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Over 100,000 viewers tuned in on Alexandre “gAuLeS” Borba’s stream to watch the battle of the best Brazilian CS:GO players. MIBR and FURIA<\/a> played against each other in the upper bracket round 1 of the BLAST Premier: Spring 2020 American Finals. However, a controversial technical pause and a subsequent restart has put the focus back on the role of a referee in esports. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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MIBR won the series with a 2-0 score upsetting the higher-ranked FURIA. However, CS:GO fans witnessed the two teams arguing on social media.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

What Happened between FURIA and MIBR?<\/span><\/b><\/h2>\n

FURIA and MIBR were playing on Inferno and on a server that was posing problems to both teams. While I feel the tournament organizers should have rescheduled the match or changed to a more favorable server, things went ahead as planned.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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The score was tied at 12-12, with both teams having a risky economy. A loss in this round would mean a massive disadvantage for the losing side. Fallen typed \u2018NL\u2019, which is short for \u2018Not Live\u2019 at the in-game time of 1.28. The game immediately went into a technical pause as the teams deliberated whether to continue the round.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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From Fallen\u2019s perspective, he called for a restart when he thought the round could still see a restart. According to the tournament rules, a map round can restart if there is zero damage to any player in the server. Unfortunately for MIBR, they had already dealt five damage to an enemy player with a grenade. This meant the onus was now on FURIA to accept or deny the restart request.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Players from MIBR and FURIA joined the match admin in the discord server to discuss the next course of action. According to sources, FURIA players left the decision to their coach and organization CEO. At the same time, Fallen took to social media to post a clip of the freeze and how it was unplayable for them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Experiencing lots of spikes during the whole match. Lost 2 situations middle round where obviously nothing could be done. We understand it.
12×12 nothing happened but our Grenade landed 5hp damage on one of the opponents. We froze 1:37 until 1:28. pic.twitter.com\/i2yaYXMhKB<\/a><\/p>— Gabriel Toledo (@FalleNCS) June 16, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>