It’s crunch time.
The clock is ticking down, the score is all wrong and the majority of the 16,000-strong crowd starts to cheer against them.
The world’s best team is up against it.
Led by the world’s best player, they somehow pull off a comeback—of course, they do—and defeat the challengers on their way to victory and another trophy. Sound familiar? Not quite.
The game is "Counter Strike." The team, Fnatic. Welcome to the world of eSports.
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More than 4 million people have played Core Keeper, and every one of them started the same way, waking in a dark cavern beside an ancient Core that has lain dormant for aeons. Pugstorm and Fireshine Games, the game's developer and publisher, have now worked with Scan to build that Core into a real gaming PC. It is one of a kind, and it is the prize in the Global Games Draw, a new prize draw for Into Games, a UK charity that helps young people from working class backgrounds into careers in games. Every entry raises money for that work.
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