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Today marks the start of FACEIT's $275,000 league for 2015. The league will be split between three stages over the period of nine months. The first and second stages will conclude with LAN events and decide which teams will continue to the next stage, while the third stage will culminate in the Grand Finals event. The European, North American and Oceanic leagues will be running in parallel, with teams from each of the regions earning invites to the LAN events, featuring a total of eight teams at each. The available seats in each LAN event will be split between the top five teams of Europe, the top two of North America and the winner of the Oceanic League. The 2015 League also features an improved promotion/demotion system. At the end of Stage 1 and 2, each region’s two bottom teams will be demoted to closed qualifiers for the next stage. The closed qualifiers will include invited teams and qualified community challengers that made it through open qualifier matches and satellite events hosted on FACEIT.com on a weekly basis. ![[image loading]](https://trello-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/54c8546526fc3b823d1a940f/736x150/7582be785105e0a19b5d2c4ab75cad2d/faceit_04.jpg) Europe: Fnatic  Team EnVyUs Ninjas in Pyjamas  Virtus.pro  Team SoloMid Titan  Natus Vincere  LGB eSports North America: Cloud9 Team Liquid Counter Logic Gaming Mythic eLevate  SapphireKelownaDotCom Oceania: Vox Eminor Team Immunity The Chiefs Streamline Avant Garde TRIDENT ![[image loading]](https://trello-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/54c8546526fc3b823d1a940f/736x149/66f457d18bffdbe1b4ae64a1ab485e69/faceit_06.jpg)
Teams from Europe and North America will face each team in their region twice, playing a home and away match. The away team drops two maps from the map pool (Cache, Cobblestone, Dust 2, Inferno, Mirage, Nuke and Overpass), with the home team picking a map from the remaining five. Oceanic teams play each other once this stage with a standard map picking system.
Additionally, over the coming period, FACEIT will be hosting weekly qualifiers for each region. The winners of each qualifier will be joined by the bottom two of each League to play for a spot in Stage 2.
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First day of the Faceit league, I'm hyped for this!
Also, Allu is trying out for NiP today against Titan
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sexy op 
i like the ak bias :>
The matches for today are looking quite promissing.
nip vs. titan is hard to predict imo.
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Pumped for C9 vs Mythic myself and the other NA games... hopefully the DDK's cast the NA too for the chill-cast effect =P.
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NiP vs Titan now, Allu playing for NiP
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NiP is crushing Titan. Those rare games now where it feels like NiP is unstoppable T.T
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On February 19 2015 05:37 Nagisama wrote:
NiP is crushing Titan. Those rare games now where it feels like NiP is unstoppable T.T
Allu is playing well right now.
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Did Titan really let NiP walk out CT mid for nothing?
well, apEX can just a fantastic triple entering the B site
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oh liquid....
E: well clearly my scornful post inspired the 6 round sweep
Nice to see NAF picking up some good kills in addition to adrenitro
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Liquid vs elevate started exactly the same in Esea and FaceIt :D Liquid on ct side and goes 0-7/1-7. Then comeback time :D Too bad it only worked one time though.
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so many good matches, loving it
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I would be so hyped if Allu became the fifth ninja. I still don't understand why they cut Maikel, but Allu has shown some incredible skill when i have seen him.
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DDK and James were so tired by the time they got to casting the NA games yesterday =P.
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LGB's T side looking pretty good.
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Desi playing today for liquid. Didn't catch who he is subbing for though
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On February 20 2015 11:06 amazingxkcd wrote:
Desi playing today for liquid. Didn't catch who he is subbing for though
well then, Desi playing for fugly, Lucky playing for Tarik. CLG wins knife
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Liquid wins 16-12 agaisnt CLG on Mirage
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elevate more successful with tec9 ecos than with rifles on T side. sigh, csgo...
At least we got overtime hype!
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It's gonna be interesting to finally be able to watch some Aussie vs. Aussie matches tonight.
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Do I stay up to watch Vox eminor, or go to sleep and watch demos later? decisions, decisions
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okay wtf was that thrown pistol round fnatic
for the love of god thorin, please let ddk finish a sentence
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I wish every league just used mr3 16K for OT.
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NIP just can't close the game and fnatic come back
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oh
oh my god
that just fucking happened
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Fnatic played a beautiful T half. It wasn't even like one player going huge; just read NiP well, got the information they needed, and executed wonderfully.
