It's finally Christmas and people (except for the ones who have already opened their gifts) will be opening their presents and most likely having a tasty meal to celebrate Christmas Eve.

On behalf of astralis, I'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. I hope you'll receive some hard and bulky gifts.
Hyvää Joulua!

Today is the 2nd playday of the CSCL Playoffs with four exciting matches ahead of us. All of them are set to begin at 9pm CET and will be covered by both HLTV and IRC bots.The IP´s for the HLTV servers can be found below.

Next week on Thursday, the Cyberathlete Professional League.will officially announce the game that will be played at the CPL World Tour. According to the CPL, they have been in several meetings with different publishers during the past three months. The CPL earlier stated that the game is a 1on1 game, which pretty much excludes Counter-Strike from the list.

The CPL has spent the last three months in discussions with developers and publishers, weighing a diversity of options and proposals. That process ends on Thursday with the announcement of the game.

Icemat, known for their mouse pads made from glass, will no longer be known only as a “mouse pad manufacturer”.
The first product in the series will be the Icemat Audio Mp3-Players. With a weight of ONLY 17 grams and a diameter of 41x10 mm, it is certain that the Icemat Audio Mp3-Players will fall into the taste of many.