CS:GO Discussion

The__Malteser · 5 Jul 2015 at 18:30

https://twitter.com/x/status/617733012718002176

Today marks the 9-year anniversary of NA's last major CS championship, 3,287 days ago, July 5-8, 2006. Cloud9 looks to make history for USA.

Qitarah · 5 Jul 2015 at 18:47

Nice match going on lads, fanatic vs cloud 9. Cloud 9'are up a map,matter some controversy. Fanatic called for a time out, the bot used in game broke an admin wasn't ready to pause, fantic were on major tilt. Lost 2-3 rounds before the pause happened.

silversurfer · 5 Jul 2015 at 18:56

glad c9 giving trouble, quite poetic if they won. I dont comprehend how c9 would be better then fnatic on cache but its a map u get a fair shot either side i guess

all four others on the team played well and communicated properly as well.

Should add people if they decent, block and unblock if you only want to invite them sometimes, no biggy?

RyanF · 5 Jul 2015 at 19:35

Interesting that so far both teams have won the others picks, I think fnatic will edge the finals though - purely because they've got more experience at this sort of thing. Great to see C9 giving it a proper good go though

Ayahuasca · 5 Jul 2015 at 20:45

C9 dun goofed that game.

The__Malteser · 5 Jul 2015 at 21:57

Lack of top level experience probably lost the game for C9. The choked on both Overpass and Dust 2. Fnatic showing they are still top 1 in the world, by quite a distance.

ED209 · 5 Jul 2015 at 21:59

had a productive night, played 2 matches and won both!

first 1 everyone got kicked except 1 player who then couldn't surrender as the whole team was bots lol

Ayahuasca · 5 Jul 2015 at 22:01

CHOKE9

silversurfer · 5 Jul 2015 at 22:15

They were full derp at the end, polish required, skadoodle looked mad at the end but amazing how often through the game they were beating Fnatic on challenges. Fnatic themselves seemed careless just walking 3 to plant together on A site for some reason

"should and could have won the tournament" tragic their grip slipped 15-9 to 15-19 & 13-7 to 14-16

Lack of top level experience probably lost the game for C9

Yea I think so and they did much better then expected anyhow

Fnatic have already won +$390,000 in only six months.

https://twitter.com/x/status/617802851511861248

Spenj · 5 Jul 2015 at 23:15

Really want a knife! Cant bring myself to spend money on a virtual skin other than a few quid here and there. Ia betting rather easy to pickup and play?

Cookeh · 5 Jul 2015 at 23:54

Yes, but will take you ages to get to a knife unless you put a fair bit in to being with (or unless you have massive balls and high bet 50/50 games/underdogs all the time).

Adam · 6 Jul 2015 at 11:08

Spenj said:
Really want a knife! Cant bring myself to spend money on a virtual skin other than a few quid here and there. Ia betting rather easy to pickup and play?

That's like saying "I really want a new car, is betting on football or horse racing easy to pick up?". It's still gambling, whether it's pixels or cash. It's not as easy as people make out.

ED209 · 6 Jul 2015 at 11:38

im still rocking the standard knife! cant go wrong with it lol

TommyV · 6 Jul 2015 at 11:47

The fnatic/C9 game was great last night, towards the end with freakazoid sat in goose, fnatic just lined up for him!

A shame it went so pear-shaped for them at the end, was really hoping for the 5th map.

Wilko_Dog · 6 Jul 2015 at 12:55

Wanted to have a competitive match with my mate last night and now you have to rank up before you can play ? When did that come into play, and what a stupid rule !!

Liquiduk · 6 Jul 2015 at 13:01

Wilko_Dog said:
Wanted to have a competitive match with my mate last night and now you have to rank up before you can play ? When did that come into play, and what a stupid rule !!

I believe you are referring to the slightly polished MM system which requires you to play 10 games alone (2 per day) before you can queue with friends and the addition of the new ranks meaning you will have to play a requirement of casual matches to get to level 3 I think it is?

Regardless it tackles the issue of smurfing which to me in a competitive shooting game is less of a problem than ensuring you have an impeccable anti-cheat and smooth running servers but hey-ho!

Shimmy · 6 Jul 2015 at 13:16

It's also to dissuade cheaters who just kept buying new accounts every time they got VACed. As now they have to put in a few hours.

RyanF · 6 Jul 2015 at 13:26

Liquiduk said:
I believe you are referring to the slightly polished MM system which requires you to play 10 games alone (2 per day) before you can queue with friends and the addition of the new ranks meaning you will have to play a requirement of casual matches to get to level 3 I think it is?

You don't have to play them alone at all, I queued with 2 guys a few days ago on my unranked account and it went fine. The 20 odd hour cooldown after 2 wins is a pain in the ass though.

ED209 · 6 Jul 2015 at 14:04

Wilko_Dog said:
Wanted to have a competitive match with my mate last night and now you have to rank up before you can play ? When did that come into play, and what a stupid rule !!

are you referring to the profile rank of 3? you have to get to rank 3 by doing missions and playing casual games etc before they will allow you to play matches now

dan958 · 6 Jul 2015 at 15:44

Wilko_Dog said:
Wanted to have a competitive match with my mate last night and now you have to rank up before you can play ? When did that come into play, and what a stupid rule !!

I wouldn't call it a stupid rule - it definitely slows down the smurfs and cheaters.