Author: Dominic Tommy

OpTic Gaming won StarLadder ImbaTV Invitational Season 5 after beating Vici Gaming J. Thunder 3-1 in a best-of-5. It was a rediscovery of form performance for Per Anders “Pajkatt” Olsson Lille throughout the tournament. The last series isn’t different at all, but Pajkatt became one of the standouts aside his teammate 33 and VGJ.T’s Sylar. With this victory, OpTic became the second NA team to win a DPC tournament. They now have 450 DPC points, but it’s still a long way to get automatic qualification to The International. OpTic’s start of the series wasn’t the prettiest one. They lost the…

Daryl “IceIceIce” Koh Peh Xiang has been banned from Twitch indefinitely due to use of racial terms for describing his hatred for his own name. IceIceIce describe his name, Daryl, as a n***** name and he disliked the name that his father gave him. Twitch immediately banned IceIceIce’s channel once his stream ended after so many clips of him saying the word. Twitch also immediately deleted all clips related to that incident. Mineski, acting as IceIceIce’s employer, also immediately took action to assess the controversy. On Mineski’s Facebook page, Mineski’s management posted that IceIceIce has been “reprimanded” for his actions,…

Mineski is your Dota Asia Championship 2018’s Champion (DAC 2018)! With this victory, Mineski will be the first SEA team ever to win a major tournament since the system was implemented by Valve. They secured themselves $375,000 and 750 Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) points. Mineski now sit on the fourth position in the DPC Ranking, overtaking Newbee. They clinch the championship with a close 3-2 victory over LGD Gaming in the grand final. Journey Before the Grand Final Mineski’s journey in the tournament is one of their most impressive runs since their creation of the current line up back…

NXT Takeover: New Orleans featured a main event of Johnny Gargano vs. Tommaso Ciampa in an unsanctioned match. The feud that has spurned for almost one year long finally came to culmination. Best friends turned into bitter enemies, a storyline that as old as human interaction. The stipulation that presented in that match is if Johnny Gargano loses, he will lose his job in NXT and will never be reinstated again. Ciampa will stop at nothing to end Gargano’s journey in NXT. The Result The main event holds an insurmountable level of hype and anticipation as both men played…

Fans of Pudge The Butcher rejoice! The long awaited arcana for Pudge has been released by Valve. The arcana is called “The Feast of Abscession.” It features a new effect when using Dismember, new walking animation when under haste rune effect, a counter for hook streak, and more! https://twitter.com/wykrhm/status/981278589311098881 The Dismember animation will differ depending on the hero it’s used on. If the hero has affinity to ice, then ice will be splattered instead of blood. If it’s an etherial being, then blue blood will, and so on. https://twitter.com/wykrhm/status/981321366006743040 Furthermore, in celebration of Pudge’s marginal victory against Rubick in the…

Wrestlemania is right around the corner. This Sunday, Wrestlemania will take place at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, LA. The show will have an approximate duration of seven hours. That staggering amount of time will be divided into 10+ matches. Furthermore, there will be some non-match segments, filling in the gaps after each match. One match in particular may potentially steal the spotlight at Wrestlemania: Cedric Alexander vs. Mustafa Ali for the vacated Cruiserweight Championship. Why is it so? Here’s the reasons why. First time the Cruiserweight title doesn’t have a champion come Wrestlemania The Cruiserweight title has…

There are 22 combined Majors and Minors for the Dota Pro Circuit. Twelve of those are Minor Championships and the rest are Majors. On paper, the difference between both of those are as transparent as a clear window. The gap of money and qualifying points at stake between Minors and Majors are massive. In reality, fans and talents don’t feel any difference between the two of them, except for what’s at stake. Majors don’t feel like the massive events they’re supposed to be. In fact, minors feel more satisfying than most majors. Why is this happening? Here are couple of…

Dota 2 just implemented a new system as a substitute for Battle pass. The system is called Dota+. Dota Plus is a monthly subscription service by Valve used to improve current player satisfaction. Some say this system is making Dota 2 a pay to win type of game. Others believe that the system is already accessible using third party applications and it’s not pay to win. Which one is right? Which one is left? Is it pay to win? To some degree, it can be categorized as pay to win. The ability to get an “assistant” from the game helps…

This Sunday, Fastlane will commence and it will feature The 6 pack challenge for the WWE Championship. AJ Styles, the current defending champion, will clash against Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, Baron Corbin, Dolph Ziggler and John Cena. The winner of the match will face Shinsuke Nakamura at the Wrestlemania. Many fans are already hyped by Shinsuke challenging the current champion AJ Styles at Royal Rumble. But is it truly what the best for the fans? Why not giving Sami Zayn a chance? Below is the reasoning why Sami Zayn winning the match at Fastlane is best for the business. …

News broke up that Iceberg Esports, an esports company based in Canada, allegedly owed over 10,000 CAD to their CS:GO and Dota 2 roster. The news was first brought up to public when one of their CS:GO roster members, Tom “tconnors” Connors, tweeted that Iceberg Esports owed them 3,000+ CAD and blocked them on Twitter. https://twitter.com/tconnorscs/status/969051872966402048 Furthermore, Kurtis “Aui_2000” Ling, former Iceberg’s Dota 2 roster member, dropped his contract with Iceberg to form his original team, Animal Planet. https://twitter.com/Aui_2000/status/969125680029011968 After thorough investigation, Aui_2000 wasn’t getting paid even from the start. They are told that the company is going insolvent if…