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Blast.tv Austin Major 2025
The Blast.tv Austin Major 2025 was the third ''Counter-Strike 2'' Major Championship and twenty-second ''Counter-Strike'' Major overall. It was being held in Austin, Texas, United States from June 3 to June 22, 2025, and it was the second Major hosted by BLAST, after Paris 2023. The tournament was held at the Moody Center, on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin, and was the first Major to feature 32 teams, involving directly-invited teams and teams from regional qualifiers. It featured a prize pool of . Team Vitality were crowned champions after a 2–1 victory over The MongolZ, their second title since Paris 2023. Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut was named the tournament's MVP, receiving his second such award and becoming the third player to be awarded MVP in multiple Majors after also receiving it at the Paris Major. Background ''Counter-Strike 2'' is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation. It is the fifth game in the ''Counter-St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counter-Strike 2
''Counter-Strike 2'' is a 2023 free-to-play Tactical shooter, tactical first-person shooter video game, game developed and published by Valve Corporation, Valve. It is the fifth entry in the ''Counter-Strike'' series, developed as an updated version of the previous entry, ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' (2012). The game was announced on March 22, 2023, and was released on September 27, 2023, for Windows and Linux, replacing ''Global Offensive'' on Steam (service), Steam. Like its predecessor, the game pits two teams, the Counter-Terrorists and the Terrorists, against each other in various objective-based game modes; additional game modes that stray away from this setup are also included. ''Counter-Strike 2'' features major technical improvements over ''Global Offensive'', including a move from the Source (game engine), Source game engine to Source 2, improved video game graphics, graphics, and a new "sub-tick" server architecture. In addition, many List of competitive Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First-person Shooter
A first-person shooter (FPS) is a video game genre, video game centered on gun fighting and other weapon-based combat seen from a First person (video games), first-person perspective, with the player experiencing the action directly through the eyes of the player character, main character. This genre shares multiple common traits with other shooter video games, shooter games, and in turn falls under the action games category. Since the genre's inception, advanced 3D computer graphics, 3D and 2.5D, pseudo-3D graphics have proven fundamental to allow a reasonable level of immersion in the three-dimensional space, game world, and this type of game helped pushing technology progressively further, challenging hardware developers worldwide to introduce numerous innovations in the field of graphics processing units. Multiplayer video game, Multiplayer gaming has been an integral part of the experience, and became even more prominent with the diffusion of internet connectivity in recen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Competitive Counter-Strike Maps
''Counter-Strike 2'', and its predecessor ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', are first-person shooter games developed by Valve Corporation in the Counter-Strike, ''Counter-Strike'' series. The franchise has a Counter-Strike in esports, very large competitive scene, which has received large media coverage. As a result, the games' multiplayer video game level, maps have longstanding legacies within the series, with some becoming significant to the first-person shooter genre as a whole. Traditional gameplay of ''Counter-Strike'' features two teams, the Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists, fighting for control of a map while trying to fulfill their respective objectives. In ''Counter-Strike'' esports, the goal of the Terrorist team is to either kill all Counter-Terrorists or plant and detonate a bomb at a bomb site within the map, and the goal of the Counter-Terrorist team is to prevent the bomb plant, kill all Terrorists, or defuse the bomb. This article serves as a list of maps f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buchholz System
The Buchholz system (also spelled Buchholtz) is a ranking or scoring system developed by Bruno Buchholz (died 1958) in 1932, for Swiss system tournaments. It was originally developed as an auxiliary scoring method, but more recently it has been used as a tie-breaking system. It was probably first used in the 1932 Bitterfeld tournament. It was designed to replace the Neustadtl score. The method is to give each player a raw score of one point for each win and a half point for each draw. When used as an alternative scoring system, each player's Buchholz score is calculated by adding the raw scores of each of the opponents they played and multiplying this total by the player's raw score. When used for tie-breaking among players with the same raw score, no multiplying is necessary and the sum of the raw scores of the opponents played is used to break ties. When used as a tie-break system, it is equivalent to the Solkoff system. The major criticism of this system is that tie-break s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single-elimination Tournament
A single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion(s). Some match-ups may be a single match or several, for example two-legged ties in European sports or best-of series in North American pro sports. Defeated competitors may play no further part after losing, or may participate in "consolation" or "classification" matches against other losers to determine the lower final rankings; for example, a third place playoff between losing semi-finalists. In a shootout poker tournament, there are more than two players competing at each table, and sometimes more than one progresses to the next round. Some competitions are held with a pure single-elimination tournament system. Others have many phases, with the last being a single-elimination final stage, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss-system Tournament
