The Majors And Me: Ranking All The CS:GO Majors Based On My Experience Pt. 2
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- Опубліковано 10 лис 2024
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*half an hour on how the military industrial complex exploits the working class and got his best friend killed* - "So what does this have to do with the Boston Major?"
Love this type of story telling. A little bit too rushed compared to your normal reporting. But it's still fire.
Gather round the campfire and snuggle up, this is the definitive history of the Majors, if not CS:GO as a whole. Truly next level shit Richard, hats off sir 🎩🧙♂️
I literally listened to this next to a campfire last night and it was amazing!
Rich literally Every Major: "It was a weird time in my life" 😂
But seriously, you're an amazing storyteller, and even though I don't even play computer games I could listen to you for hours (Actually am). Many things you say and advocate for can be applied in all facets of life, not only in esports.
P.S. do we get the "I hate it here - Dog, the Bounty hunter special"? ❤
Only 40 minutes in but I can't thank you enough Richard for this content. Learning about early CS from you and all the crazy stories that happened behind the scenes was great. It was like you said in part 1, it's an oral history of the majors. Fantastic stuff. Cheers as always
I remember the ritual of checking the casualties list daily when my little cousin did 3 tours in Iraq. He made it back, thankfully. Love you much brother
Really disappointed that you didn't mention the 600 euro chicken at faceit london richie but of course banging content as per
7 hours of great csgo content and history from a legend. What more could you want
Watched this and part 1, thought it was gonna be a tier list but didn't think I'd get this 8 hour mammoth of stories.
Thank you rich, been watching Cs since 2014 and Boston was still the most special.
Boston is eternal
So thankful for you and your videos. Im a newish CS fan, (2019 is when I really started watching consistently) and I'm really thankful for your oral history of early CS. Thanks for these and enjoy your night!
If you are newer pls go back and watch some of the big games and events from 2016-2018. You will love cs even more.
Bring back BTN pls rich and thorin! Some of the funniest, most insightful podcasts out there!
I remember being so excited to go to the London major as my first ever CS event and then they wheeled out the fucking chicken that they had to predict the winner and I remember just looking at my mates and wondering what the fuck we were watching. There were some moments in the Liquid/Astralis Nuke game that were pretty good as well as the Faze games but apart from that the games were pretty quick blowouts. Was a shame.
Amazing couple of videos. I began following pro cs with the Atlanta major, and listening to this has awoken some very fond memories I have of those years. A couple of anecdotal things I remembered was that Krakow was the major where Big abused the jump bug to 3-0 only to be smashed and for the life of me I can't find it anywhere but I could have sworn on the faceit major pala made a bohemian rhapsody csgo parody which I had forgotten about till now. Anyways, thanks for the amazing content. The way you describe the majors really is amazing, and I just with I had been there for more.
Incredible history of csgo, thanks for this. Shame about BTN but you gotta do what's best for you
This is top tier content i wish all the long time cs fans could see this, but sadly these videos won't be recommended to more people
Love hearing you reminisce about the times around these majors, on each one i go back myself like "Oh its when i was dating that person", "Its was while i was at this shitty work"
The best tierlist of the majors.
BtN back with you and thorin would be amazing, but the most important thing is your mental, so take care of yourself.
Great video. Enjoyed both part. Wish you were doing more CS events Rich
Thank you for these 2 incredible good videos. I mean cs needs your content and realness, this shows it for everyone.
I am very sad BTN makes u suffer so much. Its the best show I've ever watched. I watched every episode and it was my weekly highlight very often.
Have you considered leaving X(twitter) and doing the show with sub for at least 6 months only chat?
What exactly is twitter providing to you at this point? Hire someone you trust 100% to pre-filter your DMs if you really need it for e. g. investigations. Just some thoughts... Your health is the most important, so quitting the bad parts of twitter might be good for you, imo.
Great content. Thank you.
I find it sad to listen about the rubbings inside the talent workgroups.
It may just be inevetible in an environment prone to activate predatory instincts. Working an event, I wouldn't be intoxicating myself willingly in the vicinity of my business competitors. Sooner or later, someone says something, the other hears another thing and quality drama material is fruiting. The number of such nights in succession doesn't add up to a more happy work environment.
