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coL are at crazy 2.90 underdog odds against Na'Vi and I expect a messy series, with the veto hard for both teams and a handshake decider, and that's exactly when I like to bet a big underdog. #ESLProLeague @thunderpickco #Ad
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99.999999% of the people shitting on @CarlosR will never accomplish 1/100th of the good and great things he did for the people around him and/or this industry.
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When @CarlosR told me he was signing Flakked instead of Viper or Hans Sama he told me he knew he would be mega criticised and he knew for fan service signing the bigger name was the move but he was willing to gamble on the scouting being 200 IQ. WP, sir! #LEC
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. @Cloud9 won the major by beating the three best teams in the tournament in Bo3 series. Can't fuck with that. Respect @tarik @C9Skadoodle @Stewie @RUSH @autimaticTV !
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Perkz on a down year: -Win LCS -Beat 2 best teams in world at MSI -Qualify for Worlds -Beat experts' 2 tournament favourites for Worlds in an "impossible" "group of death" -Make top 8 at Worlds His down year would be most great players' career best year.
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4 years
Riot apparently doesn't want streamers like Dom involved in the League of Legends Partner Program because it associates Riot's brand with his and his actions. Now apply that logic to LEC and its partnerships.
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Can you imagine? #Worlds2022
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5 years
Ninja winning 'personality of the year' is like me winning 'most polite analyst of the year'.
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4 years
It's so absurd that Jamppi is banned for life from competing at the world championship for allegedly cheating as a nobody kid but you can be a coach and literally cheat in a qualifier for the same world championship and get a lower punishment. #freejamppi
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2 years
FalleN is the most over-rated player in the history of CS:GO. Has never even been the best player on any line-up but people try to make it sound like the guy was Zidane. #PGLMajor
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ZywOo: I hard carried in the final but we still lost the map. s1mple:
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NiKo coldzera shox NBK Aleksib Anyone got a spare few million?
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Astralis right now are: back to back major champions back to back ECS champions back to back EPL champions back to back Blast champions
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TL beating iG in a Bo5 is the best result in the history of North American LoL. Better than C9 taking down Afreeca at Worlds. Beating the best team in the world, in their meta, outside of yours and with everyone picking you to get stomp swept.
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Two of the greatest Mid laners to ever play in LEC are without a doubt FNC Caps and G2 Caps.
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+31 in a major final for the greatest player in CS:GO history. s1mple averages a 1.37 rating for the major as his team becomes the first in history to win without dropping a map! Impossible numbers! #PGLMajor
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The LS-C9 experiment had the potential to be a game-changer for the West and #LCS specifically.
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@LSXYZ9 @LoLZven The airline expected the TSM players to feed everyone since it's an international flight :>
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Q. Why are Team Liquid CS:GO popular with the ladies? A. They always finish second when it matters most.
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"If Aleksib is such a good IGL why hasn't he won a tier 1 LAN?" He just won a major with Sprout's former star player. Sit the fuck down! You have no eye test. #PGLMAJOR
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6 years
One more for the bad guy
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@Thorin
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2 years
karrigan got kicked from FaZe, made mouz champions, found his new star and now plays in FaZe there with him beating the real NiKo.
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6 years
Cloud9 deserved that. Shit, there's no losers in a game like that.
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5 years
Legend. Champion. Competitor. @GeT_RiGhT #ESLOne
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2 years
karrigan is a motherfucking legend in this game. Keep your new school IGLs. #IEM
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s1mple is the Faker of CS:GO
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2 years
G2 is just another org now. This is the Star Wars sequels era now.
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When she began as a trial news poster at SK Gaming in 2012 sjokz told me she thought she could be good on camera. Her background was League of Legends. A decade later and dozens of LoL hosting gigs and she's going to host the CS:GO major in her home country.
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@Thorin
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3 years
@ropzicle I dare you to join a team worthy of your skills.
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. @vsmzin Valve may never give you a second chance but you got one anyway. Put the obstacle behind you and fight every day for your legacy regardless of the disadvantages. Make people remember your name.
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Majors: device 4 olof 2 Coldzera 2 kennyS 1 GeT_RiGhT 1 s1mple 1 ZywOo 1 NiKo 0 GuardiaN 0 Damn... #BLASTTVMajor
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2 years
Karmine Corp's ERL line-up is better than most teams in #LEC and #LCS .
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If G2 can really sweep four opponents in a row to win #LEC that might be the most legendary run in its history.
