Author: Sebastian "primero" Pereira
The Chinese esports organization HSG has officially announced the signing of Olga “olga” Rodrigues, confirming earlier reports.It was previously known that the female CS:GO star from FURIA Esports Female was going to leave the Brazilian team and there were rumors that she would join the Chinese organization.At the recent ESL Impact Katowice 2023, FURIA with olga took 3rd – 4th place, and her new home was ranked 5th – 6th.28-year-old olga has been playing with FURIA fe since March 2021. Who will replace her in the Brazilian squad is still unknown.According to HLTV.org, HSG actual roster is now:SinMan “â Hazelâ ” FongRamona…
Artem “fng” Barshak and Ilya “Kiritych~” Ulyanov have joined Virtus.pro Dota 2 team.27-year-old fng, who came from CIS Rejects, will step in as position 5 support and will be the new captain of the team. Former captain Andrey “Dukalis” Kuropatkin was benched recently together with Alexandr “krylat” Krylatov.To replace krylat, the management of the team invited 20-year-old Kiritych~, who has been performing with Nemiga Gaming for two years since March 2021. Before Nemiga, he played with SMARACIS Esports.Dukalis and krylat played for Virtus.pro for a short time. They joined the team in December. The first was Dukalis, and later the…
Guild Esports, a British esports organization co-owned by David Beckham, has formed its first CS:GO team.The new Guild’s roster is:Kaia “KiKi” HolmenMarita “Minnie” Siljan SørensenThea “pullox” EvensenAnna “Ann4” LaurinoviÄaLinnea “Linneaaa” ClaessonThe organization hasn’t provided any other details as of yet.In addition to the CS:GO, as evident on the organization’s website, Guild Esports has teams in Valorant, Fortnite, Rocket League and FIFA.
According to the information, provided by Dmitry “Korb3n” Belov (Team Spirit’s Dota 2 team manager), upcoming changes in Team Secret will feature Miroslav “BOOM” BiÄan switching from his role in the team from midlane to offlane.Read more: Five Takeaways From The Lima Major 2023Additionally, Korb3n revealed that there’s a chance of Armel “Armel” Tabios and Daniyal “yamich” Lazebnyy joining Team Secret.The information was provided on the stream of Mark “sikle” Lerman, Spirit’s analyst, according to the Russian esports website cyber.sports.ru.Korb3n: “I heard things about Yamich joining Team Secret on pos 4. Though there’s someone else could be. Otherwise, it all…
Faze Clan has announced entering the female Valorant competitive scene and unveiled its first female Valorant roster.The new team which will compete under FaZe’s Valorant banner is:Jennifer “refinnej” LeEmma “emy” ChoeVannesa Emely “panini” EmoryMadison “maddiesuun” MannDiane “di^” TranThe team will make its first public appearance under FaZe Clan while competing in the upcoming 2023 season of the Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) Game Changers Series.”It’s been a long time coming but we’re stoked to officially announce bringing on our first all female esports pro team for Valorant. Signing this group of talented women is just the beginning of bringing female gamers…
Valorant pro player and ex-CS:GO player Hunter “SicK” Mims, who performs with Sentinels as a six player, was arrested on March 4 in Texas for criminal trespassing.According to the inmate entries of the Collin County jail, SicK was arrested on March 4 and has not been released till time of publication.He was charged with a Class B Misdemeanor and held on bond for $5,000.SicK was arrested after an incident at a Ferrari car dealership, Dotesports reported. He refused to leave the dealership despite the demands of its employee.Sentinels have not issued an official statement regarding the incident until now. Image:…
The German esports organization Sprout has decided to return Rasmus “Zyphon” Nordfoss from the bench to its active CS:GO roster and bench Ismail “refrezh” Ali instead.According to Sprout’s report, the organization and refrezh differed in their views on the project. So, Sprout has put the athlete on the transfer list.refrezh and Zyphon came to Sprout together in August last year. In February, the Germans decided to bench Zyphon, refrezh stepped down from the in-game leader position and the organization invited Mikkel “Maze” Sparvath for trial as the new IGL.Read more: Counter-Strike 2 and Source 2: everything we know so farNow,…
Counter-Strike is keeping its growth in 2023.After setting up a previous record several days ago (February 17, 1,320,219 players), CS:GO just updated the all-time peak, exceeding 1,323,700 concurrent players.Read more: From Howl to Doodle Lore: Stolen CS:GO Skins and Valve’s Response Steamcharts.com at 3:00 PM CEST, February 19, 2023.According to Steamcharts.com, CS:GO gained +15.39% of average players in January of 2023.The average online also keeps growing February and is now not far away from 800,000 players.Read more: Counter-Strike 2 and Source 2: everything we know so farCS:GO set the record of average online of concurrent players in April of 2020…
The Mongolian esports organization IHC Esports has said goodbye to Tengis “sk0R” Batjargal.”Tengis “sk0R” Batjargal is officially out of the team. Thank you for being with us in all the periods of failure and success, such as the first sticker of the Mongolian team, the first big successes of the Asian continent, and the successive Major tournaments of the Mongolian team. Good luck in all future competitions,” noted the IHC statement.20-year-old sk0R has reported on Instagram that leaving the team wasn’t his decision.”It was full of good memories and experience but never imagined to end up like this. Leaving is…
The Chinese Dota 2 team Knights has disbanded and the roster is renamed to Antarctic Penguins. This is evidenced by the data available on the Dota Pro Circuit team registration website.Three of the ex-Knights and two from Team Mystique have formed a new squad named Solitude.Solitude consists of:Luo “eGo” Bin (ex-Knights)Vincent “AlaCrity” Hiew (ex-Knights)Su “Flyby” Lei (ex-Knights)Duan “Drink” Songjun (ex-Team Mystique)Raymond “rayy” Then (ex-Team Mystique)Knights ranked 17th-18th at the Lima Major and finished third at the DPC CN 2023 Tour 1: Division I. The team was accused several times of using cheats and dishonest play.