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http://www.dreamhack.se/dhw13/2013/09/16/counter-strike-community-helps-build-250000-prize-pool/
Counter-Strike Community Helps Build $250,000 Prize Pool Proceeds From In-Game Sales Support CS:GO's Top Players
September 16, 2013 — Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Dota 2, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced a $250,000 community-funded prize pool for The 2013 DreamHack SteelSeries Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Championship. The CS:GO crowd-funding initiative began several weeks ago with the release of The Arms Deal Update, which offers players in the community special in-game items. A portion of the sales revenue from those items is then placed into a tournament prize fund. Through this initiative, The 2013 DreamHack SteelSeries CS:GO Championship will be one of the largest cash awards in Counter-Strike’s history and the initiative is designed to help fuel prize pools at other upcoming CS:GO events. Hosted in Jonkoping, Sweden, DreamHack is to date the world’s largest digital festival, and holds the official world record as world’s largest LAN party in the Guinness Book of Records. For more information about CS:GO and the Arms Deal Update please visit the Update Page at http://blog.counter-strike.net/armsdeal/More details will be published here on DreamHack.se the upcoming days. Stay tuned!
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Oh yeah?! 
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On September 17 2013 04:10 Dubzex wrote:Oh yeah?!
You're a ninja, Dubzex.
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On September 17 2013 04:17 scudst0rm wrote:You're a ninja, Dubzex.
A speakergaming ninja
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Canada4481 Posts
All that money going to NiP, so that they buy more cases to fund their weapon skins. Quite the cycle.
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Its odd that they are dumping the money into DreamHack. I thought they might be planning something similar to the international but on a smaller scale.
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On September 17 2013 08:30 imallinson wrote:
Its odd that they are dumping the money into DreamHack. I thought they might be planning something similar to the international but on a smaller scale.
how so? there aren't that many major csgo lans and DH is a proven tournament organizer
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On September 17 2013 08:36 trifecta wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2013 08:30 imallinson wrote:
Its odd that they are dumping the money into DreamHack. I thought they might be planning something similar to the international but on a smaller scale. how so? there aren't that many major csgo lans and DH is a proven tournament organizer
They clearly should have given it to ESEA considering how trustworthy they are.
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Has anyone else ever done an overwatch case and noticed that the victims reported the wrong guy in a match? Funniest thing.
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On September 17 2013 13:31 BlackPanther wrote:
Has anyone else ever done an overwatch case and noticed that the victims reported the wrong guy in a match? Funniest thing.
Maybe they ended up reporting more than one person, probably out of rage. 
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On September 17 2013 08:30 imallinson wrote:
Its odd that they are dumping the money into DreamHack. I thought they might be planning something similar to the international but on a smaller scale.
They could just be testing the waters. Instead of fronting the costs to organize a big tournament themselves just give the prize money to dreamhack and see how it goes. Keep in mind this is only 1 month's worth of esports cases. If they were to do there own tournament it wouldn't be for a while (maybe even at the next international). They've got plenty of time to raise more money.
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Basically, NiP and Fnatic went into OT. It was suppose to be MR3 but stupid admins set it to MR5. Fnatic ended up winning MR5 and NiP complained so they replayed the second half of OT taking the 2-1 score from the first half and Fnatic still ended up winning. Afterwards, Fnatic started trashtalking and refusing to shake hands. There's a video of it on the previous page.
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On September 18 2013 03:37 skyR wrote:
Basically, NiP and Fnatic went into OT. It was suppose to be MR3 but stupid admins set it to MR5. Fnatic ended up winning MR5 and NiP complained so they replayed the second half of OT taking the 2-1 score from the first half and Fnatic still ended up winning. Afterwards, Fnatic started trashtalking and refusing to shake hands. There's a video of it on the previous page.
Thanks for the explanation. Sad situation.
Is MR3 Bo3 or Bo5? Haven't watched that much CS so I'm not entirely familiar with all termiology.
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MR3 = max round 3, meaning you play 3 rounds on CT and 3 rounds on T so the first to 4 wins.
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On September 16 2013 22:52 NoobSkills wrote:Show nested quote +On September 15 2013 09:26 Nagisama wrote:On September 15 2013 09:04 FluffyBinLaden wrote:On September 15 2013 09:01 Nagisama wrote:On September 15 2013 08:55 oscar62 wrote:
hacking was very bad in matchmaking in the pre-overwatch days. if you played near the higher ranks, maybe 1 in 4 or 5 games you'd see a blatant aimbotter. post-overwatch however, it is MUCH different. in my last ~100 wins i can say i've encountered at the most, maybe 2 or 3 extremely shady people who were likely cheating.
and btw, @fnatic scandals. i think their trash talk and screaming after the match is totally understandable, i have no problem with people showing emotion after a really tough win. it's the fact that after the match ends, the fnatic players couldn't just shake nip's damn hands that gets to me. Not sure how trustworthy some of the hltv translations were, but some of the shit fnatic said was pretty immature. Showing emotion and cheering after you win a close game is fine, but screaming things like "cocksucker, don't come and shake our hands, trash, fuck you're bad" afterwards is just immature. What exactly happened during the game? I keep hearing that NiP are cowards, but I don't know what happened. If it was just a normal game, and those translations are accurate, I'm not exactly... happy with Fnatic... NiP vs fnatic went into overtime in their group stage game. They played, and fnatic won or were up 6-1 in OT. Turns out admins used wrong OT settings, should've been 3 rounds per side instead of 5 per side. NiP argued about it, and admins made them regame. fnatic still won, cue ensuing trash talk/drama. That's what I think/read happened, I missed it live since it was like 5am my time and wasn't able to watch the game. I don't know, but in any situation where you think you're the better team wouldn't you want more rounds? It doesn't seem like something to complain about unless you're being a sore loser. If each team had the same amount of rounds on each side what difference does it make other than it wasn't standard? Also the ensuing shit talk wasn't event that bad I don't understand the fuss. I'd call people much worse if I just won or lost a big tournament against a rival. I wouldn't hate them, but I'd for damn sure talk some shit.
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Stop being an apologist. There's one thing being competitive and to trash-talk, then there's what these guys did. Act like complete douchebags, spout unnecessary (far from trash-talk) derogatory words post-game and refuse to handshake your opponents even though they approached them first.
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On September 17 2013 10:26 Dubzex wrote:Show nested quote +On September 17 2013 08:36 trifecta wrote:On September 17 2013 08:30 imallinson wrote:
Its odd that they are dumping the money into DreamHack. I thought they might be planning something similar to the international but on a smaller scale. how so? there aren't that many major csgo lans and DH is a proven tournament organizer They clearly should have given it to ESEA considering how trustworthy they are.
250k worth of bitcoin hashing hardware?
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On September 17 2013 08:30 imallinson wrote:
Its odd that they are dumping the money into DreamHack. I thought they might be planning something similar to the international but on a smaller scale.
are there enough teams worldwide / casters that it would be a good event?
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Is anyone having random lags/freezes on valves servers? Me and my brother, playing from the same connection, frequently get random lag spikes that lasts for 5-6 seconds at seemingly random times. So far it has never happened on any non-valve servers. Sometimes it has gone days without it happening, sometimes it happens multiple times in the same round. What happens is just that the game freezes, we get the "WARNING: Connection Problem. Auto-disconnect in: 00:25" and then it resumes in 5 or so seconds.
Apart from the lag it's all fine, we rarely ping above 30 and I have neither loss or choke.
This is pretty much ruining playing matchmaking because we'll just randomly lag at times and drop rounds without us being able to do shit about it.
Does anyone else have the same issue or have any idea how to fix it?
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