Now, we've gotten a bit of stick for talking down about FLASHPOINT, and maybe you guys are right; so we decided to really sit down and concentrate on this ga-

Oh.

Oh no.

Oh baby what is you doing.

Seriously, this game was a FIESTA. Map one started out pretty good - MIBR looked sharp, fer was back on form, FalleN was looking pretty solid again, it was enjoyable.

Map two had an air of incompetence, as Bubzkji bullied FalleN over and over and over again, making a mockery of MIBR's CT side. Multiple site stacks were pulled apart by both teams in an fun, back-and-forth game where MAD Lions came out on top.

Map three was awful.

Just... awful. There were four ninja defuses. In a game that was worth $500,000, two different times the player peeked too late to stop the defuse, one of them MIBR planted for none of their four alive players, and another saw meyern empty his clip into a smoke, powerless to stop a 10 second defuse.

A complete comedy of errors saw MIBR lose a 12-3 lead at the half to hand MAD Lions their first major tournament win, and fair play, they deserved it in the end. $500,000 is a lot of money, and they've proven that removing HUNDEN wasn't quite as bone-headed as a lot of us first thought.

That money could genuinely change their careers, or even lives, and we're happy for them. And for MIBR? It's just more disappointment. But they're used to that by now.

Jamppi might be VAC banned and unable to play at a Major, but ENCE don't look like going to one any time soon anyway. They're rumoured to be replacing xseven with the banned player.

The youngster is currently attempting to sue Valve for him being unable to join a team due to his VAC ban, which is going to look a bit silly if he joins a team straight away.

ENCE are pretty desperate to get back to being an actual team instead of a bad punchline to a 'not so ez 4 ENCE' joke, that they're now trying out players with VAC bans. Quite what this would mean for their Road to Rio tournaments this week and next is pretty unclear.

We'd love to see them try to qualify while one of their players is attempting to sue Valve. We're sure they'll be lenient with the rules.

If you weren't aware of quite how global esports has become, you will be now - because Mr Worldwide himself has gotten involved.

That's right - FaZe Pitbull.

We were hoping it would be MiBR, cause we had a great 'sponsored by Tinder/Timber' joke, but in fairness, Pitbull and Swae Lee teaming up with basketball players and bizarrely footballer Gregory van der Wiel to invest $40m into FaZe is a close second.

Pitbull is famous for being number one twice in the USA, something FaZe fell at the final hurdle of, when they choked a 15-11 lead to Cloud9 on the final map, Inferno, of the Grand Final of the Boston Major.

All jokes aside, this on the surface level is a good sign for the rest of esports. FaZe are very much the outward 'face' for most people of esports, and probably the biggest organisation involved. Whether trickle down economics will help water the grassroots is yet to be seen, but the sheer scale of the names involved and the money means we're probably all onto something with this 'people watching games' thing.

Of course, we all knew this, and $40m pales in comparison to the money involved in 'real' sports, but more investors and more money will almost always be a positive thing. Not least for us, as we're planning to piggyback off of other people's success by reporting on it.

• We're now able to see our teammates crosshairs when we're dead. A useless update for us, we're never dead.
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• Danish mother-daughter duo of the Tromborg family made this stunning artwork for olofmeister. It's beautiful; though, that's not very Danish of you...
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• The delightful Frankie Ward will be playing in the Lucifer Charity Cup in the Netherlands.
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• yam has joined Chiefs as a coach, while Chaos have picked up Xeppaa and leaf to replace SicK and cam.
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• A bunch of players were kicked from FPL this week for a variety of reasons, but Aunkere's removal was one of the ones that hit the hardest.
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• Some of them we're less sympathetic of.
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• If you're looking for a new guy to help your team out, LOMME is looking for freelance work.
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• CSGO is the biggest, and best, game of all time - and the numbers show it. [reader credit Typho]
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• NexusNation made £1800 for the NHS - the UK's national healthcare system - by streaming some video games. A TLDR reader was involved, which makes us proud. We always knew games were good for us. [reader credit Moisty]
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• summit1g lost his sponsorship with Monster after accidentally showing a bong on stream. Drugs are bad, kids.