Counter-Strike 2

Do CS2 Pros play less than they used to?



HLTV data for 2024: https://www.hltv.org/stats/players?startDate=2024-08-02&endDate=2024-11-02
Reddit post: https://old.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1gg2klq/top_players_are_playing_less_than_they_used_to/
0:00 – Fewer rounds played?
1:00 – MR12
1:32 – COVID?
2:09 – HLTV data
2:38 – Tracking a player’s hours
4:36 – The MOST rounds played a year?
5:33 – Conclusion

45 Comments

  1. I feel as years go by these videos are getting way too polished. He just seems so out of touch sitting there impeccably dressed.

  2. i think it doesnt count for how quickly now teams can rack up 2-0 wins please for the events count all possible maps being played if every team used up the whole bo3 and then mirror it with actual maps being played 2018 vs 2023 and then same info from 23 and compare the change of maps being played and then round lengts total?

  3. For all you Muricans, this is just what we Europeans have to wear inside during winter now with the extreme prices of gas and electricity.

  4. I think less top tier events being online has affected this. E.g. ESL pro league used to be a big online league but is now a shorter format with studio games

  5. It's been almost 10 years since I first encountered your channels and I still love you just as much as I first watched you, I hope this comment does you well inbetween all the other less positive new comments

  6. love these videos where you sit in front of the camera and talk like this, the way you do it just is fun and also fun editing like always

  7. idk what i was expecting u to look like but i didn’t expect ur voice to to come from that head (sorry if that sounded rude or weird)

  8. I think one of the main reasons why teams appear to be playing less counter-strike is the increase in prep work they do before each game/tournament compared to early csgo days where they would just get into multiple games with little prep work done

  9. I think the reason is because there are more active pro players and teams and limited events so that the official game each player plays decreased. Back then the total team is like 8-9 big teams that gets invited to every event, now there are so many of them that it's naturally slowing down as the game grew bigger

    I think, idk maybe coldphilips may know it more

  10. Get some central heating and get rid of that unknown entity from FEAR that's stalking your walls I feel so bad it's like I'm waiting for that CoD2 soviet campaign animation where vapor comes out from their mouth and they rub their hands together, mosin nagant in shoulder 🙁

  11. Why does that graph have the year on the vertical axis and rounds played on the horizontal axis? That just looks confusing.

  12. This trend is explained by the increased competitiveness of pro cs2, more players and teams are now fighting for a similar number of play.off spots in tounaments. The introduction of MR12 has also made bo1 upsets more common, further spreading matches among a larger pool of teams. On average this means all teams get to participate in fewer tournmant games per year.

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