.The 22-year-old Latvian has already played for Liquid as a stand-in at IEM Cologne 2022. Together with the esportsman, the North American team reached the 1/4 finals.YEKINDAR has been inactive in Virtus.pro since May this year.Team Liquid’s CS:GO roster is:Jonathan “EliGE” JablonowskiKeith “NAF”…
According to Dexerto sources, Riot Games will offer esports organizations involved in the Valorant partnership program a yearly stipend from $600,000 to $1.5 million.The outlet information confirms and clarifies some details of the previous BLIX.GG report about the partner program.There were speculations that Asian teams would receive less than their EMEA and American counterparts due to the lower operational costs.The minimum fee will be $600,000 for all regions.The new Valorant partnership program will start in 2023. This new franchise model limits the number of teams in each league. Because of this, some esports organizations have decided to leave the discipline.