the entire history of counter-strike explained

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"Absolutely not, 16-5" always sends me lol

A very fun note is that in brazil csgo would only surpass 1.6 in early 2014 since every one hated csgo and the pcs in that time couldn't run csgo well, at the time tournaments were only played in 1.6 and source and it was actually fallen that encouraged every one to switch to csgo giving free classes of the game to new players and organizing small tournaments, fallen saved counter strike in brazil if he didn't encouraged people to switch to csgo counter strike would die in brazil since 1.6 was dropping and would there be no pro players since the money of tournaments would stop as well, that is why Fallen is the Godfather of brazil counter strike.

random 4k subscriber channel absolutely CARRYING youtube content as always 🙏

Epic vid, but I feel you missed a couple of important moments in CSGO history, the M4A1S not being in the 1.0 version, Flusha being so ahead of the curve literally everyone was accusing him of cheating, Olofboost incident, first graffiti (Olof Overpass defuse in fire), the fact the revolver was nerfed within 24hrs (thats how bad it was lol), the fact that the first iteration of Astralis left TSM and formed the first player owned team, the tMartin incident with a youtuber promoting his own gambling platform. Also, I feel the forsaken cheating incident was pretty important, as that set the Indian scene back years and years.

This was a great video! The only comment I have is that you completely ignored the era of Astralis. No matter how much people (specifically NA) would want to pretend Astralis didn't exist they were the best team of all time. They deserved to at least get a minute talking about how good they were from 2018-COVID but that is just my opinion No matter what I enjoyed the video!

great vid as always bro so funny that you put together a 37 minute video and people in the comments are still telling you that you missed stuff, and they aren't wrong - cs history is just so expansive I think you could make a feature length doc for each cs game that had a comp scene (sorry condition zero)

Those visuals around "no scope, one button, no zoom" were genius 😂😂

gosh this one was a doozy

I will forever stand by that nothing will ever top the sheer hype that was FaZe vs Cloud9 at Boston. FaZe - especially Karrigan - understood their role as the villains and played it up like pro wrestling heels. Cloud9 was RED HOT, and the fanbase was at its most rapid. It was an amazing moment im so glad I got to witness. I still go back and watch that series.

It doesn't matter how long its been the coldzera clip sounds are etched into my psyche

It's a nice video, but what I tend to see about these types of videos is that they lack a lot of 1.6 and source history. While source history isn't all that preserved because as you said, the main scene was 1.6 for a very long time, 1.6 does have a lot saved history which can make for a video almost as long as this one. I get why you had CS:GO for your main portion of the video, but the info for 1.6 is also out there, and it can be just as long, it's just a bit harder to do. e.g. you missed on saying that while in 1.6 we didn't have 'majors' the 1st ever cpl was technically approved to use the 'cs world championship' label by VALVE themselves, while the rest of the big tournaments we considered as 'majors' were unofficial but were still the most prestigious ones, while acting the same way modern majors do (in total there were 30+ majors throughout 1.6 history) Also missed out on talking about legendary teams like SK Gaming 2003, establishing one of their own win streaks (they had smth like 50-1 record at some point in maps) Or talking about mTw 2008 (the danes), the pioneers of succesful and dominant tactical approach style similar to Astralis 2018 (zonic was in that team after all) Or the golden five of changing orgs constantly but in the end having won the most majors of them all (Neo has 7 1.6 majors to his name, in comparison, f0rest has 3) Or NaVi 2010, considered by many the GOAT team of 1.6 with 4 majors won in a row. Or the legendary fnatic 2009, that won crazy amount of tournaments using the OPPOSITE style of mTw, via individual skill. Or Potti and Heaton, the first great duo and Potti himself being the best player of the world for 3-4 years in the first half of 1.6's history. It wasn't until f0rest and NEO that came along before he lost his 'GOAT' status. This isn't some in-depth info (though you can find even that if you look for it), but it could have been mentioned same way you mentioned 'oh and Astralis won 4 majors in a row'. I hope this will help you out for future videos on the matter :)

Get right winning that major is still the best moment in cs ever

This video was pretty damn good, and you being able to apparently be a semi-pro player yourself while making entertaining content of this caliber is very cool to see. I have a few critisisms tho. I think you talked about the fluctuations in the pro scene a little too much. Like the different national teams and such. I think the "general trends" and pioneers of the game are more important, as they are what really matters in understanding the context, in which cs players live in. You did do it (at least to about 13min) but left out big phenomena as the brazilian execute, Stewie's arrogant but revolutionary style of playing the game through smokes, Astralis' methodical, ultra teamheavy way of playing the game, i.e. seen in their unstoppable inferno banana strats. And chopper's jumping Mac10 strats. The rise of international teams is also a trend which for the better part of CS:GO's history was apparent. There are other good, lesser ones like arT's ultra aggressive playstyle and Jame time. There were some updates missed as well, like the introduction of the newer economy system (resets went extinct) and 2nd round force buys. Also AUG and krieg meta. And the introduction of IGLs when the pro ruleset was changed. But then again, I do see the game in a more idealistic sense compared to many others, so these could just be my preference.

How does this guy only have 7k subs? This was an insanely well made video

Not sure if you view yourself as such, but this new generation of youtubers covering counterstrike history is great and i really enjoyed this video bro

34:15 karrigan is not only danish but half danish and half German so he has no relation to Sweden at all. If I remember correctly he stood in for someone that couldn’t make it

Fantastic video! I remember watching so many of those CS:GO moments live.

I think its a little sad that you didnt talk much about dupreeh you talked just a bit at the end but man he deserves much more being the only one to play all cs majors, zywoo s1mple and dev1ce may be the greatest of csgo but dupreeh is the greatest regarding titles great video anyways!!

The quality of your videos legit deserve over 100k Views, maybe even more than 500k, i seriously don't understand how you don't have more views and subscribers. Trust me bro, one day one of your videos will blow up and so will your channel.