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)

So like the aim is even more consistent now, util is countered. Riot are you going the CS way?

professional racists, I am sure there, somewhere in the middle of Rio de Jainero is a list of people who are banned from visiting Brazil:
-S1mple (for his antics vs furia)
-Connor Mcgregor (for beating Jose Aldo)
-The entire rosters of FNATIC and ACEND
-Rob Moore (for Taking Sacy and pancada)
-OPTIC (for beating LOUD)
-Lewis Hamilton (for beating Felipe Massa in 2008)

my need for a hatewatch is so bad I will manifest this

was I asking? It's just a Matter of time

Why did you think any Pros and Cons apply to PRX fans, it's the list for other fanbases

Pros:
-clout for PRX
-funny moments when the team loses so that the other fanbases can have a field day
-Aspas finally moves to Asia
-Something can leave for Europe to create a Russian superteam with nAts and Chronicle + 2 random russian val grinders (worked for donk and kyousuke, roll it back)
Cons:
-Potential war between SEA and Brazil should aspas underperform once.

watch leo faria somehow arrange a wildcard slot to Pearly Gates themselves and watch Jesus MVP

''48 team international league'' Riot bankrupt the day this bundle of teams leaves the HQ

It's honestly sad how fucking stupid most managements are :D

there would be no restart because he would have the title secured thanks to the 18 point cushion from Baku.

So true, He fucked up in Imola (Saved by red flag), trolled in Baku, trolled Budapest, fucked up the quali in Monaco. If you remove luck and stuff from the championship, Max wraps it up in Mexico. (+25 for Baku, +16 for Budapest, +25 for Silverstone). And Lewis loses 18 points in Imola (would have been a DNF), loses 10 points to Max in Baku (before the puncture), loses 7 points in Silverstone (because he likely comes 2nd to Max), loses 7 points in Sochi (because Norris should have fucking pitted)

mad lh44 fanbase who can't accept that lewis trolled the title in Baku.

There were 2. Jee is the AWPer for Tyloo, he was the one who said that monesy is his idol, ate ice cream because a caster brought him some, appeared in the faze vlog.
EmiliaQAQ is Lynn Vision's soul, he was the one who appeared at Brazilian streams

nah bro, Furia is lowkey good:
Fallen - Godfather of Brazilian CS
Molodoy - Bro's first year at tier 1 and he outperforms Monesy, Zywoo and Wonderful in H2H
Yekindar - from a liquid reject to a cracked entry
Kscerato and yuurih - carried Furia for 7 years and finally have help

he took a break from competition due to burnout, basically did a TenZ

Oh well, time for me to show off ball knowledge:
lowk Title Contenders: Furia (absolute vibes team), Mongolz (pride of Asia).
National teams (not speaking English): Mongolz, Aurora, 3DMAX, Spirit
Rising teams: B8, fnatic, nip, gentle mates, inner circle(lowk major qualifying contenders for Cologne next year)
Teams from not eu: Tyloo (Jee will be your favourite personality), Lynn Vision, M80 (Lake is a god), MIBR (Furia Lite), Pain and Legacy

yeah, and they have character as well. They aren't just nonamers, they are shittalkers, they are fun, their cs games are honestly cool to watch, I am just waiting for them to finally make this one big step towards actual playoffs

Why the fuck, I just started to like gentle mates and their roster, started being sad that they won't be at the major (meanwhile Parivision will after winning fucking LanDaLan), and they pull this shit.

Sadge, I honestly kinda like them. They feel like some OG CS team from 2016-2018. Like a North or Envy.

honestly if karmine corp bought out 3dmax (who look to FUCKING FINALLY become a tier 1 team, and not a tier 1.5 gatekeeper), that would cook. Give me Heretics buying out the GamerLegion roster and GIANTx buying out B8, and almost the entire VCT EMEA is in CS

Ok, and what does karmine corp have to do with that? :D Just because they are another french org?

I know that, but karmine corp is such a crazy reach, honestly I respect the hustle.

https://x.com/1mongolz/status/1975602414880497842 Why are mongolz shouting out karmine corp on twitter? The fuck did I miss?

top 8, top 11, top 16, top 24, nice placements on last major bud

magixx - bum with one life game
electronic - ruined 2 teams back to back
ax1le - washed
nafany - not even good enough for betboom

it ain't gonna happen because there is simply not enough orgs to have a cis league.

Russia as a region in cs sucks ass. name me one good russian player except for monesy-sh1ro (awpers btw) and kyousuke and donk. 11 russian players on the major is fucking criminal

well if you are second caller, then there is no point in learning how to igl, just your specifics are likely team orientated, like matchup specific. Try to read the opponent more, notice their habits, thier patterns. Like ''Oh look, their A player is overextending, let's try to split him when he overpeeks''. Yes, I am not a val player, I am a cs player, but I was the secondary caller on my team, and I would say that the most important is trying to feel the flow of the game. the IGL is more concerned with what your team does, it's your job to notice what the enemy team does.

I feel like val and cs communities co-existed LoL wouldn't dominate as hard

Bro is actually showing both player bases of CS and Val that the games co-exist, like wtf is this one game religion shit

unlikely

Nah fuck off, in no way is ohne narcissistic