CS: GO - Leagues, Tournaments and Betting Tips
Yuriy SheremetExperience firefights, live bombs and hostage-taking: ticket sales for ESL One in Cologne in July 2021 are already underway. The world's largest Counter-Strike tournament promises exciting duels when the best teams in the world fight for the trophy and prize money totaling one million dollars. A total of 16 five-a-side teams compete with their fingers on the trigger to find their places in the final among themselves. About 15,000 spectators fit into Lanxess Arena, and even more fans are expected to follow the spectacle live and visit best CSGO gambling websites to bet on their favorite team.
The first person shooter game CS: GO has developed into a worldwide phenomenon in recent years. At the beginning of February 2020, more than 901,000 gamers simultaneously played the more than seven-year-old game, which now dominates the eSports scene. CS: GO bets can be found at www.wettieter.org, although gamers should be careful not to bet while participating in the tournament. To their chagrin, seven esports athletes in Australia discovered that this could be interpreted as manipulation, even though they had only bet on their own victory.
The game is relatively easy to learn. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, as the long title is, revolves around various trouble spots that are scattered across the continents. In the central game mode, two teams of five compete against each other. One team plays as a terrorist cell, the other is the special unit that is supposed to stop the bad guys. The terrorists must plant a bomb in one of two possible locations and defend it until it detonates. The special forces must find the bomb and terrorists and eliminate the enemy before they can detonate the explosive device. If the bomb is already armed, it must also be defused. Another popular variant of the game called Hostage replaces the bomb with two hostages in the hands of the terrorists. The special forces must bring at least one of the two kidnapped people to safety or, alternatively, eliminate all hostage takers in order to win the game.
If you lose your life in CS: GO, you have to wait until the next round to be able to play again.
Live streams from gamers, who not only demonstrate their shooting skills, but also publish tutorials, have won tons of fans on YouTube and the Twitch gaming platform. One of the stars of the scene is TheWarOwl, who has been a gamer since 2010 and regularly offers his more than 1.1 million subscribers on YouTube alone new tutorials and insights into CS: GO.
Gamers who want to use the first person shooter more than just occasionally can get active in league sports. In Germany, CS: GO, like other games such as Dota 2, Overwatch and League of Legends, falls under the umbrella of the Electronic Sports League (ESL), which also organizes the championship in Cologne. Counter-Strike is primarily played in the ELEAGUE. The teams fight in group games for a place in the play-offs and finally for a place in the final. For the best players there is the ESL Pro Leagues, which offers professional competitions. First steps on the way to the big tournaments can be made in smaller competitions on ESL Play or the DeSBL. After all, no gamer wants to virtually lose his head in the first few seconds of the game. Your own experience with the game will also help you decide which bets are worthwhile and which tournaments or teams you should exercise caution in.
The reigning champion of the championships organized by the game manufacturer Valve since 2013 is the Danish team Astralis. The Scandinavians have already won four titles. But the German team BIG is also impressive. Currently, under the player names tabseN, tiziaN, syrsoN, XANTARES and k1to Gamer are ranked fourth worldwide. In total, they have already been in the top 30 for 93 weeks. In the meantime, they had made it to the top spot for eight weeks.
In mid-November 2020, the French team Vitality was at the top of the world ranking with 932 points. In second place followed the Danish gamers from Heroic with 921 points, followed by their compatriots from Astralis with 806 points. BIG only scored 647 points, but as in any game, the order of the game can change quickly.
Although CS: GO has rapidly gained new players, especially in China, at least the most successful teams still come from Europe.
CS: GO can be played on almost any platform, from classic consoles to mobile phones and tablets. Regular tournaments are not only held in the smaller and larger leagues around the world. The next master's tournament is the DreamHack Masters Winter 2020: Europe, with prize money of 150,000 US dollars as well as 400 points for the winner, 265 for the second-placed team and 160 points for third place.
The regular season finale for Blast Premier: Fall takes place in December. Among other things, the gamers from BIG, Astralis and Vitality compete to collect part of the total pot of 425,000 US dollars. Vitality have already qualified for the global final in January. BIG and Astralis hope to hit each other successfully in December.
It is not yet clear where the $ 1 million CS: GO Major Championship will take place in May. But until the big event in Cologne there are various big tournaments on the virtual program so that the fans don't get bored. Who knows, maybe one or the other gamer will even learn a few new tricks while watching, which will help him to the decisive kill even while playing. In any case, the record of just over 900,000 simultaneous players is waiting to be broken.
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