Paris Major 2023 set to be final CS:GO Major
Valve has announced that the Paris Major, scheduled to be held in Paris from May 8 to 21, 2023, will be the final Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Major. The announcement...
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Saudi Arabia's Gamers8 to host CS:GO tournament
Saudi Arabia's esports festival Gamers8 has announced a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) tournament with a US$1m prize pool. The tournament is set to have twelve of the world's most elite...
Counter-Strike 2 officially announced
fter months of speculations and numerous teases, Valve have finally given an official update about Counter-Strike 2, the sequel to Valve's extremely popular esports title, Counter-Strike : Global Offensive. Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) according to Valve is the 'largest technical leap forward in Counter-Strike's history' and all the new features will be revealed in the summer, when it is released. Limited testing for select players gets underway on March 22, 2023, and players who are selected will work towards evaluation of a subset of features to get the game ready before its worldwide release. The game will be a free upgrade to CS:GO. Amongst the new features, those that were announced in the release videos are :- Smokes - Counter-Strike 2 will see smoke grenades become 'dynamic volumetric objects' which will interact with the environment it's thrown in and additionally it will also react to gunfire, lighting and explosions. Bullets and HE grenades will be able to break up the smokes momentarily while the smokes now will also take the shape of the environment its thrown in. Smokes will also react to the lighting and CS2 will have CT smokes in the shade of light blue while the T smokes will be brown-ish grey. Sub-Tick - One of the most debated points in CS:GO was the tick rate and CS2 will be tickless - which means tick rates will no longer matter for shooting, moving or throwing grenades.
Team Spirit announces female CS:GO roster
International esports organisation Team Spirit have announced that they will launch a female Counter-Strike division. Spirit will be launching the Team Spirit Female (TSF) team and the roster will make its debut in the ESL Impact series. The roster which makes up the TSF team is the same one that participate under the MVP name. The team currently consists of Justina 'Tynka' Ducká, Jammie 'Jammie' Alagozova, Lea 'xia' Vagová, Svetlana 'suns1de' Mevlid, Mirte 'Moraltis' Horemans. Aleksey 'Nevar' Voronov will serve as the team's coach. Nikita Cheshir Chukalin, CEO of Team Spirit, commented, "Anyone who has been following our organisation for a long time knows that we have been nurturing the idea of a female CS:GO roster for years. However, we have put it off, often due to circumstances beyond our control. Women's esports is an area that is growing so fast that it cannot wait any longer. After following this sphere for a long time and considering many teams, we finally decided that this particular lineup is currently performing at a good level and can become a part of Team Spirit. ‘This is the first-ever female roster in the history of our organisation, so we can call it a double experiment: female and European, English-speaking roster. I sincerely hope both experiments will succeed and the girls show their best qualities."
Revenant Esports qualify for Brawl Stars Masters in Japan
Revenant Esports have clinched the title of the Snapdragon Pro Series – India Challengers and will now be representing the country at the Snapdragon Pro Series Masters — an International...
AA Gaming announces CSGO Rush B tournament
AA Gaming, one of India's leading esports production houses, is coming up with a new tournament IP. The CSGO Rush B is an invitational tournament for Valve’s first-person shooter Counter-Strike:...
ESL reveals Dota 2 Pro Tour
Leading esports and video game entertainment firm ESL FACEIT Group (EFG) have announced the details and dates for the upcoming brand new ESL Pro Tour (EPT) for Dota 2, which will be held in April 2023. The ESL Pro Tour will see the return of the DreamLeague, and the new seasons featuring 16 of the world's best teams competing and the DreamLeague will be an online event, produced from EFG’s Stockholm Studios in Sweden. The DreamLeague is a Dota 2 tournament which stopped in 2020. The inaugural season of Dota 2 ESL Pro Tour will have two DreamLeague Season which will be :- Season 19: April 9-23, 2023. The winning team will qualify directly for the Group Stage of Riyadh Masters. Season 20: June 7-25, 2023. The winner and runner-up will both qualify directly for the Riyadh Masters Group Stage. The main EPT will have two group stages and a playoff round. The group stages will get underway in late March 2023, following the group stage, the first DreamLeague season will take place. Following the DreamLeague season 19, the group stages will resume after which the season 20 of the DreamLeague will take place. The group stages will have a total of 16 teams, with the top four advancing to the second group stage. The second group stage will have a total of eight teams. The EPT season final will take place at the Riyadh Masters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on July 17 - 30, 2023. The top 20 teams will fight it out for a total prize pool of $15,000,000 and the title of the EPT Champions.
Top-G wins NESC 2023 trophy to qualify for World Esports Championships
with a stunning 2-1 victory against team Purr-ple at the ongoing National Esports Championships (NESC) 2023 organised by the Esports Federation of India (ESFI). Following this monumental result, Top-G has become the first Indian female CS:GO team to qualify for the global finals of the World Esports Championships (WEC). With ace CS:GO athletes such as captain Swayambika Sachar (Sway), Shagufta Iqbal (xyaa), Nidhi Salekar (Stormyyy), Dilraj Kaur Matharu (COCO), Aastha Nangia (CrackShot) and Priyanka Choudhary (ALEXAA) as Substitute in their squad, Top-G proved their mettle against team Purr-ple in the closely-contested finals. Top-G dominated the first map by 16 -10 before Purr-ple made a stunning comeback to win the second map 16-14. While both teams were going toe-to-toe in the enthralling finals, Top-G utilised their effective teamwork and proficient attacking tactics to edge out their opponents and take the last map by 19-15 in overtime.
Pokémon UNITE Asia Champions League 2023 reveals LAN playoff dates
The Pokémon UNITE Asia Champions League is entering its final stage as the top six teams from across the continent make their way down to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to battle...
Top-G and Purr-ple set to lock horns at National Esports Championships 2023
The National Esports Championships (NESC) 2023 will have India’s two leading teams, Top-G and Purr-ple, creating history as they become the first all-female CS:GO teams from the country to compete...
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