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ISSAA parts ways with Eternal Fire

Issa "⁠ISSAA⁠" Murad will no longer be a part of the squad dubbed the "Turkish Superteam" as he exits the project two months after its inception. In that time frame, Eternal Fire has not lived up to the billing as the team featuring the country's biggest stars Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker and Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş couldn't break past the 60th spot on the world rankings. According to the organization, ISSAA "could not adapt to Turkey and decided to return to his own country", leading to the separation of the two parties.

Fnatic’s Upset sits out of Worlds 2021 group stage due to ‘urgent family matter’

Fnatic starting ADC Elias “Upset” Lipp has returned home to Germany and won’t play for the organization’s League of Legends roster “until further notice,” according to a statement from today. Academy ADC Louis “Bean” Schmitz will take over his position temporarily for the team’s debut at the 2021 World Championship group stage. Upset was “forced to return home” after an “urgent family matter,” the statement reads. The announcement says that the player “will until further notice not start” for the team during the group stage, but doesn’t confirm if Upset

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

How to complete Oct. 7’s Marquee Matchups SBC in FIFA 22 Ultimate Team

EA Sports added a set of Marquee Matchups to FIFA 22 Ultimate Team today that you can complete by accessing the squad-building challenge (SBC) menu. The Marquee Matchups are weekly challenges themed around real soccer’s key matchups. EA selects some matches and creates SBCs that reward players with tradeable FUT packs. This SBC is themed around this week’s key matchups. You’ll have until next Thursday, Oct. 14 to complete four squads: Sweden vs. Greece, Germany vs. Romania, Colombia vs. Brazil, and Belgium vs. France. Each squad requires a different set of conditions

FIFA 22 Bundesliga September POTM: Nominees, How to Vote, Release Date

FIFABy Max Mallow | 10:58 AM EDTPhoto by EA SportsFIFA 22 Bundesliga September POTM nominees were revealed Oct. 6 as fans await the first SBC from Germany's top flight.EA Sports releases special Player of the Month SBCs each month for the top five leagues in the world. These SBCs, traditionally available for about a month, celebrate a player's performance throughout the entire month. Following the first Premier League POTM vote reveal, Bundesliga POTM voting time kicked off featuring six worthy players. Here's everything you need to know about the September

mousesports and BIG qualify for PGL Major Stockholm, OG out of contention

OG will not be attending the PGL Stockholm Major, after a loss to FaZe and BIG's victory made it impossible for the RMR standings to fall in their favour. They didn't do much to help themselves in their own series, getting comfortably rolled over on Ancient and Mirage. FaZe, who still have a chance of making it to Stockholm, only had to work for it on the second half of Inferno, where an 11 round streak secured OG a glimmer of hope after an abysmal first half. BIG confidently secured

IEM Fall Europe: Six Major spots left, eight teams in the running

With the group stage of IEM Fall coming to conclusion, we saw G2, NIP, Vitality, Astralis, and Heroic already ensure their spots at PGL Major Stockholm and a plethora of teams' hopes of making it to the Major crushed, including the likes of a few big names in fnatic, Complexity, and FunPlus Phoenix. The results so far leave us with eight teams still in the running for the last six spots, which will be decided over the course of the rest of the week. FaZe are against the ropes but

Vitality secure Major spot; ENCE finish on top as OG misses playoffs

It was a quick day at the office for Vitality as their victory against Dignitas, combined with OG's defeat to MAD Lions, secured the Frenchmen a top 2 finish in Group C and a ticket to the Major. OG fans do not need to panic yet, as Aleksi "⁠Aleksib⁠" Virolainen and co. can still secure a spot at the Major through the 9th-12th place decider, requiring ninth place to guarantee a spot in Stockholm at the end of the month and at least 11th place to have any chance. Despite

BIG win Group A tiebreaker to secure spot in 9-12th place decider bracket

BIG have solidified their position as a Major contender with a third-place finish in Group A after coming out on top in a series of tiebreaker matches against FunPlus Phoenix and mousesports. Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz and company now need just one victory in the 9-12th place decider bracket to finish in the points and secure a spot at the Major. The hardest hit team in this tiebreaker were FunPlus Phoenix, whose elimination in the group stage put them out of contention for a spot at the Major. mousesports fate is