BESTIA make plea for support to secure visas for Austin Major

18-5-2025 15:23

The Argentinian team is still one player short for the showpiece competition.

BESTIA have asked for the community's support to obtain U.S. visas to compete at the BLAST.tv Austin Major. With only a few weeks left until the start of the tournament, the Argentinian side only has four eligible players - and that includes substitute Nicolas "⁠NikoM⁠" Miozzi.

In an emotional video posted on X, BESTIA founder and CEO Alejandro "PapoMC" Lococo explained that the organization's efforts to secure visas for Tomas "⁠tomaszin⁠" Corna and Luciano "⁠luchov⁠" Herrera have so far proved fruitless.

"We've been trying to sort out the visa situation for three years but we keep getting turned down," he said. "We've used every resource at our disposal and we've spoken with every person we thought could give us important information, with agencies…

"We are practicing in Brazil. We went to the embassy for the boys to give it another try and they were once again turned down.

"We are now a few hours away from having to confirm that we have completed the process to be able to represent Argentina. Both tomi and lucho have had their visas denied, in theory because they have no reasons to return to Argentina [after the Major]."

BESTIA qualified for the Major after finishing in third place in the South American Closed Qualifier, beating RED Canids, Sharks and Legacy. The event was supposed to mark the first Major appearance for the BESTIA organization and for all five players on the roster.

Several organizations, including 9z, OG and KRÜ, have publicly expressed support for BESTIA. Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire has also shared the video, which has amassed over 1.7 million views.

"It’s a dream for any Counter-Strike player to play at a Major," the Vitality captain wrote. "These guys have visa issues and they are asking for help. Retweet, please."

BESTIA are slated to face FlyQuest in their first match in Austin on June 3. Should the Argentine side be unable to field a full lineup for the event, it is expected that Legacy will be called as a replacement.

Date	Matches
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 Stage 1
03/06/2025	FlyQuest 20:50 Fluxo	Match

"We want to make it clear that we only want to fulfill our dream, which is to represent Argentina, compete in the most important tournament in the world and then come back home," PapoMC said.

"The boys have a life here, they have a job. They tried to get a visa with a a letter of recommendation from the government, they had a letter of invitation from the tournament organizer. Regrettably, they didn't even want to receive the papers."

Visa issues have become a hot topic in the Counter-Strike scene in recent weeks. GamerLegion and BC.Game are both dealing with visa issues for IEM Dallas, which kicks off on Monday, and Complexity still don't know whether Håkon "⁠hallzerk⁠" Fjærli will be able to obtain a visa in time for the Major.

US flags storming this thread like there's oil here to say that there's nothing wrong with the visa process in united states

2025-05-18 15:24

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any reasonable us citizen would agree that the visa process is ridiculous.

2025-05-18 15:31

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I had a guy argue yesterday that it's teams fault because top orgs have no issues obtaining visa ignoring the fact that these teams were guaranteed to be there and could've applied earlier than rmr teams

2025-05-18 15:34

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embarrassing take on their part. even teams with that additional amount of time sometimes struggle to obtain the visas. system is completely broken, anyone that defends it is not affected by it

2025-05-18 15:38

they argue with idiots who suggest to do not host events there, becuase a few guys didn't get a visa even though it happens in every country, for Kazakhstan 3 players had a struggle

2025-05-18 16:05

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The alternative is fixing the visa process and that'll never happen also literally astralis with last second stand in made it to astana. The only person that wasn't there was hunter and that's because g2 had no clue he needed a visa to begin with and never applied in the first place, he got turned back at the airport.

2025-05-18 16:10

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dgt got visa delayed as well and some other player, I'm not arguing that US has visa problems, but as I said suggesting to do not host event there because of this is ridiculous

2025-05-18 16:11

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The alternative is hosting qualifiers a year before I guess because hallzerk is waiting for his US visa since his contract extension back in 2024

2025-05-18 16:13

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that's his problem

2025-05-18 16:14

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Unlucky for bestia players too I guess, that's their problem USA #1

2025-05-18 16:17

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no, but it happens, not a reason to do not host event there

2025-05-18 16:22

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i think it's more than enough reason to stop hosting events instead. It's not as if the tier 1 teams are mostly from US. in the top 20 teams only 1 is from america, there are venues all over the world to host events. easy to access not only for players but for spectators. it shouldn't be a battle to attend to these events, so yeah there is a reason to stop hosting events there.

