This week's CS:GO blog is about the game play of Counter-Strike as well as the tournaments which are currently undergoing in the professional CS:GO E-Sports scene. To start off, I want to mention that for professional players, this game is [i]everything[/i]. E-Sports is their career and they spend countless hours practicing in order to keep their jobs. Professional teams have strict schedules in order to be able to perform at their best in each tournament throughout the year. The following video gives an insight to how hard E-Sports contenders work and how much it means to them to be the best.
The CS:GO E-Sports scene is huge. Tournaments like DreamHack, Copenhagen Games, WCG, and EMS one Katowice are just a few of the most prestigious E-Sports events that run annually. Countless teams are continuously trying to achieve a spot at one of these events, such events are so big in E-Sports that the players will have the best opportunity of their career to prove themselves. In fact, some teams which have made it to such events via wildcard, showed great results, and just that experience took their team from a semi-professional to a professional status.
The Copenhagen Games have just wrapped up a few weeks ago, and Ninjas in Pajamas, the runner-up from EMS one Katowice 2014, took the title by beating the EMS one Katowice champions, Virtus.Pro, in a thrilling 2-1 series. NiP took home 14K Euros. The following article outlines the highlights of the Grand Final.
All the E-Sports talk aside, I'm going to briefly talk through about the game play of Counter-Strike, and the main objective of the game:
The game, in the competitive mode, consists of 2 teams (Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists) of 5 players each, who go head to head on a map, for up to 30 rounds (rounds of approx. 2 minutes, first team to 16 rounds wins). The main objective (how to win a round) is to eliminate all enemies, or for the Terrorists to successfully plant and defend the bomb, or for the Counter-Terrorists to successfully defuse a planted bomb. The maps consist of 2 bomb sites across (the map) from each other, and the Terrorists must choose which bomb site to attack in order to safely plant the bomb. The game consists of many strategies, top competitive teams have countless strategies for a single map, and may just call whichever strategy suitable for the round.
In the next blog I will be talking more specifically about the top E-Sports organizations in CS:GO and share some of the history of the results of their teams in top CS tournaments, and how these organizations have helped E-Sports to stabilize over the years.
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