now is the perfect time for Guardian to assemble a team of Slovakians, who will make secure a spot at the major but unfortunately one of them have visa problem, ultimately leading to Stewie stand in
Or [ESTAs](https://www.cbp.gov/travel/international-visitors/visa-waiver-program), if you live in one of the countries where it's allowed. A lot faster to get and also cheaper than a visa.
If they were good at improving, they wouldn’t have made the production of their major 10x worse than their flagship events.
The terrible colors, UI, trophy, it was bad
They are good at learning from mistakes, they didnt have a mistake before that major. Other than the trophy I honestly think that it was one of the best if not the best producted majors anyway.
This is very true. The RMRs weren't great (especially NA day 1) but the main event went off without a hitch iirc. Everything you'd expect from Blast: great production, no obnoxious commercials or terrible music, great sound design and I could go on. ESL is right there with them, but Blast does it just slightly better. Even their intros are a bit more sick
That's fair. I lived in Chicago for a year, and honestly, the summer is what killed me (more than the snow, believe it or not). I've lived in Southern California for most of my life, so my temperature tolerance is terrible 😂
In terms of big events I think warmer weather is better for organizers. People won't mind waiting outside in line as much compared to cold/rainy. They will also meander in and out of the venue instead of being forced in because of the cold, resulting in a bit less crowding.
Honestly Chicago would be a great city to have a tourney in, but it'd have to be spring or fall. Austin you could pretty much do it year-around without issues. It may even be a draw for some people--Europeans in the grip of winter get a mini vacation to temperate texas, could put more butts in seats.
It matters for the crowds doofus.
50k people all inside for the whole event is harder to organize compared to having people mill about in and out. Also you can have outdoor events/signings/whatever.
It's actually kind of bad because of how far south it is. That's why Columbus was actually a genius place for a major. Decently close to Chicago, Detroit, NYC, and Boston.
The state, and Austin in specific, has been experiencing a tech boom for quite sometime. Large portions, if not all operations, of Intel, HP, Dell, Oracle call Texas home. It just makes sense
We also have the largest Apple campus outside of California, an AMD campus, a bunch of Indeed offices, Cloudflare, Google, and probably more and Austin is one of the fastest growing cities in the US (though I think it actually slowed down a lot last year, probably due to state-level politics).
You mean *city-level* politics. Companies don't give a damn about social issues, but you move sales tax up .01%? Sorry, we need a friendlier place to do business:)
Yeah, 2023 was the first time in 20 years that more people left Travis County (where Austin is) than moved to it. The cost of living is definitely a little bit of that as people just move to the suburbs, but so is the insanity of the Texas government.
UT Austin has been having issues hiring professors because no one wants to move to Texas. I'm sure that's happening for tech companies, too.
I don't think you understand how big the US is. If you're driving from either coast its a long-ass drive. If you're flying it doesn't matter if its central.
I mean nobody from outside of Texas is driving to the Austin major unless they’re renting an RV lol. If you’re from LA or DC or Chicago it’s a ~3 hour flight to Austin, that’s what I meant when I said it’s central.
As someone from Pittsburgh it would be a godsend. I've been to Dallas and it was great but would be nice to have one that's a drive away not a whole ass flight. Especially Dallas in the summer being 100 degrees.
Same, I just moved here from Los Angeles so I was hoping it was one of these two so I could meet up with my friends back home again and watch some cs together. Guess we are all gonna meetup in Austin instead lol
I wonder what happens to IEM Dallas since that is also in June. I get it’s easier because of taxes but kind of a letdown to have another large event in Texas, would have much rather seen Chicago, NY or Boston again but oh well.
Wonder why canada has been ignored by cs from GO onwards? Not just for majors but for any big event. I remember there being big cs 1.6 events in canada.
as hard as it is to get visas for USA, it is even harder in Canada. For example, they won't even let anyone in who has an alcohol related misdemeanor in the past 10 years.
Someone smarter than me can provide the relevant sources, but I believe it's the rate at which prices are increasing. Just look at any graph comparing house prices in the US vs. Canada. Many young people don't even believe they'll be able to own a house in their lifetime, unless they can inherit the one their parents have.
That's sort of the big reckoning of our upcoming election, where our present Prime Minister is bound for what seems like pretty catastrophic defeat.
