NIP CEO criticized after joke about BLAST Paris Major stickers tricks CSGO fans Ninjas in PyjamasNinjas in Pyjamas CEO Hicham Chahine has come under fire after putting out a joke post on Twitter about the BLAST Paris Major stickers ahead of the tournament. The BLAST Paris Major is days away and the stickers for the last CS:GO Major ever have yet to drop. In an attempt to conjure some kind of reverse jinx, the NIP CEO boldly posted on Twitter that there would be no stickers for the Major. The post has quickly gained traction, garnering over 200,000 views and almost 1,000 likes, with some believing the post was factual, and others commenting on the joke. \u201cIt\u2019s true, the French unions firebombed all the stickers yesterday during the protests,\u201d Dust2 Editor-in-Chief Ryan Friend said in response to the post. \u201cIs there a reason for this? Surely it\u2019s unrelated to CPH Flames?\u201d 100 Thieves Senior Vice President of esports Jacob Toft-Andersen said. BLAST Paris Major stickers are still coming Chahine, realizing many CS:GO fans had taken his tweet seriously, responded to his own post and said he really has \u201cno info\u201d on when the stickers for the Major will come. \u201cOh wow,\u201d he said. \u201cI was trying to state it wouldn\u2019t happen so they drop tonight.\u201d The follow-up post to clarify his statement has only been viewed about 20,000 times and has seen little traction compared to his initial joke post. Stickers from the event are a way for teams that qualify for the biggest tournament in the esport to make money through Valve\u2019s in-game sale of the cosmetic. Some stickers from previous events have gone for hundreds of thousands of dollars on the resale market. One team was recently accused of \u201cinsider trading\u201d in the CSGO sticker market as its players bought up their organization\u2019s stickers before the company announced it had filed for bankruptcy. NIP is set to compete at the BLAST Paris Major, starting in the Challengers Stage. The team\u2019s first match is against MOUZ on May 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NIP CEO criticized after joke about BLAST Paris Major stickers tricks CSGO fans Ninjas in PyjamasNinjas in Pyjamas CEO Hicham Chahine has come under fire after putting out a joke post on Twitter about the BLAST Paris Major stickers ahead of the tournament. The BLAST Paris Major is days away and the stickers for the […]<\/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-38738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738","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=38738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}