EPTThe transition of pro players to a sequel always interests me, who manages to stay at the top, which skills are completely transferable, which nuances of playstyles carry over and which are now almost useless. And it's always interesting to see the new players rise to the top of a new game and start destroying people.
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Wohmfg
United Kingdom1292 Posts
The transition of pro players to a sequel always interests me, who manages to stay at the top, which skills are completely transferable, which nuances of playstyles carry over and which are now almost useless. And it's always interesting to see the new players rise to the top of a new game and start destroying people. | ||
tofucake
Hyrule19269 Posts
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126Q;A1
Sweden517 Posts
On July 25 2013 19:53 Wohmfg wrote: I bought the CS pack on Steam in the sales and I am really enjoying CS:GO, been spending the last few days playing and watching vids on youtube, weapon guides, random pro matches etc. It's made me intrigued about all the Counter Strike games, the history of the pro scene, whether old pros play GO, who the big names were in 1.6, who the big names are now etc etc. But I can't find much information on any of this or an active forum for any CS game. Basically I want the TL of the CS world if that is even possible. :D Anyone? Unfortunately there's not any good forum for CS, but HLTV has (as already pointed out) good stats pages for both 1.6 and GO, as well as an extensive news archive and tournament coverage (text, photo, video). I can also recommend a blog by Thorin over at Sweden largest CS site Fragbite (http://www.fragbite.se/?blogID=9) on which he during last year posted several interesting and in-depth articles, interviews and retrospectives. For example "NiP - the clan who shaped Counter-Strike" or "eSTRO 2008 - the year that could have been". | ||
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aike
United States1629 Posts
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dafnay
Angola375 Posts
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coL.hendralisk
Zimbabwe1756 Posts
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Intact
Sweden634 Posts
On July 25 2013 19:53 Wohmfg wrote: I bought the CS pack on Steam in the sales and I am really enjoying CS:GO, been spending the last few days playing and watching vids on youtube, weapon guides, random pro matches etc. It's made me intrigued about all the Counter Strike games, the history of the pro scene, whether old pros play GO, who the big names were in 1.6, who the big names are now etc etc. But I can't find much information on any of this or an active forum for any CS game. Basically I want the TL of the CS world if that is even possible. :D Anyone? Keep in mind that NiP >>>>>>>> Others pretty much now which feels great as a swede, although it does make any tournament they play in pretty meh | ||
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aike
United States1629 Posts
On July 27 2013 23:40 Intact wrote: Keep in mind that NiP >>>>>>>> Others pretty much now which feels great as a swede, although it does make any tournament they play in pretty meh I completely disagree. NiP is really good, but not a guaranteed win. There's a few teams that can give them a run for their money, and provide excellent games. | ||
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Infernal_dream
United States2359 Posts
1st SteelSeries GO, 2012[4] 1st DreamHack Valencia, 2012[5] 1st ESWC, 2012[6] 1st DreamHack Winter, 2012[7] 1st AMD Sapphire, 2012[8] 1st THOR Open, 2012[9] 1st NorthCon, 2012[10] 1st Mad Catz CS:GO Invitational, 2013[11] 1st TECHLABS Cup, 2013[12] 1st Copenhagen Games, 2013[13] 2nd SLTV StarSeries V finals, 2013[14] 1st RaidCall EMS One Spring 2013 Finals, 2013[15] 1st ESEA Invite Season 13 Finals, 2013[16] 1st Svecup Västerås, 2013[17] 1st Swedish Championship, 2013[18] 1st DreamHack Summer, 2013[19] 1st SLTV StarSeries VI finals, 2013[20] That's as much of a guaranteed win as you're ever going to get. Close games or not, they are dominating. Doesn't matter if they won every single tournament 3-2 with rounds ending up 16-14. They've won everything. And if they're at a LAN you stand absolutely no chance, they play lights out: Their LAN record as of 6 July 2013 (maps): 122 wins - 0 draw - 12 defeats Their LAN record as of 6 July 2013 (matches): 77 wins - 0 draw - 9 defeats | ||
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Timerly
Germany511 Posts
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oscar62
Canada417 Posts
i'm really hoping Artesium Dragons (or whatever the fuck their name is) can get solid sponsorship and practice in to where they can start taking maps of NiP. cuz with all these other big teams disbanding/reforming, it looks like NiP is just gonna be holding the throne for the next year easily.. | ||
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ReignSupreme.
Australia4123 Posts
 Astana dragons should be a pretty solid team though. | ||
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tofucake
Hyrule19269 Posts
On July 28 2013 14:47 aike wrote: I completely disagree. NiP is really good, but not a guaranteed win. There's a few teams that can give them a run for their money, and provide excellent games. One of the only teams which had a decent chance and beating NiP at a LAN was Virtus.pro. Other teams could do okay, but really, VP was the only real threat. | ||
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Intact
Sweden634 Posts
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
Love the aug @_@ | ||
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Madder
Australia427 Posts
The NiP domination is absolutely insane.. Where are the other 1.6 teams? EDIT: On July 29 2013 03:14 Intact wrote: Dat feeling when you beast it up with AWP in pubs and the friend requests come raining in Hahaha | ||
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Ushio
Canada868 Posts
![[image loading]](http://media.steampowered.com/apps/csgo/blog/images/posts/rank_images.jpg){kind=icon} It's always satisfying when you see yourself improving, used to always spray the m4 like mad xD | ||
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tofucake
Hyrule19269 Posts
Been crushing Eagles the past few games | ||
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FireSA
Australia555 Posts
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
But I'm pretty awful | ||
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