LNZ spent over two and a half years in the Swedish organization Ninjas in Pyjamas, mostly in their academy team Young Ninjas, before joining Sangal. His most notable success in his carreer is the IEM Fall 2021 championship with NiP.

Sangal Esports parted ways with Kory last month and ScrunK was moved to the bench, after being pushed outside of top 50 in team rankings. The team is currently ranked as #73.

With the transfer of the 20-year-old Swedish player, there is only 1 spot to left to be filled in the active roster. LNZ’s Sangal debut will be against Anonymo in the play-in stage of Thunderpick World Championship 2023 Europe Series 1, on July 28th.

The current roster of Sangal is as follows:

• Max “⁠PANIX⁠” Hangebruch
• Can “⁠kyuubii⁠” Ali
• Caner “⁠Soulfly⁠” Kesici
• Linus “⁠LNZ⁠” Holtäng
• Klesti “⁠stikle-⁠” Kola (Coach)
• Robin “⁠ScrunK⁠” Röpke (Benched)
• Love “⁠phzy⁠” Smidebrant (Benched)

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Seattle was the hosting city of Dota 2’s The International tournaments from 2012 to 2017, where Valve’s headquarters is also located. The event then moved to Vancouver in 2018, followed by Shanghai, Bucharest, and Singapore. In the most recent The International, TI11, held in Singapore, Tundra Esports defeated Team Secret 3-0 in the grand finals to claim the championship title and the grand prize money of $18,930,775.

The TI12 hosting venue Climate Pledge Arena is the same place as KeyArena where previous TIs were held in Seattle. The KeyArena name was retained until 2021 when it was closed for renovations in 2018 and reopened as the Climate Pledge Arena. Climate Pledge Arena is known as the world’s first zero-carbon arena. With a seating capacity of approximately 18,000, the arena can host a large event.

So far, Team Liquid and Gaimin Gladiators have secured their spot in TI12. Other qualifying teams will be determined by their success as the Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) 2023 season progresses.

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Gaimin Gladiators managed to win their third major championship this year alongside Lima Major and DreamLeague Season 19 victories. against Team Liquid after the Lima Major and DreamLeague Season 19 tournaments. Overall, the Gladiators were unstoppable in these tournaments, losing only one streak in Dreamleague Season 19. In all three of these majors, Gaimin Gladiators and Team Liquid were the finalists. Team Liquid, who now lost 3 major finals in a row against the Gladiators, left the Berlin Major with a $100,000 prize and 450 DPC points.

The next Dota 2 Major tournament is going to be Bali Major, which will take place from June 29 to July 9.

Here is the final leaderboard of the Berlin Major:

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According to xfl0ud’s tweet, the decision was given based on the role problems that the team is having. Since his signing date in October 2021, this is the third time xfl0ud has been benched from active status.

In the last tournament Eternal Fire participated in, the Turkish team disappointedly finished in 17-20th place in ESL Pro League Season 17 and failed to qualify for the Paris Major. The team’s last success was the CCT Central Europe Malta Finals 1 championship, which they won by defeating Bad News Eagles in the final, in February 2023.

Eternal Fire’s first game with the newest member Wicadia will be against Apeks in Brazy Party, on April 26.

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To kick off the tournament, Outsiders will face IHC, and MIBR will go up against Fnatic, starting at 16:00 GMT+1.

The opening matches of all groups are as follows.

Teams that will compete in ESL Pro League Season 17 will play all matches in BO3 format. While 4 teams will qualify from each group, the remaining 4 teams will be eliminated from the tournament. In the new format where the number of teams is increased from 24 to 32, the losing teams will continue to compete in Lower Bracket, while the teams that fall from the Lower Bracket will try to qualify from groups at the Last Chance Stage. With this change, the participating teams will try to stay in the playoffs by playing in the triple-elimination format.

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While Mert “Mykoz” Demirci and Burak “4woodanet” Emirhan from the old squad remained in the team, while the other 4 players were newly transferred. The main 5-man lineup of the team is not yet determined.

Fenerbahce Esports has considerably lowered the average age of its squad compared to last year. The oldest member of the team is ip0TT, who is 23 years old. The two youngest players are 16 years old, and the remainder players are around 18 years old.

Here is Fenerbahce Esports’ roster that will compete in VALORANT 2023-24 season.

• Mert “Mykoz” Demirci
• Burak “4woodanet” Emirhan
• Yiğit “ip0TT” Karadeniz
• Onur “Padisah” Dönmez
• Bartu “Best” Keskin
• Zafer “w0zzip” Güngör
• Ümit “Omitboss” Boz (Head Coach)

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The team roster includes former Team Heretics’ IGL pAura, Giants player russ, Regnum Carya player reazy, RieNs, and Aslan who last played for Wildcats as a stand-in.

Mert “9999” Turna, former head coach of Papara SuperMassive and YaLLa Esports, will take charge of the coaching role.

Here is the S2G Esports’ newly announced roster:

• Melih “pAura” Karaduran
• Batuhan “russ” Malgaç
• Kaan “reazy” Ürpek
• Ceyhun “Aslan” Aslan
• Enes “RieNs” Ecirli
• Mert “9999” Turna (Head Coach)

S2G Esports will play its first match with the new roster on January 14 in VCL Turkey: Birlik Ligi.

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Andrey “BraveAF” Gorchakov, who joined the team in October ’22, will take part in 2023. Uğurcan “Anima” Aydın, who stepped down to inactive, will also be back in the main roster.

There are names like mini and hatex that many of the Turkish community know in the lineup. The last member of the squad is 7ssk7, who last played for Natus Vincere. The head coach of the team is expected to be the Leader.

Here is the roster that DenizBank Istanbul Wildcats formed for 2023 Türkiye Birlik Ligi:

• Muhammed “mini” Salman
• Cüneyd “hatex” Baş
• Uğurcan “Anima” Aydın
• Artur “7ssk7” Kyurshin
• Andrey “braveaF” Gorchakov
• Kaan “Leader” Taşpınaar (Head Coach)

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With VALORANT Champions, which ended on September 18, the 2022 season was concluded. The teams competing in America, EMEA, and Pacific leagues want to build new rosters as they prepare for the upcoming 2023 season.

The current list of VCT 2023 Rosters as of Dec 24, 2022:

Americas

EMEA

Pacific

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The Russian team didn’t lose a single match in the tournament. They defeated HSG fe and CLG Red in the group stage, and swept away NOFEAR5 in the semifinals.

Here are the results and prize distribution of the tournament:

1. Nigma Galaxy – $50,000
2. FURIA fe – $25,000
3-4. HSG fe – $13,000
3-4. NOFEAR5 – $13,000
5-6. B4 fe – $7,000
5-6. CLG Red – $7,000
7-8. EG Gold – $4,000
7-8. ATK fe – $4,000

This victory strengthened the No. 1 spot of Nigma Galaxy as the best female team in CS:GO. Aside from the ESL Season 2 championship, they were also the winners of ESL Impact League Season 1 and ESL Impact Valencia 2022.

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