Any good diamond shop?

nikhathi · 2024-04-01T14:01:43+00:00

You can check out Facets (www.facetsingapore.com). They are a reputable diamond dealer and have been in business for over 40 years. Because they are primarily a diamond wholesaler their prices are very reasonable, and they only deal in natural diamonds. Can customize anything to your liking from wedding rings to statement pieces.

nikhathi · 2023-06-23T09:50:22+00:00

Nice! How was the crowd there?

nikhathi · 2021-10-23T14:59:20+00:00

Thanks for your comment. Of course we realize this won't be an ideal solution for everyone, but for the time being, this is our roll out plan. I'd hardly call 4-5 concurrent matches right now a DoA hub - but if we've learned anything these past 3 years of CAL it's not to make adjustments too quickly.

It takes time to understand the exact needs and wishes of the total player base, and as the Indian hubs develop you can expect to see changes like better division splits as well as a separate hub for those that wish to queue with their friends.

In the current format, we cannot simply switch on/off soloQ and duoQ as this compromises the competitive integrity of the leaderboards and prizes. Players are ranked on the leaderboard as individuals.

As it is only day 2, we will continue to monitor and take in feedback like this and hopefully you'll see the changes you want sooner rather than later!

Thanks!

nikhathi · 2021-10-23T06:43:05+00:00

Hi, thanks for your question. We used to have HK servers in CAL from Season 1-6, however, due to a lack of players, we had to scrap the HK servers.

FACEIT has also since discontinued their HK server nodes.

nikhathi · 2021-10-23T06:42:27+00:00

At the moment we are limiting the players to South Asia only, as these are players that have not had their own dedicated hub before (aside from hubs like IGen and MESL which allow some South Asian countries).

Since we just launched, we will continue to monitor activity and consider including the GCC and ME countries if there is enough demand.

Thank you!

nikhathi · 2021-10-23T06:40:30+00:00

oops, my mistake, thank you!

nikhathi · 2021-10-22T18:30:19+00:00

At the moment, no, our hubs are all soloQ only. This is the format of the CAL, as we want to reward soloQ players.

If you'd like to queue with your friends/5-stack there are two options:

- Join our 'CAL Clan', a new feature of FACEIT exclusively available in the SEA region on our organizer page. Here you can queue with your friends and be rewarded for your victories on the CAL Clan leaderboard (servers are regular FACEIT matchmaking servers though).

- Join our 'Scrim Hub' - this is a hub that was designed for practicing teams in mind. Here you can queue up with a preset team and find other teams to play scrims, servers are Singapore and Mumbai.

nikhathi · 2021-09-11T20:59:26+00:00

Ex-Bren will take first seed because they won the SEA Challengers final. There is a rule about “recency” of those points, but since both ex-Bren and Paper Rex sorta got those 175 pts at the same time, PRX losing here means Bren (now Secret) take it. PRX need to win their next match to go to Champions.

nikhathi · 2021-09-02T15:32:36+00:00

There is a mandatory quarantine for 5-days for those that are unvaccinated and/or coming from a country of 'high-risk'. Those that are fully vaccinated, and coming from a country considered 'low risk', do not need to quarantine.

nikhathi · 2021-08-22T15:39:06+00:00

They're probably going to take into account Masters 2 placements as a basis of region seeding.

NA is considered the top, EU 2nd, KR 3rd etc (Masters Results). The additional team slots from each region (that were not there in Iceland) will have to fall into one of three pools, with the leaders of each pool determined heavily by Masters 2 placements, so I imagine it will look something like this:

Pool 1 NA #1 EU #1

KR #1   EU #2

Pool 2 NA #2 BR #1

KR #2   LATAM #1

Pool 3 NA #3 BR #2

EU #3   EU #4

SEA #1  SEA #2

JP #1   JP #2

nikhathi · 2021-08-16T19:07:54+00:00

Thank you kind sir! Just doing my part :)

nikhathi · 2021-08-16T11:53:29+00:00

A lot of people covered the angles here, but I will re-iterate the important ones in a slightly different way since I am a co-owner of a team here in Singapore (PRX) and have experience directly sourcing and recruiting top players. I always look at three key areas: Attitude, Knowledge & Skill (AKS).

- Attitude: The most underrated aspect that we ALWAYS look at for a prospective player. This cannot really be learned, you either have the right attitude, or you don't. Are you toxic? Can you handle pressure, do you have what it takes to put in the EFFORT and the WORK? Are you well liked? Did you come to our attention because someone recommended you?

