Tech delays, printer issues, and European struggles on day one at GET Rio

19-4-2024 10:55

Delays and postponements marred the first day of play in Brazil.

IT sorted out fresh prints for the boys

The opening day of the Global Esports Tour in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was not an easy one. It was marred by delays and two matches, MIBR vs. paiN and OG vs. Monte, even had to be postponed.

The first round, which pitted Monte and paiN started two hours late, and the match going into overtime didn't help the schedule, either. In the end, it was the Brazilians who prevailed on Anubis, 16-14.

Imperial and Metizport also played a long game, going all the way to the last round of regulation before the Brazilians could take Inferno against the Swedes. Nicolas "⁠Plopski⁠" Gonzalez Zamora, standing-in for star player Linus "⁠nilo⁠" Bergman, was his team's best performer with a 1.32 rating on the map.

9z were the first and only team in the openers to take out a Brazilian squad, none other than the Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan-less FURIA. Antonio "⁠MartinezSa⁠" Martinez and Franco "⁠dgt⁠" Garcia turned up with 1.68 and 1.60 ratings, respectively, in a 13-6 drubbing on Overpass.

The surreal moment of the day came before the MIBR vs. OG bout, when the match was delayed because the teams could not print out their tactics.

The fact that such a minutia could delay a match in the first place should perhaps prompt consideration on whether the practice should be allowed in the first place. In the end, with cluttered desks on both sides, MIBR made quick work of OG on Vertigo, 13-4.

The match between Imperial and 9z, which went to the Brazilians, was delayed due to the ongoing EWC qualifier in Brazil, and in the end the matches between MIBR vs. paiN and Monte vs. OG had to be rescheduled.

Date	Matches
Global Esports Tour Rio 2024
18/04/2024	Monte Finished 14:16 paiN	Match
18/04/2024	Imperial Finished 13:11 Metizport	Match
18/04/2024	FURIA Finished 6:13 9z	Match
18/04/2024	MIBR Finished 13:4 OG	Match
19/04/2024	Imperial Finished 13:6 9z	Match

The second day of play kicks off at 15:00 , with one best-of-one and a whopping six best-of-threes on the schedule due to the previous day's postponements.

The matches are:

Date	Matches
Global Esports Tour Rio 2024
19/04/2024	Metizport 15:45 FURIA	Match
19/04/2024	paiN 18:45 MIBR	Match
19/04/2024	Monte 21:00 OG	Match
20/04/2024	MIBR 00:40 FURIA	Match
20/04/2024	9z 03:30 OG	Match
20/04/2024	Imperial 06:15 paiN	Match
20/04/2024	MIBR 15:25 OG	Match

Common SA W

2024-04-19 10:55

22 replies

Never in my life i thought i could see something worse than the belgian DJ in charleroi but they literally got an autotuned trapper with a 5 usd microphone, imagine paying taxes and goverment gives you this shit event KEKW

2024-04-19 12:50

19 replies

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

2024-04-19 13:18

Wtf respect “stop stopp stopp 😡“ singer

2024-04-19 13:25

I had never silenced a live with as much pleasure as the moment that supposed artist started singing, Jesus, how do they think that's an artist for an international presentation?!

2024-04-19 13:27

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and you know what's worse? is that not even 1% of Brazil likes this musical style, but they insist on forcefully inserting these things

2024-04-19 13:32

Lmao I remember this DJ, only event I remember whole tbh. Also cameraman that showed empty seats constantly or did 720 degree slowmo spins for some reason

I just rewatched that part on the vod, it was 10x worse than what I imagined reading your description, I would be very mad if my tax money would be funding that shit hahahaha

2024-04-19 14:28

10 replies

Which minute of the vod was this?

