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Like above, use csstash to see all skins, there are some nice skins that are not even a dollar sometimes
My S- tier is a bit outdated now since Gamers8 turned to EWC which can be S tier but imo still S- tier for me since it doesnt feel as hype as the other events.
Blast Groups will not exist next year 2025 due to the new open circuit system and I think all new Blast events (Bounty, Open, Rivals) will be at least S tier, Open may even be S+ tier but we will see.
All these TOs entering/reentering CS in 2025, Starladder, PGL, Skyesports, Perfect World, etc; these events seems to be good with hugh prizepools but for now we need to see them first before we rank them. I have higher expectations for PGL due to their CS event experience.
wrote this a while ago to someone else.
Heres a website to see past tournaments easier if you’re new.
https://liquipedia.net/counterstrike/S-Tier_Tournaments
Events:
S+: Majors - sponsored by Valve and chosen TO organizes it (2 per year typically one usually in Summer and one in Winter); IEM Katowice (Feb/March) and Cologne (July/August) - events that feel like a major but not technically (organized by ESL); Blast World Final (typically in December) - slightly under the previous events imo in terms of hype and prestigiousness but still huge event (organized by Blast ofc)
Edit: World Finals will not exist next year. Due to the open circuit rule that will start in 2025, Blast redesigned their events (Bounty, Open, Rivals) for two seasons. I think Open will be the next S+ event by Blast, but we will see.
S: Blast Spring Final and Fall Final - season big events, Fall final is little more hype usually since it is in Copenhagen Royal Arena with a bigger CS audience; IEM events - big events but not as huge as Cologne or Katowice, around 3-4 events spread out per year, location depends but some in the past were in Sydney, Rio, Beijing, Dallas (very common per year), etc.
Edit: Again, these Blast Finals event will not exist next year. Due to the open circuit rule that will start in 2025, Blast redesigned their events (Bounty, Open, Rivals). I think Bounty and Rivals will both be S tier. (If you’re interested how these events work, its on Blast’s youtube channel)
S-: ESL Pro League (variable time every year)- this is borderline to S tier as it has a big prizepool, but this is a chill event, however games are still very hype typically; Blast Spring and Fall Groups - big events to get qualified to Blast Spring Finals and Fall Finals. If you bomb out, you get another chance to qualify through Blast Spring and Final Showdown which is basically LCQ; Gamers8 - new organizer event that was added recently with a huge prizepool but the event itself is smaller than the rest (unsure if this event will continue next year and so forth).
Edit: Blast Groups/Showdown will not exist next year. Gamers8 is now EWC and can be argued to be S tier, but for me it is still S- tier due to be lower in hype personally.
Rest are A or below tier you can find on the link. If you think this is a lot, there used to be more events back then 2015-2019. My thoughts is that I like how many events there is because I can always watch many good events throughout the year.
Edit:
All these TOs entering/reentering CS in 2025, Starladder, PGL, Skyesports, Perfect World, etc; these events seems to be good with hugh prizepools but for now we need to see them first before we rank them. I have higher expectations for PGL due to their CS event experience, so they may be S tier. The rest are probably S- tier or below. It is insane though that most of these are at least a million in prizepools.
You have to like hold a slight off angle if u are going to be cleared, with cs fast movement peeks are insane
https://youtu.be/ESJQn5Lb24U?si=LY0TNEaI2OWMhYDA
When getting ferrari peeked like that, the feeling is so demoralizing.
Imo theyre a lot more hype and epic. Like I get actual chills watching them and a lot of things dont make me feel that way.
Just this 2024 IEM Cologne final opening ceremony is so CINEMA. I got chills from the Hans Zimmer style organs music with great visuals.
https://www.youtube.com/live/WYinJordkO8?si=GbjAO52C0aT5Mwic&t=10700
Can you do one for CS majors? Just majors alone there are like 21 events lmao.
Furia doing Furia things, I think Pain is the better team lmao.
If there is a NA TO like Eleague back then, oh then we would be so back. Same for Asia as well, I think Perfect World would be great.
I would say top 15-20. But the difference is that tier 2 can play with tier 1. That can be top 30, top 50, hell even sometimes top 100 team somehow manage to sneak in a tier 1 tournament time to time.Valorant only has a couple tournaments per year, CS has like 10-15 just for tier 1, for tier 2 its even more. Plus, the major is one of many tournaments.
u still need a NA core in order to be a NA team, which means three players. Also, compared to CS, Overwatch esports is a joke
Even tier2 players in CS are rich asf. I seen Styko's video (former player in Apeks a tier 2 team) where he was getting like 300k just from stickers alone. Tier 1 players are getting like at least 900k to 5 million dollars. S1mple's buyout even though he hasn't played in over a year is still around 3-4 million. Insane!
I dont think that matters at all as long NA talent is being invested into. When the teams and region matures, it will naturally gain more NA players in a team
Valorant salaries looks poor compared to CS and League. You are overestimating a content org like SEN who are dependent on Valorant bundles and merch sales for income. LOL
You should take a look at League teams and their sponsors. CS teams also pay their players in the millions, League even higher.