2025-05-19 16:38

Who are the 3 guys? because Hunter/G2 forgot he needed a visa to get there, and Pain just applied late for DGT.

2025-05-18 17:54

or even just more importantly that they arent from latin america which is currently what CBS blocks prolly the most other than mb like arabs or africans but theyre not relevant here anyways

2025-05-19 00:01

dont talk fake flagger

2025-05-18 18:38

unfortunately for both of us, I am 100% American

2025-05-18 18:46

Yes and also it's racist

2025-05-19 16:47

oilllllllllllllllll

2025-05-18 16:20

Flag flair name

2025-05-18 16:21

wasnt dat de point

astralis getting to major if they dont get visa?

2025-05-18 17:06

They are from SA so the last loser from SA mrq. Asstralis would get the invite if one of the Europe teams couldnt play

2025-05-18 17:10

You just wanna talk shit for the sake of talking shit. No US flag poster in here will say that this is ok at all. And I can’t believe the number of upvotes you got. Yall stupid.

2025-05-18 19:50

sending good vibes

2025-05-18 15:25

Never host anything in the USA again Embarrassment of a country

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current administration

2025-05-18 16:00

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to be fair, the problems with visa for US events is as old as CS itself, nothing new with current regime

Not exactly true, the current administration has an extreme hate boner for south americans, and has also been gutting every agency including the state department which is responsible for administering visas.

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i dont know any specifics, only saying that visa issues have occured over the length of cs history.

2025-05-18 16:18

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yeah that’s true, our visa system has always been broken, but it has ratcheted up during the Trump presidency because of their extreme anti-immigration views and policies, and serious gov budget cuts having cascading effects on visa admin. Like at the MLG major i want to say there were 2 teams that had visa issues (although it was 9 years ago so my memory isn’t great) and now there’s going to be many more than that

This is the most accurate comment of all the comments the children have made in this forum. I completely agree. Visa problems also have political roots and affect several countries that do not have good relations with the United States. In the case of South America, illegal immigration has become massive and uncontrolled among Caribbean and Mexican people who have arrived illegally in that country, without prejudice to people's right to migrate, which has complicated visa problems with South America.

2025-05-18 22:44

see it's even more perversely racist than you've characterized it, because a huge, huge % of the people that "illegally immigrated" to the US did so by coming here and claiming asylum because a lot of the south american countries are marred by serious gang violence or state-sanctioned violence, both of which are valid reasons for asylum. by international law, it is mandatory for the US to consider them for asylum if they're being persecuted where they are from and legally, it is fine for them to cross the border "illegally" if that is their reason for doing so.

2025-05-18 22:59

It is not a racist comment brother, it is a reality illegal immigration and especially from which countries they come, as I said in my previous comment to this “without prejudice to the right to migrate”, however to this, public policies in state administration when they see the lack of control over the legality of a citizen, happens to carry other fundamental rights that have to do with other things and not with ethnicity, A basic example is “labor rights”, and this is regulated by the State itself, where the current reality is known that there is human trafficking (prostitution of women) and labor exploitation of immigrants who are undocumented and this affects both those who seek a better life and the employer who has legal consequences by having undocumented people. The State is responsible for all that, and if they cannot control that, they have to look at the root, and that is called “migratory control” which does not necessarily have to be linked to “political asylum”, but anyway, I do not want to explain so much, I say it as an example and what is the reality today in the world and especially in America (South, Central and North). Greetings.

2025-05-18 23:15

I wasn't commenting that your comment was racist, but that the premise of the US having an illegal immigration crisis is manufactured to establish South American migrants universally as illegal immigrants, rather than acknowledging the violence and authoritarian regimes in a lot of central american countries leading to people fleeing their countries because they cannot be protected by the government or are being persecuted by their government, is manufactured for racist reasons by the right. Yes, there is labor exploitation and trafficking that undocumented immigrants face, but this isn't caused by a state having lax border control policies, but rather the opposite, not honoring reasonable asylum requests from people desperate to flee their country of origin, leading to them trusting coyotes to take them over the border & give them jobs, only to fall into exploitation or being trafficked. I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding what your comment in #127 intended, but if cutting down on labor exploitation and trafficking was the goal of the state, it would take an approach towards amnesty rather than creating a black market for undocumented labor

2025-05-18 23:47

We agree, however, the social decontrol in this specific topic that underlies this social-political structure is based on maintaining the status quo, in order to keep in power the same people who practice demagogy and populism, at the end of the day, we are victims of that and the world is like this because of them, it is a power struggle between the political elites and it is convenient for them that it is like this. The world is not what it seems, even if there are institutions that watch over human rights such as Amnesty International.

