NIP CEO criticized after joke about BLAST Paris Major stickers tricks CSGO fans

  ❘   Revealed: 2023-05-02T20:48:07

  ❘   Up to date: 2023-05-02T21:28:38

Ninjas in Pyjamas CEO Hicham Chahine has come below fireplace after placing out a joke publish on Twitter concerning the BLAST Paris Main stickers forward of the match.

The BLAST Paris Main is days away and the stickers for the final CS:GO Main ever have but to drop. In an try to conjure some type of reverse jinx, the NIP CEO boldly posted on Twitter that there could be no stickers for the Main.

The publish has shortly gained traction, garnering over 200,000 views and virtually 1,000 likes, with some believing the post was factual, and others commenting on the joke.

“It’s true, the French unions firebombed all of the stickers yesterday in the course of the protests,” Dust2 Editor-in-Chief Ryan Buddy said in response to the post.

“Is there a cause for this? Absolutely it’s unrelated to CPH Flames?” 100 Thieves Senior Vice President of esports Jacob Toft-Andersen said.

BLAST Paris Main stickers are nonetheless coming

Chahine, realizing many CS:GO followers had taken his tweet critically, responded to his own post and mentioned he actually has “no data” on when the stickers for the Main will come.

“Oh wow,” he mentioned. “I used to be attempting to state it wouldn’t occur in order that they drop tonight.”

The follow-up publish to make clear his assertion has solely been considered about 20,000 occasions and has seen little traction in comparison with his preliminary joke publish.

Stickers from the occasion are a means for groups that qualify for the most important match within the esport to become profitable by way of Valve’s in-game sale of the beauty. Some stickers from earlier occasions have gone for tons of of hundreds of {dollars} on the resale market.

One crew was just lately accused of “insider trading” within the CSGO sticker market as its gamers purchased up their group’s stickers earlier than the corporate introduced it had filed for chapter.

NIP is about to compete on the BLAST Paris Main, beginning within the Challengers Stage. The crew’s first match is in opposition to MOUZ on Might 8.