Cloud9 Player Complains About Copenhagen Major Stickers

A Cloud9 participant claims that Valve didn’t think about him for the upcoming batch of Copenhagen stickers

The Counter-Strike group is buzzing with anticipation simply two days earlier than the historic Copenhagen Main, the primary CS2 Main ever. Nonetheless, a serious element stays conspicuously absent: the official Copenhagen Main stickers. Leaks have supplied a tantalizing preview of the beauty objects, however Valve has been radio silent on their official launch. This data blackout has the Counter-Strike group in a frenzy, with a Cloud9 participant including gasoline to the fireplace by revealing he hasn’t been assigned an official Copenhagen Main participant sticker from Valve.

Cloud9 Participant Makes Astonishing Copenhagen Main Stickers Declare

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Cloud9’s outstanding Counter-Strike expertise, Ilya “Perfecto” Zalutskiy, lately aired his grievances relating to Valve and PGL. In a candid assertion on Telegram, he disclosed his disappointment over the obvious exclusion of his sticker from the official Copenhagen Main stickers assortment. It’s necessary to notice, nonetheless, that there is a lack of definitive proof to substantiate this declare proper now.

The PGL Main Copenhagen 2024 stickers have not been launched for buy but, however gamers can already see them within the CS2 shopper, because of the Viewer Go replace. This implies the stickers are doubtless within the sport however not activated. Nonetheless, Cloud9’s Perfecto seems to be lacking his personal participant sticker. There have been situations previously the place sticker designs weren’t accredited, with a earlier Main’s sticker used as an alternative.

Valve tightened up the sticker submission guidelines for the Copenhagen Main. Submissions with elaborate graphics, industrial fonts, or work accomplished by skilled artists had been rejected. This resulted in gamers like Hobbit, Boombl4, and Rain having their preliminary designs turned down.

Autographs and workforce stickers are a major supply of revenue for skilled Counter-Strike groups. In response to a report by HLTV.org, groups on the BLAST Paris Main every earned a median of $3.5 million from sticker gross sales alone. This staggering sum interprets to a complete income of round $110 million for the occasion, simply eclipsing most esports prize swimming pools.