It’s time to talk about the future of CS:GO esports. Has Valve just killed not only what ESL and BLAST are trying to do, but any possibility that we’ll ever have what League of Legends and Overwatch already do? And is that actually a good thing?For more great videos, be sure to subscribe to theScore esports on YouTube.

So, Terrorists win — or Counter-Terrorists win — has to be one of the most iconic lines in Counter-Strike history. But what if this beloved naming convention was doing more harm than good? What if calling each side Terrorist and Counter-Terrorist were holding us back from bigger things?For more great videos, be sure to subscribe to theScore esports on YouTube.

If you want to win championships in esports, then keeping it simple in crucial situations is your likeliest path to success. But sometimes you just want something a little sexier... And few plays in competitive gaming achieve this more consistently, than the fabled no-scope.For more great videos, be sure to subscribe to theScore esports on YouTube.

The Berlin Major gave us its fair share of incredible moments. Astralis made the three-peat happen, and from Avangar to Renegades we saw some incredible upsets. And we have a whole video dedicated to those moments. But that's not why you clicked on this one. You came for G2's devastating attempt to defuse the bomb 4 vs. 0. You came for the cringe and you came for the laughs. We've got

For the past month, we've been smack dab in the middle of this NiP controversy you might have heard about.Players like Fifflaren, Xizt, Friberg and Draken have told us about not getting paid prize money, unpaid taxes and just general shady behavior.But guess what, we spoke to NiP management on the record for two hours last week and according to them, there’s a logical explanation for all of th

So, this weekend a bunch of CS:GO streamers were banned from Twitch and served DMCA takedown notices by the company producing the Berlin Major, StarLadder.One of them was popular CS streamer and personality fl0m. I talked to him about what happened, looked at what StarLadder’s rules and regulations actually say about this and ask the question: Where do we go from here?For more great videos,

Once, Luminosity and eventually SK Gaming, were on top of the world. With back-to-back Major championships and an era to call their own, Brazil had become a Counter-Strike powerhouse. And its players were feared. But those players, those results and that era have dwindled and slid into mediocrity. So what happened to South America’s greatest talent?For more great videos, be sure to subscribe

In a world where the most popular video games are online, there exists a better class of criminal. Rogues who refuse to play by the digitally-coded rules. Villains who can be as absurd as they are disruptive. We’re talking, of course, about hackers.For more great videos, be sure to subscribe to theScore esports on YouTube.

So by now you’ve probably heard about the NiP controversy that started in late June, after Robin “Fifflaren" Johansson, a member of the infamous 2012 NiP roster, Tweeted out that he was fed up with the way he was treated by the organization.Now one of the most baffling things to come from this situation are allegations that a former NiP CEO fled to Thailand with all of the prize m

So you might have heard a few things recently about Ninjas In Pyjamas, one of esports’ most storied organizations.Things like allegations and evidence of corruption, failure to pay players prize money, tax evasion and contract clauses the likes of which will make your head spin.On top of sifting through all of the known details and breaking them down for you here today - theScore esports spo

At first glance, Twistzz seems like your usual, carefree superstar. He’s a cool, cocky nineteen-year-old who’s made well over half a million dollars playing Counter-Strike. His fans want to be him -- and his opponents, well, they want to beat him. Twistzz is living the dream, but that wasn’t always the case. For a very long time, his life was a far cry from what it is today.This

This isn’t a story about Counter-Strike. This isn’t a story about a championship team overcoming the odds and winning it all. This is a story about five friends who dared to reach for greatness and came up short. A story about how, at a time when North American Counter-Strike was considered a joke, one summer redefined what was possible.For more great videos, be sure to subscribe to th

Team killing can be found in everything. From first person shooters, to real-time strategy games, to Battle Royales, to even MOBAs like League of Legends. But where did this taboo practice come from? And why is it ingrained in some of esports' biggest games?For more great videos, be sure to subscribe to theScore esports on YouTube.

ESL One Cologne is at an end and there's a lot to discuss: Team Liquid winning the Intel Grand Slam, the questionable state of the Astralis era, the ascension of ZywOo and the rumours surrounding coldzera possibly heading to FaZe Clan.Matt "Sadokist" Trivett and our own Colin McNeil break down the post-Cologne fallout in this latest Don't @ Me.For more great videos, be sure to subscr

Glitches are one of the most annoying things that can happen to you in a video game. And nothing is more frustrating than having your experience ruined by someone who has figured out how to weaponize these anomalies against you.But glitches aren’t just problems. And over the years, they’ve provided programmers with invaluable lessons that have contributed to the building blocks of mode