pretty much exactly this combined with diseases and police intervention

There's an event going on called "Gaming Paradise". Teams attending are Virtus Pro, Na'vi, Kinguin, Titan, Mousesports and Efrag. It started off by being extremely delayed because the PC's got stolen. They were then replaced by PC's without graphics cards and the tournament was delayed again.

After 12 hours of delay, some matches could start on awful pcs's and 60hz monitors to then get delayed again. Meanwhile, the food being served was awful: https://twitter.com/mouznex/status/640608181320855552 . 3 Titan players (Smithz, Ex6tenz and Niak/manager) ended up in the hospital and it's unclear if they will be able to attend ESL Dubai.

To top things off, on the last day of the event it turned out that the organizer's didn't actually pay for the venue and the hotel rooms. All players were detained by the police and their passports were taken. They were later returned when everything was cleared up with them, as it wasn't the players fault. The manager apparently bolted before the police arrived, stealing the event's money.

TobiWan's first CS event in a long while. Quite the welcome. The biggest worry right now is getting everyone to ESL Dubai, which starts in just 2 days.

More details here:
http://www.hltv.org/news/15891-gaming-paradise-in-shambles
Some quality pictures of Day 3:
http://www.hltv.org/forum/888157-gaming-paradise-day-3-photos

I've come to associate this logo with epilepsy warnings

Same here, don't even think Mcdonalds has a breakfast option around here except for airports

Chrome is the best browser when it comes to compatibility with web elements and extensions, but it's very ram intensive.

Nujabes, Marcus D, Dj Okawari

http://www.hltv.org/news/15826-dh-cluj-to-host-next-csgo-major

The ESL Cologne major - CS's biggest event to date - has just ended and the next major has already been announced for late October. Quite strange as there's normally a 3-4 month gap. It will be held in the Polyvalent Hall - Romania, Cluj-Napoca

http://static.hltv.org/images/galleries/1693-medium/1441027328.8363.jpeg

Prizepool is again 250K but its now a five day event, 4 of which are stage days. Most importantly, Dreamhack is partnering with PGL. For those who don't follow PGL, it's a league with the BEST production value in CSGO by far. It's something you'd be watching on TV. Let's hope Dreamhack can deliver too and not fuck up massively like they did at dreamhack winter 2014.

Teams guaranteed to be attending:

fnatic EnVyUs
Virtus pro TSM
Na`Vi Team Kinguin
Luminosity NiP

Rest will have to qualify at Dreamhack Stockholm, which has been turned into an offline qualifier.

Okay, bordering might not have been the best choice of words, granted. What I meant was being in close proximity. Certainly closer than the UK and the countries they're referring to as being "third world shitholes", which I do not agree with.

I know you're not being serious, but this isn't what I was suggesting at all, don't twist it towards that

My point with the comparison to the UK was that you're ignoring the fact that the UK is solitary, while the US borders on what other people here like to refer as "third world shitholes". It's here where's there's more gun crimes and those cartels.

I was actually initially referring to Honduras, Venezuela , El Salvador, Jamaica, Swaziland, Guatemala, Colombia, South Africa, Brazil, Panama, Uruguay and Mexico. Though all of those aren't countries, like Somalia right?

"• The US has the highest gun ownership rate in the world - an average of 88 per 100 people. That puts it first in the world for gun ownership - and even the number two country, Yemen, has significantly fewer - 54.8 per 100 people
• But the US does not have the worst firearm murder rate - that prize belongs to Honduras, El Salvador and Jamaica. In fact, the US is number 28, with a rate of 2.97 per 100,000 people"

And those countries have way less guns per capita. Exactly what I was saying? You're comparing the UK, surrounded by the sea to a country bordering on countries with cartels and higher gun deaths. Not very nuanced and further adds to the fact that criminals can obtain guns regardless

Mock me all you want, but that doesn't make it correct. I just genuinely dislike it when certain types of media try to turn it into another gun debate for the sake of political votes gained from emotional arguments while ignoring the background of the murderer and his personal history. Hell I'm getting baited into this myself which makes me part of the problem

You'd think it's the logical solution and it sounds right in theory, but criminals or people wishing to do others ill won't be stopped by doing this. The regions in the US that tried to apply this actually have the most gun deaths. You're just less likely to pull a gun on people in a store/on the street if you know that other bystanders have a concealed weapon of their own they can pull out.

Again, I don't like the idea of everyone owning a gun but it's not how you're going to solve the issue of mentally ill people that wish to do others harm. On a somewhat related note, a terrorist that actually got on the Thalys from my country was actually stopped by Americans simply because they recognized the sound of the rifle being loaded. The rifle was illegally obtained here and nobody nearby would have been able to do anything. It's a scary thought to me seeing as I took that specific train a few months ago :(

Not really seeing as the states in the US with the least gun crimes are the ones that don't 'crack down' on guns so to speak. There are countries with way less guns per capita and yet more gun related homicides or crimes.

A lot of points people bring up in gun debates just don't make sense to me. For example, people propose a ban on assault rifles in the US while the vast majority of murders are not committed with assault weapons, they're committed with handguns. The problem is essentially selling guns to people without proper mental health checks.

Just to clarify: I'm not pro guns whatsoever, but a gun debate reaction to incidents like this is miss framing the issue

gun ownership isn't the problem though

regardless, pretty scary stuff. Live life to the fullest

I'm so disappointed right now lol