Spot

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,

Team ItsEyeQew Wins Twitch Rivals Warzone Iron Trials Showdown

Call of DutyImage courtesy of TwitchTeam ItsEyeQew have emerged as the victors of the latest Warzone Twitch Rivals tournament.Twitch Rivals kicked off another Warzone tournament yesterday, this time it was the Iron Trials Showdown. The event saw roughly 50 teams of three drop into custom games of Iron Trials '84, putting their Warzone skills to the test in this brutal and hardcore mode. Each team was competing for their share of the $75,000 prize pool. The team in first place walked away with $15,000 ($5,000 for each player). Any team

JGOD Shows Off ‘Stealth Buffed’ RPD Warzone Loadout

Call of Duty"Full-auto light machine gun. Reliable stopping power with superior handling and movement speeds." / Photo courtesy of Ralston Dacanay, ActivisionPopular Warzone content creator and custom loadout mastermind JGOD has revealed a stealth change that's made the RPD's recoil pattern easier to control.According to JGOD, the RPD used to handle just as any of the other Black Ops Cold War weapons in Warzone where after firing about 18 bullets, the recoil would stop moving up and simply stay in the same spot. While weapons such as the MP5 (BOCW)

Cloud9, NRG dominate NA ALGS day 3

After week one of the ALGS North America Pro League, several big-name teams were looking to come back from a disappointing first week. In the second week of play, two of those teams delivered. NRG began the day in a big way, playing outside of The Dome and picking up kill after kill with the zone at their backs, with teams forced to rotate either around or straight into them. Charlotte Phoenix ultimately picked up the first win, but NRG ended the first match in the overall lead on the

Myztro Gaming win day three of EMEA ALGS Pro League

Week two of the ALGS Pro League in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region kicked off on Saturday. As was the case last week in the region, the lobby consisting of groups A and B came down to the final game of the day. Ultimately, the Ukrainian and Russian connection on Myztro Gaming took home top honors. Game one unfolded with a classic World’s Edge zone, with the final circle pulling to the lone beacon building to the northwest of Fragment West. Priority went to the building, with

device’s first six months in NIP

…with the Major in Stockholm coming up, bringing that home to Sweden is my number one goal. Lofty ambitions no doubt, but for a player who has been there and done that so many times, it's merely business as usual. device made no secret of his desires, and maybe even his expectations, when he joined NIP six months ago. It was a blockbuster move, one that came out of left field and shocked the world of Counter-Strike. It almost felt like ambitious goals were required, otherwise the transfer didn't really

Warzone Player Shows Off Ridiculous Power of Mounting

Call of DutyPhoto courtesy of Activision Warzone is in a strange spot. It feels like every day there is something going wrong. Whether it's hackers, glitches, or the lackluster Halloween event, players are frustrated. Most are staying in the game in hopes of Vanguard bringing a Call of Duty renewal, and the new Warzone map making the battle royale fun again. And one of the biggest storylines is the drama surrounding aim assist. While for years, the complaint has always been about mouse and keyboard players having an advantage over

EDG advance past Worlds quarterfinals for the first time, eliminate RNG to become sole LPL contention for 2021 title

The LPL now only has one team left standing in the League of Legends 2021 World Championship—and they happen to be the LPL’s Summer Playoffs champions that have strived for years to make it out of the quarterfinals. In a five-game series testing the strengths and weaknesses of both teams, Edward Gaming locked their spot in the Worlds semifinals against Royal Never Give Up today. After being unable to meet one another during the LPL Summer Playoffs, these two teams made sure this series defied expectations to show how important

Bringing Brazil to the Major: How 21 players fought their way to the biggest stage

The PGL Stockholm Major will have the most Brazilian representatives in Major history. At 21 players, this is 6 more than at StarLadder Berlin, the tournament which previously featured the most Brazilian players. When it comes to the top 16 stage, Stockholm has not yet passed the highest number of participants, but considering only half of those teams have been decided and we are already over halfway there, the odds are that this Major will see the most Brazilian attendees any way you slice it. But how did Brazil get

Best Pokemon for the Pokemon GO Halloween Cup

PokémonNiantic Labs' Halloween Cup is well underway in Pokemon GO during this GO Battle competitive season. / Niantic LabsNiantic Labs' Halloween Cup is well underway in Pokemon GO during this GO Battle competitive season. The Halloween Cup, itself, is a special tournament with a unique set of parameters in place. Only Pokemon under 1500 CP and within a certain group of accepted types will be eligible to battle. In true Halloween fashion, those types are bug, poison, dark, fairy, and/or ghost. With such a narrow pool to choose from, trainers