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Only metaphorically, for now.
Chengdu is heating up, FURIA are apparently being forced by ‘the moment’ to make changes and a bunch of cheaters are getting cut. Hell yeah.
Here we go again, some guy leaked that FURIA is about to make changes, what clown is it this time? Oh, it was one of the owners. Right.
I think we can all agree that FURIA hasn’t been having a great time of it recently, and going out of Chengdu the way they did must’ve been the straw that broke the camel's back. FURIA’s co-owner Akkari came out in immediate response saying FURIA requires change, and that change will happen in the short-term.
We should say, that isn’t the full story. The whole statement gets into the decision-making behind making changes, but it’s basically all that matters from it.
This isn’t the first time in FURIA’s poor run of form that Akkari’s come out and said anything.
He’s previously stated they were “looking for the best solution” after several poor qualifier runs earlier this year. Despite that, this is the first talk of real changes coming to the roster.
Thanks to arT and FalleN’s public leadership struggle, it’s been a turbulent time on FURIA since the current roster’s inception. Which means we were all expecting changes anyway, the question now is… what changes?
Obviously, arT’s been under fire for a while, but he’s also intertwined with the FURIA brand. His style of Counter-Strike defines FURIA. On the other side of the coin, letting FalleN go is always expensive, if for no other reason than the sheer sponsors his celebrity status brings.
Yet surely one of them has to go.
Replacing your 5th man might work for FaZe, but not for a team that has as many structural issues as FURIA does.
Fortunately, we won’t have to wait long, when asked for comment by HLTV, Akkari said there’d be “further info in the coming days.” That sounds to us like soon™
It turns out there ARE consequences to your actions.
Who would have guessed?
Two Eternal Fire academy players decided it was a good idea to abuse the console glitch that basically gives you wallhacks, got banned for two years by FACEIT, and then dropped by Eternal Fire.
Obviously. What did you expect?
If you’re trying to go pro, why are you abusing glitches that you surely must realise will get you banned? What possible advantage can there be from “””testing””” (we know what you really mean) the glitch out?
You tried to cheat in a PUG, for some reason, and got banned. You got what you deserve, you absolute morons. Even if one thinks that two years is too lengthy a ban — and there have been long discussions about it — why are you abusing the bug if you’re already on a team?
We’d ban them just for being so bloody stupid.
By the same token, gokushima has been given a two-year ban. Not for the same reason, but for something equally poisonous.
His two-year ban is for match-fixing, which is sort of an open secret in Counter-Strike, so think about how stupid you have to be to actually get caught doing it.
We have absolutely no sympathy for anyone involved in this story, bar the FACEIT admins who might have to deal with some nonsense about it being too long a ban.
If it were down to us, it’d be longer. F*ck cheaters now and forever.
Illustration byFuffy, Sources: Liquid, PGL
We’ve gone a bit stir-crazy this week - IEM Chengdu is on at unsociable hours, and we’re very sociable people.
We know Chengdu is probably passing you by. Time zones are a real bummer.
But don’t worry, we’ve got you covered with everything worth knowing about, as usual.
For starters, Astralis is looking sharper than ever. Ok, maybe not 4-time-major-winner ever, but pretty impressive considering the recent changes. It seems IGL device is the way to go. Who would’ve thought?
The Danish squad cruised through Group B, sweeping the likes of Steel Helmet, FaZe, and Virtus.pro. Shoutout to stavn for channeling his inner donk and putting up a 1.61 rating performance across 5 maps.
After a disappointing RMR showing for Liquid, the team has bounced back in Chengdu, securing a quarter-final spot with victories against G2, and, most importantly, Heroic. Ice cold cadiaN.
While NA fans rejoice, BR fans can’t catch a break.
FURIA’s poor form continues, with the squad only managing to secure a win versus Lynn Vision. After two close BO3s versus MOUZ and Heroic, it seems FURIA are missing that X factor to take them over the edge. Just announce biguzera already, please.
Following those stacked Major Playoffs, we thought it couldn’t get any better. Well, it probably can’t, but Chengdu comes pretty close.
MOUZ and Astralis are set to take on the winners of Virtus.pro versus G2 and Liquid versus FaZe, respectively. Not bad, huh?
