Xyp9x, EliGE take on leadership roles in CSPPA

20-1-2020 22:45

Andreas "⁠Xyp9x⁠" Højsleth and Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski have been elected Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Counter-Strike Professional Players' Association (CSPPA), it has been announced.

The news of the election was revealed in a press release published by the CSPPA, which added that the seven members of the board of players took part in the voting process.

Additionally, Mads Øland has been named the CEO of the CSPPA after working for the association for a year on a part-time, voluntary basis, while Michael Døi has been hired as COO. The appointment of Mr. Øland as CEO comes just days after he resigned as Director of the Danish Football Players’ Association, a position he had held for 23 years.

Xyp9x is the active Chairman of the CSPPA

Xyp9x was heavily involved in the creation of the CSPPA in 2018 together with community figure Scott "⁠SirScoots⁠" Smith. Last week, the association made headlines after it reached an agreement with ESL and DreamHack for the participation of players in the ESL Pro Tour, the new global event circuit that will launch later this week at DreamHack Open Leipzig.

“I am very honored to have been chosen by my colleagues on the CSPPA board as the Chairman of the board," Xyp9x said in a statement.

"Excited to take on the tasks of helping that kid signing his first contract as well as making structural changes that benefit the players and the ecosystem of CS:GO as a whole."

Nathan "⁠NBK-⁠" Schmitt, Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik, Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo, Chris "⁠chrisJ⁠" de Jong and Jordan "⁠n0thing⁠" Gilbert are the other members of the board of players, which has remained unaltered since the CSPPA was formed. In August 2019, Sean "⁠seang@res⁠" Gares was employed as a player advisor, while at the start of this year, Louise Kwang joined the team as an Executive Assistant.

The CSPPA was formed with the goal of becoming "the collective voice of the players in CS:GO and an important stakeholder in the industry". At the time of launch, the union had around 90 players, but the current number of members is unknown.

wtf

2020-01-20 22:46

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Nice

2020-01-20 22:50

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TARIK WILL BE #1 PLAYER IN TOP 20 NEXT YEAR AND CHAIRMAN

2020-01-20 23:12

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Bot

2020-01-20 23:18

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tf u say

2020-01-21 00:20

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hltv.org/stats/players/events/8523/undef..

2020-01-21 00:40

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true goat

2020-01-21 00:49

hltv.org/stats/players/events/8523/no

2020-01-21 02:59

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hltv.org/stats/players/events/8523/stfu

2020-01-21 03:06

4 replies

Rude

2020-01-21 03:23

3 replies

2020-01-21 03:43

2 replies

Reported for spam

2020-01-21 06:04

1 reply

Your life sucks

2020-01-21 15:03

Destruction 100

2020-01-21 08:30

Rekt

2020-01-21 12:33

nothing checks out

2020-01-21 07:58

xddd

2020-01-20 22:52

LOL

wat is this men

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Illuminati but for cs pros. They all gather and agree on who's going to throw, and fix matches to make $$$

2020-01-20 23:16

+1.

2020-01-21 07:06

Loool

2020-01-21 12:10

Basically a labor union for csgo players, so new players dont get abused by little to no pay line NIP

2020-01-20 23:37

MORE FAZE! MORE PAYLINE

2020-01-21 06:05

thAnkk

2020-01-21 07:35

???wtf

lul wtf

2020-01-20 22:47

So?

NEW ERA

What even is this?

2020-01-20 22:54

it's basically a union. They sort things like the player's vacation out, aside from protecting newcomers from abusive employment practices.

2020-01-21 16:23

smartest players in and out of the game POG

What's that csppa for?

Player association

2020-01-20 22:53

It's pretty much a csgo player union

2020-01-20 23:00

Soviets everywhere

2020-01-20 23:14

Xyp9x and Elige are commies

2020-01-20 23:30

Hippity hoppity abolish private property

2020-01-20 23:42

C sharp professional programmers association

2020-01-20 23:05

Printf("Nice");

2020-01-21 01:47

2020-01-21 07:34

with that coding you too could become vice-chairman

2020-01-21 15:31

Debug.Log("Nice");

2020-01-21 17:00

2020-01-21 20:31

get rid of blast?

You mean the parent company of Astralis which Xyp9x is part and founder of? What do you think?

2020-01-20 23:15

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Astralis is not tied to blast anymore

2020-01-20 23:47

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2020-01-20 23:59

You forgot "on paper".

2020-01-21 00:16

2020-01-21 07:07

True

2020-01-21 19:35

I don't think that's entirely true

2020-01-21 03:00

Proof? I know you live in the part of the world where corruption is very very common, but I would like to see some proof.

2020-01-21 09:54

AHAHAHAHA

2020-01-21 18:54

How can you call yourself an Astralis fan and not realize they detached from BLAST several months ago. Plastic fan :)

2020-01-21 01:36

Well BLAST's propaganda has been working pretty well at fooling you.

