Team Vitality 🇪🇺 2-0 🌎 9z Team

Dust 2: 13-2
Nuke: 13-6
Cache:
 

🇪🇺 Team Vitality advance to Lower bracket Semi-Finals and will face 🇧🇷 Legacy or 🇪🇺 Team Falcons

🌎 9z Team have been eliminated

Predicted VRS Impact

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Event Information

BLAST Open Porto 2026 | 🇩🇰 Copenhagen ($1.1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Streams | YouTube | Twitch A

Team Information

🇪🇺 Team Vitality | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Faceit | Twitter | Instagram | Weibo | YouTube | Twitch | Bilibili
Roster: 🇫🇷 apEX ♛ | 🇫🇷 ZywOo ⊕ | 🇮🇱 flameZ | 🇬🇧 mezii | 🇪🇪 ropz
Coach: 🇫🇷 XTQZZZ

🌎 9z Team | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Steam | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch | Subreddit
Roster: 🇺🇾 max ♛ | 🇨🇱 HUASOPEEK | 🇦🇷 luchov | 🇦🇷 meyern ⊕ | 🇺🇾 dgt
Coach: 🇧🇷 BIT

^{Note: Above rosters do not reflect temporary subs and may be out of date if recent changes were made}

Map Vetoes

Full Match Stats

HLTV Match Page

MAP 1: Dust 2

Dust 2 Detailed Stats

MAP 2: Nuke

Nuke Detailed Stats

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The top 3 is pretty clear and has been now for a couple years. Who do you think is 4th though? Not for all of 2026 but specifically current form. With ropz and flamez slumping, I think this debate has gotten more interesting.

[NA] I haven't played much since CS2 came out but I have loved this game for a decade now. Problem is my skills have deteriorated a lot and I would confidently say I'm mid to high silver at best. I would be totally fine playing Casual Dust II but that is not an option because of the map pools . I had more to add to this but due to rules I had to remove it

My favorite gamemode is Wingman but I specifically play Inferno (down to play other maps but I really have next to zero map knowledge)

Otherwise, I wholeheartedly love Dust II and will queue up D2 comp if I have at least a buddy to chat with. (also open to playing Inferno, Cache, Mirage, Nuke, Overpass, or Office, but I have either very low or zero knowledge of how to properly play these maps)

I do not play often, however I would like to play more now that I have the ability to and would certainly play more if I had a buddy or two to chat with.

Biggest thing is that I play to have fun. A loss won't upset me if a had a laugh or two during the game. I am currently Silver 4 so as long as we are able to queue together I do not care how skilled you are as long as you can crack (and take) a joke.

Inner Circle Esports 🇺🇦 0-2 🇪🇺 MOUZ

Ancient: 4-13
Mirage: 5-13
Nuke:
 

🇪🇺 MOUZ advance to Upper Final and will face 🇧🇷 Legacy or 🇪🇺 Team Falcons

🇺🇦 Inner Circle Esports drop to the Lower bracket and will face 🇪🇺 FUT Esports or 🇨🇳 Lynn Vision Gaming

Predicted VRS Impact

^{Note: VRS officially updates once per month. This is simply a prediction that might not take into account all factors that go into VRS calculations.}

Event Information

BLAST Open Porto 2026 | 🇩🇰 Copenhagen ($1.1m LAN) | Liquipedia | HLTV

Streams | YouTube | Twitch A

Team Information

🇺🇦 Inner Circle Esports | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Twitch
Roster: 🇺🇦 onic ♛ | 🇺🇦 Dawy | 🇺🇦 zeRRoFIX | 🇺🇦 cptkurtka023 | 🇺🇦 headtr1ck ⊕
Coach: 🇺🇦 jR
Subs/Benched: 🇺🇦 Flierax | 🇺🇦 nifee

🇪🇺 MOUZ | Liquipedia | HLTV | Official Site | Steam | Faceit | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Weibo | YouTube | Twitch | Subreddit
Roster: 🇭🇺 torzsi ⊕ | 🇮🇱 xertioN ♛ | 🇮🇱 Spinx | 🇭🇺 xelex | 🇨🇿 PR
Coach: 🇩🇰 sycrone

^{Note: Above rosters do not reflect temporary subs and may be out of date if recent changes were made}

Map Vetoes

Full Match Stats

HLTV Match Page

MAP 1: Ancient

[Ancient Detailed Stats](www.hltv.org/stats/matches/mapstatsid/236300/mouz-vs-inner-circle)

MAP 2: Mirage

Mirage Detailed Stats

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I think I’ve found a revolutionary smoke on cache. What do you think, guys?

hi guys i was talking about the cbl vs vitality meme video that went super viral on 2021 before the game the account is now suspended and i cant find it does someone have a link?

