We’re not cool enough to say ‘brazy’…

If you’re starved of good Counter-Strike in the checks notes three days between events, you’ll be happy to know there’s two events coming this week.

There’s ESL Challenger Melbourne coming up - which we’ll preview more thoroughly on Friday morning - but before that we have the brilliantly named Brazy Party.

With it’s weird branding and odd prize pool ($333,000?), you’d be forgiven for writing this one off as another nothing event with teams you’ve never heard of. At first, we did too. It wasn’t even on our radar until late in the writing process.

However, there’s certainly enough to keep you ticking over. With Cloud9, 9INE, Astralis, ENCE, OG, BIG, paiN, Eternal Fire and other solid teams all here, it’s like a menagerie of teams just below the threshold of great teams.

Put it this way; all 16 teams are in the top 50 on HLTV. By that metric, it’s better than the RMR was, standard wise. It’s pretty much what the CCT was.

And by that, we mean an excuse for Astralis to maybe win a game.

This one looks a lot tougher than CCT ever was, though. Games start on Wednesday and next Wedensday, with all BO3s all the time, baby.

That should fill the void until the Major, which starts in two weeks from today. Two weeks!

Maybe there’s something to this “oversaturation” theory…