*Info and pic taken from Dreamhack website*
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Groups updates and info.
Location: DreamHack Winter 2014, Hall B, Elmia, Jönköping, Sweden
Sponsors: HyperX, Roccat & Bredbandsbolaget
Partners: Inferno Online, Nordic Choice & Björks Buss
No. of teams: 16
Tournament format: Group stage (4 groups with 4 teams) played in Dual Elimination style BO1. Top-2 advance. Single elimination Playoffs BO3.
Prize pool: $250,000
Prize distribution:
1. $100,000
2. $50,000
3-4. $22,000
5-8. $10,000
9-16. $2,000
CS:GO Competitive Format for Dreamhack Winter 2014
- 30 Rounds, 15 on each side (Counter Terrorist / Terrorist)
- Teams can tie 15-15 and go into 6 rounds of Overtime, 3 rounds played on each side and can go indefinitely into more Overtime.
The Maps:
Teams and Pickem
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Groups updates and info.
Location: DreamHack Winter 2014, Hall B, Elmia, Jönköping, Sweden
Sponsors: HyperX, Roccat & Bredbandsbolaget
Partners: Inferno Online, Nordic Choice & Björks Buss
No. of teams: 16
Tournament format: Group stage (4 groups with 4 teams) played in Dual Elimination style BO1. Top-2 advance. Single elimination Playoffs BO3.
Prize pool: $250,000
Prize distribution:
1. $100,000
2. $50,000
3-4. $22,000
5-8. $10,000
9-16. $2,000
CS:GO Competitive Format for Dreamhack Winter 2014
- 30 Rounds, 15 on each side (Counter Terrorist / Terrorist)
- Teams can tie 15-15 and go into 6 rounds of Overtime, 3 rounds played on each side and can go indefinitely into more Overtime.
The Maps:
- de_nuke
- de_dust2
- de_inferno
- de_mirage
- de_cache
- de_cobblestone
- de_overpass
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Terms to know:
Peek - Challenging an entrenched defender, usually around corners and without the use of grenades to break that defense. Peeking is a player basically saying to their opponent "I think I'm better than you, even if you're at advantage."
Pick - Usually referring to getting a first kill, which sets up a crucial advantage for the team who gets the "first pick".
Rush - Hyper aggressive, usually all-in push usually done on Terrorist side to break a weak defense on a bomb site.
Set-up - Grenade / movement coordination for moving in on an area, one of my favorite things to watch as it can be very elaborate.
Rotate - Repositioning
Trade - Usually implies the trading of deaths between teams. Terrorist side will do this a lot to gain positions from entrenched CTs. One player will go up ahead and push a corner or a peek spot and sacrifice himself (with full intent of killing the entrenched CT of course) so that the teammate immediately behind him could catch him off guard and "trade" the kill back. Big mind game component. You'll see CT's prefire peek positions after kills because they anticipate another T to come in for a trade.
Pre-fire Firing on a spot without seeing an enemy with intent to kill anyone who crosses into his sight. Not completely random, usually a CT will see a shadow of a player running into his position, or will hear his footsteps.
Retake - CTs trying to move into an occupied bomb site to defuse the bomb.
Spray / Spray Pattern - Continuously firing an automatic weapon. Guns in CS have heavy recoil, but consistent patterns of where the bullets will hit. Good players will reposition their crosshairs as they spray to control that pattern skillfully into an accurate point.
Molly - Molitov cocktail.༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つMOLLY ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
Strategy related terms:
Buy / Full Buy Round - When a team has the economy to buy weapons / grenades / armor to maximize their potential.
Save / Eco Round - When a team does not spend, or spends very little on a round so they can afford a buy round later. You'll see a lot of Terrorist rushes on Eco rounds. Best thing that can happen for a team that ecos is a bomb plant (gives money) or a kill on a player with a valuable weapon.
Pistol Round - A pistol only round that usually dictates who has the advantage the first 4 rounds unless the other team does a...
Anti-Eco Buy - When a team buys inferior weapons that they can afford on an eco round in hopes of catching the buying team off guard (who expect pistols). Usually considered a map specific type of...
Force / Force-up / Force-buy - When a team does a desperation / risky buy round where they can't exactly afford the things they need to win a round safely (grenades / body & head armor)
Weapons you'll see a lot of:
-AK47: Terrorist's main rifle, and probably the best general rifle in the game. Can kill armored opponents with a single headshot. Considered a hard to handle weapon, but experienced players understand how to control its spray pattern.
-M4A1 / M4A1-s: Main CT Rifles, can not kill with a single headshot on armored opponents. Generally considered an easier weapon to handle.
-AWP: The one click terror, a sniper rifle that can singlehandedly deny entire swaths of the map to a team. Look for this rifle being used in long, narrow areas with few flanking positions. Very expensive.
-Famas / Galil: Cheaper alternatives to the main CT/T rifles, usually bought because a team favors having ample amount of grenades or armor rather than having optimal weaponry.
- "Autosnipers": Niche and expensive weapons, but can be positioned in such a way to absolutely demolish multiple enemies in a row.
General Advice
- Glance at the minimap every now and then, the casters make a good effort to expand the minimap in situations where movement and rotation is important.
- Take note of the players crosshair placement as they move around the map and you'll find that their magical headshots are based on prediction as well as pure twitch skill.
- Don't worry about which map is sided more to T or CT.
- Don't worry about the minute differences between T and CT weapons, just know that Rifles > All and every team on every side wants them more than anything.
- Don't worry about how confusing de_cobblestone and de_overpass are, I'm confused too.
- Don't be confused about all the weapon skins, they don't affect the gameplay. If it looks like a certain gun, but has a different skin, it's probably the same gun. Also that skin is probably really expensive, like really expensive.
Also, some help making sense of the spectator UI, most of the other stuff is either obvious by looking at it, or unimportant stats for neeeeeeeeeeeeerds.
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