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On September 30th, 2024, fans watched back on G2’s intense run through the final stages of BLAST Fall Final. They had their toughest game in the tournament against Team Vitality in the semi-finals, winning which gave them a shot at going head-to-head with their arch-nemesis, Natus Vincere in the grand finals. Ultimately, they were able to beat NAVI in a relatively smooth yet underwhelming 3-1 game, leading fans to believe that the real grand final was G2’s game against Team Vitality.

On September 29th, 2024, Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev, a legend from the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive days, made his triumphant entry to the CS2 scene by signing a three-month loan with The Falcons from Natus Vincere. The announcement came from none other than the team itself, with the The Falcons X (formerly Twitter) page stating: “THE LEGEND RETURNS. s1mple is back on a 3-month loan. Time to soar higher.” While the contract is temporary, s1mple is definitely testing the waters with it, taking over the spot of the Spanish player Álvaro “⁠SunPayus⁠” García.

On September 28th, 2024, day two of BLAST Fall Final saw its first team getting eliminated from the tournament - it was Team Astralis. This was two days after the recent controversy with the team boiled over. Specifically, Astralis was allowed to make a substitution for their captain Alexander "⁠br0⁠" Bro with Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller over a medical emergency ruling because the roster deadline had long since passed. However, according to br0’s agent, the former captain is perfectly healthy, something that organizers have failed to address while staying firm on their questionable decision.

On September 27th, 2024, the first day of BLAST Fall Final played out, where, amongst many things, fans saw Team Vitality humiliate Team Astralis. They did not concede a single round to Team Astralis on their first map, Inferno, and delivered the final blow on the second map, Dust2, with a 13-4 win. While many did expect Team Vitality to have a dominant start to the tournament, given their track record this entire year, what has made this series all the more popular is the Astralis controversy that boiled over just a day prior.

On September 25th, 2024, BLAST issued a public statement regarding its recent controversy due to which a boycott took place on the BLAST Premier Fall Final media day. Specifically, all team captains except Astralis’s cadiaN sat out on their media obligations, feigning illness. In a nutshell, the controversy pertains to BLAST allowing Astralis to substitute Alexander "⁠br0⁠" Bro for Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller past the typical roster deadline on a medical emergency ruling.

On September 24th, 2024, many professional CS2 players such as Liquid’s Twistzz, FaZe’s karrigan, Falcons’ Snappi, and Vitality’s apEX all posted on X (formerly Twitter) that “I might be unfit for Blast Media tomorrow.” Such a coordinated set of the exact same tweets spells nothing but a boycott, as almost half the players skip out on media obligations on the eve of a Major is a very serious matter.

On September 23rd, 2024, history was made as Team Natus Vincere (NAVI) won ESL Pro League Season 20 in an intense 3-2 match against Team Eternal Fire. It was truly a magnificent moment for NAVI this year as the $170,000 prize money showed that they had moved past their loss to Team Vitality at IEM Cologne 2024, earlier this year. Of course, this is also their third trophy this year, as they won their previous two from PGL Major Copenhagen 2024 in March and the CS2 event at the Esports World Cup 2024 in July.

On September 20th, 2024, the Indian Counter-Strike prodigy, Nikhil ‘forsaken’ Kumawat, reached the expiration date of his 5-year-old ban under the new New RMR Eligibility Guidelines published by the developers back in 2021. For many fans, that means he can compete in Valve-sponsored events now. What better time than now to get back into competitive Counter-Strike with CS2 blooming? However, given his track record, getting into a top organization might be next to impossible.

On September 17th, 2024, it was confirmed by the CEO of K10, one of the most influential esports organizations in the UK when it comes to Counter-Strike, that they would be shutting down. Oliver ‘Taz’ Holloway, CEO and co-owner of K10 said the following on X (formerly Twitter): “Just want to address all the messages. It’s true – after a long and hard two years of trying, we will be closing the doors at K10 and my official leave of esports. It’s been amazing working with so many talented people but for now, it’s time to say goodbye. Sorry. Thank you all for sticking by me the staff and all the players that have been with us over this journey. What’s next? Who knows!”

On September 16th, 2024, 16 teams were locked in for a single-elimination bracket for the ESL Pro League Season 20 after battling it out through the ferocious Group Stages. Looking back on the event, 32 teams entered Season 20, split across four groups, but only half proceeded to the Playoffs. Last time we talked about ESL Pro League Season 20, groups A and B had concluded, so let’s check out what happened in groups C and D as well as how well our predictions held up!

On September 14th, 2024, fans watched back the highlights of EYEBALLERS’s game with Zero Tenacity at the CCT Season 2 Europe Series 2, where Alex "⁠poi⁠ii" Nyholm Sundgren managed to surpass donk’s recently-obtained record by scoring 39 kills (on regulation). Although EYEBALLERS eventually lost the game 2-1, the map they were able to secure (i.e. Anubis) became the highlight of the game due to the Swedish talent’s performance.

On September 13th, 2024, DATA.BET, an esports betting solutions provider, dropped a bombshell of an announcement as they will be organizing a CS2 tournament at the SBC Summit 2024 in Lisbon, Portugal. The event will be featuring Christopher “GeT_RiGhT” Alesund, a famous Counter-Strike icon who was considered to be the best player in the world back in 2013 and 2014.

On September 12th, 2024, fans were watching the Group Stages of the highly anticipated ESL Pro League Season 20 when one of the matches took a bit too much time. We’re talking about M80 vs FNATIC which spanned 71 rounds on their first map, Anubis, setting the world record for the longest map played in CS2. Given this, coupled with donk’s recent kill record against Wildcard gaming, ESL Pro League Season 20 is shaping up to be quite historic.

On September 11th, 2024, fans watched back on highlights of a historic CS2 showmatch that took place the day prior where Danil “⁠donk⁠” Kryshkovets faced off Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyljev. The former is Team Spirit’s young star player, who has also recently set the new kill record with the MR12, cementing his spot with legends like ZywOo and Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač. The latter is one of the OG CS:GO pros, who was considered to be the best players in the world at one point but is currently on an extended break.

On September 10th, Valve dropped a small yet important patch update to Counter-Strike 2. Apart from enabling the measurement of network jitter on direct UDP connections to community servers, the developers added counter-strafe input automation detection options for non-Valve servers. In other words, Valve has introduced a detection mechanism for catching players using controversial technologies like Razer’s Snap Tap or Wooting’s SOCD.