k0nfig weighs in on solutions for \u201cmessed up\u201d ESL Pro League crowd drama Complexity Gaming star Kristian \u2018k0nfig\u2019 Wienecke has weighed in on the CSGO debate surrounding active fan participation, and suggested implementing player booths might solve the recent \u201cmessed up\u201d ESL Pro League crowd drama. During mousesports\u2019 shock upset over the era-defining Astralis roster at Odense, it appeared the Danish crowd was offering their hometown heroes extra help through cheers and yells, helping Andreas \u2018Xyp9x\u2019 H\u00f8jsleth score a stunning wallbang. Of course, many were less than pleased with Astralis\u2019 taking advantage of the noise, especially after Peter \u2018dupreeh\u2019 Rasmussen was involved the help after damning the same situation when it went against his team in New York. Now Counter-Strike veteran k0nfig has offered his own thoughts on the situation, suggesting closed-in player booths may be the best option for tournament organizers after admitting every player, including himself, uses the crowd at times. \u201cI hope I don\u2019t get banned, but even I sometimes use [the crowd]\u2026 if you\u2019re flashing, you can hear in the speaker if the flash explodes, and you know they\u2019re blind and you know someone is near you,\u201d k0nfig explained on HLTV\u2019s podcast. \u201cYou use it to your advantage all the time, and when you\u2019re sitting at home you can\u2019t use it, so I don\u2019t think it should be a possible thing to use at tournaments. \u201cYou see shox [Vitality\u2019s Richard \u2018shox\u2019 Papillon] and all these types of players shaking their aim at the wall as well, and if the crowd shouts \u201cYeah!\u201d then you know he\u2019s right there, and you\u2019re going to shoot him. I don\u2019t think that should be an option in Counter-Strike, that\u2019s messed up.\u201d According to the Complexity star, who spent the past two years representing OpTic Gaming at various majors before making the switch to the NA roster, the best solution for events would be silenced player booths with one-way mirrors. \u201cIf everyone had booths where the glass was black on [the player\u2019s] side, but fans can see in, that would be the perfect solution, but that removes some kind of player involvement things, you don\u2019t feel the crowd as much,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can\u2019t see every movement [with that], and the players would be completely boxed in. That\u2019s the only problem I have with that idea really.\u201d Wienecke admitted that there were some issues with booths that meant TOs weren\u2019t always willing to look into the option, including US fire regulations, and the fact the players were locked away from participation at all. Considering many fans pay their money for tickets to see the game\u2019s biggest stars up close, interacting with the crowd, celebrating their victories, and mourning their defeats, removing that element would kill a major part of LAN-event hype. Despite those counter-points, k0nfig concluded the integrity of the tournament, and the safety of players, were the two most important factors in the discussion. \u201cI feel the booths are totally better because [without them] you can hear claps, and you can hear everything that is happening,\u201d he added. \u201cI was at Blast [Pro Series], and I was sitting next to the confetti explosion, and when we were playing it went off and I got the biggest shock of my life. I thought I got killed at the tournament, that\u2019s how bad it was. \u201cSame thing at Katowice, I was standing behind that fire sh*t and it f**cking blew up and I was touching my head because it smelled burned. I thought \u2018this guy just burned my head off.\u2019 I think booths are the safest choice, that\u2019s my idea.\u201d K0nfig\u2019s soundproof booth idea has been echoed by other players too, including Astralis\u2019 Xyp9x, who said if it was done \u201cproperly\u201d then there wouldn\u2019t be a problem with the crowd\u2019s \u201cundue outside sound\u201d interfering with matches. While there\u2019s many in the CSGO community that would likely fall on either side of the argument, there\u2019s no clear solution straight off the bat \u2014 especially considering other esports have forgone soundproof booths in recent years. Starcraft was renowned for using soundproof booths, leading South Korea\u2019s League of Legends competition to employ a similar setup. This was scrapped by Riot Games in the LCK recently, however, to promote crowd participation. For now, CSGO faces a waiting game: the player\u2019s association and organizers will have to settle on a new course of action, hopefully before a massive tournament or Major is decided by one boisterous fan in the crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
k0nfig weighs in on solutions for \u201cmessed up\u201d ESL Pro League crowd drama Complexity Gaming star Kristian \u2018k0nfig\u2019 Wienecke has weighed in on the CSGO debate surrounding active fan participation, and suggested implementing player booths might solve the recent \u201cmessed up\u201d ESL Pro League crowd drama. During mousesports\u2019 shock upset over the era-defining Astralis roster […]<\/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-38536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38536","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=38536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}