Ninjas in Pyjamas CEO Hicham Chahine has come underneath hearth after placing out a joke submit on Twitter concerning the BLAST Paris Main stickers forward of the event.
The BLAST Paris Main is days away and the stickers for the final CS:GO Main ever have but to drop. In an try and conjure some form of reverse jinx, the NIP CEO boldly posted on Twitter that there could be no stickers for the Main.
The submit has rapidly gained traction, garnering over 200,000 views and virtually 1,000 likes, with some believing the submit was factual, and others commenting on the joke.
“It’s true, the French unions firebombed all of the stickers yesterday throughout the protests,” Dust2 Editor-in-Chief Ryan Buddy stated in response to the submit.
“Is there a purpose for this? Absolutely it’s unrelated to CPH Flames?” 100 Thieves Senior Vice President of esports Jacob Toft-Andersen stated.
BLAST Paris Main stickers are nonetheless coming
Chahine, realizing many CS:GO followers had taken his tweet significantly, responded to his personal submit and stated he actually has “no data” on when the stickers for the Main will come.
Oh wow. I used to be attempting to state it wouldn’t occur in order that they drop tonight. I’ve NO data! ????????
— NIP Hicham (@ChahineHicham) Could 2, 2023
“Oh wow,” he stated. “I used to be attempting to state it wouldn’t occur in order that they drop tonight.”
The follow-up submit to make clear his assertion has solely been seen about 20,000 instances and has seen little traction in comparison with his preliminary joke submit.
Stickers from the occasion are a method for groups that qualify for the most important event within the esport to make cash by way of Valve’s in-game sale of the beauty. Some stickers from earlier occasions have gone for a whole bunch of 1000’s of {dollars} on the resale market.
One group was lately accused of “insider buying and selling” within the CSGO sticker market as its gamers purchased up their group’s stickers earlier than the corporate introduced it had filed for chapter.
NIP is ready to compete on the BLAST Paris Main, beginning within the Challengers Stage. The group’s first match is in opposition to MOUZ on Could 8.
