Author: Pedro Romero
Gen.G officially reached Top 4 in the 2023 Mid-Season Invitational following their 3-0 lower bracket series victory over North America’s Cloud9.Following a back-breaking 3-2 defeat to rivals T1, the reigning LCK champions needed to reset before setting off to make a lower bracket run and they did just that against the LCS first seed. Save for some miscues, Gen.G handled C9 with relative ease to eventually win via a clean sweep to progress and set up a date with Bilibili Gaming in the lower bracket semifinals.Of those who contributed to Gen.G’s victory over C9 is support player Yoo “Delight” Hwan-joong.…
Golden Guardians silenced all the doubters the moment they stamped their ticket to the 2023 Mid-Season Invitational. After being expected to finish near or at the bottom of the league prior to the start of the season, GG, with the contributions of head coach Samuel “Spookz” Broadley and his assistant Aaron “Chuz” Bland, found their form in the playoffs to finish second in the LCS to appear in the first-ever international event in organization history.At MSI, GG continued to impress on the world stage as they took down Latin America’s Rainbow7, Vietnam’s GAM Esports, and had a close series against…
While it’s true the non-North American teams have had some struggles getting accustomed to living in Los Angeles, California for the 2023 VCT Americas League, for FURIA in particular, their transition period was intensified to a significant degree.From the start of the season up until Week 4, the team was operating without the presence of head coach Carlos ‘Carlão” Mohn, who stayed in Brazil to resolve his visa issues during the season in order to lawfully arrive in the United States. During that time, he worked on a remote basis and tried to guide his players with the disparity of…
Although Bilibili Gaming fields one of the younger rosters among the teams taking part in the 2023 Mid-Season Invitational, they have been performing like one of the most seasoned lineups around. That’s how they’ve been perceived, given their ongoing journey in the event, which has taken them from the Play-In stage to being within the world’s six best teams so far alongside Gen.G, T1, and JD Gaming.At the helm of BLG is head coach Wong “Tabe” Pak Kan, who joined before the start of the spring playoffs ‘ after winning two consecutive MSI titles with Royal Never Give Up from…
Another week, another resounding Evil Geniuses victory in the 2023 VCT Americas League. Such is the story behind the North American team’s current state after cleanly defeating MIBR 2-0, with them blanking their Brazilian opposition 13-2 in Lotus and 13-5 in Fracture.Such a display, which goes on top of EG’s similar triumphs over Leviatan and Sentinels, only amplifies their description as one of the hottest teams in the league despite starting off the season 1-3 and surrounding rumors of an impending shakeup if things didn’t materialize in the near future.Not only did their form get resolved at a crucial point,…
So far in 2023, no team has been on an upward trajectory in the women’s Counter-Strike scene quite like NAVI Javelins. After being signed by the NAVI organization in May 2022, the team has not finished below fourth place in a single ensuing events. These events include six ESL Impact Cash Cups, ESL Impact Valencia 2022, Katowice 2023, the Season 2 European Division, GIRLGAMER Esports Festival 2022: Ceuta, the IESF Female World Esports Championship 2022, and most recently, Gamers Without Borders Female 2023, which is where they scraped past NIP Impact 3-0 in a bitterly close grand final.At this point,…
By way of winning the 2023 LCS Spring Split and as North America’s subsequent first seed, Cloud9, forgo the Play-In stage of the Mid-Season Invitational to enter in the bracket stage outright. In doing so, they waited for the first phase to end before finding out their first opponent once the bracket stage kicked off, which ended up being China’s Bilibili Gaming.However, in their first series of MSI 2023 for the five-time reigning LCS champions, C9 fell to BLG 3-0 to drop to the lower bracket after the first hurdle. Even after the team looked promising early on in each…
China’s Bilibili Gaming continued their journey in the 2023 Mid-Season Invitational with a 3-0 series win over the reigning LCS champion Cloud9. Although the LPL runner-up was tackled with obstacles in the form of C9’s early-game aggression for every game in the series, BLG evidently found a way to overcome them on each occasion.Among the BLG lineup, which features recognizable names like Zeng ‘Yagao’ Qi and Chen ‘Bin’ Ze-Bin, players who competed in past major tournaments, is an international debutante in Peng ‘XUN’ Li-Xun. After spending the first two years in Invictus Gaming, XUN joined BLG for the 2023 season.…
In the second part of BLIX’s interview with League of Legends personality Mark “MarkZ” Zimmerman, he goes in-depth on the best moments of producing “Catching Up With Doublelift”, what it was like producing the season finale with Peter ‘Doublelift’ Peng himself, how he will look to produce content for the 2023 LCS Summer Split and more.Looking Back at Spring 2023Pedro Romero, BLIX: What would you say has been the wildest episode of Catching Up With Doublelift that you’ve done so far?MarkZ: Most of the pros were very good sports about it. I don’t think any of them complained or hated…
With the second week of the 2023 VCT Game Changers EMEA Series 1 group stage wrapping up and the clock begins to count down towards the start of playoffs, there have been numerous questions to speculate over. On top of deciding who the region’s best team in the first split of the season, fans and analysts are also discussing which players specifically have been the best in their role.Despite the fact the group stage has not yet finished, here are the best players in each position for Week 2 in the 2023 VCT EMEA Series 1 group stage per BLIX.GG.…