I have been waiting for part 2. Loved the first part, awesome stuff
This truly was a great video. I started watching right after Boston so Part 1 was more of a history lesson for me. Part 2 was a ,"Yep yep it's exactly how I saw it as well." A lot of confirmation. But keep up the great work. Would love to hear more content in future.
I thought you had lost your mind when you uploaded a 3 hour part 1 Major Tierlist, but after listening to it in just two sessions, I’m so blown away and absolutely hyped for part 2. I was a fan 2015-early 2016, and then fell off until 2019 - missing all of your S Tier events, so getting to hear about these tournaments from someone who was there is an absolute goldmine of knowledge.
Some of the best stuff to listen to when I'm at work. I was sad when this was pulled off the podcast feed.
God as a Brazilian fan Rio shattered my heart. I've been following the game since 2014, and I got to watch Brazilian CS through insane highs and terrible lows, and a chance to host a major is something we had been waiting for years. All of that just to see a terrible crowd with horrible mistreatment of players really sucked. All we got out of it was empty stadiums and even emptier excuses
I used to adore Gaules, as he truly was a pillar of our CS community, but I also blame him for enabling a lot of the toxic behavior we saw that weekend.
Thank you for the amazing content and stories Richard 🙏
This is the next best thing while anticipating your book on esports. The latter is one of my my most looked forward to pieces of media, but these two videos (or VODs, I watches it on twitch, so I'm not sure if that affects the visibility of my comment) have been amazing for their insight and entertainment, which for me (and I assume lots of your fans) is very much on brand with you.
I do appreciate your decision not to renew btn, get into CS2 and remove yourself from the community step by step, since I wish your well being to have priority.
Nevertheless I wanted to express that you are/were a Jewel to the counterstrike scene!
“You’ve got internet problems, you’ve got a patch that breaks it, you’re out of eggs.”
RL quote of the year
2:40 Does anyone have a link to that Riot Lyte dominatrix woman? That was hilarious and I want to see it again.
That's a deep cut
Great content Rich. Really enjoyed this!
Took me a week to get to the end of the video, thanks for the memories and details that escaped most of us behind our screens!
It's really wild that pgl will always be one of the most unwatchable majors because I remember watching live, my jaw on the floor and my wallet in shambles (I didn't have any money to bet but if I did..) as adren animorphed into a NiKo level threat for one tournament
richard casting the cs_summit rmr was so funny
I always thought Atlanta had one of the best crowds. The chant let's go VP/lets go Astralis almost 50/50 one after another not over top of each other the entire final was so insane. Best chant battle in a major final by far. It added to the huge back and forth brawl that was the final. I never knew people didn't think the crowd was good. Thats wild to me what a great event.
Loved that part of the recent IEM Dallas. “Let’s go G2 Let’s go Faze Clan” was so powerful
Ah nice I just finished part 1 earlier today. It’s great hearing Rich’s stories
"We wanted to do some witchcraft. Hire some witches."
Yeah, that's usually how it goes.
I loved watching these in their entirety and learning about your childhood best friend (Of which still has a plaque up in the school)
I would love any continued content between you and Duncan, Rich. BTN was the goat. But not to the detriment of your life. Take all the time u need to work things out the way you want to. Even if that means u phase out of the industry and into a different type of subject matter.
Another banger series. Thanks Richard!
Sad to hear the BTN chat at the end. The Richard & Thorin dynamic (with sam laughing in the background) is unmatched in the podcasting world.
US majors ALWAYS hit so hard. In my opinion, Boston, Atlanta and Columbus are all S tier events in my book. I can't wait for the Austin major. I just hoped it would have been in New York
banks interviewing always feels more like a meme, that red flower jacket he wears is WILD
The one thing banks does well when it comes to interviews is Navi players
The witchcraft stuff with friberg is hilarious lmao
Cant believe i listened 7 hours of this . Credit to you richard 😂😂😂
All this history just shows what we will be missing from the scene. Hope we deserve you spmeday.
First.. But nice to have some memory lane videos from good old days..
The tier list is secondary, the memoir is the most interesting part. Your time in E-League was probably the last time I cared about CSGO.
"It's the last major I've worked ... and the last one I'll ever work" Richard you slimy slimy man
What's slimy about me not anticipating PGL being awarded more majors?
