SemperFi's players speak out about Australian CS's online limitations

Following their match against Alter Ego in the Asian closed qualifier leading up to the CS Asia Championships 2025, SermperFi's players express their discontent regarding the limitations of Australian Counter-Strike in the online stages of tournaments. SemperFi took on Alter Ego in the semi-final and conceded a narrow overtime loss in the second map. Alter Ego eliminated the Aussie squad and went on to face The Huns in the grand-final.

keen and shadiy took to X, pointing out the ping difference between the two sides in the matchup. In a picture posted by shadiy, the scoreboard shows the range of SemperFi's players' pings to be betwwen 112ms and 121ms while Alter Ego boasted pings within 50ms.

"Does anyone think this is a fair way for Australians to qualify to events?", questioned keen, referring to the ping difference and went on to speak about how match admins and SemperFi's opponents reject server locations that would reduce the ping difference to create a fairer fight. In the replies keen shares how their options were limited to HongKong (120ms vs 50ms), Singapore (90ms vs 10ms) or Mumbai (270ms vs 50ms). keen mentions that SemperFi's proposed alternative was a Tokyo server, which got rejected.

Quoting keen's post, SemperFi's shadiy shares a similar narrative, expressing his disappointment towards such incidents. keen and shadiy both share the Latvian flag and have moved from Europe to dawn the SemperFi jersey.

I came to Australia to chase my goals, sacrificed everything, and it’s just endless BS. No matter how hard you try, something always goes horribly wrong.
shadiy, SemperFi