2020-01-21 03:01

Propaganda, you should know, right?

2020-01-21 09:55

Show me what rules say I can't be a fan of Astralis as a team and how they play my favourite game of all time and at the same time be critic with themselves as an org? I don't like the Blast Pro Series so far (although they can change formats I'm not a hater) and I don't like how Nikolaj Nyholm has handled the relationship between Astralis and the Blast last year. And yes, I know they splitted up in paper so they can shut Valve and the media up about conflict of interest but it doesn't matter if they separate 1 company into 2 if money belongs to the same people and overall decisions are taken by the same guys. You can literally still track the connections between Nikolaj, the Blast and Astralis to this day in Danish trade market data and records since they make public a lot of stuff other countries don't. It's all in a video Richard Lewis made after the news of them splitting up. Again, I'm not a Blast hater, just not a fan of what they've done so far. And that doesn't make me less Astralis fan tbh

2020-01-21 10:08

Owned

2020-01-21 12:14

???dfsf

this is poetic. xyp9x is chairman, and elige is vice chairman. Liquid forever #2 feelsbad

You´re right. Good funny observation :o)

2020-01-20 23:04

LUL, only a Liquid fan would see things in such a manner :D

wtf men)))

2020-01-21 01:18

PepeHands

2020-01-21 20:33

CS GO socialism ) pensions for retire players

Pog

2020-01-20 22:48

this wont go wrong at all

Wrong :) Mads Øland is a beast. This can only mean trouble, but I guess a union is a good thing - all in all.

2020-01-22 06:48

sarcasm my friend. also name does not check out.

2020-01-22 06:53

Smiley, my friend

2020-01-29 04:38

Nice men))

don't forget to teach the kid where to buy a good private hacks that for lan tournament

bruh

this will be a fact after years

2020-01-21 22:28

So many first post hunters in here lol, pathetic guys. Anyways, good move.

2020-01-20 22:49

Is elige from poland?:)

His family is. His last name is typical for Poland, last name that end by -ski -cki -dzki means that his ancestors were of noble origin in 1400-1900

2020-01-20 22:56

Sure about the nobility thing? I thought -ski had something to do with geography, which part or town you were from.

2020-01-20 23:06

100% sure my friend :)

2020-01-20 23:07

I thought it was like '-ez' with Spanish last names which means 'son of'. I've always thougt it was the same for other typical last names from other countries

2020-01-20 23:21

We dont have that thing but it works like that in Russia. If your father name is Vladimir then you are >First name< Vladimirovich >last name<

2020-01-20 23:23

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin for example xD

2020-01-20 23:24

Ahhhh lol didn't know that was his name ok like GGG the boxer then

2020-01-20 23:39

patronymic last names, many countries have them, but their system isn't used anymore except on Iceland

2020-01-21 00:58

It used to be true, but hasn't been in over 100 years en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_name#Suffix..

2020-01-21 09:11

Thx:) the polish scene has always generated talents tbh

2020-01-21 07:25

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

the definitive man

nice to see the number 2 player of 2019 and xyp takin leadership

??? s1mple could never represent the CSPPA, he's way too toxic

2020-01-20 23:01

ez vac

Can someone explain to me what's going on in this post? because I do not understand

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poland be like:

Leave him 😡

2020-01-20 23:02

sorry menas((( got carried away

2020-01-21 00:10

the CSPPA is basically the union for csgo players, XYP9X has been elected as chairman and elige as vice chairman

And what is CSPPA, what do they do? thanks for the answer :)

2020-01-20 23:08

Basically, if a tournament organiser or team organisation (or even Valve) does something which the players consider to be unfair, the CSPPA allows them to do something about it.

2020-01-20 23:26

Thank you so much for the answer :) I expected it!

2020-01-20 23:36

yeah thanks bruh

2020-01-21 21:02

Wow :O

nice

HUGE!

2020-01-20 22:55

This can only be a good thing for players overall. Proud to see my countrymen take this responsibility, and help create a better environment for new players too. I hope they get some cloud, and will be able to influence things to the better for everyone.

i dont understand, are they the deciders on who gets banned like back in ibp? ort hwat they do?

2020-01-20 23:03

no they are going to make sure that all players, even brand new pros get paid way more than they should, and also are going to make it so teams dont have to attend as many tournaments bc they are always saying how they feel "overworked". So basically this union will make the lives of pros more lucrative while allowing them to do less for the spectators.

2020-01-20 23:43

That would make it the example of economic scissors

2020-01-21 10:01

Tarik should be the vice

yea sure lets put a braindead peanutbrain vice of something. 0/8

2020-01-20 22:59

Russkiy brain , you didn't get the joke

2020-01-20 23:13

Xyp9x can lend turok some brain

2020-01-20 23:25

HAHAHA

2020-01-21 01:17

How long til EligE tries to get xyp kicked and became chairman himself.