Shame I missed the first half. Would have loved to see NiP's T play on Mirage.
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NiP T side was disgusting T_T but EnVyUs was just too good today. Great games, I'm really getting into CS, games are really fun and nail bitting 
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Updated OP with week 1's rankings. Liquid #1!
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Scream casting tonight! No, really? noooo, really?
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allu's been beasting lately, hope my rares weren't misplaced for the bo1 :o
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Fantastic comeback by VP, saving my 10 cent bet 
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Who won that knife and all those neat m4 skins? What happened with the giveaways - doesn't list the winners.
*Edit*
Damn, that sounds super greedy. I know it's unlikely that it was me, I just **need** to know.
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oh my god I love faceit to death
ReDeYe just adds on to the fun
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fnatic pulling all the stops out with their fantastic T side
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I can't believe the game just ended like that lol.
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Well Cloud9 just looks terrible these past couple days or is CLG just that damn good now?
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Definitely the former. :|
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Anyone else think Daps is the weakest link on TL?
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daps is killing it atm...making me look bad lol
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Oh look a ddos which costs Na'Vi a big round
The integrity of these matches is overwhelming
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Why is this game so ridiculously susceptible to DDoS? Why don't pro teams have protection?
Why even bother spectating a game that 90% of matches are hindered by hackers?
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Well if it makes you feel better, I think two Dota 2 games have been ddosed as well. At the very least they've been significantly delayed and in at least one case it was a ddos.
But yeah, I'm kind of getting bored with trying to spectate some of these matches since they get held up so so much.
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Why doesn't Valve just release an integrated firewall that lets users block all incoming connections except the game and a voice program?
Would that be *that* difficult?
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because you can make the best security programs in the world and it still wouldn't be able to defeat human stupidity.
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Maybe the best way really is just to ban teams who can't get their acts together. That would certainly compel teams to actually take precautions, instead of this "well if we get ddos'd then we can just make these admins reschedule" thing.
Then again, if ddosing is an issue that new or poorly-funded teams can't protect themselves against so well, you'd be pretty much shutting them out of higher level competition with that rule. Athough I from what I understand that isn't really how it works.
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Instead of banning, they should just have to forfeit the match.
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They should have to forfeit due to basement-dwelling hackers bombing their machines?
Honestly, Valve just needs to incorporate a firewall into Steam. But even highly advanced systems can't prevent sophisticated DDoS attacks, even banks.
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A 'firewall' in Steam won't help you here.
The problem isn't usually that a DDoS causes your machine to actually handle all of the data they throw at you, its that some bottleneck in your link can't handle that much traffic and starts dropping it.
If someone's machine is being DDoS'd via a traditional flood, there is no action they can take AT the affected computer, it MUST happen upstream before wherever the bottleneck is.
This is why you see teams get multiple ISPs or even just multiple IPs. When they switch, further upstream the attack stops getting routed to the team's equipment, and the DDoS stops being effective.
Thus, there are two practical ways to protect yourself currently:
1) Don't let the IP that you compete from be known. Previously Skype, steam voice chat, and some other things were leaking this information. The Dota2 community had to figure out how to stop leaking IPs so often when they struggled with this.
2) Have multiple internet connections. Get DDoS'd on one, switch to another.
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CLG vs. Luminosity on Mirage coming up. Should be good.
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On March 24 2015 22:58 amazingxkcd wrote: CLG vs Elevate Map: Dust2 01:00 GMT (+00:00) Team Liquid vs Mythic Map: Mirage 02:00 GMT (+00:00) SKDC vs Cloud9 Map: Dust2 03:00 GMT (+00:00)
You're the man XK.
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let's see if losing elige is going to hurt elevate much
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It's almost time for Liquid`EliGE my friends.
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Good showing by desi. Now time for elige debut vs my other fave team.
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Elige is looking SO GOOD! Top fragging and able to hold his own, its great to see TL doing well.
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GG! Liquid making it look too easy.
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Welcome to Liquid, EliGE.
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the disrespect from clown9 is real
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very comfortable win for Nip on mirage.
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Anyone having problem with twitch? I cant even acess their website not to mention streams.
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wtf was shoxie thinking? he was just sitting in that molly for no reason
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Got some good matches tonight, especially TL vs C9 on Cobble!