2025-05-19 00:39

That is true but it is also true that the situation has gotten a lot worse as of late. I have heard that it is especially bad for Latin Americans for reasons that should be quite obvious to anyone that keeps up to date with the current political climate of USA.

2025-05-18 17:19

Tyloo not making the major at boston because of visa bro

2025-05-18 16:28

#56

2025-05-18 16:32

You're wrong. There's always been issues with the visas whenever a tournament is hosted in the US. Doesn't happen anywhere else in the world. Not a Trump thing in the slightest.

2025-05-18 16:44

2025-05-18 17:07

not a single US international lan under the previous administration had all teams attend with their full lineups for the exact same reason the problem is systematic and that the US visa officials are paranoid schizophrenics that don't allow 20 year old students from my town to go to a student exchange or work and travel arrangement that they already landed a job and paid rent in advance for because they quietly laughed with a friend while waiting in line at the embassy

2025-05-18 16:46

"the current administration" has no problem with argentina

2025-05-18 19:25

oh look, the tolerant far left again

2025-05-18 16:08

terrible bait theres even plenty republicans that are anti trump not to mention dems who are nowhere near far left but rather center right at best

2025-05-19 00:04

"It’s a dream for any Counter-Strije player to play at a Major,"

2025-05-18 15:26

u got a problem with apex spelling?

dw, everyone already hates this guy.

2025-05-18 15:42

apex spelt it correctly in his tweet, this is an htlv error

US sucks

2025-05-18 15:28

yea

"in theory because they had no reasons to return to Argentina [after the Major]" They will not get visas purely due to this, its a fuckin' hanging cloud over anyone from a developing country going to the USA and especially if that country doesn't have a 90 day business/tourism free VISA. Horrid for the lads, but that's what you get for hosting a major in a country currently trying to undermine all political allies it created over the last few decades.

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They are using this excuse when they dont want someone for some reason. My friend was denied with same. funny thing is that he have biznis here and family as well.

2025-05-18 15:45

We have been having issues with people overstaying their visas in the us for a while. You should blame the people that take advantage of the system and ruin the good faith for others. Also undermining all political allies? Most of our allies don’t do shit for us and we’re just a cash cow for them.

2025-05-18 16:06

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Your whole country is founded on ”people overstaying”.

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How old are you? Are you just now finding out that all land in the world is stolen and was at one point or another conquered? Such a silly statement full of naivety

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that's just not true lol. a lot of countries are still largely inhabited by people deriving from the ethnic groups that lived there centuries ago.

2025-05-18 16:29

Who lived there in the centuries before them? (You’re not gonna like the answer)

2025-05-18 16:47

Idk about the rest of the counties, but Lithuania has been inhabited by the balts for over 2500 years. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balts

2025-05-18 17:04

well most of the modern day european populace directly derives from celts, germanics, romans, slavs, etc who are the "native" people of those lands. obviously borders have shifted, but some ethnic groups like basques are still present in spain and france today. countries like the philipines have also always been inhabited by their natives. i know NA education is not great, but i'm always surprised again and again.

2025-05-18 23:51

Only a trumpist-they are scamming us! -idiot can be dumb enough not to understand that ”people overstaying” did not happen just when the natives were conquered, but trough the whole history of US, when workers, legal and illegal, have been flooding in to the states and with that forming the whole foundation of US becoming the economical powerhouse that it is.

2025-05-18 16:40

Oh boy you really don’t know what you’re talking about. You’re comparing the us when it didn’t have a system to support its people vs now when the us has a system already struggling and not needing more strain until it’s reworked. You’re comparing two completely different periods of time in history that are incomparable. The illegals that came over came for work, and the us didn’t have a native population to support the work force. NOW we do. Also, illegals back then weren’t committing crimes at a staggering rate on the US native population. Again, you’re comparing two completely different time periods and cultures. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

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At what point was I comparing those two things? Oh boy you are not only dumb, but borderline illiterate with your own tongue too!

