Written by Profi | 21 November 2014
Posted in News - Counter-Strike

For the last few months french teams dominated CS GO scene, and almost entire community expected battles between teams from France and other big names such as  NiP,  fnatic,  Virtus.pro and others.

And now this is not going go to happen. The huge cheat scandal made a hit yesterday. Within one day two well-known players  Hovik 'KQLY' Tovmassian and  Gordon 'Sf' Giry got VAC-bans for cheating. Few hours later, organizers behind  Dreamhack Winter 2014 have announced that both teams  Titan and  Epsilon are disqualified from the event. It's extremely sad situation for their temmates, because not only they have lost opportunity to take part in a major tournament, but lost a lot of money from prize purse and "stickers". From other point of view, such punishment probably will stop to use the cheat for other "dirty" players, because now it's clear that in case of VAC-ban - entire team will be punished.

 London Conspiracy,  3DMAX,  Cph Wolves and  Flipsid3 Tactics are invited to special LAN Qualifier which will be held right before the Dreamhack Winter 2014 CS GO. Two owners of empty slots will be determined in this mini-tournament in single elimination format. Important to note that  VALVe will cover all travel and live expenses for participants of mini-LAN Qualifier.

Written by Profi | 14 November 2014
Posted in News - Counter-Strike

The last major Counter-Strike: Global Offensive event in 2014,  Dreamhack Winter 2014 CS GO with an impressive $250,000 prize purse will kick off in less than two weeks.

Organizers have revealed the results of draw for the group stage. As usual, 16 teams are splitted into 4 groups with 4 teams in each. 

Here are the groups:

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
fnatic	Titan	LDLC	Virtus.pro
Cloud9	Dignitas	NiP	NaVi
HellRaisers	iBUYPOWER	Planetkey Dynamics	Epsilon
Bravado	PENTA	ESC Gaming	myXMG

Remind you that event will be held on 27-29 November in Sweden.

Written by Profi | 04 November 2014
Posted in News - Counter-Strike

After poor result at ESWC 2014 CS GO where  NiP didn't pass the group stage - the change is came.

The discussions that  Robin 'Fifflaren' Johansson should leave the team due to bad overall performance started pretty long time ago and ESWC became the final stop to make a final decision. By the way, NiP didn't change the line-up since creation of the team which is more than 2 years.

Remind you, that NiP won previous major event ESL Cologne 2014, but after it the results were far from good, they have lost qualifiers to FACEIT and FragBite Masters LAN Finals.

At this moment the replacement is not announced yet, and for sure managers of NiP will try to achieve maximum from such great PR material before announcing the new player. Stay tuned!

Current NiP line-up:

 Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund 
 Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg 
 Richard 'Xizt' Landstrom 
 Adam 'friberg' Friberg 
Mikail 'Maikelele' Bill 

Written by Profi | 03 November 2014
Posted in News - Counter-Strike

 fnatic became the champion of  Electronic Sports World Cup 2014 in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gaming discipline.

The swedish players didn't lose a single match during the event and in the final easily won over   LDLC on two maps. Despite to the fact that LDLC played with huge support of home fans - fnatic was unstoppable that day.

In 3'rd place decider game,  Virtus.pro played against  NaVi. Polish team won over the ukrainian-russian players and got the $10,000 cheque.

Final standings and prize distribution:

1.  fnatic - $20,000
2.  LDLC - $15,000
3.  Virtus.pro - $10,000
4.  NaVi - $5,000

Written by News Writer | 29 October 2014
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Two of the few Starcraft 2 players to have a personal sponsor,  Life and  Bomber have secured yet another sponsorship. 

The two players will be sponsored by the RAM manufacturer, SanDisk.

The announcement was made by a korean eSports news site.

The two players will have from now on a new sponsor in their Starcraft 2 career that will help them reach more events in 2015.

Written by Profi | 29 October 2014
Posted in News - Counter-Strike

The online stage of  FragBite Masters Season 3 is completed.

Now we are know all 4 participants which will play for $42,000 of prize purse in Stockholm, Sweden.

The first two slots went to winners of upper bracket -  LDLC and  Virtus.pro. The remain two slots went to winners in lower bracket -  fnatic and  Dignitas. Interesting to note that fnatic won over non other than  NiP, while Dignitas cancelled trip to Sweden for  NaVi.

The LAN Finals of Fragbite Masters S3 will be held on 8-9 November.

Prize distribution:

1. - $22,500
2. - $11,250
3. - $5,600
4. - $2,800 

Written by Profi | 27 October 2014
Posted in News - Counter-Strike

The LAN Final of   FACEIT League is completed with triumph of  fnatic team.

Remind you that six teams met in Milan, Italy, and have fought for pretty good prize purse $42,000.

In the grand final fnatic played against representative of USA  iBUYPOWER. Actually it was a big surprise for many CS GO fans to see iBUYPOWER in the battle for champion's title.

Grand final was held in Best-of-5 map series. iBP took map #1, but lost 3 maps in row after. 

Final standings and prize distribution:

1.  fnatic - $20,000
2.  iBUYPOWER - $10,000
3/4.  Virtus.pro,  LDLC - $5,000 each
5/6.  Cloud9,  Dignitas - $2,000 each

Written by Profi | 27 September 2014
Posted in News - Counter-Strike

 Dreamhack Stockholm 2014 in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gaming discipline is completed with triumph of  Titan team.

Eight teams were invited to the event, and tournament saw big names such as  NiP,  fnatic,  Titan and others. The prize purse was equal to $30,000. 

The format of event was pretty standard: two groups with 4 teams in each. Top-2 from each group played in semifinals Singe Elimination Best-of-3. The grand final saw two french teams  LDLC and Titan, where Titan became stronger. Looks like after all the changes in the teams from France, overall french CS GO scene became stronger.

The main sensation of the event became NiP by leaving the event right after the group stage. 

Final standings and prize distribution:

1.  Titan - $10,000
2.  LDLC - $5,000
3/4.  3DMAX,  fnatic - $3,500 each
5/8.  Alternate,  NiP,  dignitas,  Cph Wolves - $2,000 each

Bracket:

Semifinal		Final		Champion
LDLC
[16:8] Cache   [16:12] Dust2		LDLC
3DMAX
		[4:16] Mirage   [15:19] Cache		Titan
fnatic
[11:16] Inferno [1:16] Dust2		Titan
Titan