peacemaker suspension lifted by ESIC

26/5/2022 - 18:50

After being accused of abusing the free-roam spectator bug, the Brazilian coach says his suspension has now been lifted after he provided evidence of his innocence.

Luis "⁠peacemaker⁠" Tadeu has broken his silence on his use of the infamous free-roam spectator bug, the accusations having been made mere days before the PGL Major Antwerp. As a result of the accusations, the Brazilian was barred from attending said Major and suspended from ESIC events, along with fellow coaches Rafael "⁠zakk⁠" Fernandes and Sergey "⁠hally⁠" Shavaev.

In his statement, peacemaker says that ESIC has now lifted his provisional suspension, having "accepted the arguments provided" before going on to state that we should expect an official announcement from ESIC shortly.

peacemaker missed out on the PGL Major Antwerp

peacemaker gave thanks to a number of people he says assisted him in clearing his name, including Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer, Patrick "⁠es3tag⁠" Hansen, Neil "⁠NeiL_M⁠" Murphy and Rokas "⁠EspiranTo⁠" Milasauskas, who were all involved in the game in which the bug occured.

Also given credit were Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole, Anders "⁠Anders⁠" Blume and Richard Lewis, who "spent some time and energy" helping peacemaker with the case.

The charges levied at peacemaker were some of the latest in an ongoing saga that began back in August 2020, when the first three coaches were banned for use of the spectator bug.

ESIC hand notices of charge to peacemaker, hally, zakk*

Later investigations revealed that there were actually several variants of the bug and that abuse of these bugs was widespread, with a further 37 coaches banned in September of the same year, and over 100 further coaches awaiting an incoming ban wave from ESIC that was announced on May 5 of this year.

ESIC have faced much criticism of their handling of the investigation, with coach zakk lamenting the fact his ban came so long after the conclusion of the investigation, Spirit directly criticising the investigation into their own coach hally, and peacemaker himself calling the bans a "questionable decision" in a Twitlonger.

lol

2022-05-26 18:50

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Back to kicking ppl from rosters again

2022-05-27 00:06

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lifted right after the Major ended kekw

2022-05-27 13:39

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200iq comment

2022-05-27 14:38

esic haloo? ban him DAYS before major even tho the vod was published ages ago and clear him immediately after major

2022-05-26 18:53

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nothing shady about esic there... lmfao, what a joke of an org.

2022-05-26 18:57

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what?

2022-05-26 22:16

dont worry about delusional internet person #3012319231 you wont change the mind of a room temperature iq teen

2022-05-27 00:52

2022-05-27 09:51

This person is sitting in front of your PC, making cheesy comments about people they don't know

2022-05-27 15:44

ESIC is a joke.

2022-05-26 19:41

ESIC plz disband

2022-05-26 20:23

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+1 PLS

2022-05-26 20:58

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2022-05-31 15:20

+1 idk why valve respect their decisions

2022-05-26 20:28

You don't know when peacemaker spoke to them. Might be his problem.

2022-05-26 20:46

+1 Also, in the first line of the article : "After being accused of abusing the free-roam" Come onnn.... ABUSING ?? if 1 round (i've seen one video) is abuse then m0nesy is whatt?

2022-05-26 20:54

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Not the same though. m0nesy got permissions from the admins, if he hadn't gotten permissions, then they would be comparable.

2022-05-26 21:54

He got permission. But the other teamS didnt know about the bug, that should technically impossible by game engine... So yeah, at least lack o character from his part and his teamates that knew about it.

2022-05-26 23:04

technically be impossible by the game engine?

2022-05-27 00:42

lmao

2022-05-27 01:10

Did ESIC or VALVE give him permission?

2022-05-27 02:22

Worst comparison ever. m0nesy did nothing wrong, and neither did peacemaker as we can see rn.

2022-05-27 12:46

Agree, he must have used the latest csgo client like monesy and pgl did too

2022-05-27 15:00

-1 dumb take

2022-05-27 16:41

+1 I didnt say anything before but this is just embarrassing

2022-05-26 21:48

The treatment of robban was also a joke

2022-05-26 22:49

In the real world, this could be easily taken to the court of law for unwarranted material and reputational damages. ESIC is a joke.

