Samsung Online Esports Showdown successfully concluded last Saturday the 9th of May with Noob Alliance coming in 1st place while Maximum Esports was ranked 2nd and Phoenix GaminG taking 3rd. After placing 5th at Sri Lanka Cyber Games 2018, this is the first time Maximum Esports made its way into the top 3 of a tournament. In the recent past, Phoenix GaminG and Noob Alliance have been in close competition to bag awards such as the National Best Clan Award and SLCG. With Gamer.LK’s introduction of mobile Esports titles to tournaments, Sri Lankan clans have been in a race to recruit the countries best mobile talent to strengthen their ranks. Younger clans like Wolf Gang Esports have shown great promise with these new title additions, having placed 4th overall at the Showdown. 

Counter Strike: GO
1st place: ZEGG Esports (No clan)
2nd place: Sum Ting Wong (Phoenix GaminG)
3rd place: Revolutionary Gamers (Maximum e-Sports)

Clash Royale
1st place: thor (Noob Alliance)
2nd place: Salmaan (Maximum e-Sports)
3rd place: Umesha Pina (Wolfgang eSports)

League of Legends
1st place: R [ 3 ] D (Phoenix GaminG)
2nd place: Phase (Noob Alliance)
3rd place: Lanka Lions (Phoenix GaminG)

Mobile Legends
1st place: Lost Boys (Noob Alliance)
2nd place: Angry Apes (Noob Alliance)
3rd place: IDK GAMING (Wolfgang eSports)

Rainbow Six Siege
1st place: L2K (Union Gaming)
2nd place: Team Area69 (Victrix Esports)
3rd place: Team Mwaha (Maximum e-Sports)

Dota 2
1st place: The G-Men (No clan)
2nd place: Solan Esports (Phoenix GaminG)
3rd place: Vicious And Delicious (Maximum e-Sports)

PUBG
1st place: Anonymous (No clan)
2nd place: SHY MILITARY (Tech Morph)
3rd place: LK Bananas (No clan)

Call of Duty Mobile
1st place: Wrecking Wolves (Wolfgang eSports)
2nd place: DXGeneration A (Phoenix GaminG)
3rd place: THE MOB (No clan)

Free Fire
1st place: Renagados – A (Alpha Esports Club)
2nd place: DARK GHOST – A (Alpha Esports Club)
3rd place: Scavengers – B (Alpha Esports Club)

Call of Duty 4
1st place: Team iwnl (Maximum e-Sports)
2nd place: Chaos (Noob Alliance)
3rd place: Noobs With Attitude (Noob Alliance)

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Call of Duty 4 was the last title played at Samsung Online Esports Showdown where nA – Chaos met M – eS – Team iwnl in the finals. M – eS – Team iwnl was able to beat nA – Chaos with a score of 2-1.

nA – Noobs With Attitude placed third after beating TM – Team Misfits in the third-place decider.

1st Place: M – eS – Team iwnl
– Tharusha ‘A l u m : >’ Lakshan
– Sameera ‘F!R3.’ Warnasooriya
– Chathura ‘MANDUKA’ Sampath
– Musashi ‘Carlos’ De Krester
– Isuru ‘PEACE’ Abeykoon
– Pathum ‘jaffer’ Jayathilake

2nd Place: nA – Chaos
– Navod ‘Cyanide’ Bopitiya
– Sameera ‘Svtue’ Ramanayake
– Eranda ‘Garfield’ Madushan
– Lahiru ‘Sonic’ Gayan
– Chinthana ‘Chimpy’ Prasad

3rd Place: nA – Noobs With Attitude
– Ruvin ‘Ghost<3’ Kularatne
– VIshal ‘Dash’ Perera
– NIsal ‘Lucifer’ Jayasundara
– Sasitha ‘Sylaxx’ Weerathunga
– Tharindu ‘Hope’ Yapa

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The event is sponsored by Samsung and MSI Gaming.

