The Round Retake Between MIBR And FURIA Due To The Former’s Toxicity, Kindles Huge Controversy
Anyone who has been online today and is a follower of the professional Counter-Strike must be aware that there has been a tiny controversy that everyone with a pulse has felt the need to weigh in on. Moving forward, this article intends to outline what had happened quite precisely, as well as bring into light the context from both the teams that have further resulted in even more death threats being lobbed about over a video game tournament.
Due to some politicians and police-states result in dead silence, pixels however incite rage as it has never been seen before.
Firstly we shall bring forward some context. This incident includes Brazil and their historic nemesis: Brazil MIBR(GS#18) and FURIA (GS#4) who have hailed from the South American country, and the MIBR fan base is known in the esports as arguably being one of the most toxic fan bases in the world. MIBR is well aware of this as does the rest of the sports world. However, it is simply an aspect of the team at this particular point.
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MIBR is reputed for their toxicity as well, like their player Vito ‘KNG’ Giuseppe has notoriously threatened to murder a rival team member, apparently two years ago for implying that they had shown up late to a final match due to partying. As it had happened that KNG had to be restrained as he was relentlessly searching for player Pujan ‘FNS’ Mehta and the cops had to be informed. So what the involvement of this member at the professional Counter-Strike after that incident is beyond understanding.
As per reports by the MIBR fan base, KNG was defended for threatening to murder another player due to the implication that they both were partying the night before the match. Fans can feel free to re-read the above sentence as many times and as often as necessary.
Added to this, Fernando Fer Alvarenga was reportedly fined by MIBR on June 2, 2020, for passing racist comments against the Blacks on stream.
Even Gabriel FalleN Sguario has faced controversies where he was seen shifting blame for poor performance onto the young talents.
Although they aren’t exactly a team that is full of bright and upstanding members of the society, their performance within the Counter-Strike shouldn’t necessarily be considered through the eyes of personal turmoil that the team has previously experienced.
Furthermore, due to the spread of COVID-19, all the matches are being played online instead of the standard LAN format. This might result in some players feeling a bit better about having to play against MIBR, as it is quite impossible to murder someone over the internet. This whole scenario has resulted in multiple tourney organizers struggling to offer good and stable servers with decent ping to all the teams and Overwatch League has reportedly split teams into regions to circumnavigate this particular issue as has been done by Counter-Strike tourneys and DOTA 2.
The entire above context comes from what had happened on June 16, 2020, in a match that had pitted two Brazilian teams against each other, that is FURIA versus MIBR.
However, the server was struggling hard to maintain the connectivity and network stable for all the players throughout the match with several freezes occurring for the majority of the players. The game was un-ideal at its best and unpleasantly stupid enough to continue playing on the server even in the worst of situations. Additionally, even the webcams were freezing constantly which made for an amusing viewing throughout.
The 25th round of Inferno saw the match locked at 12/12 with both the teams having a middling economy, fer pushed into Banana where he froze but was successfully engaged and eliminated by KSCERATO with an AWP of thirty-one seconds into the round.
After having the successful engagement, MIBR had called NL which means Not Live which marked the starting of a technical pause.
The main purpose of the technical pause was to recognize whether or not the round should have restarted, and it was ultimately the decision of FURIA that mattered. As it goes, MIBR had brought in thirteen damages from FalleN’s tweeted video onto KSCERATO at the moment that fer was downed but not having fer for the remaining part of the round guarding B which meant that B was left completely open for a plant and retake that would further tilt the rest of the map’s economy in favor of FURIA.
Moving forward the teams took to the match Discord server which is standard practice to discuss precisely what had occurred and what should happen.
Moreover, it is worth noting that this is not the first crash that has happened in such a crucial moment as FaZe versus C9 in Katowice 2018 had Guardian crashing that led both the teams opting to favor a round restart to ensure an even ground.