2022-05-27 03:35

Who said it wont be. You could argue that this cost Imperial play off stage of the major. Theres a world in which if they had their coach they win OT of the 2nd map force a 3rd against Copenhagen Flames

2022-05-27 06:26

Yeah, if Fallen was less burdened with strats and could just focus on playing, and if the team had the support structure that a coach provides, there was a very real chance for them to make it to playoffs. They'd probably get eliminated there, but in terms of prestige and financial reward, it's a much better propect for the team. It's not crazy to say that this lost Imperial's investors a lot of money given the insane numbers that Gaules was pulling on stream.

2022-05-27 07:14

Oh without a doubt they werent going past first round of knockouts but thats still way bigger than 2-3 in legends

2022-05-27 08:02

> BEFORE MAJOR > AFTER MAJOR

2022-05-26 18:55

what?????????????????

2022-05-26 18:51

NOW IMPERIAL GONNA WIN IEM DALLAS

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yeah with a coach that got always kicked out from his teams xd

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Now peacemaker on brazilian team = its gonna be ez XDD

2022-05-26 18:56

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peacemaker is bad

2022-05-26 19:52

You is bad

are*

2022-05-27 20:51

you is bad to

2022-05-28 09:15

Duolingo you yes now Panzerkampfwagen IV

2022-05-29 19:11

It's silly to think he was kicked, since he coached lots of famous orgs. If he was kicked by them, he would never have been signed by so many, it's quite obvious.

2022-05-26 19:04

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yeah sure... all the players and "journalists" are spreading lies around and he never got kicked xd

2022-05-26 19:08

So why all those orgs signed him?

2022-05-26 19:19

cuz they are stupid and thought he could do something... but the orgs got worse and worse anyway

2022-05-26 19:23

Mans a BR hater LMAO

2022-05-26 20:56

no peacemaker is just an awful coach or a coach with an awful personality... otherwise he wouldnt have been kicked that often

2022-05-26 20:57

He often got hired as a "second option" of sorts, never really being intended to be a permanent coach. This cycle kept repeating and got out of control. This happens very often in the normal job market... people get stuck as temporary assets. It sucks.

2022-05-27 03:37

Yeah, he coached the legendary teams like tyloo and misfits, obv he is hot shit

2022-05-26 22:51

2022-05-31 08:21

kkkkkk

2022-06-01 00:09

oh you have to be fucking kidding, he wasn't at the major but he's innocent?

yep, thats esic for you

The fairness of ESIC. Luckily Imperial made it very far, but one could argue that with a coach maybe they would have had that extra 1% to at least make it to playoffs...

2022-05-27 03:38

Lmao just suspended for the Major

nice

noice

esic?????????? stupid org

2022-05-26 18:52

Huh? There is vid of peacemaker free-roaming???? twitter.com/michau9_/status/152260738036..

2022-05-26 18:54

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He used it vs imperial lol

apparently he proved that he wasn't communicating during that so he is innocent.

so did many other coachs, such as guerri, apoka and the faze clan coach. they still got their suspension.

2022-05-26 19:15

thats what gets me so did hunden communicate? ofc he did then the teamspeak will show which players were aware of the bug xd but ofc ESIC cover this up

A lot of tournaments don't record TS unfortunately.

2022-05-26 22:23

Actually, it happened the same with Apoka and guerri, they are just banned by Valve now.

2022-05-26 21:52

apoka dind't even move his mouse LOL

2022-05-26 22:31

I know... But, that's not my point?

2022-05-26 23:32

yeah, i am just adding the info

2022-05-28 00:48

you have to take advantage of a bug to be banned. YEs, he roaming with the bug, but to take advantage of it he needs to give information to his players. And he proved that he said nothing to them.

2022-05-26 19:14

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so all the other coaches communicated? o.O

2022-05-26 19:20

WIth ESIC you have to prove you are innocent. The other coaches need to prove they didnt communicate.

Other coaches need video evidence just to say "he didn't say sth" wasn't enough but now it is?

