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Come and let me know when CS is dead.
Like how it died with the release of GO and shutting down 1.6 competition, or how MOBAs killed it, or how Overwatch killed it, or how PUBG killed it, or how console gaming killed it, or how Valorant killed it, or how Valve killed it, or...
Ok math guy, what does "ALL" really mean in the match page?
Yeki was rated 1.11 on Ancient, 0.98 on Nuke, and somehow his "All" is lower than his Nuke rating.
What does ALL mean? @NER0cs
Is the rating recalculated based on cumulative stats; why not use avg of map ratings?
r1nkle has been hilarious, absolutely an entertaining trainwreck to watch, no doubt about it.
But I will not let anyone look past NertZ's "star player" performances - man's posting numbers that are between iM and Boombl4 ffs, instant kick sort of impact.
Before anyone loses their mind over results in IEM Beijing, let me remind y'all:
It's an ESL Globetrotters show event with zero value to it, equivalent to scrims.
Yeah you don't want to completely suck before the Major, but it's just an obligatory PR tour and timezone attuning.
A TO business model built around hosting 2-3 subsequent tier 2 LAN events right before Major cutoffs, in the same location with hefty team buy-ins (and lucrative facility rentals) of course, would be the way to coexist with Saudi-funded big ones btw
(hint hint @ElisaEsports )
Are we now close enough to the invite cutoff that we can discuss this theoretical scenario:
Team A plays vs Team B in a tier 2 VRS lan event. Team A's Major spot is guaranteed, Team B needs a win to guarantee theirs.
You can all tell where this is going.
Bring back the Minors.
The good old elderly licking their fingers to get a plastic bag open, right before proceeding to pick their vegetables in a supermarket. Live for these moments.
Let's not pretend like FaZe issues are about the younger players "stepping up".
We have enough hard evidence now to know that Twistzz is terrible at igl'ing, and he hasn't been t1 relevant in 3 years. (His last top 20 appearance was 13 places behind s1mple - it's a long time.)
FaZe's youngsters have been under heavy pressure to perform, but @Twistzz, who has always strived for excellence and wanted to win, now sees a need for a softer approach 🙏
"I want to make sure these kids are feeling the game and feeling good about themselves"
Two donks and zywoo is practically a donk+woo vs xyp9x 2v1.
Throw in Youthful Stewart 2000 for comedic relief, too!
iM is doing NaVi the biggest favor he's ever done to the org: making it a no-brainer for them to get rid of him asap.
Their track record is absolutely criminal. They constantly play opposition similar to what you might find in Minor qualifiers of olden days (and their winrate is 60% mind you).
This certainly doesn't seem like something funny could be going on over there!
Plenty of tournaments out there have teams quitting mid-match for "personal reasons", and surely none of it is related to any fixing or betting 😊
🚨COMPETITIVE INTEGRITY CONCERN🚨
By losing map 3, FUT ensure playing 5 games with this roster and getting +sunpayus -cmtry done for Shanghai.
Bet everything you have, bet everything you can borrow, bet everything your family and friends have. It's like printing money.
Don't let st1nkle's individual numbers distract you from the fact that NertZ is definitely not the X factor a team would need to push from "often making playoffs" to "pushing for podium finishes" in tier 1.
And the team's results with sunpayus were not any better, as of now.
sAw: "Right now it's like we're stagnating, or maybe even took a couple of steps backward" hltv.org/news/45804/saw-righ…