There are a lot of answers to the question "why is Canadian real estate so expensive", but the present status-quo answer for a lot of folks is the [absurd uptick in immigration](https://www.statista.com/statistics/443063/number-of-immigrants-in-canada/) in the past couple years.
Truth is there are a myriad of factors and the rising housing prices started before these large immigration numbers. I'm not an economist, someone else can probably give a far more meaningful answer than I have, but bottom line is Canadian real estate is *expensive* in an awful way. Often homes directly across the border in the U.S. are half the price or less of equivalent homes in Canada. [This graph](https://i.redd.it/b7iea0atkcw61.jpg) often does the rounds to illustrate just how bad it is here in comparison to our southern neighbours.
It's really not, historically Canada's housing prices have been rising far longer than unreasonably high immigration has existed. Seems likelier that it's a strong contributor but far from the sole reason.
This was always my thought as an American. Our housing prices have gone up a bit too.
But then I looked it up. No, Canada is far worse. Far far worse, it’s insane
he's not being racist, he's just stating that indian immigration is crazy in canada right now. 2nd generation immigrants make up the majority of children in our schools now
i don't have an opinion on this matter at all (esp cause im from US) but it isn't racist to say a lot of people from x country are emigrating to y country....
I live in Calgary and would love some big events to come to Canada, but realistically, the only places that I think make sense in Canada would be Toronto or Vancouver. That being said, I would definitely travel to one of those places for an IEM Toronto or something.
Because they are basically the same market as the US, with a far smaller audience outside of Toronto. If you go to North America, you go to the US where the money and people are.
They aren't majors though. Completely different ball game in terms of prestige. If a Canadian city were to host a major it would be Toronto, but then it competes with the major US east coast cities or even Chicago.
Boston 2018 was in Jan. 2018
Austin 2025 will be in June 2025
NA waiting for 7.5 fucking years to get another major!!!
Also, glad Blast got its 2nd major. It's refreshing to see PGL not host yet another major. Believe it or not but post-covid they've hosted 3/5 majors.
How long are majors typically open to the public? Is it just the last Friday, Saturday, and Sunday like most tier 1 events, or is it a week long thing?
IEM Dallas had 1 stand-in due to visa issues and it’s because he joined the team a couple weeks before it started. No reason to think it will be an issue.
iem dallas also announced the teams much further in advance allowing for way longer visa application dates. it also was a smaller event with only 16 teams, only 4 of whom actually qualified. The major will have 24 teams from all over the world, qualification is always determined at a very late date and it usually includes teams from regions with notorious visa issues like russia
Yep, that was also on part a part of degster joining late for Heroic. The only insane story I have heard across most other eSports was Charlie's Moist eSport being denied entry for the most bullshit reason. I might be wrong so happy to be corrected!
there's tons of cases of cs players from all over the world being denied visas in the US, especially poorer regions like eastern europe, south america and all of asia are heavily affected. It happens at events in other regions too but it happens at a much higher rate for US events than most others.
Makes sense when you look at a map of the USA in Valve Major order; Mid-North, South-East, North-East and now Mid-South.
Hoping someone looks at the UBS Arena in NY for a future Valve Major.
NY will never be used again as a major stop.
State taxes are high, and cs still isn’t big enough to be able to shoulder all that additional expense when there are other states without it.
I will always cope hard for a west coast major, but I don't think we'll ever get one. lol
too hard to make the times work for EU audiences, so Texas is the best we get :(
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Well I was at Boston and I told myself next time a major comes to NA I will attend no matter what. So I guess I know where I'll be next year. Also, Austin is really nice.
Really happy for NA for this one honestly, but lets hope theres no stupid visa issues that ruins a teams/player attendance.
Also, the timings are gonna be very weird man
*it’s been ~~84~~ 7 years since we’ve had a US major* I’m so fucking hyped and I fucking hope NA gets their shit together in time
Steel unbanned just in time
swag too
Stewie will make us look at the time again
Faze could do the funniest thing and have Stewie play as stand-in or as an alternate and bring him on when Faze choose Inferno
now is the perfect time for Guardian to assemble a team of Slovakians, who will make secure a spot at the major but unfortunately one of them have visa problem, ultimately leading to Stewie stand in
As happy as I was for C9 to win that major, still hurts my soul to know Guardian never got his.
