Win Condition CS

The player break is barely over and Counter-Strike's silly season already looks like total chaos. s1mple, electronic, Senzu, and Magisk all land on the same BC.Game roster, a lineup that would have been tier S plus in 2019 and is a genuine question mark in 2026. Monte, meanwhile, handed away a full Major-run VRS core for free. We go through the whole window roster by roster. Pedro, Sebastian &...

donk just posted the highest individual rating ever recorded in a single Major stage, and somehow that is not even the wildest story in Cologne. 9z, an Argentine side nobody had on their bracket, knocked out the back-to-back defending champions. Eight teams are left, the bracket is brutally top-heavy, and we are live on the ground to break all of it down. We are in Cologne for the IEM Cologne Majo...

The Cathedral opens its doors and sixteen teams walk into a four-day knife fight where only eight survive. Three of the greatest to ever touch the game, s1mple, device and FaZe, are watching this Major from home. Our Supercomputer already has opinions, and some of them are going to age badly. We go team by team through all sixteen Stage 1 teams against the rdy.gg Major Supercomputer, sorted top to...

Four South American teams in playoff position across two top-tier events at once. Legacy already in an Atlanta semifinal. paiN one win away. 9z perfect through the Swiss in Astana. And the most expensive roster in CS just told the world the reality is not to win. Pedro, Sam, and Elliott break down a chaotic week of Counter-Strike. Sam brings the receipts on G2's role mismatch, the Spirit donk-...

Vitality win back-to-back Slams. karrigan becomes a Falcon. And Donald "voo" Parkhurst joins the show to explain, through Sam's Rio numbers, why none of it is an accident.voo sits down with Pedro and Sam to break down what the stats actually reveal about the best team in Counter-Strike history. We dig into why movement is the most underrated skill in the game, why donk's aim woul...

USEFUL LINKS: Elliott's article - "Why Missing the Major Should Free FaZe from the Tyranny of Belief": https://rdy.gg/en/cs2/news/missing-the-major-is-a-good-thing-for-faze rdy.gg roster move tool: https://rdy.gg/en/cs2/stats FaZe Clan just missed a CS2 major for the first time in history. Four months after playing the grand final against Vitality, karrigan's squad is out, broky&...

Half the teams people expected to make BLAST Open playoffs are already on a plane home. FURIA, FaZe, Liquid, MOUZ, Spirit — all eliminated in group stage. And somehow, that’s not even the biggest story this week. Pedro, Sam, and guest host Horizon break it all down. Sam debuts a brand new custom rating system built from scratch — duel swing, round swing, and role-adjusted KPR — and the results are...

MOUZ went 3-0 online. FUT upset G2. FaZe didn't make playoffs. The EPL S23 Stockholm field is set.   Sam breaks out the graphs. FaZe's playoff problem isn't just results — it's structure. The Receipts goes deep on roles, aggression, and utility data across the playoff field, and the numbers are genuinely damning. Then we dig into every storyline that defined EPL S23: MOUZ building...

ZywOo just picked up his 30th career MVP . apEX lifted a trophy on his 33rd birthday . Vitality went 6-0 at PGL Cluj-Napoca, swept PARIVISION in the grand final, and are one win away from a $1M Grand Slam bonus. Thirty and counting. 👑 Pedro, Sam, and Elliott break it all down. Sam opens with The Receipts 🧾: a full data dive covering T-side approach tendencies, overperformers and underperformers,...

ZywOo just dropped a 1.66 rating in the Grand Final. 90 kills in 84 rounds. His best series ever. And Vitality is one trophy away from the back-to-back Grand Slams. Welcome to the ZywOo Show. Pedro, Sam, and Elliott break down IEM Kraków 2026, where Vitality dismantled FURIA 3–1 in a Grand Final that wasn't as close as the scoreline suggests. We dig into FURIA's incredible Mirage comeback (11–13),...

PARIVISION just won BLAST Bounty. From 190th in the world to lifting a trophy in one year. Welcome to 2026's first big upset. Pedro, Sam, and Elliott break down how Jame's squad dismantled Spirit, FURIA, and Falcons to claim the title in Malta—and whether they can sustain it. Sam brings custom Dual Swing graphs to expose who's actually winning fights they shouldn't (and who's l...

100 Thieves is back. device and rain reunited. JW just knocked FaZe out of BLAST Bounty. Spirit benched chopper and brought back magixx as IGL. And somehow, that's not even half of it. Welcome to 2026. Pedro, Sam, and Elliott break down every major roster move of the offseason—from 100 Thieves assembling a veteran-rookie hybrid with device, rain, and gla1ve coaching, to Spirit's gamble on magixx a...