How CSGO Pros Played 10 Years Ago Is Shocking

What a trip. Fnatic with Pronax and NIP with Fifflaren what an old game.

why would you minimize the gameplay footage to show your ad i dont care about at all

THAT SPONSOR METHOD WAS REALLY SCUMMY

What used to define your skill rating was just how good you are at shooting, but nowadays it's much more based on how well you can innovate and adapt to tactics on the field. Used to be Nova is where you'd start seeing utility setups be used, nowadays you won't get close without knowing a solid lineup of smoke/flash/molotov spots. At least in premade teams, what I see determine rounds is getting out of the old ways of playing and pushing all the advantage you can squeeze out of each round. Like the full save vs. "spend down on pistols and utility to what we'll need for next round" difference you highlighted. That puts otherwise immobilized cash into your team's economy and even if you don't win an additional round from it, at the very least take a bigger chunk out of the other team's finances.

There's a lot of problems and flaws with WarOwl's reasoning.

He says that smurfs "help" their victims get better by giving them an insurmountable challenge, but then complains that there's people who lose on purpose to try to rank down. In that case, why don't the people on that team use the saboteur as a "challenge"?

He already establishes at the very beginning that smurfs are just "having fun" by having an easy game, but then at the end of the video he criticizes people for not wanting to get smashed by people of much higher skill level. Matchmaking is supposed to give people a challenging game every time. That's why people enjoy it. They expect a challenging game, not a one-sided game. Smurfs, on the other hand, are the people who are really looking for an easy game.

Finally, he also thinks players don't improve unless you're getting owned by a player much better than you are. That's just flat out wrong. You improve best when you're facing a player of similar skill level. They can be a little better or worse, as long as you lose some (so you can learn from your mistakes) and you win some (so you know what you're doing right). Playing against players leagues above you isn't going to help you at all.

“Flush’s was the mvp of the tournament”

Yeah you’d expect that from cheaters

Oh wow, watching this i despise the CS2 graphics even more... 😢

"flusha had a great teqnique picking it up alot" :D

i wish valve would bring back OG csGO as a seperate game now that we have CS2

you reported me on cevo once... let me get a packet of ctrl fo free lmao

back in the day people would throw away a famas or a ump to upgreade to a m4 in early rounds. insane.

that's crazy

就目前看来CS2没有进步。甚至让CS系列倒退。As now,CS2 had no progress. Even get worse. Hope valve can fix the bugs and make it better😊

kennyS made awp so OP that Valve need to nerf it

Which is funny because I'm completely new and getting trashed on for not knowing every lineup while still killing people that do, so how perfect is the meta? I'm not saying I'm good, but I am saying I'm not locked in a mindset that limits me

Now lets take a look back at warowls closure 10 years ago

Same goes for dota 2 when i was old ti1 or ti2 games i think i can play better than the pros after all the countless hours we’ve spent into the game

molotovs were forbidden in cs tournaments in that time, it was an contract made between the teams

kinda cool to see how much change

I was there 3000 years ago..

The very first CS tournament locally was FFA on random cs(hostage)_maps. Same person would win every tournament. This went on for a few years. Once people started to use the "walk" button he no longer was winning. Imagine, being pro in a game just by listening to footsteps. This was back when CS was on a CD, and being sold on the shelves of CompUSA. Look how far competitive CS has come.

soylent green sponsor?

iM played very well for an unknown player. Very impressed and hope he does well for navi.

I totally forgot about flusha

Threw in that flusha quote and thought I wouldn't notice

No molotovs were used because they had a gentlemens agreement of not using them

That crouch speed is scary

Oh man, Get Right, forest, fifflaren, friberg, flusha, jw...the memories

2013 csgo is literally a different Game

Great video

Great video! Gradual changes over time often stay unnoticed, but the game play changed actually a lot.

I kind of miss the "window hole" and the first room in apts lol

the oid maps still looks better to me.

those were simpler times, now we have s1mpler times

“He had this great mouse technique where he would pick it up a lot” lmao if you know you know.

I wholeheartedly disagree a random face it team from today would go back and beat the pros. I can understand the thought process, but don't think it would happen.

back then the game was more fun

So, closure or closer ?

They still stream, Get_RiGhT and Friberg :)

“CS isn’t hard to get into as a new player bro”

Integrating the content of the video in the ad, forcing the viewers to watch it if they wanna see the full content of the video, is kind of understandable, but also a very dick move. Like seriously? I ain't watching that shit. You can keep your match analysis to yourself.

I remember Mollies being dog shit back in the day. They didn't spread correctly iirc

Molotovs was banned bro😂

i wouldn't say that different meta = more skill. it's just an adjustment. i bet these new teams would get thrown a curve ball if they played against 2014 NIP.
shroud has really smooth snappy gunplay and he's nowhere near good enough to be a pro player.
nothing you mentioned really proves that current pro play > 2014 pro play.