It isn’t entirely uncommon for teams to win their opponents’ map picks within the professional Counter-Strike scene. With readily available statistics online showing which team favors which map (and even the tactics used to win those maps), professional CS:GO is a...
Counter-Strike is on fire from multiple sources, but the biggest news right now (with the largest possible repercussions for the scene as a whole) is the coaching spectating bug that ESIC has been investigating for roughly a month, spanning...
Perhaps we weren’t supposed to notice, or Valve really is relatively indifferent about the status of Counter-Strike as controversies pile up and begin falling onto the regular community with seemingly reckless abandon. In the tail-end of June, Valve released a...
It’s official: yesterday Swole Patrol announced that they are disbanding their team to allow the players to move in different directions as they see fit. Yet an interesting aspect was that Zellsis pointed towards the current condition of the Counter-Strike...
Here’s a shocking statement: the professional scene for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is on fire at the moment. Top-seeded teams fall first in tournaments, match-fixing scandals plague the scene, coaches have been complicit in exploits for years, players are burning out...
The fire burning currently within the professional Counter-Strike scene can likely be viewed from miles away at this point; from allegations and accusations, public denouncement of fabled coaches from organizations, and a new managing organization in the form of...
Many prominent members of the professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive scene are beginning to come together with a common concern; there is a wild amount of Counter-Strike being played every day, at every level, and people are becoming exhausted. It was formerly...
It was early 2020 and a storm was coming if you had your nose in the right place; Gla1ve stated in a sound-bite from late 2019 that players were quickly beginning to get burnt out with the constant barrage...
MIBR has near been writing an epic saga with their actions taken in the past two years in and out of the server. With death threats resulting in players needing to be physically restrained because someone implied a player...
Hot and heavy would be the ideal way to describe Team Vitality (GS#1) at the moment as they’ve clawed their way up to the #1 seeded team in the world based on HLTV’s rankings; FaZe (GS#14), conversely, have found...
Yesterday evening, Astralis took on mousesports in a Bo3 for the ESL Pro League Season 12 Europe in one of the most anticipated matches of the day: Astralis (GS#11) versus mousesports (GS#20). The Bo3 began on Dust2 (mousesports pick),...
We can guarantee that this is still the tip of the iceberg as the fallout continues to tumble from a spectator bug that allowed coaches to gain advantageous views of maps in progress, giving them the ability to inform...
Just color us shocked at this point; during a time of massive upheaval within professional Counter-Strike as matches played online have skewed power rankings with latency and disconnects occurring in every match, no matter the weight of consequence that...
With tweets that are consistently punctuated with emojis that make the account almost seem like a parody, accusations about their failure to act costing tournament organizers hundreds of thousands of dollars, and generally sitting on their heels and collecting...
