Kafalar Esports shared a “teaser” titled “It’s about time!”.

A simple yet distinctive parachute sound if I say so myself. With that teaser, Kafalar Esports announced its PUBG team and roster. Also, the popular Turkish team is going to participate in ESL PUBG Summer. Let’s look at the roster!

Roster of Kafalar Esports PUBG Team

• Leets
• Nailqop13
• Crepper
• Z3R3F
• Murfle

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What Happened?

In our recent news, pAura’s wife sadly became the target of haters. “But why?” you may ask. I’ve been playing competitive games for a long time. Competitive players like us know that haters don’t really have a reason for their actions. They hate or insult just for the sake of it. In pAura’s case, they insulted his wife, just to make him and her feel miserable. A pretty low blow, even for the haters.

Melih “pAura” Karaduran said the following;

The ones who insulted my wife, I’ll be seeing you soon enough. Everyone will know their place. Don’t push your luck any furthermore.

The founder of BBL Esports, Okan İlker Demirel added;

Shame on all of you! When did you lose your minds? When did you become so rotten to the core! Insulting and disregarding, people’s well-being and emotions, just for the sake of it. You don’t belong in this community and never will be!

In our lives, we will see these kind of people all the time. Instead of pointing fingers, support the people targeted by haters. In time with enough support, we will see these acts of hate disappear for good.

It’s a shame for pAura’s wife. Nobody in the world deserves to be hated and berated just for fun or for reactions. Alas, it’s the internet. There are millions of people who use the internet, just for spreading hate and discord. However, as Okan İlker Demirel said, these acts of hate will disappear over time, if we can share love and support with each other.

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His big “turning point” happened when he left the Astralis for the Danish team, North in 2018. Unfortunately for the Kjaerbye, North couldn’t exceed the expectations of its fans and the players themselves. Kjaerbye’s health issues and coach problems also had a big impact on his retirement choice. The team’s single maybe the biggest achievement was winning the DreamHack Masters Stockholm 2018. After that, FaZe Clan signed Kjærbye, replacing the young Aurimas “Bymas” Pipiras. Sadly, he was benched due to the factor showing non-satisfactory results. Lastly, he, Philip “aizy” Aistrup and Nicklas “gade” Gade tried their luck in another Danish team, HYENAS. But in the end, that too didn’t work out for them.

The time has come for me to say goodbye to gaming as a professional Counter-Strike player. It is with a heavy heart, I am writing this, but as of right now, I have no longer the hunter and determination it requires to compete on top level. This game has been a huge part of my life for the past 10 years, and I feel this is the time for me to look for new horizons and opportunities. Future work can be both inside and outside the game. Time will tell.

It has been a fantastic rollercoaster ride, which has given me way more, than I have ever imagined when I started playing video games. To this day a big part of this adventure still feels surreal. As every other career it has brought many ups and downs – they have all made me stronger, and ultimately in many ways also shaped me into the person I am today.

I want to thank the organizations, that picked me up and believed in me. Thanks to every colleague and teammate, with whom I have travelled all over the world – it has been a blast! And a big hug goes out to all my fans, family and friends, who followed me in good as well as bad times.

Thanks for everything guys!

Markus “Kjaerbye” Kjærbye

Spray God Himself : Kjaerbye

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The series’ first match was played on the “BIND” map. A fan-favorite map if I say so myself. Although a close match, Ali Osman “AsLanM4shadoW” Balta played spectacularly in the first match. A strong start for the talented player with 27 Kills and 139.8 ADR on the first match. Onto the second match! (1-0)

The second match of the series played on “SPLIT”. Unfortunately for the BBL, Fire Flux Esports played really well on this map. The MVP of the second match was none other than Toprak “lauress” Kaynak, with 28 Kills and 232.8 ADR as Sage. (1-1)

The last match of the series was simply amazing. Fire Flux Esports and BBL Esports traded blows left and right. Toprak “lauress” Kaynak, as always, played superbly. BBL, barely able to stop the guy. The series went overtime. Overtime turned into a psychological war. 14 rounds played in overtime. Players were mentally exhausted. However, the strangest thing happened in the match. During the tournament, the server updated itself causing the players to disconnect from the match.

In time, admins fixed the issue, and the match continued from 13-12. Once again, BBL Esports showed us a spectacular performance on the defense side. After five long hours, BBL finally wins the match and the series.

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Four Horsemen of the CS:GO, Gambit, NaVI, G2, and Heroic continue to defend their rightful place. However, if we look at the fifth place, we can see that NIP have overthrown Virtus.Pro. The transfer of Nicolai “device” Reedtz seems to be working for NIP.

Things are not going too well for the FaZe and Fnatic. FaZe droped to 35th and Fnatic droped to 33rd place. Talk about fallen champions. Feel free to look at the changes in the top 30.

Be sure to check out our last HLTV CS:GO World Rankings.

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CEO of Fnatic, Sam Matthews said the following;

We’re delighted to work with Kaspersky to deliver such an important message to esports fans and gamers across the world. Their mission for fair play and fearless gaming aligns perfectly with Fnatic’s mission, and we can’t wait to show you what we’ve been working on.