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6 years
Some of the names Cloud9 beat to win this major: Happy ScreaM Snax pasha NEO device dupreeh gla1ve shox kennyS NBK coldzera fer FalleN GuardiaN NiKo karrigan rain olofmeister
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Anyone remember when morons from Dota and LoL said CS:GO was gonna die a few years back when the gambling stuff was cleaned up? Stay in your lane with the rest of the creeps.
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EliGE gets forced out of Team Liquid, joins coL, becomes one of the best players in the world again and carries coL over a Team Liquid super-team to qualify for the first CS2 major. What a gigachad!
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Congratulations on an epic career, @ZeusCSGO . You were the leader of all five major winning campaigns for CIS teams and reached numerous other major finals. You are a legendary IGL who did it his own way and will not be forgotten.
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The ladies love it when I finish second
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G2's economic management was so bad on this T side you'd think the NiP CEO was calling their buys. #berlinmajor
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Congratulations to @teamliquid , the first North American line-up to ever become the best CS:GO team in the world. Special achievement @NAFFLY @EliGE @Twistzz @nitr0 @Stewie @ThixNation @jokasteve @LiQuiD112
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4 years
Why even join an LEC/LCS team if you're not gonna play out the whole split? GTFO
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When s1mple retires there's gonna be a three hour frag movie of his highlights that's more epic than 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Can't you guys just leave Doublelift the world famous streamer and his girlfriend, President of TSM, who is discussing the private sale status of a current team-mate in earshot on stream alone to their "private" relationship?
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Thanks to the 37 cheating coaches now four time major winning coach zonic can't say "nice!" when his team wins a round. #PGLMajor
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#LCS titles since this tweet: Vulcan 2 Reginald 0
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I miss the old s1mple, straight CS:GO s1mple Chop up the field s1mple, set on his goals s1mple I hate the new s1mple, the good dude s1mple Bring back the rude s1mple, the bad mood s1mple
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Fuck the blue wall, fuck Kameto Fuck Karmine Corp as a staff, team organisation and as a motherfucking crew And if you want to be down with Karmine Corp, then fuck you too Targamas, fuck you too All you motherfuckers, fuck you too (take money, take money) #LEC
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SIGN J K S #IEM
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When I told ESL we need to make CS majors feel like "life or death" this isn't what I had in mind.
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Ban the site claiming responsibility for this nonsense from sponsoring teams that play professional Counter-Strike, @CounterStrike . #PGLMAJOR
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. @tarik 's career is some movie script level shit: Win ELEAGUE S2 over Astralis with OpTic in late 2016 Win the ELEAGUE Boston Major over FaZe with Cloud9 in early 2018 Win ESL One New York over Astralis in the latter part of 2019
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How are you gonna let EliGE leave your team and not have a special video thanking him? Team Liquid know he's the most important Counter-Strike figure in the history of their organisation, right?
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Leena essentially just admitted to letting Doublelift hear private TSM business details while a member of Team Liquid and streaming.
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@stavnCS He got to see you become part of the number one ranked team in the world and make the semi-finals of the world championship. He saw his little brother making something of his career. That's what an older brother dreams of. Min dybeste medfølelse.
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No mention at all from m0NESY of the utter bullshit that went in his team's favour. "We just broke them. Mentally." Nah, kid. Jame's PC broke. You had nothing to do with it. #PGLMAJOR
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Is SmithZz also the Starladder observer? Cos the fucker misses everything
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Can you bet on the Pasha fight? I don't know his opponent but I'll put money on the guy who turned himself from a Polish construction worker with poor English into one of the best and most popular Counter-Strike players in the world while still working out.
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You just witnessed the greatest veto in the history of professional Counter-Strike. Bravo, Professor @karriganCSGO . It will be years before people realise the level you were cooking on.
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NiKo taking this G2 line-up to the major final will one day be looked at like s1mple taking TL to the Cologne final. They had no business being there so he put them on his back.
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Dear @csgo_dev : 1. Announce majors and dates at beginning of year 2. Make a 2 week "freeze time" of no tournaments before majors
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NA LoL plebs 2012-2017: LUL NA > EU NA plebs 2018: Who fuckin cares who is better bruh? KR wins anyway and everyone else is just first loser NA plebs 2019: How can you even compare NA to EU? It's unfair. We're smaller, less players, worse soloq. #FanLogic
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Fun fact: Twice in history a team has removed Rekkles from the starting line-up and then won the following #LEC split without him.
