Half Time with K Bizzy

G2 Esports CS2 General Manager, Peca, joins us today to talk about managing one of the biggest CS2 teams in the world, early days in Counter-Strike, and coming up in the scene. Peca was kind enough to lend me some time to talk about what it means to be a Manager of a HUGE team and provides some more insight on everything involved with the title of GM. Thank you all for checking in with me for anot...

The HLTV Awards went well...but there were some questionable award winners. Today, Garmour joins me on Episode 80 of the podcast to talk a bit about the HLTV Awards, but most importantly his fast and successful growth on YouTube. After years of hard work and finding a hustle that he was passionate about, it ended up working for him, and the road ahead of him is bright. Garmour is going to be the f...

Is skin trading in CS2 still worth it in 2026? Drepz joins us for today's episode of the Half Time with K Bizzy podcast to talk about it. With his extensive knowledge in trading, Drepz gives some of his opinions on trading in 2026. I mean, the guy has been around for approximately 10 years in the trading community and he's purchased the WHOLE Katowice 2014 collection...in 1 transaction...I...

The announcement about HexT parting ways with M80 shocked the world, and today we get a bit more insight behind the reason why on today's episode...the first episode of 2026! I hope you guys had a great Holiday! Thanks for joining me for another year of the podcast, now kick back, relax and enjoy HexT talk about his backstory in Counter-Strike, and much more. Last Week's Episode: https://y...

2025 is a wrap! This is the final "episode" of the Half Time with K Bizzy podcast for the year. Today, we recap the year, talk about goals and plans for 2026, and run down some incredible stats for the show this year. I owe it all to you guys - thank you to every single person who has clicked on a HTWKB Episode this year. Much love! Last Week's Episode: https://youtu.be/xIjHCYLSFJoSH...

HLTV's own Professeur joins us for the 77th episode of Half Time with K Bizzy which is also the LAST episode of the year. An absolutely epic conversation about Professeur's beginnings in CS, a WILD LAN Cafe story, joining HLTV & climbing the ladder within the company to eventually become the Head of Operations. An incredible story from a really amazing human being. I'm so thrilled...

We did it...our first episode with an active tier 1 player...HEAVYGOD!!! HeavyGod joined me ~4 days before him and G2 play in Stage 3 of the StarLadder Budapest Major to talk about G2's plans going into the Major, thoughts of the first 2 stages, winning his first trophy at Blast Open London in September and of course winning his first MVP Medal. Amazing stuff, and for him to lend me some time...

Episode 75....WITH RENYAN! Renyan sits down with me today to talk about the StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 and some of the controversial elements with it as well as his own personal experiences with StarLadder, his come up in content creation and the unique story on how he got into Counter-Strike....the wrong...Counter-Strike. I know a lot of you are going to love today's episode, I hope you a...

Man, am I ever excited to have Episode 74 release to you guys...with none other than Jake Lucky! Jake has been a fan of eSports, but specifically Counter-Strike for quite some time now, and he is a very familiar face on the internet, especially within the gaming, streaming, and esports news communities on Twitter/X. On a personal note, this is a special episode to me because back when I released t...

Cxzi arrives for Episode 73 of the podcast! Cxzi talks to us about growing up playing COD and trickshotting, getting into CS:GO and eventually getting a spot on Complexity...until the unfortunate announcement from Jason Lake revealing that Complexity will be exiting the Counter-Strike Esports scene. Damn. It still stings to think about it all. Apart from that, Cxzi talks about how he was the only...

Elias, Founder of FPSHeaven joins us for Episode 72! Elias has a really interesting story on his come up in the scene. He details times when he was a struggling College student who would have to bring a calculator to the grocery store to make sure he could afford what was in his cart as his financial situation wasn't ideal....to becoming the Founder of FPSHeaven and achieving success. On top o...

Happy Friday from me and Alkem1st! Trade reversals have been terrible lately, the CS2 skins market has been in the weirdest state of all time, I mean we are experiencing things we have never seen before in the CS2 market, and I made it my mission to get a well versed individual on the podcast to talk about the future of the market, how to make trade reversals better and the covert trade up, so we...

The Co-founder & CEO of Leetify, a popular stat tracker for CS2, Anders Ekman joins the podcast to break down everything about Leetify. The history of the company's startup, early problems & corrections, almost 500k users, and of course...an Operation?! Last Week's Episode: https://youtu.be/Bya5QdmcRtkSHOP HALF TIME: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/HalfTimeCS2Shop↓↓↓My Socials↓↓↓★http...

