c9 spent a shit ton of money on the most mid roster in cs after trusting a CASTER to assemble it.
sentinels and faze started their stocks which would cost 5 serbian dinars
EG fumbled the champs roster and spent millions on mid rosters in cs and dota, recycling same players
NRG and 100T aren't that restarted, but imo they aren't perfect as well

too many turks lost them RR

I would say most emea orgs are fine, but NA orgs are straight up retarded

except you forgot that most esports managements are nowhere near as close to being so far planned ahead.

I mean why would they, extra expanses

which is fundamentally bad for the scene's development

I don't wanna imagine what faker fans would do bro

bro watched the 6 minute video just to be reminded there is grass which he can touch 💀

bro so delusional he has to sip on some big copium cuz he knows navi got into franchising due to being the biggest eu org in CS

due to what would they be more relevant?

cs roster announcement, tenz is back home

well and I think it's not over yet, pretty much every tier 1 TO has like 2-6 events in a year

next year features 30 tier 1 events ( you don't have to visit every single one)

ah yes, the eternal ''not entry = baiter'' take

there were plenty of S-tier events this year
IEM Katowice - Spirit won thanks to donk putting up a historical mvp
PGL Copenhagen Major (Champs) - NaVi upset everyone to pull of a historic win in the most stacked playoff bracket ever
IEM Chengdu - FaZe get their revenge and win a final after 4 failed attempts in a row
EPL - Mouz win the event comfortably
IEM Dallas - G2 with a sub win the event in Dallas, launching monesy even higher in the top 1 debate
Blast Premier Spring Final - navi silence the haters only to lose to spirit 3-1 in the finals
PLAYER BREAK
Esports world cup - navi go thru faze, mouz and g2 to claim the event in Riyadh
IEM Cologne - vitality get their first W of the year after beating navi in a nail biter final

understandable, I got the same way here, I didn't wanna watch BB Dacha. Just FYI, in case you are new, the top teams are NaVi, G2, FaZe, Spirit, MOUZ, Vitality, these 6 are usually in the league of their own, however teams like pain, mongolz, liquid, col, 9z, saw, ef, astralis are sometimes capable of putting up a fight

EasyAntiCheat, a Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat System used by more than 70 gaming studios globally.
we are cooked bro

cs isn't IEM only, this year tier 1 cs has two TOs, Blast and ESL/IEM
right now we have pro league, after that it's blast fall finals in Copenhagen followed by blast global finals in singapore and then IEM Rio.
RMR are regional major rankings, it's the last regional stage before the major. It decides which teams go to the major and the ranking of the team decides who goes to which stage

cheatolarnt joining its older brother cheater strike, it was bound to happen

iem rio is in october I believe, but it's sorta a warmup event before RMRs (major qualifiers)

astralis are shit as well :D you can cheer for NA CS, or SA CS if you like some underdogs. m80, imperial, pain, red candids. tier 2 eu which is solid is EF.

why would you cheer for fnatic cs 😭😭

I mean I can take a deagle and go for a confident tap myself, I just like spraying more with ak

https://youtu.be/z3Ve_hvHJPk
+1, shit like this is not possible with rng

fnatic tactic: viper wall, brim molly, sova drone, site split on 0:25 with 3 mid 2a and then fall back into 2-2 retake comp
tln tactic: click head lmao

flair checks out

NiKo is the goat rifler and he is great at both, you should take a look at his highlights. His deagle ace on cache was wild

Monesy feels like a lite version of s1mple, ngl

I am sorry but there is no way tenz is anywhere close to messi in relation to their sport. S1mple and faker are Messi's of their own game, tenz is not. He lacked the consistency, trophies and individual performance

Oh, glad to see someone with more knowledge talking, just seen some people talking about faceit anti cheat dying in cs2 community because of it

Maybe, it still fucks everything up tho.

Pretty much every anti cheat we have are kernel. Vanguard, faceit, easy, battle net anti cheats, it's the definition of being fucked

They look to ban kernel programs, including vanguard anti cheat, which fucks everyone in the gaming industry up.

Well I am a cs player, so I guess I can start.
I like how val combined 5v5 fps with something hero based. And the best part is that they are yet to release something broken like Briggite in Overwatch and I don't think they will

I mean CS has better BM, and they try to goon it so much. Yet probably the biggest BM fest is dota where yesterday ramzes666 was spamming ")" and wrote "guys, it's all over" right before the opponent wrote gg and then he added "ez". Then when they were shaking hands he had the most "fuck you" wink ever. Also I dislike how they think banter>skill, where CS has a way higher skill ceiling with less abilities

True, and also aiming helps, if you get an equal fighting situation, the pro gets like 700 ms of time to kill before the silver even aims at you

Now that I think about I should have just named the thread Anti Cheats dead

If we talk esports wise than CS is for sure not declining

What happened, has someone called tenz washed when I was sleepink? Why do you even pay attention to these people. They were the once retarded enough to beg valve to speedrun cs2 release and then bitch endlessly about how bad the game is.

That crowd strike disaster has apparently caused Microsoft to explore new security systems, which they discussed in a meeting on Tuesday. https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2024/09/12/taking-steps-that-drive-resiliency-and-security-for-windows-customers/
There is however a problem for gaming in all of that

"improved security posture and security defaults enable the platform to provide more security capabilities to solution providers outside of kernel mode.

Both our customers and ecosystem partners have called on Microsoft to provide additional security capabilities outside of kernel mode which, along with SDP, can be used to create highly available security solutions."
Might be a problem with English, but doesn't that just basically disable all kernel programs like Anti Cheats?

Galorys L
TSM W
TSM and All Knights on 2-3 tie breaker. TSM>AK cuz personal game.
Reason why Galorys losing is crucial is because a three way tie is map and round difference .
Oh, and 2G need to win m80,

Valid, or lower bracket could make sense if your group placement decided if you go into the upper or lower bracket, therefore making groups more important cause getting the higher spot gives you the way into uppers

Thanks for the kind words

We talk purely about popularity

Donk vs Tenz will go crazy

His CV still isn't that great compared to other players. Sure, valorant is younger, but are we sure that aspas can get the status of faker and s1mple with so few events and such rapid changes in the meta?

True, but I still feel like he has a chapter in CS which he has not closed yet

if nitro and autimatic made it somewhat work in cs, I don't see why tenz couldn't work

it would be so great for NA cs if tenz coming back somehow caused reimmigration of content creators to cs and therefore the revival of NA CS, fucking esea S rank games are still peak CS content

I am actually surprised that valve are improving the netcode, I have way less complaints than I had a year ago personally. I hope vacnet is a huge success and after that I don't mind more content. rn tho, I want them to focus more on netcode and such, thankfully they are in contact with the pros