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Thorin’s 10 Best Counter-Strike Teams Right Now - 24th December, 2025
Forget about formulas and Elo rankings. You've come to the right place for pure 100% correct opinions as I tell you who the 10 best teams are today and…
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6 History-Altering karrigan ‘What If?’s - Part 2 (2023-2024)
Greatness is greedy and an already overflowing trophy cabinet for karrigan still mourns these would be championships for the man who did it the best the…
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6 History-Altering karrigan ‘What If?’s - Part 1 (2015-2020)
A look at what karrigan has won in Counter-Strike make him the best of all-time for some. Considering what he almost accomplished rounds out a legendary…
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The Keria Question
Nobody comes close to Faker's Worlds haul of six trophies. He is the game's greatest ever player. Yet this threepeat raises questions and chief amongst…
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Falcons - Counter-Strike's Ultimate Glass Cannon
The intoxicating highs of Falcons players out-shooting any and everyone is tempered by their at times almost soulless lack of fight when facing a team…
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Just Make Your Own Awards Then!
Sick of people complaining about who wins the Esports Awards? Think they should just make their own? Oh boy do I have some stories for you!
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Esporting Life: Second Time Around
Why does Riot refuse to explain their reluctance to implement a double elimination play-off format for Worlds? A shocking revelation has implications…
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Take Responsibility, FNATIC!
FNATIC's benching of CYPHER ahead of a major he helped them qualify to has proven quite the fire starter for the historically great organisation and…
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NiKo's Forgotten Stockholm Masterpiece
Most only remember NiKo's notorious deagle miss on s1mple from the final of the 2021 PGL Stockholm major and thus forget one of the best super-star runs…
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gla1ve - The Fragging IGL Unicorn
gla1ve dominated with Astralis to assemble an impossible trophy case thanks to not just an epic reading ability but also a fragging capacity no other…
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The Special Ones
The teams attending MSI are clear in their rankings and collective levels, but the X factor that draws in attention is the potential for the best…
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Inspired to His Core
Korea is sending an unbeaten team to MSI and a fresh LPL champion awaits, but Western fans can believe in the mastery of Inspired, the best player in…
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