A Free Fire tournament organized for the first time by Gamer.LK at the Samsung Online Esports Showdown concluded with 3 teams representing Alpha Esports Club dominating the top 3 spots.

1st Place: Renagados – A
– Thimira Sachintha
– Nisitha Erandaka
– Vihanga Himansha
– Chalitha Chenuthe

2nd Place: DARK GHOST – A
– Kavinda Balasooriya
– Adithya Bimsara
– Thilan buddika
– Sandula Anjana

3rd Place: Scavengers – B
– M K D Tharusha
– M W S Kalhara
– H J M J Akash
– T K A Almeda

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The event is sponsored by Samsung and MSI Gaming.

One of the more hotly contested titles in the tournament – Call of Duty Mobile concluded in an intense showdown between PnX DX  Generation vs WG Wrecking Wolves. Emotions ran high as fans from both clans showed their allegiance in live stream chats on facebook and youtube.

WG Wrecking Wolves went into the tournament as favorites coming off of a win at the previous Samsung Mobile League tournament. PnX DXG put the favorites in their place in the first map of the game with a confident win, setting up a 1-0 lead for themselves. The next 2 games fell fast in favor of Wrecking Wolves clinching a 2-1 win to take the title. 

The finals standing were as follows:
First place – WG Wrecking Wolves
– Dhanuja ‘Chief-D117’ Gunasekera
– Sapumal ‘XxX’ Herath
– Nuwan ‘Rabbit’ Thilakaratne
– Sidath ‘MadDogSIDA’ Udamuhandiram
– Isuru ‘Ghosty’ Ranaweera
– Pasindu ‘NiKolai’ Premachandra

Second place – PnX DX Generation
– Vishwa ‘Trouth’ Madhusagara
– Anushka ‘Zid’ Silva
– Thisaru ‘Xclusive’ Dilshan
– Manupa ‘No_One’ Randitha
– Isuru ‘Punisher’ Uddeepana
– Mohamed ‘XtremE’ wajeeh

Third place – The Mob
– Zamaan ‘Evilgg’ Anas
– Aathif ‘HighFlyer’ Ismath
– Thashin ‘AB’ Rahuman
– Abdullah ‘Montag’ Ajmal
– Sanjaya ‘kito’ Godagama
– Dhanush ‘HOBS’

Stay tuned to Gamer.LK for more news.
The event is sponsored by Samsung and MSI Gaming.

After detailed investigations, Gamer.LK has uncovered that many solo participants have teamed up to gain an unfair advantage at the Fortnite finals. Teaming up, communicating with opponents, and avoiding eliminations in an organised manner is against the rules and goes against the spirit of competitive Battle-Royale games. 

The following list of players have been disqualified based on proof of them using voice servers to communicate with their friends/clanmates during the finals. 

1. UG – Bulletz (Shawn Abeywickrama)
2. UG – Mello Yello (Dinada Balasuriya)
3. UG – Loch (Lochana Rangalla)
4. UG – kevinsheno (Kavindu Dilshan)
5. UG – Hyperaqua (Kesara Weerasinghe)
6. UG – Hamzah (Hamzah Fahim)
7. UG – Dark Lord (Roshan Ranasinghe)
8. UG – uG_KaVi_DaSh_ (Kavishka Dilshan)
9. PnX – Dulnath (Dulnath Perera)

Players who placed in top 5 spots in the tournament  are now disqualified. Apart from the listed players, questionable whatsapp conversations, screenshots and ingame footage of other players have been found, leading to the integrity of the final leaderboard being called into question. 

As a result of this widespread cheating, Gamer.LK has decided to consider the Fortnite title at Samsung Online Esports Showdown as a fun-to-play casual title and will not be included in the overall award points.

In addition, further penalties will be issued against the 9 players listed above once the Samsung Online Esports Showdown tournament ends.

Future Fornite competitions in Sri Lanka will also be considered as casual fun-to-play tournaments until Gamer.LK is able to spectate and receive required access to conduct proper and fair tournaments with the title.