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Syman Gaming will have to change its logo for the StarLadder Berlin Major

It does look that Syman got inspiration from the Gamers Club logo.
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Leonardo Biazzi
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Published: Jul 31, 2019 11:45 am

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StarLadder has requested a new logo from Syman Gaming, who will participate in the upcoming CS:GO Major in Berlin.

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The CIS team qualified for the StarLadder Berlin Major last week and said that they’ve using their logo since October 2018. But to StarLadder, it has elements that are similar to the ones used in the Gamers Club, a third-party Brazilian matchmaking platform, and the Immortals logo.

Syman doesn’t want to change its logo though. The organization asked Valve to reconsider the decision and agreed to have an independent examination. Syman added that “Immortals will not participate in Major, and Gamers Club isn’t an esports club.”

Although Syman isn’t wrong in saying this, their logo does indeed look similar to Gamers Club’s. One Twitter user even found another similar logo, the one used by Clutch Gaming, an American organization owned by the NBA’s Houston Rockets.

That said, it seems unlikely that StarLadder changes their decision as Immortals and Gamers Club may have brought the case to the tournament organizer. If Syman changes its logo ahead of the StarLadder Berlin Major, it would be the first time a situation like this ever happened at a CS:GO Major.

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Leonardo Biazzi
Staff writer and CS:GO lead. Leonardo has been passionate about games since he was a kid and graduated in Journalism in 2018. Before Leonardo joined Dot Esports in 2019, he worked for Brazilian outlet Globo Esporte. Leonardo also worked for HLTV.org between 2020 and 2021 as a senior writer, until he returned to Dot Esports and became part of the staff team.
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