News
Blog
Updates, guides, and Counter-Strike challenge stories.
Highlights
The MongolZ: From Mongolia's Pride to a Roster in Crisis
In the summer of 2025, thousands of people in Mongolia gathered to watch their national team win the Esports World Cup. …
Spodek Is Back: The Arena That Made Counter-Strike History Hosts ESL Pro League
For more than a decade, one round arena in southern Poland stood for Counter-Strike's biggest winter event. Then IEM lef…
More posts
The Coach Bug Scandal: How a Spectator Bug Led to 37 Bans in CS:GO
In Counter-Strike, information wins rounds. In 2020, it emerged that a bug had let coaches see parts…
How a Half-Life Mod Became Counter-Strike: The Gooseman and Cliffe Story
One of the biggest esports in history started as a project a university student worked on for about …
FalleN's Farewell: The Career of the Brazilian Legend Retiring at the End of 2026
Some careers end quietly. FalleN's will end with a countdown. After 23 years, the man Brazil calls t…
Why Dust2 Never Dies: The Story Behind Counter-Strike's Most Famous Map
Counter-Strike has changed engines, graphics, and rules more than once, yet one map from 2001 is sti…
The ESL Grand Slam Explained: Counter-Strike's $1 Million Prize and the Team That Won It Twice
Majors get most of the attention, but ESL runs a prize that may be even harder to win. In April 2026…
PARIVISION's Fairytale Run: How an Unknown Team Won Their Second Ever Top Tier Event
Most teams need years to build a reputation at the highest level of Counter-Strike. PARIVISION did i…
Danger Zone Is Finally Playable in CS2 Again, But Valve Didn't Bring It Back
Danger Zone launched in CS:GO back in December 2018 and quietly vanished when CS2 took over in Septe…
CS2's VAC Live Match-Cancellation Exploit: What Happened and How Valve Fixed It
A feature built specifically to protect players from cheaters briefly became something players could…
CS2's Only Steam Achievement: The Mystery of "A New Beginning"
Open the achievements tab for most games on Steam and you'll find a long list of goals to chase. Ope…
How CS2 Teams Actually Qualify for a Major: The VRS System Explained
Watch enough CS2 Majors and you'll hear commentators mention a team's standing or ranking as the rea…
Your daily progress
–/10
Sign in to save your progress and compete on the leaderboards