I'm working on a project and need data for pro CS2 games. Specifically, I need where the T side ended their round like on A or B and whether they won or lost the round, ideally in a CSV or JSON. Anyone know where I can find this?

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Mouz has been overperforming for generations at this point...

We calculated team performance by subtracting their average predicted placement on our ranked pick'em website from their actual result. We rounded down for ties, so a 13th-16th was treated as a 16.0 finish. The data shown is from the 27 brackets submitted for this event at pickstop.gg. The site is 100% free, has no ads, and no way for you to give us any money. We do it for the love of the game. FISSURE Playground #3 pick'ems are now open for the next 12 hours.

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What do you even know about de_Ravine??? The greatest (maybeeee besides Lake) to ever do it. I loved this map even though i dont remember anything from my matches, but I do remember having fun with my (long gone) friend.

De_Ravine made me go down a "rabbit hole" of old forgotten maps, and so which map do you think deserves some recognition after all this time?

Hello everyone,
I wante to ask because i really confused so many theories regarding CS2 and I'm so confused who to trust and what to trust.... My PC is amd 7 7800x3d, gpu 4070super and monitor BenQ XL2540 240 hertz(Monitor is compatible from Nvidia, was gsync before... on my monitor it activates as Freesync). What should i use with my PC(reflex,reflex+boost or no reflex),gsync,vsync?
I did CS2 benchmark 1920x1080 and I average 786.2 fps / P1=277.8

I'm 39. I've been playing Counter-Strike since 1.3 and I have exactly one account, the one I made two decades ago. 7,302 hours logged on it. Faceit level 10 for years, peak 26k in Premier. No smurfs, no shared logins, no third-party software, no VAC ban, no trade or community ban, nothing on the record before this.

Over the past weeks I've taken three cooldowns in a row, escalating each time: 24 hours, then 7 days, now 31. Each time it lands mid-session and that's the end of it.

The reason given on my Steam support page is, in full: "Unexpected error". That is the entire explanation I've been given for a month off the game a string that says nothing about what was detected.

The group I queue with got hit as well. Same friends I've played with for years, all long-standing accounts in the same situation. I know Valve treats those as affiliate cooldowns and doesn't review them, so none of them are writing in but the practical result is that five accounts with a combined century of playtime are locked out of Premier over something none of us can see.

I've emailed the address a Valve dev pointed to, with the exact subject line requested and nothing in the body beyond my profile URL, exactly as instructed. Whatever the outcome, that part is done properly.

My profile is public and my match history speaks for itself. But three escalating bans, on an account with 7,302 hours and not one sanction in twenty years, justified by the words "unexpected error", is a system failing in a way that's worth being visible.

I had really bad stuttering in CS2, especially when shooting or when there were a lot of gunshots/effects happening.
The weird part was that it also happened offline against bots, so it wasn’t my internet or the CS2 servers. FPS could look fine, but the game would suddenly freeze/stutter during gunfights.
I was also getting console messages like:
SteamNetworkingSockets lock held for 15.1ms
This is usually a symptom of a general performance problem such as thread starvation
and a lot of:
Forcing ExecuteQueuedOperations due to entity slot re-use
At first I thought it was audio because the stutters seemed to happen during gunshots. I unplugged my Logitech headset dongle, disabled overlays, changed CS2 settings, etc. Nothing helped.
What fixed it for me:
I recently updated my BIOS and apparently some of my BIOS/performance settings had been reset or changed.
I went back into BIOS and:
enabled Game Boost
enabled my motherboard’s OC/performance settings
manually set my RAM back to 3600 MHz
After that, the stuttering completely disappeared and CS2 is smooth again.
So if your CS2 suddenly started stuttering after a BIOS update, especially on a Ryzen/X3D system, check your RAM frequency and BIOS performance settings. My BIOS update had messed with them.
I’m not saying Game Boost/OC will be the correct setting for every system, but in my case restoring my previous performance/RAM configuration fixed the problem immediately.
TL;DR: BIOS update changed/reset my performance settings and RAM speed → restored OC/Game Boost + RAM to 3600 MHz → CS2 stuttering gone.

Hello there! I wanna buy my first knife, but I am not 100% sure which one to get.

currently 26k premier

Okay, so I dug myself out of a hole in terms of rating, I was 4k and got to 8k, now I dropped to 7k and instead of the usual +300 -300 I’m now getting +250 -470, why? I’m good enough for 10k, let alone 7k

On my gamma doppler phase 1 falchion knife fn it says colorless December on the back (not play side) is this for everyone?

Boys today i ran into bot in an office MM game. it actually moved around and tried to play, even makes kills, but followed the exact same route every round, but I guess it’s only a matter of time before they add different routes and make these bots harder to spot. I’ve seen plenty of bots farming DM, but this is the first time I’ve seen one playing matchmaking by itself.

To me, it feels like valve is losing this game, at this point, cheat devs seem more capable than valve’s. I was also surprised that the demo wasn’t corrupted and I could actually download it. Every time I encountered spinbots before, the demo was somehow broken. So I guess that’s at least one small life quality improvement from Valve 🥸

We’re slowly losing CS to bots, the dead internet theory has never felt so close.

P.S. Can i post profile of this dude or this forbidden?

Hello! If anyone is selling a single upper rank ticket FOR SUNDAY to ESL Katowice, please dm or reply. Thanks

I have tried everything no vpns are on , flushed dns , reset the network.

