Counter-Strike 2

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Ninjas in Pyjamas has entered a four-year partnership with ADIO Holdings Restricted Limited (ADIO Group) that will net $40 million to the organization, according to a report by James Fudge of The Esports Advocate (TEA).

The acronym ADIO stands for Abu Dhabi Investment Office, which "helps investors and companies of all sizes establish their businesses, grow, and develop in Abu Dhabi."

-.- wonder what team will be next

Day Six Results

Day Six Highlights

XANTARES 4k

https://www.twitch.tv/blastpremier/clip/HonorableHelplessMonitorRaccAttack-T3vm_hJnov6QedS_

Skullz 1 tap

https://www.twitch.tv/blastpremier/clip/CredulousGracefulVanillaMoreCowbell-r0eAIRtBxOF9hAk9

Day Five Results

Day Six Matches Times are EST (UTC-5)

Day Five Highlights

SunPayus wallbang

https://www.twitch.tv/blastpremier/clip/KawaiiEmpathicBananaHoneyBadger-SxQs-msiy3XrM01D

Donk dual beretta 4k

https://www.twitch.tv/blastpremier/clip/DepressedFamousSparrowBIRB-D4egmhZwYJtD_ntz

Liquid v Heroic

Complexity v Eternal Fire

3DMax v FlyQuest

Astralis v MIBR

paiN v Virtus pro

SAW v GamerLegion

Wildcard v BIG

Imperial fe v Furia

Day Three Results

Day Four Matches Times are EST (UTC-5)

Day Three Highlights

Imperial.fe fake out NAVI

https://clips.twitch.tv/NiceSillyHamsterGingerPower-smG-93Q9aMuoreLy

Ace clutch by kito

https://clips.twitch.tv/DifferentCorrectWallabyTebowing-o1h6R90zH_rxDZJK

Day Four Results

Day Five Matches Times are EST (UTC-5)

Day Four Highlights

Magnojez "1v4" defuse vs Mouz

https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxW7xc3nyjOaayxs00uOdg3uim5yy_Ff7O

G2 Bombsite take with 7 Sec Left....

https://www.twitch.tv/blastpremier/clip/SpikyDaintyEyeballRaccAttack-6jtSgc4heermBGMj

That rare inspect 🤌

Day Two Results

Day Three Matches Times are EST (UTC-5)

Day Three Highlights

dev1ce Dual Berettas

https://www.twitch.tv/blastpremier/clip/PlacidEvilCrowBibleThump---RTnwX0d5FJtui1

ropz earns his paycheck

https://clips.twitch.tv/UnsightlyGlutenFreeTrollUWot-BwvV5d_oim7AUZek

Day One Results

Day Two Matches Times are EST (UTC-5)

Day One Highlights

Nertz 3k spray

https://clips.twitch.tv/OpenDistinctRadishBibleThump-DVk-xEJ5Fg10vax5

Donk deagle 3k

https://clips.twitch.tv/PricklyAbstemiousPotatoTheTarFu-KJQD0mil7CEhVWZr

In the email sent to tournament organizers, Valve stated they would "have to explore penalties" if missing information regarding 2025 events was not "addressed immediately."

....

The tournaments with no announced location past the deadline include:

2025

IEM Spring - April 21-27

BLAST Rivals S1 - April 28-May 4

StarLadder StarSeries Season 19 - May 26-June 1 (it's expected that this event has been cancelled)

ESL Pro League Season 22 - September 27-October 12

Thunderpick World Championship Finals - October 15-19

BLAST Rivals S2 - November 10-16

2026

BLAST Bounty S1 - January 12-25

The following tournaments have had the country they will be played in announced, but nothing more specific (Valve's rules don't state how specific the location announcement has to be):

2025

Skyesports Souvenir - February 17-23

Skyesports Masters - May 26-June 1

Skyesports Championship - September 15-21

CS Asia Championships - October 1-13

Skyesports World Tour - November 10-16

...

The text of the email sent to tournament organizers is as follows:

"We have been getting a few common questions about tournament requirements. These are just reminders and clarifications of the requirements that are already in place and are part of your tournament license agreements.

"2027 Tier 1 events must be announced two years prior to the event start date. We are not issuing exceptions to this requirement (e.g., A Feb 1st 2027 main event needs to be announced by Feb 1st 2025).

"The Additional Information for your Tier 1 events must be fully announced one year prior to the event. Past that date, you need an exception to change any details of your event (e.g., Prize Pool amounts and allocation).

"The deadline for announcing 2025/6 events is past. This includes changing 2025/6 event dates.

"The deadline for announcing Additional Information for 2026 is now rolling. Any changes to 2025 Additional Information requires an exception.

"Some announced 2025 Tier 1 events are apparently missing some details (e.g., location). This needs to be addressed immediately or we will have to explore penalties.

