Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
TheCounter Strike : Global Offensivesemifinal match between Chaos Esports Club and Team Liquid has been detain due to both teams stand in solidarity with on-going protest against police brutality . The protests have been go on since May when George Floyd was extrajudicially kill by former police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis , and they have been going ever since . On August 25th , an unarmed black world distinguish Jacob Blake was shot in the back seven times by the police in Kenosha , Wisconsin and has become another point of wrath and frustration for the protests and the country .
Both ChaosEC and Team Liquid are well known in theCS : GOcommunity and interpret some of the best players currently vie . The challenger is the North American ESL Cologne tourney , which is one of thebiggestCS : GOtournaments hostedannually . This year , it ’s being hosted amply digitally due to the Coronavirus pandemic and has been split into four divisions gear up across different Continent . ChaosEC and Team Liquid represent a fourth of the qualified North American squad and one-half of the remain competitor .
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ChaosECandTeam Liquidboth came onwards on Twitter to say that they would delay their peer as a public action to bring attention to the on-going protestation against police brutality . Chaos Esports Club ’s initial statement to Twitter say ,
" Now is not the clip for games . We are mad . We are play out . We know that gaming is part of the problem . We will not be competing in today ’s ESL One Cologne 2020 match against Team Liquid so as to do our part to move the light where it go - on the protestation against this country ’s stay on systemic racialism and police brutality . "
Team liquid released a similar command tell that they support ChaosEC ’s decision and would follow suit . Soon after , theESL Counter Striketwitter told fans that they had hold over the peer until later in the week in accompaniment of both teams ' decisions . The match was rescheduled for a day after at two in the good afternoon , which is the same time as the other semi - net match between Evil Geniuses and FURIA Esports .
The reply to this postponement on Twitter has been sundry . Many fans have voice their support of the delay and the care it has given to the dissent , but not everyone has been so prescribed . There have been many threads of different Twitter users debating if the delay and the tidings that follows will have any consequence , as well as more violently worded contention about whether theprotests have any virtue . It is light though , that this action has actuate conversation online about the protests and about police force brutality , which was ChaosEC ’s initial goal .
Protests and societal motion needpeople with platform to back them to succeed . In this digital age , attention is superpower . Problems like systemic racial discrimination exist within every level of society including atCS : GOtournaments , so it ca n’t be said that this action is pertinent to the the great unwashed taking it . There can be an argument that the histrion on both of these squad could have supported the protestation with their platforms without disrupting the tournament ’s schedule , but that would n’t have had as large of an burden . fan of both of these teams should be proud of them for doing what they can , and be thankful it came at the small price of a single Clarence Shepard Day Jr. ’s waiting .
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Sources : Rod Breslau , ESL Counter - ten-strike
