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Just a couple of minutes after QsQ had lost in the Lower Bracket of the DreamHack Summer Qualifier, the team announced it's disbanding. Therefor five talented players are back on the market, but one big team disappears.
The news might have caught a lot of people in the scene off guard, but for QsQ it was already made prior to the actual qualifier. Just minutes after QsQ got eliminated from the DreamHack Summer contention by Justice League, Jungler Malle announced the disbandment on Facebook.
According to Malle the decision was already made, everyone in the team agreed that it is either this DreamHack or nothing and so the decision was not filled with rage or emotions after the surprise exit of the squad.
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Im sad to announce that QsQ has disbanded. It was not a rage filled emotional decision after the results of our last two series, we had...
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GosuGamers.net will be experiencing some downtime starting 06:00 CEST on Thursday, the 16th of May 2013, and in accordance to Blizzard/Valve's tradition we will be back 'when it's done'.
While our crew will gain a well-deserved rest, our developers however will continue working in order to bring you an all-new GosuGamers website up and running.
It has been quite a ride for this current website until now and even though we're still standing and you're reading this announcement on the v1 website, we shall let you know that this current platform was not meant to serve the needs of 2013 and it definitely wasn't built for an audience like we deliver to today.
So with v1 getting shut down we will finally end the beta days of our public testing grounds, play.gosugamers.net as well. play.gg is technically a core part of the new GosuGamers and while all of you were testing we...
It took a bit of time for the reigning DreamHack Winter 2012 Champion Aydin 'iNsania' Sarkohi to present his new team, but now the roster is official. Alongside his former tdM teammate noobG, three additional well-known names from the scene join the captain.
The last couple of months went up and down for Aydin 'iNsania' Sarkohi, who lost his spot in Trademark eSports after the third cycle of HoN Tour, only to try to build up a new squad for the remainder of the tournament. His project "The Fire Rises" with Kebap, ZerGo, Zlap and others had good outings initially, but the consistency and motivation inside the team made a huge splash in the scene impossible. In the end the team went through several roster changes, got demoted to the Gold Division and ended the first HoN Tour season on a happy note with a march through said Gold Division.
Still the squad had no future and so the search for a new team began again for the designated captain and jungler iNsania. Now...
Having tremendous success beating KangHo and moving to the semifinals of GSL Code S, sOs seems to be one of the strong contenders for the title. Woongjin Stars Protoss player Kim "sOs" Yoo Jin was interviewed by ThisIsGame following his win.
As sOs prepares for his monumental match up against Soulkey and watching his would be opponents in RorO, Innovation, Bomber and Symbol, he has a short chat with ThisIsGame, that was translated by ESFI World. The main subject is his quarter-finals match up with KangHo.
"I was very confident in my PvZ while practicing for this match. I knew my opponent would go for a greedy style so I prepared some aggressive builds but KangHo was much less defensive than I thought he would be. Once I lost the first set, all the following builds that I had prepared were rendered useless. It?s a...
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TongFu cleanly swept Zenith in the grand final of the AMD Premier League to clinch $3,000 in cash. Zenith settled for $1,500 while Invasion-MUFC took down $500 after defeating Rising Stars for the third place.
TongFu annnihilated Zenith in the grand final of AMD Premier League, sweeping the Singaporeans in three games including an epic comeback from a disastrous level one fight.
With the win, TongFu showed the viewers that they are worthy of the direct invitation to The International 3. It is also noteworthy that TongFu did not drop a single game throughout the main event of the AMD Premier League.
TongFu will also be walking away with $3,000 while Zenith, the juggernaut of South East Asia will have to settle for $1,500.
Besides that, Invasion-MUFC also played earlier today and took home the bronze and $500 in cash after defeating Rising Stars in three games. Rising Stars, the fourth...
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0-3 is the defeat that SK Telecom #1 scored against CJ Blaze in the third quarter final match of OGN Spring played just this afternoon.
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GAME ONE
Farm, farm and more farm (and objectives) ? this was CJ Blaze?s strategy as they stepped into...
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In an interview with the entire team after Dignitas' qualification into the summer split of the LCS, the team describes some of their feelings and how they weren't entirely overwhelmed with their success.
