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Swedes Dominate Counter-Strike Championship

Posted by timothy on from the nerdjocks-or-jocknerds dept.

fluor2 writes "'Guys, somebody stepped on a switch. I'm not kidding; someone actually stepped on a switch and unplugged our network!' These are not the words one would like to hear from one of the staff in the middle of Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) Extreme World Championships $100,000 Counter-Strike finals. But it happened. Finally, after the game was restarted, Team Eyeballers (Sweden) is the new CPL CS Champion over Schroet Kommando (also Sweden), winning (7-5;6-0)." Update: 08/02 01:06 GMT by S : There's a more detailed report over at Gotfrag.

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  1. Re:Same players...New game... by jrockway · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Too bad they have no friends in real life nor will they ever reproduce. How can you live with yourself playing CS all day...

    --
    My other car is first.
  2. What a joke by Seven001 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    All the "cyberathlete" bullshit is about half of what drove me away from CS (and HL mods in general). I'm sure its great to make money playing games, but "esports" and "cyberathletes", give me a break. The CS community needs to wake up, and grow up.

    1. Re:What a joke by Seven001 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      The Koreans have a society of idiocy.

      I doubt the people playing those other games are as zealous about the "cyberathlete" bullshit as the CS players / community are.

      CS is the biggest FPS because it is pretty much still the best. I won't dispute that, but I can't stand the community enough to return to it.

  3. Sweden wins by Leffe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not the first time... and certainly not the last ;)

  4. not really by zoloto · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    this is one of the biggest issues I have with CS players. when I ask what command your alt-fire is, I get "Right-Click" from 99% of the people. CS people have no FUCKING CLUE what the hell a bind is, or even scripting for that matter (you know, when one button can do 4 functions in order and cycle them over and over again).

    These kids don't have a fucking clue what they're doing and bitch and moan when they get owned by a legit skilled player.

    "0mfg n00b h4x0r, gtf0 teh s3rv3r" - is not a way to validate your poor skill.

    good god man, learn what the command is and how to set a bind in the console on the fly if you need to. here's a bit of a clue:

    bind space +jump
    bind home

    -zoloto /rant