2022-05-26 19:30

surely he has more than just a video of players saying he didn't say anything. They banned all those coaches, this one for sure has some evidence that proves his innocence. Richard Lewis support him, he said he will make a video aswell explaining everything, lets see

2022-05-26 20:19

Or he has nothing and ESIC just unbanned him... ESIC can tell every story they want. they are an Org with no creditability.

2022-05-26 20:42

And Richard Lewis isn't even friendly to BR teams in general, so he must REALLY believe peacemaker is innocent.

2022-05-27 03:41

Other coaches probably didn't got a good lawyer

2022-05-26 19:26

Imperial thankfully has big $ in their pockets, so yeah...

2022-05-27 03:42

the actual ruling for the other coaches were failing to report it when it happened. if so robban wouldnt have been banned for example since there was no way he could have used his to have an advantage.

2022-05-26 23:14

See #252. Before they said that it didn't matter if they took advantage or not. Are they now changing their stance but only for peacemaker?

2022-05-27 02:32

This is the one thing I don't get. He clearly gets info from the bug and the timing of where he stops to observe the CT setup in apartments is highly suspicious, but since he can prove he didn't communicate with the players, he doesn't get banned. It seems very inconsistent with past decisions and it sets a very stupid precedent: as long as you can prove you didn't give info to the players from the bug, then you will not be banned.

2022-05-26 19:44

moddii heard footsteps from apps

2022-05-26 20:20

That doesn't bother me. It's the way peacemaker positions his camera and gains an advantage, even though he doesn't communicate it. Don't you think it's suspicious with the timing?

2022-05-26 20:27

you are right, but he didn't deny it, he said he was watching the round, but somehow he can prove the other players didn't get any info.

2022-05-26 20:33

It doesn't make sense! From previous article: 'In explaining its stance, the governing body has stated that the outcome of gaining an unfair advantage did not play a factor in the decision, meaning that it did not matter whether the team in question actually used the information gained while the coach was in the bug. The potential for exploitation and the fact that the people involved "did not act in an appropriate manner" when they experienced the bug was enough to warrant sanctions'.

2022-05-27 02:31

it really is incosistent... TBH it didnt make sense to even ban most of the coaches. What really triggs me the most is Guerri and Apoka's situation, they literally proved they didnt passed any information and gave them the proves but they still banned, while peacemaker apparently proved he didnt give any info to his players got unbanned... ESIC is such a joke! I told you guys they are only there to annoy orgs lmao

2022-05-27 03:43

Imagine it was you. You are deeply involved in the game and it has been going for a while. You're not like Hunden asking for boosts before the match to get the bug. It just happens out of nowhere. Can you say 100% that even if you are an honest person your head wouldn't go "what the hell is happening here?" and sort of try to figure it out? I think I would at first, and I despise cheating. It's too unexpected. He soon snapped out of it. This is reasonable human behavior in my view.

2022-05-27 03:48

No, if I was trying to fix the bug, I wouldn't magically follow the CTs into apartments and then stop the camera in the exact same position where they have a setup to counter a T push. And then he pans out as soon as both CTs die and the Ts gain control. It's too suspicious for me to say, "oh hey, he's trying to fix it" when the timing of everything points towards malicious intent. This isn't guerri where he was trying to alt tab his way out of the bug. Furthermore, even if he doesn't communicate the bug to the players, he gains information from the bug and that can be used to influence any advice he chooses to give during a tac pause or later in the game. And he doesn't report it to the TO, which already adds to my suspicions that he used the bug intentionally. I still think peacemaker should be banned but if this is the precedent ESIC now wants to set then a lot of coaches should've been unbanned ages ago.

2022-05-27 09:36

Fair enough. What I feel is most correct is your final paragraph. Several coaches had only very tangential, potential, gains from a bug they did not set up themselves. Those do not fall into the same category as people who set out to cheat or used the bug extensively when it happened by chance. ESIC should use this new precedent to retroactively lift some bans, while keeping others for actual cheating scum right where they are.

