MSL Hits Out at FACEIT CS:GO Major: Honestly The Worst Major I Have Attended

All eyes from the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) community are currently on London for the FACEIT CS:GO Major where some of the very best CS:GO teams in the world are currently competing to take home the grand prize of $500,000 and the most prestigious title in CS:GO esports in Major Champions.

However, well known CS:GO organization North will no longer have the chance to compete for the $500,000 grand prize as the team was eliminated from the FACEIT London Major by Vega Squadron in a 2-0 defeat during the event's main qualifier. After the loss, North CS:GO player Mathias "MSL" Lauridsen, the in-game leader for North, had some very strong criticism towards FACEIT and its London Major. 

Taking to his Twitter account, MSL stated that that the FACEIT London event was the worst major he had ever attended and pointed to examples of conditions that the teams at the FACEIT London Major had to play through that he himself considered to be very poor for a tournament of this caliber. 

"Honestly the worst major I have attended. Bad fps whole tournament, bad headset first two rounds, cant hear footsteps of teammates and opponents, using 20 minutes in a deciding game to qualify on testing footsteps when u rely so much on sound and not sure Its working," said North CSGO player MSL.

"Its not the reason we went out, everyone played on the same conditions," MSL continued. "I just think Its so dissapointing that this happens at a major. Hope they fix it for the later stage, it was horrible conditions. And I hope ESL get all majors, so we cant keep getting dissapointed."

FaZe Clan CS:GO player Ladislav "GuardiaN"Kovács responded to the strong criticism from MSL and stated that he believed it was a low blow by MSL for the CS:GO player to address these issues after all of the games had been played for the FACEIT London Main Qualifier. GuardiaN goes on to explain to MSL that he believed players should have brought these complaints up with FACEIT during the days of the main qualifier instead of what he believes to be seeing in players having been fine with the conditions for the first three days and then only now complaining once the main qualifier has ended. 

While the FACEIT London Major continues to go forward with play in order to determine the next Major champion of the CS:GO esports world, it is likely that the tournament organizer is not pleased to see comments like the ones above from MSL circulating through social media as the tournament progresses on. 

(cover photo courtesy of North and FACEIT)