PGL Major to feature on-site talent for playoffs after CSGO community backlash Jonatan Svensson Glad \/ PGLPGL will fly the Major broadcast team out to Stockholm for the event\u2019s knockout stages following community backlash, the company\u2019s CEO, Silviu Stroie, has announced. On October 4, PGL unveiled the English language broadcast team for its upcoming CS:GO Major, with Dexerto\u2019s Editor-at-Large, Richard Lewis, included on the star-studded list as host. Community response to the announcement was positive, but then it came to light that the broadcast team would be operating remotely from PGL\u2019s studios in Romania for the entirety of the event. With the playoffs being held in front of a live crowd inside Stockholm\u2019s Avicii Arena, the decision to keep talent in a separate location left many dumbfounded. It also sparked fears that the quality of the broadcast would be severely impacted. Major with on-site talent PGL CEO Silviu Stroie has now revealed on Twitter that the company have backtracked on their decision to keep talent remote after listening to the community: \u201cYour voices have been heard.\u201d Your voices have been heard. The PGL CSGO Major Stockholm 2021 talent team will be with you inside Avicii Arena.\u2014 Silviu Stroie (@ssilviu) October 8, 2021 The broadcast team will be at the Avicii Arena for the playoff stages of the event, between November 4-7. By then, the competition will have been whittled down to the last eight teams following the Challengers and the Legends stages, which will be held without an audience. Tickets for the showpiece event, the first Counter-Strike Major in over two years because of the global health crisis, went on sale on September 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PGL Major to feature on-site talent for playoffs after CSGO community backlash Jonatan Svensson Glad \/ PGLPGL will fly the Major broadcast team out to Stockholm for the event\u2019s knockout stages following community backlash, the company\u2019s CEO, Silviu Stroie, has announced. On October 4, PGL unveiled the English language broadcast team for its upcoming CS:GO […]<\/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-38803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38803","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=38803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}