by Rav | Apr 14, 2019 | News
PnX has announced that their star COD4 team and runners up at SLCG 2018, team iMex has parted ways with the clan. The news comes in the form of a Facebook post thanking team iMex for their contributions and wishing them the best in their future Esports endeavors.
If we had not joined PnX, we would probably not have made it to the end of the finals at SLCG – and for that, we will always be grateful. Through matches and tournaments to get there, we had an incredible year with Phoenix GaminG.
Even though we were with them for just a year, the clan was highly supportive of us. They kept us going with refreshments and cheers all the way till the end
Rumors were floating around that team iMex would depart PnX once their ex-teammate Thunder joined Maximum after SLCG.
We are very confident that we would have loved staying at PnX for the rest of our esports career. But we have made the decision to move because we want to make the very most out of esports journey, right now. We have sights set on another shot at the champion title for SLCG 2019. With the departure of Thunder, we were one player short and found it hard to replace him. The fact that him being our sole scoper and PnX lacking any other scopers made it harder for us to fill his shoes.
As for our future plans, we have thought long and hard about this and came to this conclusion. We made it to the SLCG finals with Thunder as a team and our synergy was perfect. Based on this, we have decided to join him in Maximum and unify our team once more ”
There you have it, folks. After disbanding for almost half a year, team iMex is back with their SLCG 2018 line-up.
Will they show us that they’re back on track together with their eyes set on #1?
by Rav | Apr 5, 2019 | News
Play Expo is the largest Digital Entertainment, Esports and pop-culture event in Sri Lanka consisting of the Sri Lanka Cyber Games, IGE South Asia Cup and Colombo Comic Expo. Gamer.LK runs a large-scale digital campaign for the event to bring together multiple youth-communities in activities pre and post-event.
Gamer.LK was recognised at the recently concluded SLIM Digis awards ceremony for the 2018 digital campaign in the Entertainment category. Gamer.LK was the sole finalist in its category, acquiring the necessary points to enter the finals.
The campaign previously won the gold award for Best Digital Integrated Campaign at the SLT Zero One Awards held in December last year.
Our digital campaigns have a focus on being results oriented, and we’re super happy that the hard work and planning put in by the team is recognised at this level. said Raveen Wijayatilake, CEO of Gamer.LK.
Play Expo is next scheduled to be held in December of this year.
by Rav | Mar 31, 2019 | News
Gamer.LK’s R&D arm is proud to announce a brand new set of games technologies and accompanying leagues that Sri Lankan gamers islandwide will be able to take part in while the power is out. With new investment and industry leadership, Gamer.LK has been able to fund research into these new products and plan to build communities and tournaments around them.
The new games feature Artificial Intelligence powered by human thought, combined with potential and kinetic energy conversion in order to generate movement in objects in a state of play. Similar to Esports that Gamer.LK has worked with in the past, these new games also cater to 1v1 as well as team-based engagements. With Esports being a test of mental prowess and strategic thinking, the new games are also deeply set in the players mind and shies away from physical ability. In order to maintain familiar themes, the new games follow narratives similar to that of current Esports – violence, destruction and simulated physical engagement.
Today, Gamer.LK is proud to announce the competitive leagues being organised for these games:
The Tak Tik Tuk International
This game involves a complex matrix of spaces and possibilities and is Gamer.LK’s first foray into stateless design architecture. The tournament will feature 1v1 battles where a winner is chosen by the most number of geometric shapes matched in a row. The tournament winners walk away with over USD 25,000,000 worth of pride and self satisfaction.
Gamer.LK Clans Buruwa Challenge
The Buruwa game is based on hard-paper™ technology out of which hundreds of game-items are manufactured and distributed to players. Each item contains a pattern which will be scanned by the player by looking at it and understanding what it is. This league is open to all Sri Lankan clans and is expected to get over 9000 registrations. Sri Lanka’s 9 official clans are expected to take part, with members of Phoenix Gaming and Maximum Esports currently being favorites to being the Champion Buruwa.
Battle of the Batta Paneema
Held online, the Battle of the Batta Paneema involves athletes creating a Batta arena where they will position themselves in the desired area by pressing jump and forward IRL at the same time. Once positioning is locked in, athletes will report their position to the Batta master who will then hand over the turn to the next athlete. The Battle of the Batta Paneema will be played in a double elimination knockout format, and a national Batta ranking will be released after the tournament to crown the biggest Batta.
Gamer.LK is currently in talks with the Sri Lanka Esports Association to have these tournaments recognised as ranked events, and will soon commence discussion with the National Olympic Committee to lobby for their support. Gamer.LK is currently working with their team of lawyers to protect the trademark and copyrights of these events.
Stay tuned to Gamer.LK as we bring you the intense, nail biting, square jumping action with daily streams casted by the best of Sri Lanka’s shoutcasting talent!
by Rav | Mar 27, 2019 | News
Gamer.LK is happy to announce that Team Xiphos, Sri Lanka’s #1 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive team has been signed on by German Esports organisation myRevenge. The 5-man team will receive a starting salary to play under the myRevenge banner – a first for a Sri Lankan team and a testament to the skill level available in the country.
myRevenge.lk roster:
Geeshan ‘Defiance /A/’ Jayaraj
Omal ‘ROACH’ Prabuddha (Captain)
Shakir ‘hikkA/MSR/’ Razak
Zayyaan ‘HeLLScreaM^’ Ali
Sanjeevan ‘BenJ’ Kalaieesan
Vivek ‘mto’ Gopalakrishnan (Manager)
The team attended the IESF Esports World Championship in November last year and had a stellar performance, beating Vietnam veterans Revolution 16-10. This got the team global attention and was a first step in their journey. Thereafter they beat India’s Entity Gaming at the WESG regional qualifiers.
Team captain Omal ‘ROACH’ Prabudhdha had the following to say about their recruitment –
We are really happy to represent myRevenge moving forward. I am very happy that our talent got the recognition it deserved and we got signed by this organisation. I will make sure that the team and I will take full advantage of this opportunity and showcase our talent and make ourselves and the country proud. We are very excited about being the first Sri Lankan team to be representing a foreign entity.
We wish our boys the best of luck, with the entire Sri Lankan Esports community’s support behind you.
Stay tuned to Gamer.LK for coverage of their journey.
by Rav | Mar 25, 2019 | Womens News
We are proud to announce our partnership with FriMi for the SLT eSports Women’s Cyber Games! FriMi will be enabling all winning participants to receive their prize money via their FriMi digital wallets!
FriMi believes there is a better way to banking, one that is more humane, valuable and less invasive for customers. FriMi is obsessively passionate about it, and continuously strive to achieve it through informed data sources. FriMi started in 2016 as an innovative digital initiative of the corporate management team of the Nations Trust Bank. Today FriMi runs as an independent fintech startup. The eagerly growth of FriMi witnessed a lot of challenges from launching the product to the market to wanting to try out-of-the-box things while adhering to the local banking regulations. After all, FriMi is a “Bank”.
With a dedicated diverse team working in full-swing, FriMi pushed it’s way through and achieved it’s first milestone of one billion in transaction value in December 2018.
