A $1 million CS:GO competition featuring some of the top teams in the world is being held at the Gamers8 gaming festival in Saudi Arabia. Even while the matches have been excellent so far, one part of the event’s production has drawn criticism from viewers: the loud music that is played after each round.
The song plays on every broadcast, not just the official ones, meaning there isn’t a way for fans to avoid it unless they mute the livestream. But by doing so, they’d lose the casters breaking down how the round was played and what the teams can do next.
Although CS:GO fans are asking for Gamers8 to stop playing the music after the rounds are over via the Twitch chat, Reddit, and Twitter, the tournament organizer has kept it at least for the ongoing series between FaZe Clan and Virtus Pro.
“First time I’ve heard it I hoped they weren’t going to use it every round, they did, And I hate it, it’s annoying,” one fan wrote on Reddit. “It was [the] end of the match music lol, no idea why they changed it today, the production in general has been worse today compared to yesterday,” another fan wrote on Reddit.
There’s nothing that Gamers8 can do to fix this issue other than stop playing the music after each round is concluded, and only play the song when the match is ended. CS:GO fans sure hope that the tournament organizer will do that sooner rather than later as the event will run until Sunday, Aug. 20.