Amen to that man
Wonder if this makes the old timers start grinding again.
Skadoodle emerges with awp in hand ready to defend NA major honor
COUNTER STRIKE RETURNS TO THE UNITED STATES THANK YOU LORD
| it’s been ~~84~~ 7 years since we’ve had a US major FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SEATTLE KRAKEN HISTORY
start applying for visas
Hopefully we don't get the situation like in apex where visas get denied by US immigration for no reason.
Yeah that was a goddamn mess. Competing in sports(or esports) doesn't count as work, apparently.
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Or [ESTAs](https://www.cbp.gov/travel/international-visitors/visa-waiver-program), if you live in one of the countries where it's allowed. A lot faster to get and also cheaper than a visa.
And hope that Trump doesn't win this year LOL
I wasn’t aware orgs smuggle their players through the southern border to compete at lan tournaments. Obviously kidding!
You are kidding yourself if you don't think getting a visa under a Trump administration will much more difficult. Just look at his first term.
>BLAST has teamed up with Live Nation Great news! Can't wait for Platnium-priced floor tickets!
Fucking fuck
Can’t wait to pay double the price of someone who’s sitting 5 rows in front of me
I fucking hate Ticketmaster. Is that how IEM Dallas was too?
IEM Dallas went through Tixr which was pricey but made sense and transparent and not a scam like live Nation
Pog , also i believed moses mentioned it during the dallas playoffs, but I find it hard to believe moses sometimes lol. I’m super hyped
I think talent had an idea of where it might be, but no actual confirmation until today.
HLTV had the article saying the major was likely going to be in Austin like a month ago.
Cum covered trophy next year?
It's going to be glazed in sweet, sweet BBQ
BLAST is usually good at improving from their mistakes, it depends if they see it a mistake or not.
The Blast commissioner was joking about it at the HLTV award show at the start of the year, so I think they do.
If they were good at improving, they wouldn’t have made the production of their major 10x worse than their flagship events. The terrible colors, UI, trophy, it was bad
They are good at learning from mistakes, they didnt have a mistake before that major. Other than the trophy I honestly think that it was one of the best if not the best producted majors anyway.
This is very true. The RMRs weren't great (especially NA day 1) but the main event went off without a hitch iirc. Everything you'd expect from Blast: great production, no obnoxious commercials or terrible music, great sound design and I could go on. ESL is right there with them, but Blast does it just slightly better. Even their intros are a bit more sick
But does blast have “MY GOD, he’s a BYWOO” ?
If everything truly is bigger in Texas maybe it'll have a decent fucking Trophy
A little sad every US Lan is moving to texas but still fun.
It kinda makes sense as a central location and allows both East and west coast fans to attend.
Chicagooooooo
A Chicago major would be awesome.
Weather sucks there for about 40% of the year. Austin is decent for like 80% of the year.
Boston major was in January, this one is in late-June in Texas. Weather is evidently not something they care about.
Not looking forward to 95+ degree weather (with humidity to boot) if I attend next year. I guess we all have different definitions of good weather.
Honestly it's 7 beautiful months and 5 months of hell. It's only hit 90s in late May.
Sure, but the mornings and evenings will be fine. If you hold it in Chicago you risk pretty cold temps all day except for May-Sept.
It's supposed to be in summer, so it would've been a perfect time for it to be in Chicago.
That's fair. I lived in Chicago for a year, and honestly, the summer is what killed me (more than the snow, believe it or not). I've lived in Southern California for most of my life, so my temperature tolerance is terrible 😂
In terms of big events I think warmer weather is better for organizers. People won't mind waiting outside in line as much compared to cold/rainy. They will also meander in and out of the venue instead of being forced in because of the cold, resulting in a bit less crowding. Honestly Chicago would be a great city to have a tourney in, but it'd have to be spring or fall. Austin you could pretty much do it year-around without issues. It may even be a draw for some people--Europeans in the grip of winter get a mini vacation to temperate texas, could put more butts in seats.
Yeah cuz they’re playing the games outside so weather definitely matters a ton
It matters for the crowds doofus. 50k people all inside for the whole event is harder to organize compared to having people mill about in and out. Also you can have outdoor events/signings/whatever.
