BLAST releases Austin Major conflict of interest declarations featuring EliGE, siuhy, npl

23-4-2025 19:05

Seven players and teams have declared various conflicts with their competitors at the BLAST.tv Austin Major.

B8's npl remains on loan from NAVI until the end of 2025

BLAST has released a list of declarations teams and players have made of their conflicts of interest with competitors taking part in the Austin Major, as mandated by Valve.

Seven players are listed as having a conflict with another competing team: Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski, Tim "⁠susp⁠" Ångström, Erik "⁠ztr⁠" Gustafsson, Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan, Aleksandr "⁠KaiR0N-⁠" Anashkin, Andrii "⁠npl⁠" Kukharskyi and Kamil "⁠siuhy⁠" Szkaradek.

EliGE's conflict stems from his well-documented minority stake (0.043%) in Liquid, which he has declared ever since he parted ways with the organization in 2023.

Metizport declared conflicts with two of their former players, susp and ztr: a "performance-based bonus payable to Metizport" in case their team qualifies for the Austin Major and a "percentage share of any future transfer fee." susp qualified for the Major with Wildcard, while ztr failed to with GamerLegion but competed in the same qualifier as Metizport.

arT is set to compete at his first Major with Fluxo since he parted ways with FURIA in the first half of 2024. The Brazilian organization revealed that the former in-game leader had been granted "a small number of shares via donation and holds an option to acquire shares in FURIA" during his time with the organization, the total of which amounts to "under 1% of FURIA's total shares."

The final three players are or were on loan from another organization participating at the Austin Major or its qualifiers.

9 Pandas, who were unsuccessful in the European qualifier, declared that the team had signed a lease agreement with BetBoom over the loan of KaiR0N- for the duration of the tournament, but the 21-year-old never even turned out for the team in the qualifier.

npl joined B8 on a loan from Natus Vincere back in 2023 and the lease period will remain in force "till the end of the second Major in December 2025."

Lastly, siuhy's ongoing loan from MOUZ to Liquid was also declared by the latter organization.

Official: siuhy joins Liquid on loan

2025-04-23 19:06

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Aw the NA player cant read past the 30th word.

2025-04-24 01:51

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2025-04-24 02:08

mens wtf he just said ok, chill out

2025-04-24 02:42

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Welcome to internet :/

2025-04-25 01:15

chill out bro

2025-04-25 10:22

Okay

2025-04-24 04:49

will your team win a game ever?

2025-04-25 03:19

Blastralis no conflict

2025-04-23 19:07

111

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Well yeah, they didn’t make the major xddd

frauds!

irrelevant

2025-04-23 19:08

wtf

Errrrrrmm.... Ok and?

2025-04-23 19:09

Ok, so what does that mean?

just 322 watch

2025-04-23 19:59

Nice, good to see after Bucharest was allowed to play out how it did.

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We Will NEVER Forget What You've Done Oilya...

2025-04-23 19:15

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Who?

2025-04-23 19:30

OILya Osipov

2025-04-23 19:31

You did it again

2025-04-23 19:32

Further proof that Elige owns Twistzz

2025-04-23 19:10

ermmmm one of them made the playoffs and the other one didn't....

2025-04-24 10:26

Erm, my diaper appears to be full

2025-04-24 17:51

Twistzz and Ropz own elige

2025-04-25 09:49

Nobody give a f, let the guys play the Major

And xd How this nonsense can affect results?

less than 1% is a problem???

2025-04-23 19:11

I mean if a team does well, it might get more sponsors, which means the org could prosper, meaning the dividends could get bigger, so you might have an incentive to throw.. Unlikely, but possible.

2025-04-23 19:18

he will gain like 15 bucks tho,

2025-04-23 19:20

I didn't say it would be smart, only that it's possible

2025-04-23 19:25

0.043% is over ~180K worth btw

2025-04-24 12:41

It's not a problem, they just need to declare it

2025-04-23 19:26

oh, ok

2025-04-23 19:52

what does this mean?