2024-04-19 14:54

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youtube.com/live/uRS8QCw3WbY?si=XwUy9lbI.. kind a starts there, he starts singing a bit later

2024-04-19 14:56

8 replies

omfg my $20 headset records better than that

2024-04-19 15:20

2024-04-19 15:32

my ears hurt

2024-04-19 15:44

my ears are bleeding

2024-04-19 16:17

What the fuck is this

2024-04-19 16:45

hahahhahah audio makes PGL look 10/10

2024-04-19 17:03

Im dead now

2024-04-19 18:00

LMAO THIS CANT BE REAL

2024-04-20 19:29

Honestly what is even this??? I’m literally dying of cringe loool

2024-04-19 16:16

KKKKKKKKKKKK LOLLLLLLL OMG So true... I am brazilian and I totally agree with you.

2024-04-19 16:57

Top kekw

2024-04-20 10:05

dont forget when the dancers lift the trophy in the wrong direction twitch.tv/infocsarg/clip/PoisedSmilingAp..

2024-04-19 17:42

This is perfect 🤣🤣🤣🤣

2024-04-20 10:12

clown fiesta

2024-04-19 10:56

The secret is to not invite any top 10 team

2024-04-19 10:57

furia disband lmao

2024-04-19 10:58

rigged event gg

Brazilian Storm is underway. Clown TO, anyways.

2024-04-19 10:59

"The surreal moment of the day came before the MIBR vs. OG bout, when the match was delayed because the teams could not print out their tactics." Bruh who the fuck cares.

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that should NOT be a valid reason for a tech timeout, I don't care if everyone does it

2024-04-19 11:27

Yeah exactly my thought...

2024-04-19 11:30

They just needed a scapegoat

2024-04-19 12:48

Just another day at the office in BR

2024-04-19 11:10

2 replies

Also Brazil: youtube.com/watch?v=sX_-I4og_Pg&ab_chann..

2024-04-19 11:59

This comment section is gettin better and better

2024-04-20 10:19

I support allowing players to have papers on the desk. But teams should print those out beforehand, its no reasons to delay match because of this kind of thing. Also we should focus on the games not a thing like this. Does't Furia have academy squad where they could get a player to play instead of Guerri?

2024-04-19 11:12

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I agree. It is kind of unprofessional to not bring such critical documents beforehand.

2024-04-19 11:50

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I think it's an integrity matter, see #33

2024-04-19 11:57

#38 #67 ...

2024-04-19 15:10

Does not make sense. I mean we don't see TO providing, I dunno, clothes for the players. Well such rule may be in rules, but does not make it make any more sense. And even if this is because of some rule, I don't think any match should be delayed because of this.

2024-04-19 22:58

maybe bait but Furia played with kye from their academy team, not guerri

2024-04-19 11:53

Oh sry, Match page must have showed wrong for a while. I don't know how else I would have thought that. kye makes lots more sense already.

2024-04-19 22:54

how tf do teams go to an event without their tactics already printed out? why should the event organizers be held accountable for the fact that teams can’t be bothered to print out their own stuff

2024-04-19 11:13

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2024-04-19 11:25

Because they are dumb and lazy, unmature and with non-professional managers and stuff. And somehow they think that other people have to do this for them.

2024-04-19 11:29

huge +1

2024-04-19 11:48

honestly... yeah, why they didn't print out BEFORE?

2024-04-19 11:51

I might be wrong but I think it might be a common thing in ESL/BLAST/PGL tournaments and other big TO's and the reason could be that in theory, it would be possible for teams to cheat somehow using the papers, as they could add nanochips to the paper or whatever. if the TO prints out them, they know for sure there's nothing wrong with them

2024-04-19 11:56

this could be an explanation, but i doubt TO’s are preoccupied with nanochips on sheets of paper when they allow players to use their personal mouse and keyboard

2024-04-19 12:04

fair enough, I don't know whether they perform any checks on the mice and keyboards or not

2024-04-19 12:08

There are no nanochips on paper or whatever. Such technology does not exist outside sci-fi movies.

2024-04-19 14:04

yeah, all you need is to coat the entire paper in chloroform or lsd

2024-04-19 14:36

nanochips on paper lmao. But the real use of the in-tournaments printers is because of real time scheduling as matchups are defined after every result. Pretty obvious tbh.

