It was sportsmanship, and what many would consider being standard fare regarding the example that professional Counter-Strike players should exude while in the public eye.Īs I said on the broadcast, had every right to not reset the round on inferno. C9 voluntarily gave up the advantage they had on the round and ended up losing due to it. It’s worth noting that this isn’t the first crash that has happened in a crucial moment: FaZe versus C9 in Katowice 2018 had Guardian crashing, and both teams opted to favor a round restart to ensure even ground. The teams took to the match Discord server (a standard practice) to discuss precisely what occurred and what should happen. The purpose of the technical pause was to discern whether or not the round should be restarted, and it was ultimately FURIA’s decision MIBR had inflicted 13 damage (from FalleN’s tweeted video) onto ‘KSCERATO’ at the moment that ‘fer’ was downed, but not having ‘fer’ for the rest of the round guarding B (leaving B completely open for a plant and retake, which would tilt the rest of the map’s economy in favor of FURIA). After the successful engagement, MIBR called ‘NL’ which means Not Live, and a technical pause began. On the 25th round of Inferno, the match was locked at 12/12 with both teams having a middling economy ‘fer’ pushed into Banana where he froze, and was successfully engaged and eliminated by ‘KSCERATO’ with an AWP 31 seconds into the round. We understand it.ġ2×12 nothing happened but our Grenade landed 5hp damage on one of the opponents.
Lost 2 situations middle round where obviously nothing could be done. Even the webcams were freezing constantly, which made for amusing viewing.Įxperiencing lots of spikes during the whole match. It was un-ideal at best, and obnoxiously stupid to continue playing on the server at worst. The server was struggling to maintain connectivity for all players throughout the match, with multiple freezes occurring for the majority of players. While this may make some players feel a bit better about having to play against MIBR, as it’s difficult to actually murder someone over the internet, it has resulted in multiple tourney organizers struggling to offer stable servers with decent ping to all teams Overwatch League split teams into regions to circumnavigate this issue, as has Counter-Strike tourneys and DOTA 2.Īll of this is what is the context for what happened yesterday on June 16, 2020, in a match that pitted two Brazilian teams against each other, FURIA versus MIBR.
They aren’t exactly a clean team full of bright and upstanding members of society, although their performance within Counter-Strike shouldn’t necessarily be viewed through the lens of personal turmoil that the team has experienced.įurther, COVID-19 has resulted in all matches being played online instead of the standard LAN format. Įven Gabriel ‘FalleN’ Sguario has had controversies where he shifts blame for poor performance onto young talent. Wasn't like this dude… he was soo mad that fns just messed with them, he already deleted, he knows that was wrong, stop bsįernando ‘Fer’ Alvarenga was fined by MIBR on June 2, 2020, for making racist comments against Blacks on stream.īrazilian CS:GO team MIBR fined fer because of racist comments he made on a stream several weeks ago.
Feel free to re-read that sentence as often as necessary. KNG was defended, for threatening to murder another player due to the implication that they were partying the night before a match, by the MIBR fan base. Surely this death threat followed up with physically seeking fns warrants a life time ban from cs events for kng? if not police involvement KNG had to be restrained as he was searching for player Pujan ‘FNS’ Mehta and the cops were called what the member is still doing in professional Counter-Strike after that incident is beyond understanding. MIBR is well-known for their toxicity as well their player Vito ‘KNG’ Giuseppe notoriously threatened to murder a rival team member (two years ago) for implying that they showed up to a final match late due to partying. MIBR knows this, as does the rest of the esport world it’s simply an aspect of the team at this point. Both MIBR (GS #18) and FURIA (GS #4) hail from the South American country, and the MIBR fanbase is known in esports as arguably being one of the most toxic fanbases in the world. This incident encompasses Brazil and their historic nemesis: Brazil.
This article aims to outline precisely what happened, as well as the context from both teams, that has resulted in even more death threats being lobbed about over a video game tournament.Ĭorrupt politicians and police-states result in dead silence pixels, however, incites rage the like has never been seen.įirst, some context. If you’ve been online today and are a follower of professional Counter-Strike, there’s been a tiny bit of controversy that everyone with a pulse apparently feels the need to weigh in on.