2025-04-23 19:12

ban all of them

2025-04-23 19:13

That's actually interesting

Bro, lol 0.043%. That's only $430 out of a million. Elige will probably get rid of it quickly and be clear.

Or he will invest it in cryptocurency like a true investor and 10 years from now who knows...

2025-04-23 19:19

He has those shares since 2023 why would he get rid of them now

2025-04-23 19:23

Unlike all the other morons here, I completely understand the point of this article. However, I regret to inform you that, like all the others, I still don't give a shit. We just want to watch the nerds play CS, thanks.

lot of simpletons in here that think having a declared conflict of interest means they’re gonna throw to benefit another team

Nobody here actually thinks that… It’s called sarcasm… I know it’s hard through but it’s clear as water here.

2025-04-23 20:32

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no i’m pretty sure there are a lot of idiots that legitimately think they should be barred from competing until the conflicts are resolved

2025-04-23 20:42

majority of those select people can vote btw

2025-04-23 22:09

im well aware of who the majority voted for in my country ya

2025-04-23 22:30

just hltv forums in general, this is a worldwide problem, unluko maluko

2025-04-23 22:31

Ooooooooof Hope your family and friends are safe if they’re not already part of the MAGA cult

2025-04-25 01:17

this might be the biggest nothing burger post ever

2025-04-23 19:22

I don't see 500 conflict of interest with escic

Cause its major teams, brobeans

2025-04-24 09:49

Damn elige got $30 worth of liquid

#58

2025-04-24 00:19

Proof that it's all rigged, only Donk stands against the darkness

2025-04-23 19:24

give them the ibuypower treatment

2025-04-23 19:27

elige still has shares in liquid? dude hasn't been on team since CSGO. Resolved by him selling his shares. He should've since he was in Col for over a year already as well and still is an active player. Purchase shares when you're no longer a contracted player. mouz should just terminate siuhy's contract. they clearly dont want him. The rest I dont care.

fart still have furia shares, LMAO thats why they take years to kick him, same with yuurih rn

2025-04-23 19:39

-aleksi +npl after major confirmed

How is the collaboration of Blast with Saudi partners and the participation of Falcons at the Event not a conflict of interst that has to be declared?

2025-04-23 19:41

spot on what a joke..

2025-04-23 20:50

Because its major teams brobeans

That’s like 250 grand W elige

2025-04-23 19:42

and falcons have no conflict of interest yeah sure bro

Interesting I didn’t even know NPL was still on loan from na’vi. HELLO na’vi he’s thriving now let’s get him as the IGL

2025-04-23 19:55

Ok, now what?

2025-04-23 20:02

directly to el salvador do not pass go

2025-04-23 20:04

Well, after some research and some calculations, Team Liquid is worth approximately 440 million $$$. So the 0.043% owned by Elige it's valued at about 182k $$$.

2025-04-23 20:10

How tf is team liquid that big? I thought they had fallen off

2025-04-23 22:47

As far as i know they are a pretty big fish themselves, even being top 3 in "The Most Valuable Esports Companies 2022" by Forbes. But they kinda have a good structure behind them called aXiomatic: "In 2015, aXiomatic acquired a majority position in Team Liquid. aXiomatic is an investment and management company that focuses on esports and gaming."

2025-04-24 00:17

Team Liquid is not just CS team they have a lot of team on other games too

2025-04-24 05:03

I’m sure there was no conflict when you clowns invited Astralis to your own event, right?

2025-04-23 20:30

art 1% for Furia

wow that's stupid af. what about everyone working with saudi? how is that and falcons not a conflict of interest? the answer: because that's just as dumb.

the answer: Because this is just major teams

2025-04-24 09:51

and falcons have nor problem yeaaaa haha nice comedy

2025-04-23 21:17

Cool to get a glimpse of how professional Counterstrike contracts work. Also cool that this gets declared beforehand, just for transparecy. And sometimes these kind of things are just hilarious. I remember when my football club of choice kicked out its inept coach and hired a new one, who actually managed to get the team promoted to the next week - which in return activated a clause in the first coaches contract, increasing his salary.

2025-04-23 23:54