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Entropiq, Virtus Pro advance to PGL Stockholm Major Legends Stage

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Time Stamp: October 28, 2021 8:14 AM - Modified On: November 2, 2021 - Published By:
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CIS teams Entropiq and Virtus Pro are through to PGL Stockholm Major Legends Stage following today’s victories over Heroic and Team Spirit, respectively, in the Challengers Stage’s 2-1 pool matches. Entropiq lost their map pick, Ancient (16-10), to Heroic, tied the game in a nail-biting encounter on Nuke (16-14), and steamrolled the Danish team on the final map, Mirage (16-4), to complete the reverse sweep and secure top 16 in the $2 million tournament. The CIS team’s AWPer Aleksey “El1an” Gusev and rifler Aleksey “NickelBack” Trofimov finished among the highest-rated

Pokémon Sword and Shield Gym Challenge online competition announced

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Time Stamp: October 28, 2021 3:17 AM - Modified On: November 2, 2021 - Published By:
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Pokémon Sword and Shield players will have a new online tournament event to participate in next month. The Pokémon Company announced November’s Gym Challenge online tournament event today. This event will be a single battle tournament, with Pokémon restricted to just those used by gym leaders in the Galar region. 『ポケモン ソード・シールド』の公式インターネット大会「ジムチャレンジ」のエントリーが、11月12日（金）8時59分まで受け付け中！ガラル地方のジムリーダーが使用するポケモンだけが参加可能なシングルバトル！「バトルスタジアム」から「インターネット大会」を選んで参加してね！#ポケモン剣盾 pic.twitter.com/lkTcwWoCJ0— ポケモン公式ツイッター (@Pokemon_cojp) October 28, 2021 Gigantamax Pokémon will also be allowed during this tournament, but they will again be limited to those that gym leaders own. These include Machamp, Gengar, Lapras, Drednaw, Coalossal, Flapple, Appletun, Sandaconda, Centiskorch,

Pikmin Bloom: What is it?

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Time Stamp: October 27, 2021 5:55 AM - Modified On: October 27, 2021 - Published By:
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Top GamesImage courtesy of NianticPikmin Bloom is the latest mobile game from Niantic, but what do you do in it?Niantic have been hard at work creating the follow-up to the wildly successful Pokemon GO. Rolling out globally over the next coming days, Pikmin Bloom is a slightly different take on the walking games. As a neat spin-off for the Pikmin franchise, players will be utilizing the help of little colorful Pikmin to grow flowers as you go about your daily life. So what exactly do you do in Pikmin Bloom,

PUBG Mobile Global Championship (PMGC) 2021 format revealed

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Time Stamp: October 22, 2021 10:37 PM - Modified On: October 22, 2021 - Published By:
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The PUBG Mobile Global Championship (PMGC) 2021 will take place across three stages from Nov. 30 to Jan. 23, 2022, Tencent revealed today. Unlike last year where a single global competition was conducted, the 2021 PMGC has been split into the East and West. Here is the schedule for the PMGC 2021. League (East and West): Nov. 30 to Dec. 19League Finals (East and West): Dec. 22 to 24PMGC 2021 Grand Finals: Jan. 21 to 23 The league stage and league finals for the East and West will be running

Biggest takeaways from lineups submitted for PGL Major

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Time Stamp: October 22, 2021 7:23 AM - Modified On: October 22, 2021 - Published By:
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Earlier on Friday, PGL has unveiled the official lineups teams have submitted for the upcoming Major in Stockholm. Overall, there are no big surprises on the list after Virtus.pro announced the switch of Sanjar "⁠SANJI⁠" Kuliev for Evgeny "⁠FL1T⁠" Lebedev for the tournament, but a few curious names still appear in some of the big teams. Everyone has been given the chance to submit a substitute player at no cost of their RMR points, whom they can swap in and out once during the tournament at their leisure. While it's

Astralis at the Stockholm Major: Last hurrah, or new dynasty?

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Time Stamp: October 21, 2021 6:00 PM - Modified On: October 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Astralis are the most successful organisation in the history of Counter-Strike. That is undeniable; the litany of tournament wins, the months upon months spent at the very top of the world rankings, the Majors to their name. Four Majors to be precise, the last three they have won on the bounce. At this point, with two years having passed since the last, it is almost difficult to remember anyone but Astralis winning a major; indeed, many newer fans of the game watching now will have never experienced anyone other than

Back 4 Blood Character Tier List: Best and Worst

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Time Stamp: October 18, 2021 5:16 PM - Modified On: October 18, 2021 - Published By:
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Top GamesWe’ve compiled a list of the best and worst player characters currently available in Back 4 Blood. / Turtle RockWe’ve compiled a list of the best and worst player characters currently available in Back 4 Blood.There are eight characters on the roster at the time of writing that players can jump in and use on campaign missions. They are called “Cleaners”—a morbid joke made, in part, due to their profession focusing on “cleaning up” the area of infected individuals.Below, we’ve explained our ranking of the best and worst cleaners

Fnatic’s Bwipo explains how roster change and personal struggles resulted in turmoil at Worlds 2021

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Fnatic had nothing short of a tumultuous ride through the League of Legends 2021 World Championship. After Upset had to unexpectedly drop out from the competition due to personal circumstances, the team lost their footing trying to balance this new roster with little preparation, and have been eliminated from the event. Bwipo, Fnatic’s starting jungler, explained on Twitter that losing Upset at Worlds and little preparation with Bean took a toll on the entirety of the team. Yet outside of this change, Bwipo had also been dealing with personal issues

Spacestation wins, established teams stumble in biggest matches of ALGS pro league debut

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Time Stamp: October 18, 2021 3:02 AM - Modified On: October 18, 2021 - Published By:
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Spacestation Gaming won day two of the North American ALGS pro league on Sunday, outperforming bigger teams like TSM, G2, and Cloud9, and leaving them tied with Sentinels on the ALGS leaderboard. Spacestation, a Utah-based organization, previously left the Apex scene in early 2020, but returned in 2021 when they signed Joseph “Frexs” Sanchez, Jay “Claraphi” Stanley, and Angello “Xenial” Cadenas. That squad placed 5th at the ALGS Championship, taking home a bit more than $35,000. Claraphi left in the summer of 2021 and Mark “Dropped” Thees, a former player

Party Astronauts win ESEA Premier S38 over Extra Salt to qualify for ESL Pro League

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After a full-length best-of-five grand final, Party Astronauts have defeated Extra Salt 3-2 (16-6 Inferno, 7-16 Overpass, 16-11 Ancient, 22-20 Nuke) to win ESEA Premier Season 38 North America, booking themselves a spot in ESL Pro League Season 15. The result breaks the 0-4 head-to-head record for Party Astronauts against Extra Salt, and adds to a disappointing string of results for the South African-North American combine, who missed out on a spot at the PGL Major Stockholm after they were eliminated from IEM Fall NA. It also marks Party Astronauts'