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Cloud9 have been forced to backflip on signing 14-year-old Twitch star ‘General Sniper’, a popular League of Legends streamer, after the team broke the LCS’ rules for signing underage members to their organization. Professional esports teams, like Cloud9, often sign streamers who may not compete on one of their official rosters to represent the organization. Big names like Felix ‘xQc’ Lengyel and Tyler ‘Tyler1’ Steinkamp stream under the banners of Luminosity and T1 respectively. So when Cloud9 signed ‘General Sniper’, a rising star in League of Legends streaming and the younger brother of pro player Omran ‘V1per’ Shoura, no one really batted an eyelid. Riot GamesGeneral Sniper is the younger brother of LCS top laner V1per (pictured). General Sniper made waves in the community after hitting Challenger in League of Legends solo queue at the age of 12. He also followed in his brother’s footsteps, becoming one of the best Riven players in the world. The North American organization confirmed the signing on November 3. However, just hours later, they were forced to take their announcement down, and terminate the young streaming star’s contract. Read more: Riot aims to shift Seraphine into mid lane with League patch 10.23 buffs Cloud9 allegedly broke the League of Legends Championship Series (LCS) rules by signing the 14-year-old General Sniper. According to the LCS rulebook, all members of an organization ⁠— professional players, staffers, or streamers ⁠— must be over the age of 15. General Sniper said it was “very sad news” to hear he was forced to cancel signing with Cloud9. Turns out the minimum age to join any team is 15 (even as a streamer) so my contract was terminated, very sad news☹️ I'll be back stronger than ever next year 🙂 — General Sniper (@GeneralSniperr) November 3, 2020 “ turns out…

Popular World of Warcraft streamer Staysafetv has been banned on Twitch following a recent stream covering the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The streamer was watching the election unfold along with his chat, tuning into Fox News for its live election day coverage. This content was flagged as copyrighted, though, and Staysafe’s channel has been banned for the next 48 hours.Staysafe later shared a message with his viewers, confirming the broadcast got him banned. He also said this wasn’t the first time his channel had recently been flagged for copyrighted material.48 hour ban for watching election coverage on Twitch. More concerningly, I got another DMCA a few months ago for playing ‘In Da Club’ by 50 Cent in a clip that was 2 years old – so I believe if I get another one it will be a perma-ban? Very nice @Twitch 👍 pic.twitter.com/vbzGTSfODE— StaysafeGG (@staysafegg) November 4, 2020 Staysafe said he was recently hit with a DMCA strike for playing 50 Cent’s hit song “In Da Club” in a clip that was two years old.With Twitch cracking down on copyrighted content on its platform, Staysafe is not alone. Hundreds of the site’s partnered streamers have been receiving copyright strikes this year.To assist its users, Twitch has rolled out beta testing for its platform-specific music streaming service called SoundTrack. This service functions much like any other music application, but the content curated on there will exclusively be copyright-free music that streamers can use on their channels without any worry of DMCA violations.Twitch has suggested that creators educate themselves on copyright law and remove old clips and streams to ensure that their channels contain no copyrighted content.

It’s November, which means the start of the PUBG Continental Series 3 is nearly upon us. The competition kicks off this weekend, with matches in Asia, the Pacific, North America, and Europe all getting underway November 5. We’ve got the full schedule, as well as how to watch, right here. PUBG Corp is providing English broadcasts for all the matches, and you’ll be able to tune in on both Twitch and YouTube, as well as TikTok and Facebook Gaming. The map feed for the tournament will be broadcast separately on Twitch. The company has also arranged for broadcasts in many international languages, with talent arranged for each one. You can head over to the official website for the complete details on broadcast feeds and casting talent lined up for each language. Competition days are staggered by region. Those include Asia, Asia-Pacific, North America, and Europe. Generally, matches will run Thursday-Friday in Asia and North America, and Saturday-Sunday in Asia-Pacific and Europe. You can check out the full three-week schedule below. On the Twitch global broadcast, there will be drops enabled – so even if your favourite team isn’t playing in the tournament this year, you still may want to tune in to pick up some cool loot for the battle royale game. If you want, you can always bookmark this post and watch right here: And here’s the full schedule: Asia Week 1: 11/5-6 @ 7pm KST / 5pm ICT / 2am PST / 11am CET Week 2: 11/12-13, @ 7pm KST / 5pm ICT / 2am PST / 11am CET Week 3: 11/19-20, @ 7pm KST / 5pm ICT / 2am PST / 11am CET North America Week 1: 11/5-6 @ 4pm PST / 11/6-7 @ 1am CET / 9am KST / 7am ICT Week 2: 11/12-13 @ 4pm…

