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Skyesports Masters 2024 with $350,000 Prize Pool Announced!

Umut Arı — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:22:00 +0000

The Skyesports Masters 2024 tournament, which will take place as a LAN in India, has been officially announced. The teams Liquid, NIP, BIG and ENCE have been invited to the tournament with a prize pool of $350,000. However, not all the teams that will take part in the tournament have been announced yet.

In the previous year, Indian teams competed in the Skyesports Masters 2023 tournament, where Gods Reign emerged as the champions after defeating their rivals Revenant 2-0 in the final. They won a prize money of $53,944, while the runner-up, Revenant, received $39,010. This year, the tournament has expanded to include international teams and the total prize pool has increased from $146,032 to $350,000.

The tournament is scheduled to take place between 8-14 April 2024, but the host city is yet to be determined. Direct invitations have been sent to Liquid, NIP, BIG, and ENCE teams. Additionally, two more teams will be invited to participate, making a total of 8 teams. The remaining two teams will be selected through the European and Indian qualifiers.

The Skyesports Masters 2024 tournament is an A-Tier event. The format and date of the European qualifier are yet to be announced. However, the Indian qualifier is scheduled for March 2024. The qualifiers consist of both open and closed rounds, with the eight remaining teams in the closed qualifiers competing for a spot in the tournament. The tournament will be held as a LAN event, while the open and closed qualifiers will be conducted online.

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Guild Esports Announce Entry Into CS2 With Bad News Eagles Roster Signing

Umut Arı — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:11:55 +0000

Guild Esports has announced its newest entry into Counter-Strike esports with the unveiling of its new roster, the members of Bad News Eagles.

Genc ‘gxx-’ Kolgeci, Flatron ‘juanflatroo’ Halimi, Sener ‘SENER1’ Mahuti, Dionis ‘sinnopsyy’ Budeci, and Rigon ‘rigoN’ Gashi surprised everyone when they became the first-ever team from the Albanian-Kosovar region to reach a Major qualifier (RMR) back in 2022, when they qualified for the PGL Antwerp Major. They’ve since competed at, and qualified for the Legends stage in, three Counter-Strike Majors in Antwerp, Rio, and Paris – earning prize winnings worth $96,000 in 2023 alone.

What will now be known as the Guild Eagles team will be joined by a backroom staff of some of the most well-respected figures in the Counter-Strike community: head coach Jonatan ‘Devilwalk’ Lundberg (the only multi-Major winner as both a coach and a player), assistant coach Kevin ‘Krystal’ Amend, analyst Kieran ‘KayJay’ Playfair, and with James ‘BanKs’ Banks (the team’s manager) joining Guild as a consultant to support the org.

From humble origins in Kosovan net cafes to Paris’ Hall de la Pinède, this roster has experienced an incredible trajectory over the past three years since their competitive debut in 2020. They’ve gained a cult following in both their home region and the wider world with a combined Twitter, Twitch, and Instagram followings of over 112,000, 297,000, and 137,000 respectively, and their path to success and international renown has become a success story of modern Counter-Strike.

With the backing of holistic coaching partner Ground+Air, Guild Esports will support this ascension even further, as Counter-Strike esports takes a step into the future with the launch of Counter-Strike 2 (CS2).

With the release of CS2, we realised that there was no better time for us to increase our presence in Counter-Strike. The trajectory of the Bad News Eagles roster has been inspirational, and embodies the attitude that we value here at Guild Esports – we can’t wait to support them on their journey in CS2 with the help of Ground+Air.
Jasmine Skee, CEO of Guild Esports

Ground+Air is a performance and wellbeing consultancy that will be delivering a specialist coaching and education programme to Guild Esports’ CS2 roster, designing a tailored state-of-the-art ‘Elite Performance Programme’. Ground+Air has experience inside and outside esports having built and delivered Oracle Red Bull Racing’s Performance Accelerator Programme for F1 Esports. Ground+Air brings years of experience and best practices in building programmes from other sectors; including elite professional football, motor racing, entertainment, banking, and technology to build a programme designed to augment in-game performance with out-of-game wellbeing.

We’re incredibly excited to represent Guild in CS2. Throughout our conversations with Guild it’s been abundantly clear that they share our vision, and truly want to help this roster succeed at the highest level of competitive Counter-Strike. We’ve had offers from multiple organisations during our time as an unsigned team, but ultimately we found that Guild were the most closely aligned with what we want to achieve in CS2, and were able to provide us the greatest level of holistic support to help us compete at our peak potential. With what we have already seen from meeting the staff and seeing the facilities, we have no doubt this is where we belong to reach the next level in competition
Jonatan “Devilwalk” Lundberg, Head Coach for Guild Eagles

Guild Esports intends to deploy this programme to both established and developmental teams under the Guild Esports banner. The programme will consist of a blend of one-to-one coaching and team development workshops, delivered by performance experts from across the worlds of education, elite sports, business, and esports.

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500, Announces KalubeR!

Sadettin Enes — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 02:17:06 +0000

A 22-year-old player has joined the team to fill the gap left by Aleks “Rainwaker” Petrov’s departure to Liquid.

Roster update:

We now have a permanent 5th player – please welcome @KalubeRCSGO among our ranks!

We feel our roster is complete and this is how we will be approaching CS2 release.

@Grashog maintains his high winratio % as a player (still has it)!
— 500 (@500esports) July 1, 2023

With the addition of Kalin “KalubeR” Erenditsov, 500 now has a complete roster of five players after Rainwaker‘s unexpected move to Liquid last week.

KalubeR has shown strong performance throughout 2023, maintaining an average rating of 1.13 and excelling in three statistical categories across 116 maps. He has achieved a kill-to-death ratio (DPR) of 0.66, an average damage per round (ADR) of 81.5, and a kills per round (KPR) of 0.074.

The 22-year-old Bulgarian player has been a consistent presence in tier two and tier three circuits, playing for teams like Partizan, SKADE, and FATE over the years. During his time with SKADE and FATE, he had the opportunity to play alongside Denislav “dennyslaw” Dimitrov, Nikolay “niki1” Pantaleev, and Ivan “Patrick” Ivanov. Now, he reunites with them on the 500 team.

Here is the current roster of the 500:

Denislav “dennyslaw” Dimitrov
Nikolay “niki1” Pantaleev
Ivan “Patrick” Ivanov
Hristiyan “REDSTAR” Pironkov
Kalin “KalubeR” Erenditsov
Denis “Grashog” Hristov (coach)
Georgi “SHiPZ” Grigorov (benched)

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