Fnatic win ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2
The Swedes have added yet another title to their trophy case after winning the second season of the ESL ESEA Pro League, defeating Natus Vincere 3-2 in the grandfinals match of the event. Fnatic recieved $100,000 for their first place finish, while Na'Vi recieved a hefty $60,000 as the runner-ups; check out our winner's news for a full recap of the series.
Winter Update controversy
Valve released one of the the most controversial CS:GO updates in the game's history this week, introducing a myriad of changes as well as a brand new gun, the R8 revolver. The community was quickly up in arms, due to the new pistol's unbalanced damage and nerfs to the AK-47 and M4s. The developers quickly moved to lower the R8 stats, but the other changes remain in place; read our update release notes for more details
Pimp to SK Gaming
The Danish team has been without a full permanent roster for quite a while now, but SK Gaming has finally put the finishing touches on the lineup this week that they hope will bring home better results thatn some of their past experiments. The first two players that will be coming aboard are Emil 'Magiskb0Y' Reif and Andreas 'MODDII' Fridh, who have been recently seen trying out with the team, as well as Jacob 'Pimp' Winneche. Read a sample of his full statement below:
“It's a big pleasure that I can announce today that I have signed with SK Gaming's CS:GO division. After looking through all the offers I received during my period as a free agent, I easily found their offer the most interesting and appealing one.”Minors system revealed
In other Valve-related news, the company has revealed this week that they will be funding additional tournaments in 2016 known as minors. These smaller events will act as qualifiers for majors, but will bring the same high-level production the community has come to expect from their big brothers. For more information, read our full article here.
Vexed Gaming drops peet
Vexed Gaming has had some impressive results since Piotr "peet" ?wikli?ski joined up with the team earlier this year, managing to land spots at the last two majors, Cologne and Cluj-Napoca. However, the organization has announced this week that peet has been cut from the team due internal conflict in the roster as well as poor results at recent events; while they look for a new player, Jacek "MINISE" Jeziak will stand in for the team.
“We are sad to announce that peet no longer will be a part of Vexed Gamings CS:GO roster, due to conflicting interests among the players. We appreciate to have been a part of peet's career and what we have accomplished together and wish him the best of luck no matter what the future brings him.”
