Janko Paunovic

Four New Team Stickers in Counter-Strike 2 ‼️ 🇪🇺 FUT Esports, 🇪🇺 SINNERS, 🇧🇷 Gaimin Gladiators, 🇦🇺 THUNDER dOWNUNDER > Also, Vitality has a 53% chance to win IEM Cologne Major 2026 according to Polymarket. 🤔

BIG deny FaZe a spot at the Cologne Major 😢

But this loss is necessary for them to make the sweeping changes needed to start working their way back up That’s why we were saying that making the final in Budapest was the worst thing that could happen to this roster, it gave them false hope

🙏 FaZe still have a shot at the Major — they’re in their first final of 2026. Today they face BIG in the HLC Belgrade PRO final.

This is the BEST Reddit post of all time 😭

Can we stop pretending that teams signing up for 2 simultaneous events is ok? That's a place to start. You can not play simultaneous LAN events where you have "scheduling conflicts"? How about that? Why are you in two simultaneous LAN events if you can't play both and know you likely need to forfeit some matches in one of them? Answer: Because you know that even if you have to forfeit it won't affect your own chance of going to the major (statistically). This is the reason for whats going on in Asia and it is the reason for what FaZe is doing in EU. Therein lies the gaming of the qualification and that is what should be addressed. How about something like if a team forfeits mid event due to "scheduling conflicts", all past wins and future matches in the event will be turned into forfeit defeats as well? That should do the trick. TYLOO only plan like this because they gamed the system and came to the conclusion that it was net-positive in the current model to act like this. FaZe behaved even worse in my opinion. They straight up knew when entering HLC Belgrade that they couldn't play PGL Bucharest opening matches then and still opted for HLC because the punishment they looked into was not hard enough, we have to assume. Why are they not just given 3 forfeit defeats and the -75 pts or so it would cost them? Why are they allowed by PGL to potentially go net-positive in PGL Bucharest, making it worth for them to take the piss on the other teams behaving ethically correct (in my opinion). I hope changes will come 🙏

Classic SINNERS Major race rollercoaster 😭

Another TalkingCounter ep out now! Jason wants me to take a vacation Chad thinks AnimGraph2 would cure male loneliness Reload change not a big deal Liquid was smart to go back to NA Mid-season check up ashhh to FaZe isn't a success guarantee and more 👇