Currently someone can break out during EWC from the open bracket, make it to let's say quarters and get top 10-12, but then have 0 tier 1 lan invites as a result of that because of how God awful the invite schedule is. 0 Lans use September. IEM Beijing is using august with 90! Days from VRS date to tournament, then just a week later Blast rivals is using October VRS date with 35 days difference.

In addition Bucharest that starts on Oct 24th is using JULY! The teams that have been invited are at the top as of July, but might be absolutely awful by October (likely for BetBoom and Mongolz )yet instead of seeing more relevant teams as result of good performance at EWC and bounty the "top" teams get a free invite to a crucial tournament right before the major cut off.

The hypothetical breakout team can peak during September and then due to lack of invites effectively fall out of Major invite range (or fall down stages) due to not even getting a chance to play in biggest tournaments.

The VRS was supposed to allow greater movement and fluidity in the scene, but by making July and August VRS dates the only one relevant for the whole season until the major it just locks in the teams that did well in prior major and gives them huge invite advantage to lock in the next one without ever giving opportunities to challenges.

Couldn't believe it hit

Hi there,

I can throw the half wall inferno HE nade from second orange pretty consistently but I saw FlameZ doing it with a harder lineup from CT itself.

Does someone has the lineup for it ? I can't find it.

really curious to see how this team plays out but cant find any upcoming matches on hltv, any info on when i can expect to see them play?

Just seeking some clarification. It was previously announced that liquid would have to field Ultimate for Blast Bounty due to the rules regarding their wildcard invite. However with jT’s signing and announcement HLTV says they’ll be fielding their starting roster including jT and Jorko. What changed to let them use the new roster and not need Ultimate to standin?

2 weeks ago, I had reported this minor issue with an additional suggestion on the topic of HP bar color before the explosion. Valve seems to have implemented that suggestion, but there's still an issue with it:

I was green in this game. The remaining HP is shown in mint green for me which is fine, but when spectating purple and blue it's also green instead of their own respective colors.

It's obviously a minor UI issue but just wanted to make a quick post on it.

Can someone explain how Poii have a much higher rating than Stavn and rain with that stats? Sure he has a high KAST but even watching the game Stavn looks to be more impactful in the server.

He has the lowest kill in the server but somehow have a good rating....

Not because of nostalgia, but because you think it genuinely improved the game.

Could be a UI element, a gameplay feature, matchmaking, or anything else.

What would you bring back and why?

i love playing cs with my friends, but they like spamming message copys in chat and i hate seeing them. is there a way to either mute friends, or completely turn off the chat, so i can keep playing and not have to see them taunt.

as expected, people on this reddit was saying other day that won’t happen oh it’s niko historic good map bla bla bla, it’s a puggy map etc etc… but u forgot one thing that’s is, cache is a new map even for zywoo he has 2 official vs top20 let alone falcons stars and the biggest arg is that they won’t throw away inferno with all those experience on that map.

one things give away the fact that they won’t play this map it’s kyousuke and monesy match history they are not playing cache, teses did once just for fun. vita can’t ban cache cuz spirit and falcons are 10x better than them on ancient same for spirit they can’t ban cache cuz inferno is still here. despite falcons having a strong awp-rifle combo they permaban overpass too which is absurd so ofc they won’t play cache.

Hey everyone,

I've been watching some YouTube channels that upload FACEIT POV demos of pro players, and I've noticed a couple of things that are driving me crazy because I can't figure out how they do it.

Here is what I noticed:

• Voice Chat & Muted Players: They somehow show exactly who is talking in the voice chat overlay. Even crazier, they are able to hear players who have been globally muted by the game for receiving too many reports (I know this auto-mute feature is relatively recent, but how do they capture their voices in demos?).
• No Spectator UI: One of these channels doesn't even look like it's using the standard spectator mode. The player's name isn't displayed in the bottom center of the screen, making it look exactly like a live, local screen record rather than a downloaded demo.

So, I have a few questions for anyone familiar with CS2 demo viewing/recording:

• How do they get the voice chat UI to show who is speaking?
• How are they able to listen to globally muted players?
• How do they record the demo so it looks like a true local POV without the typical GOTV/spectator HUD elements?

The only hypothesis I could come up with is that they are injecting custom DLLs into CS2 to tweak the demo viewer, but that seems highly unlikely and a bit risky. Am I totally off base here?

If anyone knows how this is done or what tools they are using, I'd really appreciate the help. Thanks!

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Searching only gave contradicting answers. To clarify, I'm not referring to the nade hitting someone's body before the explosion, but the explosion itself. Some people say it used to make a noise but Valve removed it. Some say that its conditional based on the presence AND absence of kevlar. Personally I can't tell a difference between nades that hit and nades that don't

Three guys on my team are seeing some of our teammates and all of the enemies glowing. Started like five rounds into the game and ha sent stopped. We can’t see them through walls or objects but it makes it super easy to see body parts on the edges of smokes. Anybody else getting this?

INFINITE 🇪🇺 1-2 🇷🇺 Nemesis

Mirage: 6-13
Ancient: 13-10
Inferno: 8-13

Nemesis advances to the Winners' Match.

INFINITE drops to the Elimination Match.

Setting: 🇪🇺 Europe (Online)

Predicted VRS Impact

^{Note: VRS officially updates once per month. This is simply a prediction that might not take into account all factors that go into VRS calculations.}

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Map 1: Mirage

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Map 2: Ancient

Ancient detailed stats

Map 3: Inferno

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I've been playing CS for over a decade. I still remember finishing college and watching Fnatic with JW and Krimz in their prime and James Bardolph/DDK on the desk calling it.

Just put the BLAST Bounty S2 stream on tonight and there they were. Same two voices, all these years later.

Some things don't change, and I'm glad this is one of them. How refreshing!