Do you think teams and talents are rising again? This is a great chance to put NA and SA teams back on the international scene seriously again since there are no clear top teams with mixed results from every team being super competitive.
https://www.hltv.org/events/7441/esl-pro-league-season-20
https://x.com/SyykoNT/status/1833626250130161720
-Liquid looks very solid, deep playoffs team and title contenders with more experience.
-M80 bringing up tier2 NA CS talents like Lake and Reck, playing great CS beating EU teams and into playoffs. Truly the goated NA org investing in NA talent unlike EG which was a disasterclass.
-CoL looks shaking and inconsistent at the moment, but they are always still in the tier1 scene without heavy investment which matters at the end of the day. Elige is still a world-class player and probably will get at least top 10 player of the year.
-Wildcard even though they are out of the tournament, they played decent CS and showed they can hang with their EU counterparts.
For SA/BR teams, I don't really follow them closely but know they are doing great recently as well. Teams like Furia, Pain, MIBR, Imperial, 9Z are showing great results. Maybe someone who is from there or is following it closer can dive deeper.
Even though we have long ways to go, its hard not to get excited from the upward trend. All it takes is a breakthrough player or team to really put a region back on the map again like the Mongolz for Asia.
n1cf try not having brainrot and shit threads (challenge impossible)
Plus there are so many 3rd party TOs for CS as Valve only handles the Major system. It is not very centralized, so people can tune in to so many events
I think it would take a financial hit, but for viewership itself i really dont think tier1 would be affected that much
Gambling degens mostly only really applies to tier 2/3 tournaments. Most people dont care about those tournaments. So I think you are really exaggerating and blowing it out of proportion.
Also what does APAC think? Forgot to add
Are these good venues?
They will have crowds during group stages as well for chinese/asian teams which is a huge W.
Thats the average viewer demographic for non tier 1 tournaments
I think you meant fps, yea it will be difficult to compete with EU since CS is a raw esport which means strats and tactics are from the ground up over many years like real sports. However, it’s possible since it just takes a breakthrough team like the Mongolz (Mongolian team) who worked their way up from like top 100 to like top 10
True, also helps anyone can at least understand CS at thr basic level right away in this sense is a real sport
3, every major all regions can increase their slots by getting into playoffs
This is the best Champs song
Why? Did u think masters shanghai was bad?
Are you guys excited for the Shanghai Major in December (First CS major in Asia)? The Chengdu crowd was crazy last time, treating CS pros like super celebrities lmao, could only imagine it will be better in Shanghai. I checked Huya and other Chinese streaming sites and looks like CS is still super popular.
https://x.com/g2m0nesy/status/1779371786666127827?s=46
Valorant is a different demographic, a little geeky and beta some people would say. CS fans are like real sports fans, a bit unfair to compare
I dont think so at all, maybe there are little things vct might be better at, but I think its not close at all
True, I feel like Valorant is a side esport hustle for Riot, they only care about League
That is true, but I dont think Valorant will ever have that passion of fans because of the demographic no matter how long
All they have to do is let ESL do some tournaments lol, it would clear Riots production so hard. Greed tbh
Just rewatched this 2024 IEM Cologne final opening ceremony that happened couple days ago, didn't realize at the time how CINEMA it was holyy.
Do you think Valorant should have this style of production? I got chills from the Hans Zimmer style organs music with great visuals.
https://www.youtube.com/live/WYinJordkO8?si=GbjAO52C0aT5Mwic&t=10700
A game both CS and Valorant community think is actually genuine trash haha
https://www.hltv.org/news/39453/yalla-reveals-15m-2025-circuit-with-2-lan-finals
Is this too many events? Personally, I think it is for pros but they can skip events and ofc for us viewers more tourneys is a W
How do you like stepping needles in SF and smelling poo in Mumbai?
Hooxi(igl), he sat out for this tourney for his sisters wedding. I don’t think hes getting dropped since thatll be fcked up, but I can see it in the future if the team performance dips. Him and Nexa are probably the first two to be dropped.
To me its not, but its weird that its filmed and posted publicly.
2018 to 2019 was the biggest leap IMO. Astralis introduced a new way to play CS with util heavy starts. 2021 to now, the leap isn't as big, but definitely the level is higher still, everyone has to come up ways to beat each other
Wtf, because of Valve making all TOs open circuit in 2025, partnership teams will be dead and new TOs are coming back. A huge W would be Eleague to come back for NA. Imo more tournaments means more growth, will Riot franchising system destroy the esports growth?
https://www.hltv.org/news/38676/starladder-announces-plans-to-return-to-cs-circuit
January 13-26 - BLAST tournament
January 29-February 9 - ESL tournament
February 10-24 - PGL tournament
February 25-March 16 - ESL tournament
March 17-30 - BLAST tournament
March 31-April 14 - PGL tournament
April 21-27 - ESL tournament
April 28-May 4 - BLAST tournament
May 3-19 - PGL tournament
May 19-25 - ESL tournament
May 26-June 1 - StarLadder tournament
June 9-22 - First Major
July 23-August 3 - ESL tournament
August 4-17 - BLAST tournament
August 20-24 - ESL tournament
August 25-September 7 - BLAST tournament
September 12-21 - StarLadder tournament
September 23-October 12 - ESL tournament
September 29-October 13 - PGL tournament
October 18-November 3 - PGL tournament
November 3-9 - ESL tournament
November 10-16 - BLAST tournament
December 1-14 - Second Major
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