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Recently, a pro Rainbow Six Siege team in the APAC region threw a pro match.

But this wasn't your normal match fixing situation. They threw on purpose, but not for money.

Because of the way the tournament is structured, they chose to lose on purpose in order to potentially win BIG down the line and qualify for the semifinals of an APAC major.

Quite the awkward position to be in if you're a pro team right? And this news has the Rainbow Six Siege community divided.

Let us explain how this all happened.

Imagine — it’s Friday night. You grab a drink, get into voice and sit down to play your favorite game. But when you try to load it up, it’s just… gone.

If you’re one of our viewers in India, you don’t have to imagine this problem. You might be living it right now.

Because in September, the Indian government banned the country’s most popular game -- PUBG Mobile. And what’s happened since is honestly just insane.

Whether you like the guy or not -- every time DrDisRespect makes a move, the gaming world takes notice.

Over the last few months he’s gone from being banned on Twitch for mysterious and STILL unknown reasons to resurrecting himself on YouTube seemingly unscathed.

And now, he’s designed a brand new map and has his own skin in Rogue Company, the latest multiplayer shooter looking to blow up in the streaming world. Something we’ve really never seen a major streamer do.

What is up with Doc?

Welcome to North American Counter-Strike in 2020.

Where CS:GO esports are completely Euro-centric. Where top tier orgs are outright blocking and deleting the scene like it was a bad ex girlfriend. Where young superstars are calling it quits because they’ve been forcibly relocated an ocean away from their home.

So is NA CS:GO dead?

To understand how Denis ‘electronic’ Sharipov went from living in the shadow of one of the greatest players CS:GO has ever seen to a bona fide superstar in his own right, we need to go back in time a little bit.

The year is 2015, and this scrappy, stoic, stern-faced teenager is trying to make a name for himself in the mother of all Counter-Strike-obsessed regions: Russia.

The problem is that it’s a lot more difficult than you might think.