A Swiss-system tournament is a non-eliminating tournament format that features a fixed number of rounds of competition, but considerably fewer than for a round-robin tournament; thus each competitor (team or individual) does not play all the other competitors. Competitors meet one-on-one in each round and are paired using a set of rules designed to ensure that each competitor plays opponents with a similar running score, but does not play the same opponent more than once. The winner is the competitor with the highest aggregate points earned in all rounds. With an even number of participants, all competitors play in each round. The Swiss system is used for competitions in which there are too many entrants for a full round-robin (all-play-all) to be feasible, and eliminating any competitors before the end of the tournament is undesirable. In contrast, all-play-all is suitable if there are a small number of competitors; whereas a Single-elimination tournament, single-elimination (knoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Blume
Anders Blume (born December 7, 1985) is a Danish ''Counter-Strike'' commentator and co-founder of RoomOnFire. He has been present as a caster at all of the Valve sponsored CS:GO Majors, with the exception of EMS One Katowice 2014. He has worked for a wide variety of tournament organisers including Electronic Sports League (ESL), Dreamhack and Gfinity. He is more often than not paired with Auguste 'Semmler' Massonnat, also a co-founder of RoomOnFire and Jason "Moses" O'Toole, for his casts. He is famous for his energetic casts, including the use of what has become his catchphrase, "Are you kidding me?". In 2015, he won the Golden Joystick award for esports icon of the year. Esports commentary Blume's entry into commentary stemmed from his dissatisfaction with the commentators at the time he played the game. He was unsatisfied with how they described the game, in particular their failure to acknowledge the use of flashes, smoke, and grenades as a tactical element. Blume had his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dupreeh
Peter Rothmann Rasmussen (born 26 March 1993), better known as dupreeh, is a Danish professional ''Counter-Strike 2'' player who most recently played for Team Falcons. He has played for Team Dignitas, Team SoloMid, Astralis, Team Vitality and Heroic. In 2023 with Team Vitality, he became the first and only player to win five majors in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive history, and to win 3 majors (along with three of his teammates) consecutively. Rasmussen is the only player to have participated in every CS:GO Major. He was sidelined during ESL One Cologne 2016 after developing appendicitis on 6 July 2016. Rasmussen left Astralis in December 2021, along with Emil "Magisk" Reif and coach Danny "zonic" Sørensen. All three joined Team Vitality Team Vitality, or simply Vitality, is a French esport club founded in 2013 by Fabien "Neo" Devide, Nicolas Maurer, Corentin "Gotaga" Houssein, and Kevin "BrokyBrawks" Georges. Team Vitality has teams in eleven PC/console esports titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sjokz
Eefje Depoortere (; born 16 June 1987), known professionally as Sjokz ( "shocks", ), is a Belgian television presenter, reporter, and esports player who has hosted the ''League of Legends'' European Championship. She has also hosted multiple ''League of Legends'' World Championships. Early life Depoortere grew up in Belgium as an only child. She studied sports journalism at university. Career Depoortere was formerly a competitive ''Unreal Tournament '99'' player and competed in several LANs. The name "Sjokz" is a phonetic spelling of "shocks" in Dutch, and derives from her use of the Shock Rifle in ''Unreal Tournament''. Depoortere began working as a freelance journalist producing esports-related content for SK Gaming and ESFi World. She completed her Master's degree in history (2009), journalism (2010) and a teaching degree (2011) from Ghent University. Depoortere was crowned as the winner of the 2009 Aardbeienprinses van Beervelde pageant and was the third-place fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitter
Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is an American microblogging and social networking service. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in Microblogging, short posts commonly known as "Tweet (social media), tweets" (officially "posts") and Like button, like other users' content. The platform also includes direct message, direct messaging, video and audio calling, bookmarks, lists, communities, a chatbot (Grok (chatbot), Grok), job search, and Spaces, a social audio feature. Users can vote on context added by approved users using the Community Notes feature. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), Evan Williams, and was launched in July of that year. Twitter grew quickly; by 2012 more than 100 million users produced 340 million daily tweets. Twitter, Inc., was based in San Francisco, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mouz
Mouz (stylized as MOUZ), formerly mousesports, is a professional esports organisation based in Germany. It fields teams in several games but is particularly known for its '' CS2'' team. MOUZ was one of the founding members of the G7 Teams. History Mousesports was formed in 2002 in Berlin, Germany, as a ''Counter-Strike'' team. The team began to compete in small tournaments, which gradually lead to their progression in larger ones, as well. By 2006, when G7 Teams was created, mousesports was one of the greatest gaming organisations in Europe, consisting of ''Counter-Strike'', ''Warcraft III'', '' Quake 4'', Battlefield 1942 and ''Unreal Tournament'' divisions. On 13 May 2007, mousesports announced that it had acquired Nihilum, the officially recognised premiere worldwide ''World of Warcraft'' organisation, with Nihilum recognised as a subsidiary of mousesports. The guild was remade into a community called "Nihilum: mousesports MMO". Nihilum was mousesports' consistently stro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FaZe Clan
FaZe Clan, or simply FaZe, is a professional esports and entertainment brand. Founded on May 30, 2010, as FaZe Sniping, the organization has professional players and content creators from around the world, across multiple games. In October 2023, an agreement was announced for FaZe Clan's parent company ''FaZe Holdings'' to be acquired by GameSquare in an all stock deal. In May 2024, GameSquare announced the formation of a new company, FaZe Media, led by Richard "FaZe Banks" Bengtson. This formation spins off FaZe Holdings into an esports company, and an internet media company. History FaZe Sniping made its debut on YouTube on May 30, 2010. Originally, the group were a ''Call of Duty'' clan founded by three players, Eric "CLipZ" Rivera, Jeff "House Cat" Emann (now known as "Timid") and Ben "Resistance" Christensen. The trio garnered a reputation for innovating trickshotting in the game '' Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2''. Their YouTube content took off when Ted "Fakie" joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
