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NIP, Vitality qualify for IEM Cologne group stage; Bad News Bears eliminated

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Time Stamp: July 6, 2021 3:00 PM - Modified On: July 6, 2021 - Published By:
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NIP were the first team to move past the IEM Cologne Play-In and secure a spot in the main event after taking down mousesports 2-0. The Swedes outclassed Christopher "⁠dexter⁠" Nong and co. on Mirage before moving on to their map pick and taking Ancient 16-11. "We are really confident on Ancient, we love that map," Linus "⁠LNZ⁠" Holtäng said in the post-match interview, although the victory wasn't a straightforward one. Robin "⁠ropz⁠" Kool looked hot on the defense, posting 22-7 K-D in the first half as mousesports took a

ESL shares COVID protocols for return to LAN at IEM Cologne

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Time Stamp: July 2, 2021 2:41 PM - Modified On: July 2, 2021 - Published By:
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After 16 months, competitive CS:GO is finally returning to LAN at IEM Cologne beginning on July 6. Twenty-four teams are travelling to a hotel in Cologne to compete offline for the first time in over a year, with a $1 million prize pool and a new trophy on the line. The last time teams met on LAN was at another IEM event, IEM Katowice in March 2020, where Natus Vincere lifted the trophy in front of an empty arena. Ahead of the start of IEM Cologne, ESL has clearly laid

ESL announces new HUD and trophy for IEM Cologne

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Time Stamp: June 29, 2021 1:34 PM - Modified On: June 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Competitive Counter-Strike is entering a new era with the return of LANs approaching and global tournament organizer ESL is signaling that with some new changes that will debut at IEM Cologne. The name of the event itself has already changed from ESL Cologne to IEM Cologne as it’s brought under the Intel Grand Slam umbrella. But that’s not all that’s changing. The ESL team revealed today that a new CS:GO HUD will debut at IEM Cologne. It’s being prepared by the broadcast design and development team. ESL calls it “the

Renegades qualify for ESL Pro League Season 14

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Time Stamp: June 29, 2021 10:05 AM - Modified On: June 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Renegades have secured a spot at ESL Pro League Season 14 just days after winning ESEA Premier Season 37 Australia. They did so by defeating ORDER, the winners of the previous ESEA Premier season, in a one-match best-of-five playoff. The well-deserved victory comes at a moment of high form for Renegades, who ended their ESEA Premier run with a 7-1 record in the group stage before crushing all opposition in the playoffs, including ORDER, without dropping a map in four matches. Jordan "⁠Hatz⁠" Bajic ended up the highest-rated player in

torzsi leaves Budapest Five

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Time Stamp: May 31, 2021 12:22 PM - Modified On: May 31, 2021 - Published By:
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Budapest Five have lost star AWPer Ádám "⁠torzsi⁠" Torzsás, who joined the organization when they signed the former Salamander roster in May 2020, as he has now been bought out of his contract. The 19-year-old was a key player for Budapest Five with a 1.20 rating while manning the big green in the Hungarian squad, and was one of the engines that helped the team peak at No.41 in the world ranking earlier in the year. torzsi averaged a 1.20 rating during his time in Budapest Five Budapest Five were

ESL, BLAST announce changes to event schedule as part of “collaborative approach to future governance”

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Time Stamp: May 12, 2021 5:13 AM - Modified On: May 12, 2021 - Published By:
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BLAST and ESL have announced that they have made some adjustments to the event schedule for the second half of the 2021 event calendar as part of a "unified approach to the governance of scheduling tournament dates, rulebook alignment and integrity policies." ESL Pro League, previously scheduled for September 8 - October 10, has been rescheduled for August 16 - September 12, making it the first official tournament after the player break (July 19 - August 15). The $750,000 competition is planned as a studio event in Malta. EPL S14

MonteCristo on Flashpoint’s role in the scene: “I think it’s really important that one of the tournament organisers is based in NA”

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Time Stamp: May 10, 2021 4:00 AM - Modified On: May 10, 2021 - Published By:
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These are exciting times over in the Flashpoint camp. Created in early 2020 to shake up the status quo in Counter-Strike and offer a path to sustainability to both teams and players, the league lacked star power during its first year and could not really establish itself as an alternative to the ESL Pro League, in part because plans to deliver engaging storylines that fans could follow had to be scrapped, or at least placed on hold, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Season 3 will see Flashpoint head in a

ESL updates event calendar, with Cologne as the first LAN tournament

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Time Stamp: April 22, 2021 10:10 AM - Modified On: April 22, 2021 - Published By:
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ESL One Cologne will be ESL's first in-person Counter-Strike tournament of 2021, the organisers announced on Thursday in a calendar update. The event will be played in a studio from July 6-18 and will no longer culminate in a playoff stage held at the LANXESS Arena. ESL's next two international competitions, DreamHack Masters Spring and IEM Summer, have been moved to an online-only format, "with the safety of the teams, crews and the esports community being paramount." Both events were originally planned as in-person events in a studio environment. ESL