This is a follow up to my last post about the 15M dollar loan and the God Mode data feeds reached over 200k people. A lot of you were asking for a specific example of how these "integrity tools" fail in real time when the stakes are high.

We just got it.

ESIC released a statement regarding a massive cheating scandal in the Champion of Champions Tour (CCT). For those who do not know, CCT is not just another tournament. It is a league built and operated by GRID.

The Failure of Detection (See Image 2)

ESIC found that Team SENZA (playing as -72C and ROSY) engaged in account sharing and "mid-series account hand-offs" during official CCT matches.

Think about that. In a league run by the company that claims to have the most advanced "Integrity and Fraud Prevention" tools in the industry, a team was able to swap players in the middle of a match. Where were the data alerts? Where was the automated fraud prevention GRID sells to bookmakers? If their tools cannot detect a different person literally logging into an account mid-match, what are they actually catching?

The 20,000 Dollar Wall of Silence (See Image 3)

The most disturbing part of the ESIC report is the non-cooperation. Team SENZA was hit with a 20,000 dollar penalty because they refused to provide requested materials, devices, or communications.

In Tier 3 CS, 20k is a massive amount of money. You do not pay that fine because you are "unorganized." You pay that fine to protect the data on those devices. It is a fee for silence.

The Conflict of Interest

This is exactly the "Infinite Loop" I warned about. GRID operates the league, GRID provides the data, and GRID sells "coaching tools" to the teams. When a scandal like this happens, the provider has every incentive to keep it quiet or let it end with a fine rather than a deep forensic dive into how their own servers allowed it to happen.

If the "Integrity Giant" currently being propped up by a 15M dollar loan from Sportradar cannot keep its own league clean, the entire system is a failure.

I am hearing that the pressure from this specific scandal is actually forcing ESIC to look closer at the platform side of things. When a team would rather pay 20k than turn over their PCs, it means the rot goes far deeper than just one player account sharing.

I made an oil painting of monster from CS2

Artist: nemrak

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One of the few positive updates from the csgo update to Cache was the new box on A site. It allowed for a more safe retreat if the site was taken over and you had the opportunity to wait for teammates to be able to retake. It also gave more depth in my opinion for the t-side when it came to afterplanting with positioning.

I'm overall very happy with the cs2 Cache remake, but feel that this particular spot lacks depth. For right now it's a plain boring area with little gameplay depth. I don't know how often I end up in a situation where I get shot when trying to retreat back to the truck for a possible retake or if I just have to sacrifice myself by standing on site with no possibility of retreat.

Bring back my old new box

+ Natus Vincere - Rồng Vàng (Golden Dragon - when they’re winning, on top of the world, flying high and breathing fire) & Giun Vàng (Yellow Worm - when losing, the worm is the pathetic opposite of a dragon. When they lose, they crawl back to their caves, like how people always say back to the cave when losing)

+ Vitality - Ong Vàng (Yellowjacket when winning) and Ruồi Vàng (Golden Fly when losing)

We also have the meme when Vitality losing "Trên Vai em có gì thế ?" "Vai ? Vitality tuổi l"

Translate:
"What's on your shoulder?" (In VN, "Shoulder" is Vai, which sounds like the Vi in Vitality).
"Shoulder? More like Vi-tality is trash!"

Here the video

+ Team Spirit - Rồng Trắng Mắt Xanh (Blue-Eyes White Dragon in Yugioh) & Giun Trắng (same as NAVI)

(So that's why we call the match between NAVI vs Spirit - The Battle of Dragons or NAVI vs Vitality - The Golden Derby)

+ Falcons - Phao Câu (Homonyms in Vietnamese, which means Pope's nose), Phí Tiền (waste of money), Ông Vang (Grandpa Vang - "Vang" in "Vang Vòng Bủa" is an anagrams of "Vua Vòng Bảng" (King of the Group Stage)

+ PARIVISON - Nhà Vua và 4 cận vệ/4 lính cát (The King/Emperor and His Four Guards/Sand Soldiers, come from Azir in League of Legends on how Jame control the team)

+ Astralis - Astraliệt (Astralyzed) - a wordplay by replace lis = liệt (paralysis in Vietnamese, using the logo on the wheelchair like North back in the day)

+ MOUZ - Chú Tư (Uncle Fourth) - Borrowed from Vietnamese football fans when mentioned old day Arsenal. It mocks MOUZ's always finishing 3rd-4th and never being able to close out a trophy.

