Former GSL Code A commentator Kelly Milkies is no stranger to controversy. She had eSports fans up in arms due to her thick accent, to the point where she was actually receiving death threats. Thankfully the whole situation defused without any real casualties besides hurt feelings.

Last night word got out that Kelly is back in the lime light, this time on the pages of FHM Singapore. Dressed in black stockings and a corset, Kelly will have a total of three pictures published along with an interview where she discusses being a female gamer in a male dominated field.

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Today the FireGamers organization announced that the former compLexity players Renato “nak” Nakano, Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo and Matheus “urb” Oliveira have rejoined the team, which currently includes former coL.br member, Bruno Ono.

Originally members of FireGamers, the ex-coL trio (as nak, FalleN and urb are now known as) left the team back in September to further their careers with the compLexity brand. Unfortunately for all parties involved, lack of stability in the team caused compLexity and the squad to part ways.

So far the current FireGamers line up includes:

Bruno “bruno” Ono
Renato “nak” Nakano
Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo
Matheus “urb” Oliveira

We’d like to wish the best of luck to the Firegamers players!

With the culmination of the IPL Season 2 qualifiers taking place earlier today, IGN has announced the first group of qualifying players that will join IdrA, KiwiKaki, SeleCT, and Axslav, in the second season of the IPL.

The following players successfully made it to round 8 of the qualifying tournament, securing their spot in the IPL Season 2 main event.

Diestar
Fenix
MaNa
Ret
coL.Stalife
Destiny
ViBE

For the original announcement, with player introductions, click here.

With today’s announcement of MLG’s and GOMtv’s League Exchange Program, it should come as no surprise that MLG will need to make some changes to the format of their tournaments.

For MLG Columbus, the Korean competitors will be seeded directly into the existing competition format:

• There will still be four Championship Pools. The Top 16 finishers from MLG Dallas will be seeded into the Pools based on their rank, just as in Dallas.

• One GSL pro player will be added to each Pool, based on their GSL rank, as follows:

           The #1 GSL pro player will go to Pool D
           The #2 GSL pro player will go to Pool C
           The #3 GSL pro player will go to Pool B
           The #4 GSL pro player will go to Pool A

•  As before, one undefeated player from the Open Bracket will eventually join each pool, for a total of six players per Pool.
• Each member of the Pool will play a total of five Pool Play matches, rather than four, which significantly increases the amount of games you will see played by top players.”

For the other MLG events after Columbus, the format will be shifting slightly, to accommodate the Korean invites.

• The [player] Pools will always contain the Top 20 players (four invited GSL pro players, and 16 top-ranked MLG players) and four undefeated Open Bracket players, for a total of 24.
• The 20 players who start in Pool Play on Friday will be seeded according to their Pro Circuit Rank Points.
• No matter what their MLG seed is, the invited GSL pro players will be placed in Pools based on their GSL rank. The #1 ranked GSL pro player will always be placed into Pool D, etc.
• In the National Championship, where there are no Pools, the GSL pro players will be seeded based on their MLG Rank Points.”

MLG noted in their announcement, “Adding four players to the tournament has some ramifications for the format that go beyond Pool Play, so Regular Season competitions will work in the following way from MLG Columbus onward:

• A round (Open Losers Round 9) will be added to the Open Bracket

• 12 Players will advance from the Open Bracket into the Championship Bracket:         

• The four undefeated players will move into the Pools
• The eight players with only one loss will be seeded into the Championship Losers Bracket
• At the end of the tournament, 52 players—rather than the usual 48—will receive Pro Circuit Rank Points.

For all the details visit MLGs official competition format page.