What's better than Counter-Strike?

Counter-Strike for a good cause, obviously, and that's exactly what the Americans over at M(o)ustache Masters have been putting on for the last few years.

We were so intrigued that we sent aizyesque over the pond to spend some time on camera, with... mixed results. But he's on the front lines over there, and seems to be having a good time.

"I'll tell you something", he told us, "It's so nice to have the atmosphere of the guys and gals and everyone else just chilling, hanging out, watching Counter-Strike and burning the inside of their mouths with hot sauce."

"It's not a LAN in the sense of all the teams playing are there, but the talent is all on site and there's some real comraderie and good vibes - and it's all for charity."

Excellent stuff. Though by the time you're reading this it's likely a bit too late to get involved, they ended up raising $20,000 (Red. at time of writing) for the Movember foundation, going towards helping men deal with testicular cancer, prostate cancer and mental health issues.

It was full of wild Zeus kills, far too many knives and some of the highest quality Negev play we've ever seen. If that's not representative of NA Counter-Strike, we don't know what is.

Tune in to this week's episode of Overtime on Inferno where your favorite hosts aizyesque and Logan Ramhap go deep on the biggest news in CS:GO:

• ropz as a free agent
• How m0NESY would fit into G2
• Why shox to NA is a bummer

Recovered from the Major yet? Nope? Neither have we.

But there’s no time for recovery; Blast Premier Fall Finals kicks off on Wednesday, before the Royal Arena opens for 12,000 fans on Friday.

Although there is a catch - Vitality and Liquid are not just bad, they are … there's no other word for it: Dead.

Throw in how good NaVi are looking, and there is the threat that some of the games will be anti-climatic. But this is still Counter-Strike. On LAN. WITH A CROWD. How can you not be hyped?

Key to maintaining that hype might be Heroic, with cadiaN declaring that they “are the only team who can beat” NaVi. And we could get a preview of that as early as Thursday since they’re on the same side of the bracket.

All we need is for NaVi to beat BIG (lol) and Heroic to beat FaZe. By the way, did we mention that ropz's contract is running out?

It might be harsh to karrigan’s boys - the ropz rumours are still just rumours ­– but Heroic have to be heavy favourites after their strong showing at the Major.

It’s definitely not harsh, however, to call the next match-up, Vitality-Liquid, the graveyard derby. EliGE has all-but-confirmed Liquid’s death, saying that they “are making changes” and haven’t even practiced since Stockholm.

And you speedreaders already know about Vitality’s impending Danish conquest. So what will we get when you mix 10 very talented CS:GO pros and 0 f*cks given? Well, maybe - no promises - a sleeper banger.

Okay, there probably won’t be good “fundamentals”. But they're boring anyway. Fundamentals are how you end up with an Astralis era. Instead of that, we'll get Stewie jumping through smokes, FalleN missing quickscopes, and ZywOo being ZywOo. Much better.

Good news though. The Astralis era is gone, but the new kings are here! We get blameF AND k0nfig on debut - a double defib straight into the sleeping giant of Danish CS. We can't wait for the Danish Corner hype.

Plus their matchup is a double debut, against NIP with es3tag. But dev1ce has been playing this rivalry down, calling Astralis “just another team”. And that’s after beating them 16-1 at the Major. Ouch.

BLAST is obviously gonna slap. That's a promise.

Day 1 matchups:

• NaVi vs BIG
• Heroic vs FaZe
• Liquid vs Vitality
• NiP vs Astralis

• nexa is just making sure his new teammate will fit in. What a nice guy.
• What's better than #1 player in the HLTV Top 20? Definitely Esports PC Player of the Year...
• Although with these stats it's almost impossible for s1mple not to get both.
• You'll have to trust our translation skills - and by that we mean Google Translate - but it seems like all of us were dreaming, and coldzera is wide awake.
• The future is indeed interesting. Although Liquid XTQZZ might be too similar to liquid ecstasy... Don't google that if you want to stay off of FBI lists.
• So basically what you're saying dev1ce is that you went to Sweden only to look outside of Sweden for talent? Sound plan.
• Fnatic are being such farmers right now we're surprised they haven't started going to pracc on tractors.