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Riot is bringing in-person League of Legends and Valorant tournaments to Iceland

The Verge

Riot Games plans to host two big esports tournaments in Reykjavik, Iceland, the studio announced on Monday. One day later, on May 24th, Riot will kick off Valorant Champions Tour (VCT) Masters Reykjavik, which the studio says is the first live international tournament for the game. Image: Riot Games.

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League of Legends’ world championships will take place in Iceland

The Verge

The League of Legends World Championship, the concluding tournament that brings together the best teams from across the world, will take place in Reykjavík, Iceland at the Laugardalshöll indoor sporting arena. Photo by David Lee/Riot Games/Riot Games Inc. via Getty Images. The event kicks off on October 5th and will conclude on November 6th.

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Dota 2’s The International returns in August with $40 million prize pool

The Verge

Today, Valve announced that The International, the annual Dota 2 championship, will return after a one-year hiatus caused by the pandemic. The International is well-known not only for its intense, global competition, but also for being incredibly lucrative: this year’s tournament will feature a prize pool of $40 million.

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Gulf states using COVID-19 contact tracing apps as mass surveillance tools, report says

The Verge

A new study analyzing COVID-19 contact tracing apps conducted by Amnesty International has found that Bahrain and Kuwait are using their public health apps as mass surveillance tools. BBC now reports you can opt out of the show if you don’t want to run the risk of being called.).

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League of Legends’ world championships moved from China to Europe

The Verge

This will be the second major League of Legends tournament to take place in Europe this year, following May’s Mid-Season Invitational hosted in Reykjavik, Iceland. Worlds is typically a big annual showcase for Riot, with past events including an opening ceremony powered by holograms and a mixed reality stage.

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44.01 secures $5M to turn billions of tons of carbon dioxide to stone

TechCrunch

” Other mineralization efforts have broken ground on the concept, so to speak, such as a basalt-injection scheme up in Iceland, so it isn’t without precedent. It’s an evolving and highly complex overlapping area of international regulations, taxes, and corporate policy.). Third is sourcing the CO2 itself.

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Big Tech pledged a billion to racial justice, but it was pocket change

The Verge

That’s more than the estimated GDP of Iceland and Yemen combined, according to the International Monetary Fund ). Apple’s $100 million represents just 0.18 percent of the $55.3 billion in profits the company made in 2019.

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