

They're paying for the viewers (which are there). "I don't think the game could possibly be better than CS 1.6 and I don't really buy the whole "sponsors won't give money to an old game" excuse since they're not paying for the game. Lurppis' thoughts on the future of CS and the upcoming CS:GO title: Overall I think 5-6th is a reasonable assessment of our current level in the world and we're looking to improve upon it in the future." Interestingly enough, apart from project_kr on tuscan, it actually felt like we drew each team we played on pretty much the worst possible map, so that was a bummer for us. To be fair, I can't say that I would expect to beat Na`Vi on inferno even if we played the next day, but I think the score would have been a lot more reasonable then. As far as the Na`Vi loss goes, I think we were just out of energy and had to start playing way too soon after the fnatic win, we're still a young team so we don't have as much routine meaning we need to spend more time talking about matches, what we want to do etc and we simply didn't have time or energy left by the time we played Na`Vi. I don't want to sound arrogant but we expected to be better than both project_kr and fnatic, although we probably got one of the worst possible map draws against fnatic.

If we did, I think we would have had a decent chance at upsetting Na`Vi on nuke as well, which would have turned our tournament around completely. "I think we definitely should have beaten mousesports with how the game was going up until the point we were up 13-8.
