Counter-Strike is at its best when teams compete on a level playing field and when ability is the only limit to their success.
Over the past few years, we’ve seen professional Counter-Strike drift away from that ideal. The ecosystem has become gradually less open, with access to the highest levels of competition increasingly gated by business relationships.
We think that Counter-Strike should be an open sport. So we’re going to add new requirements to running large-scale competitive events. The finer details are still in progress, but here are the broad strokes:
Tournament organizers will no longer have unique business relationships or other conflicts of interest with teams that participate in their events.
Invitations to all tournaments will use our ranking system (detailed here), or otherwise be determined by open qualifiers.
Any compensation for participating teams—prize pool or otherwise—will be made public and will be driven by objective criteria that can be inspected by the community.
Since tournament organizers have existing long term commitments, these requirements will take effect as of 2025. There will be some rough edges to the transition, but we’re committed to the long-term health of Counter-Strike as a sport and are looking forward to its bright and open future.
A huge W for Valve. Bringing more meritocracy is a great deal for CS. All franchise leagues are terrible for the scene, potentially crippling the viewership. Teams such as EG (Love the team hate the management) must think twice before bagging their season and not accomplishing anything really...
You ever asked yourself what the Counter-Strike players would be doing if they weren't playing Counter-Strike?Hopefully G2 NiKo and m0NESY would not be cutti...
To our new players, if you encounter bugs of any kind please send us an email. Include a description, images, and video if possible so we can solve bugs quicker....
cs_office has had a minor overhaul for CS2 over CS:GO. But its roots stretch all the way back to CS:S in 2004, which makes comparing it with older versions a...
As you have probably noticed, r/GlobalOffensive is still private in protest, due to Reddit's recent API changes, which you can read more about in the link:...
What are the badges in each magazine? And how to use them? I cant find any documentation on that front. While I'm at it asking questions, how do tags work?
As you may have already seen most of Reddit has gone dark including r/GlobalOffensive. We, the mod team of r/GlobalOffensive have created this alternative Counter-Strike community here for people who want to continue discussing Counter-Strike, bypassing Reddit's shenanigans....
Thanks for the tip there. As we are quite new to the fediverse in general, we are probably going to do alot of reading beforehand, untill all instances are able to view ^^
As you may have already seen most of Reddit has gone dark including r/GlobalOffensive.
We, (the mod team of r/GlobalOffensive) have created this alternative Counter-Strike community here for people who want to continue discussing Counter-Strike, bypassing Reddit’s shenanigans.
We can continue to operate here, and share more on our actions and developments with Reddit in the comming days.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - Release Notes for 8/3/2023 - Steam News (store.steampowered.com)
[ MAPS ]...
A Level Playing Field (www.counter-strike.net)
New tournament rules & requirements
CS2 Release Notes for 8/2/2023 (www.counter-strike.net)
[ GAMEPLAY ]...
NiKo and m0NESY take over a Cologne barbershop (www.youtube.com)
You ever asked yourself what the Counter-Strike players would be doing if they weren't playing Counter-Strike?Hopefully G2 NiKo and m0NESY would not be cutti...
❤️ NEW ROSTER 💛 BETBOOM TEAM 🖤 IN CS:GO! 🤍 ✔️ Nafany ✔️ Kair0n ✔️ S1ren ✔️ Zorte ✔️ Danistz We're really happy to finally announce the appearance of our CS:GO team 🎧 Spam likes and turn on the standby mode of the show from these boys 🔥 (twitter.com)
Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2023 / Information & Discussion (pro.eslgaming.com)
Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2023...
More [CS2] Limited Test invites are going out (twitter.com)
To our new players, if you encounter bugs of any kind please send us an email. Include a description, images, and video if possible so we can solve bugs quicker....
[Counter-Strike] BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023
Organizer: BLAST...
CS2's New Office Analysed (www.youtube.com)
cs_office has had a minor overhaul for CS2 over CS:GO. But its roots stretch all the way back to CS:S in 2004, which makes comparing it with older versions a...
BLAST Premier Fall Groups Talent Announcement (blast.tv)
Fall Groups lineup:...
Groups announced for BLAST Premier Fall (www.hltv.org)
The fall season's first international LAN will see the debut of several exciting new lineups.
Complexity welcomes Elige! (twitter.com)
Stickers from the BLASTtv Paris Major are now on sale for 75% off in-game! (twitter.com)
flameZ replaces dupreeh in Vitality (www.hltv.org)
Vitality seek to "build a new generation of champions" with a move for a younger talent.
OC r/GlobalOffensive's stance on the current situation (twitter.com)
As you have probably noticed, r/GlobalOffensive is still private in protest, due to Reddit's recent API changes, which you can read more about in the link:...
HLTVs weekly CS:GO ranking [June 12th] (www.hltv.org)
CS:GO World ranking on June 12th, 2023...
"in terms of pure skills, [kennyS] was above everyone" - Reflections with apEX (youtu.be)
Mini documentary: Counter Strike, weight loss and staying active. (blast.tv)
From Jacob "Pimp" Winneche - Analyst, Ex-Pro Origianl Post...
The official r/GlobalOffensive at Kbin (www.reddit.com)
As you may have already seen most of Reddit has gone dark including r/GlobalOffensive. We, the mod team of r/GlobalOffensive have created this alternative Counter-Strike community here for people who want to continue discussing Counter-Strike, bypassing Reddit's shenanigans....