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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:Did somebody forget to invite... by jrockway · · Score: 0, Troll

    They are all dead after forgetting to use the bathroom for 48 hours. Good job, guys!

    (Can you tell by the other posts by me in this thread that I don't like computer games that much?)

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  2. Re:Same players...New game... by sqrt(2) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Stop being so mean.
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  3. Re:'Cyberathelete'? by Bullet-Dodger · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wow, you are really reaching to support your irrational hatred of pro-gamers.

  4. Re:'Cyberathelete'? by jrockway · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you pay someone $50,000 and you win $100,000 you come out ahead.

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  5. Re:What a joke by Seven001 · · Score: 1, Troll
    Finally someone that understands. The people that modded me as flaimbait probably havn't even played CS. You are completely right, though. I used to LOVE CS, the gameplay never drove me away, it was the stupid ass community. Even though I didn't like a lot of the 1.6 changes, I still liked the game overall. The straw that broke the camel's back for me, when I gave up on CS and the HL community for good, was when I was reading at CS-Nation and they had a post about CS training. WTF? Here, I even still have a quote from a forum post I made about it at the time:

    The E-Sports Entertainment Association has added a new Counter-Strike instructor to their company. ...

    The ESEA specializes in giving CS lessons for a marginal fee. All of the instructors are professional gamers so they know what they're doing. Head on over to their site to find out how you too can be cal-i.

    This kind of stupidity, and I get modded down for speaking out about it? What a joke.
  6. People still play CS? by akikage · · Score: 0, Troll

    That game was dull when it first came out let alone in 2004.