Author: Sebastian "primero" Pereira
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…
The German esports organization Sprout has announced the rebuild of the SC:GO team.Rasmus “Zyphon” Nordfoss, who joined Sprout in August last year, goes to the bench.Ismail “refrezh” Ali, who came to the German team in one day with Zyphon, steps down from the in-game leader position and takes Zyphon’s role in the roster.Sprout also has invited Mikkel “Maze” Sparvath for the IGL position for trial for the IEM Brazil Closed Qualifier.Maze has come to Sprout from Let us Cook, the new project of Polish CS:GO veteran Janusz “Snax” Pogorzelski which was created in January. Before it, he played in Fnatic…
The iconic Luis “peacemaker” Tadeu has found a new home as the coach in LOS + oNe, after leaving Imperial Esports in August 2022.34-year-old peacemaker will take the place of Joaquin “lokomotioN” Cuevas, who’d left the Brazilians in December last year.peacemaker is a true Counter-Strike legend. He began his sports career back in 2005 and since 2015 he’s moved from players to coaches. Over the years, he has coached Team Liquid, Heroic, MAD Lions, Imperial Esports and many other prominent teams.LOS + oNe is now:Pedro “Maluk3” Campos (in-game leader)Matheus “pesadelo” PanissetAlencar “trk” RossatoVictor “iDk” TorracaMario “malbsMd” SamoyaLuis “peacemaker” Tadeu (coach)
paiN’s in-game leader Vinicios “â PKLâ ” Coelho has gone to the bench due to personal reasons. The Brazilian organization has returned Gabriel “NEKIZ” Schenato from the bench to return him.PKL has been playing with paiN since February 2019. He explained he has health problems, physical and mental, and he should take care of it.To fill the vacancy, the Brazilian organization decided to bring back NEKIZ from the bench, who has been inactive since July last year and has already played on loan for O Plano.The summoned NEKIZ is also an old player in the team. He joined paiN in November 2019.paiN’s…
The Ukrainian esports organization HellRaisers Esports has announced the departure of Nikita “Daxak” Kuzmin.”These decisions are never easy. But the team goes first. Today we say goodbye to Daxak,” the organization noted on their own social media accounts.This happened after the player himself wrote with surprise in his Telegram channel that he was not going to the Lima Major with the team with which he had qualified for the tournament. He promised to reveal the details later and noted that some people had prevented him earlier from joining HR.The management of the organization hasn’t explained the decision in any way…
Call of Duty: Warzone 2 uses a convenient weapon customization system called Gunsmith. But it is better to use it with the participation of some additional nozzles – especially sights. And it is worth remembering that even a good sight can ruin the chosen equipment scheme: it depends on how and for what is used. So, short-range scopes are suitable only for certain types of weapons, and medium-range scopes are ideal for others.The first and second CoD-W use a similar set of weapons and the engine, which means that the optics and sights in Warzone 1 and 2 are also…
Ukrainian multi-gaming esports organization has parted ways with Alik “V-Tune” Vorobey, Vladyslav “laise” Lais and Nikita “Nicky`Cool” Ostakhov its Dota 2 team.This decision came following the team’s poor performance in the first tour of the DPC EEU 2023. According to the results of it, the team lost in the lower division.Among this trio, V-Tune was the team’s old-timer. He has been performing with NAVI since 2020. The two others, laise and Nicky`Cool, joined the squad in 2022.NAVI’s play in the Tour 1 of the DPC EEU 2023 was criticized in the media by industry participants. There were frequent statements that…
The Lithuanian professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player Aurimas “Bymas” Pipiras has left team MOUZ. He is a free agent now.”Two and a half years in MOUZ has come to an end. Due to a mutual agreement, I am no longer in contract with MOUZ and I am able to explore new options for 2023. I signed my first ever CS contract with MOUZ in August of 2020 and time does fly man. I was still in school that year, practicing instantly after school, feeling absolutely cooked at the end of the day and fighting not only teachers in school, but…
Valve has released the new patch touching Boyard, Chalice and Anubis maps in CS:GO.The changes are:BoyardClipped boost onto the top of archesFixed gap in the side of stairsLowered floating railingsChaliceRemastered art assetsUpdated lightingUpdated clippingMade the grate bars on A-site less obstructiveAdded place namesImproved occlusion to be more performantAnubisFixed optimization regression