Cultural references in politics have stayed on the right side of respectability and civility, doing just enough to grab attention but not genuinely engaging with people. Often coupled with last minute get out the vote efforts, these attempts at using culture come across as inauthentic or fake.  But over the past few years, a new wave of organizers are rejecting the pearl clutching of traditional political campaigns and connecting with Black and other communities of color on their own terms. “Our politics are in response to culture. Because culture tends to move way faster than politics,” Amber J. Phillips, culture organizer and strategist, said. “People consume politics and culture at the same time.” Electoral participation and civic engagement are cultural practices. Aside from attracting a new generation of civically committed people, Phillips says that culture can lead us to what a new future could look like. Instead of waiting for rushed celebrity events as a part of get out the vote activities, organizers are bringing in art, language, and music into the core of their work.  “We want to change the culture of voting,” Nse Ufot, CEO of the New Georgia Project, said in an interview with Scalawag Magazine’s As the South Votes. “We need to lean into culture in order to do so.” Ufot shared that most people were skeptical when the New Georgia Project started working with gamers. She said people had no clue what relevance gaming had to voting rights. Nse Ufot, CEO of the New Georgia Project “Around 65 percent or 75 percent of American households have someone that considers themselves a gamer in it,” Ufot remarked. “Obviously, we want to talk to 75 percent of American households about democracy, about our elections, about the minimum wage, about Medicare for all, about climate change.”  On…

November 2, 2020 Today, we chat with streamer, content creator, podcaster and Dead by Daylight Fog Whisperer, Milady Confetti about the VERY busy Halloween weekend. From a Twitch Rivals tournament to Ninja and ‘Stranger Things’ star Gaten Matarazzo playing together, the spooky weekend was full of great Dead by Daylight content. Catch MiladyConfetti on Twitch, Twitter and on her podcasts, Sistas of the Fog: https://www.twitch.tv/miladyconfetti Subscribe to CheckpointXP Daily Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.  Checkpoint Daily is hosted by gamers and video game journalists, Norris Howard, Kali Scales, and Chadd Callahan. They've got your daily update on all the things you love in 30 minutes or less.

Indie-licious never has trouble finding its way to good games, and today we'll be charting a fresh course for the map puzzling adventure game, Carto! There’s something fantastic about the design and conveyance of information in maps. Every map you’ve ever seen in a video game was painstakingly crafted to let you know where to go or help you discover it for yourself. In today’s Indie-licious, we celebrate and engage in the beauty and fun of a good map with Carto! Carto comes to us from developer Sunhead Games and publisher Humble Games. Having launched on October 27, 2020, it’s available now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and on PC through Steam and the Humble Store. Carto tells the story of a young girl who was separated from her Granny during an intense storm. With magical powers of cartography that allow the girl to map the world and also move and shift it to her will, Carto sets off to find her family and help others that are also lost along the way in a puzzle-heavy mapping adventure. You can see us unravel Carto on Indie-licious, where every Monday at 1:30 p.m. PT / 4:30 p.m. ET on the Shacknews Twitch channel, we look at the latest and most interesting indie games. You can also catch the stream live below. As always, we’d like to thank everyone who tunes into Indie-licious each week. Your engagement and support make these projects all the more fun and continually possible. If you want to keep the fun going, be sure to follow the Shacknews Twitch channel or even subscribe if you’re feeling particularly generous. Also, don’t forget that if you happen to have an Amazon Prime subscription, you can link it with your Twitch account to get a free subscription each…

