by Stephan Warakagoda | Jan 14, 2021 | Announcements, Esports news, News
Gamer.LK’s eFootball Championship will be kicking off on the 24th of January 2021. The virtual tournament will have the best players in Sri Lanka dribbling it out from the comfort of their home. Their goal – claim their stake in the Rs. 10,000 prize pool.
This Sri Lanka Esports Association (SLESA) ranked event will feature FIFA 21 as its gaming title. The tournament is sponsored by Red Bull Sri Lanka as its exclusive energy drink partner and will be streamed for everyone to witness the action. The points won from this event will go towards your National Esports ranking – registrations end on the 20th of January.
Register now on the InGame Esports platform @ https://ingame.gg/event/efootball-championship-2021-online
by Stephan Warakagoda | Dec 21, 2020 | Announcements, Esports news, News
The Red Bull MEO Sri Lanka finals concluded in the wee hours of 20th of December 2020, with 24 teams connecting remotely to compete for a spot in the Red Bull MEO World Finals. WG B2R came out on top in the points table after 6 matches of intense PUBG Mobile action. The leaderboard was in constant flux and a final winner didn’t stand out until the end of the 6th match – a testament to how close this competition was with Sri Lanka’s top competitive teams taking part.
The significance of WG B2R winning this event is the fact that they are a 100% Sri Lankan team. Red Bull MEO country qualifiers allowed non-Sri Lankan nationals in team rosters, therefore we saw mixed teams with players from the United States, India, Pakistan, Maldives, Bangladesh, and Nepal.
| RANK |
TEAM NAME |
POINTS |
| 1 |
WG B2R |
101 |
| 2 |
nA | LND-Legends |
96 |
| 3 |
E2S OPM |
84 |
| 4 |
MAX|ZEUS |
74 |
| 5 |
7Sea esports |
70 |
| 6 |
OPMF | OPEX |
63 |
| 7 |
nA | ISSL |
60 |
| 8 |
nA|FRag CodeBlacks |
49 |
| 9 |
OPMF Esports |
44 |
| 10 |
Team SL |
42 |
| 11 |
MeS | ZEUS | iMAX |
37 |
| 12 |
nA | ERBIV |
35 |
| 13 |
DEFEND JOKERS |
31 |
| 14 |
WG ICONs |
30 |
| 15 |
Max|4K|Guardians |
23 |
| 16 |
NA|CLOUD 69 |
22 |
| 17 |
WGxNoRules |
22 |
| 18 |
nA | Team Destiny |
19 |
| 19 |
Team unknown 6 |
18 |
| 20 |
nA | FRag Retires |
16 |
| 21 |
WG B2R TERMINATORS |
15 |
| 22 |
MaX | SL FAMILY TITANS |
14 |
| 23 |
WG | TeamX9 |
13 |
| 24 |
LND-FALLEN6 |
11 |
The Red Bull MEO World Finals, previously scheduled to be a physical in-person finals, has been postponed due to global safety concerns. Red Bull will be announcing the date and format of the World Finals when a final decision has been made about how to host it.
We wish WG B2R the best of luck!
by Stephan Warakagoda | Dec 7, 2020 | Esports news, News
PUBG Mobile is going big for the year 2021 having announced its total prize pool of a whopping $14 Million USD will be at stake across the entire year. The prize pool is over three times more than what was set for 2020.
In the 2021 season, we can expect seven new PMPL regions coming up in CIS, Turkey, Western Europe, Arabia, North America, Latin America, and Brazil. These will complement existing PMPLs in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The PMCO will also see additional regions including the UK, France, UAE, Africa, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Mexico. Next season will feature two PMCO tournaments, two PMPL tournaments, and a PUBG Mobile Global Championship to conclude the season.
Source: Twitter
by Stephan Warakagoda | Dec 2, 2020 | News
Elon Musk, Founder of Paypal, Tesla, SpaceX, and 2nd richest man in the world, says one of the major factors that got him interested in tech and paved the way for him to start programming was the video games he played as a kid. At the age of 12, he had coded and published his first video game. He may currently be pulling all-nighters at Tesla but there was a time when he once worked at a gaming startup.
Problem-solving in video games transfers over to problem-solving in software engineering, If people had to try to create realistic graphics using very little computing power, they would have to write really tight code and come up with really clever ideas to do that.
He credited the video games Cyberpunk and the movie Blade Runner as the inspiration for the Tesla pickup truck. He has also announced the addition of video games to Tesla vehicles drivers can play games on the car’s center screen while docked at a charging station.
Source : CNBC
by Stephan Warakagoda | Nov 27, 2020 | Announcements, Esports news, News
Team AE | SL RiderZ B walk away with Rs. 15,000 after placing first @ the Perera & Sons Mobile Contenders Free Fire. Teams AE | SL RIDERZ D and MAX | Suicide Squad finish in 2nd and 3rd respectively earning their shares of the Rs. 25,000 prize put up for Free Fire.
1st place: AE | SL RiderZ B
Kasun “SLR MR PODDA” Podda
Sadaru “SLR KAIZ” Vishmika
Lakshan “SLR LAKA” Kavinda
Chamal “SLR CJ” Bandara
2nd place: AE | SL RIDERZ D
Himansha “SLR AMITH” Buddika
Savidu “SLR DRACARYS” Chamalka
Maneesha “SLR DUMA 9XT” Madubashitha
Chamath “SLR BATHI” Pabasara
3rd place: MAX | Suicide Squad
Chehan “INF MR ZOMBI” Gamage
Pawan “INF MR UNICO” Madushanka
Avinash “INF NOMERCY” Darshana
Dilip “INF X-NEON” Madushanka
The P&S Mobile Contenders event was Perera & Sons first Esports event, organized in collaboration with Gamer.LK.
