FaZe Twistzz slams BLAST over Spring Final schedule: \u201c[It\u2019s] bullsh*t\u201d Jo\u00e3o Ferreira\/DexertoFaZe CSGO star Russel \u2018Twistzz\u2019 Van Dulken has lashed out at BLAST over the condensed schedule of the BLAST Premier Spring Final. With the group stage in the rearview mirror, FaZe find themselves in a do-or-die situation at the BLAST Premier Spring Final as they prepare to meet Vitality in the opening round of the playoffs. FaZe placed second in Group B following a 2-0 defeat to Heroic in the winners\u2019 match. The series ended past midnight because of the tournament\u2019s packed schedule during the group stage, which had four best-of-three series per day. With the three preceding matches being very close affairs and two of them going the full distance, the start time of the FaZe versus Vitality series was pushed back several hours to almost 10 pm. While Twistzz congratulated Heroic for the victory, he said that \u201cto have a schedule that can put teams in this position is bullsh*t.\u201d \u201cImagine if C9 and vitality [had gone to] three maps,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cOur BO3 would have started at 11 pm most likely. [We] should be treated like humans first.\u201d In August 2020, the Counter-Strike Professional Players\u2019 Association (CSPPA) reached an agreement with ESL regarding the schedule of tournaments in an effort to reduce the players\u2019 workload. One of the things that were discussed was a change to the start time of matches so that they cannot end past midnight. However, Twistzz noted that there is no such agreement between the CSPPA and BLAST. During last year\u2019s Spring and Fall Final, there were also four matches a day during the group stage. In a subsequent tweet, Twistzz noted that these delayed matches \u201cadd to burnout at the end of the day\u201d and that there are more issues he cannot talk about publicly. To prevent long days like this, he suggested that tournament organizers should have two streams running at the same time. Twistzz is one of the players who have openly addressed the issue of burnout during this final leg of the tournament season (the player break will begin the day after the BLAST event). In late April, shortly after FaZe were eliminated from IEM Rio, he admitted to being \u201cexhausted\u201d after \u201ca stressful few weeks\u201d in which the team had to fight its way through the last-chance qualifier for the BLAST Paris Major. \u201cOne too many days on low sleep, no appetite,\u201d he said. The BLAST Premier Spring Final schedule eases up considerably after the group stage as there will be only two matches on Friday and Saturday before Sunday\u2019s grand final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FaZe Twistzz slams BLAST over Spring Final schedule: \u201c[It\u2019s] bullsh*t\u201d Jo\u00e3o Ferreira\/DexertoFaZe CSGO star Russel \u2018Twistzz\u2019 Van Dulken has lashed out at BLAST over the condensed schedule of the BLAST Premier Spring Final. With the group stage in the rearview mirror, FaZe find themselves in a do-or-die situation at the BLAST Premier Spring Final as […]<\/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-38259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38259","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=38259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}