Author: BLIX.GG
TSM coach and former TSM League of Legends star player Heo “Huni” Seung-hoon has announced his retirement plans.”My contract has been terminated with TSM due to injury issue and retiring since August 5th. I’m in a position where I can’t play anymore so I’ve decided to retire. Appreciated to everyone that has been supporting my career and it was pleasure that I could entertain to who watch the league. I’m really happy that I accomplished a lot as a professional player because I was getting a lot of support from everyone and lucky! Thanks for phenomenal memories. I already miss…
The management of Norwegian esports organization Apeks has appointed Martin “STYKO” Styk as their new in-game leader.The decision was followed by a series of personnel changes in the CS:GO team. Previous IGL Asger “AcilioN” Larsen was benched with another team member Hugo “Chawzyyy” Günther at the end of June.After that, Norwegians hired Polish legend Jakub “kuben” GurczyÅski as the new coach and signed Lithuanian Justinas “jL” Lekavicius as a player.Until now, Apeks lineup remains incomplete. The club needs to find the fifth player.STYKO joined Apeks in January. Before that, 26-year-old Slovak played for FunPlus Phoenix, GODSENT, SMASH Esports, NoChance, mousesports…
Brazilian esports organization has entered Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, after forming their CS:GO team.Fluxo has confirmed BLIX.GG report and signed Adriano “WOOD7” Cerato, João “felps” Vasconcellos, Lucas “lux” Meneghini, Vinicius “vsm” Moreira and Lucas “Lucaozy” Neves as players. William “Xamp” Caldas has also been signed as the coach.The new team was formed from ex-00NATION, GODSENT, MIBR and Sharks members.CEO 3C Gaming (Fluxo’s managing company) Renan Philip said that the organization spent over 2.5 million Brazilian reals (about 494,000 USD) to hire this lineup.Fluxo was founded in 2021 by Lucio “Cerol” dos Santos and Bruno “Nobru” Goes. It has attracted a large…
Kévin “misutaaa” Rabier has left the French esports organization Team Vitality.”My story with Team Vitality comes to an end after 2 years, thanks everyone for the support every day, every game. It was a beautiful journey with ups & downs, a lot of emotions, meeting amazing & lovely people. It’s time for another chapter,” he announced on Twitter.His departure was expected. Earlier, insiders reported that Vitality wants to replace him with Lotan “Spinx” Giladi from ENCE.Moreover, there was a possibility of moving misutaaa to Evil Genius. But according to the latest 1pv.fr report, misutaaa is going to join Saudi Arabian…
Brazilian professional esports organization MIBR (also known as Made in Brazil) has announced the departure of their in-game leader Marcelo “chelo” Cespedes.The 24-year-old rifler has been playing for MIBR since January 2021. Official information about his departure followed the rumors of his transition to Brazilian Imperial Esports.The team management has also informed about the hiring of Henrique “HEN1” Teles, confirming the Dust2Brazil report.27-year-old HEN1 earlier played for GODSEND. He has been a free agent since June 30 while the core of GODSEND moved to 00Nation.MIBR’s CS:GO lineup now is:Raphael “exit” LacerdaMatheus “Tuurtle” AnhaiaJhonatan “JOTA” WillianBreno “brnz4n” PolettoHenrique “HEN1” TelesBruno “bit”…
German esports organization BIG has announced upshifting Nils “k1to” Gruhne to its primary CS:GO team.The 23-year-old k1to was in “exile” from the BIG Academy roster from March to August where he was an in-game leader, acting as a stand-in player for the main lineup.”Leading the BIG OMEN Academy as their captain for the past several months, Nils has shown admirable development as a player and has worked hard for his ticket back to the main team. This was confirmed on the server as well when he has assisted the team as a substitute player in the past few tournaments, most…
Chinese coach Zhang “Peter Zhang” Yi, previously Head of Player Development at TSM, is permanently banned from any association or affiliation with any team or organization in Riot-sanctioned competitions. According to the Riot Games competitive ruling, the reasons for the permanent ban include unethical behavior towards current and former TSM players.Peter Zhang violated the League Championship Series Set as well as the LCS Eligibility and Release agreement by diverting portions of player salaries to accounts belonging to Peter Zhang and his associates, by misleading and failing to fully compensate a former TSM player for the sale of the player’s car,…
Valorant servers across the world to be shut down due to the patch 5.03 release, Riot announces schedule
Riot Games has announced the schedule for shutting down Valorant servers to update the game with patch 5.03.The new patch consists of lots of Agent balance and an expected Reaver 2 bundle. So, the servers will be down for a significant amount of time.The servers are scheduled to be down for four hours. However, Riot Games warns that the shutdown could be extended beyond that.Servers will be down:Asia Pacific: Servers will be going down for maintenance on 08/09/2022 at 14:00 PDTBrazil: Servers will be going down for maintenance on 08/09/20222 at 06:00 PDTEurope: Servers will be going down for maintenance…
Lithuanian professional player Justinas “jL” Lekavicius joins Apeks’s CS:GO roster after signing a one-year contract with the team.It’s very likely that the 22-year-old player was invited to join Apeks by coach Jakub “kuben” Gurczynksi. kuben, a Polish legend, had joined Apeks recently.”For me it doesn’t feel like I’m back together with “kuben”, I feel we never left each others side. I’m glad to know he is a pillar I can lean on. He was there from the start of my career and up until this point we never lost faith in each other. So to put it shortly, I’m glad…
Australian esports organization ORDER and Jordan “Hatz” Bajic have parted ways ahead of the competitive season’s return.”Not only a member of our current squad, Hatz also represented ORDER from our inception up until late 2019, leading to domestic dominance and multiple international appearances at events such as the WESG World Finals and multiple ESEA MDL Global Challenges,” noted ORDER’s statement.24-year-old Australian CS:GO player leaves ORDER after two months of joining the team. He joined ORDER in June along with the entire squad which was acquired from Renegades. However, Hatz had played for ORDER before joining Renegades.”I’ve worked with Jordan (Hatz)…