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nice read thanks. where did u get that info from? wanna know more, really curious :D

why don't we use crt today then?

Unexpectedly good takes on IQ from both norwegian and anime guy

there is no evidence to suggest that. very few people are doing iq tests as a competetive activity, or activly trying to improve their iq test scores. it could be anything from more school availability, better nutrition, better knowlege about good condition for kids, there could be evolutionary pressure since being smart has been more important in recent years compared to other forms of evolutionary fittness.

Competition can drive improvement to the degree that a combination of genetics and environment allows, if tomorrow a plague killed all men who are above 160cm height, you are still gonna have basketball, and the scene may be more competent as the teams competing could be more even, yet, you can't possibly say that it was a higher quality scene than the one pre-plague. To assert that the 2023 scene is the absolute peak of counter-strike depth in quality is just contemporary narcissitic delusion from players/viewers who have not been around for very long or are simply not very cerebral, and im not saying this is your case at all, this is what i can observe from most people making those types of comments. In terms of quantity and competitiveness, i would say that CSGO is at its peak today, since the scene is more even and there are many more teams with some resemblance of basic infrastructure covered (well organized travel, vacations, high or at least decent salaries by their countries standards, etc) , however, in terms of QUALITY, we are absolutely inferior to the peak of sheer quality from 2018-2020, unarguably, and also inferior to the quality of 2014-2016, arguably. One has to wonder, where would csgo be if it was not getting artificially inflated by venture capital and social media zoomer pandering? because if you start taking the some of the money away and you were left with the same players, teams and playstyles, you'd start to clearly see that the game is a fucking shithole, this is an aesthetically uglier scene (gameplay wise in every regard), with "superstars" that play aesthetically uglier cs all being done on seriously questionable foundations.

yeah but for spunj at least you could argue he was primary calling (although, strats back then feel like mm ideas nowadays😂) ive tried calling a little bit at 2k elo, i was shit mind you, but it really affected my individual performance having to think of all the possible scenarios etc, so i always cut igl's some extra slack, knowing kinda how they sacrifice mechanics over the team's best interest

You can only beat whos in front of you, m0E went down the Source route, source existed whether we like it or not, i didnt like source, i didnt hate source. m0E was a good pro player in source I guess i agree with you that m0E is lucky that the zoomers he played with in GO were okay with playing with him, whereas the zoomers of today would probably not want to play with a 30 year old "washed old dog" or something But up until that point, he had earned the relations he had with other people in NA because most of the 1.6 NA scene decided esports was lame and cringe and peaced out, isn't it logical that the very few that decided to stick with the game even through the roughest times will have the deepest connection? even if they dont like eachother much. And yes i definitely agree with you that you dont need to be the best to make a living in Esports, but thats way more true today than it was in 2014.