With IEM Brazil closed qualifiers taking place across Europe from February 9-11, the need for servers and online gameplay to be at their absolute best is a non-negotiable, but that has not been the case.<\/p>\n
The European closed qualifiers for the $250,000 CS:GO<\/a> tournament has been plagued by persistent tech issues, affecting teams like ENCE, Bad News Eagles, BIG and Sprout.<\/p>\n BIG, ENCE and Sprout lost their opening matches to lower-ranked teams, with players reporting that the servers were lagging and the ESEA client was crashing. <\/p>\n The technical issues in the BIG vs Sprout series were so bad that the teams managed only six rounds of play in an hour. <\/p>\n Players from all teams involved didn\u2019t hold back when they displayed their displeasure on social media, with two ENCE players — Pavle \u201cmaden\u201d Boskovic and Marco \u201cSnappi\u201d Pfeffer — posting on their Twitter accounts. <\/p>\n \u201cTwo days in a row getting huge lags on three guys because of ESEA client,\u201d maden said. <\/p>\n \u201cThey don\u2019t want to provide us good servers or fix this bug, and that also don\u2019t let us play without the client, we lost full ecos, antiecos, (and) many other rounds because of it.\u201d<\/p>\n We are 3 bo3s, 2 days in a row getting huge lags on 3 guys because of ESEA client, and they for 2 days dont wanna provide us good servers or fix this bug, and they also dont let us play without the client, we lost full ecos, antiecos, many other rounds cus of it<\/p>\n — ENCE maden (@madennCS) February 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n