Professionals from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive cannot afford to make mistakes, as a match can often be lost. However, now it’s not a professional making a mistake, but the game itself. The bomb is bugged.
This is the situation: In a qualification for eXTREMESLAND 2019, an Asian CS:GO tournament, two teams from Oceania are competing for qualification.
The team from Avant Gaming was ahead in several matches and was close to victory when a surprising bug sealed their triumph completely: the bomb to be defused had simply bugged into the ground and could not be disabled.
At least a bug cost them the match. Recently, a team forgot to defuse the bomb and lost the round.
A bug cost the match victory
Check out the bug here: The bugged bomb is clearly visible in a Twitch stream. The professional BURNRUOk was just on his way to the bomb when he unexpectedly found it not on the street but under the street. It could have meant a turning point in the match, as the pro was in a 1-vs-4 situation.
Even the commentator couldn’t quite grasp the situation: “The bomb is under the map?! What the fuck?!”
How crucial was the bug? Before this match, Ground Zero Gaming, the team of BURNRUOk, was clearly behind. Nevertheless, this round was the final blow for the eSports athletes. They lost 16:12 and could not secure a place in the tournament.
Now one might say that the bug wouldn’t change the situation at all and that Ground Zero would have lost anyway, but this way they didn’t get another chance and lost definitively due to an annoying bug.
CS:GO is not the only game affected by bugs in tournaments. Here is an example from the battle royale of Fortnite:
