CSGO: Dev1ce admits he used to vomit due to stress when playing too much

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been an esports legend since the first version of the franchise launched in 1999. However, the tournament system now seems to be creating serious problems for the player. professional players compete in CSGO.

Over the past few weeks, top players including Lukas “gla1ve” Rossander and Andreas “Xyp9x” Højsleth have decided to take a temporary break from CSGO. Their reasons are completely understandable: tournaments are constantly on, require a lot of travel, and stress. Recently, an Astralis member spoke out about the amount of stress he endured when professional CSGO imposed on him. Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz talks about how the pressure of competition has affected him physically.

In an interview with Danish journalist sport.tv2.dk, dev1ce talked about how he became ill after completing tournaments.

“I still have a lot of stress symptoms. Every time the team finishes a tournament, I have to spend a day and a half lying down and vomiting because of the drop in adrenaline,” dev1ce said.

Dev1ce isn’t the only one to react strongly to pressure. Several professional CSGO players have been open about stress when talking about the packed CSGO schedule. Team Liquids’ Jonathan “EliGE” Jablonowski said that the team had to travel more than 200 days in 2019. Pressure and fatigue caused the team to refuse to attend IEM Beijing that year.

“Team morale suffers a lot,” says EliGE.

More and more CSGO tournament schedule

Starting in 2020, the organizers and CPPA (professional CSGO association) started working on the schedule for CSGO players. Many new leagues are present, including the changed FLASHPOINT and ESL Pro League, to stabilize the Counter-Sttrike arena. But the global situation from January 2020 forced many organizers to return to the online format.

The first CSGO Major of the year, ESL One Rio, being postponed didn’t help either. The CSGO developer moved the tournament back to November and announced that all teams must start from scratch if they want to qualify. This move adds more tournaments to the CSGO schedule, and they don’t just last for a week. Valve’s first Regional Ranking tournament, Road to Rio, ran for almost a month and coincided with many others, including DreamHack Masters Spring and BLAST Premier. Teams must attend DreamHack Masters and other tournaments if they want to qualify for CSGO’s biggest events of the year.

Tournaments such as ESL One Cologne 2020 and IEM Melbourne select teams based on the number of points the teams get from the minor leagues. That means the players have no choice but to play more. But given what fans see in Astralis, it seems that these dense tournaments only bring more negativity to the CSGO esports scene.

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