Aurora Gaming 🇹🇷 2-1 🇪🇺 Team Falcons

Anubis: 8-13
Dust2: 19-17
Nuke: 13-9
 

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Event Information

TP World Championship 2026 | 🇲🇹 Malta ($1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Team Information

🇹🇷 Aurora Gaming | Liquipedia | HLTV | Faceit | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇹🇷 XANTARES | 🇹🇷 Wicadia | 🇹🇷 woxic ⊕ | 🇫🇮 Jimpphat | 🇲🇰 kyxsan ♛
Coach: 🇬🇧 ashhh
Subs/Benched: 🇹🇷 MAJ3R | 🇷🇺 deko

🇪🇺 Team Falcons | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇧🇦 NiKo | 🇩🇰 TeSeS | 🇷🇺 m0NESY ⊕ | 🇷🇺 kyousuke | 🇩🇰 karrigan ♛
Coach: 🇩🇰 zonic

^{Note: Above rosters do not reflect temporary subs and may be out of date if recent changes were made}

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MAP 1: Anubis

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MAP 2: Dust2

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MAP 3: Nuke

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Source: the QoL Gang

Aurora just took down Falcons in Thunderpick world championship, Kyxsan must be feeling good rn

with a 2nd at best, they have yet to claim a trophy with this roster

When do you think is that Aurora trophy coming?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3821202731

What about the triple scratches? Should they be replaced with single scratches?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ-UxRtptH0

Some kind of tape i guess?

I'm a Chinese Counter-Strike fan, and I genuinely think the international CS community deserves to know about this. (Note to Mods: This post is strictly about public esports integrity regarding the professional standards of Perfect World Esports, an official Valve partner and Major organizer.)

Recently, screenshots have been circulating on Chinese social media showing chat logs attributed to an official in-house community editor at Perfect World Esports — the official publisher of CS2 in China and the organizer of the 2024 Shanghai Major.

Because these screenshots rely heavily on Chinese internet slang and wordplay, a direct translation doesn't capture their meaning. Here is the context and breakdown for those who don't read Chinese:

1. The "58" (Fatherless) Slang Targeting ropz, ZywOo, and flameZ

In Chinese, the number "58" (pronounced Wǔ Bā) sounds almost identical to "无爸" (Wú Bà, literally meaning "no dad" or "fatherless"). It is a derogatory internet slang used to mock people from single-parent families or those who have lost their fathers.

In the first screenshot, when a user mentioned ropz, ZywOo, and flameZ, the editor replied:

"Let me tell a dark joke. These three have something in common: It's so unfair, kyousuke is also '58' [fatherless], where is Falcons' trophy? Guess the power of '58' [being fatherless] is getting weak."

1. Mocking ZywOo's Upbringing and Family Circumstances, and the Infamous Shanghai Major Interview Question

Across multiple screenshots from different months, this account repeatedly targets ZywOo's family background:

- Comparing players: When asked who is better between 2025 ZywOo and 2024 donk, the account replied: "2025 ZywOo. Unless you're comparing how happy and complete their families are."

- Fill-in-the-blank remark: In another screenshot, the account mocked ZywOo by typing: "How can ZywOo just take someone's clothes? Didn't his ____ [intentionally left blank to imply 'father'] teach him since childhood that taking things is wrong?"

- The "for father" remark: When a user noted that ZywOo reached 32 MVPs and could hit 40, the editor replied: "Then [someone] would have to xx [pass away]..." followed by "Anyone get the 'for father' reference?"

During the 2024 Shanghai Major (organized by Perfect World), ZywOo was bizarrely asked during an official interview:

"This is a question people often ask: Who do you like more, your father or your mother?" (To which ZywOo answered: "Mom, definitely mom.")

At the time, many thought it was just an awkward or poorly researched question. However, seeing how Perfect World's own editorial staff privately obsess over "fatherless" jokes targeting ZywOo makes this official interview question look far more disturbing and deliberate.

Let me make something clear: this is not normal esports banter.

We all joke about missed shots, bad performances, chokes, and rivalries. That's part of Counter-Strike culture. But repeatedly mocking pro players over deceased family members or single-parent upbringings crosses a completely different line.

What makes this situation particularly unacceptable is that the person behind these remarks is not a random internet user, but someone identified as an official Perfect World Esports staff member (who even publicly claimed on Baidu Tieba to have nearly 8 years of experience in CS media before deleting all their posts). Perfect World hosts Valve-sponsored events and represents the official CS2 ecosystem in China. "It's just dark humor" is not an acceptable excuse for someone working professionally in the industry.

To be clear, these screenshots and the individual's employment status should be independently verified, and this is strictly a call for professional accountability from an official tournament organizer.

I believe Perfect World Esports owes the community answers to three questions:

1. Is the individual behind these remarks an official member of its editorial or community staff?

2. Does Perfect World consider these remarks—and the Shanghai Major interview question—consistent with its professional standards?

3. If authentic, what steps will the company take to address this and prevent similar behavior in the future?

Until Perfect World issues a full public statement addressing these concerns, I have to ask whether it should continue to be entrusted with organizing major CS events in China. If it cannot provide a convincing explanation, I would rather see ESL take over the organization of the Shanghai Major than see Perfect World continue in that role. I recognize that any change would depend on the relevant rights holders and stakeholders, but I believe this is a question the community is entitled to ask.

Professional players deserve basic human respect, regardless of which team they represent or which country they come from.

Perfect World owes the players and the Counter-Strike community an explanation.

