ALEX explains why CSGO player strike was justified after BLAST drama StarLadderCloud9\u2019s Alex \u2018ALEX\u2019 McMeekin may not have been part of the eight CS:GO teams who were going to strike during the BLAST Premier Fall 2020 Finals, but he is standing in solidarity with the players saying they were justified in taking action against them for their handling of voice comms. BLAST once again came under fire from CS:GO players during the Fall Finals. The tournament organizer reportedly planned to used players voice comms in an \u201charmful and illegal\u201d matter, according to the CSPPA. This led to the players striking, ultimately delaying \u2014 but not canceling \u2014 the finals broadcast. However, while a resolution was found, the players are still unsure of what\u2019s happening due to a lack of communication between BLAST, the CSPPA, and their teams, according to ALEX. \u201cSomeone\u2019s lying\u2026\u201d@CSGOALEX discusses the CSPPA delaying the #BLASTPremier Fall Finals. \ud83c\udf99 Full Interview: https:\/\/t.co\/ndx7O7HkXf pic.twitter.com\/pB6jr2M3Ll \u2014 Dexerto (@Dexerto) December 17, 2020 \u201cNo one knows what\u2019s going on, at least within the players. I\u2019ve spoken to multiple players, and for us, no one knew this was sorted on November 23, and that\u2019s why the strike action was taken,\u201d he told Dexerto. \u201cIf it was made public, or privately passed on to the players or the CSPPA that this was dealt with and players were aware, then they wouldn\u2019t have had to strike for it.\u201d ALEX also criticized those who were claiming the player strike was unnecessary. Given the coaching bug abuse and other scandals across 2020, the voice comms issue was seen as a small issue to strike over. However, the Cloud9 star believes that no player would strike without reason. Every pro wants to play the game, and they want answers as to why they weren\u2019t kept in the loop while teams were. \u201cWhat I don\u2019t understand is that people aren\u2019t striking because they want to \u2014 everyone wants to play the game. But I can tell you from my understanding\u2026they didn\u2019t know that it was resolved, and for me, that justifies the fact that they did it.\u201d Segment begins at 14:11 \u201cThat brings up a greater issue: Was it resolved and players weren\u2019t told? By orgs? By the players\u2019 association? That\u2019s where we should be investigating right now between BLAST saying it was resolved and players not knowing. Someone is lying somewhere, and we need to find out what happened, because it\u2019s literally destroying the players\u2019 association reputation.\u201d He also shot down the assumption BLAST were blindsided by players. According to ALEX, players were aware of the issues during the Showdown before the finals. However, because it wasn\u2019t fixed \u2014 and there are legal ramifications behind it \u2014 the players were left with no choice. \u201cWe were asked to have this movement done for the BLAST Fall Showdown, but it was canceled because BLAST responded to the CSPPA\u2019s messages\u2026so to say that they weren\u2019t aware it was going to happen seems a bit weird to me.\u201d \u201cWas this worth strike action? In my opinion, yes. What we were told was voice comms were leaked from one team to another \u2014 or in some way \u2014 and that can\u2019t happen. There\u2019s so much sensitive information in them that would give a team an advantage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ALEX explains why CSGO player strike was justified after BLAST drama StarLadderCloud9\u2019s Alex \u2018ALEX\u2019 McMeekin may not have been part of the eight CS:GO teams who were going to strike during the BLAST Premier Fall 2020 Finals, but he is standing in solidarity with the players saying they were justified in taking action against them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}