Currently, a Twitch clip of a league match for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is going viral. It shows a team giving up despite being massively in the lead. The reaction of the Twitch streamer to this mistake is really beautiful.
What does the clip show? As reported by Dexerto , it is about a league match of the FPL in CS:GO, the FACEIT Pro League.
The game is actually already decided – one team is leading 11:1.
Then the player Salim0 excitedly calls out: “Please make a pause, pause, pause, please.”
At the same time, a poll pops up on the left side of the screen, quickly receiving 4 plus votes. But then the “Match is over” screen comes up. You can hear some voices shouting: “What the fuck?” The Twitch streamer WoznyTV sinks into his chair, then grins wider and covers his face with both hands.
Team gets baited into surrendering because they follow convention
What happened there? It is common for CS:GO players to immediately agree to a vote when one of the players asks for a pause.
When Salim0 called for a pause and then opened a poll, the team members quickly agreed without checking what the vote was about. They thought it was about whether the game would now be paused.
However, the player did not open a poll for a pause but one about whether to surrender the match. Since evidently no one took the time to check this in the heat of battle, the far superior team ended up surrendering the match.
It is unclear what the player was thinking, whether it was a massive troll attempt on his teammates or if he simply made a mistake because he needed a break so badly.
Streamer’s reaction makes viral Twitch clip so beautiful
The reaction of the Twitch streamer is fantastic; he takes it in stride. In hindsight, he can surely enjoy his mistake: The Twitch clip has already recorded over 130,000 views. The Polish streamer WoznyTV has only about 30 viewers on average and 2,700 followers.
There was also a case in Dota 2 that has become known as “the dumbest task of all time”.
