OH MY GOD THERE'S SO MUCH CS TO WATCH.
And it's all on LAN.
Well, sort of. Give us a sec to gush over the CS.
On the first day of Play-Ins (Tuesday) there's 8 BO1s and 6 BO3s. That's fourteen games in one day. We hope you've got nothing planned for the next two weeks.
Bad News Bears take on mousesports in the first round of games (good luck to our NA readers who are staying up to watch that!) which is the pick of the early games. Renegades v Vitality and EG v FaZe are a couple of other very watchable Play-In games, and our recommendations to watch.
That goes on for two days, with eight of those teams going through. Can't wait to see which team beats FaZe to keep them out!
The real tournament is very much more of the same. Loads of CS, loads of LAN, loads of teams playing each other. The usual. Some kills too, hopefully. In the server, obviously.
So, for the LAN bit - the event was supposed to be in a studio in Malta, but just four months ago it was changed to be a 'hotel LAN' in Cologne due to travel restrictions. So while it is a LAN, it's not quite the full stage and studio you're imagining.
But like, that's pretty good, given the situation.
If you want to know more about the LAN thing, Carmac gave an interview with HLTV. It's pretty long, though. He does mention that if teams aren't allowed in, they'll be replaced by some Play-Ins teams.
Maybe FaZe can make it to the real thing after all.
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