Source in finnish: https://www.iltalehti.fi/pelitjaesports/a/5268d0f1-1289-4233-8248-e750e4f5808d

Prosecutor seeks four-month suspended prison sentence for Finnish Counter-Strike player Aleksib over aggravated tax fraud

The prosecutor is seeking a four-month suspended prison sentence for Finnish Counter-Strike player Aleksi “Aleksib” Virolainen, 29, for aggravated tax fraud. According to the charges read out at the Eastern Uusimaa District Court on Friday, he failed to declare tens of thousands of euros in income received from the American gaming company Valve Corporation to the Finnish Tax Administration.

The alleged offence took place in Vantaa between May 19, 2020, and September 22, 2020.

According to the application for a summons, Virolainen failed to return his pre-completed tax return for 2019 and did not declare payments he had received from Valve that were missing from the return.

According to the prosecutor, the undeclared taxable income amounted to more than €53,000. As a result, his income tax was assessed at more than €28,000 below the correct amount. The prosecutor argues that Virolainen sought to obtain a substantial financial benefit and that, when assessed as a whole, the offence should therefore be considered aggravated.

Virolainen admits that he failed to declare more than €53,000 to the tax authorities. However, he denies that his actions were intentional or that he sought to obtain a financial benefit. According to his defence, the undeclared income came from the sale of so-called stickers in the Counter-Strike game.

At the time of the events, Virolainen was 22 years old. According to the defence, he did not understand that this type of income was taxable. Tax had already been withheld at source from his regular employment income, so he believed his tax obligations had already been taken care of.

The District Court will deliver its verdict in the case at a later date.

FlyQuest 🇦🇺 1-2 🇲🇳 NEXVOID

Ancient: 7-13
Dust2: 13-6
Inferno: 11-13
 

Predicted VRS Impact

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Event Information

DFRAG Logitech G Pro Series 2026 | 🇦🇺 Brisbane ($13.89k LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Team Information

🇦🇺 FlyQuest | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇦🇺 INS | 🇦🇺 Vexite | 🇳🇿 nettik | 🇦🇺 jks | 🇦🇺 aliStair ♛ ⊕
Coach: 🇦🇺 AZR

🇲🇳 NEXVOID | Liquipedia | HLTV | Faceit | Facebook | Instagram
Roster: 🇲🇳 erkaSt | 🇲🇳 AccuracyTG ⊕ | 🇲🇳 Zesta | 🇲🇳 MiQ | 🇲🇳 xerolte
Coach: 🇲🇳 Diesen

^{Note: Above rosters do not reflect temporary subs and may be out of date if recent changes were made}

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MAP 2: Dust2

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MAP 3: Inferno

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i predicted this would happen, winning a major at a young age and getting paid a shit ton of money in salary, hes mentally checked out and doesnt care anymore, hes already won what everyone wants. Or he does care but refuses to change his playstyle because hes won a major and thinks everything he does is correct.

He's cooked, falcons will likely bench him post major (if they dont win it)

Five Custom Paint Jobs in layered paper, each inspired by one piece of math and fitted to its gun's parts. The palette is the red, yellow, blue and black of Oliver Byrne's 1847 Euclid, which taught geometry in coloured shapes.

- M4A1-S | Overtone: a square wave as a sum of sine waves. Nine harmonics by the stock, one fewer every half wave towards the muzzle, and a single sine on the silencer.

- M4A4 | Eightfold: the Ammann–Beenker tiling, squares and rhombs that never repeat, with its eightfold star on the receiver.

- M4A4 | Switchback: Truchet tiles whose arcs join into paths that wind and double back; four of them close into a circle over the magazine well.

- USP-S | Escape Time: the Basilica Julia set (z → z² − 1) in paper on a navy slide, its contours running over the frame and the silencer.

- Glock-18 | Golden Mean: golden squares spiralling in to a point on the slide, each with a quarter circle, drawn like a textbook figure.

Every step between two sheets is in the normal map, the paper has a faint pearl sheen, and the wear runs 0.00–0.50. Each one hides a registration target and a colour bar for the inspect.

Collection: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3820956682

Happy to hear what works and what doesn't.

Team Falcons 🇪🇺 1-2 🇷🇺 BB Team

Anubis: 13-5
Dust2: 14-16
Mirage: 7-13
 

🇷🇺 BB Team advance to Grand Final and will face 🇧🇷 FURIA

Predicted VRS Impact

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Event Information

TP World Championship 2026 | 🇲🇹 Malta ($1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Team Information

🇪🇺 Team Falcons | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇧🇦 NiKo | 🇩🇰 TeSeS | 🇷🇺 m0NESY ⊕ | 🇷🇺 kyousuke | 🇩🇰 karrigan ♛
Coach: 🇩🇰 zonic

🇷🇺 BB Team | Liquipedia | HLTV | Faceit | YouTube
Roster: 🇷🇺 s1ren | 🇷🇺 zorte ⊕ | 🇷🇺 Magnojez | 🇷🇺 Boombl4 ♛ | 🇷🇺 d1Ledez
Coach: 🇷🇺 Fierce
Subs/Benched: 🇷🇺 ArtFr0st

^{Note: Above rosters do not reflect temporary subs and may be out of date if recent changes were made}

Map Vetoes

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MAP 1: Anubis

Anubis Detailed Stats

MAP 2: Dust2

Dust2 Detailed Stats

MAP 3: Mirage

Mirage Detailed Stats

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Video showcases a severe advantage of peeking versus older games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYQbH34k9Fs

Any predictions?