Author: Sebastian "primero" Pereira

G2 Esports have announced that Jan “Swani” Müller has officially signed as the team’™s head coach after six months as an interim head coach.The German-based organization moved Swani to the interim coach position at the end of October following Rémy “XTQZZZ” Quoniam’™s departure from G2. This would mark Swani’™s highest-profile position within G2 as he previously worked as an analyst and assistant coach after joining G2 in 2019. Additionally, Swani briefly served as the interim coach following the departure of Damien ‘œmaLeK’ Marcel in late 2021.During his most recent tenure as interim coach, Swani helped G2 to two prestigious trophies,…

Curaçao-Bulgarian esports organization 500 has moved Georgi “SHiPZ” Grigorov to the bench.According to 500’s report, coach Denis “Grashog” Hristov will temporarily replace him in the starting roster while they look for a new player.SHiPZ⁠ joined the 500 in October last year alongside two of his former SKADE teammates. Together with the team, the 22-year-old Bulgarian player won two seasons of the Global Offensive Champions League. However, later 500 and SHiPZ⁠ only 12th-14th managed place at the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR B.500 are now:Denislav “dennyslaw” DimitrovAleks “Rainwaker” PetrovNikolay “niki1” Panteleev (IGL)Ivan “Patrick” IvanovDenis “Grashog” Hristov (Coach)

Evil Geniuses, whose League of Legends squad performs in the North American franchised league, LCS, has parted ways with four of five its main roster, confirming an earlier report by BLIX.EG has said goodbye to Philippe “Vulcan” Laflamme, Kacper “Inspired” Słoma, Kim “Ssumday” Chan-ho and Victor “FBI” Huang.The organization also recently parted ways with Head Coach AleÅ¡ “Freeze” Kněžínek and his assistant Albert “H4xDefender” Ong.EG finished fourth in the LCS Spring 2023, a result which obviously failed to impress the organization’™s management.Only Joseph “Jojopyun” Pyun from the old lineup will defend the EG banner in the LCS Summer split.

Evil Geniuses have parted ways with Peter “stanislaw” Jarguz, who was playing with the EG Academy roster and replacing him on EG Black is Jadan “HexT” Postma who has recently left the Evil Geniuses main roster.The 29-year-old has been playing with EG Black since August last year. Just before his arrival, NexT was promoted to the main roster.EG’s main team are now rebuilding after failures at ESL Pro League Season 17, finishing in last-place, and failing to make the upcoming Paris Major at the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: American RMR. These poor results lead to the organization’s management signing Danish…

Southeast Asian tournament organizer IO Esports in partnership with Epulze have revealed details about the upcoming Bali Major, which is set to be held after the Summer DPC Tour.The Major, the first ever in Indonesia, will be held from June 29 – July 9; with playoffs taking place at the AYANA Estate from July 7 – July 9.18 teams from around the world will compete for a $500,000 prize pool and 3,500 DPC points.”The Bali Major is a massive event for all Dota 2 fans, especially those residing in Indonesia. Our top priority is ensuring that everyone will have a…

Riot Games has announced the League of Legends World Championship will be hosted in South Korea in 2023. The tournament will take place from October 11-November 19 in Seoul and Busan.”The World Final has been scheduled later than usual to support the 19th Asian Games being held September 23-October 8 in Hangzhou, China! League of Legends and six other esports titles will be featured as medal events for the first time. The shift will accommodate our LoL Esports pro players competing in the Asian Games,” noted the Riot Games statement.Worlds’ new format will feature 22 teams in three stages of…

Team Vitality has defeated Heroic at the Grand Final of the Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2023 with a score of 2:0.Vitality takes home $100,000 USD and qualifies for IEM Cologne 2023. While Heroic, in second place earned $42,000 USD.Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut from Team Vitality becomes MVP of the tournament.The next tournament of the Intel Grand Slam this season will be hosted in Dallas on May 29-June 4.IEM Rio 2023 results and prize pool1st ‘“ $100,000 ‘“ Team Vitality2nd ‘“ $42,000 ‘“ Heroic3rd-4th ‘“ $20,000 ‘“ Natus Vincere and Cloud95th-6th ‘“ $10,000 ‘“ FURIA Esports and BIG7th-8th ‘“ $6,000 ‘“ Ninjas…

Andrey “Dukalis” Kuropatkin, who’s been benched in the Virtus.pro Dota 2 team since after the end of the first DPC 2023 tour, is leaving the club, the organization reported on Twitter.”Andrey accepted the invitation to Virtus.pro at the beginning of the season and became the first captain of the new roster. His long-term playing connection with krylat (Alexandr “krylat” Krylatov) helped the team to adapt to the sudden change in the roster in the shortest possible time. We grant him free agent status ahead of the last transfer window of the season, as we understand the importance of competitive practice…

Alexander “Altekz” Givskov, who recently moved to the main Astralis CS:GO roster, is replacing Andreas “Xyp9x” Højsleth, the organization reported.Astralis hasn’™t fired Xyp9x, instead he’™ll perform with the academy team, Astralis Talent, where Altekz was promoted from.”It tells you everything about Andreas that his first thought is to help the organization where he can and give the talents a chance to learn from Andreas’ huge experience, while at the same time, we can give one of the most talented young players the opportunity to get closer to the first team. Andreas is still part of our main roster, and the…

Danish esports organization Astralis has decided to move Alexander “Altekz” Givskov from Astralis Talent to the main CS:GO roster, the organization announced on Twitter.19-year-old Altekz started his carrier in 2020 in Lucendi Esports and came to Astralis Talent from MASONIC in 2021.The team’s management has not clarified who will room place for Altekz or if he will be a sixth player, although they noted that Andreas “kiR” Kirstein has been invited to substitute Altekz in the Academy roster.22-year-old kiR, as well as Altekz, has been playing with MASONIC too. But his tenure with this organization was extremely short. He was…