CSGO pros slam ESL over proposed changes to Rio Major ruleset ESLCounter-Strike: Global Offensive pros have criticized ESL over proposed changes to coach involvement for the Rio Major, saying the move will benefit some teams disproportionally. With CS:GO making the shift to full online events, coaches have had the chance to direct teams more than ever before. With competitive integrity rules becoming increasingly difficult to implement, ESL are reportedly cracking down on the involvement of coaches in-game. However, the move has been widely criticized by pros from all levels of play. The changes, initially reported by DBLTAP, would \u201cbar coaches from participating in the server and will also disallow them from participating in the voice chat.\u201d It\u2019ll go to a player vote, where all teams must vote to keep the current rules in place, or the changes will be shipped through. It\u2019s a further crackdown on how coaches can interact with their players in-game. Previously, coaches had open mics for the entire game, before sweeping changes in 2016 banned them from talking mid-round. However, since the shift to online play, it\u2019s been harder to monitor just how much input coaches are having. For teams living under the same roof, they could just communicate by muting their mics between rounds, and admins won\u2019t detect it. why would a team without a coach just say no to the vote to strategically screw over the other teams? it would just make the most sense if you don’t have a coach to say no so the vote doesn’t pass unanimously and I can already guarantee you that some team is already doing this \u2014 Jonathan Jablonowski (@EliGE) April 20, 2020 Team Liquid\u2019s Jonathan \u2018EliGE\u2019 Jablonowski has, however, criticized ESL\u2019s implementation of the rule, saying it\u2019s likely to pass thanks to just one team voting to change the rules. \u201cWhy would a team without a coach just say no to the vote to strategically screw over the other teams,\u201d he said in an April 20 tweet. \u201cIt would just make the most sense if you don\u2019t have a coach to say no so the vote doesn\u2019t pass unanimously.\u201d The Team Liquid star was backed up by Astralis AWPer Nicolai \u2018dev1ce\u2019 Reedtz, who said too much power is being placed in one team\u2019s hands. \u201cThat ESL coach vote is wack,\u201d he added. \u201cHow doesn\u2019t it go by majority at least?\u201d EliGE also demonstrated just how easy the system is to cheat, saying \u201cvideo loops\u201d could be set up to throw admins off, even if webcams are enabled. The proposed changes, if they go through, would apply to the Road to Rio Major qualifiers, and could be implemented down the line for future online events. This would include the ESL Pro League, which both dev1ce and EliGE participate in. A verdict is expected to be handed down in the coming days, with the Road to Rio starting on April 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CSGO pros slam ESL over proposed changes to Rio Major ruleset ESLCounter-Strike: Global Offensive pros have criticized ESL over proposed changes to coach involvement for the Rio Major, saying the move will benefit some teams disproportionally. With CS:GO making the shift to full online events, coaches have had the chance to direct teams more than […]<\/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-37858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37858","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=37858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}