5hours and 22minutes

add players to make D E M O C R A C Y

2020-01-20 23:10

Xyp9x biggest brain in CSGO history, expected

Xyp9x seems very powerful man on planet!

2020-01-20 23:11

taco lmao

Finally. There will be no playerbreak before the major

is this the csgo players(workers) union?

2020-01-20 23:19

fuck socialism

Tarik on the list nice

2020-01-20 23:22

Trump for president!

Xyp9x for president

Congratulations on becoming the chairman of a useless organization

2020-01-20 23:29

I dont even get what is happening there ?

players union. This was likely due to the aftermath of the PEA controversy where the PEA attempted to make a pro league exclusive to NA but with a catch: any team signing up are banned from participating in other leagues like EPL. This was also the reason why TSM dropped out of csgo, they were the main perpetrator of the scandal.

2020-01-20 23:34

xyp9x CEO of csgo

Xyp9x will regulate the nVidia Smoke Hack usage and cancel private subscription for unliked ones

Oh all the fucktards not knowing what this is but are on HLTV all day. Ffs.

2020-01-20 23:32

Some unrelated shit to the game.

2020-01-21 17:52

Xyp9x unban SWAGGGGG

2020-01-20 23:46

XypeX BIG BRAIN nice

2020-01-20 23:53

he never will get money from that right? HA

2020-01-21 00:14

deserved for 200iq xyp and GODliGE good step to make esports a more professional sport tho

2020-01-21 00:25

EG TOP 1 2020

2020-01-21 00:31

So unban Jamppi!

2020-01-21 00:44

The Clutch Chairman

Haha

2020-01-21 12:20

Great idea. Promising to see the CS scene becoming more professional. Xyp seems like a bloke with a great temperament for this position

2020-01-21 00:45

Expected

2020-01-21 01:19

why tarik lol

2020-01-21 01:21

Unions are not a bad thing in themselves. As long as they don't create barriers for new upcoming players that are not unionized its all good.

2020-01-21 01:27

xyp9x playing 4D chess, already has a retirement plan in case cs goes to shit lmao

2020-01-21 01:34

2020-01-21 12:21

haha

2020-01-21 01:45

They could make valve unban v$m

2020-01-21 01:51

2020-01-21 02:46

Karrigan should be in charge of the csppa

Lulquid second to Astralis once again KEKW

2020-01-21 02:54

how do people not know the CSPPA

2020-01-21 03:50

Big place for the big brain

2020-01-21 03:55

liquid second again LEL

2020-01-21 04:07

true KEKW

2020-01-21 04:26

wtf is this

2020-01-21 04:13

CSPPA? Pen-Pineapple-Apple?

2020-01-21 04:39

Die

2020-01-21 06:14

Pretty sure it's to prevent amateur teams from being taken advantage of. As many current pro players probably have had a negative experience with an organization regarding payment.

2020-01-21 06:34

Noooo!!!! Mads Øland has ruined so much during conflicts in the danish football scene between the pro player base and the clubs... why the hell has he been chosen as CEO? He's the worst person for the job. He has no sense of reality when shit hits the fan.

2020-01-21 06:48

Comrade Jonathan will make all salaries equal from Besiktas to Astralis

interesting liquid #2 again xaxaxa

2020-01-21 08:01

Øland gjorde det godt i spillerforeningen

2020-01-21 08:24

Liquid 2nd as always KEK

2020-01-21 08:48

If you watched it, a player played it

2020-01-21 09:01

why there are no representatives of asia and cis, there must be representative of each region imo. also why there are no guys like forest and neo, people who have been there since the beginning and have enormous experience in everything related to cs.

2020-01-21 09:32

nice mens)))

2020-01-21 10:04

2020-01-21 10:07

undeserved

2020-01-21 14:00

Why n0thing in here he no pro no more

2020-01-21 14:27

VAC inc

2020-01-21 15:06

I imagine CSPPA will try and influence the tournament calender, so they are not so close together in time and far apart in distance. Jet lag was a problem for many teams this season.

2020-01-21 15:16

Uh that’s Vice Chairman Jablonowski to you

2020-01-21 15:35

2020-01-21 15:41

Not can stop funny! Hahahahahahahaha

2020-01-21 16:22

interesting

2020-01-21 16:45

good move

2020-01-21 18:41

Cheating Professional Players' Association. youtu.be/r9z4J3cG8vA youtu.be/hycsr86OnDg

2020-01-21 23:47

From clutch minister to clutch chairman

2020-01-21 23:52

It's funny because the relationship between the community and players is so superficial I can't imagine these guys being called "chairmen" even for a second

2020-01-22 22:59

I mean, it's like they only exist in a computer or in a stage. Like they're not a person

2020-01-22 23:00