MonteCristo named Flashpoint Commissioner

17-6-2020 18:00

Christopher "⁠MonteCristo⁠" Mykles has been appointed as the Commissioner of Flashpoint, the league's parent company, B Site, announced on Wednesday.

The veteran broadcaster will act as a liaison between Flashpoint and the fans as part of the league's Board of Governors to help approve formats and tournament rules and enforce player penalties and competitive sanctions.

MonteCristo was part of the broadcast talent of Flashpoint Season 1 and also played a key role in the development of the league's concept alongside Creative Director Duncan "⁠Thorin⁠" Shields. In the Board of Governors, he will be joined by Mike Rufail, CEO of Envy, Tomi "⁠lurppis⁠" Kovanen, Senior Vice President of Finance and Business Development of the Immortals Gaming Club, Adam "⁠friberg⁠" Friberg and Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo.

MonteCristo will serve on Flashpoint's Board of Governors
(Photo by Simeone Sergio Spagnoli/FACEIT)

The former Overwatch League caster will combine the role of Flashpoint Commissioner with his new duties as the Vice President of Brand of B Site. He will be responsible for shaping the strategic brand direction as the company prepares to expand to include additional esports titles.

"I am extremely excited to continue constructing the live tournament and content plans for both Flashpoint and B Site," he said in a statement. "We aim to serve enthusiastic, adult fans with content brought to them by the most creative, fun, and expert voices from their favorite games. We are committed to not only providing top-tier tournament experiences, but also to roll out year-round studio shows for all major esports."

B Site has yet to announce the first details about the second edition of Flashpoint. The opening season came to an end in April, with MAD Lions claiming the bulk of the league's $1 million prize pool after beating MIBR in the final. The league was supposed to be held entirely on LAN, with the group matches in Los Angeles and the finals in Stockholm, but the coronavirus pandemic forced B Site to change its plans and move the tournament to an online setting just days into the season.

Countries around the world have eased COVID-19 restrictions and tournament organisers are pondering a return to LAN, so it appears more likely that Flashpoint 2 will take place offline. with details expected to be finalised in the coming weeks.

Flashpoint xaxaxaxa

2020-06-17 18:00

13 replies

always first

2020-06-17 18:01

4 replies

Montecristo wack

2020-06-17 18:06

1 reply

Flashpoint was really nice to watch.

2020-06-17 18:35

I also dont know how

2020-06-17 18:21

only happens to big fans

2020-06-17 18:51

Did you wrote a script for #1 or what

2020-06-17 18:36

7 replies

Jermans with big flair get the news 30 mins before everyone else, so they can give their professional opinion on the text.

2020-06-17 19:33

2 replies

A respectable opinion at that

2020-06-17 19:50

+1 :)

2020-06-17 19:52

I think he has text prepared with ctrl+c for news about matches

2020-06-17 23:00

But this is a random news, who would guessed it's timing

2020-06-18 00:01

You don't need preparation to write flashpoint xaxaxaxaxaxa

2020-06-18 08:19

I guess it's admins trolling, trying to keep the hype and intrigue on site

2020-06-18 12:29

wack

LMAO

nice

who?

2020-06-17 18:02

renegades owner in 2015

then riot/rls scammazed him out of big money buyout of the org

2020-06-17 18:15

zzzzzzz zhey're really trying it again?

Heretics ez $1M since they arent at pro league

tl;dr?

2020-06-17 18:03

Flashpoint is the main reason for tier 2/3 players to stay in CSGO. Community need this tournament.

2020-06-17 18:04

8 replies

With the LAN part entertaining to watch people trashtalking and finally see GTR/f0rest actually show some more personality

no you mean ORANGE MAN BAD FLASHPOINT BAD AXAXAXA

2020-06-17 18:16

6 replies

I mean Thorin is a cunt, but I actually liked the league. If they kick Thorin, its prob one of the best tournaments out there, not gonna happen, but would be in my eyes the best thing to do

2020-06-17 19:05

5 replies

He is a cunt on Twitter, that's about it, he's fine on broadcasts and his Youtube channel

2020-06-17 19:21

na even his YouTube is toxic sometimes. Also his ego is way to big and he thinks, he understands CS, like some kind of mastermind

2020-06-17 19:37

3 replies

He is pretty much the only one with personality and guts to say what he thinks and everybody is hating on him for that.

