Professional CS:GO Players Praise ESL After Another Successful IEM Sydney Event DreamHack \/ Adela SznajderFaZe Clan\u2019s Finn \u2018karrigan\u2019 Andersen and Fnatic\u2019s Jesper \u2018JW\u2019 Wecksell have praised ESL heavily after yet another successful installment of the popular IEM Sydney event. As one of the biggest and best tournament organizers in all of esports, ESL often receives heavy criticism from the various communities who expect near perfection from them and their events. You only need to look at the reactions to their recent broadcasting deal with Facebook, or their handling of the Mythic players that tried to stream a recent ESL qualifier match, to see that they\u2019re not always in everyone\u2019s good books. However, few could deny that their recent Intel Extreme Masters tournaments for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive have been nothing short of brilliant and the $250,000 IEM Sydney was no exception to that rule. Boasting what is arguably the best crowd and atmosphere of any esports tournament this year, IEM Sydney also featured some truly memorable matches as the likes of FaZe Clan, Astralis, Renegades, TyLoo and more all produced some moments of magic. FaZe Clan would eventually go on to win the tournament with a 3-0 series score over Astralis and the team\u2019s in-game leader, Karrigan, was quick to praise ESL\u2019s running and organization of the event. Long travel ahead, but I wanna thank @ESLCS for making so great events time after time. I love the no booth setup because of their sound system on stage. Time after time they prove they are the best in the scene to host events! Cya in Dallas \u2014 FaZe karrigan (@karriganCSGO) May 7, 2018 Karrigan was clearly particularly pleased with their stage and sound setup which doesn\u2019t use the standard soundproof booth system that many now organizers now opt for. That wasn\u2019t the only thing that ESL did right in the opinion of the players though, as JW pointed out that their practice rooms were a \u201cBIG improvement\u201d and noted how important that factor can be for top teams that often travel from event to event with very few breaks. Pracc rooms was Also a BIG improvement this event, it really makes a huge difference when you travel so much imo! \u2014 Jesper Wecksell (@jwCSGO) May 7, 2018 FaZe Clan\u2019s victory over Astralis showed that the super team isn\u2019t dead just yet despite struggling a great deal during their earl group stage matches. Fnatic also proved that they should still be in the conversation as potential tournament winners with a 5th \u2013 6th place finish and strong showings even in their losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Professional CS:GO Players Praise ESL After Another Successful IEM Sydney Event DreamHack \/ Adela SznajderFaZe Clan\u2019s Finn \u2018karrigan\u2019 Andersen and Fnatic\u2019s Jesper \u2018JW\u2019 Wecksell have praised ESL heavily after yet another successful installment of the popular IEM Sydney event. As one of the biggest and best tournament organizers in all of esports, ESL often receives […]<\/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-38819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38819","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=38819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}