News & Reviews:   esports

Today, Budget 2020 was announced and if you only want to know if there are any upcoming changes in the tech industry, you've come to the right place. The list is quite long and we managed to look through the relevant ones so without further ado, check out our Budget 2020 Tech Round-Up below!

ServerDNA 4 which is a convention focused heavily on gaming and esports was recently held in Le Merridien Putrajaya, on 28 and 29 September 2019. For this first time, the convention had up to 2 floors filled with booths from international and local brands, as well as Malaysian gaming personalities.

Lenovo has recently announced the Legion of Champions esports tournament happening from 5 November 2019 until 27 January 2020, and it will have a combined prize pool of up to USD89100(~RM372687). For this year, Legion of Champions will include esports titles such as PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUND as well as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

Recently, we’ve been given the opportunity to interview Alan Chan, who is currently the Senior Look Development Artist at Blizzard Entertainment. To the uninitiated, Alan Chan is a CG veteran who had worked on several notable films such as Lord of the Rings, Titanic, Harry Potter and many more. Head over to IMDB or his website, if you want to find out more about the projects that Alan Chan took part in.

The Kejohanan E-Sukan Kampus is back once again, with more than RM180000 worth of prizes to be won. The competition is organized by Celcom XPAX, Kitamen, as well as Media Prima’s MyGameOn and the qualifiers will start in as early as 21 September 2019 while the Grand Finals will be on 23 and 24 November 2019 in The Curve, Damansara.

In conjunction with the upcoming Merdeka celebrations, as well as the on-going OMEN Challenger series. Stand a chance to win a trip to Jakarta simply by purchasing selected HP OMEN or Pavilion Gaming laptops. Not only that, but HP will also be giving away a free Steam Wallet code worth RM50.

From 24 August until 29 September 2019, the 4th season of the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Professional League for Malaysia and Singapore will be happening with up to RM415000 prize pool to be won. The tournament will be aired live on Mobile Legends: Bang Bang facebook page every Saturday and Sunday from 4PM onwards, if you’re interested in watching the live stream.

Before I started my career as a tech journalist at TechNave, I used to invest a lot of my time competing in various competitive esports tournaments for titles such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, and Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds. With all that said, I want to share with you my experience during my time competing in esports tournaments around Malaysia.

On this very day, Maxis has announced that they are the first Malaysian company to sponsor Team Secret’s all Malaysian PUBG Mobile team. Not only that, but both the organisations will be collaborating together in order to bring the best eSports experiences to Malaysia via Maxis’ 4G as well as Fibre network.

Beyond Esports from Thailand, has emerged as the champions of a tournament called TECS featuring Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which was hosted in Penang over the weekend. The champions will be bringing home the grand prize of up to RM20000, the first runner up as well as joint 3rd and 4th place won themselves RM10000 and RM6000 respectively.