Counter Strike

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based first person shooter gameplay the original Counter-Strike pioneered when it launched in 1999. Two teams compete in multiple rounds of objective-based game modes with the goal of winning enough rounds to win the match. CS:GO features new maps, characters, and weapons and delivers updated versions of the classic Counter-Strike maps like Dust, Inferno, Nuke, Train, and more. In addition, CS:GO introduces new game modes like Arms Race, Flying Scoutsman and Wingman, and features online matchmaking and Competitive Skill Groups.

Cloud9 brush off MiBR in the final

The new Cloud9 roster impressed in the qualifier. Coming into their first event of 2020, C9 went on to defeat all teams in their path to qualify for the upcoming event in Poland. The team faced Riot Squad, INTZ, and Complexity before qualifying for the final from the upper bracket. This led to the American side attaining a 1-map advantage in the best-of-five series in the final against MiBR. The final against the Brazilian side was a pretty one-sided show. MiBR did kick things off on Train, their own map pick, with a tight win to make things square at 1-1 in maps. That was, however, not enough to make things close down the line. Overpass, map pick of C9, was a disaster for the Brazilians as the duo of Ian “motm” Hardy and Ricky “floppy” Kemery went into sixth gear to shut down Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo’s squad at 16-4.