2025-05-18 16:51

You literally said the us was founded on illegals. And my point was that was an incomparable time period to now. Are you okay mentally?

2025-05-18 16:52

Yes I said that because it is true? At what point did I say that it is comparable to todays world? I think you have embarrassed yourself enough today, take a breather, maybe go eat a burger with watered down beer, send 20 gazillion to Israel and vote for a corrupt lunatic.

2025-05-18 16:59

Cooked him

2025-05-19 18:20

are you gonna go pick strawberries for $1 an hour saltine? lmfao

I love this argument. “So who’s gonna do the slave labor? You? Nuh uh so we need to keep letting illegals in so we can abuse their status as a citizen and their rights” we get it you want slaves

2025-05-18 21:15

we don't have a "native population" willing to go out and pick strawberries, even if they got paid a living wage. that's my point. but in typical fascist fashion I guess it went over your head. illiterate!

2025-05-18 21:32

That’s a good idea. Assume that the native population wouldn’t do the job even if they were compensated fairly so you can keep importing in slave labor so that the conglomerates keep making disproportional wealth and slowly killing the middle class because middle class can’t compete with slave wages. You’re an idiot. Wanting closed borders doesn’t make you a fascist you knuckle dragging freak

2025-05-18 22:52

> illegals back then weren’t committing crimes at a staggering rate on the US native population They aren't doing it now either. Not that you'd know if you get all your news from right wing media

2025-05-19 05:03

Bro probably does not even listen to Trumps speeches but simply prefers (like a lot of MAGA) to get the dumbed down version narrated to them by Fox "news" or even worse Infowars or something of the likes.

2025-05-19 14:10

your own bby girl queen elon musk stayed illegally for years after his visa expired so why shouldnt others, they could end up working their way to becoming billionaires just like them with that great american dream and free market economy and definitely wouldnt make that wealth by stealing or exploiting or anything but clearly would do it out the goodness of their heart and benefit all of society along the way just due to their genius

2025-05-19 00:07

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And this is where you lose me. You think because I want closed borders I like Elon? Elon is one of the biggest grifters in the world and he has no principles. He was literally trying to replace high skilled American jobs with people from other countries with degrees, despite a lot of our students struggling to find jobs. Believe it or not, but just because someone doesn’t hold all the beliefs of one side means they are on the other side. Theres a thing called nuance.

2025-05-19 00:50

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there is barely any nuance with MAGAs if any my guy

2025-05-19 01:39

rich and funny to be talking about nuance while in the same breath wanting all borders to be closed unconditionally never mind the pretense being moronic in the first place

2025-05-19 01:41

When did I ever say unconditionally?

2025-05-19 01:45

if youre picking trump as the guy to do it, you might as well just go ahead and call it unconditionally

2025-05-19 01:48

Well when given a choice between not doing it at all or doing it all the way then I guess I choose doing it all the way if that’s how you put it. I prioritize certain policies more than others. If a Democrat came through with strong border policy I’d vote for them. Bernie has even said strong borders are a must for order

2025-05-19 01:51

you do know that most gun violence is perpetrated by white US citizens? as well as most e.g. fentanyl being smuggled by ppl with permanent residence at the very least, certainly not fresh immigrants or illegals as they have the biggest reasons to be scared of getting caught..

2025-05-19 01:53

Okay now filter the stats per capita. Have you ever taken a statistics class in your life?

2025-05-19 01:54

you got any of those stats for me? either way tho wouldnt the most effective strategy then be to regularly control white US citizens? cause theres the most to get there? afaik 90% of fent is US citizens btw

2025-05-19 01:55

Yea I think we need to start imprisoning people way more and way more harshly. You know how many child touchers, dui manslaughter suspects, ect are let off easy regardless of their skin color in the us? It’s a joke. Crime is disgustingly out of hand here.

