olofmeister and his Tec-9 especially contributed a lot to that, but overall Fnatic played a hell of a tournament and had all five of their players step it up to claim their second title after DreamHack Winter 2013. They were the only team able to win their quarterfinal without losing a map, with their first loss coming at the hands of the equally impressive Ninjas in Pyjamas in the grand final. ![]() Even though most will agree that the Tec-9 does need some revising on its own now, this made the games a lot of fun to watch overall, as even in broke state you never knew what the other team was up to.įnatic didn’t come into the tournament as everybody’s darling, but they really showed that they are able to bring their best when it matters most. olofmeister of Fnatic especially showed how to put the Tec-9 to good use, going into the grand finals with almost as many kills with this pistol as with the AK. While back in the days of Counter-Strike a won pistol round meant an almost safe 3-0 lead, we had quite a lot teams coming back from this deficit at ESL One Katowice due to the Tec-9 and the revised CZ-75. Take a look at the seven things we took away from Katowice and its CS:GO major below!ġ) The Tec-9 and revised CZ-75 makes ecos a lot of fun to watch Read our editorial policy for more information.After four days packed with top-notch CS:GO matches at ESL One Katowice, we had the chance to pick up new stuff, see old sayings proved wrong and watch favorites fall. All coverage of Gamer Events is at the editors' discretion. This article covers an event run by Gamer Events, a business operated by Gamer Network, which also owns. ![]() Buy tickets here, and don't forget to claim your Virgin Trains discount if you're planning to travel by rail. You can of course expect many more major playable games to be announced between now and the show, and the usual roster of developer sessions.ĮGX 2015 runs from 24th to 27th September at the NEC in Birmingham. We expect a clean fight.Īlso confirmed for EGX this year: playable Just Cause 3, tons of indie games including the famed Indie Megabooth, and cosplay, Capcom Pro Tour and Dota 2 events. On the Thursday and Friday, eight StarCraft 2 players will compete live in the Gfinity Summer Masters. Over the weekend of 26th and 27th September, they will compete for a $100,000 prize pot in the Gfinity Champion of Champions event. Promoter Gfinity is bringing four top Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams - fnatic, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Team EnvyUs and Virtus Pro - to the show. This will also be the biggest EGX to date by far for eSports. Syndicate is the cor-blimey-luv-a-duck Victorian London edition of the popular historical action series, while Siege updates the much-loved tactical shooter with its online hostage scenarios. ![]() (Tom tried out Dark Zones at E3.) Many years in the making and somewhat delayed, The Division is one of the most ambitious games in development anywhere right now - so it will be fascinating to see how it shapes up and how players respond to it on the EGX show floor.Īlso playable at EGX will be Ubisoft's 2015 big hitters Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and Rainbow Six: Siege, both due out in October. ![]() It's an online third-person action game in which players team up to reclaim a post-disaster New York City, or scrap over loot in the mass-PVP Dark Zones. The Division, developed by Sweden's Massive (and other Ubi studios, including Reflections in the UK) and due for release in March next year, is Ubisoft's play in the burgeoning area of console-friendly persistent games, or shared world games, or new-wave MMOs, or whatever you'd like to call them - a genre currently dominated by Destiny. The September 2015 show - which will be the first to take place at Birmingham's NEC after the untimely demise of our previous home, London's Earls Court - will also step up its eSports ambitions by hosting a major Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament organised by Gfinity, with a $100,000 prize pot. By which I mean, the guys a couple of desks away have told me. This year's EGX, the UK games festival formerly known as the Eurogamer Expo (and run by our parent company Gamer Network, disclosure fans), will be the first opportunity to play Ubisoft's 2016 juggernaut The Division in the UK, it has been announced.
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