golden dorito get.

amazing grand final, buttcheeks were firmly clenched for loads of that last map.
btw anyone know anything about item value, I got a souvenir from the grand final (a grey nova lmao), no clue if it's worth anything or not

i h8 nip so fucking much THANK GOD FNATIC WON

it's pretty unreal how vitriolic people are towards the fnatic players

what do they have to fuckin do to earn peoples' respect???

people love to hate on the best team

you're right, that's why everyone was bitching about NIP when they were 87-0, constantly making fun of get right's appearance, calling f0rest a cheater, putting every possibility of poor sportsmanship under a microscope, etc.

nope, fnatic is a different level of hate

I have no idea why so many ppl hate fnatic
I know some some of it comes from the whole boosting scandal but tons of people hated them before that

it's also cool to hate fnatic so thats part of it

what an insane bo3, good shit from both teams overall

think the most impressive part of this major was fnatic shutting down VP on their best maps in front of their own audience

Edit: Also if being a fan means to completely ignore the other teams efforts and achievements then you are just an ignorant.

https://youtu.be/g5bs9pFW-Pw

I really do think it's just because NiP were the underdogs. People wanted to see a close set and to take down the team that has been the strongest for the past year. NiP also got cheered against a long time ago when they were dominant.

fnatic also exude much more of an air of arrogance than NiP did (and still do)

I'm a fnatic fan and have been since the fallout from the boost. It was an awful way to win a map and I was mad about it at the time but I admire the sheer balls it takes to do something like that and then act like it was nothing in the postgame. I just wish they wouldn't have withdrawn and had beaten LDLC on the replay

So who got 3rd, 4th etc? Cos they still get money, right?

http://puu.sh/gBHTE/243813a310.png

3rd/4th are shared between Virtus Pro and EnvyUS with both teams receiving $22,000 each

Oh, ty. I thought they'd have to play a match to decide.

Every team gets money, even if they didn't make it out of their group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSqxzRtwi80

So if you watch the beginning of this video the first 2-3 minutes. Is there any reason the players have a headset on their heads and also a 2nd headset on the back of the monitor? What is the purpose of the 2nd headset?

headset they are wearing are helicopter headsets to block out the commentators + attached mics I think. Headsets at the back are to advertise sponsors.

afterparty was pretty anticlimactic but the games were gr80

http://giant.gfycat.com/DelayedArtisticGuppy.gif

I think a lot of it started after Bucharest, when Fnatic (allegedly?) slighted NiP during the handshake or something. And then it kept snowballing because reddit.

They shouted some insults at NiP after winning at DH Bucharest in response to NiP using an admin fuckup to essentially wipe clean 3 rounds that Fnatic had won in OT.

Immature behavior by both teams but the video that went around only showed the insults so people just assumed the worst of fnatic because there's no way their precious NiP stars would do anything unreasonable to hunt for wins.

I don't really like fnatic but most of the people spamming the bucharest vid on fnatic hate threads don't understand the context at all of the situation. This podcast sums the situation up pretty well if you care https://youtu.be/mVCWWk20FOA?list=PLpaD0ybYH0S0EchbX0CJTl2zWmsrIAfr5

I think people dont like fnatic because theyre cocky. I think devilwalk started this behaviour and it rubbed off on his teamates. Search devilwalk interview dreamhack 2013 about the boost; Kinda comes off arrogant for doing something they knew was wrong. I dont care personally, but some people are easily offended i guess lol

I just watched the boost vid, holy fuck thats dirty:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNQ71mfmt80

my only mistake was to read the comments.

http://puu.sh/gDnBY/a814503edb.png

egos are healthy.

how far ptr's come

still not better than the brazillians

The only thing that I would make different on ESL was to make a game to decide which one gets 3rd and 4th place ( basically so we could have some more amazing CS )

I'm not saying I agree with that, it's just the start of when the fnatic hate train started getting big. I don't think shittalking or whatever in sports is a big deal, and I know that NiP and Fnatic don't have a feud about it. They've let bygones be bygones but clearly the rest of the community hasn't.