2025-05-19 02:00

you have the highest imprisonment rate per 100000 or just per capita in general in the world btw my guy that is not true at all and at the same time slavery is still legal for you guys even in a supposedly woke asf state as california, thats the real conspiracy while black ppl get the harshest sentences on average and are imprisoned the most cause of systematic racism you know what you really lack in comparison to europe? social safety nets so someone going unemployed doesnt slip into drug addiction or any other crime so easily, you also need healthcare and things like that so more ppl can afford it and not go broke in the process and mb then also feel the need to get money illegally as well as rehabilitation for prisoners, drug addicts etc etc thats the real thing my man

2025-05-19 02:06

also btw trumps campaign in 2016 was a lot about protecting the queers, gays and trans from the evil muslims in the middle east, so elon being a grifter isnt singular or makes me believe you, not by a long shot

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Why would I care if you believe that I like Elon or not. Believe me or don’t idc

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whats ur opinion on virtually every big right wing personality being a despicable person and/or grifter?

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I think most personalities in online politics/politics in general are grifters. I think most of them never seriously care for their constituents, and I think they game the system to benefit themselves the most. I also think that being a politician in today’s world unfortunately attracts sociopathic people. Most level-headed, high intelligence people don’t want to do politics because of how it is, so the people that like playing dirty get into it. I’d wager that about 90% of politicians in the western world are spineless and bought out

2025-05-19 01:58

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i just hope you will stick with someone like bernie sanders if someone else like him manages to come up soon enough in the future or boycott that system you seem to recognize and hate so much

2025-05-19 02:03

or maybe better yet somehow work toward and try and change the system somehow perhaps

2025-05-19 02:08

also btw someone in online politics i could mention that has pretty much never been compromised or changed their positions before or grifted would be hasanabi who also happens to support bernie the most of any US politician it seems

2025-05-19 02:13

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Hasanabi is a literal terrorist sympathizer who hates a certain group of people based on their religion. I hate him and I think he’s the worst version of extremism on the left. He’s like the right’s Nick Fuentes. Both are absolute lobotomites

2025-05-19 02:17

you mean he hates jews? hes just against israel oppressing the arabs in the middle east, which btw israel does not equal to jews, in fact a lot of jews wordlwide are against israel and even plenty of holocaust survivors

2025-05-19 02:18

Yea. But those Jews also think Israel has a right to exist. Hasan does not believe Israel has a right to exist. Even in a two party solution.

2025-05-19 02:24

i doubt those jews think that if they see israel for what it is, as even before israel was officially founded there were paramilitairies in the 1890s wreaking havoc on local arabs as defacto terrorist organizations to try and steal land for themselves in a completely foreign place by displacing those arabs or hurting them or worse, also known as settler COLONIALism, thats what israel is built on and what most israelis believe, a two party solution is being blocked by israel as they have all the power in that situation and most palestinians are completely defenseless but the real issue is that israel doesnt want that

2025-05-19 02:29

So you don’t think Jews deserve a country where they’re guaranteed to be safe? Because I think it’s fair for Jews to want that, due to how they’ve historically been treated.

2025-05-19 02:36

im not sure on that, all i know is that it definitely shouldnt be israel or a country like it and it shouldnt be by (forcefully) stealing that land from other people, thats very similar to what many jews have experienced themselves even imo as many jews already live in the US (i think its like 8 mil) i would suggest they go there at least temporarily/at first until an actual humanistic solution can be found

2025-05-19 02:40

He doesn’t support Bernie either btw lmao

if any politician in the US he supports him and has for years, the only thing where he disagreed was israel/palestine but even on that front bernie has kinda changed his opinion since a few months ago

2025-05-19 02:19

Do you even watch his content? He doesn’t like Bernie dude. Hasan doesn’t like anyone that thinks Israel should exist. He doesn’t support anyone that supports a two party solution.

2025-05-19 02:23

i do and did watch a lot of his, may i ask what your point/video/link of reference is? he said bernie has an L position on israel palestine or sth like that but he aligns with bernie on pretty much every other political issue

That’s the issue though. If hasan disagrees with someone on one point he disagrees with them on all. He’s a bad faith grifter that kills the lefts credibility

2025-05-19 02:27

how would you know and why would you even care about the left when you voted for trump also as weve already established how easy it is to grift to become a right winger why wouldnt he just do that instead? hes been cheering on bernie for a decade damn near, is pro palestine for a decade at least and afaik hasnt changed his stance on any single thing or issue so i honestly dont see how he would be a grifter

2025-05-19 02:32

any reference where he disagreed with someone on a single thing and then disagreed on everything just on account of that? seems massively fabricated to me

2025-05-19 02:33

Okay dude if you think hasan isn’t a grifter then great. You’re just playing into the divide. Until you understand that none of them have your best interests, then you’re lost

2025-05-19 02:37

tell me then tho how is he a grifer, in what regard because he has some decent money and a house for his family in LA?