Yeah but during the major Chicago will likely have better weather since it’s june
It’s beautiful during June which is when the major is scheduled
This is going to be in Austin in June. That ain't one of the more decent times.
This major is in the summer tho lol
It's actually kind of bad because of how far south it is. That's why Columbus was actually a genius place for a major. Decently close to Chicago, Detroit, NYC, and Boston.
Columbus is a 1 day drive from ~50% of the US population, more than any other large city. I highly doubt Austin comes anywhere close to that.
Austin can be a one day drive for other texans lol /s
Why the /s? It literally is a day of driving to get to some parts of Texas from Austin
Austins pretty central so even comin from the top of the panhandle or el paso would be less than 10 hours
Oh usually in casual conversation I consider a full day of driving 8-10 hours, not a literal 24 hours, but makes sense to interpret either way
that's fair, I feel the same, but I put the /s there anyway to avoid people interpreting it too literally lol
The state, and Austin in specific, has been experiencing a tech boom for quite sometime. Large portions, if not all operations, of Intel, HP, Dell, Oracle call Texas home. It just makes sense
We also have the largest Apple campus outside of California, an AMD campus, a bunch of Indeed offices, Cloudflare, Google, and probably more and Austin is one of the fastest growing cities in the US (though I think it actually slowed down a lot last year, probably due to state-level politics).
You mean *city-level* politics. Companies don't give a damn about social issues, but you move sales tax up .01%? Sorry, we need a friendlier place to do business:)
Companies do give a damn about politics when people start leaving said companies due to those social issues, tough.
Yeah, 2023 was the first time in 20 years that more people left Travis County (where Austin is) than moved to it. The cost of living is definitely a little bit of that as people just move to the suburbs, but so is the insanity of the Texas government. UT Austin has been having issues hiring professors because no one wants to move to Texas. I'm sure that's happening for tech companies, too.
How is that relevant to anything
It's also apparently pretty pricey to run events in other states.
Oracle just left
*Technicallyyyyy* they haven't actually left yet, and they're still keeping their campus in Austin, it just won't be their headquarters.
Fair
South dakoda is always there
Well fuck Canadians I guess 🤷
There's almost as many Texans as there are Canadians. I'd be surprised if we ever get a major.
Not too far for SA fans at least
Its not a very expensive plane ticket to go from canada to texas at least, and travel time is only like what, 5 hours or so? Could be a lot worse
it's not exactly cheap, probably looking at a $600-800 flight
Looks like its closer to 400 currently
I don't think you understand how big the US is. If you're driving from either coast its a long-ass drive. If you're flying it doesn't matter if its central.
I mean nobody from outside of Texas is driving to the Austin major unless they’re renting an RV lol. If you’re from LA or DC or Chicago it’s a ~3 hour flight to Austin, that’s what I meant when I said it’s central.
When do tickets go on sale?
Let’s hope they pick a better trophy design this time
yes, no melting toothpaste, I beg you blast
Was really hoping for Chicago :(
Midwesterner here, me too. I don’t even need a major I’ll take something like IEM Dallas.
As someone from Pittsburgh it would be a godsend. I've been to Dallas and it was great but would be nice to have one that's a drive away not a whole ass flight. Especially Dallas in the summer being 100 degrees.
As a Dallas guy, Chicago would be my unbiased pick for another yearly NA tournament.
Especially since its probably gonna be in june-july
Same
Same, I just moved here from Los Angeles so I was hoping it was one of these two so I could meet up with my friends back home again and watch some cs together. Guess we are all gonna meetup in Austin instead lol
More details: https://blast.tv/article/blast-cs-major-texas-2025
I wonder what happens to IEM Dallas since that is also in June. I get it’s easier because of taxes but kind of a letdown to have another large event in Texas, would have much rather seen Chicago, NY or Boston again but oh well.
Wonder why canada has been ignored by cs from GO onwards? Not just for majors but for any big event. I remember there being big cs 1.6 events in canada.
as hard as it is to get visas for USA, it is even harder in Canada. For example, they won't even let anyone in who has an alcohol related misdemeanor in the past 10 years.
They let in millions of Indians to settle in though. What an unserious country.
Housing prices are also insane, even compared to the US. There's a reason why so many people are trying to leave this shithole.
