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100 Thieves are on the prowl.
It’s a quiet week in Counter-Strike this week as we await ESL Pro League Season 24, but we’ve had btrams on the ground at an event over in Warsaw, and quacke is on hand to deliver the news on who is looking closest to qualifying for the PGL Singapore Major.
How was it playing in front of a crowd?
Like always it's so good to play in front of a crowd, I'm really enjoying to play when people are screaming and cheering for us. Unfortunately we lost, but I know that in the future we will win. It's the way, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Losses can also teach you better than a win. I hope we will win and get to see the crowd in more tournaments in the future.
You were ranked as the number one prospect by HLTV, what are your career goals for the future?
Being ranked number one is really cool. Of course it means something to me, but not a lot. Firstly you need to be a good guy and have no ego, being nice to people and stuff like this. My goals are to win the Major or be the best player in my position, something like this. I have difficult goals like others and want to improve day by day. To start with, I want to win tournaments like this one.
What are your inspirations as a player, do you have any players that you look up to?
Honestly I don't really have players that I'm looking to. I have only myself, I want to be better than myself yesterday. I don't have guys that I want to be like, I just want to be Dawy.
Did you have any offers to move on from Inner Circle?
We will see in the future, right now in Inner Circle I feel really good. I really like the organisation and players that I'm playing with. I'm not thinking about moving to some other team.
You've already beaten NAVI and Vitality, are there any other teams you really want to beat?
I don't have teams I want to beat, I just want to be the best I can. If there had to be one team then maybe FUT, since we have a few losses to them. Maybe also B8 because they're Ukrainian players and our friends, it would be good to beat them.
I noticed on your jerseys you have numbers, and on your jersey is number nineteen. Why is that?
Because it was the number of Lamine Yamal. Right now he has the number ten but I like the number nineteen because it's a little bit less ego, I'm just liking this number.
You know what pro players do? Play a lot of CS. You know where they do it? Community servers.
At least we think they do. They don’t really talk to us.
Either way, we play on them a lot over at Wideswing, and we’re all A) cracked at the game and B) so incredibly knowledgeable at the game that you spend your time reading our opinions on it. So, if you’d like to at least be like us, get on Wideswing for Deathmatch, Retakes, 1v1s, and stop playing on whatever sh-t you currently use.
You trust us for everything else, so trust us with this, too.
This week played host to a multitude of LAN events that, for several teams, will play a big part in deciding who will make the trip to Singapore for the upcoming PGL Major.
Since we here at TLDR know our reader base, we have made up our own names for these events, so your tier 1-minded brain won’t need to stretch to keep track of these tournaments.
The week kicked off with Poland’s Update Fiesta, very strangely hosting the final two playoff rounds on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the first playoff round was played the Saturday before. Luminosity faced 3DMAX in a banger of a BO5 final, several hours delayed, as it was apparently too difficult for the admins to downgrade the tournament PCs to the previous patch.
The result might seem inconsequential, but it has hugely boosted the French squad’s chances of appearing in the Singapore Major, and if recent news overreporting is to be believed, the chances of once again having Envy-stickers in Counter-Strike. What a time to be alive.
Throughout the week, Stockholm played host to another edition of the Cardiologist’s Nightmare Cup - as Stake Pulse only has a “Beat” every month or so - featuring a smorgasbord of teams vying for the final few European Major spots.
HEROIC took home the victory over 100 Thieves, with the result massively boosting both teams’ chances of making an Eastern-bound trip in November, especially thanks to 100 Thieves beating Astralis in the semi-final.
That tournament also, curiously, didn’t host their grand final on the customary Sunday, but instead wrapped up a day earlier than convention suggests. The third major LAN event of this week, The Black And Orange Belgrade Bonanza (this is the only other place we ever see 1win’s logo), kicked off in Belgrade, continuing the tradition of avoiding a Sunday grand final like the plague.
The event will finish on Monday, and we’re pretty sure they’re doing it just to spite us.
As the event hasn’t wrapped up yet at the time of writing, we still aren’t sure who stands to gain the most from the event, but the event was projected to be a boom-or-bust event for many of the teams chasing a Major spot. None felt that hit harder than Alliance.
The highest-ranked team in the tournament, and once being as much as 90% likely to make the Major according to projections, two losses to SINNERS and 3DMAX have sent them tumbling down the order. Some simulations now suggest they’re approaching just a 50% chance of making the Major, meaning that in 2026, twist is about as likely to make the Major as NAVI are.
It’s important to remember that there’s still all to play for, with over a month left to go before the doors close on the PGL Singapore Major, but this week marked the first example of what will be the norm for the next few weeks: a dense schedule of tier two LANs, with varying levels of competition, and all of it crucial in determining who makes it to the Major.
It’s a nightmare to keep track of. Good thing you’ve got the TLDR newsletter.
