⌛️Tactical pauses at the Cologne Major are finally here⌛️
Check it out the whole thread to see nice information 🧶
Starting with this graph: Pause conversion vs Pauses per map.
There is one outstanding point here, Spirit almost didn't pause the games at all, Mr. Jab Jabich prefers to have their players flowing. They only had 0.5 pauses per map (excluding Overtimes) and by far it is the lowest one.
There was a playoff game, with 4 overtimes, between G2 where Spirit only had 2 pauses, meanwhile G2 paused 7 times! Well to be honest Spirit end up winning anyways, but how would it be if they used more of their pauses and had some external point of view?
Crazy to think that at some point Warriors had to decide between Monta Ellis which was the franchise player or Curry that was young and very injure prone.
If I remember correctly warriors received some backlash because they preferred Curry
We know what happened after...
Last but not least, a bit of heatmaps!
Here it shows the most common positions at the early stage of the round (15segs or the last position if the played died prior that).
You can see that dualies generally are put in the first contact positions, to fight before the T's enter in the bombsite
@NaToSaphiX I just made a thread about dualies, surprisingly, vitality, for example, does not use that much in comparison with other teams.
But to be honest, I think five seven waay more op than dualies
https://t.co/1nXILNHfbZ
Dualies in pistol rounds!
We are back to business with this thread about the dualies in pistol rounds, I took the tier 1 tournaments in the second semester of 2026 to make this thread
Starting with the usage per map, cache is the map with the fewest dualies, there is a special scenario in 15.7% of time times the teams preferred to buy 4 kevs + 1 util + 1 defuse
Last but not least, a bit of heatmaps!
Here it shows the most common positions at the early stage of the round (15segs or the last position if the played died prior that).
You can see that dualies generally are put in the first contact positions, to fight before the T's enter in the bombsite
Dualies in pistol rounds!
We are back to business with this thread about the dualies in pistol rounds, I took the tier 1 tournaments in the second semester of 2026 to make this thread
Starting with the usage per map, cache is the map with the fewest dualies, there is a special scenario in 15.7% of time times the teams preferred to buy 4 kevs + 1 util + 1 defuse
And this is the most common setup for the 5 teams right now on HLTV.
Vitality seems a special case, the most common setup is 5 kevs, but only with 20.8%, they vary a lot the setups.
MOUZ repeats a lot the same setup, which is very standard one
@messioso ooh yeah, that's harder 😢
Next time you are in Barcelona ( I live here) for a random Stake tournament, ping and I get you some, I know some places 😀
@LionHeartz1337@messioso It's soda made by a brazilian fruit called "Guarana", IMO is very sweet, so not everyone likes it, but I like it, it worth trying out.
Also, this is the fruit, it's cute and fckin scary at the same time because it seems the fruit is looking at you
As much as I'm a Sunpapi's fan, open this type of exception is definitely not a good idea.
Maybe current rule is not great? Maybe, but opening exceptions can be an integrity issue.
Hey @CounterStrike@valvesoftware, this situation makes no sense.
@SunPayuscs has been with FUT for 2 months and is missing out on his Major sticker because he’s one match short of the requirement.
We were 2-0 at PGL Bucharest and could’ve manipulated the outcome against Vitality to meet the requirements, but we chose competitive integrity instead.
Both SunPayus and @cmtrycs deserve an exception to be eligible for the Major with their respective teams.
Rules should never punish players for doing the right thing. Please reconsider.