It’s cold outside for T2 and T3 players, no matter what title you’re diving into with hopes of making it to that illustrious T1/pro scene. While T1 gets sponsors from anyone trying to connect with a younger demographic (for...
Astralis (GS#11) is in a tough spot; the legendary IGL ‘Gla1ve’ is still on leave yet scheduled to return, ‘Xyp9x’ hasn’t scheduled his return yet (leaving many to wonder if, instead of when), and they are dropping farther in...
Saudi Arabia is trying to get into esports in an effort to attract the young and intelligent citizens of the Earth to a new city they’re building, once again, in the desert. Granted it’s by water, but it’s still...
Truly the end of an era for Liquid (GS #8) within the professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene as Liquid has now officially verified the rumors that have been floating around since yesterday; Nicholas ‘nitr0’ Cannella is no longer playing...
Surprise! Two new maps have been added to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive last night, and both play out very differently. Note that these maps are not yet available for play within official competitive matchmaking, but they are useable as deathmatch maps...
It actually happened, despite ruminations regarding whether or not Chaos would be able to enter into the tournament based on points that ESL One uses for the Counter-Strike scene. This morning, ESL One confirmed that Chaos EC has made it...
Mythic League, or the Mythic League League (yes, two League’s at the end), is a separate league within Face-It for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Mythic League is the brainchild of Erik Flom, a former professional CS:GO player that now spends...
It was a simple idea that could have had a sizeable impact on the match-making scene if it wasn’t immediately circumvented by bad actors; now Counter-Strike: Global Offensive‘s matchmaking has gone from bad to almost completely unplayable. There are rampant...
If you ever want a surreal experience, whoever is holding onto the reigns of CS:GO’s account offers a premium experience. Three tweets recently came out from the account that made zero sense, and it’s difficult to imagine a context...
If you’re not familiar with the professional Counter-Strike scene, then you should know that there is a key website that many draw facts and figures from called HLTV.com. HLTV stands for Half-Life Television, drawing on how Counter-Strike began as a Half-Life...
It was theorized and discussed in the past, but now it’s confirmed: ESL One Cologne is going to be held online instead of in the closed-studio environment that ESL have been hoping would come to fruition. More online matches,...
The first time many of us heard about Chaos (GS #37), it was when they faced off against the infamous toxicity of MIBR (GS #16) that resulted in a kid getting hundreds of death threats and fans of the...
The new hotness coming from Valve has had many users excited as to the possibility of finally hopping into competitive matchmaking servers and experiencing a fair fight against other players that simply enjoy the title. Top laughs were had,...
Valve previously released a beta that would allow players to peek at the upcoming anti-cheat phase that blocks applications from interacting with the base executable. It’s been a move that has, of course, drawn some lines in the sand,...
