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Shox to miss CS:GO Major for the first time in his career
French E-sportsman Richard "Shox" Papillon will not play in a CS:GO Major for the first time in his career. His team Apeks failed to qualify for IEM Rio Major 2022: European RMR. Apeks participated in three out of four open qualifiers for the RMR tournament. Twice the team went to the 1/32 finals, and at the last qualifiers, Shox lost to GamerLegion in the 1/16 finals.
On October 10th, 2024, the CS2 community was relieved as ohnePixel, one of the biggest CS2 streamers on Twitch, posted a detailed update on social media, giving everyone a status update. The personality disappeared out of nowhere in August 2024, leading fans to get anxious, especially because he has a lot coming up later this year.
NaVi's fans noticed in comments that it could be one of the reasons that Elec plays bad because Ukrainian eSports club changed a lot of stuff this year, and losing lots of tournaments could be a demoralising factor too.
Anubis creator revealed how much Valve paid him every month
Previously, the developer worked on a Source mod for the medieval-themed video game Pirates, Vikings & Knights 2, which pits three teams against one another. Therefore, the idea to create map for CS:GO with "Egypt style" details was born after these projects.
Natus Vincere CS:GO team sniper Alexander «s1mple» Kostyliev is counted as one of the strongest players in the world, winner of the BLAST Premier: Spring Finals 2022. Alexander finished the first half of the competitive season with an average individual rating of 1.3. This is the best rating among all professional players. On the second line is Cloud9's sniper, Dmitry «sh1ro» Sokolov, with a rating of 1.27. His teammate Sergey «Ax1Le» Rykhtorov (1,23) rounds out the top three. Benjamin «blameF» Bremer (1,2) and Nikola «NiKo» Kovac (1,2) are also in the top-5.
Fish, pigeons, and other “Easter eggs” on CS:GO maps
Today we will talk about the unfinished secrets on different CS:GO maps. Such artifacts make the community players excited because they make the game more various and make users interact more with it. Read about more interesting CS:GO game surprises on our site.
FaZe Clan got +1 victory at ESL Pro League Season 16
FaZe Clan beat FTW in Group B at ESL Pro League Season 16 CS:GO. The match ended with a score of 2:0 (16:4 on Inferno and 16:4 on Overpass). Howard "rain" Nygard's team earned the first points of the tournament. FTW was left without points. The game day will continue with the Virtus.Pro - Team BIG.
Do you follow and track the best autumn CS:GO event? IEM Rio Major 2022 runs from October 31 to November 13 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The teams compete for a prize pool of $1.25 million. The tournament is held according to the Swiss system, the match will be held in the best-of-1 format. The strongest of the pair will go to the next round with teams with 1:0 statistics, and the loser will play with one of the losing teams
Estonian SC player Alvar "consss" Raman received a CS:GO account ban. His account was banned based on the Patrol's investigation. Estonian said that the block was imposed on his account during the tournament, and called it a mistake. At the time of publication of the material, the esports team is participating in the closed qualifier for CCT Central Europe Series 2 with a replacement.
De_mirage is a legendary map without which it isn't easy to imagine Counter-Strike today. An amateur created it for just one series of tournaments, and it immediately won the hearts of players and even attracted the attention of Valve, but first things first.
ESL Reveals Counter-Strike Esports Circuit Going Into 2025
On October 19th, 2024, ESL FACEIT Group (EFG) announced details about the ESL Pro Tour 2025 for the first time, with five IEM events and two ESL Pro League events planned. The company also plans to pump much more money into the years 2025 and 2026, as they highlighted in the blogpost on their website detailing all the information we currently know about ESL Pro Tour going forward.
CS2 Squad Being Probed For Transphobic Remarks on PRACC.com
On October 10th, 2024, Georgia State University gave an investigative update on a recently sparked controversial case in the CS2 community. The case was brought to light when Amanda "Reef" Ruiz of GIRLYPOPS shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) showing members of another team “GSU Black” making transphobic comments on PRACC.com. Notably, they called the GIRLYPOPS lineup "5/5 tranny demons," using one of the oldest transphobic terms to date.
On October 16th, 2024, massive news hit the VALORANT Esports communnity as the coach for NRG’s VALORANT team, Chetan “Chet” Singh was suspended from the scene for six whole months. Although Chet has disagreed with the ruling, he is, nonetheless, looking for coaching opportunities in Counter-Strike, specifically CS2. Chet is a critically acclaimed coach in tactical FPS games, with a solid track record in both VALORANT and CS:GO, meaning any team that signs him as their coach for CS2 can expect to see huge improvements in their roster.
Esports organization Astralis has signed a female CS:GO roster. The roster was presented on the club's official website: Rachel "RacheLL" Kuyava (2680 elo), Cassandra "kezziwow" Heya (2760 elo), Aurora "aurora" Lyngdahl(2069 elo), Joana "Joanana" Vlaykova(2347 elo), Celine "spike" Alak (2342 elo).
apEX and Spinx commented on Vitality's victory at ESL S16
Team Vitality players Dan "apEX" Madeskler and Lotan "Spinx" Giladi commented on their team's victory at ESL Pro League Season 16. The esportsmen gave an interview to the tournament organizers immediately after the end of the final match in which they defeated Liquid.
