Currently, an important tournament is taking place in Berlin for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The pro team G2Esports eliminated all opponents from Astralis at the Berlin Major but still lost the match. Many people are laughing about it right now. Especially the reaction of the German casters is amusing.
What a match it was! The StarLadder Berlin Major 2019 is the second major tournament this year in CS:GO and is sponsored by Valve. There is a prize pool of one million dollars. 24 teams are participating.
In this particular match, G2 Esports, consisting of 5 French players, faced off against the Danes from Astralis. The match took place in the 2nd round of the “Legend Stages”.
Here, teams only play against each other once – the matches go through many rounds.
The mode “Bomb Defuse” was played on Nuke – one team must plant and defend a bomb, while the other team must defuse this bomb. After halftime, the team roles are switched. The team that first wins 16 rounds wins the match.
Team kills opponent, forgets to defuse bomb
Here’s how the match went: In the 1st half, it was relatively close, with Astralis leading 8-7 rounds. But after the switch, it was a clear matter, and Astralis pulled ahead to 15-7 rounds. They only needed one more win.
But everything went against Astralis in the deciding match. Although they managed to plant the bomb, G2 Esports turned up the heat.
The sniper Richard “shox” Papillion got 3 kills, and ultimately all the Danes were defeated.
This is the big mistake: Even though G2 Esports had defeated all opponents, nobody thought of defusing the bomb. No one moved towards it.
It was ticking down peacefully, exploded, and handed Astralis the victory and the decisive 16th point, even though everyone was dead.
Here are the reactions: In the live commentary, you can hear that the commentators cannot believe what is happening. Laughter erupts in the background.
Even the German casters are completely stunned by what happened and react with laughter.
The team leader took his team’s mistake with humor. He posted on Twitter: He loves his players, but cannot accept that bombs are not defused.
Tier-1 players should contact him. He pays the highest salary and also provides bomb-defusal kits.