2022-05-29 00:12

Would love to see the evidence

Noone will ever see them. ESIC never showed any evidence of innocents.

2022-05-26 19:28

actually..... he posted a video in english explaining it. twitter.com/peacemaker/status/1529863014.. twitter.com/peacemaker/status/1529863017..

2022-05-26 21:24

That is no evidence that is a statement. He also mentions there are "arguments" and no evidence mentioned. So it seems there is no evidence just an argument that is backed up by other persons. Seems like ESIC is an even bigger shitshow than we thought after this article here. No, the clown fiesta unbans people by arguments while people were and are banned that come up with arguments as well. Robban one example.

2022-05-26 21:42

Most trial cases are made around arguments. If an argument is good enough to explain what happened in the situation i don't see why would they not take it as a reason to unban the person. ( I am just stating a point, not saying his argument was or wasn't good enough to unban peacemaker).

2022-05-27 21:04

Maybe u are right but why then some logic arguments doesn't count and others do? It is a bullshit show

2022-05-27 22:08

I have no idea, you should ask ESIC Lmao I agree it is a bullshit show

2022-05-27 23:00

guilty until proven innocent, nice job ESIC, really progressive

He was guilty idk why he’s unbanned

Goooood Peacemaker. Congratz

haters goin wild lmao

Did he show them his winners cup cabinet or what?

ESIC HAHAHAHA

lmao at ESIC

ARE U FUCKING KIDDING ME. they spend years investigating, and are so confident they post it rigth before the major, but didnt even give them a chance to proove their inocence..

2022-05-26 18:58

wait WHATT?!?!! ESIC Banned this guy like 3 days before the Major, and his team is attending... And then a few days AFTER the major ended they unban him because the ban was not justified? That is actually insane!! Guilty until proven innocent and apparently the evidence was provided ahead of time but they didn't finish "reviewing" until now? Thats actually crazy f'd up lmao

FREE APOKA

2022-05-26 19:00

ESIC is such a joke, banning a coach 3 days before a major whos actually innocent, when they've had the info on him for years, and then it literally takes less than 3 weeks for him to get unbanned, like what?? If he was literally banned a month before the major he would've played, but instead ESIC wants to ruin the competition and screw over certain teams Maybe they did it intentionally who knows, its unfathomable how incompetent and stupid they would have to be if they unintentionally did it. Nice "esports integrity" ESIC, at this point they aren't even worthy to be called the "Esports Integrity Commission."

AHAHAHHAHAHAHH WHAT A JOKE

THIS CANT BE TRUE, THEY BAN HIM FROM MAJOR AND UNBAN HIM A WEEK AFTER

ESIC btw

2022-05-26 19:09

Now ban g2

2022-05-26 19:10

What about guerri?

Respect to everyone who helped him get unbanned!

2022-05-26 19:11

hally still banned lole

2022-05-26 19:13

ESIC is a joke after this, imagine what could have happened with Imperial if they had their coach for the major

maybe if they had their coach they wouldn't play well or maybe they could have played better. It is what it is and there's no way of knowing.,

2022-05-26 19:17

The point is the shocking news alone could have negatively impacted the players morale and focus, just days/hours before the tournament starting. Luckily imperial seemed to be very focused thanks to their age and experience probably. But what a shit show this is turning out to be.

2022-05-26 22:13

Guilty until proven innocent.....

+1 such a joke

2022-05-26 19:22

POG

lmao just after the major

2022-05-26 19:21

ESIC and again "Evidence" that no one will ever see. So just create evidence when it fits ESIC propaganda. Valve should ban ESIC from Valve games... They have the justification for that.

>makes scene just for relevance before major >unbans them once major is done >ESIC moment

2022-05-26 19:27

He should sue them for lose of income which they could rank higher with his contribution in the major.

2022-05-26 19:29

Hard to sue for eventualities KEKW It's not like they had some kinda guarantee to win a major w/ him.

depends on the country if he can charge them in USA they can get rekted for such things

2022-05-26 21:44

Formal apology from ESIC when?

