Different attitudes among players on the issue of betting

Players seem ambivalent and divided on the issue of betting, with some up-and-coming talent unable to handle the pressure that their otherwise p2000 skins minimally-spectated games would bring. Others have fully embraced it. Watch any major CS: GO tournament these days and you’ll see many professional players with name-tagged weapons branded with ‘roulette-based’ gambling sites or skin-to-cash sites.

For CSGO Lounge’s team, Lounge Gaming, not much will be different in terms of their daily life. They will no doubt attend the upcoming DreamHack Stockholm event, which functions as a qualifier for the next CS: GO major at DreamHack Cluj-Napoca in Romania.

If the team should do so however , it will present an interesting quandary for Valve, who have partnered with DreamHack and PGL to organize the major. The developer has had an uneasy relationship with CSGO Lounge and its ilk, never condemning or interdicting their business but nevertheless allowing them to exist as a black market. Were Lounge Gaming to qualify for a major, Valve would have to, for example , produce an official sticker for the team, an in-game item that would directly finance the team’s players.