What's the worst way to lose a map you can imagine? Now un-imagine it, because we’ve found it.

Map one of Heroic vs. NIP started as any NIP game does. They lost the first map. But when the players came back, Heroic seemed quite confused and upset.

As it turned out, they had been disqualified from map 1 because one of their players had been caught using Snap Tap, which has recently been banned.

This meant that NIP now had a 1-0 lead, and despite Heroic winning map 2, NIP closed out the series despite losing 2 maps on the server. (:D)

After the game, TeSeS came forward and admitted to having used Snap Tap while claiming he had turned it off when Valve banned it, and that he didn’t notice it during the game. Kudos to him. He admitted his mistake and called it “fucking embarrassing and amateur.” It’s rare someone in Counter-Strike holds themselves accountable like that.

Fortunately for Heroic, they won their second game, so the dream is not dead. TeSeS MVP redemption arc, please.

In fact, they are facing NIP again in Group A’s last chance stage tomorrow.