That's pretty shady, right? I mean you gotta make sure you know what you're doing when you BAN a professional from a FCKING MAJOR FFS

2022-05-26 19:33

put on your hats, ESIC, your clown show just started KEKW

2022-05-26 19:35

Review APOKA ban next please, a lot of proof available that he didn't benefit from any bug.

Bro, Apoka's ESIC ban finished well over a year ago. If you mean the permanent ban from majors, that would have to be up to Valve but you know they'll literally do nothing more about it.

2022-05-26 20:16

Which is ridiculous. zoneR was actually CO-STREAMING the major while Apoka couldn't even participate in Gaules's stream, or any person streaming the Major. Doesn't make any f sense

2022-05-27 07:01

Apoka got only 2 months ban by esic, the problem is valve.

robban??

2022-05-26 19:37

Exactly..

2022-05-26 21:36

maybe now TOs can stop partnering up with this guys who apparently cant get anything right

2022-05-26 19:38

2022-05-26 20:15

what a shameful ESIC,

2022-05-26 19:39

And that's exactly why these decision needs to be communicated to orgs and coaches first before audience and before ban, so they can defend themselves. If they can't or you still find them guilty after that because they didn't proved to be innocent (not communicating, not having malicious intent, since it's a bug, so can happen randomly even if reproduceable, etc.) in all instances of bug or just clearly try to bullshit their way out - sure, go ahead. But ESIC just banned him for major (well, Valve did, but they somehow knew who to ban and for what reason, so ESIC gave that to them) and unbanned right after. Let the guy defend himself first to decrease chance of possibly harming his team for nothing maybe? Probably a good idea going forward and not taking all that shit from the community, ESIC.

2022-05-26 19:51

LOL

"Guilty until proven innocent"

2022-05-26 19:46

The timing sucks. Makes it seems very shady.

2022-05-26 19:45

bruh ESIC is such a joke.

Incredible incompetence from ESIC - banning him from the major with only a few days notice, without even giving him a chance to prove innocence and appeal. I would be INCREDIBLY pissed if I was peacemaker, having missed the major.

2022-05-26 19:47

esic has turned into an absolute clownshow

2022-05-26 19:53

bruh

2022-05-26 19:54

big mistake(((

2022-05-26 19:57

Nice job mens

2022-05-26 20:01

Is ESIC serious? what a clown org

2022-05-26 20:02

what a joke esic is at this point

2022-05-26 20:04

2022-05-26 20:06

oh yeah also according to overdrive they were going to ban zonic but decided not to because it'd be unfair to do so to vitality, meanwhile imperial get screwed over by this shit, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

That's insane

2022-05-26 20:07

- ban - major starts - major ends - unban

2022-05-26 20:10

JUST BAN ESIC ;) EZ LUL

2022-05-26 20:13

Doesn't makes any sense tbh. I think he just got his provisional suspension lifted, but will be banned in the near future in just a small amount of time because it was just 1 round. I say that because other coaches (guerri for example) are still banned, even providing all the communication of the team.

2022-05-26 20:14

In Guerri and Apoka cases Valve banned them, on Peacemaker he had the chance to defend himself before any punishment was handed, he only got suspended.

2022-05-26 20:24

We will see. I think he will be banned anyway for a short amount of time.

2022-05-26 20:25

I dont think so, they wouldnt have unsuspended him if they planned to ban him later lol.

2022-05-26 20:30

There are 50 coaches just waiting for punishment, he just joined them.

2022-05-26 20:37

As far I know those other 50 didnt even get their names revealed.

2022-05-27 01:17

It is funny how some people's cases are being cleared and the ban lifted so quick as others, who had to wait months and months to get any responses from the JOKE called ESIC!

#FREEAPOKA

2022-05-26 20:22

why not solve this issue before the major? Like lmbt was able to prove his innocence before he missed some huge tournamnt.

what a shame to throw blind decisions, and exactly before the major!! that's actually sus...

hahaha ESIC is such a joke

Soooo...what about Team Spirit coach?

i wish ESIC / valve would get sued for fraud, but i bet the way all those agreements & tournaments are organized in a way that suing is impossible.

