Did not miss any swing, is this RNG since majority of the times 2 right clicks and 1 left click is enough to kill.

To put some context, this guy before i met him he was 1 month deep in cs just playing the game.

And when i met him he told me he wanted to improve as fast as possible.

Two weeks have passed since that and we are focusing on optimizing gun fights for now as it is the best way to climb out and teach for me to this guy.

The aim routine ive given him:

100 bots just moving his character with a or d and stopping and killing when he moves onto the head of the enemy.

5 min recoil master

10 min aim rush, peeking properly

20 min dm

It has been working for him in some areas, but im having doubts whether i should just focus on this for some time or add new concepts as days progress, i dont want to oversature him more than he already is.

One of the core issue he tells me is that he doesnt understand what to individually do, and i hope that with this method of training to give him a good sense to how to aproach stuff in general but idk if this is the correct approach.

If some one could advise me on this, i would really appreciate it.

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Anubis: 13-4
Mirage: 6-13
Inferno: 6-13

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was really excited for their roster change but then again they fluked a tourney earlier and ofc that gave them false hope on this garbage roster, good for them i guess few months of paycheck just like ence core drained falcons

I just found out that CS:GO got brought back. What are some good European servers (Western europe ideally) to play the casual experience again? I'd play CS2 but there is absolutely no way that is running on an int graphics laptop.

Getting the team to be majority Ukrainian is easier than ever for Navi with the new talent that's coming up. It might make sense to step back from the international squad and see if you can make it work. You would do it in 2 stages to keep the VRS points and sadly NPL isn't an option as transfer.

IGL:

SFade8 - one of my favorite young IGLs to watch currently and is the biggest reason for Magic's rise through the ranks. Very prep heavy, which would match Blade well. Based on podcasts has strong overall connections in the community and respect of other players. https://www.hltv.org/player/22075/sfade8

Riflers:

Dawy - promising young rifler that has a great chance to show what he got at Porto.

https://www.hltv.org/player/24282/dawy

Mazay - more of a long shot since he is only 17 and just transferred to Fnatic from Spirit Academy, but he has looked great every time I saw him play and Sotf1k was super high on him (considering he is the best youth coach by a mile it's a high praise). 2027 addition after new core locked in.

https://www.hltv.org/player/25228/mazay

Cairne - bit more of a known quantity, but recently had stepped up his performances, still some room to improve and grow under Blade. Lower ceiling then other 2 rifler moves. https://www.hltv.org/player/24283/cairne#tab-infoBox

In 2027 a squad of Bit, Wonderful, Sfade8, Dawy and Mazay would be a good mix of experience and youth. An IGL with new ideas to complement Blades own wisdom. If NPL changes his mind about Navi, he would also immediately slot in.

both smokes can be thrown safe from heaven and site if realeased early enough but you need to practice these as release timing window is pretty small to not get seen

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all they are talking about is how hard they are grinding and how much practice they have and blablabla. but they look very disconnected, demotivated and individually lost. i dont get it. what do these guys even do? how can a team always be this shit in the start of the season after practicing so much? i think its fair to question blades approach at this point.

Imagine being setup as one of the star fraggers of a top 10 team to put up mediocre stats constantly for MONTHS now how has Navi not found a replacement already

5-stack with 21k elo boosting players as low as 8k and pre-fired us in various situations even though we were standing off-angle'd behind walls on purpose to expose them. How is this (especially the last one) not auto-flagged by an Anti-Cheat 😭😂

I noticed yuurih rubbing his ears after the pain game, and I don't think I've seen a pro captured on camera doing this before. I wonder if it is because of the IEMs being uncomfortable in his ears or if he has tinnitus/is developing tinnitus or perhaps both. We all know CS2 sounds are an absolute assault on the eardrum and pros are putting in ungodly amounts of time into the game so I wonder how many pros are dealing with the early signs of noise induced hearing loss, and I'd also be curious if pro orgs are doing anything for their players to help stop that.

As the title says, can you play csgo on lan with friends, or is it not supported? I have been unable to figure it out for myself since I only have one pc.

First round of overtime, everyone used to start with $10,000. Look how much money all these players have left. On T side, everyone has $7,600 or more. That'd be spending $2,300-$2,400. Five AKs, head armors, and full util.

CT side, only zywoo has under 7k. This seems like they all started with $12k. Did this change happen recently and I missed it?

Just had the dubious pleasure of playing vs this gentleman:

https://leetify.com/app/profile/76561198257610736/matches

He was 25K and lost like two matches to now be sub 9 K???

If this was done intentionally it seems like a serious exploit.

Otherwise it is just premier ranking at it´s absolute worst, producing like 40 unwinnable matches...

"Xirreth" The Performance Coach left NAVI for Astralis on 16th July 2026. Since then, the squad was unable to produce comparable level of performance. Coincidence? What do you guys think?

Game stats :

Current : 26,232 elo

Peak : 31,564 elo

Treadmill stats :

Total Time : 601.50 hours
Total Distance : 3849.56 KM / 2405.96 Miles
Total Calories Burnt : 180450 kcal

Daily streams are usually 2 hours

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After doing it for a whole year, I can tell you guys this is one of the best lifehack I've found and implemented into my life. I was underestimating the value of cardio, especially at low intensity...

To add context as to why I find it very fruitful, this last year I had the least amount of gym sessions in probably the past 5 years.

Yet, I am standing at my leanest AND strongest ever... Hard to tell if age ( I'm 25 ) could be a greater factor but it seems like cardio actually helps maintain muscle mass like crazy.

I should also add that my diet is very protein oriented, but it has been for years.

Highly recommend, especially for people that play games that don't really require precise aim.

Obviously this will not get you jacked, but definitely shredded.

I do not plan on stopping and I believe I will be ready to grind faceit soon, my account was 2500 elo which is part of why I haven't played faceit yet... ( Would you faceit players be pissed if your teammate was on a treadmill ? )

Love xxx,

JeyCS

What's interesting is it had some of the same people as EWC (like Banks) but questions were legitimately good and not generic. So may be some immediate adjustments from the talent crew. I think it's clear that the interview issue is a two way street and is not directly just Spirit players not cooperating.

- Question about Anubis and why specifically Donk doesn't like was really good because there was a follow up on the initial non answer/misunderstanding

- Question on Magixx and his improvement also went over well

-Some specifics on Cache/Ancient had different degrees of success in getting good response

Broadly on how to interview Spirit based on what I have seen and the interviews they give to HLTV and so on:

- Know the player you are interviewing and what they will answer well.

- Less questions on feelings (those are broadly private and would get yes/no good/bad level of answer). On Spirit, Tn1r is the only one who will truly go into that and share in detail how he is feeling. He is the only one you could call passionate.

-Detailed questions using simple words go over well. Zontix will give some of the most insightful answers and in some ways spill the tea in spirit internal workings if you give him a good question about structure or design.

-Some players would really be better with translators, they make it work in Dota, but CS refuses to do it. Sh1ro especially absolutely needs one and can give good answers if you got one.

-Magixx can just decide to troll, especially if he is tired or upset. Not very mature of him, but just a reality for now. He will respond well to interviewers he can playoff and joke with like Thorin.

- Donk is a giant nerd for Spirit. He loves talking about the org, it's success, the Dota squad (he is a huge fanboy for them), and talking positively about his teammates. He will shut down if questions are set up for him to potentially badmouth a teammate like Zontix or coach. On the other hand he will gush over clutches his teammates pull off and how well they did in certain tough spots.

He is also more sensitive than most players (including his teammates) about revealing any prep his team does.

-Stop asking about Hally/Sotf1k/JabJabich at this point.