Unfortunately, C9 who had voluntarily gave up the advantage they had on the round, ended up losing due to it. However, this showed their honest sportsmanship and something that many would consider being a standard fare regarding the example that professional Counter-Strike players must consider to exude while in the public eye.
When the teams were busy discussing it with the admins in the Discord server, FalleN opted to use Twitter to display everyone most accurately, as to what the freeze looked like which further sent fans into a frenzy.
It was then that FURIA’s CEO opted to make the call for the players, choosing to reset the round in its entirety. Furthermore, several allegations have been stated saying that the decision to restart the round was only made after FURIA’s CEO was pressured on Twitter, although the made allegation was quite difficult to prove beyond just being a doubt.
As it was seen within the Discord chat-logs that the FURIA players had stated that they did not want to get involved or related with the decision whatsoever it was, as they were likely attempting to avoid any sort of crap-cyclone that would inevitably surface and therefore requested their coach and CEO to make the final decision.
Sp without any anticipation or any other attempt to sway the decision, although all of it clearly showed the favor being in the decision to continue the round; they finally offered the decision to whatever powers may be.
After all this, it is still unclear whether or not the round should have been reset or not, however it’s clear that fer did not have any sort of control over his avatar in the game which cost him his life. He wasn’t outplayed but merely disconnected. FURIA on the other hand did not have to as they had a player take the damage before the freeze.
Finally, MIBR returned and beat FURIA in a clean-sweep (2-0). Now the followers might presume that this would be the absolute end of it as MIBR had received a ruling that was in their favor and fair enough as well, and beyond that, they had also come up with a massive victory that further moved them into the upper bracket of BLAST Premier Spring.
But unfortunately, things weren’t the same and have brought in many questions about the roles of the admins within the Counter-Strike and as it happened that the MIBR players had once again taken to their Twitter account to throw shade at everyone while on the other hand, their fans went ahead to threaten anyone who called them out.
Therefore, firstly it needs to be questioned as to why the admins and the officials of the tourneys did not make decisions for the team regarding if and when a round reset should have happened. The whole matter is quite baffling as the momentum was placed on the players to decide when there should there be clear-cut rules to guide the game play. This means that there was simply very little room available for who knows when it comes to the matter of regulated tournaments.
Secondly, MIBR has been continuing to show that they are indeed one of the most toxic teams included in the Counter-Strike realm, and this needs to be addressed quite eventually. After the completion of the match, fer tweeted out a fascinating complex message towards FURIA calling them shit after they chose to reset the round and lead to MIBR winning. To which, Jake Stewie2k Yip responded almost instantly.
What was even more puzzling was that the ruling went directly against the rule book, segment 10/6/3. He stated that if the issue takes place during a round after the damage has occurred then the outcome of the round could still be determined. For example, if a single player opted to drop but the other players remained then the round shall continue to be played and will get counted as well.
With this statement being made, it appears that the admins themselves might be attempting to dodge MIBR’s fury and that f their fans by placing the entire decision in the hands of the players and by removing themselves from their one job to do so.
After one more such incident coming from MIBR’s consistent misconduct and misbehavior, and also unprofessionalism within the play, many are requesting that MIBR should simply be removed from any future Counter-Strike tournaments and that the other teams should consider to opt-out when MIBR intends to get included. This is quite a difficult mandate as the teams need to play to receive an income from the game and backing out from the games in the future won’t be financially viable, as has been shown by Astralis who have been continuing to play with a gimped roster. However, this is a strong suggestion that precisely shows how everyone is totally over MIBR’s pranks.
As of now, MIBR is using its internet influence as one of the most dominant esport leagues in Brazil to attack and harass FURIA, and no one has to anything about it. This is likely because MIBR looks a bit crazy every time to choose to step into the spotlight and there’s surety as to what they might be planning to do or attempt next.
With the kind of weak or almost negligible grasp at its best that Valve now has over the Counter-Strike tourneys, it however seems that MIBR shall continue to do anything they want to do shortly as well. This is quite a shame that being such a large representative of Brazil, it is such a disastrous representation of the whole country.
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