2025-05-19 02:41

like if i told you now that i am a millionaire with a pretty big/sizable house and stuff like that would you say everything i wrote here would be complete bullshit all of a sudden and i was completely different from you and i couldnt possibly care about the average person like i imagine you probably kinda are or innocent suffering anymore?

2025-05-19 02:51

feel free to tell me who he supports over bernie as a politician within the US

I agree in large with you on most of your points in this thread but Hasanabi is absolutely a grifter that has made a lot of rather heinous statements in the past. Lot of vile things about women and also he is far from a stranger to outright advicing people to illicit violence against others. You can just google "Hasanabi controversies" and read yourself but trust me he has said a lot of both dumb and extremely problematic things. I am sure there are quite a few decent influencers out there that are not "grifters" but Hasanabi is certainly not one of them.

2025-05-19 14:37

why dont you just tell me those things directly and even if he has some problematic opinions i still dont get how that makes him a grifter do yall even know what that means?

2025-05-19 16:03

Is a grifter not someone that makes money by being dishonest and tricking people or whatever? If so i think that fits extremely well to what Hasanabi is doing. He has been known for spreading Russian propaganda for free. I am litterly not allowed to post third party links according to the rules of this website we are on. Source in case you were not aware, it is currently the second to last mentioned rule: hltv.org/forums/rules I have already told you what to google man, it truly is not a difficult task. Why do you want me to do all the work for you? Why do you seemingly think your time is so much more valuable than mine? I gave you an example of Hasanabi grifting (atleast to my understanding of the word) in the first paragraph of this comment, hope that is enough. I simply made the assumption (perhaps falsely idk) that you could do some googling on your own.

2025-05-19 16:17

most of the times where somebody claims these things its complete fkn bullshit like i said in #207 as for the russia thing you mentioned, hes pro ukraine self defense, he just doesnt like nato doing it for the influence only or nato as a whole for that matter he knows russia isnt communist or socialist or whatever but a broken dictatorship etc, idk where he would do propaganda for russia there he also dislikes trump above pretty much anything who in turn likes putin so thatd kinda be another point

2025-05-19 16:21

#209

also i dont see either who out there would be better most of the times he has a controversy its essentially a complete ass pull and id have to read like 5 mins just to say in one sentence why its complete bullshit

2025-05-19 16:15

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Believe whatever you want to believe. I have given you the reasons why I think he is a grifter but I never expected that I would change your mind.

2025-05-19 16:20

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my main issue rn is that there is so much disinformation on that guy that it will be incredibly hard to find whatever you read and probably take hours to comb through a lot of fkn shit never mind read and understand and then prolly also disarm it would be much better to just have links or the exact thing i need to google, not just "hasanabi controversies", couldnt you give me that in dms?

2025-05-19 16:24

Litterly not allowed to according to the hltv rules, I told you this already. Learning how to google efficiently is a good skill to have anyways so I do not see the issue in trying.

2025-05-19 16:27

how would they know in dms?

ok so as you wanted i have now googled what you asked and as expected i either found things i already knew of and afaik are complete bs or ppl calling him a terrorist (sympathizer) or even worse just people saying they dont like him for no real reason, describing their feelings that just mount up to them finding him unlikable or annoying or whatever

2025-05-19 16:31

Honestly to me it just seems like you do not want to believe that he has said terrible stuff and spread propaganda, because you like the guy. After all it is way easier to choose to be blind to the wrongdoings of your heroes or family etc than to admit to oneself that they may not be a good person.

no i am genuinely interested and would change my views if presented with actual evidence but for instance on him saying shit about women i havent even found a hint just now also btw most of the things i mentioned here i picked up over like the last 12 months and changed from essentially a centrist to a leftist, a good amount i even learned through hasanabi himself so its really not that i dont want it to be true i promise you couldnt you also just describe or quote instead of linking sth?

2025-05-19 16:41

Also hardly doubt you could read a lot of info and check various sources credibility all in the span of the 4 minutes it took for you to tell me that you have now "googled" what I have asked.