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Only makes sense king stat in CS:GO supports the king of CS:GO.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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Sneaky's best ever cosplay was pretending to be a top tier ADC for the last two years.
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If m0NESY can't play for G2 any more after his visa runs out then break the bank one last time and go for device and make a run at everything. Major, era, dominance!
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LoL has the stupidest player base I've ever seen in an online multiplayer game. The sheer number of people voting to stay trapped in doomed soloq games is legit unbelievable.
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Renegades making top 8 at this major is nothing like past underdog teams fluking some bo1 wins. -They had to fight the Elo system the whole way -They beat top 10 teams -They won Bo3 series over top 12 ranked teams
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Can't stop the evil empire of my man @optich3cz !
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My MVP for the #PGLMAJOR is jL. Fragging all over the place and winning clutches, including on the maps where Na'Vi were supposed to fall apart. Legendary performance from an impact player.
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Three of the hottest chokers this season :>
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The only NA team to win a CS:GO major broke up and didn't even attempt to defend it. Now the best NA team in history, in terms of body of work, high level opponents won and consistency is going to make a roster move after their best ever run. #JustNAThings
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In light of the unethical and unprofessional behaviour of ESL over their EPL dealings I won't be working with their org under any circumstances until the people responsible are named and fired or leave the company. That goes for majors, Cologne and content.
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C9 so rarely ever beat IMT but FNS broke their most successful ever squad up with one harmless tweet. The IGL NA needs :>
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flusha is playing some seriously good Counter-Strike in this phase of the major. Respect for a legend still delivering for his team under difficult team and personal circumstances.
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donk distracted you from: -sh1ro putting up MVP numbers -zontix posting a 1.16 rating -magixx winning clutches for fun #IEM
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This is one of the best esports photos I've ever seen
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If Team Liquid are really skipping ESL One Cologne but playing at Blast Pro Series Los Angeles then that is some seriously disappointing shit and it's time we had a serious discussion about what the fuck the CS:GO tournament circuit even is any more.
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karrigan the best IGL in the world. FaZe are the best CS:GO team in the world. #ESLProLeague
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TSM out here finding their next ADC on Tinder rather than Proving Grounds :>
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One of the most difficult majors of my career is completed. Nobody is entitled to be hired to work a world championship and it was my privilege to work my eighth as a primary analyst. If it's my last then so be it.
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steel did way more good for NA CS:GO than the bad he did with the fixed match and it's not even close. If there were any justice Valve would be listening, but we know how that one goes...
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karrigan's mouz beat the 1st, 2nd and 4th ranked teams in the world - according to HLTV - in a row to take this championship. They were also two rounds from beating the 3rd ranked. This is legitimately one of the most impressive CS:GO runs from an underdog.
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When CS:GO is finished you'll be able to make a "Top 10 plays of all-time" list with only s1mple plays and it will still be legit.
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Congratulations to @TSM for becoming the first NA number one seed to fail to win a game at the LoL World Championship. After all these years in the game your org continues to break new boundaries and set new records! #Worlds2020
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@FalleNCS @astralisgg You'll find him in the mirror, if you look hard enough.
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Motherfucking legend. Proud to call you a colleague and a friend, @RLewisReports .
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Thanks to those I know in the industry for the birthday wishes. I plan on living forever anyway so I'll be around quite a while longer.
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Think about it.
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Astralis has won their last 5 major play-off series without dropping a map. 10 maps in a row. This is the greatest team to ever play CS:GO.
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NiKo and m0NESY can be CS:GO's Shaq and Kobe if they play it right.
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Dunno why coldzera is proud about making device cry. I can make half his country cry with a few tweets :>
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The reddit mods have removed my video about TSM because they said the comments in it crossed the line from criticism to personal attacks. The same mods allowed up a post calling my work "fake news".
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Two years ago the best team in the world was FaZe Clan. NiKo GuardiaN rain olof karrigan Now only karrigan is anything close to a reliable bet to win a championship. The same karrigan was the first to be cut.
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Tell me more about how good LoL and OW are 😂😅
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Imagine, by some miracle, if GamerLegion beat Heroic, so ZywOo won a CS:GO major facing: Into the Breach Apeks GamerLegion LOL #BLASTTVMajor
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flusha deserves this trophy
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@FalleNCS ELEAGUE gave you 100T's rooms by mistake :>
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If you play in a major you should get a sticker. End of story. The fact you're gonna give garbage teams and players from the CIS and Asia minor stickers for beating nobody good but not zews and peacemaker is a fuckin joke. Fix up, Valve.
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