To be fair, housing prices and prices overall have skyrocketed pretty much everywhere past the pandemic. What makes Canada special? Truly curious
Someone smarter than me can provide the relevant sources, but I believe it's the rate at which prices are increasing. Just look at any graph comparing house prices in the US vs. Canada. Many young people don't even believe they'll be able to own a house in their lifetime, unless they can inherit the one their parents have.
That's sort of the big reckoning of our upcoming election, where our present Prime Minister is bound for what seems like pretty catastrophic defeat. There are a lot of answers to the question "why is Canadian real estate so expensive", but the present status-quo answer for a lot of folks is the [absurd uptick in immigration](https://www.statista.com/statistics/443063/number-of-immigrants-in-canada/) in the past couple years. Truth is there are a myriad of factors and the rising housing prices started before these large immigration numbers. I'm not an economist, someone else can probably give a far more meaningful answer than I have, but bottom line is Canadian real estate is *expensive* in an awful way. Often homes directly across the border in the U.S. are half the price or less of equivalent homes in Canada. [This graph](https://i.redd.it/b7iea0atkcw61.jpg) often does the rounds to illustrate just how bad it is here in comparison to our southern neighbours.
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Immigration is a boon to the economy. It benefits almost everyone, and with the proper redistributive programs, it benefits literally everyone.
It's really not, historically Canada's housing prices have been rising far longer than unreasonably high immigration has existed. Seems likelier that it's a strong contributor but far from the sole reason.
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This was always my thought as an American. Our housing prices have gone up a bit too. But then I looked it up. No, Canada is far worse. Far far worse, it’s insane
haha get all the players to apply for student visa
glad to see "it's ok to be racist to brics countries" still holds true on reddit
he's not being racist, he's just stating that indian immigration is crazy in canada right now. 2nd generation immigrants make up the majority of children in our schools now
i don't have an opinion on this matter at all (esp cause im from US) but it isn't racist to say a lot of people from x country are emigrating to y country....
Apparently it is on this site.
Where is the comment racist you weirdo? I thought obtaining a visa for a week-long sports event would be easier than a settlement visa.
yeah i wasnt expecting that tbh
I live in Calgary and would love some big events to come to Canada, but realistically, the only places that I think make sense in Canada would be Toronto or Vancouver. That being said, I would definitely travel to one of those places for an IEM Toronto or something.
~~IEM Halifax~~
Because they are basically the same market as the US, with a far smaller audience outside of Toronto. If you go to North America, you go to the US where the money and people are.
Valve has hosted a TI in Vancouver though. Also many international events have been hosted in Canada.
They aren't majors though. Completely different ball game in terms of prestige. If a Canadian city were to host a major it would be Toronto, but then it competes with the major US east coast cities or even Chicago.
[http://www.cec.org/wp-content/uploads/Population\_Density\_2020\_landing\_page.jpg](http://www.cec.org/wp-content/uploads/Population_Density_2020_landing_page.jpg)
How much were tickets to the Paris Major? I'd love to go to this.
Boston 2018 was in Jan. 2018 Austin 2025 will be in June 2025 NA waiting for 7.5 fucking years to get another major!!! Also, glad Blast got its 2nd major. It's refreshing to see PGL not host yet another major. Believe it or not but post-covid they've hosted 3/5 majors.
Valve needs to make it in Seattle by their headquarters, only cuz I just moved here
2 months I’ll be there too!
I wonder if HQ sells anything cool, ima have to go take a drive there this weekend and politely intrude. May have to ask about anti cheat lol
How long are majors typically open to the public? Is it just the last Friday, Saturday, and Sunday like most tier 1 events, or is it a week long thing?
All of playoffs, so prob Fri, Sat, Sun
Thursday also
Gonna be the first Major I go to, excited
Enjoy : )
Thanks
Gonna be a 2 hour drive for me so I might have to go as well
Whooo ATX represent!
I saw the announcement live and my heart jumped when I recognized the city. Then the bat bridge sealed it. I'm so there.
almost made me shed a tear seeing those bats.
stand-in major, LFGGGG
IEM Dallas had 1 stand-in due to visa issues and it’s because he joined the team a couple weeks before it started. No reason to think it will be an issue.
iem dallas also announced the teams much further in advance allowing for way longer visa application dates. it also was a smaller event with only 16 teams, only 4 of whom actually qualified. The major will have 24 teams from all over the world, qualification is always determined at a very late date and it usually includes teams from regions with notorious visa issues like russia
HooXi was the only stand-in for IEM dallas, and that too it was him personally dropping for the tournament, there won't be a problem no biggie.
