After the fuss regarding SLTV's season VIII, all has come to terms and K1ck will be competing at the SLTV Counter-Strike Global Offensive Season IX tournament. Once again we will fight for a final placement in the top half, as we have done in the previous seasons, but this time we have the extra motivation of trying to secure a place in the LAN finals and actually get invited to be in the Kyiv Cybersport Arena on April, along with three more teams. The prize pool has increased and is now $30 000, which has once again attracted the best Europeans teams to the competition.

Today we have witnessed an episode that seemed to be something out of a movie, when admins from SLTV StarLadder offered us a proposal that we could not refuse. Either we would accept what they were proposing or if we refuse and talk about it or publish something regarding the subject, we would be thrown out of SLTV's next season. But rest assured that we are all ok cause as far as we know, no one has received a horse's head at home.

And in what might have been the last XLParty in the actual format according to well fundamented rumors, K1ck eSports Club has attended 4 tournaments and reached 4 finals, winning in Counter-Strike Global Offensive and Dota 2, thus prolonging the streak of victories and already looking forward to the new format that the organizers of the biggest Portuguese LAN Party will present in the future.

The 2013 year is quickly coming to an end and our Counter-Strike Global Offensive team has been quite busy. Just last night we have finished our participation in two major online tournaments, not getting through to the lan finals (SLTV StarSeries) and to the playoffs (Fragbite Masters) by the skin of our teeth.

In the most famous CS:GO online league at the moment and after 15 matches, we have come short of the 4th place by 2 miserable points, having lost four days ago an important match vs  iNation that took us away from the lan finals in  Kiev. Regarding the Fragbite Masters and after a great victory vs  VeryGames in the Group of Death from the 2nd group stage, we have lost a tight game vs Astana Dragons and couldn't hold off VeryGames' return as they move into the playoffs, leaving behind fnatic, the recent Dreamhack Winter winners, in the last position of the group.

It was in mid September that the K1ck eSports Club Counter-Strike Global Offensive team was invited to the Fragbite Masters, an online tournament due to start on November the 18th, featuring a total of 32 teams and a $21,600 prize money. The 16 invited teams have already been revealed as well as the teams that went through the qualifiers to get a place in this tournament that gathers the best CS:GO players in Europe.

After going through the first group stage with flying colors,  k1ck will have a much harder task in the second group stage as we have been drawn into a group featuring the Dreamhack Winter 2013 winners, the MSI Beat It! 2013 winners and the TECHLABS Cup 2013 winning team.

For one reason or another, mainly lack of required time from our players at a given moment, our Counter-Strike Global Offensive team has been having a somehow hard time in finding a stable duo to complete our core trio of players,  fox, mUt and rmn. This time we will be back into an all Portuguese lineup as Aguila, who has achieved some great performances while defending the K1ck colors including a victory over NiP, is out of the team.

But we also have good news for our followers as Helder "coachi" Sancho, who has retired from competitive gaming a while ago, will be our Public Relations concerning our CS:GO section. Although he hung his mouse, he will still be connected with K1ck, the team he has played for almost all of the last 5 years, now in a different role.

Once again  K1ck will be taking part in another SLTV StarSeries Season. Since our 7th place in Season VI that things have been going fine and now that Season VIII is about to start, our expectations are high, as usual. Featuring the same $15,000 up for grabs as in the last season, the four finalists will sort it out between December the 19th and the 22nd in  Kiev, at the CyberSports ARENA.