So Hally is still banned? Even tho he didn't have the free roam and encountered it way less, what a joke

2022-05-26 20:49

teamdestroyer is back 😂

2022-05-26 21:09

it's time to ban ESIC from CSGO. Establish new single commission entity that only focused on video games made by Valve only.

2022-05-26 21:23

lol its a joke, ban for the major, LUL

2022-05-26 21:26

Lmao so he was innocent??? What about some compensation for Imperial for affecting their gameplan few days before major for literally NOTHING!!! I say this as last person to defend Imperial because I never really liked Fallen and co in their Lumi/SK days. Who is it gonna be next? Maybe whole team banned like Faze or Navi before next major without proving anything???

2022-05-26 21:33

Just another day in the office for esic.. They manage to fuck up in every possible action they take.. This shouldn't be the only ban being lifted either. Fuck off already esic, your shit does more harm than good in this scene

2022-05-26 21:51

Ban him 3 or 4 days before major and not even 1 week after the major finishes, ban is lifted, what the actual fuck lmfao

2022-05-26 22:50

2022-05-26 22:53

Freeeedom

2022-05-26 22:59

he should literally sue ESIC at this point , they were the reason he didnt attend the major and therefor the reason his team could have made it a big more far , he could easily win that argument and that resulted in team not winning more prize money or even getting into legends stage so they make it to Next RMR , he really has a strong case at this point

2022-05-26 23:15

what about hally huh?

2022-05-26 23:22

ESIC:" -Sorry kid, Hally wasn't part of our deal."

2022-05-27 11:21

ESIC IS A JOKE

2022-05-26 23:33

no fucking way

2022-05-26 23:43

Have you seen how he was "flying"? And he got fucking lifted his ban? If we compare this to hally's "reason" ESIC should quit CSGO and move on to work at MCdonald's. What a shame,can we fucking get rid of these clowns?

2022-05-26 23:45

2022-05-26 23:47

its because hes brazilian and gaules paid esic out. Plus they received lots of death threats from BR fans so they had no choice but to lift it.

2022-05-27 03:47

I heard He bought lawyers to deal with ESIC and they got scared or smth

2022-05-27 12:29

Nice

2022-05-26 23:46

Is ESIC still releasing a report about NA match fixing in 2 weeks? oh wait that was two years ago.

2022-05-27 00:04

Hahahahah lmao we will neuer get any Infos about that

2022-05-27 07:20

WTF, THEY BANNED HIM IN BEFORE A MAJOR AND NOW ITS OK ? ESIC IT'S A JOKE

Thats great

2022-05-27 00:29

funny how they wait AFTER the major to say he's innocent ESIC should pay peacemaker for doing that shit to him

2022-05-27 00:30

Ban 3 days before major Unban 3 days after major Glad we have such a professional organization

2022-05-27 00:34

3 days ban inspired by hltv

2022-05-27 09:45

esic is a joke

2022-05-27 02:25

the shit show continues

2022-05-27 03:34

so what about all of the other coaches? now that the precedent is set that ESIC can be wrong, how about unbanning all of the other coaches that didnt exploit it? Dumb organization cannot come back from this.

2022-05-27 03:49

Every ESIC ruling is a shitshow, the Major organizer tells teams that's ok to abuse bugs on it and the most well known personality of the scene acts like an edgy 12yo kid on Twitter. I don't even know how Valve manage to keep making money with a franchise that they didn't even create, treats like an unwanted child and always find the way to fuck up on every balance attempt they make. Are we addicted to crack or something?

2022-05-27 05:36

free my man robban

2022-05-27 06:19

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2022-05-27 07:21

In any other major sport this would not happen, if it were to happen, there would be entities holding likes of esic responsible for its actions, also coach would be compensated for damages upon wrongful conviction. As per usual valve does nothing, leaves anything and everything for any entity that claims authority. Tournaments are run with saudis money (faceit and esl) and therefore esic, political bans incoming (or these might have been the first). I would like to see new developer for Counter-Strike 2.0, since we are not getting source 2 and valve just bathe in skins money and blood money from saudis.

2022-05-27 08:09