Honestly, just get rid of Valo and let Riot buy CS so it reach its peak

Sorry not happening lol

https://www.twitch.tv/hltvorg

I wonder what awards and player ranking medals Vlr would look like if it ever gets one lmaoooo

wym?

Even 5% would be generous lmao. Valve splits 50/50 with orgs and players. Greed is in question here

Lol they will keep all the earnings if thats the case

Blast Major alone made $110 million just off stickers, which means the total prize pool is $111 million from the original $1.25 mil, insane more than dota 2.

Riot greedy to allow such a thing.

https://www.hltv.org/news/37930/sources-paris-major-sticker-earnings-exceeded-110-million

Logitech G305, $30 and wireless

True, i feel like rankings on HLTV actually means something since it is calculated and updated frequency

HLTV each year has an award show, ie. best player in the world, team, role specific, etc.

https://www.hltv.org/news/37201/announcing-hltv-award-show-2023-presented-by-1xbet

Does Valorant need this as well?

Difference that in CS, its a way of life. In Valorant, it’s a job. Different mentalities fr

Daps could be the next Karrigan (Hopium), Osee can work effectively in this new squad like he did with ExtraSalt than with Liquid, Hext and Fang have inconsistency issues but with experience can overcome them, and Brehze can return back to form if he has the motivation now with the new team. So you're right, its a huge question mark as it can swing great or bad, but since they have potential, that is good enough tbh

true im skeptical about NRG particularly Brehze and Daps, but we have to see how they perform during the major RMRs. If they flop after a long period, Autimatic can still be picked up

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 Spring and one in Fall); IEM Katowice (Feb/March) and Cologne (June/July) - 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)

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.

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, but 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).

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.

Already great signs, from a dead tier 1 team and others are irrelevant scene to 1 top 6 team (coL), 1 title contender team on paper (Liquid), and a tier 1.5 with tier 1 potential team (NRG), this is definitely a return. M80 is gradually getting better too, and there are more talents scattered between tier 2/3 teams which are promising such as jba. Now compared to EU, its still on a smaller scale, but at least its not dead like 6 months ago.

one game in a meaningless tier 2 event, try again 😭😭

yes m80 is working up from tier 2, very exciting to watch. jba with more experience can work on tier 1 soon!

Maybe when hes washed lmao, hes still doing great in coL bring that team from top 25 to 6 even though his peak in 2019 was godlike

Would like to see some LoL or Dota ones! Recently saw the beginning of the 2023 TI Opening Ceremony and it was great

https://x.com/teamliquidcs/status/1732837267042148506?s=46

NA CS now has:

coL (Best NA team and top 6 in the world after Elige joined)

Liquid (Squad: NAF, Yekindar, Skullz, Cadian, Twistzz - insane on paper and will contend to be one of the best team in the world)

NRG (Decent team and can pull major upsets)

What are your favorite entrances for players?

I personally like the way CS (Blast and ESL) does it, gets me goosebumps and I think Riot Valo needs to adopt some of it.

Blast coL vs Faze: https://www.youtube.com/live/5eUzn5_OMb8?si=85DGIkO9I5DMlG10&t=20437
ESL G2 vs ENCE: https://www.youtube.com/live/pc-9WCVKdnw?si=EVA-IvnJTAehtlIW&t=4882

I think this one was on the right track and was great from VCT Copenhagen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBYRerD3odg

Cs2 shit state rn, at least not as bad as csgo release so I think long term itll be fine. Thats just how Valve do things unfortunately, they are slow and quiet, but ultimately will fix at least most of the issues. And CS will never die, thanks to the open community support