As the competitive CS:GO season continues to mature, every event becomes important for future seeding. Bearing this in mind, OG CS:GO Roster 2023 is currently having to battle a roster change – read on to learnmore about this below!
Well, this roster change is rather unpredictable. Namely, following a respectable 9-12th finish at IEM Katowice 2023, nobody thought this would lead to change.
However, the likes of Nemanja “nexa” Isakovic publically revealed his intentions to temporarily step down due to personal reasons.
Bearing this in mind, the likes of Nikolaj “niko” Kristensen is standing in:
Shahar “flameZ” Shushan
Adam “NEOFRAG” Zouhar
Maciej “F1KU” Miklas
Abdulkhalik “degster” Gasanov
Nikolaj “niko” Kristensen – STAND-IN
Credits: Valve
They needed a stand-in desperately considering they’re competing in the BLAST.tv Paris Major RMR event in the next few days.
Can they still keep up their performances with a stand-in?
Despite competing alongside some of the top teams in the world, the ENCE CS:GO roster 2023 has failed to find succes internationally. Bearing this in mind, the team has made a significant change to the roster – read on to learn more!
ENCE CS:GO Roster 2023 – Moving Pieces
ROSTER UPDATE@Officialvalde has been benched from our active CS:GO lineup.
While we're working on signing the new fifth player, @1HENU will stand in for this week's CCT Malta Finals.
Overall, this team hasn’t made a chance since August of last year. Since then, they have offered some consistent international participation, failing to break through to the top.
Accordingly, they’ve made the decision to bench the likes of Valdemar “valde” Vangsa, who has been with the roster since last August. With the veteran out of the picture, here’s how the team looks like:
Marco “Snappi” Pfeiffer
Pawel “dycha” Dycha
Pavle “maden” Boskovic
Alvaro “SunPayus” Garcia
Coach – Eetu “sAw” Saha
Credits: Valve
With events such as the ESL Pro League and the BLAST.tv Paris Major Qualifiers in the coming week, they need to announce their new signing soon. Currently, they’ll play with standing “1HENU”.
In conclusion, they’ll want to improve over their legacy from the past few events:
4th @ Intel Extreme Masters Spring 2023: European Qualifier
Overall, following the incredible IEM Katowice event, international CS:GO competition is returning in the coming weeks. Accordingly, the ESL Pro League Season 17 looks to bring it back with a league style competition – read on to learn How to Watch this event in this featured article below!
Event Background
Credits: ESL
For those unaware, the ESL Pro League is a yearly event for CS:GO. Indeed, organized by ESL, with the Intel Grand Slam on the line, this event looks to be incredible.
Accordingly, taking place between 22nd February and 26th March, there’ll be $850,000 on the line with the top 32 teams in the world. Indeed,, heading to Malta once again, here are the competing teams below according to their means of qualification:
Permanent Partner Team
Astralis
BIG
Complexity Gaming
ENCE
Evil Geniuses
FaZe Clan
Fnatic
FURIA Esports
G2 Esports
Heroic
MOUZ
Natus Vincere
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Team Liquid
Team Vitality
ESL Challenger
Valencia – Movistar Riders
Melbourne – paiN Gaming
Rotterdam – Outsiders
ESL World Ranking
Cloud9
Team Spirit
OG
European Conference
Eternal Fire
SAW
forZe
North American Conference
ATK
MIBR
South American Conference
Imperial Esports
00 Nation
Asian Conference
Rare Atom
IHC Esports
Oceanic Conference
Grayhound Gaming
Rooster
Apart from the prize pool, the winner of the event will also earn a coveted direct seed to the IEM Cologne 2023 event.
Read on to learn more about the format below!
Format
Credits: Valve
Overall, the format for this event involves multiple stages of competition.
Firstly, a Group Stage event will involve four triple-elimination format groups, where each group has eight teams. With all matches being BO3, here are the groups below:
C: FaZe Clan, Rooster, paiN Gaming, Ninjas in Pyjamas, OG, 00 Nation, Grayhound, Team Vitality
D: Team Liquid, Rare Atom, ATK, ENCE, Team Spirit, Astralis, forZe, Natus Vincere
In order to make it to the Quarterfinals, teams advance to the Playoffs from the Group Stage in the following manner for each group:
Winners – advance to Quarterfinals
Runners-up – advance to Round of 12 (High Seeds)
3rd place – advance to Round of 16 (High Seeds)
4th place – advance to Round of 16 (Low Seeds)
Once in the Playoffs, a single-elimination bracket will take place. Notably, this implies that teams have one lifeline and a loss results in elimination. All matches here are BO3, while the Grand Final is BO5.
