A round-of-12 playoff match between Natus Vincere and Heroic at ESL Pro League season 16 has gone previous midnight in Malta because of rampant tech delays and a shocking quantity of lag that affects a number of gamers, together with celebrity Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev.
The 2 CS:GO groups, at time of writing, are sitting in a tech pause on map three of a collection that has already gone the space. Each map one and two went to a full 30 rounds of regulation, with NAVI taking their choose of Mirage 16-14 earlier than Heroic took their choose of Inferno 16-14.
However just some rounds into Overpass, connection issues started to floor. S1mple started experiencing huge lag spikes regardless of the match happening on LAN, and even after alerting officers and taking breaks, the issue endured. Within the sixth spherical throughout a one-vs-two situation, s1mple was hit with lag so egregious that he simply put his fingers within the air and took his fingers off the keyboard, producing an enormous scowl on his face.
Even after one other break following this occasion, the issues continued, with NAVI’s computer systems freezing routinely and dropping connection. It occurred once more simply a few rounds later, with s1mple lagging his manner via Financial institution to carry onto an AWP in a spherical that NAVI had already gained. As teammate sdy closed the spherical, s1mple may solely snort because the match went to one more tech pause.
This has already been an eventful and tense occasion for NAVI’s signature celebrity, who’s been concerned in an incident involving ESL and a hotel room plagued by mold and insects. That incident has since been resolved between himself, ESL, and the resort. The occasion itself has additionally seen a better quantity of tech delays and manufacturing mishaps than what’s sometimes anticipated out of ESL.
NAVI and Heroic are taking part in to advance to the quarterfinals of ESL Professional League season 16.
