Reports say Intel esports event may be canceled with Olympics

No one knows if the Olympics are even happening.

An esports event set to be showcased along with the Olympic Games is up in the air after The Times of London reported that an unnamed senior member of Japan's ruling coalition has spoken to the Olympics' cancellation. After the report, Japan's government quickly denied the allegations, saying that the government was preparing for a successful Olympic Games this summer. The 2020 Olympics were set to run near to a major esports event. Intel announced that it would hold the Intel World Open, an esports event that would occur before the 2020 Olympic games, in an effort to entice officials to add e...

This game-breaking bug lets Omen use his ultimate infinitely

Yet another bug on Omen.

Valorant's most recent patch introduced a very concerning bug that makes Omen wildly overpowered. Even moreso than usual. The exploit allows players to cancel and then reuse Omen's ultimate ability, From the Shadows, repeatedly. As one can imagine, the ability to use infinite teleports with no cooldown is completely game-breaking. This continues an unfortunate trend with something game-breaking being discovered with Omen, who already stood as the best agent in Valorant. The bug was first shared on Reddit earlier this week. The player who initially discovered the exploit shared a clip on the Va...

Everything you need to know about Dota 2 MMR, how to check it

Find out here.

The most precious commodity in Dota 2 is MMR. Casual players judge one another based on it, pro players crave it, and Valve has made it the most important factor when it comes to putting together games through matchmaking. But what is it? How is it determined, and what is the average MMR? What does it all actually mean? Here’s everything you need to know about the coveted stat. What does MMR mean in Dota 2?MMR stands for matchmaking rating, and is the game’s way of estimating a player’s skill. Dota 2 has both published and hidden MMRs that come into play when it comes to the game's match coord...

Viego sees terrible win rates in several roles after release

The Ruined King is currently struggling.

The newest champion in League of Legends, Viego, is struggling to find success in solo queue despite being played actively in three different roles. After his finally being unleashed on Summoner’s Rift, players are spamming Viego in solo queue when he isn’t banned. So far, the Ruined King has seen a lot of play in the jungle, mid lane, and top. With many possible roles to be flexed into, Viego might become a scary pick when players figure him out, but so far, the win rates aren’t pretty. So far on patch 11.2, Viego is sitting at the bottom of the win-rate chart, his win rate in jungle being th...

CodeMiko reveals the reason behind her latest Twitch ban

She is coming back after all.

CodeMiko's fans were disappointed when the virtual streamer was banned from Twitch for the third time last week. Some wondered if she would ever be coming back. Others speculated as to why CodeMiko was banned again. But all anyone got from the popular VTuber was this: A few days later, we finally have some answers. Why was CodeMiko banned from Twitch again? CodeMiko most likely saw the endless theories on her disappearance from Twitch and had to clear things up. She took to Twitter to explain why she was actually suspended from the streaming platform. According to CodeMiko, Twitch suspended he...

Team Liquid bests FlyQuest, heads to LCS Lock In semifinals

It is a great time to be a Liquid fan.

Team Liquid slaughtered FlyQuest and claimed its rightful spot in the 2021 LCS Lock In semifinals. Team Liquid is not playing around in the LCS Lock In event. The team secured two clean victories over FlyQuest and came out victorious in the quarterfinals series. Despite having two new members on its roster, who just recently joined the team in California, Liquid is looking better than ever. FlyQuest didn’t stand a chance against the proactive, aggressive Team Liquid. In game one, FlyQuest had the better draft and had everything it needed to take over but Liquid didn’t give its opponent the cha...

Evil Geniuses heads to LCS Lock In semifinals to face Team Liquid

Evil Geniuses keep impressing in the LCS Lock In.

Evil Geniuses has qualified for the semifinals of the LCS Lock In with a solid win against Golden Guardians. After impressing in the LCS Lock In group stage, Evil Geniuses took on Golden Guardians in the quarterfinals where they took a dominant win. In just two games, the revamped Evil Geniuses lineup ran over the young talents from Golden Guardians, albeit after a bumpy game one. Evil Geniuses will advance to the semifinals where they have the chance to qualify for the organization since returning to League of Legends. The first game of the series ran fairly long at 37 minutes, but the game h...

Natus Vincere draws massive viewership in BLAST Global Finals

CSGO is a big as it ever has been.

The BLAST Global Finals put up the highest viewership numbers for a Counter-Strike tournament since ESL Pro League Season 11. Between the tournament’s official broadcast and its partner streams, the tournament’s finals peaked at 687,000 concurrent viewers according to ESCharts. The tournament featured two of the world’s top CSGO teams in Astralis and Natus Vincere. Astralis was heavily favored heading into the tournament’s grand finals, making its 2-0 loss to Na`Vi even more surprising and likely contributing to the tournament’s massive numbers. The lopsided nature of the finals actually resul...

Valorant rewards player for dealing 10 million damage to damage range bot

How did they do it?

A Valorant record has seemingly been broken. The Reddit user shared a video of themself dealing 10 million damage to a damage firing range bot, breaking the previous record for this impressive yet tedious task. After hitting 10 million, the player was automatically kicked from the server, prompting other fans to joke that the game was concerned over the sanity of someone who would attempt such a feat. The player admitted it took an entire day of attempts to reach 10 million damage to the damage range bot. This came because the game kept disconnecting him after he reached various high levels of...

Na'Vi demolishes Astralis, wins BLAST Premier Global Finals

s1mple and company controlled the Danes from round one.

The BLAST Premier’s Global Finals concluded with two of the world's top teams in a showdown to determine the first Counter-Strike champion to be crowned in 2021. Astralis and Natus Vincere were set for an epic showdown, but that's not really what ended up happening. Although the matchup looked like it would be competitive, Na`Vi took an early lead on Nuke and denied Astralis an Inferno comeback to grab the tournament win in just two maps. The vetoes brought the two teams to Nuke to start things off. Despite a reputation for being a CT-sided map, Na`Vi found immediate success against Astralis' ...