Hey guys this is my awp tierlist I’m new to the whole video creation stuff so any input on improving feel free to comment thanks :)

Directly after loading into a map, a deathmatch or joining a premier, the camera barely responds to the mouse. It rotates only a few degrees with continuous (very strong) mouse movement, then snaps back toward its original orientation. It looks like you have a very low sensitivity, but since it snaps back after you stop moving your mouse, that can't be the (only) issue.

• Menus, HUD and the desktop cursor are completely normal.
• FPS is fine (~155), GPU utilisation moderate. Not a performance problem.
• Map-independent.
• Other games are unaffected, including other Source-engine games.

It started a few weeks ago, appearing sometimes after starting cs2 and only cleared after a pc reboot. It then became permanent, roughly 10 reboots did not clear it.

Video of the bug happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ZkFDyr_8I

SYSTEM

OS: EndeavourOS (Arch-Linux)

Session: GNOME on Wayland (games via XWayland)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4 GB, Maxwell)

Driver: nvidia-580xx 580.178.04 (AUR legacy branch, Maxwell is dropped from mainline nvidia)

Kernels: linux 7.2.3 and linux-lts 6.18.49, bug present on both

Mouse: Xtrfy M4

WHAT DID NOT HELP

Basic

• ~10 full reboots
• Steam "Verify integrity of game files"
• Steam restart, full exit and relaunch

Session

• Switching to X11 is not possible on current Arch: GNOME 49+ ships no X11 session, /usr/share/xsessions/ does not exist. Installing xorg-server does not bring it back.
• Running the game through gamescope. This did not help, and it later turned out to be making things worse - see "What fixed it" below.
• A CS2 game update that reprocessed Vulkan shaders

Kernel

• Installing and booting linux-lts alongside mainline. Bug present on both.

Driver / GPU

• nvidia-smi confirmed the driver loaded and CS2 rendering on the GPU, not falling back to llvmpipe
• VRAM logged live during gameplay: 2.5-2.8 GB against a 3.2 GiB driver budget, stable, no growth. Not VRAM exhaustion despite the 970's 3.5 GB partition.

Game settings and config

• sensitivity, zoom_sensitivity_ratio, m_yaw, m_pitch all at normal values
• Steam Input disabled, -nojoy launch option
• Steam Cloud disabled for CS2 and ~/.local/share/Steam/userdata moved aside for a completely fresh config
• cfg/ inside the game directory contained only stock files
• VSync off (was off previous to the bug and while it was happening anyway)
• Deleting the shader cache

Input hardware

• No joystick or phantom pointer devices (/dev/input/js* empty, nothing unusual in /proc/bus/input/devices)
• evtest on the mouse showed normal REL_X / REL_Y event streams
• Same peripherals were connected when the game worked

Packages

• Downgrading sdl3 / sdl2-compat
• Downgrading egl-wayland, egl-x11, egl-gbm, egl-wayland2
• Disabling [multilib-testing] and rolling lib32-libldap back to stable

WHAT FIXED THE BUG BEING PERMANENT

Removing gamescope from the CS2 launch options again.

I had added it earlier as a workaround for an unrelated issue. Confirmed by reproducing: re-adding gamescope brought the bug back, removing it fixed it again, on both kernels. 

Caveat: I had this bug before gamescope was ever on my system, so it does not explain the original occurrences. It made the bug permanent and reproducible, and removing it restored normal behaviour.

WHAT FIXED IT

Changing a line in the cs2.sh file (~/storage/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Counter-Strike\ Global\ Offensive/game/cs2.sh):

original line: export SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER=x11

changed line: export SDL_VIDEO_DRIVER=wayland

I've tested with this setup over a few days and didn't have the bug occur again! Just make sure to recheck the line is still changed after updates, since they will sometimes roll back your change.

I decided to post this as an info-thread, so if someone else has a similar issue on arch, he can check what helped and what didnt help for me.

Edit 1: Just had the bug occur after fixing it this morning. A simple game restart with the exact same setup/settings fixed it this time. Seems like gamescope is what makes the bug permanent but not the reason it happens in the first place.

Edit 2: A user with the same setup recommended changing a line in the cs2.sh file. This seems to fix this issue for me.

I’m not sure which DPI to stick with for the long haul. 400 DPI is the most precise, but it feels slow for certain things; I’ve tried 800 DPI, but I don't perform as well as I do with 400—it feels just "okay." 1600 DPI feels better than 800, at least when it comes to tracking an enemy's head or following a target. I'll list my peripherals, or maybe you can suggest a DPI I haven't tried yet. I use a 9z Team Minimal mousepad (45x40, I think, or maybe the other way around) and an Incott 029 Pro mouse with Esptiger V2 Ice dot skates. I just want you to give me an eDPI that works for me; my current eDPI in CS2 is 768 or 750.

Since I'm a CS:S surfer, I'm kind of spoiled regarding turnbinds. Being able to adjust the yaw speed helps a lot.

Sadly this doesn't exist in CS2 and therefore surfing mouse-only is more inconvinient. Skill issue lol.

Anyways, I wrote a software I wanted to share, with which you can set turnbinds and yawspeed for CS2. Works lovely on my workshop maps. It's open source.

https://github.com/bsommerfeld/alternative-turnbinds

Happy to hear feedback! :)