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karrigan: “We could be a dark horse to go deep in this tournament”

FaZe became the first team to punch their ticket from the Challengers Stage to the Legends Stage at the Major with a clean record, taking down Spirit and ENCE in best-of-ones before making it out of the group stage unscathed with a 2-0 victory over Virtus.pro. The international squad also did so displaying a wide variety of play, winning their matches on four different maps: Overpass, Dust2, Mirage and Ancient. karrigan talked about topics ranging from the Major to team culture and having Olof back FaZe, the lowest seeded team,

How much does ImperialHal make?

Pro Apex Legends player Phillip “ImperialHal” Dosen consistently ranks among the most popular streamers in the genre on Twitch. When a leak last week revealed the payouts of Twitch streamers, ImperialHal came in at No. 100 on the list of the highest-paid figures on the site. From August 2019 to October 2021, ImperialHal cleared $886,999.17 in Twitch payouts alone. Screengrab via KnowSomething That figure, while impressive on its own, doesn’t include a wide array of other revenue streams. ImperialHal also receives donations from viewers, his TSM salary, revenue from other

NIP defeat ENCE 3-1 to win IEM Fall Europe

NIP have been crowned the IEM Fall Europe champions after defeating ENCE in a best-of-five match that was inconsequential in regards to the Major — where they will be the only Swedish team in contention —, but gave the victor a larger portion of the $105,000 prize pool. Read more PGL Major Stockholm team list finalized as Copenhagen Flames claim last spot NIP’s final victory was the cherry on top of a perfect tournament as they went undefeated in all stages, bagging five best-of-ones in the group stage followed by

Lynn Vision replace ViCi in BLAST Showdown

ViCi have withdrawn from the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2021 and will be replaced by Lynn Vision, who were runners-up in the qualifying tournament. The team featuring former Invictus and EHOME player Heng "⁠expro⁠" Yang are using the opportunity to conduct a multiple-week bootcamp in Europe and will hope to make a mark in the single-elimination tournament featuring squads such as Liquid and G2. expro and Lynn Vision will be botcamping in Europe Zhuo "⁠advent⁠" Liang's team pulled out of BLAST to focus on the IEM Fall Asia RMR tournament,

Galaxy Racer appoints former Free Fire esports manager as head of marketing for India and South Asia

Dubai-based esports organization Galaxy Racer announced today that it has appointed Romeo Misao as its new head of marketing for India and South Asia. Misao was a former Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) pro and most recently worked as an esports project manager for Garena, the developer of Free Fire, according to his LinkedIn profile. Galaxy Racer recently announced a merger with Abu Dhabi-based Team Nigma, which has subsequently rebranded to Nigma Galaxy. As a part of this, Nigma Galaxy now overlooks the esports division for Galaxy Racer which includes teams

nexa: “We worked really hard to get back into the shape we were in before the player break”

BLAST Premier Fall Groups kicked off with Vitality and Astralis making it through Group A and qualifying for the LAN final in Copenhagen, Denmark, while Liquid and Evil Geniuses were sent down to the last-chance Showdown qualifier. The tournament now continues with Group B, where G2, NIP, BIG and MIBR will clash in hopes of making it to the Royal Arena in November, where they will once again get to play in front of a crowd. The Serbian in-game leader says G2 is back in shape after a bootcamp To

Shakezullah: “Any of us could go to VALORANT and find an offer there, but we play CS because we love it”

After a dismal ESL Pro League Season 14 campaign that ended in an 0-5 finish in Group A, Bad News Bears returned home to North America, the subject of much derision and public criticism. The team, who had swapped in Paytyn "⁠junior⁠" Johnson just ahead of the event as Peter "⁠ptr⁠" Gurney retired, had almost no opportunity to get top tier practice in ahead of their trip to Europe, and were limited on time upon arrival at the GODSENT facilities. Shakezullah and company are in the grand finals of Fragadelphia

torzsi: “We will not be satisfied just by being here, we want to win”

mouz NXT, the WePlay Academy League group stage winners, are one of two teams favored to hoist the trophy after the tournament's final match on Sunday, but before that they are set to take on their main rivals, Young Ninjas, in the upper bracket final after defeating BIG Academy 2-0 in the opening series in Kyiv. We caught up with the team's AWPer, Ádám "⁠torzsi⁠" Torzsás, to get his thoughts on the team's coming together, how they stack up against the rest of the field at the WePlay Academy League,

regali on his experience in Kyiv: “When you see seriousness and professionalism it leads to a professional way of living Counter-Strike”

Iulian "⁠regali⁠" Harjău came out of nowhere to become a fan favorite and the second-highest rated player at the WePlay Academy League group stage, as he and fnatic Rising knocked out the top-rated Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov and his NAVI Junior in the final match of the group stage play-in to qualify for the finals in Kyiv. fnatic Rising played one of the two favorite teams at the event in their opening match, Young Ninjas and were thrashed by the Swedes, leaving the squad under the orders of Kevin "⁠Kevve⁠" Bohlin

slap: “This academy league is a really big step for the future of esports”

Young Ninjas, who finished second in the WePlay Academy League group stage, are set to kick off their finals run when they face fnatic Rising on Friday at 18:00 . We sat down with Fredrik "⁠slap⁠" Junbrant during the media day before the beginning of the WePlay Academy League to hear the Young Ninjas coach's thoughts on the advent of academy teams and leagues, as well as his vision for the best possible way to make them successful in bringing up youngsters and equipping them with the necessary tools to