Chinese teams enter CS:GO scene

wims80

1892 Posts

December 31 2015 00:24 GMT

Vici Gaming, EHOME and LGD have all announced the last few days that they are entering the CS:GO scene. It will be interesting to see how they fare. I'm guessing that it will be very difficult for them to be successful, they are after all going to have to compete against players that have played the game for 10+ years. I don't think that CS is a big game over there historically. But do they have that kind of experience playing other shooters?

Roggay

Switzerland6320 Posts

December 31 2015 01:01 GMT

As far as I know, games like Crossfire (cs copycat) are pretty popular in china, so yes they do play shooters similar to cs.
CSGO itself is not a big game at all there tho, probably because of the pricetag and the fact that it is harder to play it in internet cafes/pc bangs. As such their talent pool is not deep at all and they probably won't achieve much internationally. I'm afraid its gonna need more effort from valve to popularise csgo in asia, especially regarding the business model.

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

December 31 2015 06:46 GMT

eh, we'll have to see how things go. the big issue i see for china is like roggay said, breaking into the chinese FPS market and developing new talent

Souma

2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts

December 31 2015 07:16 GMT

They're obviously getting teams because the Chinese scene has been growing... Like c'mon.

hymn

Bulgaria832 Posts

December 31 2015 16:12 GMT

This is awesome. I hope Chinese teams and Korean teams start some trend and CSGO enters those markets properly. Then it might become challenging for fnatic and nV to win every major there is.

sertas

Sweden881 Posts

January 02 2016 08:58 GMT

china is going to stomp csgo this year they got asian people playing

grnp

Sweden865 Posts

January 02 2016 14:36 GMT

I miss TyLoo, chinese 1.6 was entertaining

Clonester

Germany2808 Posts

January 02 2016 21:27 GMT

On PGL (during Christmas) they played CS 1.6 offline. 1.6 and Crossfire have been played there for ages. Its just that the scene in China and outside of China had no connections.

Sianos

580 Posts

January 03 2016 09:50 GMT

I love to see teams of asian areas play.

Overall, they don't seem to be at a top international level in terms of individual skill, but they are quite solid and consitent players.

From what I have seen: Games between asian teams are a lot more strat heavy than european and american games. Seriously, it's quite rare for me to see them play and stream a game, but I never watched a game without learning anything new. It's like they are playing a completely different game compared to EU/NA.

I would love to see them compete against international teams.

bluzi

4703 Posts

January 03 2016 10:06 GMT

#10

On January 03 2016 18:50 Sianos wrote:
I love to see teams of asian areas play.

Overall, they don't seem to be at a top international level in terms of individual skill, but they are quite solid and consitent players.

From what I have seen: Games between asian teams are a lot more strat heavy than european and american games. Seriously, it's quite rare for me to see them play and stream a game, but I never watched a game without learning anything new. It's like they are playing a completely different game compared to EU/NA.

I would love to see them compete against international teams.

I think you undervalue the amount of strategy and meta mind games in EU scene , if what you say is true then CN will be better then EU soon enough, aimers are born in CN every second