Anyone else just miss counting some strikes?
And no, we don’t mean ten-pin bowling. We don’t get any strikes there.
Counter-Strike, of course. It’s been three weeks since World Final, and it’s another 10 days until we get some tier-one action back on our screens with BLAST Premier Spring Groups in Copenhagen.
BLAST only announced the start date of January 19th this week, and they couldn’t even be arsed to reveal the format.
Though, to be fair, it’s probably better to wait until a busier news week to announce their new-fangled way to make it even easier for their partner teams to get through.
Speaking of, who’s excited to see EG, BIG, Complexity, and OG play? FINALLY some real juice.
But okay, we’ll try to be optimistic. We still have FaZe (though maybe without prospective papa rain), NAVI’s nipple experiment, Heroic back with stavn, device on LAN, headtr1ck with NIP, HUNDEN hiding somewhere backstage.
It’s a fun little exhibition group stage to get us warmed up for the real deal: IEM Katowice, starting February 2nd.
By that point, the season will have properly kicked off. Our agendas will be in full flow, G2 will either be the best team of all time or have cut HooXi, and three new CIS AWPers will have sprouted out of nowhere.
It can’t come soon enough.
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