Anything but number 1.

You just know those guys are going to be obnoxious af.

Don’t get why you’re being downvoted.

It’s true what you say - inflated salaries are the biggest downfall of the esports bubble right now. ENCE in CS reported $1m in profits in 2022 and that’s only due to scouting cheap players that had potential.

Most orgs are making a loss since the sponsors aren’t seeing any ROI (main esports audience barely has any money), and in order to even attract good sponsors you need to be one of the top teams. If you don’t get the best players you don’t see results => you don’t get good sponsorship deals.

The whole result is a spiral to pay more for better players to get better sponsors, who are then disappointed with their sponsorship results while player salaries keep rising and need to get funded by even more sponsorships.

It’s super unsustainable in its current form.

And all of the biggest baiters are on that list.

At this point you’ve got to start thinking whether they are actually baiting in 3k comments or are genuinely delusional to put that much effort into it

Braindead

How can you not understand the impact of cs util? It’s ez af

Here’s the impact and why even a random grandpa would understand:

-flash: you can’t see
-smoke: your vision is blocked
-grenade: you do instant damage
-molotov: you stand in fire, it hurts

Effect on the round:
-flash: somebody peeks flashed person, they likely kill them
-smoke: they can’t see you pass, you likely can cros
-grenade: do damage so easier to kill or outright kill
-molotov: deny space and do damage. Easier to kill or outright kill

4 util in a match of cs. In valorant at THE VERY LEAST 20 pieces of distinct util per game, maximum 40. Literally up to 10x more util complexity

The outcome of the util is the exact same in cs vs val.

With the exception that valorant has much more util.

You’re not making any sense. In cs people need to understand 4 pieces of util that all are exactly the same. In valorant people need to understand 4 pieces of util multiplied by the number of agents to really know what’s going on.

Neither. Both have had exceptional matches recently. Chronicle has been topfragging almost every game.

Don’t think you know what a fluke is

Was enough to win an international title.

Gotta be delusional to think boaster doesn’t do anything for the team

Lmao what? Lived in London for over 5 years and never been robbed.

Maybe be able to afford to stay in a nice area?

Fakeflaggot

Nobody in the us would make that grammatical mistake.

Shitmea shits on na. What does that make NA?

Best team has to have a shitmea import to make it far lmao

? If a smoke goes down in cs it’s like a smoke in val

If someone flashes you in cs it’s like a flash in val

If someone nades you in cs it’s damage

If someone molotovs in cs it’s like a molotov in val

What do you mean?

Imagine putting Liquid over Na’Vi cause of one game.

Na’Vi goes in S, liquid goes in A

Americans are like 90% of cod viewership. It’s only “relevant” in the US

Americans actually.

Cod4 promod was a great esport but after that worthless

Twins, yes

Best you can do IMO is play 1 "class" primarily and have 1 or 2 comfort picks in every other class so you can flex when necessary

for example, I primarily play controllers, so I am super comfortable on:
Omen
Viper
Brim
Astra
not so good on harbor

Sentinels:
Sage
KJ
(Chamber but doesn't really count)

Initiator:
Kay/O
Breach

Duelist:
Jett for whenever I get a rare game that 4 people lock and we don't have a duelist

lmao what???

imagine putting anyone above derke

Make my own cold brew. Use my bean-to-cup machine if I was too lazy to make cold brew the previous day.

The best team in the world always gets a lot of hate.

It’s been like that forever, in CS as well. If you were a TSM/Astralis fan before they won a major you were based, if you were a fan as soon as they started dominating you were deluded, a plastic fan, or a bandwagoneer

babysasuke and moatz are by far the most annoying users

Never a good take and the baits are so obvious they’re not even funny

Fnatic would be stupid to change anything even if they lose next tourney. Staying on number 1 is hard cause everyone studies you. They have all the pieces to stay a title contender for a while and have proven their adaptability to new maps and new metas without a problem.

