The guy already stopped by himself and they decided to smash him into the trophy
Counter-Strike skin betting platform CSGOEmpire has claimed responsibility for the stunt. “Some of our men are on the ground in handcuffs,” wrote CSGOEmpire founder Monarch on X after the incident. “But we fucking did it, boys.”
Why do skin betting sites claim responsibility for stupid stunts as if they’re doing terrorist attacks
Stupid stunt notwithstanding, the Counter Strike game is about terrorists vs. counter-terrorists so it’s at least thematically on point?
So is this a T win?
Rush B no stop always works.
It also creates media attention, which is a plus i’m guessing.
Oof, and the organiser of this stunt isn’t just doubling down, or tripling down, he’s quadrupling down on it.
What an idiotic hill to die on
Negative attention is PR, never the less. It will drag on in courts. Probably pay a small fine but the $$$ from publicity stunt to outweigh court fine
This hasn’t always been the case, valve has taken action before to ruin gambling sites and the attention could negatively affect them
Here’s a video of it. I couldn’t see anything on the linked website.
The guy that tackled him into the trophy will remember that for the rest of his life. Ouch.
what in the ever living fuck is a skin gambling site, and why do they have beef.
CS is awash with gambling websites that let you bet on the outcome of a match and potentially win some weapon skins. As for the reasons for the stunt, it’s explained in the article.
The response time to that “rush” was god awful. This is what happens when you pick the bottom of the barrel security agency to do event sec work
The problem with event sec (and I ran large events for a decade) is that organisers often dont treat you like you’re anything but a bunch of fuckwits and dont tell you anything about planned stunts or anything beyond “Dont let anyone past this point without a pass” asking questions and wanting to be in the loop often gets you told to “do your job” which is why I was very anal retentive about what was and wasnt our responsibility in our contracts and what we were/werent liable for. Often the “talent” or people attending will decide they want to do something off script and you have to take a moment to decide wether or not to crash tackle someone somewhere they shouldnt be who might also be a keynote speaker or the headlining artists manager… its almost always a shitshow of not enough info. I have a lovely story about a bass player for a band not wearing a lanyard and starting a fight with two of the security when they wouldnt let him back stage… theres an NDA involved though because he broke one staff members cheekbone before getting knocked the fuck out.
The absolutely idiotic part was taking him to the ground, that outnumbered and not being aggressive it was unnecessary. Once it goes to the ground it almost always turns into a shitshow.
Everything about this is stupid, but breaking the trophy isn’t his fault. They knocked him over in a way that made him hit the trophy stand.
Now they (CSGOEmpire) had teams, casters, and the TO drop their event.
https://www.hltv.org/news/38657/participants-withdraw-from-csgoempire-cup-after-major-disruption
