҉NuclearGamer

Stats really don't mean anything, especially without context. (It's like saying my team was better than your team cause we beat you 16-11)
Can we just have a wider participation on the making of teams? Can't see how this would be a bad thing.
(Also thanks for hosting tournament xoxo)
If you're gonna put chus as a captain cause of last tournament, then blyss shouldda been one at least.
 

Considering how sore and petty OB's losers can be (as we've already seen), I'm not sure that's the best idea 

I think next tournament I might just stick to being a host without the player part 
Well the group stages ended like this:

Which pitted T5 vs T8 and T2 vs T3 in the semi finals. These two matches gave us the following close results and consequently the final matchup for tonight:

So congratz to both teams now in the final. Reminder that the final will be at 6PM BST tonight and it will be a BO3, people should turn up at least 10 minutes before their match. Good luck to both teams.

Team 4 now renamed to ToxicUbers
It's only fair cause we got 3 toxic people in the team, the Uber stands for how much Danny and Rachel  will carry us.
Cheers! 
 

As everyone is complaining about there being so many happy birthday threads (it's basically becoming spam) I've decided to put everyone who is Member+ in this thread for birthdays. 
If you want your name added to the list and you're not on it then send me a message, I don't have time to search through users to see who is active and who isn't.

January
1st - Stiqqy
8th - Futurebounds
8th - Gaffer
15th - Predator
February
8th - BIBS
10th - SonyTwan
18th - Skeff
19th - Daffy Duck
19th - Nicad
20th - Rachel
March
4th - DannyS
4th - Keiji Motori
10th - Thunder
11th - Raw
15th - Veng3nce
21st - SkillerShark
22nd - Absolute
25th - Vemix
April
3rd - Pasickle
5th - Sovman
8th - Scrune
11th - Eraser
16th - No Good
29th - Pepe
May
1st - Kartoffel
3rd - iZac
7th - Twiixtor
28th - Sir Conor
27th - Liutvi Mestan
29th - Designated Retard
June
2nd - Finnley
6th - Blyss
10th - SlayerX
20th - Brake_d0wn
July
2nd - Finnley
2nd - IrishChamp
5th - Jaydog
7th - Strogglok
15th - Simi
August
3rd - Extinct
5th - Nick
20th - Giant Cheesepuff
27th - Brandon
31st - Venga
September
8th - Drake
10th - Quake
11th - Cereal
15th - UnSeen
18th - Joji
October
16th - Fluxy
19th - Mintlou
25th Septober - Rhyse
27th GingerPopper
November
5th - Fxden
10th - Weezy
17th - Storm
30th - Gunstar
December
12th - Skill
19th - Jamie
19th - YoungGerald
20th - NuclearGamer
 
 

A video of keiji singing the American states to pick up young boys

My reaction when i read the tiers.

Hi JME,
We have decided to put you on a one week trial. Please ask an admin to invite you to the OB Trial steam group and please wear the tag at all times whenever you are on jailbreak. Hopefully at the end of your trial we will see you in blue.
Good luck
The OB Staff
 

dawn of war 3 is going to a pile of garbage. Do not affront me with its presence again.   
Moving swiftly on these are my personal picks for this year
 GET TRIGGERED HISTORICAL NERDS, BATHE IN THE LIGHT OF SIGMAR YOU FILTHY PLEBS. But in all honestly, I think this looks hype and I'm really excited for it.
Destiny 2 coming for PC! Should be lit as fuck.  
Yes yes, oh my god yes. How many more times yes. Thank you. 
This is my wildcard pick, I think it look really creepy but could be an amazing experience. I just hoping its not PS4 exclusive :( 

Tbh Mike, I completely agree.
Bitching out of a commitment you signed up to due to petty feelings constitutes as being a pussy imo.
Being cocky about it on a public event page though, that constitutes being a twat.

People saying it's gone wrong when tournament not even started yet 
People were saying similar comments and chatting shit before last tournament, which was realistically the most fair tournament we've had to date 
People QQ'ing about mine and Lewis' knowledge of people's ability as if we've never played CS, we're completely clueless and we haven't done this before 
I'm not saying the teams are gonna be perfect, they can never can be perfect realistically as someone has to win and you just do the best you can to provide a mixed bag of teams with different people to previous tournaments to make it as competitive as possible. I'm also not saying me and Lewis are the best team pickers or most knowledgeable compared to some others, but to act as if we're completely clueless and inept because our choices would have differed to yours and whine as if you would be the almighty event saviour is just pathetic imo.
Strogglok quit not because of the ability of players, but because he personally has a problem with them. I personally find it petty but he's made that choice and will face the punishments for it.
Also on paper my team is probably the weakest, but don't see any of the godseen's team qq'ing 
also nt Danny it's past 12, you can't pull that wool over my eyes xoxo

I've recently stumbled onto Volbeat, probably one my best finds in a long time.
 

