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The Skyesports League is back in 2023, with a new game joining the city-based IP for the first time. Indian Pokémon UNITE fans gear up, as the Skyesports League 2023 will see the eight city-based teams fighting for the title and a share of the humongous ?10,00,000 prize pool. The Skyesports League is one of...

Revenant Esports, one of Asia’s fastest growing esports organisations, has announced the signing of two mobile gaming athletes: Deepak SENSEI Negi and Harshit MJ Mahajan.  SENSEI was previously a part of Team XO, where he collected numerous accolades, including a third-place finish in the Battlegrounds Mobile India Series (BGIS) 2021 and first-place finishes in Skyesports...

Jet Skyesports, the leading esports tournament organiser in south Asia, has unveiled its latest IP, the Skyesports Masters, which is not only India’s first-ever franchise-based esports league but also the country’s biggest gaming tournament to date with a whopping ?2cr prize pool. The league will feature a total of eight franchise teams comprising the biggest...

Revenant Esports has made history by becoming the first Indian esports organisation to feature on an OTT platform. The organisation has tied up with ZEE5 for the E-Gaming Unplugged series, which headlines Revenant Esports’ players. So far, five E-Gaming Unplugged episodes have been released, with more on the way. Each episode follows a different Revenant...

The Pokémon UNITE World Championship Series is set to return to India in 2023 with a much bigger format and higher stakes. The three-month tournament will reward teams in India with a reported US$75,000 in prize money. It will also determine the two teams that will represent the country at the 2023 Pokémon UNITE World...

FaZe Clan completed their long-awaited Intel Grand Slam as they beat Cloud9 in the Grand Finals of ESL Pro League Season 17. FaZe Clan became the fourth team to complete the coveted Grand Slam title after Astralis (2019), Team Liquid (2020) and Natus Vincere (2021).  FaZe’s Intel Grand Slam triumph kicked off with their win...

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 comes on the back of Valve having announced that the latest instalment in the Counter-Strike franchise, Counter-Strike 2 (CS2), will be releasing in summer 2023....

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 teams fight it out over a span of eight weeks and is scheduled for August 14–20, 2023, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.  The CS:GO tournament will...

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 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 LAN tournament that will take place in Japan in May later this year. The team cruised through the open qualifiers and cemented their slot in...