Organisations

WePlay! announces $100,000 academy league

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Time Stamp: July 7, 2021 3:30 AM - Modified On: July 7, 2021 - Published By:
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WePlay! has announced the creation of an academy league in partnership with eight top organisations, with the event featuring a $100,000 prize pool and an offline playoff stage. Included among the invited teams are NAVI Junior, mouz NXT, and Young Ninjas, as well as Fnatic Rising, whose roster will be announced in short order, HLTV.org has learned. WePlay Academy League Season 1 will solely feature teams that have at least four players between the ages of 16-20, and kick off with an online round-robin group stage on July 19, from

How Bad News Bears emerged from the ashes of Chaos to keep NA’s dream alive

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In a region that has had its playerbase ravaged during the online era due to a multitude of factors, only a few names below the upper echelon have shone through to represent North American Counter-Strike. If one had looked at teams at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there were plenty of promising rosters - Swole Patrol, Orgless, Chaos, New England Whalers, and Triumph, to name a few. But following the release of VALORANT, the cuts to the ESL Pro League team slots, and a lack of organisational interest and

Kjaerbye retires from CS:GO

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Time Stamp: June 30, 2021 12:47 PM - Modified On: June 30, 2021 - Published By:
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Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye has announced that he is taking a step back and retiring from Counter-Strike at an elite level, leaving behind the HYENAS project he was competing with while on FaZe’s bench. The Danish rifler is stepping away from the game at the age of 23, but despite his youth, he leaves some impressive accolades to his name, which include becoming the youngest Major MVP at ELEAGUE Major 2017, which he won at the age of 18 with Astralis, and making the top 20 players of the year list

Why mousesports decided to jump on the academy train

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Time Stamp: June 29, 2021 12:30 PM - Modified On: June 29, 2021 - Published By:
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For mousesports, the process of building an academy squad began not with reaching out to talented prospects, but with finding the right person to lead the team from the sidelines. The German organisation put its trust on Dennis "⁠sycrone⁠" Nielsen to coach the team, called mouz NXT (an intentional misspelling of the word "next") — a fitting name for a project aimed at unearthing the champions of tomorrow. The 25-year-old Dane took on his first coaching gig after playing for — and leading — teams like Singularity, North Academy, Sprout

MIBR announce academy team project

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Time Stamp: June 22, 2021 3:04 PM - Modified On: June 22, 2021 - Published By:
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MIBR are the latest organisation to have announced an academy project, with the search for the ideal candidates already underway. The project will focus on developing promising talent in Brazil and support them with the appropriate infrastructure that will help them compete in local tournaments to gain vital experience and improve their skillsets, with the end objective being to shape the players into options for the men's and women's primary rosters in the future. MIBR eye an academy roster MIBR is already closing in on a head coach for the

BLAST’s Andrew Haworth: “The thought of returning to live arena events is hugely exciting”

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Time Stamp: June 15, 2021 4:45 AM - Modified On: June 15, 2021 - Published By:
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BLAST announced on Monday in a much-anticipated decision that it is planning to host in late November its first arena event since the coronavirus pandemic began. The Royal Arena in Copenhagen, where BLAST's first event was held in 2017, has been chosen as the location for the BLAST Premier Fall Final, which is to be played from November 23 to 28, just weeks after the Major in Stockholm. It is easy to understand why this is a moment of jubilation for BLAST, whose last large-scale LAN event dates back to

MonteCristo on Flashpoint’s role in the scene: “I think it’s really important that one of the tournament organisers is based in NA”

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Time Stamp: May 10, 2021 4:00 AM - Modified On: May 10, 2021 - Published By:
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These are exciting times over in the Flashpoint camp. Created in early 2020 to shake up the status quo in Counter-Strike and offer a path to sustainability to both teams and players, the league lacked star power during its first year and could not really establish itself as an alternative to the ESL Pro League, in part because plans to deliver engaging storylines that fans could follow had to be scrapped, or at least placed on hold, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Season 3 will see Flashpoint head in a

HYENAS bring in cajunb to attend Flashpoint 3

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Time Stamp: May 5, 2021 3:00 PM - Modified On: May 5, 2021 - Published By:
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North's spot in Flashpoint 3 has been claimed by HYENAS, who have submitted a roster with René "⁠cajunb⁠" Borg to meet the eligibility rules requiring teams to have 3/5 of the lineup that competed in DreamHack Open Fall, the last Regional Major Ranking (RMR) tournament of 2020 in Europe, HLTV.org has confirmed. Despite cajunb's presence on the roster, it is unlikely that the 31-year-old will play in the RMR tournament as HYENAS are allowed to bring in the player that has been registered as their substitute, Frederik "⁠Fessor⁠" Sørensen, though

hooch: “Playing without an organisation has made us stronger”

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EPG Family headed into the ESEA Premier Season 36 Europe playoffs oozing with confidence after topping Group A with a 7-1 record. The Russian team, who had been inside the top 30 in the world rankings since February, had everything covered inside the server, but something was brewing. On March 31, the players unilaterally terminated their contracts with Winstrike citing "constant breaches of contractual obligations" by the Russian organisation. They became free agents and started playing on their own. hooch is disappointed with some offers that his team has received

JT: “Now that we’re in Europe we can tell that FaNg doesn’t really feel the pressure like some other players would”

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At the start of April, Extra Salt embarked on a trip to Serbia to begin a gamut of European events, at long last having the opportunity to showcase their ability against international competition after being locked into domestic derbies in North America since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The team, who had been tearing up competition in their region as Josh "⁠oSee⁠" Ohm showcased stellar form, had a less than ideal start to their trip as they were humbled by Spirit in the single-elimination BLAST Premier Spring Showdown, but