Counter-Strike

Well, better late than never we suppose, but Red Bull were still left in a peculiar situation where they had to ban the winners of the Red Bull Flick Finland National Final CS: GO event.

CS:GO players have been having trouble with the Krieg / SG553 ever since the weapon's price was reduced in late 2018. Thankfully, the time for the nerf has finally arrived but AUG was not left untouched either.

According to Superdata's latest report, Counter-Stike: Global Offensive player count peaked at 24 million in February 2020, which is the highest level ever for the nearly eight-year-old online shooter.

So far we've seen some quality Counter-Strike goodness from the group B teams. s1mple had an incredible performance once again, ending the game with a 119,1 ADR. BIG and forZe have now won both of their two matches and they currently sit on the top of this group.

Valve's online shooter Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has hit 1 million concurrent players on Steam for the first time in the game's long and rich history, which spans over 20 years. The game peaked at 1.001.756 players.

Valve recently unveiled a new way to combat toxicity in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive that would let players automatically mute the toxic ones without muting others, who could potentially be useful. There are also measures in place to prevent system abuse.

ESL have unveiled the seven direct invites for the upcoming Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2020 tournament, and the list promises some hard competition ahead, with Liquid, Evil Geniuses and Vitality joining the existing teams on the list.

The last major CS:GO tournament of 2019 has reached the playoffs. Vitality and mousesports booked their places in the semifinals and are awaiting their opponents - Evil Geniuses, Natus Vincere, Heroic, or forZe.

mousesports have advanced straight to Epicenter 2019 semifinals after an impressive win against Evil Geniuses. The international squad won both Train and Inferno 16-11 and 16-4.

Vitality have progressed to Epicenter 2019 semifinals after beating Natus Vincere 2-1 on Dust II, Inferno and Nuke. Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut had a big match with 60 kills.