Flashbang #30 – ECS Champions, ESL One Cologne and SK Gaming
G2 Wins The ECS Season 1 Grand Finals Some tournaments don’t look like any others. Last weeks ECS Finals was one of...
G2 Wins The ECS Season 1 Grand Finals Some tournaments don’t look like any others. Last weeks ECS Finals was one of...
Maniac leaves EnVyUs This news is expected, Mathieu “Maniac” Quiquerez has announced that he is officially leaving the EnVyUs organisation. He was...
Luminosity wins Group A of E-League Last week was the beginning of E-League. This American tournament is the first tournament to be...
Virtus Pro wins the Starladder I-league It has been a difficult year so far for Virtus Pro. The Polish line-up has not...
Tyloo wins PGL Kespa Minor This weekend held the Asia CSGO Minor, one of the biggest competitions to date on Asian soil....
Tempo Storm wins CEVO Gfinity S09 Tempo Storm managed to win the their first international title in London last weekend. The Brazilian...
Shox wins PGL htc 1vs1 tournament This weekend, Bucharest was the home of the 1vs1 htc tournament hosted by PGL, a unique...
NIP defeat Na`Vi to win Dreamhack Malmö Some tournaments have more surprising results than other. Dreamhack Malmö was definitely one of them...
The post major week was full of information. Valve announced the next major at ESL One Cologne as well as many changes in the...
The MLG Counter-Strike Major just ended with a $1 Million prizepool. A few things have to be remembered from this event. Luminosity...
Navi wins Counter Pit League Season 2 One of the last tournaments before the MLG Colombus Major, the Counter Pit Season 2 finals were held last week in Croatia. 8 of the best teams came to battle for the title and the sweet prizepool of $40,000 After a predictable round of 8 (Except for the massive EnvyUs-RNG upset) and after some intense battles in the semifinals and in the final it is NaVi that manage to, in the end, get the win against Astralis (2-1) to take the title. NaVi’s performance was helped by a godlike Guardian, definitely in top-form at...
IEM Katowice and the continuing of the Fnatic era Last weekend in Katowice, the best CS:GO teams gathered for the Intel Extreme Masters in Katowice, the biggest non-major tournament of Q1. After some exciting group stages (EnVyUs and NiP didn’t manage to get through the group stage) the 6 teams that made it through were: Luminosity Gaming...
Valve announce $1m major tournaments It was announced by Valve shortly before the MLG qualifier this weekend. Every Major (Starting with the MLG Colombus one) will now have a 1 million dollar prize pool. Let’s hope that the production and the games will be worthy of such a prize pool. 8 teams to grab a spot for the MLG Colombus Major Last week, 16 teams gathered together to the offline qualifier for the MLG Major. 4 teams and only 2 spots per group. After 3 Days of fragging, 8 teams managed to get their spot: G2 Esports Mousesports Splyce Gambit Gaming Flipside Tactics Team Liquid Counter Logic Gaming Cloud9 The biggest surprise is the qualifying of Splyce who got their spot by beating CLG and Vexed. Also note that the Brazilians of TempoStorm didn’t manage to qualify...
Call of Duty is once again on top spot after another great week. With Street Fighter V having a strong week too...
Operation wildfire is finally out It finally happend. After months of waiting, Valve finally released a 1gb update. Many things are included: A new operation: Operation Wildfire A new case with many new skins The New Bowie knife A remodelled Nuke Bug patches for different map Operation Wildfire also includes a whole new cooperation mechanic and a bunch of freshly built maps. The timing of the update wasn’t optimized though as the ESL Expo Barcelona CSGO tournament had to suffer a delay while the admin staff prepared the games on the former version of the game. We can now enjoy a whole new version of Nuke.. Fnatic wins ESL Expo Barcelona Tournament 5/5 tournaments won by the Fnatic lineup...
As the cold winter strikes all around the world. The top tier scene has taken a rest during the past week. All...
This week was busy for the French scene, with 2 tournament wins and an important transfer. EnVyUs Wins The GE Cup Finals...
Echofox Signs A CS:GO Roster Counter Strike’s NA scene has a new challenger. Last week, the American organisation Echofox (known for their...
The week of Roster Changes A lot happened last week in the competitive scene. Let’s take a look at all the changes...
Titan’s Disband The news came just before the start of StarSeries XIV. Titan is shutting down it’s activity therefore letting their CS:GO...
Welcome everybody on the first Flashbang of this year 2016. We wish you all the best for this year including amazing headshots...
Valve winter’s update The Major Winter has come and has made a lot of noise in the CSGO community, a most important...
As hundreds prepare to flock to the first-ever Insomnia at the NEC Birmingham, GAME Digital is announcing title sponsorship of an epic new...
Intense week in the CS:GO scene. With the winter holidays coming up, the scene is having a few changes before the break....
Intel Extreme Masters San Jose saw a doubling in year-on-year viewership: almost 7 million hours of watched content and close to 17...
Fnatic win Dreamhack winter 2015 Last Saturday was the day of the FACEIT finals hosted by Dreamhack Winter. The grand finals featured Fnatic and the...
FACEIT are delighted to announce the winner of their CS:GO League Season Finale at DreamHack Open Winter 2015 – Fnatic. FACEIT and...
Star Wars Battlefront dropped this week and naturally it topped the charts. Fallout 4 has dropped off from first down to third...
Na`Vi: The IEM San Jose Champions The IEM tournament, hosted by ESL in San Jose (USA), was one of the last tournaments...
Pronax out of Fnatic The Swedish Fnatic has experienced their first change roster since June 2014 with the departure of Markus “pronax”...