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A last-minute playing squad comprised of well-known Apex Legends creators and competitors iiTzTimmy, Dezignful, and Enemy—collectively called The Dojo—has today won North America’s ALGS last-chance qualifier.

The star-studded Apex creator squad was formed with the sole goal of trying to qualify for the ALGS Championship LAN event, and despite going up against more practiced and experienced teams, they were successful.

Apex Legends‘ developer Riot shows off the various ways characters can die in its battle royale promotional videos—but it makes some go through a much harder time than others, especially Octane.

A player compiled all moments where Octane died in Apex trailers on a Reddit thread, and the developer truly got creative with how to dispose of the reckless Skirmisher.

Pathfinder is an incredibly popular Apex Legends character, and his grappling hook ability results in many exciting plays. A video shared by one player showed one of those situations only Pathfinder could get himself into—and out of.

In a recent video shared to Reddit, SatisfactionLow959 showed a clip on Olympus where they made a very unlucky landing. They got themselves stuck on a roof and had to glide down, ending up in a hole between two platforms.

While we rapidly approach the Apex Legends Season 16 launch, other Apex-related titles seem to be tossed by the wayside. Apex Mobile was recently given an early death knell, and now news has surfaced revealing a secret, single-player, Titanfall 2-esque experience that had been in development has been scrapped entirely.

EA hadn’t publicly announced the development, but news of the unfortunate cancellation spread across the internet like wildfire. While we can take solace in the fact we don’t know what we actually missed, some details have leaked, thanks to Journalist Jeff Grub’s discussion on the Giant Bomb podcast.

Apex Legends announced this morning a new gameplay trailer for the new season will be premiering tomorrow. Season 14 brings a new legend, a new level cap, and changes to the game’s original battle royale map Kings Canyon.

The trailer is scheduled to premiere at 10am CT tomorrow, August 1 on the official Apex Legends YouTube channel. The trailer will likely show more of the new legend, Vantage, and her kit, as well as the changes that have been made concerning Kings Canyon and the new Skull Town.

FURIA finished in second place at the ALGS Championship this past weekend in Raleigh, taking home $300,000. The Australian team DarkZero may have won the tournament, but the majority of the buzz around the event focused on FURIA.

It’s easy to see why FURIA stole the show: their aggressive style and unorthodox team composition using Seer and Horizon was a breath of fresh air in a field dominated by more conservative strategies. Throughout the tournament, FURIA looked fearless, taking on fights that most professional teams would have avoided—and winning them nearly every time.

Competition breeds innovation—at least in Apex Legends. The competitive meta at the ALGS Championship in Raleigh saw innovative team compositions emerge that proved more than capable of defeating the most popular picks at the $2,000,000 LAN. 

Though Valkyrie is still the star of the show when it comes to ALGS play, the international mix in Raleigh also ensured lesser-seen competitive Apex legends had their time to shine. APAC South teams still favor Wattson and Crypto. Even Mad Maggie got a spotlight on the big stage.

Day three of the $2,000,000 ALGS Championship in Raleigh, North Carolina saw another 10 teams eliminated from contention today. Most of the better-known Apex Legends organizations made the grand finals, particularly those from North America, and teams like NRG and Furia looked primed for success in tomorrow’s finals.

The first match of the day in the winners bracket ended in classic fashion, in a duel between NRG and TSM, the two most winning organizations in the game. TSM clutched up, but that win had to serve as their highlight reel for the set of games, since they failed to reach the same heights for the rest of the stage.

On day two of the $2,000,000 ALGS Championship in Raleigh on Friday, the group stage of the tournament concluded and bracket play began. That meant that the top 20 teams in the tournament earned berths to the winners bracket and a well-deserved break, while the bottom 20 were forced to fight for survival in a losers bracket. By the end of the day, ten teams had been eliminated from the tournament. Many of them were duos, forced to play without full rosters after the original players tested positive for Covid. But PULVEREX, a Japanese team who were playing as a duo, managed to squeeze by on placement points and lived to fight another day, becoming crowd favorites in the process.

The day on the stadium stage in PNC Arena early Friday afternoon began with fans chanting “TSM!” and waving the team’s flag. The much-loved North American squad notched a victory in their first game with great positioning in the endgame, and won its last crucial moments thanks to some late-game dancing from ImperialHal and Verhulst.

For a long time, Gibraltar was the legend pro Apex Legends players favored the most. But a recent statistic from the ALGS Championship broadcast on Friday shows that Valkyrie has replaced him as the go-to pick in most professional team compositions. The highly mobile legend boasted a staggering 98-percent pick rate during the group stage of the tournament, making Valkyrie the most-picked legend at the ALGS Championship by a long shot.

Gibraltar remains another favorite of pro teams as the second-most picked legend, with 72 percent of teams choosing to go with the defensive stalwart. But many teams now feel comfortable forgoing Gibraltar.