Good luck to all the teams. 
It's not the first time I have seen someone quit because of team mates. Of course you might have a lot of reasons to do so if you really don't get on with someone, however, sometimes you just gotta be the bigger man and deal with it. You will inevitably be in situations like this in the future, whether it's as part of a team online or work colleagues/neighbours, but running away from it is not the solution. Being in a team with people you don't get on with is a good opportunity to improve yourself for similar situations like those. I am not targeting you specifically Strogg, but to everyone in general. People who have experienced this before will know what I am talking about.
Anyway, this thread is about ESL, so let's get back on topic. I am gonna root for Team 7 because it would be nice to see unseen finally get out of group stage and not get sprayed down through smoke for one tournament.

Team 5 gonna get freekilled hard

Hola mis amigos
Been a while since the last update due to the busy and quiet nature meaning there wasn't much to post about last month, but hopefully things now are being kicked back into gear and the updates will keep coming.
 
- New Staff
First off we'd like to welcome the following individuals to the moderator team:
- Fxden
- Cereal
- Quake
- Twiixtor
Congratulations to the three new bloods and welcome back to Twiixtor. Moderator apps will be closing soon.
 
- Adios
Continuing on from last update, we had a few more people stepping away from staff ranks. So to the following individuals:
- Substick
- Pepe
- Brandon
- Daffy
- Weezy
- Rory
- Pasickle
We'd like to say a massive thank you all for the time you put into the community. Most of you are still present in our community and will continue to help out where you can we're sure, but taking on the responsibility as part of staff often puts you in a spot with others that isn't always easy to deal with. Although keeping the staff fresh and active is important, having individuals who have been in a similar role in the past as part of our core memberbase can only continue to make our core community stronger. There would be more I would like to say about each person individually but I hope I was able to bring that appreciation across to them directly at the time, so this is to just provide some recognition for them all.
 
- ESL Outbreak Spring Tournament
We have the next Outbreak CSGO tournament coming up during the Easter holidays. The post will be up sometime in the next few days so make sure to look out for it if you want to get in on OB's seasonal competitive action. We intend for this to take a similar style to the most recent Winter tournament.
 
- Awards
As mentioned in the last update, awards are on their way. There will be a variety of awards to recognise a wide range of achievements. For the time being the main awards being awarded for you to see are victory trophies for victors of Outbreak's tournaments, however we have many more to come and are open to reasonable suggestions for future awards.
Below are screenshots of Rachel's awards to provide an example:
 
If you have any questions about anything, make sure to ask. I'm sure there'll be more to come in coming updates, among the busy times 
The OB Staff

Planned Server Maintenance 
Tomorrow 31/03/17, I'll be performing some server maintenance. All of our servers will be offline for a few hours and will gradually come back online. All of our servers should be fully online by the evening however I'm going to try to get it done quite quickly. I'm going to get Teamspeak up first so you can at least chat to each other and then gradually bring the rest online. When the servers are back up you probably won't notice much difference but I'm aiming to fix quite a few back-end issues.
Thanks

Becoming vegetarian is someones choice and shouldn't be frowned upon by others as it is their choice and they shouldn't be judged on it. Although meat is needed for the right amount of vitamins in your diet, you can also take vitamin tablets to substitute this in, therefore allowing the people to make their own choice. Although people cattle farming or eating meat is wrong, it wont change as so many people do it as well as many people make a lot of money from it.
Becoming a vegetarian or any other different diet term is someones choice, although some might agree with it, others may not. However there is some point in which the people take it too far. One of which is when "animal rights people" protested in which they branded themselves "like cattle" , like they described it . Yes i understand their point, but don't you agree that this is too far and some what just taking it too far?
Well i have said my point, overall "veges" and "Vegans" have their right to their opinions and diet don't get me wrong, i fully respect that, however when they take it too far then it becomes stupid in how they are trying to convey their point. These people in the video are people who are fighting for animal rights, and yes i agree with them  but only to a certain extent, otherwise we wouldnt have meat in this current age.
Video NSFW: 
 

Is it halal?

My team is already having a feud wtf

This great song has crept into my recommended music recently. It's pretty class.