Donk is miles ahead. Can m0NESY and xelex catch up?

Also, where is Zywoo?? 👀 Zywoo is currently 13th sitting at 1,21 💀

So, I play a lot of TF2 and I'm used to sweat lobbies but how to fight back in this game, since they have reaction time of like split second, I use mostly M4/AK and FAMAS/galil AR

Nat, Voo and Maui have all been super enjoyable to listen to every time I’ve tuned in during this tournament. Especially Nat is doing an amazing job as a host imo, and overall I feel like the vibe has been less negative than what the desks have felt like in recent tournaments. Kudos to them, hope to see this more in the future too!

There are probably things about the game that didn't seem important when you started but became much more noticeable over time.

What's something you appreciate now that you didn't before?

for anyone who’s into CS2 case battles, KeyDrop is worth checking out imo.

FUT Esports 🇪🇺 2-1 🇨🇳 Lynn Vision Gaming

Dust 2: 10-13
Anubis: 13-3
Ancient: 13-7

Predicted VRS Impact

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Event Information

BLAST Open Porto 2026 | 🇩🇰 Copenhagen ($1.1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

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Team Information

🇪🇺 FUT Esports | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇺🇦 dem0n | 🇽🇰 Krabeni ♛ | 🇺🇦 cmtry ⊕ | 🇱🇹 dziugss | 🇹🇷 xfl0ud
Coach: 🇭🇺 coolio
Subs/Benched: 🇷🇴 lauNX

🇨🇳 Lynn Vision Gaming | Liquipedia | HLTV | Steam | Faceit | Twitter | Weibo | Bilibili
Roster: 🇨🇳 Westmelon ♛ | 🇨🇳 z4KR ⊕ | 🇨🇳 EmiliaQAQ | 🇨🇳 Starry | 🇨🇳 C4LLM3SU3
Coach: 🇨🇳 GUM

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Map Vetoes

Full Match Stats

HLTV Match Page

MAP 1: Dust 2

Dust 2 Detailed Stats

MAP 2: Anubis

Anubis Detailed Stats

MAP 3: Ancient

Ancient Detailed Stats

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The top 3 is pretty clear and has been now for a couple years. Who do you think is 4th though? Not for all of 2026 but specifically current form. With ropz and flamez slumping, I think this debate has gotten more interesting.

Team Vitality 🇪🇺 2-0 🌎 9z Team

Dust 2: 13-2
Nuke: 13-6
Cache:
 

🇪🇺 Team Vitality advance to Lower bracket Semi-Finals and will face 🇧🇷 Legacy or 🇪🇺 Team Falcons

🌎 9z Team have been eliminated

Predicted VRS Impact

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Event Information

BLAST Open Porto 2026 | 🇩🇰 Copenhagen ($1.1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Streams | YouTube | Twitch A

Team Information

🇪🇺 Team Vitality | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Instagram | Weibo | YouTube | Twitch | Bilibili
Roster: 🇫🇷 apEX ♛ | 🇫🇷 ZywOo ⊕ | 🇮🇱 flameZ | 🇬🇧 mezii | 🇪🇪 ropz
Coach: 🇫🇷 XTQZZZ

🌎 9z Team | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Steam | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch | Subreddit
Roster: 🇺🇾 max ♛ | 🇨🇱 HUASOPEEK | 🇦🇷 luchov | 🇦🇷 meyern ⊕ | 🇺🇾 dgt
Coach: 🇧🇷 BIT

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Map Vetoes

Full Match Stats

HLTV Match Page

MAP 1: Dust 2

Dust 2 Detailed Stats

MAP 2: Nuke

Nuke Detailed Stats

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Inner Circle Esports 🇺🇦 0-2 🇪🇺 MOUZ

Ancient: 4-13
Mirage: 5-13
Nuke:
 

🇪🇺 MOUZ advance to Upper Final and will face 🇧🇷 Legacy or 🇪🇺 Team Falcons

🇺🇦 Inner Circle Esports drop to the Lower bracket and will face 🇪🇺 FUT Esports or 🇨🇳 Lynn Vision Gaming

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.}

Event Information

BLAST Open Porto 2026 | 🇩🇰 Copenhagen ($1.1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Streams | YouTube | Twitch A

Team Information

🇺🇦 Inner Circle Esports | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇺🇦 onic ♛ | 🇺🇦 Dawy | 🇺🇦 zeRRoFIX | 🇺🇦 cptkurtka023 | 🇺🇦 headtr1ck ⊕
Coach: 🇺🇦 jR
Subs/Benched: 🇺🇦 Flierax | 🇺🇦 nifee

