You have me questioning my bets now

, not sure weather I should hedge my bets with my skins and go cloud 9 or all in on NIP, may be worth missing that one on the skins, like you say im not totally convinced on NIP but C9 can only pull so many comebacks for the win. I haven't watched any tournament grade CS so form isn't something I can gauge well.
I did play 1.6 and source but this is a whole new dynamic, its going to take a while to get to grips with eco management as it is something I never paid any attention to and some of these maps ive never played before.
I took some attention to matches ive watched and what people have said in here about Smoke/fire being a very good suppression tool and have tried to incorporate it from the start and it seems to help. Its the twitch reaction I need work on but as you say im playing high gold ranked players so can only expect so much and as long as im in the right positions and reporting the oppositions the im contributing .
Clipped my mic on my headphone lead so I hope it sounded a little better, im going to order a new one today though.