It is safe to say that
@Twistzz
has become the greatest that ca(NA)da has ever had to offer in CS:GO
#1
Cologne
#1
Katowice
1 Grand Slam
Major Winner
3x HLTV Top 20
Had a 1.0+ K/D at 67 of his 79 LANS
and he's only 22
requests for the next major:
-no bo1s
+all bo3s past the closed qualifier for the RMRs and Major
+bo5 grand finals
positives:
+the new seeding method worked really well and made the swiss system look great
my counterstrike 2 wishlist:
-ultimate abilities
-unique heroes/champions of varying genders, sexualities, and ethnicities
-more women to play it than cs:go
-256tickrate
-hide n seek and warcraft3 mod built in
-delete all skins except case hardened blue gem
shroud playing valorant competitively is like when jordan came back from retirement to join the wizards except it’s just jordan’s commercial appeal and none of the rings
Using Twitch on a new PC, they really hide CSGO well. Opened my eyes to how much the Twitch algo works against CS.
Despite the ESL stream being the 6th most viewed stream right now, it's not even recommended EVEN in the Browse > Shooter category - wtf?
@TwitchEsports
this is just brutally tone deaf when top pro players are on 50+ hours per week to stay relevant in a hyper competitive space and you know jake sucky will tweet something about mental health in the next week. they’re working hard as fuck already.
Hot take: If you are a pro player you should be making content, building your brand and image, interviews, streaming, anything outside the game possible to be relevant
Esports isn’t in a place where you can sit back as an “athlete” and rely on your in game performance YET
i, for one, welcome the downfall of danish IGLs
karrigan - 1-2
hooxi - 1-2
patti - 0-2
gla1ve - eliminated
snappi - not here
cadian - not here
blamef - not here
msl - thorin still trying to get him a job
@readtldr
@s1mpleO
alot of it comes down to passion, I'll never be as passionate as s1mple.. therefore I'll never even come close to the talent he has IMO.
women: can we have some more representation in this video game?
men: this wont bring in any new women because i will make their matchmaking experience a living hell regardless
First Major since 2021 that I didn't get an invite for. Moments like these are about believing in the product that I offer regardless of a missed hire.
If you're looking for heat come Major, I'm keeping the podcasts warm and stream toasty.
Thanks for the all of the support.
-dupreeh wins a major w/o gla1ve
-magisk wins a major w/o gla1ve
-zonic wins a major w/o gla1ve
-xyp9x was irrelevant when the former 3 left, gla1ve still present
-dev1ce is performing well individually when gla1ve is calling badly
+all of 2019 mouz irrelevant w/o karrigan
the cs community is great because valve doesn’t tell us wtf is happening so people post unverified research and it’s taken as gospel so the discourse is a hotbed of misinformation we’re just a band of broscientists but instead of creatine and nofap it’s hitboxes and subticks
frozen v ropz on mouz - came up on reddit how they had the same rating and amount of days with team (1722 days)
beyond that:
rating v top 5, 10, 20, 30, 50:
THE EXACT SAME
impact rating:
THE EXACT SAME
This is why you need to watch the demo sometimes. s1mple fakes out all of Gambit with a dropped pistol to break up the CT A stack which Navi was walking right into.
Full demo review releasing tomorrow morning.
it's time to acknowledge that the zywoo air quality theory has undeniable correlation. the worst air quality cities led to zywoo's 2 lowest LAN ratings this year.
katowice, a coal-mining town with consistently poor AQI and a washington DC under siege by quebec forest fires
CS and competition is a performance-driven industry. Every analyst’s work is can be considered subjective, but I have zero problem making a statement a player takes offense with - especially if I have results/stats/done the homework to back it up.
This isn’t an apology.
ZywOo series rating vs Air Quality Index throughout
#IEM
Katowice:
Feb 4: 1.49 | 48 AQI (Good)
Feb 6: 1.43 | 80 AQI (Moderate)
Feb 7: 1.04 | 151 AQI (Unhealthy)
Feb 10: 1.16 | 131 AQI (Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups)
Need I further explain myself???
It really is a slap in the face to Bubzkji for Astralis to run Lucky 3 consecutive tournaments when Bubz is clearly the better overall rifler.
Btw, Lucky has a total of ZERO AWP KILLS in the past 3 events.
the worst part of working in this space is that i need to have an opinion on everything shroud says and then his horde of parasocials (many of which also work in this industry) will perform the same tired routine of mental gymnastics to defend him
unbelievable run by navi here. aleksib finally getting his flowers and jL showing that Paris was no fluke for him as a player, well deserving of MVP.
absurd run. b1ade should never be doubted with any assembly of players. knocking on the door of goat coach
dev1ce, dupreeh, gla1ve, and xyp9x will walk away from CS:GO with the most major victories OR be tied for the most in history.
Magisk has a chance to catch up to that pack, but that would lead dupreeh to be the sole 5x Major winner.
per the navi rumors
s1mple🟰s1mple
b1t📉b1t (speaking english)
electronic📉aleksib
npl+perfecto📈jL+iM
swapping 3 players means they will have 0 chemistry on day one, but if b1ade believes in this, i'd like to see it for at least 3 months