Nicholas Taifalos
Co-Owner at Snowball Esports
🇦🇺 Esports Journalist | Bylines @esports @dotesports | Co-Owner @snowballesports | Editor-in-Chief @dfragtv | CS2 observer | Contact: [email protected]
Articles
-
1 week ago |
esports.gg | Nicholas Taifalos
The BLAST Austin Major is just days away now. The world's best teams and talent spent the entire of 2025 building their resumes in the hopes they copped an invite — or won a final qualifier spot — to the Austin Major, biggest show in competitive Counter-Strike. It all kicks off this week! Here's a look at the teams and talent we'll catch in June at the Austin Major. All teams attending the Austin Major 2025Can ZywOo and Vitality complete their dream season?
-
1 week ago |
esports.gg | Nicholas Taifalos
Huge Dota 2 patch 7.39 dropped last week with many sweeping changes to how we play Dota, with many hero facets changed and plenty of spring cleaning updates made to the MOBA. This week, Valve has a few extra adjustments to make — most of which come via Dota 2 patch 7.39b. Here's a look at the major hero, map, and item changes in Dota 2 patch 7.39b — now live in the client. All Dota 2 Patch 7.39b notesKez received many changes with patch 7.39, but he's gotten additional buffs here too.
-
1 week ago |
esports.gg | Nicholas Taifalos
Souvenir weapons earned via the CS2 Major Viewer Pass are getting an upgrade for the BLAST Austin Major with select weapons now getting a "Souvenir Highlight Package" — including a sweet weapon charm!Relive the best moments from the Austin Major playoffs by using your Viewer Pass souvenir tokens to get a random skin from the map's collection, as well as a cool commemorative charm attached.
-
1 week ago |
esports.gg | Nicholas Taifalos
ESL's pinnacle "Hall of Heroes" event in Poland will move cities in 2026 as IEM Kraków is announced to take place from Feb. 6 to 8. Katowice will no longer host the major ESL stop in CS2, with 2025's edition acting as a farewell to the Spodek Arena and over a decade of Counter-Strike history. Now, it's Kraków's turn with the larger TAURON Arena playing host to Intel Extreme Masters going forward.
-
1 week ago |
esports.gg | Nicholas Taifalos
The BLAST Austin Major is here, which means it's time to play the Pick'Em Challenge! Purchasing the Viewer Pass for the major gets you the all-important celebratory coin in-game, as well as access to the selection game where you have to predict the results of the major. Fancy yourself an expert? Prove it by unlocking the Diamond Coin for the Austin Major by playing the Pick'Em Challenge! Here's how.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 1K
- Tweets
- 6K
- DMs Open
- Yes
RT @dfragtv: Following on from the @ANZCircuit LOCALS LAN, @AuscraftGG Starcraft 2 LAN returns June 28-29 at the DFRAG Studio! 🏆🔥🏆 Registr…
RT @dfragtv: Announcing the ANZC BRISBANE LOCALS LAN! Hosted at DFRAG STUDIOS, Brisbane! 8 Teams - 2 Days $4,000 prize pool $250 entry per…
Your OCE (and adopted!) representatives for the @BLASTPremier Austin Major at @FlyQuestCS — immortalized in the game with this major's stickers. Loving the borderless theme of the autographs + the metallic team belt-buckle! @inscsgo @nettiknz @vexite_ @liazzgo @regali_cs https://t.co/AJFxA7dRoZ
