[VOD] Half-year recap with guest Bleh on HLTV Confirmed

Going live at 20:00 , tonight's episode of HLTV Confirmed will feature our regular panel and guest analyst Sudhen "⁠Bleh⁠" Wahengbam discussing the hottest topics of the first half of 2019.

The VOD is available:

In HLTV Confirmed S03E25, we will be winding back time to the start of the year, revisiting some of our expectations for teams such as fnatic, BIG, and Astralis, as well as look at how the meta shifted due to updates to weapons, maps, and the economy.

Our panel, featuring Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill, Milan "⁠Striker⁠" Švejda, Zvonimir "Professeur" Burazin, and Bleh, will also take a look at the best performing players so far and try to predict which of them could make the Top 20 players of the year list.

The show will go live on 20:00 on our Twitch channel, with more updates about the show available on the dedicated Twitter account.

You can find the full topic list below:

Recent news
-BIG bring back nex & smooya
-gob b announces retirement
-CSPPA announce player break
-Vertigo updated
-Cache to be played in ESL NY showmatch

Revisiting predictions
-Looking back at what we claimed at the start of the year

Top20 expectations
-Which players are likely to finish in the top20?

Meta shift
-Impact of the map pool, AUG, and economy updates

Cutting online CS
-EPL and ECS changes, for better or for worse?
-What more can be done?

Predictions for 2019
-Our bold predictions for the remainder of the year