ESL je objavil vse casterje za prihajajoči turnir v Katowicah.

Od 12. do 15. marca bomo spremljali najbolj nor turnir v CS:GO sceni, to je ESL One Katowice. Tam se bo pomerilo najboljših 16 ekip sveta, samo ena ekipa pa bo s seboj odnesla izjemne vsote denarja. Seveda pa brez odličnih casterjev na turnirju ne gre, zato so pri organizaciji ESL objavili vse sodelujoče pri teh vlogah.

Presenetljivo bo pri tem pomagal tudi bivši član ekipe Cloud 9, ki je sicer znan po zelo dobrih LAN predstavah Spencer “Hiko” Martin. Pri “mizi” se mu bosta pridružila še Casper “cadiaN” Møller ter Alex “machine” Richardson, kjer bodo skupaj razpravljali ter analizirali vse tekme.

Host:

Sean Charles – Host

Commentators:

Leigh “Deman” Smith
Lauren “Pansy” Scott
Anders Blume
 Stuart “TosspoT” Saw

The Desk:

Alex “machine” Richardson
 Spencer “Hiko” Martin
 Casper “cadiaN” Møller

Observers:

Halvor “vENdetta” Gulestøl
Janko “YNk” Paunović

Danska organizacija Copenhagen Games je objavila nagradni sklad za prihajajoči LAN event.

Od 1-5. aprila bomo spremljali Copenhagen Gamese, kjer se bo 32 ekip iz Evrope pomerilo za nagradni sklad 26.000$. Virtus.pro, Team SoloMid, mousesports in ACER ter ostale ekipe navedene spodaj so bile že povabljene, ostalih 16 pa se bo moralo na turnir uvrstiti prek kvalifikacij.

Nagradni sklad, glede na razvrstitev:

1. €14,000
2. €6,000
3. €2,500
4. €1,000
5-6. €750
5-6. €750
7-8. €500
7-8. €500

Ekipe, ki so že povabljene:

mousesports	Flipsid3
CPH Wolves	Team SoloMid
dignitas	3DMAX
Property	Gplay
Chosen	Atlantis
PENTA Sports	Gamers2
Virtus.pro

Ninjas in Pyjamas bodo branile naslov iz lanskih CPH iger! Tokrat jim bo pomagal Allu.

Srbska organizacija E-Frag je napovedala nagradni sklad za prihajajoče svetovno prvenstvo v igri CS:GO.

Po nekaj uspešnih ESEC-ih, se je organizacija E-frag z pomočjo hitboxa odločila narediti World Championsip. Nagradni sklad bo kar visok, glede na to da ga organizira taka organizacija, znašal bo 100.000$. Na zaključnem lanu, ki bo potekal 8-11 oktobra v “Novem Beogradu” se bo pomerilo 16 najboljših držav celega sveta. Vse potne stroške bo krila organizacija E-Frag, kot je to že v navadi.

Uradna izjava:

“Last year’s ESEC and the upcoming World Championships bring something unique to the CS:GO scene. A true nations based tournament, uniting some of the best players from around the globe. Extraordinary matchups will be a regular occurrence, with lineups you previously only were able to see in fantasy drafts. It goes without saying that we are enormously excited to see all this action live and exclusive on hitbox.”

Uradno spletno stran najdete TUKAJ.

Prijavite se lahko tudi za team managerja države, to storite TUKAJ. Vsa pravila za igralce ipd. najdete TUKAJ.

Finale bo potekalo v "Sava Centar, Beograd"

Bivši igralec  NiP Robin “Fifflaren” Johansson, je na socialnih omrežjih zapisal nekaj o novem AWP-erju.

Po tem ko se je Fifflaren odločil zapustiti profesionalne vode CS gaminga, je njegovo mesto vzel Mikail “Maikelele” Bill, ki se je izkazal za preveč neizkušenega igralca. NiP je zato začel iskati novega AWP-erja, ki se bo bolj ujel z njimi. To mesto je pripadlo Aleksi “allu” Jalli, ki sicer prihaja s finske zato to za NiP predstavlja kar velik zalogaj. Preizkušnjo je odpravil še Marcus “Delpan” Larsson, ki pa ni bil kos preizkušnji.

