News digest: Ame can end his career as an esports player, and Mesut Ozil can start it?

Every day something happens in the world of eSports. Sometimes interesting, sometimes not so much. In this digest of weekly news, we will tell you about what was remarkable about the past week in the world of eSports. Will Liquid shox be replaced by YEKINDAR? The expected arrival of HEAP in Fnatic? Ame will end his career as a professional Dota 2 player, and the famous football player Mesut Ozil will move into the world of digital football and become a gamer? Find out all this in our article today!

CS:GO

According to well-known journalist and insider Richard Lewis, the European esports club Team Liquid has joined the fight to sign Latvian-born YEKINDAR. According to Lewis, Mareks Galinskis can replace Richard 'shox' Papillon in Liquid's CS:GO roster. The rumor looks quite plausible as shox sat on the bench on June 19th. If this happens, then YEKINDAR will play in the same lineup with players such as EliGE, NAF, oSee and nitr0.

You can read more about this news here.

HEAP became the fifth Fnatic player. Surprised? But we are not! The editors of EGamersWorld had guesses about the arrival of this cybersportsman in the ranks of the British organization. Now Fnatic have pleased their fans with the completion of their roster of shooter discipline from Valve. Now under the Fnatic tag, HEAP will play alongside KRiMZ, mezii, nicoodoz and roeJ.

You can read more about the transfer here.

While we are talking about Counter-Strike, this discipline, meanwhile, has already turned 23 years old. Recall that initially Counter-Strike, which gained immense popularity, was just a modification to the game Half-Life. It was published in 1999 and today has become one of the main disciplines in the world of eSports. In addition, we can safely say that Counter-Strike is one of the reasons for the emergence of the concept of “e-sports”. If Quake 3, which was also popular at that time, has already come to an end, then the current version of the game, CS:GO, does not stop gaining momentum.

You can read about it in our material.

Dota 2

Remember the Chinese legendary player in Dota 2 Ame? He performed great many times at the main Dota 2 tournament, The International, but he never could make his dream come true and win there. So, the cybersportsman decided, apparently, to end his career without achieving his dream. On account of the Chinese there are many victories and achievements in other solid tournaments, however, being one step away from winning The International, he never managed to lift the coveted trophy over his head.

You can read more about this here.

How many people do you think are working on Dota 2 at the moment? Maybe 50? Or maybe 30? Or maybe 80? The correct answer appeared in one of our materials. Jeff Hill, one of the employees of Valve, shared such an interesting detail and this time lifted the veil of secrecy on one of the subreddits of the Reddit forum.

Where can you read about it? That's right, in one of our materials!

OG is a global name in both esports in general and Dota 2 in particular. It was this European team that for the first time in history managed to win two tournaments of The International series. Moreover, for the first time in history, esportsmen defended the title of TI champion. Now the management believes that it may not be limited to one Dota 2 roster. Once upon a time, OG had attempts to open an academy, which marked the short period of existence of the OG Seed roster. Now management has decided to change the approach to business and try their hand at this field again.

If you missed this news, then we suggest that you familiarize yourself with this interesting fact about OG here.

Valorant

In another shooter discipline, Valorant, is also not without news. G2 Esports announced their plans to leave the European division. The club wants to try their hand at North America. There, this esports discipline is very successful and G2 Esports want to bite off a piece of this pie.

You can read more about G2's plans here.

The developers of Riot Games have pleased Valorant players with a new trailer for the Pearl map. With the release of the next season, a new battlefield will become available to users. The rumors surrounding Pearl have been officially confirmed. The scene will be an underwater city, located somewhere off the coast of Portugal. It will be distinguished by an advanced level of scientific development.

You can read about the Pearl map and the official announcement here.

Other

Did you know that a lot of professional Dota 2 players, including Fear, ppd and others, before coming to Valve's MOBA game, tried their hand at another similar title, Heroes of Newerth? After the resounding success of Valve's MOBAs, the aforementioned HoN fell into oblivion. There were not as many users in the game as the developers would have liked, and the latter made a difficult decision in their career - to close the Heroes of Newerth servers. And so they did. Now, if someone wants to play HoN, then it will be, to put it mildly, not as easy to implement as before.

You can read about the fate of Heroes of Newerth here.

And what about the crossover between esports and classic sports? And so we will please you today! Do you know Mesut Ozil? The one who won the World Cup in 2014 as part of the German national team, and now plays for the Turkish club Fenerbahce in the position of an attacking midfielder. He is already 33 years old and the athlete is thinking about ending his career as a professional football player. However, instead of what many might assume, Ozil is good not only in FIFA, but also in Fornite. His manager reported the player's addiction to this particular game.

You can read about the German native and his plans for his career here.