Author: Sebastian "primero" Pereira

Artem “Yuragi” Golubiev from OG Dota 2 team will perform with HellRaisers as a substitute at The Lima Major 2023.”What could be better than one Major winner in a team? Right! Two Major winners! Yuragi + Solo ‘” these are the guys who will play on the safe lane during The Lima Major. Thanks to OG Esports for cooperation,” noted the HellRaisers statement.The 21-year-old Ukrainian Yuragi will replace Nikita “Daxak” Kuzmin, who left the team in early February.Daxak’s departure was accompanied by verbal sparring between the team members, HellRaisers’ management and Daxak himself on social networks and in the media.…

The Israeli CS:GO player Guy “Nertz” Iluz has joined ENCE three days after Valdemar “valde” Bjørn VangsÃ¥’™s benching.23-year-old Nertz came to ENCE from Endpoint CS:GO squad where he has been playing since November 2021. With the British organization, he won some B-Tiers tournaments. ENCE’s management has a good opinion of athlete’s prospects.”We’ve had our eyes on NertZ for some time already, as his skills and potential are undeniable. He seems to fit the team really well, both role-wise and in terms of personality. I’m excited to welcome NertZ to the team and start working hard to reach our full potential…

1win has officially announced the signing of Ex-Natus Vincere IGL Kirill “Boombl4” Mikhaylov and Aleksey “NickelBack” Trofimov, confirming earlier reports.Few days ago, the Russian organization signed Igor “Forester” Bezotecheskiy, as insiders had predicted.The three new members replace Egor “flamie” Vasilyev (left 1win on February 10), Aleksandr “glowiing” Matsiyevich (left 1win on February 13) and ex-IGL Ihor “lollipop21k” Sołodkov (left the squad in December last year). Aleksandr “TRAVIS” Timkiv and Denis “deko” Zhukov will remain with the organization.According to the 1win statement, NickelBack will be the new in-game leader of the roster.In addition, Dmitriy “hooch” Bogdanov has joined 1 win coaching…

The new Argentinian esports organization BESTIA has acquired almost all of Isurus’™s CS:GO roster.Roberto “reversive” Themtham was the only one of the ex-Isurus athletes, who couldn’™t get into the new squad. Instead, Bestia invited Luca “Luken” Nadotti, who had already played in different lineups along with Ignacio “meyern” Meyer, who also got into Bestia.Bestia’s message appeared a day after Isurus announced her withdrawal from CS:GO and the release of the team.Isurus management stated that they “feel that the competitive CS:GO ecosystem is far from the objectives that Isurus has as an organization in the short term”.Due to which the players,…

Valdemar “valde” Bjørn VangsÃ¥ has been moved to the bench from ENCE’s active CS:GO roster.”Unfortunately, due to the roster having issues matching their playstyles together, which has led us to lackluster results over the past 6 months, we have decided to make changes to be better prepared for the upcoming RMR qualifiers. We are actively working on signing a permanent fifth player to the roster; more information about this will be announced later on,” noted the organization statement.ENCE General Manager Niklas “Willkey” Ojalainen has said that he gives valde the highest recommendations and he hopes the athlete will find a…

Aleksandr “glowiing” Matsiyevich has officially left 1win, confirming earlier reports.”Today our paths diverge with Aleksandr “glowing” Matsiyevich: we ended cooperation by mutual agreement. For a long time Glowwing played under the flags of our organization as a captain – and we say a huge thank you for your contribution to the life and development of the team,” noted the organization statement.Previously, insider Aleksey “OverDrive” Biryukov had reported that glowing with Egor “flamie” Vasilyev and Ihor “lollipop21k” Sołodkov, who left 1win earlier, should give way to ex-Natus Vincere IGL Kirill “Boombl4” Mikhaylov alongside Aleksey “NickelBack” Trofimov and Igor “Forester” Bezotecheskiy. Forester…

G2 Esports has defeated Heroic at the Grand Final of the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2023 with a score of 3:1.G2 has won on Nuke (16:12), Mirage (16:13), Ancient (16:17) maps and lost on Inferno (11:16).The winner takes home $400,000 prize money and qualifies for the IEM Cologne 2023. The silver medalist takes $180,000.The MVP of the tournament became Justin “jks” Savage from G2.During the tournament, ESL, its organizer, announced the winners of its own award for 2022. Natus Vincere star Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyljev became the Player of the Year, Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov from G2 Esports was awarded the Breakthrough…

The Danish esports organization Team Singularity has signed the ex-LODIS lineup and returned to the CS:GO competitive scene.The organization parted ways with its previous CS:GO team in March 2022. It was just after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, all of the old lineup consisted of Russian athletes.This time, all of the players are Polish.Team Singularity CS:GO squad is:Konrad “Qlocuu” KlocekJan “POLO” PolakTomasz “freo” Wolski (in-game leader)Jakub “nestee” LempartKarol “virtuoso” WrześniewskiTeam Singularity was founded in 2016. At this time the organization has CS:GO, Fortnite, Rocket League, FIFA 22, League of Legends, Apex Legends, Teamfight Tactics and HearthStone teams.

On Saturday of February 11, CS:GO fans broke the record for online simultaneous play. The peak figure has reached 1.32 million players.According to steamdb.info, the previous record was reached in April 2020 when a significant part of the world’s population was locked in their homes due to covid quarantine. Then, 1.3 million players entered the game. image: steamdb.info

South American esports organization Thunder Awaken has parted ways with Ricardo “Alone” Fernandez.”I’m not gonna say anything about Thunder Awaken, everything is good with them, I just want other opportunities, I didn’™t feel comfortable with many things, and now I’™m looking for a comfort opportunity for me,” the athlete commented on leaving the team.18-year-old Alone joined Thunder Awaken in November last year after leaving Infamous Gaming in August 2022. He came to the team with some other players from Infamous who left the Peruvian team in November.Thunder Awaken Dota 2 roster is now:Aliaksei “Smiling Knight” SvirydauMario “LittleBoy” ValdiviaMiguel “Michael-” GomezCristian…