Hearthstone esports has just announced that the Global Games are back. This comes during the Hearthstone Masters off-season and features top players from around the world.

Hearthstone Global Games 2019 will feature teams of two players. The first player will be an eligible region’s top earner from the Hearthstone 2019 Masters Tour for Las Vegas, Seoul, and Bucharest. Meanwhile, player two will be invited by Blizzard to complete based on criteria such as their contribution to the Hearthstone community and lifetime earnings.

These teams of two are scheduled to complete online between Nov 15 and Dec 22. The Hearthstone Global Games will then culminate in a top four with a single-elimination format. As for the prize pool, it is $75,000 USD this time around.

First place will get the lion’s share of $20,000 USD, while second place will receive $10,000 USD. As for third and fourth place, these players will be awarded with $7,500 USD. Below is a chart of the detailed prize pool distribution:

1st – $20,000
2nd – $10,000
3rd-4th – $7,500
5th-8th – $3,000
9th-16th – $1,000
17th-32nd – $625

Over the course of the Hearthstone Global Games competition, the matches will be broadcasted over on the game’s official Twitch channel. The current broadcast schedule for each week is as follows:

Week 1: Nov 15 to 17, 5 a.m. – 4 p.m. PST
Week 2: Nov 22 to 24, 5 a.m. – 4 p.m. PST
Week 3: Nov 29 to Dec 1, 5 a.m. – 4 p.m. PST
Week 4: Dec 20 to 21, 5 a.m. – 4 p.m. PST
Championship Sunday: Dec 22, 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. PST

Selected from 32 regions across the world, participants of the Hearthstone Global Games 2019 will duke it out for both regional pride and international glory.

To read more about some of Hearthstone’s top players, check out our interviews here at Daily Esports. These interviews include ones with Mark “Ike” Eichner, Torben “Viper” Wahl, Kacper “A83650” Kwieci?ski, David “Justsaiyan” Shan, and Muzahidul “Muzzy” Islam.

In the meantime, you can also check out our latest news about the card game’s Saviors of Uldum solo adventure.

ESL Pro League Season 10 announces its CSGO groups

The ESL Pro League is one of the main CSGO esports leagues. For each of the three regions, there are 16 teams competing. The regions consist of Europe, North America, and the Asia Pacific. This format is different than the previous ESL Pro League Season. It featured four regions of Europe, the Americas, Oceania, and Asia with 12 teams each instead.

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ESL Pro League

Season 10 of the ESL Pro League will have the same round format other than the difference in the number of teams. There are four round-robin groups where teams compete in best-of-three games. The groups are seeded based on the world rankings of Counter-Strike ESL teams. The winner of each group will proceed to the ESL Pro League Finals.

However, the 2nd and 3rd place teams from each group will still have a chance. They will be sent to a “Round 2” bracket where the eight teams will be split into two groups. These teams will then similarly compete in best-of-three matches for a chance to go to the finals. The fourth-place teams will be eliminated and sent to a relegation round.

One difference is that the Asia Pacific region will play its matches differently than the other two regions. Instead of four round-robin rounds, there will only be two for the Asia region. These include a Southeast Asian and Chinese group, with each having four teams. This is because the previous Oceania region has been consolidated under the Asia Pacific umbrella. There will be two teams determined, with one each from Asia and Oceania, to advance toward the finals.

Season 10 groups

ESL Pro League Season 10

The Europe region features mousesports, BIG CLAN, FaZe Clan, OpTic Gaming, Vitality, Sprout, Ninjas in Pyjamas, and Heroic. It will also have teams like Astralis, Aristocracy, Fnatic, North, Natus Vincere, Hell Raisers, G2 Esports, and Windigo.

The North American region of the ESL Pro League will see organizations like MiBR, Envy, FURIA Esports, Swole Patrol, Evil Geniuses, eUnited, Cloud9, and Complexity Gaming compete. Season 9 winner Team Liquid, Renegades, Isurus Gaming, Infinity, Sharks, and DETONA will also participate. There are two empty spots in Group C of the Americas, due to two teams that have since disbanded.

The Asia Pacific region will be represented by Grayhound Gaming, Recursive, Ground Zero, AVANT Gaming, Chiefs, really weird, ORDER, and Paradox from the previous Oceania region. The Asia part of the league will feature ViCi Gaming, MVP PK, TYLOO, Invictus Gaming, Lucid Dream, BTRG, Alpha Red, and BOOT.

Pro League Finals

The ESL Pro League revealed it would have its finals event in Odense, Denmark. The venue will be the ODINCON EXPO for the Group Stage, with the Sparekassen Fyn Arena for the Playoffs. A total $600,000 USD prize pool will be awarded to the finalist teams between Dec. 3 and 8.

Teams will play in two double-elimination format groups, where the top three teams from each group will advance to the playoffs. The playoffs will consist of a single-elimination bracket with a best-of-three in the quarterfinals and semifinals. The grand finals will be a best-of-five instead.

How to play Call of Duty Mobile on PC with keyboard and mouse

Call of Duty Mobile finally released for all major operating systems worldwide earlier this week. Out of the gate, the game has received nearly universal praise for its integration of previous Call of Duty titles. Along with this, the content stream and microtransactions are fair and not secretive, unlike other large-scale multiplayer games, mobile or not.

Though the game has been met with little criticism, there is one nagging issue. Before launch, players were led to believe that controllers would be available for use on iOS and Android via Bluetooth. However, iOS did not release with controller capability, leaving players to use their fingers to move around and shoot.

While this is how the game was intended to be played, some in the community want a little more freedom. As such, some websites are giving this freedom in the form of online emulators for PC.

Call of Duty Mobile released worldwide on Sept 30

Steps for playing COD Mobile on PC

Something of this nature was bound to happen sooner or later. A majority of mobile games do have ports via emulators available online, though some can be dangerous for PCs. It took less than a day for multiple websites to set up emulators for COD Mobile, and most seem legitimate.

The biggest problem with emulators is they can violate the publisher’s terms of service. Most restrict access to the system(s) the game is intended for, meaning emulators can be shut down at any time. So far, however, COD Mobile emulators don’t appear to violate Activision’s terms of service.

This leaves the door open for all kinds of websites to make their emulator available for download. A majority are free and, from what we can tell, safe for your PC in terms of viruses. YouTuber JackTheBus breaks it down in his video:

In short, this simply involves downloading software from Gameloop and installing it on your PC. If you click this link, you’ll be directed to the Gameloop download page. From there, follow the steps to install the software.

Once the Gameloop launcher is installed, you’ll come to an application page with Call of Duty Mobile available to download. Click download, and as soon as it’s done you’ll be able to launch COD Mobile on your PC.

The Gameloop launcher that will appear once the software is finished downloading

The emulator comes with keybinds already set in place, though you can still tinker with ADS and other settings. If you want your mobile and PC accounts to sync up, then you’ll have to make an account using Facebook and not continue as a guest. This will make it so you can play on either device and your progress will be transferred over.

Though there are some bugs with the software, this is by far the safest and easiest way to play COD Mobile on PC to date. Stay tuned to Daily Esports for more COD Mobile coverage!