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Tencent Esports and Global Esports Federation to Jointly Launch ‘Worldconnected Initiative’

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Tencent Esports and the Global Esports Federation (GEF) have partnered on a new project called the #worldonnected initiative that was unveiled at the annual Tencent Esports Global Summit held this week at the Hainan Bo Asia International Conference Center. “Today, I’m proud to announce the launch of the #worldconnected initiative, in partnership with Tencent Esports,” said GEF President Chris Chan on a video uplink at the summit. “We invite the world’s esports community – the world’s publishers, developers, athletes, and players, as well as the broader international sporting community.”  Simply

8Hours Platform Guide: Everything About EHRT

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Time Stamp: August 25, 2020 1:30 AM - Modified On: August 25, 2020 - Published By:
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Combining the real world with virtual space would have seemed impossible decades ago. There have been many issues such as data integrity and information security that impeded the development of the technology. However, the 8Hours Foundation, among other companies, showed that it can actually be done. Through the help of blockchain technology and its innovations, 8Hours made the tokenization of physical assets to create their digital counterparts possible — and enjoyable. In this article, we shall explore how the 8Hours foundation took advantage of revolutionary blockchain technologies like Vechain and

Report: Free Fire Sees Over 100M Peak Daily Active Users in Q2

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Time Stamp: August 20, 2020 11:28 AM - Modified On: August 20, 2020 - Published By:
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The mobile battle royale game Garena Free Fire saw its highest-ever player numbers during the second quarter of 2020. A report published by Sea Limited, the parent company of Garena, said that app data and analytics platform App Annie recorded Free Fire as the highest-grossing mobile game in both Latin America and Southeast Asia.  The report claims that Free Fire achieved a new record high of over 100M peak daily active users in Q2. During this period, Free Fire also ranked third in the most downloaded mobile games category according

ESL Pro League Season 12 to be held online; Malta to host 2021 events

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Time Stamp: August 20, 2020 8:00 AM - Modified On: August 20, 2020 - Published By:
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ESL unveiled on Thursday more details about the future of the ESL Pro League. The tournament will be split into regional online divisions for Season 12 because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, returning to a LAN setting in 2021, when both seasons will take place in Malta. Season 12 will cover all major regions — Europe, North America, Asia, Oceania, and South America — and will be played between September 1 and October 6. Europe will have the lion's share ($450,000) of the season's $750,000 prize pool, followed by North

AGO qualify for ESL Pro League Season 12

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Time Stamp: August 17, 2020 3:33 PM - Modified On: August 17, 2020 - Published By:
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The Polish side won the league over five months following their qualification for the playoffs, which were meant to take place on LAN at the Global Challenge earlier this year but ended up postponed to August amid the pandemic. On the way to the title, AGO lost their opening bout with Sprout in the upper bracket final and went on to beat the only other attendant, Galaxy Racer, to go up against the German-majority side in the grand final. There, despite an automatic map disadvantage Damian "⁠Furlan⁠" Kislowski's side swept

Update: Huya and DouYu form Special Committees to Evaluate Tencent’s Merger Proposal

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Time Stamp: August 17, 2020 12:00 PM - Modified On: August 17, 2020 - Published By:
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Update: The boards of directors of Huya and DouYu formed special committees to review and evaluate Tencent’s proposed stock-for-stock merger of the two Chinese live-streaming platforms. DouYu’s special committee consists of independent directors Zhaoming Chen, Xi Cao, Xuehai Wang, and Zhi Yan. The committee has retained Morgan Stanley Asia as its financial advisor and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP as its U.S. legal counsel in connection with its review and evaluation of the proposed business combination. Huya’s special committee includes independent directors Hongqiang Zhao and Tsang Wah Kwong. The committee

TYLOO crowned DreamHack Open Summer Asia champions over ViCi

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Time Stamp: August 16, 2020 12:45 PM - Modified On: August 16, 2020 - Published By:
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TYLOO have once again been able to best their regional foes of ViCi after sending them to the lower bracket earlier in the DreamHack Open Summer Asia playoffs, making it the eighth time in a row they do so since returning to a full Chinese roster with the additions of Zhenghao "⁠DANK1NG⁠" Lv and Kelun "⁠SLOWLY⁠" Sun in April. ViCi had a one map disadvantage coming from the lower bracket, but looked poised early on in the day as they took the first two maps of the series, even getting

WDNMD Asia Invitational 2020 set to start

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The tournament is organized by former TYLOO player and OneThree manager, Quanqing "⁠qz⁠" Wu, and boasts 16 teams mainly from China and Southeast Asia, including the aforementioned two and other notable sides from the region such as Invictus and Mazaalai. TYLOO are in a group with Lynn Vision, Zero.TSG, and HZ They have been distributed into four groups of four, played in a best-of-three, round robin format one group at a time on August 13-24. A playoffs bracket featuring the top-two sides from each group will follow, taking place on

DreamHack postpone remaining 2020 live events

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Time Stamp: August 10, 2020 10:56 AM - Modified On: August 10, 2020 - Published By:
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Earlier this year DreamHack had to move its flagship DreamHack Masters tournament online, which was scheduled to take place at DreamHack Summer in Jönköping, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Open stops in Valencia and Montreal were also called off soon after. As the world still struggles with the coronavirus crisis, the Swedish TO has now announced that all live events until the end of the year will be moved online, affecting the DreamHack stops in Rotterdam, Hyderabad, Atlanta, Jönköping (Winter) and Madrid. “This has been a very different year

Five top tips to stop Team Secret

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Time Stamp: July 20, 2020 9:55 PM - Modified On: July 20, 2020 - Published By:
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Team Secret’s domination of big Dota events is nothing new to fans of the game, but we wouldn’t fault you for saying a change is in order either. Six grand final wins in a row without dropping a single game? That’s Michael Schumacher/Lewis Hamilton levels of boring dominance. So how could one put a stop to it? We’ve rubbed together our remaining braincells (hey, 2020 took a toll on us, too) and brainstormed a few totally legit ideas to put Puppey’s men down a peg or two.1) Cut their internet