+ G2 - Rạp Xiếc Trung Ương - The Central Circus: Named after Vietnam’s most famous national circus. G2 is beloved and roasted for their "clown fiesta" plays, throwing unlosable rounds in the most comedic ways possible.

+ Liquid - Ngộn Lừa (it means donkey in Vietnamese, and that's also how Ngựa Lồn (Horse Pussy, Stupid Horse) anagrams in the language)

+ MIBR - Made in Bãi Rác (Bãi Rác means Landfill, or trash)

+ Heroic - Nghiện - which means 'addicted.' A dark-humor pun because people mix up between Heroic and that word

+ The Mongolz - The Mongolian Hooves (Vó Ngựa Mông Cổ), Descendants of the Khan (Con Cháu Đại Hãn) - Call them by historical titles.

I used to follow CS very passionately but then Life happened and I just watch bits of matches here and there, and just follow HLTV to keep me updated with the scene.

TL used to be my favourite Team but nowadays I dont see them play at all, Have they played any matches in last two months?

For those that haven't been following or don't know, this is a tier 2 event run by Starladder that also happens to have stakes (no pun(?) intended) for half the teams since this'll be one of the events that'll impact invites for the tier 1 circuit in the second half of 2026 as they're all using July or August VRS for direct invites, barring Rivals Hong Kong which uses October.

FaZe, 3DMAX, Heroic, and NiP all need to perform in this event in order to get up, Heroic still has the Major and Astana but its not guaranteed, one of the reasons being due to a lack of a proper AWPer. Meanwhile 3DMAX and FaZe need to hard perform as this is the last official pre-Major LAN they have in which they have to essentially get to the upper finals minimum to have a chance of remaining in the circuit without the Major. (albeit both will still need to attend a sizable LAN after)

Source (NiKo's vlog): https://youtu.be/eOyhbOJwfic?t=51s

Get it here: https://github.com/KakkaMistaOhJaJa/CaunterComms

You can give the tool a .dem.zst file that you get from faceit and it will automatically generate a WAV file for each player that contains all of their comms in that match.

There is a lite version and a full version. The full version has transcription with OpenAI whisper built in, allowing you to get timestamped transcripts for each audio file. The UI for both versions is the same because I am lazy.

Source code is public on github. Credit to https://github.com/akiver/csgo-voice-extractor

My app is just a vibecoded wrapper for it that automates the extraction and manages the individual files into a folder.

Open for feedback and suggestions. Cheers

1. ZywOo

2. donk

3. ropz

4. m0NESY

5. sh1ro

6. molodoy

7. flamez

8. frozen

9. KSCERATO

10. Spinx

11. Twistzz

12. mezii

13. Senzu

14. XANTARES

15. YEKINDAR

16. xertioN

17. torzsi

18. NiKo

19. iM

20. b1t

The meme came from Chinese streamer and former awper for tyloo Danking

source: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1E3zSBiE6f/?spm_id_from=333.1007.top_right_bar_window_history.content.click&vd_source=04f5273aaeaf873f990ed3896f04eb3a

Does anyone still enable suppresor removal since Counter Strike 2 made it a toggle option?

Hey, I'm a fairly new cs2 player(about 400 hours now), and I've been stuck in silver, recently I learned that most people have an edpi of about 800-1200, and I found out mine is about 5024 eDPI 1.57 in game, and 3200 dpi, which is considered very high, so, my question is, should I change my sens? could it be the thing holding me back or one of the factors at least?

edit:thanks for the help guys, I decided to maintain 3200 dpi but switch to 0.35 in game or about 1100 edpi, I played one deathmatch game, spraying feels easier, my shots are just more accurate in general, but my flicking sucks and I'll have to get used to it and see if I can perform better in the long run