I think this would be a good idea if only because the ugc forums are atrocious

This is the worst advice on the thread.

Hiko didn't join TL because it would've been the ultimate concession. He's too much of an egoist to backtrack that far. Originally he was creating a team with ska and the 3 liquid players (nitro/fugly/adren) and it was important to him that they leave liquid and create a new team. Why? Probably a lot of reasons, but a big one is that he wanted to create a team not join one. Nihilum gives Hiko his little pond to play big fish, going to TL after he lost ska and the liquid players refused to leave their org would've been embarassing.

in 6 months when Hiko officially retires because he can no longer compete at the highest level ill bump this thread for you guys

How long is the half life on being considered good? Potti was nasty back in the day, I wouldn't recommend him as a pickup today...

And Tarik is a better cs player than hiko. You guys follow cs with the laziest minds if you can't see it, cs is a team game. Hiko cannot create for his team while Tarik consistently has to create for his team.

And you think teams would prefer hiko over shroud/Azk? You and about 0 NA teams

"Possible exception"
You mean obvious exception? Then you have Azk/Tarik/shroud etc all better riflers. It's to hikos benefit that he hasn't been on a team cause then we could be even more harsh, this is GENEROUS to hiko. He was BELOW REPLACEMENT in the months leading up to his quitting

Teams compete to land real talents, Hiko's looked like a total joke the past two weeks acting like he's the belle of the ball and being straight ignored

hiko IS overrated rofl

everyone needs to take like 16 steps back

That and calling him ipkane....

I would be surprised if swag doesn't get unbanned and unsurprised if dazed stays banned. That said its so long away I have no idea why c9 would ever plan that far ahead, and swag is a cs genius but not in the teacher/igl style that you would want an analyst to be. No idea what they're doing tbh

even tho it was unintended it was a cool display of game knowledge and execution

i thought it was cool that there was a way to "sound out" smokes

300 mb of nothing..........really?

do we need to have the Law 101 discussion on why arbitrary age cutoffs exist in the eyes of the law?

it was the norm for women to never be considered capable of making their own decisions. So it was the father of the brides decision on when and how she wed; whether she was 13 or 30 was irrelevant because she was viewed as equally unable to make the decision on her own in the eyes of society.

appealing to ass-backwards culutural norms to argue that its "ok" or "normal" is retarded

considering the change quite literally decreases the ceiling on how useful an awp can be when played perfectly it affects the top awpers as much as anyone, so ya i think its actually super relevant that top awpers are still able to carry in games and still buying awps despite next to no time to relearn the new awping style thats way less scope reliant.

and this is also a big nerf to ct whether you recognize it or not. T side awping is based around a couple things depending on how the team itself plays:
Mid Control (d2/inferno/mirage/cache boost) - and in that sense the only one of those i see impaired by this change is cache, and teams have been moving away from taking mid control with a T-side awp in favor of more set plays anyway. hell d2 and inferno are benefitted because it is now literally impossible to peek with a double scope at full speed or near enough full speed to get the prefire which is the only way cts used to be able to peek t spawn or t stairs on those maps.

entry fragging

holding angles to keep rotators from retaking

(i would write out similar paragraphs explaining how the current awp still fulfills both those roles but i dont really want to write an essay in response to a post which contains next to no actual points)

tbh what i see hit the hardest by this change isnt t side awping, its ct side. aggressive awp pushes into say A main on cache, or deep into apts on inferno which are predicated on the idea that you can be constantly in a state of peeking ready to stop on a dime, take a shot, and run away. these "sliding awps of death" are not the role the awp fulfilled in 1.6, "aggressive awping" in 1.6 wasnt sliding around in scope, it was setting up in a forward, unexpected spot and waiting for an unsuspecting T.

similarly when holding an angle against rushing T's like say car area on dust 2 against a cat rush the awp cant force the T's into a lose-lose where if they hold they get peeked by a sliding awp and if they peek they get awped.

the awp remains a powerful weapon and one that will see use on T and CT sides, and i find it hard to believe someone can be so incensed by a change which makes the awp fulfill a role more similar to the one it fulfilled in 1.6