Episode 69 of the Half Time with K Bizzy podcast featured Eugenio8a8, a really important figure in the CS community this year. With Reddit posts about issues that have been wrong with Counter-Strike, but actually providing the facts and findings which actually caught the attention of Valve developers. After these interactions, we have seen updates to Counter-Strike correcting the issues that Eugen...

Toxic342 Sits down for episode 68 of Half Time with K Bizzy to talk about creating 2 of the newest stickers in the Armory Pass - the Neon MVP and Digi-Strike Lentiuclars, as well as the other 4 stickers he has had introduced to Counter-Strike in the past 3 years. This was Toxic's first interview and it was a pleasure having him on to talk about his successes! Last Week's Episode: https://y...

Slaid joins us for episode 67 of Half Time with K Bizzy. Slaid is the definition of a skin enthusiast. In his short time on YouTube, he's managed to make his passion a full time career which is incredible. Today we cover a bunch of stuff about himself, reminisce on the beginning days of skins, OG Counter-Strike content creators and much more. Last Week's Episode: https://youtu.be/S9nkM-rJE...

It is a pleasure to have Jared Habib return to Episode 66 of the podcast after OVER a year! Last Week's Episode: https://youtu.be/P88ihVxMtwgToday's Sponsor: https://pricempire.com/SHOP HALF TIME: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/HalfTimeCS2Shop↓↓↓My Socials↓↓↓★https://www.youtube.com/@KBizzyCS★https://discord.gg/QWhvwSTZCX★https://twitter.com/HalfTimeCS★https://twitter.com/kbizzycs↓↓↓CPH Wolv...

Brongo, the owner of CSROI joins us today to talk about CSROI.com for Episode #65. CSROI is an incredibly useful tool for players, or as Valve calls us, Customers in the CS community. Whether you want to see the rarity of the skins in a case, the ROI of items in a case, and the ROI of investing in the case itself, I mean Brongo covers all aspects for investors with CSROI. Another classic story of...

What an episode we have on the menu for today! James "Wattsy" Watts is the Esport Operations Manager for BLAST.tv, which is a really epic job title. Wattsy sits with us to talk about some of the behind the scenes stuff that we don't see or hear about as the viewer, and hearing more about the setup and planning for the events we love to watch and attend was really interesting. Today,...

With big thanks to Dingle, we have nawwk joining us on Episode 63 of the Half Time with K Bizzy podcast! In recent news, unfortunately BC.Game Esports and nawwk parted ways and we discuss his departure, but most importantly his run with Apeks and of course the Paris 2023 Major. Incredible episode with an incredible dude! Last Week's Episode: https://youtu.be/xKmxIIq64zcToday's Sponsor: htt...

Fifflaren. Wow, an incredible interview this week for episode 62 of the podcast, and also the longest episode released to date! Apologies if I looked a bit off, at the time of recording this, I was feeling like I was catching a cold (got sick shortly after this episode's recording). Fifflaren breaks down his entire come up story from being a young lad learning the ropes in the local CS scene all t...

STYKO joins us for Episode 61 of the podcast, and man oh man was this a long time coming. From talking 1 year ago about the possibility of making an appearance, he was busy and had a lot going on so we decided to revisit at a later date, and that later date has come. From playing with Cloud9, Hellraisers, mousesports, and Apeks to name a few, to grinding with Apeks to make it to the Semi-Finals of...

Episode #60 of the Half Time with K Bizzy Podcast features Anton "Molen" Koev. This creative mastermind is a Freelance Video Editor & Producer that has worked with some of the biggest organizations in the CS2 space which include G2 Esports, Team Liquid, Astralis, ESL, Blast, Razer, Turtle Beach, to name a few. It was an honour getting Molen on the podcast to talk about his journey th...

Episode 59 of Half Time with K Bizzy features Radu Tanasie, one of the creators of Grail, one of Counter-Strike's newest official community maps. Radu is an incredibly talented mapper and level designer for not just Counter-Strike, but various other games such as Ghost Recon Frontline (which was unfortunately cancelled) and Breakpoint, The Crew Motorfest, and Hunt: Showdown, to name a few. Today w...

Goldec sits with us to talk about the "reality" of content creation and making it on YouTube for Episode 58 of the Half Time podcast. To me, Goldec is the perfect guest for this topic, so to have him sit down with me after meeting at the Major was amazing, shout out to my guy! If you have ever had questions or thoughts about what it's like becoming a YouTuber or any other kind of con...