At a huge CS:GO tournament in Cologne, the fans cheer for a German in the audience
At the weekend there was a big tournament in Counterstrike: Global Offensive: The Intel Extreme Masters Season XVII – Cologne: The best teams in the world were competing for a prize money pool of one million US dollars. But away from the action on stage, a German content creator experienced his big moment: the audience watched intently as he opened loot boxes in CS:GO and then he hit the jackpot.
What was that for your tournament?
A highlight, however, took place away from the cameras in the audience.
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What happened there in the audience? On July 17, fans waited in the hall for the start of the grand final between NAVI and FaZe.
Also in the audience was the team from LPAgents, a group of German gamers who have been producing Counter-Strike content together since 2013. They organize tournaments, organize events and giveaways. They are rather small content creators: On Twitch, the LPAgents have an average of 10 viewers, on TikTok their videos reach between 300 and 3000 views.
One of the founders, Daniel, held up his laptop and opened loot boxes branded “Dreams & Nightmares” in CS:GO for all fans to see in the section, these are some of the newest loot boxes.
With every box that popped, viewers in the section stared at the laptop monitor and loudly cheered the streamer on.
The hall exploded when a loot box came out with the Nightwish AK-47 skin, a Legendary skin, a grand prize in the CS:GO skin lottery.
Daniel triumphantly held the laptop in the air and pointed it in all directions as the audience cheered him on.
The reaction in the audience was so loud that even the caster on stage looked around confused, which the fans there cheered because the finale hadn’t even started then.
5.1 million views instead of the usual 300 to 3,000
How successful is the video? The clip from the action is an extreme success for the German team:
- The clip already has 5.1 million views on TikTok
- A tweet showing the moment has garnered over 3 million views.
This is what the streamers say about it: We at MeinMMO spoke to one of the LPAgents team and asked Tobi what it’s like when you’ve been making videos for around 300 to 3000 viewers for years and then have a breakthrough like this:
“Last year we focused more on organizing tournaments in CS:GO and LoL, which were really well received by the participants, but there aren’t millions of clicks for them.
We were very lucky that the crowd celebrated our idea so much and that a red item came out as well.”
It’s interesting what can happen when you can be at tournaments again and not just sit at home in front of the monitor. The event in Cologne proves how much e-sport lives and benefits from the event character on site.
On the one hand, CS:GO is a celebrated e-sports title, but it is also considered a pioneer for loot boxes and they are controversial in gaming:
British government puts gaming industry under pressure: regulate loot boxes or otherwise…
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