So, after a few months of tossing and turning we settled on a lineup for our North American CSS team and they've done us proud! Last night was the final of the Cyber Evolution Professional Season 8 Playoffs where we were matched up with x3o who we had knocked into the lower bracket final a few days before. Going into the game, all players were confident having read on many websites statements by various players. It's with great pleasure I can announce that Vitriolic.CSS NA came out triumphant after winning the first 2 maps.

Congratulations guys!

Well, what a week it's been for us here at Vitriolic and it's all finished off, with the arrival of a new EU CSS team. Yes, I know we said we weren't going to pick up another team, but things change and we've decided we can't leave the hole unplugged! So what better team to plug the hole than the following 5 Swedes?

Christofer "Helblinde" Nilsson
Daniel "giftig" Ivarsson
Erik "HaZ" Holm
Robin "Fifflaren" Johansson
Joacim "majk" Kroon

Statement from Robin "Fifflaren" Johansson
" I can honestly say that it feels great to be part of an organisation once again, especially one like Vitriolic. This will give us the support we need to attend the major LANs in Europe to compete with Europe's finest once again, something that I have been away from for quite a while now. I've heard nothing but good stuff about Vitriolic and I am looking forward to representing them in the Counter-Strike: Source scene. We WILL be going to TEX as our first LAN as a team. The roster remains unchanged and we will work hard to get everything going before The-Experience."

Best of luck to the new team!

Well, today is a pretty sad day for us at Vitriolic. Today we say good bye to our European CSS team. There is one reason and one reason alone for this collapse and that reason is that Richard "ritch" Gibbs and Jim "Mx" Smale lost interest in playing Counter Strike: Source. I don't know what we can say really! We had paid up for Outpost on Fire 3 and were well underway planning The Experience, but it wasn't to be.

Statement from Richard "ritch" Gibbs
"Before I start I apologise for everyone I've let down that includes vitriolic as an organisation and my players within the Source team, but i'm officially announcing my Source career is coming to an end. A return maybe in the future but for now I'll be enjoying 1.6 and hopefully you'll be suprised in a short while about what is happening on that end"

On one hand we wish Richard and Jim the best of luck with their 1.6 careers and on the other, we feel deeply sorry for Frank, Kev1n and C0bain who are now left teamless and unsure as to their future in gaming.

For all interested, we will not be picking up another European CSS team and look to build on our 1.6 and now, lone North American CSS team, to make sure that they continue to have successful gaming futures.

A huge congratulations goes to our North American Counter Strike: Source team who made their way into the Grand Final of the CEVO-P Season 8 Playoffs with a Best of 3 win against Canadian powerhouses x3o.

Vitriolic.CSS NA 16:14 (de_nuke)
Vitriolic.CSS NA 16:11 (de_train)

We look forward to watching the finals on SourceTV which will, of course be posted on here (the Vitriolic website) on the day of the finals.

Today we see the line-up change of our CS1.6 team with 2 players being replaced. It's with great pleasure (and a certain element of sadness) I introduce you to our new CS1.6 Line-up

Ruben "enoksen" Enoksen
Sondre "REAL" Svanevik
Michael "mikkis" Sokki
Tommy "tacky" Mosgaard
Karl William "kalle" Haraldsen

From us at Vitriolic we wish you the best of luck!

Vitriolic Gaming are happy to announce the return of a former Cod4 team.
With the Cod4 scene getting a fair bit of attention from bigger events
we here at Vtl felt it was a good opportunity to pick up a new line up:

Lee "LeeZzki" Howard
Karl "Karl" Larkin
Tom "hainy" Hainsworth
Tom "tomzki" Churchman
Sam "topzchen" Opie

Statement by CEO Roger "RGR" Barradas:
After tomzki came to me and told me about his new line up i saw it as
another opportunity to build up the organisation due to the caliber of
his new teams line up. We are excited to see how this team will develop
under vitriolic and hopefully compete on a top EU level.


Statement by Sam "topzchen" Opie:
On behalf of all the team I would like to say thanks to Vitriolic for
giving us this chance once again to play under their name! We are all
very excited to see what happens in the future of this fantastic upcoming
organisation. Along with their other top squads,we hope to bring the
results in expected of us on and offline!
Thanks again!

I don't know about everyone else, but for me it seems like at Vitriolic Gaming we've had a lot of stuff going on recently regarding new teams and all things new. But this is one of the biggest announcements to date! I'd like to introduce you to our new Counter Strike 1.6 team who were previously known as "Alchemists". We wish them the best of luck under our Vitriolic name and look forward to seeing everyone at the upcoming GameGune in Bilbao, Spain!


Vitriolic.CS Now consists of:

Thomas 'Azid' Heltne
Ruben 'enoksen' Enoksen
Karl William 'kalle' Haraldsen
Tommy 'tacky' Mosgaard
Gunnar 'zEn' Eng

Statement from Gunnar "zEn" Eng
"Ok, well it feels great to be under an organisation like vtL! This will bring the norwegian e-sport scene to the top and hopefully keep it there ;D and I hope with vtL, we will go further in 1.6"

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Along with the amazing announcement of Alchemists as our new Counter Strike 1.6 team we have some more great news! We'd like to welcome our newest sponsor, SteelSeries. As you may or not know, SteelSeries provide some of the world's finest gaming peripherals to some of the world's finest players. We look forward to having a long and prosperous relationship with SteelSeries in the up and coming years!


Welcome all!

Today, we officially announce the line-up changes within the North American CSS team. Changes have been made for various reasons but we've settled on a team that will be coming to Europe in October to compete in the Multiplay iSeries

Lloyd "shaffeR" Shaffer
Trey "tck" Martin
Carey "frozt" Kertenian
Samuel "chewbacca" Tesh
Sam "DaZeD" Marine

Good luck to the guys and a big welcome to the new guys!