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Elevate already got 4 rounds. If they get that fifth, they'll be so comfortable
edit: there's the 5th, at least skdc saves an ak
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ELS PLEASE AHAHAHAHA
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rush and roca saving that round
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roca is so, so good.
Like, he's my second favorite NA player to watch behind swag... but since swag is out of commission, roca is atm #1.
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Dont lose this anti-eco liquid!
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Shahzam with another teamkill!
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the 2nd time they lose after winning pistol, so frustrating
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On March 27 2015 11:40 Dwayn wrote:
the 2nd time they lose after winning pistol, so frustrating
and they win it back. The wonders of csgo
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how good is cloud9 on world scale? i dont know the world rankings
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On March 27 2015 11:57 sertas wrote:
how good is cloud9 on world scale? i dont know the world rankings
Not the best. When they're on point they can be a contender for semis.
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Good grind-it-out win by Liquid. Even though he didn't frag out, it was a solid showing by Elige.
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Never thought I'd see it. Pretty impressive by Liquid.
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Updated rankings. Things of note:
Europe:
NiP is now number one, but only due to having the most games played. Fnatic still has the best win % at 5-1. TSM and LGB are dead last at 1-5. nV is also looking horrible at 2-5, but since Europe has five seats open to them for LAN, their hopes are still alive. Na`Vi still has only played two matches, staying at 1-1.
North America:
Liquid is far ahead of everyone with a 6-0 record. With only 3-4 matches left for NA, they are in a good position to make it to LAN as the top two will advance. Meanwhile, Luminosity is 0-6 and officially out at this point.
Oceania:
Team Immunity is first at 4-0 since Vox lost their most recent match (they were playing with a stand-in since topguN left the team). With only one match left for the Aussie region, things are getting interesting as Immunity and Vox will play each other in the final week, and the other 3-1 team (The Chiefs) will be playing against a 1-3 team (Avant). A three-way 4-1 tie is entirely possible, but I have no idea what the tiebreakers are like. If they are like last year's then I guess it'll be decided by round difference.
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Fnatic just rolling over LGB, no contest here
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I really hate that Faceit is subscriber mode all the time, I want memes. How will Twitch memes develop in the CS community if our channels are always on subscriber mode.
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On April 01 2015 02:58 Procake wrote:
I really hate that Faceit is subscriber mode all the time, I want memes. How will Twitch memes develop in the CS community if our channels are always on subscriber mode.
some channels have them off which is fun. There's also group chats like the cs:go betting chat. But I do agree with your sentiment that chat is too restricted
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On April 01 2015 03:02 amazingxkcd wrote:Show nested quote +On April 01 2015 02:58 Procake wrote:
I really hate that Faceit is subscriber mode all the time, I want memes. How will Twitch memes develop in the CS community if our channels are always on subscriber mode. some channels have them off which is fun. There's also group chats like the cs:go betting chat. But I do agree with your sentiment that chat is too restricted
Biggest is ESL, no fucking clue why ESL don't put subscriber only on any of their other games. At Katowice I think CS was the only one with sub mode on.
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close game, but titan takes it 21-19.
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Game 2 between Titan and Na'Vi, flamie is putting up some crazy shots
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Liquid lost 16-6. Lost some rounds they really should have won on T side and seemed like they just started tilting or something.
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Liquid is just not a good team. Still can't wrap my head around why this team was picked up.
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Am I missing something, from the schedule I thought some games were supposed to be played right now?
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no matches were listed today :/
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Leagues post-pone their matches a lot, it's hard to keep track of 'em haha.
But yeah, I don't see any matches up today.
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Ok, my bad! I was going by the schedule in the OP.
Thanks, going to stay with EFRAG TV then 
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Yeah it seems so. But it was a nice match nonetheless
Thanks
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On April 02 2015 04:06 KobraKay wrote:Yeah it seems so. But it was a nice match nonetheless Thanks
There's 3 EU Lans this weekend so there's a whole boat load of CS:GO to be watched.
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man, guardian is already not awping on t side. rip
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meanwhile, JW still rolling with the awp really well
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Edward and Guardian were on point that game.
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el clasico~~
fnatic is favorite though, they are good at inferno.
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NIP one more round for the win. I thought Nip looked poor, but I underestimated the impact of the mp7 after the pistol round. You gain such an insane money advantage, especially with fnatic using the m4a1-s.
Honestly, Volvo may have just spiralled things into a very weird way at the moment.