"We're happy to provide some guidance with respect to compliant tournament formats, but please review the tournament operation requirements page again. We updated the page recently to make it a bit easier to follow and clarified some areas where there was some confusion."

Player of the Year

Danil "⁠donk⁠" Kryshkovets

Other nominees:

Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov - Second place Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut - Third place

Women's Player of the Year

Ana "⁠ANa⁠" Dumbravă

Other nominees:

Zainab "⁠zAAz⁠" Turkie - Second place Victoria "⁠tory⁠" Kazieva - Third place

Team of the Year

Natus Vincere

Other nominees:

G2 - Second place Spirit - Third place

Women's Team of the Year

Europe Imperial fe

Other nominees:

NAVI Javelins - Second place FURIA fe - Third place

Featuring more than 100 new items: three new weapon collections, a new Weapons Case, stickers, and introducing the all-new Weapon Charms.

In CSGO you could change the difficulty setting for the bots. Can you adjust the difficulty setting for bots in CS2?

Release Notes for 8/20/2024

[ MUSIC KITS ]

The Masterminds 2 Music Kit Box is now available for purchase in standard and StatTrak versions

[ AUDIO ]

Fixed a case where audio output was garbled due to running on efficiency CPU cores

[ HUD ]

Minor style adjustments

[ MISC ]

Reduced the amount of performance stutter at end-of-round time

Release Notes for 8/19/2024

[ INPUT ]

Certain types of movement/shooting input automation such as hardware-assisted counter strafing will now be detected on Valve official servers, resulting in a kick from the match Input binds that include more than one of the following commands will now be ignored by default. Support can be re-enabled using the cheat-protected convar cl_allow_multi_input_binds 1 sprint, reload, attack, attack2, turnleft, turnright, turnup, turndown, forward, back, left, right, moveup, movedown, klook, use, jump, duck, strafe, zoom, yaw, pitch, forwardback, rightleft The jump-throw confirmation grunt sound can now be heard by other players nearby

[ VacNet ]

Initial testing of VacNet 3.0 has begun on a limited set of matches. If you believe your match was incorrectly cancelled, email us the match details at [email protected]

RIP snap tap bozos

HLTV Match Page: https://www.hltv.org/matches/2374326/vitality-vs-natus-vincere-iem-cologne-2024

Maps

Best of 5 (LAN)

1. Natus Vincere removed Vertigo
2. Vitality removed Ancient
3. Natus Vincere picked Nuke
4. Vitality picked Dust2
5. Natus Vincere picked Mirage
6. Vitality picked Inferno
7. Anubis was left over

YouTube Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYinJordkO8

Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/eslcs

HLTV Live Stream: https://www.hltv.org/live?matchId=2374326

Results

Map 1

Map 2

Map 3

Map 4

Of the invited teams, Spirit, MOUZ, and Virtus.pro are going straight to the playoffs, and one of the unannounced invites will also go to a team joining the fray after the group stage.

The team list so far is:

• MOUZ
• Spirit
• Virtus.pro
• FURIA
• BetBoom
• Aurora
• Playoffs Invite
• Invite
• Invite
• Invite
• Europe Qualifier
• South America Qualifier

Two new community (competitive) maps released for CS2 today, and one has callouts in the map itself. Created by FMPONE and MF_Kitten, we have Thera.

I decided to make a callouts map because it's the only way we will play for sure... although the new ranking system also helps, we won't be thrown in way over our heads when we play.

Thera looks to be a smaller map, but there are a fair number of upper and lower parts. However, since I used the in game minimap to make this map, the lower parts are darkened and not obvious. If anyone knows how to get the base layout map (much higher res, used to be shown in loading screens), please let me know. The map underneath the writing is terrible and I added contrast and denoised it a bunch just to make it useable.

As for the callouts, I changed a few parts. Here's the list of everything different (or could be different) about the in-map callouts:

• "B Balcony" is just an unnamed balcony next to B site (which, btw, is slightly underground, under the "B platform")
• I added "B" to "B platform", since "A platform" exists.
• I added "B" to "B ramp". For the same reason above, I thought "Ramp" and "A ramp" would be poor choices.
• I debated, but ultimately didn't add "B" to "Stairs". There is also "T stairs", which is underwhelming in comparison.
• Same as above, I did not add "A" to "Arch", even though "Mid arch" also exists on the map.
• I added "Bottom mid", as well as "T mid" to "Upper mid". "Upper Mid" is through the "Mid arch", which does make it a little disconnected from where I'd put "Upper mid".
• I added "Long A" to "Long hall". That's just what I'd call it.
• There are two callouts, "Upper catwalks" and "Lower catwalks", that are right above/below each other, so the callouts are just together on the map.
• I think "CT bar" should just be "Bar", since there is only one.

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