IEM Brazil CS GO qualifier in jeopardy due to consistent technical issues
The European based closed qualifier for the $250,000 prize pool CS GO tournament IEM Brazil remains under controversy due to consistent tech issues, affecting several teams such as ENCE, Bad News Eagles, BIG, and Sprout, according to an HLTV report.
ENCE, BIG, and Sprout ultimately lost all their matches to teams below their current rank, all of this in the middle of rumors that the qualifier servers were lagging while the ESEA client was constantly crashing. The technical issues in the BIG versus Sprout set were so impactful that the teams were only able to play 6 rounds in 1 hour. The CS GO fan base believed ESEA would implement solutions for these problems going into the most recent matches, but the players continue to face match breaking issues, as explained by ENCE’s rifle main Pavle “maden” Bošković via social media.
“Two days in a row getting huge lags on three guys because of ESEA client” “They don’t want to provide us good servers or fix this bug, and they also don’t let us play without the client, we lost full ecos, antiecos, [and] many other rounds because of it.”
A different competitive player commented on maden’s social media post, hinting that what makes the problems even worse for the public and players is that ESEA most likely will not communicate the situation to the community. ESEA (owned by ESL) apologized to ENCE’s captain Marco “Snappi” Pfeffer within the same social media post.
“Sorry for the continued issues. We are working on getting everything fixed as soon as possible”
Until this point, 2 out of the 3 days of the European closed qualifier have been affected with the same issues related to ESEA’s client or servers. Two teams from the same qualifier will look to secure their spots at IEM Brazil, ESL’s next S Tier event after the current one ends is the ESL Pro League season 17 set to start in March. Even after technically playing a huge role in their CS GO calendar for 2023, ESL has gone mostly without much response in regards to the situation.
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The community has not remained silent and continues to poke ESEA/ESL for any sort of direct communication, mainly looking to see if a possible re-play or rematch of the series will be held. Nevertheless, as of the moment, either HONORIS or 9INE are set to qualify for IEM Brazil, while the second spot should be defined a day later. The $250,000 main event will run from April 17th to the 23rd, with apparently the same organizers being behind the setups.
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