2025-05-19 16:40

i did tho, the front page of google, most stuff i didnt have to read more than the headline tho cause i was already familiar with those criticisms

2025-05-19 16:42

Whatever man I have lost interest in this whole conversation due to #218. I still think that #217 is very much the case for you. So I am just going to leave this conversation now and end it (atleast for my part) with what I said in #209.

one thing i have now found out about is his opinions on depp v heard which to be fair had a lot of people fooled, like a lot lot and even most leftists, theres a good signified b sides vid on that other than that i just read "i dont like how he talks about women, fat ppl" etc etc and i dont like this and that about him where again i have no examples i could look to rn and gotta say i never felt that way but can be on the lookout for that in the future ig also your way of handling this and refusing to back up your claims even a little just gives me the very hard impression that youre like those many other ppl and above all dont even care about me actually changing my opinion or whatever

2025-05-19 16:53

I will break what I promised myself and respond one last time here. You are correct in your "impression" that I do not care about you (have nothing against you either), I am a internet stranger, not your friend, same as most people you meet on the internet.

2025-05-19 17:03

then why did you start this conversation in the first place, it started with you telling me to be careful of him bcs hes a grifter or whatever which btw him being misogynist doesnt even exclude him from being a leftist still or makes him a grifter as hed be required to have been a champion of womens rights like a decade before that where again im yet to find a single issue where hes been inconsistent or changed his position, especially to make money of that but even more importantly apart from all that as far as i can see hes pretty much the only (good) alternative to someone like joe rogan or andrew tate and progressives in USAs only hope or even the only hope of the democrats essentially

2025-05-19 17:09

Who cares, US don't deserve another major.

2025-05-18 17:02

just like Melania and Elon

2025-05-18 17:59

Dumb reasoning as well considering if these people knew how VRS works BESTIA have every reason to go back to south america and farm SA VRS because the top teams there like paiN mibr Furia are always at international LANs while most NA teams (everyone except coL, TL arent even NA anymore) are still back home playing event. Also, easier/cheaper to play in those SA LANs/tournaments there is probably more of a circuit there than in NA these days.

2025-05-18 19:23

I hope there's never a Major in the US again.

Just play from mexico lol

They pulled the only small time tournament they’d feed us since 2017 with Blast Rivals to take it to their shitty studio lol, i doubt we’re getting even close to a major here

2025-05-18 18:49

pashaBiceps will call Trump and tell him to give visas or he gets it in the ring

2025-05-18 15:39

tell BESTIA to contact these guys, maybe they can help: galevisa.com/

2025-05-18 15:40

trump sabotaged tomaszin wtf

2025-05-18 15:41

America sort your shit out, trust me no one wants to stay in this new America with the cunts you have in charge

the US is a third world country with a gucci belt

2025-05-18 15:43

Why live here then?

You’re acting like everyone has a choice in the first place

If no one wanted to stay, then we wouldn’t be having this issue.

It's ok BESTIA, blast is gonna have a goon trophy anyway

2025-05-18 15:50

Please no more events in the USA, if you want to host in NA chose Mexico or Canada

2025-05-18 15:51

if you’re gonna host it in canada might as well host it in india

2025-05-18 15:54

why so?

A lot of indian immigrants is his point

2025-05-18 16:15

avg german racist

2025-05-19 00:11

Avg european racist aswell. Seems to be a rising problem in most of Europe (honestly it is probably quite a global issue aswell) as far as I am aware.

2025-05-19 13:40

indeed

2025-05-19 16:05

When it comes to hltv users and discussion about things they view as problems within their own countries or even countries they have never been in often boils down to "immigrants bad". No real substance or facts, just a result of fear mongering or lack of empathy and in many cases both.

2025-05-19 13:47

Canada has more cs fans than India.

the only problem hosting here in Mexico is USA teams will have a very tough time getting their visa approved. (practically) every other country gets automatic 90 days stay, but ever since trump started with the tariffs, there’s a huge number of statians being deported

2025-05-18 19:01

Well, that's still better than everybody having visa issues except for US teams and players.

2025-05-19 06:18

For sure but still not good enough to run a major imho.