The jungler for Team Dignitas seems to regard their victory against Team Summon, the team holding their benched support player, '' less than impressive and thought that it's pretty much just "time to get back to work."
Even though Dignitas had a less than ideal finalization of their weeks in the Spring split in the LCS, Scarra claimed before the promotion matches that "he feels extremely confident in the team's performance", stating that it's the "first time he can say that and mean it in a long time." Dignitas was able to shift their champion pool so they couldn't be explicitly "banned out" and showed their former strength which lead them to their massive win streak in the...
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The folks at MachinimaVS with the guest-star Dan Dinh go through the rise of Quantic and the essential objectives to look at when analyzing their improvement to a professional level team.
Having been inadvertently feared by other teams in the LCS as the team that would cause the upsets, Quantic did not disappoint last weekend, going 3-0 in the match against Complexity even after losing 2 of their star players, and to "currently existing" LCS teams at the time.
With intelligent play an in-depth strategies as well as not having much to study from, Quantic brought their A-Game and showed why they are capable to compete among the best.
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The folks at MachinimaVS with the guest-star Dan Dinh go through the rise of Quantic and the essential objectives to look at when analyzing their improvement to a professional level team.
Having been inadvertently feared by other teams in the LCS as the team that would cause the upsets, Quantic did not disappoint last weekend, going 3-0 in the match against Complexity even after losing 2 of their star players, and to "currently existing" LCS teams at the time.
With intelligent play an in-depth strategies as well as not having much to study from, Quantic brought their A-Game and showed why they are capable to compete among the best.
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After his team got knocked out of the LCS, Megazero envisions a future where he can continue playing the game professionally.
Although his team, much to his dismay, was knocked out of the LCS for the summer split, Megazero reflects on how he never thought MRN would make it in and how they miraculously did anyway. With no intentions of originally dedicating his career to professional gaming, after experiencing it first hand, Megazero had a change of heart and opinion, claiming that if an offer is good enough, he might consider it.
Although MRN didn't manage to make it into the summer split, Megazero is renowned for his 1v1 capabilities and also netted himself the recent title of "Best Riven NA.". MegaZero now waits for the future to unfold to see where his life takes him, as he is already enrolled in a rather prestigious university.
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After his team got knocked out of the LCS, Megazero envisions a future where he can continue playing the game professionally.
Although his team, much to his dismay, was knocked out of the LCS for the summer split, Megazero reflects on how he never thought MRN would make it in and how they miraculously did anyway. With no intentions of originally dedicating his career to professional gaming, after experiencing it first hand, Megazero had a change of heart and opinion, claiming that if an offer is good enough, he might consider it.
Although MRN didn't manage to make it into the summer split, Megazero is renowned for his 1v1 capabilities and also netted himself the recent title of "Best Riven NA.". MegaZero now waits for the future to unfold to see where his life takes him, as he is already enrolled in a rather prestigious university.
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Four more stretch goals have been added to reward players from buying the Compendium. These rewards include the addition of HUD, taunt items and the rights to vote for the next hero Valve release.
Four further stretch goals have been added to the Compendium this morning and the community is just $15,615 from the next stretch goals which. At the time of publication, the prize pool of The International 3 was at $1,984,385, a 24% percent increase from the initial $1,600,000.
New stretch goals
$2,000,000 ? A custom HUD skin for all Compendium owners
$2,200,000 ? A Taunt item with a brand new animation for all Compendium owners
$2,400,000 ? Vote on participants in an 8 player Solo Championship (1 vs 1) at The International
$3,200,000 ? Choose the next hero we release
The addition of four more stretch goals was most probably due to the community hitting the targets...
The German Zerg proved Europe's hero once again as he 2-0'd Group A in the round of 16 to advance to the WCS playoffs. ForGG finished second, leaving Strelok and MMA behind.
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Placed in a group of three Terrans, TLO had the advantage of having to practice just one match-up and that paid him back in kind. Dropping just one map throughout the entire playday, Liquid's Zerg went through both ForGG and Strelok, using devastating mutalisk raids as well as swarm host drops to leave the Terran armada fighting for the second spot.
The German-based eSports league operator 4PlayersLeague is allegedly closing in 2013.
