ELEAGUE commissioner Min-Sik Ko announced Wednesday that the players who
previously formed Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams Luminosity
Gaming and SK Gaming were no longer eligible to websites to buy csgo skins compete in the league’s first season for making roster changes that did not comply with league rules.
The
suspensions of both sets of players follows a protracted contract
dispute between both clubs in which SK attempted to sign all of
Luminosity’s players to its roster.
The reshuffling of some of
CS:GO’s most popular brands and iconic players could potentially effect
ELEAGUE skin betting volumes during its penultimate matches later this
month.
The recent chain of events
SK’s roster started to unravel on June 15, when former player Jacob “Pimp” Winneche signed with another CS:GO team, Team Liquid.
On June 22, SK SK announced its remaining four players would leave the team after the expiration of their contracts on June 30.
On June 24, it was reported that Luminosity and SK ended their contract dispute and that Luminosity’s roster would join SK.
As
the winners of one of the league’s round-robin groups, Luminosity’s
former players (who now play under the SK Gaming banner) would have
automatically qualified as SK for the ELEAGUE’s quarterfinal round,
which begins later this month.
Meanwhile, some of SK Gaming’s
former players have since formed a new CS:GO team called Team X. Those
players would have qualified for the ELEAGUE’s last-chance qualifier
round next week under the Team X name.
An ESPN report in late May
suggested Luminosity players had decided to continue playing under the
Luminosity banner, despite signing contracts earlier this year to play
under the SK banner.
A follow-up report from ESPN Wednesday
night, however, suggested that seven other ELEAGUE teams threatened to
back out of participation in the league if the league only punished
Luminosity the organization, and not the former players who played for
it.
Luminosity responsible for high skin gambling volumes
Although
its CS:GO team only existed for 16 months after its February 2015
formation, Luminosity was regarded by analysts and ratings alike as one
of the best, if not the best, CS:GO team in the world.
The group
also won MLG Major in Columbus, Ohio, earlier this year over Natus
Vincere, and was associated in the past 12 months with some of the
largest CS:GO skin betting handles on record.
The ex-Luminosity
players, Brazilians ‘FalleN,’ ‘coldzera,’ ‘TACO,’ ‘fer,’ and ‘fnx,’
played in nine separate matches with more than 200,000 skins wagered on
CS:GO Lounge, and its Columbus championship win alone saw 307,000 skins
wagered, according to Lounge data.
The players are also competing this week under the SK team name at CS:GO major ESL One Cologne.
More than 188,000 skins were wagered on the Lounge on the team’s win over G2 eSports on the tournament’s first day.
By comparison, an ESBR analysis found that the average amount of skins wagered on a given Cheap CSGO Skins match on the Lounge in the past 12 months is just under 44,000.
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