Professional CS:GO Players Tested for Performance-Enhancing Drugs at the ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals ESLProfessional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players were tested for performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) at the ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals. The EPL finals, which began on May 15th and concluded on May 20th in Dallas, Texas, featured an impressive $750,000 prize pool and some of the best CS:GO teams on Earth. However, one aspect of some ESL competitions that rarely receives much attention is the fact that ESL is one of very few tournament organizers to enforce random drugs tests for competitors. ESL originally announced that they were introducing an anti-doping policy back in 2015 but the community rarely hears or sees any evidence of this being enforced. Read More: FaZe Clan\u2019s rain Stays True to His Word With Hilarious Forfeit Following ESL Pro League Grand Final – However, a number of professional players seem to have been tested following Group Stage matches at the Pro League Finals, including Astralis\u2019 Nicolai \u2018device\u2019 Reedtz and Mousesports\u2019 Miikka \u2018suNny\u2019 Kemppi. Following his team\u2019s loss to FaZe Clan, and a personally poor performance of 21-43 across the series, suNny took to Twitter to joke that it was \u201ckinda funny\u201d to get drug tested given the circumstances. Device also confirmed that he was being drug tested following Astralis\u2019 2-0 victory over SK Gaming in Group B. The Danish star seemed fairly confident in a Snapchat post after the match so fans shouldn\u2019t be too concerned about the results!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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