League warfare (ESL vs. B-site vs. BLAST), Major changes & 2020 schedule issues | HLTV Confirmed E4E7 (ft. FaZe YNk)

News link: https://www.hltv.org/news/26172/hltv-confirmed-episode-8-vod-pre-major-playoffs-show Another week of Major action is behind us as eight teams made their way through to the playoffs, with Renegades and ENCE being the biggest surprises out of the teams that made it through, while NRG failed to live up to expectations after going 0-3 alongside BIG. After previewing the New Legends Stage in the seventh episode, the panel is set to reflect on the results of the second phase of the Major and peek into the next, where eight teams will face in the playoffs. Topics and timestamps: 03:40 - Non-existent seeding for WESG groups 22:50 - ScreaM's new team 28:30 - Prof vs. Striker duel 35:45 - New Legends Stage results 1:17:20 - Top three best Major runs 1:26:55 - New Champions Stage preview 1:51:45 - Pick'Ems

26 Feb 20192h 11min

After a pre-Major show in episode 6, HLTV Confirmed returns tonight with a look back at the results of the New Challengers Stage and an analysis of the New Legends Stage. Topics: - Starladder Major's scheduling - Results of the IEM Katowice New Challengers Stage - HLTV Confirmed does New Legends seeding - Prof vs. Striker duel - New Legends Stage analysis - HLTV Confirmed does second round of Pick'Ems

19 Feb 20191h 59min

The sixth episode of HLTV Confirmed saw the usual panel return with a look back at the GG.BET ICE Challenge and an analysis of the IEM Katowice New Challengers Stage. Main topics and timestamps: 00:02:00 - Changes to ECS format 00:17:00 - StarLadder getting a Major? 00:33:40 - Looking back at GG.BET ICE Challenge 00:45:50 - Professeur vs. Striker 00:55:50 - What to do about smooya? 01:07:10 - Top three chokes in CS:GO 01:16:30 - New Challengers Stage breakdown 01:29:30 - Major Pick'Ems 01:54:20 - Viewer questions https://www.hltv.org/news/26036/hltv-confirmed-s3e6-vod-a-look-back-at-navis-breakdown-at-ice-challenge-and-a-pre-major-show

11 Feb 20192h 4min

In the fifth episode, two of the show's regulars, Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill and Milan "Striker" Švejda, were joined by guest stars Sergey "lmbt" Bezhanov and Janko "YNk" Paunović. Timestamps and main topics: 00:01:37 - Breaking news - mousesports down to three 00:14:50 - ave out of North 00:25:25 - Prof vs. Striker 00:30:31 - -smooya +nex 00:59:29 - Major seeding - YNk and lmbt create their New Challengers Stage ranking 01:21:15 - Is the AUG overpowered? 01:34:13 - ICE Challenge 01:46:49 - Viewer questions

5 Feb 20192h 3min

Since the third episode, we saw the second round of Minors take place with the Asian and the Americas regions, as well as the first Minor Play-in, all of which brought a fair share of surprises, most notably North not being able to make it through at the hands of ViCi. North's failure and the consequences of the disappointing run in January were one of the main topics of the show, alongside a plethora of others surrounding the Minors, as well as the ELEAGUE Invitational that saw FaZe prevail over Cloud9 in the grand final last weekend. Topics: - Breaking news: Bravado to Denial, BIG to replace smooya? - GG.Bet duel: Professeur vs. Striker - Asia and Americas Minors - First Minor Play-in: Winstrike & ViCi advance - ELEAGUE Invitational - Top three of the week - The Danish scene outside of Astralis; what's going on, North? - Viewer questions https://www.hltv.org/news/25965/americas-and-asia-minors-danish-scene-outside-of-astralis-more-on-hltv-confirmed-s3e4-vod

2 Feb 20192h 10min

HLTV Confirmed returned with the third episode of the third season, in which the panel took on all the hot topics of the previous week, which saw the EU and CIS Minors, as well as iBUYPOWER Masters, take place. Topics: - Breaking news: ESL reveals Major format - EU & CIS Minors, mousesports' and Gambit's failure & more - Striker vs. Professeur, the GG.BET duel - iBUYPOWER Masters issues, Liquid's triumph and FaZe's early exit - s1mple clinches #1 - Asia and Americas Minors preview - Viewer questions https://www.hltv.org/news/25893/mouzs-failure-ibuypower-issues-major-format-more-hltv-confirmed-episode-3-vod

21 Jan 20192h 23min

Episode 2 of HLTV Confirmed continued with the panel hosted by James Banks, who was accompanied by analyst and former pro Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill and two of HLTV.org's Senior Writers, Zvonimir "Professeur" Burazin and Milan "Striker" Švejda. Topics: - Major ruleset - Six-man teams - CIS Minor - Europe Minor - iBUYPOWER Masters https://www.hltv.org/news/25826/hltv-confirmed-s3e2-vod

21 Jan 20192h 13min

The 'HLTV Confirmed' live talk show has returned with the first episode of the third season, in which the panel discussed the roster mania of the break and looked ahead into 2019. Topics: - MIBR's reset - Stewie2K's arrival to Liquid - FaZe's addition of AdreN and YNk - Who missed their opportunity to change? - Who can challenge Astralis in 2019? - Predictions for 2019 https://www.hltv.org/news/25797/hltv-confirmed-season-3-episode-1-vod

21 Jan 20192h 15min