Fifflaren je na AMA(ask me anything) na vprašanje kakšno je njegovo mnenje o Allutu odgovoril takole:

“I think that allu is a great pickup for NiP. I am looking forward to Katowice to see how the team plays, but allu is by far one of the most complete players in the European scene at the moment and I am sure he will do an amazing job in NiP,” he wrote.

 Allu is probably the one that would fit NiP the most considering how many tournaments they have coming up. I think another person that would be a good fit would be twist.

“Allu is probably the one that would fit NiP the most considering how many tournaments they have coming up. I think another person that would be a good fit would be twist.

“If I  were the ingame leader, I would have picked Maikelele up, the reason for that is because I like to teach people and see the improvements of a player.

“If I wasn’t calling, I would pick allu. I feel that, out of the three, he’s the most complete player.”

Kot zanimivost pa je izdal tudi svoje najboljšega igralca sedanje generacije, izbral si je KennyS-a zanj pa je zapisal takole:

“KennyS, hands down,” Johansson stated. “There is not a single player other than KennyS that has that big of an impact whether their team wins or not.”

Francoska organizacija LDLC se je odločila, da bo imela 2 profesionalna teama.

Le po 72 urah, ko so pri organizaciji LDLC oznanili, da so pod okrilje vzeli ekipo Awsomniac je tu že nova novica, da so pod okrilje vzeli še ekipo Platinum. Organizacija bo sedaj imela dve ekipi, to sta Blue ter White. Ekipa Blue se meri v ESL Major ligi, medtem ko Platinum ne igra v tej ligi. Ekipe Platinum se lahko spomnete tudi po presentljivi zmagi nad NiP-om na tekmovanju ESWC 2014.

“It is a great pleasure to join LDLC,” Matthieu “matHEND” Roquigny said. “It is the first time that we are part of a professional structure, and this can only be beneficial for us.

“I would like to thank LDLC for trusting young players and for giving us a real chance to grow with these great conditions.

“I would also like to thank Platinium and also all the people who follow and support us.”

LDLC White	LDLC Blue
Matthieu “matHEND” Roquigny	Kevin “madc” Ducourtioux
Simon “Fuks” Florysiak	Charbel “BouLy” Naoum
Alexandre “bodyy” Pianaro	David “HEdm” Thalien
Antoine “to1nou” Pirard	Guillaume “XpG” Veron
Timothée “DEVIL” Démolon	Julien “PetitSkel” Marcantoni

Ekipa CLG je dobila njihov prvi turnir na tekmovanju organizacije iBuyPower.

V finalu so v formatu best of 3 premagali ekipo Liquid, ki so se izkazali za lahkega nasprotnika. Tudi nasplošno CLG ni imel večjih težav, mogoče v polfinalu kjer so jim nasproti stali Luminosity (2-1 za CLG). Na turnir so bile povabljene samo top ameriške ekipe, z izjemo Cloud9 saj je bil Sean “sgares” Gares odsoten.

Nagradni sklad:

1. CLG – $4,000
2. Team Liquid – $1,000
3-4. eLevate
3-4. Luminosity

Lineup:

Stephen “reltuC” Cutler
Pujan “FNS” Mehta
James “hazed” Cobb
Tarik “tarik” Celik
Peter “ptr” Gurney

CLG se v zmagovalni formi podaja v Katowice!

Francoska organizacija LDLC je podpisala pogodbo z ekipo Awsomniac.

Po nekaj tednih, ko so bili igralci sedanje ekipe EnVyUS nezadovoljni z njihovo pogodbo ter so jo preklicali, so pri francoski organizaciji že našli nove igralce, ki bodo predstavjali njihovo ime organizacije. Kaj to pomeni za tekmovanja? LDLC se ne bo udeležil nobenega večjega tekmovanja, saj se bo moral na vse uvrstiti preko kvalifikacij.

we are aware that what it can represent. They decided to give us all the cards we need to become the best, so it’s our call now: this is the beginning of a new adventure for both of us, and we are determined and strongly motivated! We also wanted to thank Awsomniac for the support they give us during our stay.” Ducourtioux told team-ldlc.com

Kevin “madc” Ducourtioux
Charbel “BouLy” Naoum
David “HEdm” Thalien
Guillaume “XpG” Veron
Julien “PetitSkel” Marcantoni

VALVE je izdal update v katerem je prišel pick’em challange ter nalepke za Katowice 2015.