According to reports of the German page TheOrigin.de, 4PlayersLeague will be shutting down operations this year. 4PL is run by the Gaming magazine 4Players, which was bought by the Nuremberg publishing house Computec in 2012 after the bankruptcy of 4Players' previous owner Freenet.
As TheOrigin reports, the 4PL will seize all operations within a period of six months. Reasoning behind shutting down league operations is said to be cost cutting, which is not limited to the 4PL only, but also affects the 4Players gaming editorial staff. Layoffs allegedly have already started.
4Players has been running since 2010, intended to be a multi-game operator for eSports leagues and tournaments. Most prominently 4PL had temporarily run a Starcraft 2 team league, a CS:GO pro league and has held 30 Play4Dota2 cups, most of the time in partnership with Sennheiser, featuring weekly prize...
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$7,500 increase in prize pool for Star Series as Starladder announced more details on their sixth installment of their prestigious league. The tournament is set to begin on the 19th of May before returning to Kiev for the offline finals.
New details for StarLadder Star Series Season VI has emerged and sixteen teams will once again go on a two-months long journey to make their way into the LAN finals in Cyberarena, Kiev.
This season, Star Series will boast a 50% high prize pool in comparison to the previous seasons, pushing the total amount up to $22,500 in cash. The breakdown of the cash prize is available at the bottom of the news.
The format of the tournament will be the same as the season before - Round robin to a double elimination offline playoffs - and will begin on the 19th of May. The offline playoffs is set to start two months later on the 4th of July.
Line-up for Star...
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Our insider source told us that Neolution.Int has been disqualified from The International 3 qualifier. Neo.Int breached Valve's rules regarding roster change earlier today when they booted Michael 'ninjaboogie' Ross out of the team.
Following the announcement of the departure of Michael 'ninjaboogie' Ross earlier today, a reliable insider who do not wish to be named informed us that Neolution.Int had been disqualified from the Eastern qualifier of The International 3.
The disqualification is caused by a breach of rule 3.2 set up by Valve regarding roster changes.
3.2 Lineup changes
A team is selected and invited by Valve based on a pre-determined roster. Teams are not allowed to determine the 5 players themselves who will compete upon receiving the invitation. The roster change must be approved by administration.
The team replacing...
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Dreamz has been selected to replace Neo.Int in TI3 qualifiers
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Our insider told us that Neolution.Int has been disqualified from The International 3 qualifier. Neo.Int breached Valve's rules regarding roster change earlier today when the team booted Michael 'ninjaboogie' Ross out.
Following the announcement of the departure of Michael 'ninjaboogie' Ross earlier today, a reliable insider who would like to remain anonymous us that Neolution.Int has been disqualified from the Eastern qualifier of The International 3.
The disqualification occurred due to a breach of contract, more specifically rule 3.2 set up by Valve regarding roster changes.
3.2 Lineup changes
A team is selected and invited by Valve based on a pre-determined roster. Teams are not allowed to determine the 5 players themselves...
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In this episode of "Grilled, Paul 'sOAZ' Boyer makes some bold claims about Europe and also gives his opinion on other top laners as well as his thoughts on the LCS.
We have the pleasure of learning a little more about the famous and flexible top laner as he describes how the top lane plays out and shows just how confident he is in the top lane. If he wasn't professional, maybe he wouldn't play LoL whatsoever. He also touches up on some stylistic differences of all the regions, having dabbled in experience with all of them.
With a large amount of premiere league being dominated by Korean players, the challenger league has shown some early success for Americans. With Theognis taking out Jaedong 2:0, and Vibe defeating Sage 2:0.
With the premiere league over and a large amount of the American players in it taken out by Koreans, the challenger league has shown so fantastic upsets. Vibe took out Sage, showing some success for Root, since all their players in the Premiere League were knocked down to the Challenger League. An even larger upset was Theognis taking out Jaedong 2:0, which is even more good news for Root players and fans alike. This shows that American players may be down but they are certainly not out of the tournament yet. With two Korean players already eliminated from the challenger league there is only three left, and two of them will be face each other in the bracket six. That match is going to be Taeja vs Heart, Heart was knocked down to the Challenger League by...
