With the Halo Championship Series delayed to 2021 due to the Halo Infinite release, an interim event, the Halo 5 Pro Series, has been announced for this year. It’ll include four seasons across North America, Latin America, Australia & New Zealand, and Europe, Middle East & Africa.
The MCC Pro Series with Halo 3 will continue while the Halo 5 Pro Series commences. The MCC Pro Series will also have increased prized winnings to US $1,000.
The Halo 5 Pro Series is due to run from September 24 to December 12 with a weekly competition. Both series are available exclusively on FACEIT.
Tengjing Sports have announced that the League of Legends Pro League (LPL) will begin capping salaries. The move is designed to level the playing field and allow smaller teams to compete for the signatures of the region’s better players.
There will be a lower salary cap and an upper limit in the form of luxury tax. If an organization moves outside of the set amounts, they’ll face severe consequences. It’s still unclear what the punishment will be for a low wage, but those that exceed will be banned from acquiring new players.
South Africans have another esports tournament to get excited about. Just as it seemed that CS: GO events were coming to an end for the year, Evetech announced a new competition.
During the past week, the South African retailer launched a new esports company called EveSports. To celebrate the joint venture between Evetech and T3, the new firm will be hosting a massive CS:GO esports tournament.
The event, EGL One CSGO 2020, will commence on September 23, and registration is free. There are only 64 open spots for the qualifying round, and registration closes on September 22.
The company will select four invitees and draw four wild-cards. Eight teams will progress from the best-of-three eliminations to join in the next round. The final 16 will battle it out in best-of-three elimination matches.
The top five will get their share of a US $3,060 prize pool (ZAR 50,000). The competition concludes on October 6, and the winner’s announcement will be the following day.
William “?mezii?” Merriman has become the second player signed to the new Cloud9 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster. The squad was secretive of who the new players would be, but Alex “ALEX” McMeekin teased that one of the additions would be from the UK.
However, yesterday Cloud9 announced that ?mezii would join and be the start of the team’s fourth chapter. The new GM, Henry “HenryG” Greer, later announced that he’d be signing on a three-year contract worth $426,000 salary and an $83,000 transfer fee.
Mezii will conclude the month with GamerLegion at the MDL.
Gabriel “?1962?” Sinopoli, who’s been a member of Isurus for two years, has decided to step down for the time being. The Argentinean team announced via Twitter post that he’d be taking the bench. In a separate post, 1962 posted that he’s back in Argentina with his family and will disclose his situation at a later stage.
He’s been a vital part of the squad who recently made it to the next round of CLUTCH Season 3, a Brazilian CS: GO tournament. During his two years, other notable accomplishments include winning the Logitech G Challenge 2018 and ESL LA League Season 3 among various regional events.
How are things looking at the six-week mark of Oceanic Esports Dota League Season 2? For now, Spag and Sons (Team SaS) and Cuteanimegirls are topping the table.
The two squads have had impressive performances with win-loss ratios of 17-5 and 17-7 respectively. Team SaS have especially impressed fans after experimenting with a new game-play tactic, and it’s clearly working.
Adio Chula and C’s Better aren’t too far behind, taking third and fourth positions. Adio Chula recently defeated SaS (their first defeat) and have enough time to take the crown. C’s Better have been performing well and emerging victorious in some of their more challenging matches. If they step it up, they could make it to the top positions.
The remaining six teams have been too inconsistent to challenge the top teams. If any of them see themselves progressing, they need to up the ante and perform a miracle or two.
]]>DETONA Gaming and Isurus Gaming will duke it out for a ticket to ESL Pro League Season 12 this Thursday in a best-of-five (Bo5) series at the South American qualifiers.
Since the turn of the year, DETONA have made a few drastic roster changes. In January, the Brazilian esports organisation signed Filipe “fP1” de Caires, who ended up leaving the team shortly after DETONA parted ways with Matheus “prt” Scuvero in March. Fast forward to May, DETONA lost two more core members in Matheus “Tuurtle” Anhaia and in-game leader André “tiburci0” Rossetto, which ushered a roster rebuild early in June with the signing of Counter-Strike veteran Renato “nak” Nakano and two unproven talents in Guilherme “piriaz1n” Barbosa and Romeu “zevy” Rocco.
Since putting together their new CS:GO roster, DETONA have played six matches at the C-Tier Gamers Club Redragon Challenge. There, nak and co. lost the opening match against BOOM Esports but bounced back with two solid performances against Keyd Stars (2-1) and Cream Real Betis Latam (2-0). Despite their relative success in the group stage and a clean sweep against W7M Gaming (2-0) in the upper bracket quarter-finals, DETONA lost to Isurus (0-2) and Sharks Esports (1-2) to end the event in fifth-sixth place.
DETONA played well considering their roster was assembled less than two weeks ago. There are still a few issues, namely Lucas “Lucaozy” Neves’ inconsistent performances, but piriaz1n and zevy have shown a lot of promise.
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Isurus Gaming are priced as favourites for this match, which is not surprising when you compare their form to that of DETONA. That might have something to do with roster stability, as the Argentine side have made only one change to their active squad since January.
Since Isurus acquired Caike “caike” Costa at the start of June, they have played four games and won three of them. They topped their group at the Redragon Challenge, defeating GAN$O$ (2-0) and Soberano Team (2-0), and followed that up with playoff wins against RED Canids (2-0), DETONA (2-0) and BOOM Esports (2-0) in the upper bracket finals. They fell just short in the grand finals, however, as BOOM Esports got the better of them with a narrow 3-2 win.
Although Isurus hold a poor 42.9% win rate across the last three months, their performances have significantly improved of late. Since the start of April, they have played 14 games, won six, drawn four and lost four. Only BOOM Esports and RED Canids have beaten Isurus in that stretch.
Isurus Gaming should be confident after downing DETONA last Friday in the upper bracket semi-finals at the Redragon Challenge. The match, however, was not as one-sided as the final result would appear to suggest.
Isurus won the first map, Mirage, with a surprisingly strong performance on CT-side, which earned them a 12-3 lead by the end of the first half. Although DETONA put up solid resistance after the swap, Isurus were too far ahead and did enough to close out a 16-8 win.
The second map, Train, was extremely close. DETONA had a good opportunity to win that map and even held a 13-12 lead at one stage, but they failed to deliver on CT-side as Isurus sealed the series with a 16-14 win.
Lucaozy and zevy both played well with 1.21 and 1.10 ratings respectively, but poor performances from nak (0.76) and piriaz1n (0.82) made it hard for DETONA to remain competitive.
Isurus seem like the better team here, but they did not show enough in that series for us to consider the -1.5 handicap. DETONA are not as bad as the odds suggest and should at least keep this one close.