Knowing Riot's policy of 2 BO3s in a day, your swiss stage at champs will take 3 fucking weeks

rain. 2016-2025.

faze didn't even have the money to bring in twistzz, they had to trade elige for him :)))

THAI TEAM SPIRIT HERE WE COME

sorry, bad phrasing, kscerato didn't cost furia 1.5mil

val: ethan (come back to cs goat)
cs: s1mple/ropz (grew up with s1mple, ropz is my idol)
dota: yatoro/collapse
NBA: Doncic
F1: Max
Football: CR7/Bellingham/Hazard
boxing: Usyk
NFL: Josh Allen
NHL: Ovechkin

but he didn't cost furia this money

still the only good reliable piece of falcons is monesy, kyousuke becomes a mid player against top 5 and niko ghosts in a big game

fake info, gambit are sanctioned because they didn't change their owner, and they are still vetoed
''I just checked the legal entity that holds the trademark, and it's inactive, even with the same director listed. And to get Gambit out of the sanctions, the owner needs to change, which was the main problem.'' - Esports Base, russian telegram channel

I do :) there is no way kscerato earns anywhere close to niko in falcons, and there is no way yekindar would cost more than kyousuke.

yekindar FUCKS when he is locked in, fucking honey badger of a player

the thing is, yekindar and kscerato don't have 100k salaries or 1.5mil buyouts :)

holy fucking shit this team is so ahh. Star rifle duo ghosts and gets schooled by yekindar and kscerato, rofl

electronic at least had 4 years of being a second star in navi before deciding to troll c9 and vp. trexx does not deserve to clean electronic's trophy cabinet

'' Aleksei "⁠OverDrive⁠" Birukov has reported that the "priority" is three players from GamerLegion and that rain's contract is under the proviso of 100 Thieves securing a strong core.''
So probably gamerlegion core:
-PR (COOK)
-Tauson (COOK)
-REZ(decent)/ztr (best available IGL I guess)
-some tier 1 awper (my brain says degster, my heart says s1mple)

ja aber ich mag deutsch. Deutsch ist so formal, und wann man alles über Grammatik kennt, dann die Kommunikation so einfach ist

Als ein Auslander, welcher jetzt in Deutschland wohnt, will ich manchmal aufgeben :D Dativ, Akkusativ, verschiedene Satzreihe und Satzfolge. Es kann so schwer sein. Ja, es ist ein bisschen komisch, dass ich eine andere Sprache schwer nennen (Russisch ist meine Muttersprache), aber Deutsch ist hardcore für mich

well, can't wait for Sentinels x pokerstars, C9 x Stake and PRX x DraftKings to join CS!

I know that, but that just means that 100t val division is probably just a side quest atp

I really doubt the bookies are paying all those millions + salaries, they are helping, but not 100%

they are rumoured to buy a fucking major attending core + rain + some AWPer, that shit is not cheap

Wasn't he saying recently that Esports is just losing a lot of money?
https://www.hltv.org/news/43168/100-thieves-announce-return-to-counter-strike
Russian leaker Aleksei "⁠OverDrive⁠" Birukov has reported that the "priority" is three players from GamerLegion and that rain's contract is under the proviso of 100 Thieves securing a strong core.
''This is not true. According to my information, the transfer of four players cost $6,000,000. (heroic selling 3 players to falcons + nertz to liquid)''
WHERE IS THE MONEY COMING FROM DAWG 😭😭😭😭😭

it was a complete and utter gibberish for me

For me, as a foreigner whose mother tongue is Russian, probably building sentences was the biggest issue. In russian I can freestyle the connections, and building a long sentence is easy for me. But when I try this in German, it turns into a minefield

Honestly, as someone who was thrusted into the German Education System, I had almost no troubles with anything, but German was so frustrating. I have been grinding German before SA, I do everything correctly, then I get hit with a full wall of red and the teachers just said ignore the grammar, focus on the theory.

The thing is, you are already a household name. You at least have history. We don't. And our players make it look like as if we are some Italy, the second they win, they get cocky and then the suck suck happens

The root of the problem is wonderful. navi face unreal odds from the get go because monesy, molodoy, Zywoo, and even torzsi AWP diff wonderful