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Team Zenith and TongFu will meet in the finals of the AMD Premier League after both teams advanced with straight games in the semi-finals. MUFC and Risingstars will play the third place decider.
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In today's matches, TongFu and Zenith proceeded to the finals after taking out RisingStars and MUFC 2-0 respectively. The two TI3 invitees will face off tomorrow in a best-of-three finals. It is not a surprise to see these two teams face off as they were amongst the favorites. The match is scheduled for 14:00 CEST, but prior to that, MUFC and RisingStars will fight it out for third place at 12:00 CEST.
You can place your bets on TongFu vs. Zenith
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Ninjaboogie has reportedly been removed from his team, NeoES.Int. This came in just two days after his team competed on a LAN tournament in Manila, Philippines, where they finished fourth out of eight teams.
According to Sing 'dpm' Chi forum post on Playdota, Michael 'ninjaboogie' Ross of Neolution.International had allegedly been removed from his team. According to the forum post, dpm got her news from Eliza 'Lunar' Ong, manager and also the girlfriend of ninjaboogie.
We reached out to a member of Neolution.int and he, who do not wished to be named confirmed the news. Our source stated that the decision was agreeable for both sides - the team wanted to remove him and they feel that ninjaboogie himself wanted to leave. Yuan Hing 'Blah' Teh, Neo.int's middle lane player, will be the new captain. Our source also stated that the team is already looking for a replacement, which will most likely be...
After a day of PvZs only, the balance between the two races is equal as sOs and Soulkey advanced, leaving Parting and Losira behind.
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LongDD allegedly claimed that he will be returning to LGD.cn, not as a player but a coach. We also reached out to LGD regarding the matter but was told that they have not finalized the decision.
Xiang 'LongDD' Huang yesterday announced to his thousands of fans yesterday on livestream, stating he will be making a return to LGD, not as a player, but as a coach.
Upon hearing this on his livestream, we immediately reached out to LongDD to confirm this and the old school player stated that it is true.
"I will be helping them for a short term", were his exact words.
We also reached out to LGD regarding the matter but LGD stated that they have not finalized the decision. LGD is expected to make a public statement shortly, regardless if they recruit LongDD as a coach or not.
LGD.cn recently replaced LongDD with their former member, Bin 'dd' Xie due to LongDD's lack of effort and practice....
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As promised in the past, the French Zerg ends his run in StarCraft 2 this summer in order to focus on his studies. He pointed to the 15th of August as a specific date.
The enfant terrible of European StarCraft 2 is still set on quitting the game to turn to studies he mentioned on his stream earlier today, a threat he made numerous times before, but wasn?t taken quite seriously for. Despite his plans to end his career last year already until being turned around by what is estimated to be a very lucrative offer by Team Evil Geniuses, it took until for his fans to realize that Ilyes ?Stephano? Satouri might stay true to his word this time around. He made it known from the start that his main incentive was earning money to finance studies.
Apart from his consistent reign over the Western scene for the past two years, which garnered him victories in IPL, ESWC, NASL and the European WCS...
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After failing to qualify against MeetYourMakers for another season in the LCS split, the two decide to part ways and form their own team for future aspirations.
Dragonborns ended up losing a series to MeetYourMakers which would end up deciding the fate of their careers. With little options left or potential seen within the team as it attempts to drive itself into the future and not wanting to risk the shot of a simple possibility of doing well, he along with Malunoo, Extinkt, Freeze, and an undecided support will test their lucks in season 4.
This isn't the first time players have been seen leaving Dragonborns. Before the so-called "sinking ship" began with Dragonborns, Spontexx and Brokenshard also decided to leave, with the team now only containing 3 of its...
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Today Riot released the Korean video of the LCS All-Star team.
In the video you can see the thoughts and goals of Ambition, Shy, Pray, MadLife, InSec and their coach Reach.
Earlier this week Riot also released the videos for the European and North American All-Star teams.
The European team includes: Alex Ich, Diamond, Edward, Soaz and Yellowpete.
The North American All-Star team features: Saintvicious, Doublelift, Xpecial, Scarra and Dyrus.
Maik "MoMa" Wallus, formerly the mid player of team Mousesports announced via Facebook his official retirement today. Wallus states that he will instead focus on studies and family.
