SMASH to host charity stream event to fight coronavirus crisis

3-4-2020 13:38

SMASH Esports has teamed up with esports and entertainment consulting agency Y. Nasimov and with electronic music magazine DJMAG to produce a charity event on Sunday to raise funds to combat COVID-19.

The charity event will combine music and gaming to produce a day-long live stream featuring DJ sets from Dimitri Vegas, Wolfpack and Bassjackers, as well as gaming content across multiple titles, including CS:GO, Call of Duty: Warzone and League of Legends.

The live stream will begin on April 5 at 11:00 and will be streamed on SMASH’s Twitch channel, with an interview with Anton "⁠ToH1o⁠" Georgiev and Kamen "⁠bubble⁠" Kostadinov kicking off the event. The interview, which will be centred around COVID-19, will be followed by a CS:GO showmatch featuring the SMASH roster against SMASH and DVLM management, with Adam "⁠Dinko⁠" Hawthorne and Mitch "⁠MitchMan⁠" McBride commentating on the action.

All proceeds collected during the charity event will be donated to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO, with the donations helping to "track and understand the spread of the virus", which has infected more than 1 million people worldwide and caused over 50,000 deaths.

"The entire SMASH family wants to do everything in their power to help in the battle against COVID-19," Dimitri Vegas, DJ & Founder of SMASH Esports, said in a statement.

"We are looking forward to creating this amazing day where we combine music and gaming to bring people together online. The fans can watch & listen to what they love and support a good cause at the same time. Stay safe and stay inside."

The full schedule for the charity event can be found below:

11:00 - Dinko interviews ToH1o and bubble
12:00 - CS:GO showmatch
15:00 - Wolfpack live set
16:00 - Mortal Kombat 11 workshop with Dimitri Vegas, Jake "Mustard" Neal & Ryan "Ketchup" Neal
17:00 - Dimitri Vegas vs. HistoryBehindTheWarrior, Caboose, unCAGEDgamez, Unrooolier - Mortal Kombat 11
18:00 - AMA session
19:00 - Bassjackers live set
20:00 - Dimitri Vegas, Steve Aoki & Afrojack - COD Warzone
21:00 - Nicky Romero, Bassjackers & vThorben - COD Warzone
22:00 - Professor AKALI - League of Legends
23:00 - Dimitri Vegas live set

very nice of them

2020-04-03 13:38

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surprised no bigger names or orgs are doing this tbh

2020-04-03 13:50

7 replies

Both eg and liquid has done this as orgs i know of

2020-04-03 14:05

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If they have, HLTV should've announced it to bring more attention to it.

2020-04-03 14:07

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basically

2020-04-03 14:25

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Good job

2020-04-03 18:13

Yup, almost everyone of Liquid did charity streams, Stewie2k, Twistz and a bunch of other Liquid players

2020-04-03 14:46

Yeah, but it was the players not the orgs, so makes sense hltv as not said anything. Fallen, Kng and Fer did charity streams too.

2020-04-03 14:52

Both organization have rosters on the other games too. I have seen some news on HLTV and I gotta say HLTV won't write anything that's not about CS, specifically.

2020-04-03 19:04

2020-04-03 17:33

Nice from them :)

2020-04-03 13:39

cool

Where is pita? xDDD

2020-04-03 13:41

Nice, i'm going to watch it for sure

2020-04-03 13:42

thank you smash <3

2020-04-03 13:44

2020-04-03 13:47

Dimitrii live???

2020-04-03 13:49

fifa uefa has 0$ charity to fight virus but esports need to pay nice.. most of csgo players are kids, unemployers how we should pay to charity

Yea they should but football clubs themselves and players does, Messi for one donated 1 mil eur to a hospital and barca gave 30k masks to one (hospital ofc not one person xD)

2020-04-03 14:33

Great lets fuck corona!

2020-04-03 13:53

Second time that SMASH hosts a charity stream/event. Very nice of them.

Great org, GL

2020-04-03 13:57

Great job, let's fight COVID together.

2020-04-03 13:58

Cool i guess

2020-04-03 14:00

They did not pay their players for months and they will host a charity stuff ? suuuuuuure bro !!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA ;)

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Do you even know what charity means you dumb fuck? DONATES GOES TO THE healthy organisation stupid kid base on comments.

2020-04-03 14:28

I think, before you started tilting, he means: if they have contracts with players and don't honor those, why would they 'honor' the donations by giving them to WHO? If you do some research you'll see that almost 70% of donations for disasters never gets there because CEO's and others from so-called charities have to be paid too and their salary is more important than sending money to the places they are raising them for.

2020-04-03 14:47

Exactly my thought... they fucked up csgo team and now wanna look cool??? 😂😂😂😂♿️

2020-04-03 17:49

<3 Dimitri Vegas

2020-04-03 14:06

Dj sets in 2020 lmao

2020-04-03 14:16

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what age are you living on? stone one?

2020-04-03 14:29

Nice englando, dj sets are garbage BTW.

2020-04-03 15:53

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You cannot argue with me about englando you idiot...please sit tight and don't even comment something that you have 0 IQ on it.

2020-04-03 16:22

O/8

2020-04-03 16:38

I dont know any of these people sooo

2020-04-03 14:24

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Afrojack, Dimitri Vegas and Steave Aoki are all huge names in EDM

2020-04-03 14:36

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Normie music

2020-04-03 14:51

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Any music other than your own favorite stuff will be seen as normie or stupid. Based as fuck bro

2020-04-03 15:05

??? You think you just said something smart but actually that was incredibly stupid

2020-04-03 15:07

just go listen ez4ence and just don't comment ;) Obv you don't know shit about EDM music :)

2020-04-03 15:22

no shit retard

I know truth sometimes its painful to be seen :)

2020-04-03 15:45

Why you mad?

y u gay

2020-04-03 15:47

Who said that's a bad thing :)

It is, but still doesn't change the fact that they're huge names and you live in a cave and 4chan.

2020-04-03 19:06

good one dweeb

2020-04-03 19:09

nice

2020-04-03 14:43

Dimitri Vegas & Lime Mike <3

2020-04-03 15:09

2020-04-03 15:29

Respectable 👏👏

2020-04-03 15:42

UK who cares, idiots :D

2020-04-03 16:02

steve aoki?

2020-04-03 16:32

using corona to get attation...

2020-04-03 17:24

Exactly. Didnt even pay their csgo team lul. More attentionwhoring than something else imho.

2020-04-03 17:50

Probably gonna be a scam

2020-04-03 17:51

what times we live..... CSGO for charity.....

2020-04-03 18:09

Who cars

2020-04-03 20:14

Nicky Romero <3

2020-04-03 22:11

Honestly stupid to donate to The Who, they have basically unlimited funds pouring in from every country. They should donate it to the hardest impacted areas of elderly and rampant economic damage (no money for food, water, housing) donate it to a city to actually help people who need help.

2020-04-04 07:21