Exclusive: ‘It’s a lot harder to play Yoru in ranked’ says Paper Rex f0rsakeN Especially not in solo queue. Japanese duelist Yoru has been seeing a lot more use in pro play. FromMasters Reykjavik 2022 championsOpTic Gamingto VCT Korea contenderOn Sla2ers, a growing number of teams are showing a willingness to experiment with the blue-haired agent. We may have Southeast Asian powerhousePaper Rexto thank for that. At Masters Reykjavik, Paper Rex became the team to score Yoru’sfirst international winon the VCT stage, with Jason “f0rsakeN” Susanto putting on a masterclass performance on Bind against G2 Esports....

Fnatic sweep OG Seed 3-0 in the Dota Summit 12 grand final Fnatic earns its first tournament win of the year. Southeast Asian squad, Fnatic, dominated OG Seed in the Grand Final of the Dota Summit 12. Fnatic’s tournament run proves that the team deserves a spot near the top of the Dota 2 power rankings with impressive showings over the likes of Evil Geniuses and Team Liquid. The team also secured the first place US$60,500 cash prize along with the Beyond the Summit’s newest Duck Trophy....

Four T1 players among top 20 most visited League of Legends Liquipedia pages in 2022 That’s how popular they are. Esports wiki website Liquipedia has released a chart showing the most visited League of Legends player pages in 2022. Among the top 20, four are T1 players, three are from Gen.G’s 2022 roster, three from Worlds 2022 championship winner DRX, and one from DWG KIA. South Korean players as a whole dominated in terms of popularity, occupying 12 spots....

From winless to sending the world champions packing: How far can Victory Five go? No one expected this. Despite finishing higher than them in the regular season, Victory Five were still considered underdogs going into their first-round playoff match against FunPlus Phoenix. No one expected them to eliminate the reigning World Champions from the playoffs. Not even themselves. Victory Five mid laner Li “Mole” Hao-Yan admitted in the team’s post-game victory interview that they had already booked their plane tickets home, expecting to lose....

GAM Esports’ Izumin explains why Vietnam will not be at Worlds 2020 Worlds 2020 will continue without VCS teams in the mix. Riot Games has officially announced the cancellation of two Vietnam Championship Series slots for Worlds 2020, League of Legends’ most prestigious cross-region tournament. GAM Esports COO Nguyen “Izumin” Khanh Hiep recently posted a video on his personal YouTube channel, providing some in-depth information about the current VCS issue....

Here’s what to look out for in this year’s PUBG Mobile Halloweeks It’s spooky time once again for PUBG Mobile! Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile (PUBG Mobile) just rolled out the full version of its 0.15.0 Update along with an all-new Halloween-themed event — Halloweeks. From October 23 to Jun 24, 2025, gamers can enjoy a ton of new content for the popular mobile shooter. To celebrate Halloween in a big way, PUBG Mobile is offering a whole bag of tricks and treats for players....

Hi5, MYS represent East and Southeast Asia at Pokémon UNITE Asia Champions League 2023 offline final The kings of East Asia and SEA have arrived! Hi5 and Team MYS have officially qualified for the Pokémon UNITE Asia Champions League 2023 offline final. Both teams breezed through five weeks of play in their regional leagues, neither dropping a single series. They topped phase one of their respective leagues with a perfect score of 4–0 at the end....

Horizon Cup Pick and Win: Tribe Gaming vs Da Kun Gaming NA vs China, who’s destined to win? TheWild RiftHorizon Cupis under way and we’ve already seen two days of intense action. With the tournament heating up, North America and China are looking like strong contenders and on day three we’ll get to see two regional champions in action with a must-watch series between NA squad, Tribe Gaming, and Chinese team, Da Kun Gaming....

How OpTic Gaming got their revenge against The Guard using Chamber and Neon OpTic’s meta is ahead of the competition. After dropping their opening match againstXerxia Esports, OpTic Gaming went on to win their next three series, advancing into the upper bracket semifinals ofMasters Reykjavik 2022. On their way there during the upper bracket quarterfinals, OpTic finally got their revenge against fellow North American squadThe Guard, the team they lost to during the grand final of theVCT NA Stage 1 Challengers Playoffs....

I ran a Monte Carlo simulation for the Singapore Major playoffs and these are the results – by Noxville No prizes for guessing who tops the prediction board. This article is part ofa serieswritten for the ONE Esports Singapore Major by illustrious Dota 2 statsman, Ben “Noxville” Steenhuisen. Yesterday, werevealed the fan power rankingsfor teams in the Upper Bracket, but since they were made so long ago and with such limited information it didn’t feel right to hold the fans firmly to their outdated predictions....

In this week’s In Case You Missed It: Vici Gaming wins OGA Dota Pit Online: China Chinese powerhouse, Vici Gaming,has won the OGA Dota Pit 2020 Online: China tournament defeating regional rival, PSG.LGD, 3-1 in the grand final thanks to some stellar play from Zhang “Eurus” Chengjun. Eurus impressed in all four games, but a standout game three saw him finish with a perfect 10/0/6 KDA as VG steamrolled PSG.LGD. In game four, he also made a game-winning play when his Slark was able to put a stop to PSG....

In this week’s In Case You Missed It: Xian qualifies for his seventh straight Capcom Cup Singaporean Street Fighter V pro, Kun Xian Ho, has kept his Capcom Cup attendance streak alive, with a win at the Capcom Pro Tour East Asia 2 online qualifier to secure a spot in the tournament for the seventh-straight year. Xian defeated fellow Singaporean player and good friend, 19-year-old prodigy, Gavrel “Bravery” Saw, in an intense Seth vs Cammy grand final that almost went the distance....

Is NUTURN Gaming truly the biggest threat to NA Valorant? The Korean team faces Sentinels next. While audiences were fixated on the highly anticipated battle between North America and Europe, NUTURN Gaming surprised the Valorant scene by making it all the way to the Upper Bracket Finals ofValorant Champions Tour (VCT) Stage 2 Masters Reykjavík, Iceland. NUTURN Gaming proved they were the best team in Korea, handing Vision Strikers their first tournament loss ever in the VCT Korea Stage 2 Challengers....