A player would have to majorly fall off before a change is warranted

I was there to watch it live. Glorious how s1mple shat the bed against a REAL team

It was 0.81 btw

S1mple was never the goat. Dev1ce always was. Confirmed once again

If I had to rank the places I've lived:

1. Amsterdam, NL. Quality of life is really good, the cost of living is quite high but salaries are nicer than in London so you end up with more savings. City is stunning too. Transport inside the city and getting around with bicycle is convenient af. The Dutch themselves are quite shallow I find but there's a huge expat community, which is cool.

2. Ghent, Belgium. Lovely vibe, people are super friendly. Everything doable on foot or by tram. Might be a little biased cause I spent the start of my adult life there as a student so I made loads of friends there and had loads of fun experiences.

3. NYC, USA. City just always has something going on. Cost of living is sky high but back then I had my apartment paid for by my company which is usually the biggest expense so that didn't really hit me. Downsides are travel inside the city and how isolating the city can feel. Millions of people but hard to make friends. Dating life was incredibly easy on the other side, so that was a plus

4. London, UK. While it's a top tier place to visit, it's not too nice to live in. Living circumstances are fucking terrible, you pay shitloads for something that looks like (and smells like) a shoebox. Loads of homelessness. And cause the city is so fucking large, you could be travelling for a full hour to meet friends. The upside is that food and coffee etc are absolutely incredible in London, miss that the most.

All 4 are actually quite nice though Amsterdam, NYC and London you need to be making a decent chunk of money to get the most out of it.

Was burned out from thousands of hours of CS. Saw the trailer for “Project A” and got excited.

Joined beta since day 1 and have been playing and watching almost every tournament since day 1.

https://liquipedia.net/counterstrike/Team_YP

Throwback to the time YouPorn had a CSGO team

Lived in 4 countries so I'll go for all of them - personal opinions:

1. Belgium: Ghent to live, Bruges in terms of what it looks like (lived primarily in Ghent myself)
2. USA: Boston was a great place, worked there for a couple of weeks, would love to live there (lived in Manhattan myself)
3. UK: Edinburgh is absolutely stunning (lived in London myself)
4. Netherlands: can't beat Amsterdam, live there now

york really is pretty, was there 2 weeks ago

their major winning formula didn't include aggressive flashy awp plays

s1mple better individually

dev1ce a better teammate. Doesn't have to rely on flashy plays to make wins. Proves it with 4 majors.

So yeah, dev1ce anyday

Thanks! This is the kind of answer I was looking for.

in tier 1

Not what the post was about. I talked about Tier 1. Not online nonamers at the start of the scene.

It was 54. I just checked the stats. Also none of them were internationally acclaimed teams. Once they went international, they immediately lost their 2nd real international match.

Fnatic is going 17-0 against the best teams in the game.

Tier 1 scene. Not farming shitters at the start of the game. Just like NiP had 87-0 maps in CSGO when it just came out, but they had the number 1 and number 2 player from 1.6 at the time, against teams that weren't even structured.

fnatic is currently on 17 consecutive wins, only dropping 3 maps in the process.

Last loss was a BO1 and the one before that a BO1 as well. Last BO3 loss was in September against DRX.

Have we seen a winstreak this large before in Valorant (in the tier 1 scene) or larger? Genuinely curious.

EDIT: the loss against DRX wasn't even with current roster. They are still undefeated with current roster.

absolutely not wtf

that's not the point.

device IS the goat of CS lmao

Only s0mple fanboys can't compute that fact

nice

common eutalyx W

What a great effort by BBL. For a Tier 3 team to take a map off a tier 1 team is pretty impressive

Lived in London but worked in consultancy, so I went to clients all around the country

Enjoy your fever dream buddy

Common nutab1e L

Lived in the UK for 5 years. Yeah the brits aren't great.

And that somehow discounts all his IGLing?

IGL of the best team in the world currently

"fraud"