If it's Sunday, then that most likely means another episodic trip (or two) into the universe of The Walking Dead. But before we take another look at Sunday night's newest chapters of Fear the Walking Dead ("The Key") and The Walking Dead: World Beyond ("Madman Across the Water"), the fine folks over at the main Skybound TWD have returned with a look back at the week in walkers (still not buying into "empties" yet). From Dwight (Austin Amelio) reuniting with Sherry (Christine Evangelista) and a look back at a Twitch tour of Woodbury to Nico Tortorella and Colman Domingo's social media takeovers, all the big topics are covered.Oh, and did someone mention something about an "end credits" sequence? Hmmm…Crazy Post Credit Scenes, TWD Cast Takes Over Instagram And More In What Happened in TWD This WeekSo before tonight's festivities kick in, get a refresher or catch up on the comings and goings in and around the TWD universe in this next edition of "What Happened in TWD This Week":Photo Credit: Ryan Green/AMCAMC's Fear the Walking Dead continues its impressive sixth season run with a fresh look at where things stand in John Dorie's (Garret Dillahunt) world with "The Key"- not that he's become a gunslinging ranger thanks to Virginia (Colby Minifie). Meanwhile, Strand (Colman Domingo) continues picking the right time to be Strand- and that includes some one-on-one time with Dorie. Meanwhile, Morgan (Lennie James) makes a move, Rabbi Kessner (Peter Jacobson) makes an appearance, and more (but our concern lies with Dorie, who apparently goes through a pretty rough run during this episode). What follows is a sneak preview that finds Dorie investigating a death that Virginia clearly has no interest in seeing investigated:Fear the Walking Dead season 6, episode 4 "The Key": John secretly investigates a death that…

Michigan State received a commitment from Shakari Denson, a sleeper out of Georgia, on Sunday. Dennis is just coming onto the major...

ARLINGTON, TEXAS - OCTOBER 27: Blake Snell #4 of the Tampa Bay Rays is taken out of the game by manager Kevin Cash during the sixth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game Six of the 2020 MLB World Series at Globe Life Field on October 27, 2020 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Maxx Wolfson/Getty Images) Blake Snell discussed how he feels about his manager in a recent Twitch stream.Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash has taken all the heat in the world for removing Blake Snell during Game 6 of the World Series. The move openly excited the Los Angeles Dodgers and Cash’s bullpen quickly proceeded to blow the slim 1-0 Snell was holding.Snell was visibly not pleased, rightfully so, and it would be easy to think he wants out of Tampa. He is known to stream on Twitch from time to time and was on recently when the question came up about how he feels about Cash. He kept it classy.Snell doesn’t throw his manager under the bus“I love him,” Snell says about his manager. He’s a great manager, a great person. Maybe he should have kept me in, maybe he shouldn’t. You know how I feel, I know how everyone else feels.”This is quite the political answer from the ace. But he remains under contract with the Rays and is not going to openly blast his manager who had success all season. He just made one blunder and his bullpen let him down. To be fair, the offense needed to do more in that game as well.Cash knew he would take heat for the move and said as much following the game. He decided to stick with his plan and it failed. However, even if it did work it was still a bizarre move to take…

Entertainment Published: 31/Oct/2020 16:40 by Joe Craven ReKTGlobal Popular Twitch streamer Benjamin ‘DrLupo’ Lupo has felt compelled to reiterate his stance against hate on Twitch, amid claims his community is growing increasingly toxic and “racist”. The last few years have seen DrLupo launched into the most followed accounts on Twitch, thanks mainly to his time on Epic Games’ Fortnite, often alongside Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins. However, such a monumental following brings issues, often in the form of individuals intentionally being toxic and making offensive remarks. This is something DrLupo has struggled with of late, with some members of the Twitch community accusing his following of being “racist.” One Tweet accused Lupo of not doing enough to combat the toxicity among his followers, to which the streamer responded, asking: “You’re telling me I’m responsible for the thousands of random people that I don’t know?” CouRage - TwitterDrLupo (right) has also featured as a commentator for Fortnite. On October 30, a moderator for DrLupo’s Twitch shared a lengthy look at the channel’s history of combatting racism and hate in chat. The Google document, entitled Words, is designed to show the extensive amount of work Lupo and his mods go to in order to keep his community as hate-free as possible. Examples given show messages from banned users, as well as messages dating back to 2016, in which DrLupo outlines what is not acceptable among his community. Read More: LIRIK slams “ridiculous” Twitch DMCA strikes after wiping his channel The mod – Twitter user IC1415 – finished his explanation: “To those who would say that silence is happening, I humbly present this in an effort to show that we are not silent on this matter, we actively go after those in the community who bring these hateful words and remove them as swiftly as…