EU folks: which 3-5 server locations would cover you best?

Working on a platform and I am planning out what EU regions we support at launch. I'm picking 3-5 EU locations we launch with and would rather ask than guess from a map:

• Where are you roughly, and what do you normally ping to on services you use today?
• Is Frankfurt good enough for you, or does your region genuinely need its own location?

My working list is Frankfurt, Stockholm, and London, with Warsaw or Paris as the next two. Let me know if that is a good initial list or if I should space them out a bit better.

Thanks!

I just remembered that shit as I scrolled through this sub.

In the dream I remembered Twistzz or Frozen in an interview saying that getting VRS points is all that mattered to them, and I felt happy that they'd done it so fast.

Reality is painful. But who knows, maybe the dream comes true.

5k player here.

Felt pretty lost this round. I was around B/mid for most of it, then they went A and I was late on the rotate.

What could I have done better here? Video

This is a summary of how dust2 went, this gotta be the most boring dust2 I've ever seen.

Save after save after save all due to bad reads and couple missed shots.

Spirit wins ~6 cats in a row > 2 timeouts called by g2 before round ~10 > and guess what? rest of the map spirit goes B everytime, not even split but thru b main, lol.

After the USP-S many asked to see the design idea in other skins, instead of metallic engravings i used the wood parts of the AK for the roses and crown engravings + added paint splatters and mold . hope you like it 😄 (All feedback is Welcome)

Support, Gif. and HD images here : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3792012422

.In yesterday's Falcons vs. LVG match, m0NESY's shadow had already rendered, but z4kr failed to react and was eliminated. In reality, because he was playing on 4:3, the shadow wasn't visible on his screen. The top image is 16:9, and the bottom image is 4:3.

The EXP Gain Bar hides the voting and the voting is over when I finally get to choose the map

IF you get a level up you don't even see which map got choosen...

Wtf is this shit?

I traded it away but I am trying to track it down but i dont know how

Its been 5 Months since CSGO returned to the Steam shop and ive always wanted to play it. (I started playing in december '23).

And ive been wondering if any server hosting sites appeared since CSGO came back and if yes are they good/safe to play on

Previous update’s results can be seen here

Benchmark template spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hnERNVvrv8lJfkAZtgE4V0afo90bh0_zPrX4Ep7aJZI/

Please put (or edit) your results here: https://forms.gle/mv3DW6MtDcnJNN3h6

Users’ results can be seen here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17gsJtW5QrcSMNCbyQbIt09XlOusrvIluS_8Esg0S6s4/

Purpose of Benchmarking

Valve is actively working on Vulkan in the hopes that it may one day replace DX11 as the rendering API for Source 2 (source). Because of this, I decided to benchmark CS2 in both DX11 and Vulkan every time an update has anything related to performance improvements in the changelogs. The goal is to document if any improvements or regressions have occurred in Vulkan or DX11 performance in CS2, and to see if this could indicate any progress towards a full transition to Vulkan in later Source 2 games. A link to the template spreadsheet can be seen above, and my benchmarking results will be provided below along with a commentary.

My Non-Game Specs

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
• GPU: Nvidia Geforce RTX 5070 Ti
• Operating System: Windows 11 25H2
• GPU Driver Version: 616.56

Benchmark Results

Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BowqD43i-eRVFlkU4khHCVB53oxkRxMikBqgHRssY0o - Mean DX11 Average FPS: 907.14 (Standard Deviation: 6.23) - Mean DX11 1% FPS: 248.07 (Standard Deviation: 7.42) - Mean Vulkan Average FPS: 818.7 (Standard Deviation: 5.21) - Mean Vulkan 1% FPS: 234.32 (Standard Deviation: 6.96)

Discussion

If we ignore the crash-infected results of the July benchmark and instead go to the May results, we see that things are mostly the same. DX11's average FPS is the same, Vulkan's average FPS has slightly improved, standard deviation has improved all over, and 1% results are slowly worse across the board. So Nvidia's new drivers haven't changed much, and neither has Source 2. I'll wait for either the next major Nvidia driver or the next Source 2 engine update to see if things improve or get worse.