The CSPPA (Counter-Strike Professional Players’ Association) has announced that it is looking to resume LAN events, and is in talks with several tournament organisers.
CSPPA looking to resume LAN events – Why?
As you all may be aware, due to the global pandemic that emerged earlier this year, all esports events took a halt at LAN events and focused more on hosting tournaments online. Now, as you all may know, having tournaments online causes many issues. Mostly regional high ping issues, which results in professional teams not being allowed to compete against other regions.
The CS:GO scene took a huge impact from this, as many regions ended up playing against the same teams. Europe on the other hand, being the region with most professional teams did not suffer much. However there were some teams that had a lot of success with this online CS era.
In fact, the NA teams got so tired and worn out from playing the same teams over the couple of months that they were in talks to travel to Europe for the end-of-season tournaments.
What will the CSPPA be doing?
Much like how Riot Games managed to host this year’s World Championship, the CSPPA will try its best to host CS:GO events with all the precautions and necessary measures. Of course, the LAN events will not include live audiences. This decision was taken to avoid risking the players, staff, as well as the fans themselves.
This global pandemic has impacted esports in unimaginable ways, but hopefully with moves like these from the CSPPA, we will be normalizing esports bit by bit.
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