2024-04-19 18:28

Exactly my thoughts, pretty sure thats what everyone does, but the printer just died xd

2024-04-19 13:22

+1 too many babies nowdays

2024-04-19 12:49

+1, this is completely on OG

2024-04-19 13:43

2024-04-19 15:22

200k$ with such prod kekw

2024-04-19 11:18

Only a Brazil Org. to do those things, they are a joke.

2024-04-19 11:23

It's a Singapore based TO

> with one best-of-five and a whopping six best-of-threes on the schedule due to the previous day's postponements. which bo5? wtf

should have been five best-of-one probably lol

2024-04-19 11:35

yeah it's 1 bo1 and 6 bo3's, no bo5 involved, hltv please fix

2024-04-19 11:54

Indeed, it was meant to be best-of-one. It has now been ammended.

nice :)

2024-04-19 18:33

Max BR ecosystem lol

2024-04-19 11:34

you gotta think about so many things when organizing this type of events. You do you learn. GL

2024-04-19 11:46

If this is going to be a yearly event, things are going to have to change. Delays are to be expected, production looks cheap and the concurrence with EWC is laughable. GL, I hope today will be better.

the event was supposed to be in 2023 and it was postponed for several times, more than 1 year later the event is finally happening but they literally requested more money (2.5 million BRL) from the Brazilian government 1 day before the event started dust2.com.br/noticias/47451/cbge-respond.. so my guess is that a lot of things that were planned might not be executed and maybe they are missing staff because they can't pay them

2024-04-19 12:07

Totally understandable, hope the rest of the tournament goes smoothly 👍

2024-04-19 12:11

prize pool payment problems about to happen...

2024-04-19 12:59

Damn they can't play without a script. More scripted than WWE.

Any word.exe issues?

2024-04-19 12:09

Match delayed due to no free usb ports for players usb drive

2024-04-19 12:31

The mods in the stream even started yapping when I criticized Brazilian teams :DDD. GO SA GO!!!

doesnt even have an official stream lol

2024-04-19 12:16

ees norma

2024-04-19 12:27

Printer issues lmao :D must be HP printer 🤮🤮

2024-04-19 13:15

nice to finally have a sequel to the gaming paradise! so exciting!!!!!

2024-04-19 13:20

Well once you watch how Brazilian CS is played , you will understand how this happens 😂 Brazilian CS is notorious for brain dead plays lol

2024-04-19 13:21

Says NA, lol!

2024-04-19 15:23

"The fact that such a minutia could delay a match in the first place should perhaps prompt consideration on whether the practice should be allowed in the first place." Why this opinion on a news piece?

2024-04-19 13:31

Because its a discussion that has been brought up by people that aren't the author, the author is just including that this discussion has been sparked by the printer problems at the TO.

Hope they’ll fix everything

scripted confirmed

2024-04-19 13:34

Only me that thinks, that its a team issue. That u havnt printed out tactics before hand? It's not the event's responsibility.

2024-04-19 13:35

save the trees, dont print rush bs

2024-04-19 15:08

in the end it is so sad, brazil has one of the most corrupt governments that paid 1.5M dollars for this shit event.

2024-04-19 15:16

I mean, couldn't OG print their tactics before? or it's an event's obligation to provide them with a printer?

2024-04-19 15:28

Expected from Brazil

2024-04-19 15:42

expected from mickey mouse TO I hope br never ever again host another tournament, this is so shameful

2024-04-19 15:50

40% printer loss, another BR L kek

2024-04-19 15:51

You would be absolutely astonished on how ahead Brazil is on tech services comparing to your countries. I am not kidding.

2024-04-19 16:01

daym, brazil makes pgl look somewhat palpable

2024-04-19 16:05

expected

2024-04-19 16:46

gaming paradise is BACK!

2024-04-19 18:17

weird ass tournament

2024-04-19 19:26

Brazil is a shame for cs scenery

2024-04-19 20:00

total floodplain

2024-04-20 01:28

2024-04-20 01:53

$200k tournament

2024-04-20 06:40

LOL, should never held any events there.

2024-04-20 09:47

Compared with this, China's extremesland which had also clashes against IEM Chengdu Asian closed qualifier, was successful. Teams participating IEM qualifier were placed on earlier matches, and had made little delay.

2024-04-20 10:24