In my opinion, yes. Because our national team are a bunch of c*nts, respectfully. Our media glazes Sudakov, Dovbyk, Zabarnyy, but when the important game comes, they ghost. We were carried in September by our veteran Malinovskyi, who had his career derailed.
I was born in 2007, in that time:
2014 blew a 2-0 lead in the decider matches against France (understandable)
2016 - scored 0 goals at the Euro and lost to fucking Northern Ireland.
2018 - disappeared in the decider matches
2022- Lost to Wales lmao
2024 - barely got through Macedonia and Iceland only to get dog walked by Romania 0-3
2025 - Played like a good team against Belgium and won 3-1, only to get fucked 0-3 in the Nations League and fuck our seeding for every group stage for world cup and the euros
We will lose to France in a close fashion, 0-1 0-2, and then somehow fucking collapse either against Iceland or some other team where one fucking Zabarnyy costs more than half their starting XI

Be a CS fan: I cheer for NaVi who have probably the worst year in their history since 2017, my favourite player leaves (jL), the person who dragged the team down (wonderful) Is still fucking there.
Be an F1 Fan: Fan of the GOAT, Max Emilian Verstappen - Red Bull give him a shitbox, he still gets 5 wins, the car goes to shit AGAIN the second I start believing in Ver5tappen
Be a football fan: Fan of Real Madrid, get optimistic as my team wins the El Classico, proceeds to shit the bed against fucking Liverpool.
Now my national team will have to play France and Iceland, and they are known chokers when it comes to final rounds of World Cup qualifiers.
Fuck this shit brah ;(((

pretty sure most TO's will just use 100T as an abbreviation. hyped for 100t tho, rain + core of GL + a decent AWPer = Top 8 team imo

They pulled the trigger on the ballsiest rebuild by far in 2025. Got molodoy, who was pretty much a tier 3 player, and yekindar who was so ass on Liquid that people thought he can just retire. Yes it was probably Fallen's call to shoot, and Furia shot

it has nothing to do with money.
S tier IGL
A tier entry on Yekindar
Perfect duo on Kscerato and Yuurih
Molodoy, mogodoy, the goat

People who complain about this wouldn't survive IEM Rio crowd where you can hear the entire sector scream "IT'S A" In Portuguese. Or try and get louder so that the enemy player can't hear the sound of the defuse

True. It's the same in football. When my player does a dive, he is smart and he "took advantage of the Careless opponent". If this was done against my team, that guy is a dirty fucking cheat who can't play the game fairly

There would be dummies complaining. This shit is just LAN experience. Say fucking thanks that Riot were smart enough to change the gamma of the flash, so that your opponent can't look into your eyes and say: "You flashed 4B, stack B!"

https://www.hltv.org/gallery/view/138700 Literally in CS 2020. Just add tinted glass. See though during freeze time. Can't see anything during the game.

I have seen some individuals cry about fair play on twitter, so it was kinda funny.

People who never competed for anything I guess. Esports has so many ways to "cheat":
Place your headphones not as tight as possible, you can hear the crowd.
Mysteriously have a tech issue when the opposite team has the momentum
Fan method
Crosshair through the wall to get the reaction of the crowd
Hear the crowds reaction to lurks.

people who rage at Ethan for this are genuinely retarded. Ethan got a chance to increase the win probability of one of the most important games of his life just by looking? Blame fucking riot for this. You can sit the teams so that they face the same way and there's a wall behind them, or it you want them to sit opposite, just add a fucking tinted glass. CS events had it since 2020. If this is cheating, I will give you food for thoughts. You place one guy in the crowd with a sign, if he shows it, it's A, if he doesn't, it's B. That's when you are defending. If you are attacking, same rule, if you need to go A, he raises the sign. That settles it. All games are to be played in Studios

I mean if they get GL core and a decent awper (s1mple?:))) I can see them be a consistent top 5 team.
Rain
PR
Rez
Tauson
s1mple
fucks a lot of teams purely on aura

chinese just because I rep Tyloo's CS roster

we all speak Russian, we lived in Eastern Ukraine where Russian is predominant. Funnily enough my Father's family has a lot of Ukrainian heritage, and my Mom's has a lot of Russian heritage, so I am 50/50 no matter how you look

Russian - Because my father is Russian
Ukrainian - Because my mother is Ukrainian
English - picked it up extracurricularly
German - been living in Germany since 2022 (due to obvious reasons)

yeah, GGs

insane kaasad reference, legendary copypasta

well, probably GG to them as the org, they left CS just to focus on Val and now they leave Val as well

OP is OP? Bros it's just cs AWP but not on steroids

for me it's the models. Way slower, way bigger. And val doesn't feel punishing enough. I just am ready to swing into any angle, and I am confident enough that i aim better

huge +1 on the last one, as a cs player (6k hours played, fuck my life), val is just way easier in terms of mechanics. Util is way harder to understand, but I think I could grind to high ranks just by outaimming

And yes it is not a problem, I am not saying riot are copying from CS (cuz it's completely normal to change your game however you want)