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This iBuyPower mini documentary is surprisingly good ECS hosting a live super weekend event at The Esports Arena Gamerz comes to an end with JW’s brother getting a pro contract SIXER hits a perfect 1v5 AWP ace Tarik thought he was just playing really well when when iBuyPower threw

*Ask Questions for next week's episode here: https://boo.gg/2pV6aWd* "Ask Thorin" #6: - The current map pool, adding maps, and Astralis (0:20) - Audio Updates and their balance (4:40) - Ex6tenz and LDLC (6:50) - CS:GO's growth as an eSport vs DOTA and League (7:57) - Valde (11:16) - Dignitas, Maikelele, and NiP (13:22) - Releasing more of Thorin's "Events worked in 20xx" (15:36) - Xyp9x (16:24) - "System" as per FalleN and Gla1ve(20:54) - de_prodigy (23:17) - Why focus on CS:GO? (24:24) - Best match you've ever watched (27:31)

NiP and Heroic miss out on EU Minor, Dignitas and BIG make it in Pyth freed from the NiP sub bench after contract expires Line up for DreamHack Summer confirmed after qualifiers end Liquid, Heroic and Space Soldiers qualify for ESL One Cologne Shroud says he plans to quit pro play next year

Some weeks we get to spend TLDW saluting high achievement, but to be honest, most of this week’s big stories were flat-out bad news for the teams and individuals involved. The one exception was probably ScreaM’s seductive ace against FaZe Clan. Glory in those sweet moments, and try not to get too down about NiP or Virtus Pro.

ESL announce China qualifier for ESL One Cologne Mouz, Immortals and Fnatic grab invites to DreamHack Summer RankS live show coming to Facebook’s streaming platform NiP dangerously close to missing out on the Major BIG and Ghost make it into the ESL Pro League

Ex-Selfless players don’t show up for ESL Pro League relegation match Virtus.Pro officially relegated from the ESL Pro League, HellRaisers stay in Russian team Hala Ares disqualified from Minor Qualifier Australian Football League team Adelaide Crows purchase Legacy eSports org ScreaM hits a sweet ace against FaZe

Virtus.Pro are dangerously close to being relegated from the ESL Pro League again Turns out IEM Sydney was pretty popular with the locals The Esports Integrity Coalition wants to know how you think cheaters should be punished Teams for the EU Minor qualifier confirmed Gambit invited to DreamHack Summer but drop out of ESL One Cologne qualifier

Episode #6 of a Boomeo's weekly feature: "TL;DW Podcast" -- A show hosted by MLG's Chris Puckett and Duncan "Thorin" Shields covering CS:GO news, speculations, and analysis. This week, they're joined by FaZe karrigan and discuss karrigan's career, the current top tier teams, FaZe changes, current events, and more!

Esports Integrity Coalition bans a CS player for cheating Sadokist clarifies his VP throw comments from a few weeks back Immortals officially release FNX, kNg or Horvy rumoured to take his place Astralis is picking up an academy team if the Gamerz players are correct 30% of pro CS:GO fans don’t play the game

After weeks of big LAN events and some pretty big one off online tournaments we finally have a week where there is almost nothing going on. There is no big LAN, there is no major online one off and with the ESL Pro League group stage done and dusted all that leaves us with is ECS, which has somewhat been flying under the radar for a while. In Europe we have some familiar faces at the top of the standings with G2, Mouz and Astralis at the top, although surprisingly NiP is sitting just behind them in fourth. GODSENT and Dignitas sit in the relegation places, but once again VP isn’t far ahead of them. In the NA division things are a little more surprising. Cloud9 sit at the top of the table with CLG, OpTic and Liquid just behind them. Liquid actually has the chance to go top when they play their games in hand, as they are one of only two teams in the league to only lose one map, the other is Renegades who have only played four games. Ghost Gaming have been very disappointing and have lost all 10 games, putting them in last place, with Luminosity just ahead of them with three wins. This week we have some pretty hype matches, and some that will have big impacts on the final standings. We are now past the halfway point, so every win really does become very important and one mistake could cost you a shot at the LAN. So let’s get down to it and look at the matches taking place this week.

G2’s shox and kennyS crowned 2v2 champions This is what happens when you want to play Assassins Creed but only have CS installed Cloud9 and PENTA win big events without dropping a single map FNX reportedly leaves Immortals Teams set for ESL Cologne closed qualifiers

After weeks of nonstop action, the last seven days gave us a bit of a break before we head into the final series of events before the Major. The most important games were in the ESL Pro League, where the group stage came to a close and some big names missed out on the LAN finals. Elsewhere, the HTC 2v2 Invitational offered a nice change of pace.

K0nfig probably regrets ranting about cancelled practices as tables turn ECS doesn’t use FACEIT’s own anti-cheat software FaZe and Astralis miss out on the ESL Pro League Season 5 Finals Calls for ESL to reduce NA’s slots in the Pro League LAN again Taco calls out NA teams by saying Heroic vs Kinguin was better to watch than their matches

Maikelele releases blog about his public image Former NaVi coach Starix joins Team Spirit as a player MLG Major tickets sold for $746 via resellers Former Winterfox team forfeit ESL Pro League spot Dignitas makes it into the EU Minor qualifier, adding to a stacked lineup

Astralis to face Virtus.Pro in $250,000 show match thanks to ELEAGUE Zeus’ Pro100 reveals new CS roster Fnatic players supposedly aren’t told their ESL Pro League match is delayed aizy and cajunb are the final pair at the HTC 2v2 Invitational It looks like Zeus wasn’t the problem after all