2025-05-19 13:37

The good thing that I would say about a major here is that if they do it in Mexico City instead of Monterrey like they planned Rivals, the arena will fill out, just because people here will attend any event that seems like something new as long as the tickets are under 70-80 dollars (monterrey were)

2025-05-24 18:31

justice for bestia

2025-05-18 15:57

Worst time zone + Visa issues US sucks

if even real americans like hallzerk have issues with visa then idk

something is wrong that so many people are struggling to obtain visas in countries for these huge events in 2025...

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Same old visa issues in US. Just don’t host top tier events there, problem solved.

I knew this shit would happen. It’s so fucking ridiculously predictable that our current administration would do this shit to one of the only latin american representatives at the major… just a joke. ashamed to be an American when no other country in the world is denying visas because of racism

we've always had visa problems but i agree it's a lot worse now that visa staff worldwide were laid off and the constant fearmongering that because someone with a Spanish sounding name wants a visa means they're gonna try and stay here country run by a bunch of saltine idiots tbh

2025-05-18 17:57

Keep doing Majors in the USA after we had so many troubles over the years is ridiculous. I hope the guys can sort it out and have the chance they won in the server, keep strong guys!

apEX tweet doesn't work and it says "Counter-Strije"

2025-05-18 16:34

US doesn't deserve to have majors hosted there. Just tier 2 tournaments like Dallas.

2025-05-18 16:49

#LetThemInTheUS

Stop making majors in the us please

2025-05-18 16:55

If you want to host a major in the Americas, do it so in Canada or Mexico, this is just sad to watch

2025-05-18 17:33

Justice for the boys in bestia. Crossing my fingers they will get visas in time even if its unlikely.

2025-05-18 17:55

just stop hosting events in the us

2025-05-18 17:58

Idk I think hosting events in the US is absolutely fine imho but not the major until they get their crap together. There is no need to take it to the extreme and make the NA CS scene even worse.

2025-05-19 13:33

No more majors in USA

2025-05-18 18:08

the best 2 players of the team :/

2025-05-18 18:37

they actually need milei to do something here. surely he would be able to save them since he is tight with trump

2025-05-18 18:54

Hope they get visas soon!

2025-05-18 19:34

The american visa system is a joke. They are ACTIVELY rejecting people's visa for shits and giggles its actually crazy

2025-05-18 19:40

Hope they get it, they deserve it💚

2025-05-18 19:42

the correct plea is to have the world boycott usa. in fact, the world should just sanction usa for everything.

2025-05-18 22:54

Trump is not messing about no nerds allowed hahaha

2025-05-18 23:40

they might get sorted in 4 years when they have a capable govt again. That or just bribe trump. I hear he accepts jumbo jets.

2025-05-19 00:13

#ArgentinaAlMundial

2025-05-19 01:25

that's so rough man. hope they can make it.

2025-05-19 02:10

having major in US is the worst decision, not only cs scene in there is dead, player also having trouble securing visa

2025-05-19 04:53

No tomaszin no major

2025-05-19 06:25

Next year is the 2026 FIFA world cup in US/Mx/CA. Already some of these visa interview centers have a wait time of 300 days +. Not a problem specific to cs but I feel bad for the Bestia guys. Hope it works out team.

2025-05-19 07:39

USA sucks. ban this country from organizing cs event

2025-05-19 13:12

Ez 4 cass1n

2025-05-19 15:44

sad

2025-05-19 20:04

I mean, if nothing else works they should talk to Aurora's owner and try luck with their visas in Cyprus lol

2025-05-20 01:09

This MUST be the last Major held in the U.S. Never again!

2025-05-21 05:53

wasn't US the country that was all about making your dream possible? where is this country now?

2025-05-21 14:52

Getting into the US as a South American is rough. Ask any one who needs to go to a visa interview. It's almost a requirement to prove you have an anchor in the home country to prove you won't be over staying your 6 month allowance. This is due to the high rate of people over staying their allowance. Not the visa it self as visas are usually good for years. However, in regards for competition and work the visas should be easier as the organization normally facilitates with paper work proving that it's for work. I think that TO could make this process even easier by including the city and state in their conversations incase of visa delays. The tournaments are large enough that delays can cause revenue loss. So it's in their best interest to make sure a team can enter the country in a reasonable time. I also think that Bestia have done all they can do. 3 years is a long time to be fighting for entry to a country and it's not their fault. At this point I would contact the Major organizers and hopefully have them include a representative of the state such as a senator to push for assistance.

2025-05-21 15:55