2020-06-17 19:42

I respect his opinon and all, but he literally trash talks anyone, who has not his opinion or disagrees with him, who isnt a friend of him. Just not the type of person I would talk to or enjoy listening to

2020-06-17 19:45

Usually what he says on his solo Youtube videos and interviews is very reasonable, when he's on a podcast he is a lot more aggressive and confrontational, but I'd still not call that toxic, however on Twitter he will just say whatever the fuck he wants to and very often goes out of his way to be as harsh as possible and is definitely toxic there

2020-06-17 20:25

trashpoint lul

2020-06-17 18:05

Taco xaxaxaxaxaxaxa

Trashpoint LMAOOOO

wrong game bruv

lmao

2020-06-17 18:07

Want to know flashpoint S2 roster? Look at the teams that got eliminated from EPS qualy and there you go (Except Singularity)

2020-06-17 18:09

Maybe they can trick OG into spending the 2,000,000 but none of the other teams except maybe godsent have enough money to pay for a slot in the league.

2020-06-17 18:12

Nah, they'll work it out for them. I mean, I expect Heretics and Trashitar Riders to be in it too.

legit who cares

2020-06-17 18:10

noone cars about trashpoint

2020-06-17 18:11

who cars mens

flashpoint officially screwed lol

is this that guy that making matchfixing in tennis? AHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHA

2020-06-17 18:26

yeah its him 😋😋

what is that even supposed to mean?

2020-06-17 23:03

context?

2020-06-18 00:28

google "montecristo tennis"

2020-06-18 02:25

OMEGALUL WHO???

This was pretty expected i think.

2020-06-17 18:28

mad lions +1000000$ at Flashpoint2 prize pool: 2000000$ Teams: 1. mad lions 2. mibr 3. clown9 4. Spirit 5. Gen.G 6. ence 7. Heroic 8. complulxity 9. EG 10. Heretics

2020-06-17 18:32

Confirmed teams? Or only bait

2020-06-17 18:34

0n1y b417

Compl and eg already on epl, so 0/8 bait

2020-06-17 19:47

axaxaxax))))

2020-06-18 09:24

Flashpoint 2 will be much better than the first. Better teams and lan matches <3

The Count of Montecristo?????? I thought he was a fictional character :-----)

2020-06-17 18:33

monte cassino

Let's see flashpoint improve with better teams! :)

nobody cars

This league is not interesting to most of ppl, but for some it is, so why would you trashtalk it?

2020-06-17 18:52

“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you” —Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

What is flashpoint? Is it some sort of ESEA MDL League? Never heard of it.

2020-06-17 19:08

If they don't get any decent teams no one is gonna give a shit. First season was a complete failure on all counts, let's see what they can put together for season 2.

Nobody else wants him, I dont see why cs need him.

2020-06-17 19:16

i hope flashpoint 2 will finally get some better teams, there should be at least 3-4 top 10 teams in there, the production was actually really nice.

2020-06-17 19:31

overwatch XD

2020-06-17 19:38

Neat

Honestly Flashpoint is not a bad league. I would say it's better then what ECS was at least in conception. It just needs better teams.

2020-06-17 19:48

After that Renegades fiasco in LoL, I dont really understand why would anyone hire him. Another problem is, that he is employee of Cloud9. But I guess this conflict of interest is not important at all.

2020-06-17 20:14

What rng fiasco? The one where riot banned him without allowing him to show any evidence, in a single day after original notification, while he was literally skiing down a mountain, as riot created a new rule to retroactively punish him for the violation they thought he committed? Yes I hate riot

2020-06-18 13:41

Yeah, you act like he didnt completely fail as team owner to prevent player abuse, didnt hire (or at least didnt stop it) person who Riot blacklisted and would let him be team owner afterwards. Which resulted in surgery that didnt go well. Keep telling to yourself he didnt get a chance to show evidence. You can hate Riot as you want, but they did the right thing. Even if we look past this, his hypocracy or double standards when it comes to Flashpoint and its competitors is alarming. Not to mention conflict of interest with him in the centre right now.

2020-06-19 10:01

How long will this scam keep going ?

2020-06-17 20:24

gl, flashpoint production was very nice

2020-06-17 20:40

friberg and TACO in the board of governors? lmao, nice conflict of interest Trashpoint. twitter.com/thorin/status/12703564983010.. epic banger tweet by thorin once again

2020-06-17 20:45

MonteCristo You Mean Sktelecom hype Train Guy.

2020-06-17 22:53

flashpoint is dope

2020-06-17 22:58

BASED

2020-06-18 00:04

Basically everyone that is referred to in this article is a known retard, I don't see how they can be successful

2020-06-18 00:26

Going to be ousted by Thorin soon xaxaxaaaxaxaxa

2020-06-18 00:30

Monte and thorin at it again hahahaha

2020-06-18 01:33

Flashpoint is the biggest scam i have ever seen xD 2mil buy-in league with garbage teams and terrible production, on top of that 100k monthly fines for having your trash team out of top 20 xDD I wonder how much thoorin and monte are pocketing here

2020-06-18 02:17