Be still our beating hearts, someone is actually fining a team for clearly watching a stream during a match that they were playing in, offering the team historical information on the enemy team regarding defaults, economy, and strategies. Flashpoint...
Esports are very much like traditional sports, as much as that sentence makes boomers squirm in their seats as they partake in a few stretches before reaching in attempts to somehow demerit one while praising the other. Organizations make...
Yet another shoe of the ongoing Counter-Strike controversies has dropped, with only one remaining (that is publically known) in the rampant string of cheating accusations and bizarre issues of integrity that has seemed to plague the scene since the esport...
If you’ve been sleeping on the developments of the professional Counter-Strike scene as of late, it’s been a bit of a dumpster fire at best. Allegations of match-fixing have permeated the scene, indicating more than a few T2/3 players that...
The ESIC fall-out is likely going to continue for months as the findings have indicted a multitude of organizations and coaches for exploiting a spectating bug to gain additional information in matches that have ranged as far back as...
Michael Slowinski has been one of the hard-chargers behind the ESIC investigation, turning down payment from ESIC as he works as a freelance esport referee and didn’t want a conflict of interest. In terms of the ongoing investigation, Slowinski...
Here’s an aspect that streamers (and fans) can readily attest to the frustration: stream-sniping. Stream-sniping occurs when a streamer (typically a popular one) is attempting to play a multi-player game, and an opponent recognizes the name of the opponent;...
ESIC‘s long-awaited first set of findings regarding the coach spectating exploit that has run through professional Counter-Strike play has finally been released after a full month of investigation. Note that this is only the first set of released data,...
Take a big breath everyone, as the professional scene of Counter-Strike is likely going to be once again lit on fire as fans dance in the ashes this coming Monday, on September 28, 2020. ESIC has stated that their...
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...