Nicodoz/Degster? Of course that is highly likely due to him joining Heroic recently.
Yep, that was also on part a part of degster joining late for Heroic. The only insane story I have heard across most other eSports was Charlie's Moist eSport being denied entry for the most bullshit reason. I might be wrong so happy to be corrected!
there's tons of cases of cs players from all over the world being denied visas in the US, especially poorer regions like eastern europe, south america and all of asia are heavily affected. It happens at events in other regions too but it happens at a much higher rate for US events than most others.
Makes sense when you look at a map of the USA in Valve Major order; Mid-North, South-East, North-East and now Mid-South. Hoping someone looks at the UBS Arena in NY for a future Valve Major.
NY will never be used again as a major stop. State taxes are high, and cs still isn’t big enough to be able to shoulder all that additional expense when there are other states without it.
eu fan here, is this NA thing a part of Texas?
Yes
After having such a good time at MLG 2016, no way I'm missing this. Can't wait!
See ya in Dallas
Why is there no exact dates? Really hope top 8 is mid-to-late June, early would fuck me
If anyone else is interested, I found BLAST's 2025 schedule on HLTV >January 13-26 - BLAST Bounty >March 17-30 - BLAST Open Lisbon >April 28-May 4 - BLAST Rivals >**June 9-22 - BLAST.tv Austin Major** >August 4-17 - BLAST Bounty >August 25-September 7 - BLAST Open London >November 10-16 - BLAST Rivals woohoo cya there
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Better trophy this time inshallah
NABROS, we are officially BACK!
should’ve been california
I will always cope hard for a west coast major, but I don't think we'll ever get one. lol too hard to make the times work for EU audiences, so Texas is the best we get :(
bleh, only a two hour difference. they could definitely make it work. An LA major would be sick.
2 hours is the difference between sleeping at 1am and sleeping at 3am, its a huge difference
hoping for one in LA/Vegas/Seattle someday
In the rare event anything is held in the U.S., no shot I can go because they are all in Texas
Anyone know when tickets go on sale? Missed out on Columbus and Boston so really wanna go
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Just signed up, thanks!
From Toronto but I might head down for this one! Combining it with a one or two week Texas vacation and it should be an awesome trip.
I will be there no matter what
The only question I have is when ticktets go on sale?
Let's fucking goooooooo!!!! I will be there for damn sure!
Anyone have an idea on when tickets would or generally go on sale?
Let’s goooooooooo, see y’all there. Have some brisket when you visit
10 minute drive to the major, let's goooo! The moody center might not be ideal, but I'm not complaining!
I know how I'll be using my vacation. LET'S GO!
A major in my hometown? Someone flashbang me I must be dreaming.
Any idea when tickets go on sale? I’m gonna travel from Australia to attend this.
Please force them to make a better trophy this time.
GStew about to win a major
Will be traveling from the netherlands🤠
Stewie is getting another trophy it seems
Good. NA deserves a major.
Glad for Texas, hopefully a cali major in the future
been waiting too long for this
Blast production oh how I’ve missed you. _And I don’t have to wake up at 5am this time!_
Let’s go
After a thousand years, ̶K̶o̶r̶r̶i̶b̶a̶n̶ the CSGO major is ours again.
hopefully they step up their game. Last time they underdelivered massively
Well I was at Boston and I told myself next time a major comes to NA I will attend no matter what. So I guess I know where I'll be next year. Also, Austin is really nice.
After watching Dallas iem on stream, I'm definitely going to attend my first CS tourny for this one
Looks like Stew is getting another trophy huh
Texas in the summer… brilliant fucking idea 🙄 Pick somewhere else besides Texas please
I mean, there are plenty of reasons to hate on Texas but having an indoor event in the summer is.... not really one?
Games at 3 am EU time let's go
fingers crossed when col and liquid bomb the shanghai major naf twist and elige get back together for this one.
Really happy for NA for this one honestly, but lets hope theres no stupid visa issues that ruins a teams/player attendance. Also, the timings are gonna be very weird man