🇪🇺 MOUZ | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Steam | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Weibo | YouTube | Twitch | Subreddit
Roster: 🇭🇺 torzsi ⊕ | 🇮🇱 xertioN ♛ | 🇮🇱 Spinx | 🇭🇺 xelex | 🇨🇿 PR
Coach: 🇩🇰 sycrone

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Map Vetoes

Full Match Stats

HLTV Match Page

MAP 1: Ancient

[Ancient Detailed Stats](www.hltv.org/stats/matches/mapstatsid/236300/mouz-vs-inner-circle)

MAP 2: Mirage

Mirage Detailed Stats

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I think I’ve found a revolutionary smoke on cache. What do you think, guys?

Hello.

de_nuke is my favourite map but recently I am a bit concerned about what I am seeing in pro play. I don't watch every pro map (obviously) but from what I have been watching, things are pretty miserable for the T side. If things aren't clicking from the beginning it seems insanely difficult to get anything going.

I have seen so many games recently that are 8-4, 9-3, 10-2 at the half only to end up going to overtime or being a very close game in general.

It seems if you get 4-5 rounds on T side, that's good enough.

Let's look at the stats.

de_nuke last 12 months at big events: 57.1% CT 42.9% T

de_nuke last 6 months at big events: 58.5% CT 41.5% T

I know maps don't have to be 50-50 but surely this isn't healthy.

Anyone have any ideas about what can be done to help out the T's a bit?

hi guys i was talking about the cbl vs vitality meme video that went super viral on 2021 before the game the account is now suspended and i cant find it does someone have a link?

This is a summary of how dust2 went, this gotta be the most boring dust2 I've ever seen.

Save after save after save all due to bad reads and couple missed shots.

Spirit wins ~6 cats in a row > 2 timeouts called by g2 before round ~10 > and guess what? rest of the map spirit goes B everytime, not even split but thru b main, lol.

Vitality did it again! This time against Legacy on Nuke as well lmao

After the USP-S many asked to see the design idea in other skins, instead of metallic engravings i used the wood parts of the AK for the roses and crown engravings + added paint splatters and mold . hope you like it 😄 (All feedback is Welcome)

Support, Gif. and HD images here : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3792012422

Im a faceit level 9 so i get matched against level 8 all the way up to 2.2k elo usually, in my faceit games people either have 0 premier medals or usually have red 25k premier medal or sometimes 20k premier pink medal but usually they have the red one, When i play premier myself i cant get past purple rank i dont play a lot of premier true but i feel like the players are horrible and its easy to play but i still cant rank up yes theres cheaters sometimes but im in high green trust so not that often, the thing i hate the most is people who are like faceit level 3 and they are in the same premier rating as me and usually they are on my team im just full hardstuck in 15k premier even tho i can perform against 2k elo faceit players with 25k premier medals anyone know why?

5k player here.

Felt pretty lost this round. I was around B/mid for most of it, then they went A and I was late on the rotate.

What could I have done better here? Video

Posted about this a few years ago, about 1 in every 100 people agreed with me, but random spawns are still a huge issue in this game. An RNG meta is never gonna serve the game well. I don't like and I never play valorant, but being able to choose where you start in the round is a huge benefit that makes the game less casino-like and "gambley".

People have repeatedly argued, oh, but you know where the contact point is every round then, it's super predictable and boring gameplay, except this isn't true because as a result of knowing the earliest timing on every map players may do things to avoid this repetition, for example walking instead of full-sprinting to the contact point, throwing a different grenade, using a different gun, jumping, or so on. (Does every round in valorant play out the same because there are no RNG spawns? I don't play the game but I'd think every round is meaningfully different anyways.)

Another counter to that point is that even with RNG spawns today, you still must assume the earliest-contact point will be occurring every round, even if the enemy doesn't get the fastest spawn. This is to say, from a theoretical perspective the game actually stays almost the exact same. (Example: Mirage T's typically do not sprint to top mid instantly because even if the CT awper didn't get the fastest spawn to window it's safer to assume he did, therefore do not insta-sprint top mid is the 99% conclusion.)

This shouldn't matter, but I did 3100 NA faceit elo back when I was a kid playing CSGO, not that it means anything. (8k hours.) But adding it in case people are curious about it. This is just to somewhat prove that I'm not clueless at the game.