CS:GO News Week in Review: August 3rd

Hellraisers win Acer Predator Masters

The Acer Predator Masters concluded yesterday with the Ukranian Hellraisers defeating mousesports 4-3 in the best-of-seven grandfinals match, a uncommon format in CS:GO. The first place team got to take home a hefty $20,000 prize, while mousesports was awarded $10,000 as runners up. 

IEM San Jose to host $100,000 tournament

With only a few days ahread of IEM Cologne, ESL has already revealed more details on the next IEM stop, San Jose. The North American edition of IEM will feature at least a $100,000 prize pool which will be further increased through community funding, already $15,000 bigger than the IEM Cologne prize pool for the CS:GO tournament.

Bravado makes major roster changes

 

South African forerunners Bravado Gaming have announced they will be making drastic changes in response to their lackluster results at recent events, notably ESWC. Team member Dimitri "Detrony" Hadjipaschali had the following to say on Facebook:

I am extremely determined to take up this new challenge, but at the same time sad about what I leave behind, the memories made and success achieved with not just teammates, but with my friends, both Dane "racno" Friedman who I have been playing alongside with ever since 2006 and Leon "Flarez" Wong, who have decided to step down understandably to make this happen. I don't think this would have been done, and the roster adjustments that everybody is involved in if every single one of us never believed that there is actually hope for a South African team to attempt an international event, once again.”

Luminosity signs ex-Keyd

Luminosity made a shocking announcement as they revealed that they will be dropping their current roster in favor of the Brazilian Keyd Stars lineup, a team that has showed great promise since their move to the United States. Their old lineup will play under Mythic temporarily until they're are able to find a permanant organization. 

cadiaN to try out for SK Gaming

SK revealed this week that they will be bringing in ex-Copenhagen Wolves player `Casper "cadiaN" Møller to tryout for Jesper "tenzki" Plougmann's recently vacated position on the team. The player will stay with the roster through the upcoming ESL One Cologne event at the end of this month.