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ESL Pro League season 14 to be played online due to travel restrictions

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ESL Pro League season 14 will be held online due to the uncertainty surrounding COVID-related travel restrictions, the tournament organizer announced today. The next season of the CS:GO Pro League was meant to take place in Malta. But now, all 24 teams will have to play the tournament remotely from Europe. ESL made this decision alongside the EPL Player Council and the Counter-Strike Professional Players’ Association (CSPPA). The tournament will be played under the same conditions as ESL Pro League season 13, which saw Heroic take down Gambit in the

PGL eye alternative locations for 2021 Major

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PGL, the company in charge of the first CS:GO Major set to happen since the breakout of the coronavirus pandemic, posted an update on the PGL Stockholm Major on Tuesday. They confirmed reports that due to the COVID-19 regulations currently in place in Sweden, moving the Major to a different location is a possibility. PGL is considering two different European countries for the upcoming Major The tournament organizer explained that the Major was planned to happen in front of a large crowd, but current regulations in Sweden would allow just

PGL says it’s running out of time to organize the CS:GO Major in Stockholm

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CS:GO is about to have its first Valve-sponsored event since the StarLadder Berlin Major in September 2019 with the PGL Stockholm Major slated to take place between Oct. 23 to Nov. 11. But the PGL Major might not be held in Sweden, PGL’s CEO Silviu Stroie told the Swedish newspaper SportExpressen today. “There is no new development, we can decide any day now to move it from Sweden,” Stroie said in an email to SportExpressen, according to a machine translation. “We are still hopeful of getting the exemption we requested

Heroic to play IEM Cologne under quarantine after a player tests positive for COVID-19

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One of Heroic’s players has tested positive for COVID-19 during the standard testing procedure to exit the three-day quarantine at IEM Cologne 2021, the first CS:GO tournament held on LAN since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, ESL and Heroic announced today. Neither Heroic nor the tournament organizer disclosed who tested positive for COVID-19 and the team urged that the community and fans respect the player’s privacy in this situation so they can focus on the tournament. The player who tested positive hasn’t had close contact with ESL staff or

Back to LAN: five key storylines of IEM Cologne

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Last year’s unprecedented situation, the breakout of the coronavirus pandemic, left the CS:GO scene scrambling to find a way to keep the show going on despite severe restrictions on travel and hosting events. In no time, online play became the new standard, replacing LAN tournaments and arenas filled with people. In a different setting, new stars rose to the top, former champions fell to the wayside, and many fans were left wondering: "Would this have happened on LAN?" The long wait is finally over - IEM Cologne is here to

Seven years of Cologne MVPs

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Twenty-four teams and 120 players are now hard at work preparing for one of the biggest tournaments of the year, IEM Cologne, which will see long-awaited LAN action return for the first time in 16 months later this week, kicking off on July 6 with the Play-in stage. s1mple, ZywOo, and FalleN return to Cologne as previous MVPs Boasting a seven-year history that began in 2014, when the German city hosted the third-ever CS:GO Major, the Cologne competition has established itself as one of the most prestigious tournaments in the

Team Ranking: June 2021

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A mixed bag of tournaments took place in June. The month was dominated by IEM Summer and the conclusion of the BLAST Spring Series in the seasonal final, which saw Gambit extend their lead at No.1 after bringing home both titles before the second CIS Regional Major Ranking, StarLadder CIS RMR, had Natus Vincere edging out their biggest rival in the title decider. Outside of the competition at the very top, ESEA Premier Season 37 came to a close with Sinners clinching their second international title on the European side

How Bad News Bears emerged from the ashes of Chaos to keep NA’s dream alive

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In a region that has had its playerbase ravaged during the online era due to a multitude of factors, only a few names below the upper echelon have shone through to represent North American Counter-Strike. If one had looked at teams at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there were plenty of promising rosters - Swole Patrol, Orgless, Chaos, New England Whalers, and Triumph, to name a few. But following the release of VALORANT, the cuts to the ESL Pro League team slots, and a lack of organisational interest and

daps: “I want to offer more than the standard coach, who is either only an analyst or just there for motivation”

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Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele is set to make his return to the servers on July 6, when Evil Geniuses kick off their IEM Cologne Play-In run against FaZe in hopes of qualifying for the tournament's main stage, where the best teams in the world will be fighting over the lion's share of the $1 million prize pool and the glory of being crowned champions of one of the most prestigious events in the CS:GO circuit and the first Big Event held on LAN since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. But