CS:GO News Week in Review: June 13th

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Na'Vi wins ESWC 2015 Montreal

Natus Vincere claimed another this week with their first place finish the Electronic Sports World Cup in Montreal, Canada. Cloud9 came in with close second (as they did at the ESL ESEA Pro League), narrowly losing the final map in the best-of -three series 16:14 that was saved at the last moment by Na'Vi, letting the Ukrainian team walk away with the $30,000 prize and trophy. Check out the full match recap and page for more details on the series.

 

Team Acer shuts down

 

One of the more successful tier two teams, Acer, announced their disbandment over the weekend as two of the four remaning memebers, Christian 'Spitfire' Schiölde and Fredrik 'slap' Junbrant jumped ship over internal issues. The team had the following to say about the closing:

Team Acer would like to apologize to the CS:GO community for the recent disappointments. As you know CS:GO is very important to us - not just as a team, but as a community, and this chapter is not closed. In fact, our CS:GO Female team is currently in Canada fighting to defend their World Championship title, so please take all your support and push our ladies to the win in Montreal.”

 

Devilwalk signs for Luminosity

In a surprising move former-fnatic coach Jonatan "Devilwalk" Lundberg has revealed that he will be signing for the North American organization Luminosity.gg, where he will be replacing Keith "NAF-FLY" Markovic. The ex-professional started his return to competitive play by joining the remnants of Team Orbit, but was promptly tossed out and forced to look for a new team.

 

 

Dreamhack Austin announced

Dreamhack has announced their first ever North American event in the organization's history, DH Austin. The event is slated to take place at the Austin Convention Center in May of 2016.

DreamHack is a global phenomenon and our esports tournaments already have hundreds of millions of viewers around the globe, with the United States always being the country having the most viewership. It’s been our ambition to expand to North America for a very long time, and today we are thrilled to get the ball rolling by announcing a date and venue for our first event. It’s our ambition to host a second event in another region of North America in 2016 as well, we are very excited to keep ramping things up.” - says Marcus Lindmark, CEO of DreamHack.

 

Professor_Chaos retires

Andrew "Professor_Chaos" Heintz, now an ex-eLevate player, has decided to quit his professional Counter-Strike career. This move by Professor_Chaos might have been caused by the team loosing two of their key members, Will "Rush" Wierzba and Daniel "roca" Degiovanni in exchange for Damian "daps" Steele and Steven "rooRoooo" Herrell.