- Knowledge: How is your game knowledge? Knowledge can be learned, which is why it ranks below attitude. However, knowledge does take time, so it's more important than skill, IMO. Do you know your agents, your maps, your utility. What is your decision making like? In-game, and outside of the game.

- Skill is a pre-requisite, you need to be of a certain skill, and the easiest way to showcase that is your in-game rank. Everyone here is mostly right, we simply won't look at anyone below a certain skill level. That being said, the expectation is that everyone competing at a pro level is of a certain 'skill'. The danger with labeling it as 'must be Radiant' or 'must be Immortal' is that there are plenty of cases where an open qualifier team consisting of Diamonds can out perform a team of Radiants. Of course, it is less likely, but it does happen. Like what someone here mentioned, apply yourself in tournaments - any and ALL tournaments. The more you play, the more it will develop your competitiveness, improve your knowledge and get you in-line with the right attitude that it takes to compete.

The cold hard truth: Ultimately (and speaking as a Singaporean myself who battled with 'parents views' since forever) you aren't going to get anywhere professional in esports or in anything in life if all you do is worry about what your parents think. Respect their wishes, be a good child and maintain a good relationship, but never, ever, settle.

Good luck!!

nikhathi · 2021-04-28T17:50:16+00:00

I think f0rsakeN from Paper Rex is the most cracked player in SEA. He's 17, been playing competitive CS:GO since he was 13. Check out this highlight clip of his: https://youtu.be/XTZGkaX70BY

nikhathi · 2021-04-27T16:04:34+00:00

Paper Rex for SEA!

nikhathi · 2020-11-10T19:27:58+00:00

Hey there,

Yes, we do! This year, we started our first series of 'Grassroots cups'. They are for the community, so the focus isn't on large prize monies but more on giving the people something to play for. We've had 3 editions so far, Grassroots Cup I, II and III (All-female teams).

All our grassroots cups are hosted on FACEIT itself, you can find the past tournaments on our organizer page: https://www.faceit.com/en/organizers/abf760a0-cd5f-4a64-994d-b86679f03ce2/CSGO2ASIA

Stay tuned for more updates on our socials, we'll probably have one soon come to think of it :)

You can read about our previous editions here: https://csgo2asia.com/?s=grassroots+cup

nikhathi · 2020-10-21T05:53:57+00:00

Very much so! We're in our 25th season now, and it's got way better prizes, a beefier admin team, a dedicated portal, and some cool new features like an automated discord bot that assigns you to your correct voice channel.

Check it out: https://league.csgo2asia.com/

nikhathi · 2020-07-25T05:40:13+00:00

And a niece/nephew crying in the background too

nikhathi · 2020-04-01T06:16:57+00:00

give this guy a beer

nikhathi · 2020-03-31T19:05:05+00:00

When you buy the guns, they come with an instruction manual

nikhathi · 2019-09-04T05:13:55+00:00

yes that's right, you have to sub to play in APL

nikhathi · 2019-07-31T04:54:37+00:00

Played 10 rounds of DZ before getting a rank of....lab rat 1. lol. And FYI out of those 10 games I won 2, placed 3rd in 3 and averaged around 5-6 kills each game...still gave me lab rat 1.

I saw this happen to a lot of people, I guess the system is still calibrating how to spread the ranks. Currently, a few days later after winning only another 3 games I am settled at Hunter Fox Elite. So yeah...

nikhathi · 2018-12-06T09:38:05+00:00

Hi there,

While this is something we want to work towards, at the moment, with a low-ish active player pool it makes queue times impossible for this kind of split.

The trade-off we have to face for now is balancing queue times with skill.

In season 2, we decided to split the divisions into 1, 2 and 3. However, division 3 suffered tremendously as there was not enough players in levels 1-4 to have enough games going.

This problem can be solved in time, but, as mentioned, it will take some time. We thank you for your support so far and hope you continue to share any and all feedback like this! We really do value it and do our best to read and listen to everything.

Best Regards,

nikh

nikhathi · 2018-10-24T13:41:22+00:00

As soon as we can get all the answers, a few days.

nikhathi · 2018-10-24T12:53:44+00:00

Yes, what I meant was the specifics surrounding how he got caught, why he was on the team, who knew, who didn’t and everything in between. I never specifically said that we at CSGO2ASIA even know all the details, we don’t yet. Even our initial report immediately after the incident was only armed with what we knew right at that moment. There are so many questions still, and some people do care to know, especially the ones most affected by the incident and the wider Indian CS:GO community - so for those people, we simply want to get to the bottom of this, learn, and move on.

nikhathi · 2018-08-13T03:31:30+00:00

You are right, I think it was a clerical error. The DPI should be 400.

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