The inaugural season of Gfinity's Australian city-based esports league wrapped up over the weekend with a southern rout. Having solidified their position in the finals of all three games, Melbourne Order turned the weekend into a whitewash, taking home the trophy in all three matches and the club championship to boot.

Over the weekend, Gfinity's first city-based esports league will come to a close. So if you'd like to see who will sit atop the crown for Rocket League, CS:GO and Street Fighter 5, you can tune in here.

The weekend is typically a great time to chill, but that's not entirely on the cards this time.

The main event for IEM Sydney, the latest stop for ESL's world Counter-Strike tour, doesn't officially start until tomorrow. But thanks to a range of upsets and admirable performances from the Australian teams, IEM Sydney has already delivered.

Splyce announced today that it will be leaving professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive to put resources towards other scenes.

Every competitive game has its more memorable maps. Blood Gulch, Facing Towers, 2Fort, and also, de_dust2. More well-known as simply Dust II, the map has been around for most of Counter-Strike's life and is considered one of the best, most balanced maps in the game. Now, it's back in active duty.

Niko "k1to" Gruhne has been suspended from the Faceit Pro League for a month after he made a racist comment during a pick-up Counter-Strike session.

During a recent celebratory birthday stream, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive commentator Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett called members of his stream chat the n-word on stream, as well as telling one member of the CS:GO community to kill themselves.

Despite Valve's crackdown on CSGO gambling sites that use Steam in 2016, there's still an active cosmetic skin trading (and yes, sometimes gambling) scene around the game. A recent set of trade limits from Valve, though, has skin lovers selling off their collections for fear that the scene is on its deathbed.

A new record was set for modern Counter-Strike this week, with one player upping the record for most kills in a professional match to a staggering 47. In an era where defuses doesn't add three to your score, it's a huge accomplishment - and one that was only possible thanks to the generous contributions of Australians.

There's no shortage of tournaments for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams out there, but there aren't that many routes in Australia to international competition. But this week, another avenue opened up for Aussie and New Zealand teams through the expansion of the ESL Pro League.

The third-place decider match at today's StarSeries i-League Season 4 finals went a little long. A simple best-of-three, Team Liquid and FaZe had a meeting on Inferno that went well past regulation and into multiple overtimes, almost to the length of two regular matches.

Cloud9's win at the Eleague Boston Major was a huge one, for the team and North American Counter-Strike in general. Broadcast house Beyond The Summit sat the team down, less than a month later, to rewatch a reel of its finest moments and talk over them.

Gunfire, spells, commentators talking a mile a minute, momentum shifts, plays you can literally miss by blinking: There's so much going on during esports events that there's hardly any time to spare a thought for what's going on behind the scenes, let alone what's happening right in front of your eyes.

There's nothing like a finals that goes to the wire. And that was the case this morning in Boston, with Faze Clan and Cloud9 going neck and neck for $US1 million in the grand finals of the Counter-Strike Boston Major.

Despite how different they are, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is, in some ways, the new CSGO. It's the big Steam shooter du jour, and it's stolen Counter-Strike's realistic gun porn crown. But there's one thing CSGO has CS-going for it that PUBG doesn't: the ability to consume all other games, thanks to mods.

The UK Gambling Commission released its annual report today examining the gambling habits of 11- to 16-year-olds. For the first time ever, betting on in-game items such as skins was included in its analysis.

The British are coming and they're bringing an esports competition with them. Starting this week, Gfinity's Challenger series lets you show your skills and - if you kick enough ass - you can get drafted into their Elite series where pro teams will compete for $450,000 in prizes.

At the height of the controversy surrounding microtransactions in Star Wars Battlefront 2, a Reddit user who goes by the name Kensgold posted an open letter to publisher EA and other developers in the video game industry. "I am 19 and addicted to gambling," he wrote. Kensgold wasn't talking about roulette tables or online poker. He was talking about spending over $17,000 on in-game purchases over the last several years.