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MADMONQ First Impressions: Does It Work? Any Side Effects? Is It Any Good?

by Pavo Jurkic in General | Apr, 19th 2021 I got my hands on MADMONQ, lads! Well, technically, I got a free sample, so let’s get the disclaimer out of the way right off the bat! I am basing this MADMONQ first impressions piece on the first week of using the product. I got a free sample from the BLAST x MADMONQ promo, though that won’t affect anything I say about it from now on! What Is MADMONQ? First things first – what is MADMONQ? We talked about it several times already,

Hearthstone Grandmasters 2021 crowns Week 1 champions

The top four players of each region dueled against each other in Hearthstone Grandmasters Season 1 games on April 11, 2021. These matches followed the quarter finals that happened on April 10. During the live broadcasts, viewers were able to earn card packs through YouTube Drops. Week 1 Day 3 Hearthstone Grandmasters Asia-Pacific recap  Yashina “Alutemu” Nozomi and Kenta “glory” Sato dominated the semi finals at the start of the day. While Alutemu obtained a score of 3-0 against Yu Hsin “GivePLZ” Pa, glory won 3-1 against Ching-Li “TIZS” Li.

Heroic defeat Gambit Esports in ESL Pro League 13 grand final

Josse Van Dessel • Apr 11, 22:28In a five-map thriller, Heroic edged out a victory against Gambit Esports in the grand finals of ESL Pro League Season 13, with Casper "cadiaN" Moller pushing his team across the finish line with a stellar performance.  The series really went the distance, taking almost eight hours. The action kicked off on Heroic's pick of Inferno, but it was Gambit Esports that looked better in the first half of the map. The young CIS squad locked down the CT-side, running away with the game

Leading from the Isolated Lane

In the average TL game, Alphari leads his lane opponent by 493 gold and 12.5 CS by 10 minutes. If you don’t know the numbers of League, this may not seem like much. To contextualize, Alphari’s 493 GD/10 is the highest the LCS has seen since the League began recording the stat in Spring 2014 and likely the best NA has ever seen. His CS/D is the second highest after Huni’s 13.1 when he and Reignover came over to NA as one of the best Jungle-Top duos in the West.You

POTM: Mitr0 | Returning to the pantheon

In 2013, Dmitri Van de Vrie was 11 years old uploading Call of Duty: Black Ops III montages to YouTube. It was still years out from the birth of the battle royale and from the rise of two of the most successful multiplayer titles in existence—PUBG and Fortnite—years out from his own rise in one of the world’s youngest, hardest, and strangest esports. [embedded content]On their own, the montages are just drops in an ocean of semi-anonymous FPS highlights. But with context, looking back at the nascent FPS skill, the

Ads are back in: Monetizing beyond subscriptions and transactions in gaming

GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. The rapid growth of direct-to-consumer streaming platforms has proven that subscriptions are viable. Subscription options have seen a massive increase as console, platform, and other industry players have tried to capture people’s time by creating an experience that offers a variety of games. But in the same breath, we hear about rapid subscription growth

Comcast NBCUniversal picks 10 sports and esports startups for SportsTech Accelerator

GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Comcast NBCUniversal today announced it has picked 10 sports tech and esports startups for the first annual Comcast NBCUniversal SportsTech Accelerator. Comcast NBCUniversal is investing $50,000 in each startup and training them for 12 weeks, in partnership with Boomtown Accelerators. Two of the winners are esports companies. It chose the winners from over 1,000 applicants in 70 countries. The companies will work with Comcast NBCUniversal and the SportsTech partner

olofmeister to step in for FaZe in BLAST Premier as NiKo nears move to G2 – Report

The two-time Major champion is expected to return to his old team, at least for the upcoming tournament. Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer will be FaZe's fifth player in the BLAST Premier Fall Series, according to a report by Cybersport.pl. The 28-year-old will link up with his old team again as a replacement for Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač, who is edging closer to a move to G2 as reported by HLTV.org on Saturday. olofmeister has been out of action since May, when he stepped down from FaZe to recover from fatigue. He has