The European closed qualifier for the $250,000 CS:GO tournament IEM Brazil remains plagued by persistent tech issues, affecting multiple teams like ENCE, Bad News Eagles, BIG, and Sprout yesterday, according to HLTV.
BIG, ENCE, and Sprout all lost matches to lesser-ranked teams amid reports that the qualifier servers were lagging and that the ESEA client was crashing. The technical issues in the BIG vs. Sprout matches were so persistent that the teams managed to play only six rounds in an hour. The community hoped ESEA would deploy fixes for these problems ahead of today’s matches, but the players are still having issues, according to ENCE’s rifler Pavle “maden” Bošković.