Following the deliberately cryptic comments made by Michal Blicharz on Twitter yesterday, he has moved to clear up the matter today by stating in no uncertain terms they were not relating to the Intel Extreme Masters.

Quite what they were about isn't clear but following several websites publishing news relating to the tweets he responded via his own Twitter, forum posts and now finally directly to us here at Cadred.

In yet another tweet he responded initially by saying:

Srsly? One Tweet without context and websites predict the future of esports? No truth to your assumptions.

He then followed this up with a short quote directly to Cadred:

My tweet had nothing to do with Intel Extreme Masters. I am actually involved directly and indirectly with many more projects than just one at ESL. We're actually talking abut Source quite a lot at the office.

With the second tweet I thought it was apparent that there was little merit to readmore.de's story. I guess not, which is why I clarified it further in the morning. The surprising thing is that none of the websites that wrote about the tweets actually contacted me to verify if their guesses were correct.

Of course this overlooks the fact that no-one really thought this is the way that IEM would choose to make any announcement regarding the future of their chosen titles, nor did anyone report is as being anything other than an attempt to generate debate.

The rumours circulating that the tweets were made as a bet between colleagues to see who could generate the most number of new followers in a twenty four hour period are also said to be without foundation.

One thing is clear, ESL have moved across the board to ensure everyone that 1.6 does still have a future and no decision has been made about CS:S.

David "Afentod" Hiltscher, ESL Community Manager, added via Twitter:

CS 1.6 won't go anywhere any time soon

And the official Intel Extreme Masters Twitter and Facebook issued a brief response by stating:

Guys, Carmac's recent tweets were not about Intel Extreme Masters.

So there you have it, a storm in a teacup... Although we can't help but feel that was the point of the exercise. Anything further - tweets or otherwise - you'll be able to read about here.