• Added the Katowice 2015 Pick’Em Challenge. Visit https://www.counter-strike.net/pickem/kat2015 for details.
• Added Team and Event Stickers for Katowice 2015.
• Added ability to browse and download old Tournament Matches.
• Added ability to browse old Pick’Em Challenges.

• Added flavor text to Operation Vanguard Weapons and fixed other typos.
• Fixed a potential security issue where up to 32 bytes of gameserver memory could be unintentionally disclosed.
• Significantly increased client-side demo recording buffers.
• When attempting to stop recording POV demos in round-based game modes, the demo will stop recording at the nearest end of the round.

Organizacija ESL je objavila razpored skupin za Major turnir Katowice!

Od 12-15 marca bo potekal 1. glavni turnir letos, kjer se bo pomerilo najboljših 16 ekip sveta. To bo prvi turnir v zgodovini CS:GO igre, ki bo imel 250.000$ nagradnega sklada. Med njimi bo 8 ekip, imenovanih “legende”, te so bili povabljeni s strani organizatorjev na podlagi njihovih uspehov na preteklih turnirjih. Ostalih 8 se je na začetku februarjo pomerilo na kvalifikacijah.

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Na`Vi	EnVyUs	NiP	Virtus.pro
fnatic	PENTA Sports	HellRaisers	Team SoloMid
Vox Eminor	LGB eSports	CLG	Cloud9
Flipsid3 Tactics	Titan	Keyd Stars(KaBum)	3DMAX

Virtus.pro bo branil domači naslov prvaka iz lanskega leta

Madžarska ekipa Volgare je objavila nekaj sprememb v svojem lineupu.

Ekipa Volgare se je odločila zamenjati člana Alex “alexrad” Seewald ter Patrik “bodito” Boda z dvema veteranoma Alexander “rmL” Kancsev in Arnold “NEY” Kiss.

Uradnja izjava:

“We were in a bad form for a few weeks already, and alexrad, our IGL, couldn’t play at his maximum level because of personal issues, so he said he doesn’t want to play until he is able to do it with max focus.” Viktor “flash” Tamás Bea told HLTV.org.

 

“Also our fifth bodito had some inconsistent time, but we gave him more time to improve as he is only 17 years old and very talented, but in the end we just figured out he needed much more time to improve as much as we need in the future to compete against the best teams.

 

After everything we would like to welcome NEY (Twist) and rmL again in our team, as we managed to talk about every problem we had in the past and we are very motivated and ready to improve. We hope we manage to go Copenhagen Games and prove that we are dangerous and can compete with bigger teams.”

 

Viktor “flash” Tamás Bea
Dániel “FoDa” Fodor
Gábor “gabesson” Málovics
Alexander “rmL” Kancsev
Arnold “NEY” Kiss

Zanimivost: Ekipa Volgare je 3. decembra lani igrala tekmo proti slovenski ekipi EnRo.Griffins na turnirju South East Europe Championship. Tam so bili madžari boljši z 2-0, a vseeno je to kar velik uspeh za slovensko ekipo pod nemško organizacijo.

Organizacije Gfinity bo pripomogla k Masters turnirjem, ki se bodo izvedli letos!

Lani so pri Gfinity najavili 4 tekmovanj, v katerih bodo sodelovali pri nagradnih skladih. Danes so objavili, da bodo prispevali 50.000$ vsakemu Masters turnirju.

Nagradni sklad bo razdeljen med najboljše 4 ekipe, ki se bodo udeležile na turnirjih. Razporejen pa bo tako:

1. $25,000
2. $15,000
3. $7,000
4. $3,000

Za prvi Spring Masters turnir so že znane vse ekipe, odvil pa se bo že čez približno 1 mesec (21-22 marec):

EnVyUs	NiP
Titan	Virtus.pro
Cloud9	Gamers2
Infused	Property