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13-2 for fnatic vs titan in the first half when fnatic plays t-side on inferno. What the hell is wrong with titan?
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On April 03 2015 05:45 Miragee wrote:
13-2 for fnatic vs titan in the first half when fnatic plays t-side on inferno. What the hell is wrong with titan?
"saving" Strats for the LAN xD
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where the hell was naf looking rofl
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Pretty convincing win there by Liquid.
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Has Liquid finally decided to drop Daps or is this a sub?
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Sub... as far as we know.
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Big win. Looks like that definitely knocked out CLG out of contention for FaceIT LAN. And I think one more W should just about secure it for Liquid.
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I've been saying that Daps is the weakest link on TL. Adren's shotcalling is 100% better. I hope they bring NAF back, too.
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Good win.
Next game should be fun too. C9 is good on nuke and specially n0thing but so is hiko and elevate isn't bad on it either.
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On April 03 2015 11:05 ptbl wrote:
I've been saying that Daps is the weakest link on TL. Adren's shotcalling is 100% better. I hope they bring NAF back, too.
I try not to shit-talk individuals too much but I've thought this for a very long time. If Liquid wants to take the next step, I feel they may have to make that kind of change eventually. Dunno if Adren calling is the ultimate answer, but I do know he is decently capable of playing primary AWP and IGL at the same time. Would at least be interesting to see how the team would do with that setup.
Although they do seem to be stepping up their game a bit recently and seem to be doing quite well domestically... big test will be FaceIT LAN (looks like they'll make it).
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C9 is usually beasty on Nuke, think they should have this... unless they lose both pistol rounds and roca/hiko/desi go ham. Think if they lose this then elevate might lock up the LAN spot over them.
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c9 loses to a guy named AppleSauce....
ppppfffffffffffffffftttttttttttttt
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TSM vs VP today should be good considering how they played in Copenhagen. Anyone know what the map is?
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On April 07 2015 00:11 RuiBarbO wrote:
TSM vs VP today should be good considering how they played in Copenhagen. Anyone know what the map is?
Inferno
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man i really dont know where to put LGB in ranking.
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37-15 f0rest. Ridiculous play from him
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NiP got rekt, ez for titan
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Oh just checked updated results.
Liquid has already secured their spot for the LAN~
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On April 08 2015 14:39 Souma wrote:
Oh just checked updated results.
Liquid has already secured their spot for the LAN~
Alright! Way to go Liquid!
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Apparently it's Liquid vs. C9 that's coming up.
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The pistol hasn't been enough, evidently 
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So, Liquid still has a Daps problem. The shotcalling is so weak. I really think Adren should take over and NAF replace Daps.
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Liquid loses 16-9 to Cloud9. I think they will get wrecked at the faceit LAN. Hopefully, if they do poorly at the LAN, they will finally replace daps. He's a weak shot and Adren is a better shot caller.
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I can't believe VP brought it back.
4-11 CT side on Mirage, and brought it back to 15-15 OT. Neo went huge in that last round.
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Im surprised that Scream is rocking the ENVYUS tag as the rest of the normal team, is he going to be a long time replacement for kio?
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On April 16 2015 03:26 amazingxkcd wrote:
Im surprised that Scream is rocking the ENVYUS tag as the rest of the normal team, is he going to be a long time replacement for kio?
as far as what has been said by them, it is just temporary until kio is ready to play again... but I think he's only subbing this week
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nip only has 47% against Navi on csgolounge? people be riding that navi train hard
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It's crazy how much DDK and James have grown on me. Used to not enjoy their casting too much a couple of months ago but recently - either they became much better or I've just gotten into their banter/personalities more.
Also Navi LGB looking like a good game so far!
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grats to Navi for qualifying for LAN
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xizt gets the entry 4K vs a full buy wtf rofl
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flamie misbought that aug?
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flamie misbought that aug?
no idea tbh but he made it work
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flamie has another aug -_-
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well the m4 is $3200, so AUG doesn't look so bad now
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that is indeed how you spray holy shit
i usually get like 2 guys with the first clip in that scenario. at best.
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black ddk still in full FGC mode, using FGC terms like bodying
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On April 17 2015 05:00 Sn0_Man wrote:
wooo nip
very close game
my skins barely saved
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Flying back to England and saw your taxi man waiting with "team liquid face it". Good luck.
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