I would like to remind you that, this is not the first partnership of Kaspersky. In 2018, the company signed a partnership with Vodafone Giants. In this partnership, Kaspersky became the official technological partner of the Spanish organization.

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TikTok‘s Gaming Partnership Manager in Latin America, Gui Barbose said the following;

We are actively seeking opportunities to bring incredible content to engage our large gamer audience. Broadcasting the NFA League finals, the main Free Fire emulator championship, reinforces our objective to increasingly invest in this audience.

Daniela Branco, Marketing Director of NFA also added;

We are born out of the community and we need to go where the community is. This partnership offers broader and more digital presence content options. We are the first Free Fire championship to be broadcast on TikTok, this is a global achievement and it is what our community deserves. Pioneering is in the brand’s DNA and this time it would be no different. We Make It Happen!

Fire Fire has become one of the most popular games in Brazil in the last 12 months. The Liga NFA Season 4 stream recorded 558,414 viewers, according to data from Esports Charts.

Lifa NFA Free Fire is a very popular tournament in Brazil. With that, TikTok wouldn’t miss such an opportunity. Free Fire entered the list of games partnered with TikTok such as, CS:GO, VALORANT, Mobile Legends, and PUBG. I’m curious to see which games will TikTok acquire in the future.

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Esports Coverage Platform of the Year

• HLTV.org
• Dot Esports
• Liquipedia
• SiegeGG
• Esports Insider
• Dexerto
• Upcomer
• ESPM
• The Esports Observer
• Inven Global

Esports Broadcast/Production Team of the Year

• Riot Games
• ESL Gaming
• Nerd Street Gamers
• Psyonix
• Esports Engine
• Activision Blizzard
• Beyond the Summit
• BLAST Premier
• Garena
• FACEIT

Journalist of the Year

• H.B. Duran
• Jacob Wolf
• Richard Lewis
• Adam Fitch
• Ashley Kang
• FionnOnFire
• Kevin Hitt
• Liz Richardson
• Wasif Ahmed
• Pablo ‘Bloop’ Suárez

Hardware Provider of the Year

• Alienware
• Secretlab
• Corsair
• SteelSeries
• ASUS ROG  
• Elgato
• HyperX
• NVIDIA
• Intel
• AMD
• Logitech G
• Razer

Esports Commercial Partner of the Year

• Mountain Dew
• HyperX
• Alienware
• Verizon
• FTX
• Intel
• Red Bull
• BMW
• State Farm
• Logitech G
• Cash App
• KITKAT

Esports Supporting Service of the Year

• ESG LAW
• Paper Crowns
• Aftershock Media Group
• Hitmarker
• Discord
• The Story Mob
• ESEA
• Creative Artists Agency
• Character Select Agency
• Prodigy Agency
• Mobalytics

Game of the Year

• CS:GO
• Call of Duty
• Rocket League
• Rainbow Six Siege
• Dota 2
• PUBG Mobile
• Overwatch
• League of Legends
• VALORANT
• Free Fire

Publisher of the Year

• Tencent
• Garena
• Ubisoft
• Psyonix
• EA
• Activision Blizzard
• Riot Games
• Epic Games
• Valve

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Protality Series consists of 4 stages: Open Qualifiers 3, Open Qualifiers 2, Open Qualifiers 1, Group Stage and Finals.

• Open Qualifiers 3 : 64 Teams
• Open Qualifiers 2 : 32 Teams
• Group Stage : 24 Teams
• Finals : 8 Teams

The total prize pool of the tournament is ₺60,000 ($7,000).

Tournament Calendar

• Open Qualifiers #1 : 21.06.2021 – 11:00 ETC
  Open Qualifiers #1: 22.06.2021 – 11:00 ETC
  Open Qualifiers #1 : 28.06.2021 – 11:00 ETC
  Open Qualifiers #1 : 29.06.2021 – 11:00 ETC
  Open Qualifiers #2 : 01.07.2021 – 11:00 ETC
  Open Qualifiers #2: 02.07.2021 – 11:00 ETC
  
• Group Stage Day #1: 05.07.2021 – 11:00 ETC
  Group Stage Day #2: 06.07.2021 – 11:00 ETC
  Group Stage Day #3: 07.07.2021 – 11:00 ETC
  Group Stage Day #4: 12.07.2021 – 11:00 ETC
  Group Stage Day #5: 13.07.2021 – 11:00 ETC
  Group Stage Day #6: 14.07.2021 – 11:00 ETC
  
• Finals #1: 26.07.2021 – 27.07.2021 – 11:00 ETC
  Finals #2: 29.07.2021 – 30.07.2021 – 11:00 ETC

As esportimes, we wish good luck to all the teams participating in the tournament.

You can watch the tournament right here!

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The finals were quite interesting. In the first match of the series, Thunderbolts and FOXNGAME played spectacularly. It was a 58-minute game! But in the end, Thunderbolts played a tad better and took the first match. (14-12)

In-game 2 Thunderbolts, started the match quite well. However, we can say that Asrain and Takoeee carried their team with some spectacular gameplay. (13-11)

The last match of the series was the last chance for the Thunderbolts. Thunderbolts as always played the first half quite well (8-4). However, for some reason, they simply couldn’t keep their flow. Although a close series, FOXNGAME took the final match and became the Open Fire Summer champions.

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