Counter-Strike and toxicity; name a more iconic duo. Although it seems to be more of a problem with multiplayer games in general: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds received infamy by having children scream racial slurs into the microphone before anyone drops, Overwatch doles...
Esports are generally a bit topsy-turvy at the moment, as the ongoing pandemic has shifted matches to be played online which massively shifts how they operate; latency is a massive factor when most titles have historically been played in...
The latest in what is becoming a long line of bans, either temporary or permanent, from Twitch has just added a new member to the queue of ‘no streaming’ in the form of professional CS:GO player Mihail ‘Dosia’ Stolyarov. Dosia...
We noted that there were more than a few concerns for the upcoming ESL One Cologne, which was originally scheduled to be one of the first returns to professional Counter-Strike in a LAN environment. The primary concern that was...
We’ve heard it a thousand times in matches from fans, and it looks like they have a point: North American Counter-Strike is desperate for some new blood as highlighted in the Mountain Dew League finals, which Chaos easily took...
While the pandemic continues to rage on in all countries that aren’t New Zealand, that doesn’t mean that we don’t get treated to some delicious esport action. While many TOs have been taking to online matches to mitigate the...
It was an exciting time when Counter-Strike players heard that Valve was pushing out a controlled environment application that limits other applications interacting with the executable. Dreams and excitement of being able to play without running into two or three...
MIBR has been in the news within the professional Counter-Strike circles for the past few weeks with underhanded tactics, inciting violence against other players, using social media to pressure opponents for favorable decisions, and the inevitable complete lack of sportsmanship...
If you’ve played Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in the past year or two, chances are you’ve met with a cheater or three. If you queue into matchmaking daily, it’s nearly guaranteed that you’ve run across players flaunting their cheats as they...
It was a little strange to see Nicolai ‘device’ Reedtz giving the interviews for Astralis, offering a bit of an inside glimpse to the inner-workings of the fabled team. The interview was primarily a direct rebuttal against allegations that...
Bizarre that this is even coming out as a controversial view, but it helps shed light on the burn-out that players are experiencing within professional Counter-Strike that has led to multiple players stepping away from the esport temporarily to...
Here’s something that no one could have predicted at the close of 2019, even with Gla1ve famously noting in an interview that players are starting to get burned out with constant tournaments. Yet as the world is firmly rooted...
Frankly speaking, it’s unlikely that the upcoming Counter-Strike major is going to happen at all this year, under the COVID-19 concern as Brazil is dealing with a greater outbreak than the United States. As it stands, however, Brazil is currently...
It’s another unfortunate story that comes from the losing team of the recent clash between MIBR (GS#14) versus Chaos (GS#39) on the 22nd of June, resulting in teams going the full three rounds. Chaos pulled ahead in the end...