Belonging to the old-school generation of League of Legends professionals, MoMa started his career back in 2010. For his two and a half years of being part of the scene, MoMa has been a part of a multitude of well-renowned teams, including Team Dignitas EU, aAa, Millenium, Absolute Legends, SK Gaming, mTw and Mousesports.
It was his time with aAa and Mousesports that brough MoMa his greatest achievement, among which the silver from Season 1 World Championship, the fourth place at IEM WC 2012, the second place at Elite of Europe and the bronze at Campus Party Berlin.
Mousesports was also MoMa's last...
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WePlay Dota 2 Tournament has come to an end, with Alliance crushing EG 3-0. The Alliance players take home the $5000 grand prize, while EG and Na`Vi will settle with $2500 and $1200 respectively.
Alliance continued their outstanding performance, giving absolutely no hope to Evil Geniuses who did not manage to get a win in the best-of-five final of WePlay Dota 2. The Swedes take the $5000 grand prize and look well-prepared for their upcoming trip to China and G-1 play-offs. On the other hand, EG seem to be having trouble adapting to the departure of their captain, Jacob 'Maelk' Toft-Andersen, despite reaching the final of this quite demanding tournament. Earning the second place, the Americans will take home $2500, leaving Na`Vi with $1200 for the third place.
Game 1: Alliance 1 - 0 EG
EG based their...
May 25-26 and June 1-2 are set as the dates for the playoffs of WCS Europe and America, respectively, which are to determine region's representatives at the cross-region seasonal finals.
Like WCS Korea, the playoffs for the European and North American will feature eight players in a single elimination bracket who are to battle it out for the premier league prize pool as well as spots in the seasonal finals on June 8-9th (six spots given to the host region and five to each of the other two).
Currently, both NA and EU are to start their Round of 16 group stage this week, while Korea is already in its quarter finals phase. Information on the upcoming tournaments can be seen in the pictures below, all of which lead to the respective coverage hub.
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Rapture Gaming has announced details for their ~$15,000 Elite Season 2013/2014. The round robin will start on May 18.
Raputre Gaming has released more information on their Elite Season for 2013/2014. Ten teams have been invited to fight their way through the round robin into the playoffs, which are played as a double elimination bracket.
Along the list of participating teams, ten teams well known from China ans South-East Asia can be found. Many also participate in the TI3 qualifiers and the DSL. Following playdays will be played on a non-weekly basis. 23 and 25 May are remaining playdays in May.
Participating teams:
MitH-Trust
Zenith
Neolution.Int
First Departure
Rattlesnake
Rising Stars
TongFu
NeoES|Orange
Invasion.MUFC
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With the conclusion of the final weekend to determine the summer LCS split for both North America and Europe, Dignitas and CLG have secured their place for the next ten weeks.
To start the night off, team Dignitas was faced against his opposing team which featured none other than previously benched player 'LOCUST'. Though the series would start off with Dignitas having an insane comeback towards the opposition, their experience would shine through and Dignitas would pull out on top.
Only one game of the series was taken away from Dignitas by Team Summon before Team Dignitas pulled out a rather decisive victory. The game went as planned, as the popular vote was over 80% in the majority of Team Dignitas.
The more uncertain one of the night, however, was Counter Logic Gaming vs. Azure Cats. With only a 55% to 45% vote in favor of CLG due to their recent...
Norwegian Zerg Jens "Snute" Aasgaard played his first Proleague match today, though it wasn't a particularly successful one. Tossed in the middle of a fight between EG-TL and SPL leaders Woongjin Stars, Snute fell to Free for his team's 1-4 loss.
Leading in with their Zerg line-up wasn't EG-TL's best decision today as it only secured two early kills for Free. The Woongjin Protoss was almost broken by Revival's roach attack but a sturdy defense until a colossus/void ray ball was assembled allowed him to prevail. Void rays made another appearance in the second set of the day against Norwegian Zerg Snute as Free went for a triple stargate into a void ray/zealot/high templar critical hit.
The bad luck of the joint roster did not end there as Free scored yet another kill by blinking through HerO to put the series dangerously close to an all kill. It took Jaedong's hydras to...
