Both of the semi-final matches were played tonight, first of which being Natus Vincere against fnatic . The first map of the night was tuscan which saw the Ukrainians starting out solidly on the Counter Terrorist side, winning five rounds consecutively until things started to turn dark for the team as the...

The groups for the IEM World Championships which will take place in March have been drawn. With about a month to go Inter Extreme Masters has announced the groups for its 1.6 tournament, taking place in Hanover later this year. After having some trouble getting the total of 12 teams that was aimed for during...

Finals of GIGABYTE league were held on the past weekend and in the end it was SGC who emerged victorious at on Saturday. GIGABYTE league started off with an online phase with the top four teams qualifying for LAN finals held this past Saturday at Cyber Cafe Spalicek in Brno, Czech Republic. The event started...

The first lan of the year was spirit lan which was held in France and it was almost always going to be about the battle between VeryGames and Tt.Dragons The first of 2 clashes was held in the upperbracket final and it went to 3 maps and while both Tuscan and Inferno were fairly even, de_dust2 was dominated...

Faruk “pita” Pita has announced that he will be retiring from Counter-Strike 1.6 following fnatic’s disappointing performance at IEM Kiev. The move comes as little surprise given that it had been revealed that fnatic were going to make changes to their roster once more as they struggle to...

A few hours ago fnatic announced that they will be saying farewell to Faruk ‘pita’ Pita due to his retirement from professional gaming. Lack of time and motivation to play the game were cited as the main reasons for Faruk’s departure, which leaves fnatic with four players. Faruk...

Is your CS abstinence starting to take over at work or school? You can now tend it by playing on your mobile device. A Russian mobile phone community – 4pda – has created a portable Counter-Strike 1.6 version for mobile devices running certain Android, ARM and GL systems. Although very simple, the mobile...

The Brazilian CS project Mandic has lost backing and will now have to find other ways to compete in the CS scene. The Brazilian side is widely regarded as the best in the country and have played together in one form or another for many years now. Some of you may remember their performance at the Copenhagen...

Although it may be hard to believe the title of this thread isn’t a thinly veiled attack on the age and hardware requirements of 1.6. You can actually play the game on your mobile phones. Now that’s out the way and I’ve hopefully avoided being reprimanded and psychologically assessed by the...

Last year a glimmer of hope was given to the Brazilian CS 1.6 scene as fans were given the option to vote for who they wanted to see in a new team which would be fully sponsored by Mandic and Razer. The team was eventually constructed with players formerly from FireGamers and complexity.br with the voting...

Natus Vincere have reached the final of the IEM VI Global Challenge Kiev following two straight 16:11 wins over fnatic , on inferno and tuscan. The Ukrainians were the team coming out on top in all the key clutch round situations and set the pace with solid leads at the half of both maps. The semi-final...

SK Gaming defeated Moscow Five in two straight maps to reach the final of the IEM VI Global Challenge Kiev. SK will face Natus Vincere in said final tomorrow at 11am CET, with $16,000 going to the winner and $8,000 to the runnerup. Regardless of the result SK Gaming will top the IEM VI Season rankings...

Natus Vincere are the IEM VI Global Challenge Kiev champions after thoroughly steamrolling SK Gaming in the final after only two maps and 40 rounds played. The final seemed set to be one for the ages, as the scariest team of the latter half of 2011, SK, faced off against one of the only teams who had beaten...

The third place playoff has just concluded and it sees Dignitas take the victory and win $3400. The best of three started with SK Gaming taking a 1-0 victory after some strong play, especially from Kevin ‘SR kev1n’ Rubiszewski on Tryndamere. His Tryndamere was well fed and enabled him to put out...