Schedule for the ESL Pro League Season 17
Credits: ESL
With regards to the ESL Pro League Season 17, we recommend visiting the event page here to learn more about the schedule.
Watch the ESL Pro League Season 17 on esportsguide
You can also watch the ESL Pro League Season 17 live stream via our very own website. Providing an extensive list of the biggest esports together with streams for each esports match live today or upcoming matches.
In order to predict, we need to go off of the IEM Katowice results:
#1 – G2 Esports
#2 – Heroic
#3-4 – Team Liquid, Natus Vincere
#5-6 – Team Vitality, Outsiders
Bearing this in mind, the likes of G2 Esports are the clear favourite after their show of dominance at the IEM Katowice – can they replicate that performance over multiple months?
Over the past week, the CS:GO competitive scene was treated to an awesome event. Accordingly, the IEM Katowice 2023 CS:GO event crowned another world champion. Indeed, G2 Esports rose to the top with an incredible performance – read to learn more about it below!
IEM Katowice 2023 CS:GO – An Incredible Winning Streak
Overall, with $1,000,000 on the line, the event took place from 1st February to 12th February 2023.
Involving the top 24 teams in the world, the event was insane. While G2 Esports may not have been the number one favourite, their run was truly incredible.
Firstly, they went flawless in Group A, with the following run:
G2 Esports vs BIG (2-0)
G2 Esports vs FaZe Clan (2-0)
Natus Vincere vs G2 Esports (0-2)
Heading into the Playoffs, they started in the Semifinals and continued to dominate:
Taking down all of the big names, they then faced Heroic in the Grand Final. It’s here that G2 Esports lost their only map of the entire tournament.
So yes, while this was a great victory for G2 Esports, this was an incredible statement for the dominance of this team – we can’t wait to see this team continue performing! Notably, their 19-map win streak is a new record for CS:GO!
In the past few years, online CS:GO competition has always been problematic. Indeed, this idea returns this week thanks to the storm surrounding the IEM Brazil CS:GO qualifier 2023. Accordingly, read on to learn more about the ongoing situation below!
IEM Brazil CS:GO Qualifier 2023 – Questioning Legitimacy
Credits: Valve
For those unaware, the IEM Brazil closed qualifiers are ongoing, allowing teams to qualify for the next Major event. However, teams such as ENCE, Bad News Eagles, BIG and Sprout have been struggling through technical difficulties.
Specifically, teams have struggled with lagging servers and crashing clients.
Overall, to shed light on the issue, ESL was interviewed by Dot Esports, with the following statement:
After discovering the issues during the IEM Brazil qualifiers, our teams looked into the possible causes.
After trying numerous fixes, we found that the underlying problem was the routing from some players’ homes into our servers. In this case, we set up a VPN and provided this to the affected players. Hereby, we were able to largely improve the playing conditions and the teams could continue with the qualifier.
Credits: Dot Esports with ESL
Congratulations to @BIGCLANgg for qualifying for #IEM Brasil 2023! 🇧🇷🇩🇪
They are the second team to advance to the main event from the European closed qualifier! 🥳 pic.twitter.com/IdyOcc2lUu
Indeed, the competitive CS:GO community is enjoying IEM Katowice CS:GO 2023. Accordingly, there are a number of teams currently sitting in the spot to be eliminated – read on for a quick update below!
IEM Katowice CS:GO 2023 – Multiple Teams At Stake
Credits: Valve
Moreover, the event currently sits in the Group Stage. Here, the competition has been split into two Groups, where 8 teams are trying to make it in the top 3 to make it to the Playoffs.
Accordingly, each Group has a Lower Bracket, where a loss means elimination.
Here are the Lower Bracket matches for Group A and B:
Group A
FaZe Clan vs IHC Esports
Team Liquid vs Team Spirit
Group B
OG vs Outsiders
TBD vs TBD
Credits: ESL
Currently, there are a number of matches ongoing. The main community concern here is whether FaZe Clan will survive the Lower Bracket after losing in 2-0 fashion to G2 Esports.
Indeed, matches, especially for Group are taking place tonight as the event progresses. Notably, the Group Stage will conclude on 7th February, while the Playoffs will kick off on 10th February.
Accordingly, ESL Impact is a series of esports devised exclusively for female CS:GO esports. Indeed, 2023 has a number of events lined up, with ESL Impact Katowice 2023 kicking off in the coming week – read on to learn How to Watch this exciting event below!
Event Background
Meet the lovely #ESLImpact 🇵🇱 Katowice talent lineup!
As we’ll reiterate, the ESL Impact event of series is hosted by ESL in tandem with Intel, with the intention of supporting female CS:GO. Bearing this in mind, the coming week of competition looks to bring the community to a legendary venue.
