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The best Swedish player ever (argue with the wall) now has the ending he deserved.
There’s some drama around who can and can’t stream the Major, as per usual, and HEROIC seem to be finding an IGL gem.
Having failed to qualify for the StarLadder Budapest Major, it seemed that HEROIC’s luck had finally ran out.
For two years in a row they had comeback from having their roster either blown up or bought out, but the loss of an exceptional talent in tN1R to Spirit, as well as the duo of SunPayus and sAw to G2, appeared to be the straw that broke the camels back.
No longer able to even call themselves plucky underdogs when pitted against the big boys, HEROIC slipped down the rankings. A team seemingly waiting until their remaining saleable assets got their calls.
Sometimes, though, proactivity can turn a team’s fortunes around, and it seems HEROIC are looking to make their move as Sheep Esports are reporting that they’ve signed Chr1zN from OG.
A young IGL that we’re really high on, not only does it constitute as a (albeit smaller than we’d like) step up the ladder fro the young Dane, it also reunites him with his former MOUZ NXT coach, TOBIZ.
The report says that the move is already done, and Chr1zN will be brought into the fold after the CCT event HEROIC are currently competing in, but that does leave us with one question:
Who is HEROIC’s long-term AWPer?
With Alkaren only signing on loan and not being overly impressive, and gr1ks already sold off to BIG, that spot is seemingly very open for 2026. Chr1zN has AWPed in the past, but it feels like something he’d avoid doing following his successes with OG. We’ve theorised on the podcast that SunPayus’ days on G2 might be numbered, so could we see him return after just six months?
Probably not, and it’s also probably more likely that we see them sign some random twelve year old kid from an Eastern European FACEIT pug, but whoever they sign we hope he’s good. HEROIC are an organisation who deserve a little bit of happiness.
And hey, at least it can’t be cadiaN. OG will soon be finding out why that mistake isn’t worth it.
Everyone knows StarLadder isn’t exactly the crème de la crème of TOs, but this time they’ve outdone themselves with their community broadcast rules for the Budapest Major.
Basically, StarLadder will only allow co-streaming on KICK. If you’re a Twitch or YouTube streamer, that’s too bad. The official broadcasts will still run on those platforms, but you won’t be able to get the full Major experience alongside your favourite streamer.
Why, you ask? Well, we don’t really know for sure. Maybe it’s because the main sponsor of the Major, Rollbit, is banned on Twitch and YouTube. Or maybe KICK signed a deal with StarLadder to make their platform the exclusive home for co-streams.
What we do know is this: despite the Rollbit ban, Twitch has already announced that it’ll make an exception only for the official StarLadder channels. They can stream the Major as long as Rollbit appears strictly through physical ads - jersey logos, signs, etc - with zero links, casino gameplay, or even a spoken mention.
Don’t worry Rollbit, we’re not afraid to mention you. Call us.
Naturally, the community is furious. Most streamers aren’t going to migrate to KICK - a platform where pretty much none of them have an audience, if they even have an account at all - just for the Major.
But why is this a problem? Because a significant chunk of Major viewership comes from people who want to watch the event with their favourite streamer, not through the official broadcast. With these rules, StarLadder is basically killing one of the aspects that builds hype and brings the community together for the biggest event of the year.
The Major is supposed to be that one moment when everyone gathers to watch the best teams fight for the game’s top honor - wherever they want to watch it.
Is it NoDaZeD or GoDaZeD? Our new gameshow asks the hosts to decide if these tweets are real or fake DaZeD tweets. Oh, and sometimes we talk about Counter-Strike.
Finally, olof is getting his dues.
Somehow, despite being inducted into the HLTV Hall of Fame this week, he’s somewhat underrated. Peak olof was a tour de force a la donk or NiKo at his best, and for our money, way better than coldzera or f0rest.
Maybe it’s because little Timmies only remember his never-ending will they won’t they with FaZe Clan, or it’s because his last game was against ‘Pak Boyz’, which sounds like a band they’d come up with on X Factor out of solo acts who got eliminated.
In the last game of his illustrious career, playing in the truly incredible BLAST The Draft, olofmeister went negative for WahWah against Pak Boyz. Just writing that makes us incredibly sad. We promise, he was amazing at one point.
His first game in CS:GO wasn’t all that much better, where his SMBU side lost to a Finnish team with Allu and natu on it (the golden rule at any point in Counter-Strike is never play Finns on Train), but at least his CS 1.6 debut was pretty solid.
We knew he’d be good in one of them.
His team Lions, back in WCG 2009 Sweden, won a BO3 1-0 (that’s not a typo, by the way) over Aquintra. olof 30-bombed the second map which finished 15-15 (woke!) to confirm the 1-0 win, but there’s a lot of other cool details here.
pronax topfragged the lobby, which didn’t happen much in CS:GO, and Xizt was on the team with both pronax and olof, with THREAT on the other side. Lions had a Hungarian player called t3h f4rm3r - it was that era of the internet - and there was even a sighting of the lesser-seen Swedish niko.
Between playing with t3h f4rm3r and losing to Pak Boyz, he was electric and a two-time Major winner, once MVP. It’s just not every story has a great ending.
Now that rain has been announced as the new IGL of 100 Thieves, we asked you how good his IGLing will be.
Here’s what you said:
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🦸♂️ 2022 karrigan (good) – 16.7%
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🦹♂️ 2025 karrigan (bad) – 5.6%
🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🐭 Brollan (I have zero clue if he is good or not) – 77.8%
⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 🚁 chopper (why even bother?) – 0%
