.@SBETeam take the series 2-0 over Without a Roof getting revenge for the upper bracket!
After the win, tempers flared as @_shanecs had some choice words for @Stewie:
Photo dump from @fragadelphia New York. This one felt good, NA has a bright future and we have so many talented people to capture what we are about!
๐ธ @muenstergg@uhhstelic
Honestly @HLTVorg I don't even know what to say. The logic behind covering the top 12 of advanced to only top 8 of the finals (when the prize money is split between all 16 teams) is poor and comes at such a dissapointment. I understand you hide behind the excuse of not wanting to create so many HLTV team/player profiles BUT in this case I feel like a mistake is being made.
Why is a 33,500$ 16 team tournament getting only HALF coverage?!
ESEA is a long time reliable TO putting up a lot of money to win. Surely a handful of team profiles and 2 days worth of single elim bo3's isn't out of your scope to cover considering this is technically where the "open qualifier" got us to. A lot of these teams are already on the VRS and my team is 1 game away with our whole team already having HLTV profiles. All teams are recieving prize money. (Yet another excuse hltv has used to not cover games in the past if the game was not for prize money)
Considering HLTV is the central hub for Pro CS2/The VRS and is plastered in gambling sites (ones that infringe on the Counter-Strike IP that Valve has banned TO's from using as sponsors btw) I refuse to believe this is a budget problem. This FEELS like a "we don't want to" problem. How are smaller scenes supposed to grow and become "pertinent" in HLTV's eyes if all smaller regions are just fighting for their life to have a handful of games covered.
I don't blame @ESEA at all as hopefully they did everything in their power to make it work. I thank them for the wonderful job and effort they have put in to try and bring VRS to all regions. I know their hope was to have the entire finals covered every season. Guess we'll have to work even harder for it but IMO covering a small portion of a single elim bracket everyone spent 2+ months fighting for is a slap in the face. One day I'm hopeful the coverage issue in non EU regions is solved by @CounterStrike
My final thoughts are this is a larger issue than one event or JUST the NA region as I've stated time and time again. A biased FOR PROFIT journalism company like HLTV should NOT be the main and only source of data colleciton and rule enforcement for the VRS/TOR if they are limited by funds. I doubt anyone disagrees with that.
It's about time we headed back to our hometown Philadelphia ๐ฆ ๐
FRAG TAP Reloaded hits @TAPESPORTCENTER's new venue in University City on May 29th-31st*!
๐ฅ 32 teams*
๐ Up to $10,000 prize pool
๐คซ Powered by @bequietofficial
Team passes available on 3/23.
Lock in. Be ready.
GGs won Jynxzi CS2 tourney. Never had more fun in a tourney thank you to everyone who supported and huge thanks to Ohne with the raid. Love you guysโค๏ธ
.@team_mouseCS2 have topped tonight's qualifier, taking down Team Fathom Gaming 2-1 in the grand finals to secure their spot in the @dust2us Eagle Masters Series #7 powered by @inuigaming!
.@team_mouseCS2 are through to the Grand Finals of tonight's qualifier after a close 13-11 win on Dust2 over @NuToriousGG. They will face off against Team Fathom Gaming for a spot in Series #7!
LFT Main+
Took a break but been filling in for friends and can easily compete at main playoffs level (New PC buff)
AWP or support rifle but flexible
Flexible hours
https://t.co/XAQNu6nH37
RTs appreciated