Hosted in Katowice, Poland, the offline event will take place at the International Congress Centre. Taking place from 10th February to 12th February, the weekend will see 8 teams competing for the $100,000 pool as listed below:
Invited
Counter Logic Gaming Red
FURIA Esports Fe
HSG
Nigma Galaxy Female
Accordingly, here’s how qualifier teams seeded:
European Qualifier #1 – NAVI Javelins
European Qualifier #2 – 9 Pandas Fearless
North American Qualifier – Saints
South American Qualifier – B4 Esports Female
Indeed, read on as we dive deeper into the event below!
Format
The Spodek Arena and #IEM Expo are coming along nicely 👀
Indeed, here, each group will take place in two double-elimination format (GSL) Groups. Here, the following matches will be as follows:
Opening and Winners matches – BO1
Elimination and Decider matches – BO3
From here, only the top two teams from each group will advance to the Playoffs.
Once in the Playoffs, a single elimination bracket will take place with BO3 matches. For those unaware, a single elimination implies that teams only have one life in this competition, where loss results in elimination.
Schedule for the ESL Impact Katowice 2023
Furthermore, the schedule for the event is only fixed for the opening matches of Group A and Group B.
The following is the schedule for both Groups in CET time zone:
✅ EU expansion to 12 teams & format update ✅ Bo3 qualifiers ✅ Play days moving to Wednesdays & Thursdays ✅ Still #GGFORALL ✅ … and more!
We recommend tuning into the official event page here for an updated schedule.
Watch the ESL Impact Katowice 2023 on esportsguide
You can also watch the ESL Impact Katowice 2023 live stream via our very own website. Providing an extensive list of the biggest esports together with streams for each esports match live today or upcoming matches.
Accordingly, the ESL Impact Katowice 2023 is the first event to take place since ESL Impact Season 2. Here’s how the competition stacked up back then:
#1 – Nigma Galaxy Female
#2 – FURIA Esports Female
#3-4 – 9 Pandas Fearless, HSG
Bearing this in mind, Nigma Galaxy Female are clearly the favourites for this event.
However, since the event since last November, the rosters have changed up and so has the game. Bearing this in mind, we can’t wait to see how the competition changes once the event takes place in the coming week.
Indeed, one of the strengths of CS:GO esports is the number of organizers involved. However, one thing which does hapen every now and then is a change of schedule due to clashes. Accordingly that seems to be the case for the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown 2023!
BLAST Premier Spring Showdown 2023 – Timed Perfectly
With the BLAST Spring Groups currently taking place, the event is building up towards to the BLAST Premier Spring Final 2023 event. Accordingly, read on to learn more about this exciting event which is headed to North America amongst other details!
Indeed, as announced by BLAST, the following details were just shared for the event:
Participants: 8 teams (seeded from BLAST Spring Groups)
Dates: 7-11th June
Venue: Entertainment and Sports Arena @ Washington DC, Columbia
Prize: $425,000
Indeed, this is a great chance of pace for BLAST. Accordingly, the last few years has seen BLAST events taking place offline in Copenhagen. Specifically, it’s been since 2019 when BLAST last held an event in North America.
Credits: BLAST
With the BLAST Premier Spring event concluding tomorrow, the four remaining seeds will be from regional Showdowns before the event.
Otherwise, apart from the prize pool, the Spring Final event will also provide the winner with a direct seed to the World Final event later this year.
We’re curious to see whether the BLAST Fall event will also enjoy a change in venue – we’ll keep you updated!
Arguably, the best part of CS:GO esports is the fact that multiple organizers punctuate the competitive year. Accordingly, the Intel Extreme Masters 2023 series of events look to be hosted by ESL once again. Indeed, we finally have news with regards to the events to look forward to this year!
Intel Extreme Masters is very exciting for a few reason. Indeed, apart from an incredible set of venues such as Katowice and Cologne, the event hosts the Intel Grand Slam. For those unaware, this is an additional $1,000,000 prize pool for any team that manages to win 4 times in a series of time.
Anyways, the following events for 2023 will fall part of the IEM Grand Slam:
31st January to 12th February – IEM Katowice 2023
17th April to 23rd April – IEM Brazil 2023
29th May to 4th June – IEM Dallas 2023
25th July to 6th August – IEM Cologne 2023
16th October to 22nd October – IEM Fall 2023
Credits: Valve
With IEM Katowice next week, and IEM Brazil Qualified taking place soon, the competition is building up.
Here’s how the IEM Grand Slam looks like right now, Season 4:
FaZe Clan – 3 current wins
Cloud9 – 1 current win
Team Vitality – 1 current win
Outsiders – 1 current win
We can’t wait to see if anyone can stop FaZe Clan!
