On July 9, 2025, Kosovo hosted the presidential elections of the European Esports Federation – an event that was supposed to mark a turning point for the continent’s esports scene. Instead of a fair contest of ideas, leadership, and vision, the world witnessed a political stage play orchestrated behind closed doors, adhering to the worst […]
The international esports tournament WEC 2025, originally scheduled to take place in Lviv this autumn, has been officially canceled. The decision was driven not only by the ongoing war in Ukraine but also by a series of controversial actions from the International Esports Federation (IESF), which signed an agreement with the Ukrainian organizers back in […]
Ahead of the upcoming presidential elections of the European Esports Federation (EEF), scheduled for July 9 in Kosovo, tensions are rising. Representatives of a majority of national federations are accusing the current leadership of gross violations of the statute, manipulation, and interference in the electoral process. Ukraine’s candidate for the presidency is Denys Davydov. According […]
Vitality player William mezii Merriman gave an interview to Players special correspondent Alex Kharchenko after winning the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 in CS2. Coming back to the game, what went wrong on the map that you lost? I think there's obviously a couple things, but mainly individual were not too strong on this map. I […]
Aydin KrizzeN Turlybekov, currently working as an assistant coach at FURIA, gave an interview to Players special correspondent Alex Kharchenko during the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 in CS2. Tell us, please, how did the story with FURIA even start? How did they reach out to you? The head coach messaged me sometime in April. Usually, […]
Player of The Mongolz, Ayush mzinho Batbold, gave an interview to Players correspondent Alex Kharchenko after his team’s victory over paiN and their advancement to the grand final of the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025. First of all, congrats. What are you feeling right now? You won the YALLA Compass, but it's the first big, big […]
Vitality’s coach Remy XTQZZZ Quoniam gave a brief interview to Players correspondent Alex Kharchenko following his team’s victory over MOUZ and their qualification for the grand final of the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025. First question about the second map. When you started, it was looking like a confident win for you. But then, the second […]
Team Vitality player Shahar flameZ Shushan gave a short interview to Players correspondent Alex Kharchenko after the victory over NAVI at the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025. Next match is against Mouz. What can you say about them in this tournament? Were you expecting them to beat spirit? I expected them to beat Spirit but I […]
NAVI head coach, Andrii B1ad3 Horodenskyi, gave an interview to Players special correspondent Alex Kharchenko after the loss to Vitality in the quarterfinals of the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 in CS2. I watched the pauses, you were not very happy with the first map, most likely with the tactics, and maybe clutches, the reactions of […]
Jonathan ELiGE Jablonowski gave an interview to Players special correspondent Alex Kharchenko after the loss to The MongolZ in the quarterfinals of the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 in CS2. So it was quite a tight game, two games, two maps. What are the main reasons? Was it stress, pressure from the audience, lack of clutches? […]