@@RLewisReports Well you never know what happens and if only for your sake, I'm happy that Valve never stops backing PGL, looking forward to seeing you in more events in the future. Love your work and comment was all in good fun
I would love old By the numbers back
Absolute banger of a 2 parter
Didn't rush this watch. With how some of the titans of the talent crew faded away, and with some hard core-changes to the game, sadly my own focus also faded. We can't deny what stellar of a game CS:GO and CS is. However, CS:GO early on VS what it became at late 2015 VS after the summer and beyond? The CS i loved is blatantly, vastly, absurdly much more further towards the 1.6 i grew up with than anything else. And at one point, CS:GO was very close to exactly that. But as tend to be, industries rise and fall. And so does the talent. And so does a game that is managed by people that seemingly only grasp what a green paper slip is worth and not what competition and heroic glory consists of. Maybe it's why many and most of the valve CS dev people rarely if ever seem to do what is needed in order to have an ethically sound game? It's so hard to say, but something is wrong within valve and i think it's their blatantly casual core as a company that will only shine ever so rarely. But won't ever glow indefinitely. Valve got lazy. And blind. That's what comfort does to any fat company, just look at Intel and their absurd new-agenda corporate environment. And now, they also struggle hard to keep up with AMD. To summarize: The largest most popular chip/cpu company on earth is sucking massive dong and are blatantly loosing vs a company that's lead by a great woman. My recent theory from today, is that they are immune to the rainbow stuff by those 2 things. One, immunity thanks to Lisa Su - Two, their justified hatred is burning bright red against Intel and Nvidia literally trying to un-alive their company several times over. Greedy people in the corporate world tend to ruin things that goes far beyond their comprehension. It's sad, really. From a more balanced point of view, it's like watching children steal from each-other. Anyways, sick video. And may CS somehow get back to it's roots.
Regarding BTN, I really think that if you paywalled it you'd remove 99% of the vitriol.
Wheres my Richard and Sam on: Balkan geopolitics. Would be a banger
What happened to Mr. Sam "Banelor" Davies anyway? Really enjoyed trash talk, RL show & I hate it here. Any chance of him coming back anytime soon for another "I hate it here"?
Great video, my only comment is that Puckett should be remembered for his time in Halo rather than COD. We love him too much to ignore that.
Certified banger, some wild stories
Modest is not a word I'd use to describe the Richard Lewis lol
Absolute Banger
Also agree with OJ Bog as the best stage host. LETS GET IT ON!!
as an American I think Janko would have been meme'd to hell online but it would have gotten way more viewership lol we love accents and Janko is a good caster so people would have gotten over the accent. Maybe Im in the minority but I prefer the EU caster's over NA and Spunj + Janko would have been perfect
I like Richard because I feel like if I said something stupid he'd call me a moron
Every ELeague major should get +1 tier for dududu break music.
Love the content
Fuck me, was the witchcraft shit really that long ago?! We getting old man.
btn coming back would be awesome but your mental comes first! were ready when you are boss.
I would say Columbus and Antwerp are the only S-tier majors.
Both Katowice, Cologne 2015, Boston and Cluj are A-tier.
The worst are Rio, then London, then Berlin. Those are the only 3 D-tier.
All the others are either B or C.
maybe if pgl threaten to have jake lucky host the major, we could get richard back to events
Let the record show that today I was given a 99 c5
Would that be Ryan 'Superinjunction' Giggs? 😇 \m/
Havent watched ep 2 yet but wanted to comment in advance: Unlimited Eggs.
"I'm not going to get into Yugoslavia..."
Bro please bring back btn its the best fucking cs show ever. Put it behind a paywall and the bastards wont harass u over takes and stuff.
If anyone does not think Brazil is shit, watch the "send off" Glover Texeira got in his retirement fight in Brazil. Disgraceful.
I would have loved to have by the numbers back but if it fucks with your mental of course you shouldn't do it.
Lmao never heard of you until this video but you keep it 100 and was highly entertained for 3 hours
good
Yey
Why are show matches so shit, just put together the left over players together on a custom map. NA vs EU all stars should happen every major.
Im so sorry you had to deal with the fgc, as someone whos been watching almost every fighting game since 2007 that community is the most cancerous i think in any esport maybe besides LoL, there isnt a month that goes by where theres no bullshit going on
This truly was a great video. I started watching right after Boston so Part 1 was more of a history lesson for me. Part 2 was a ,"Yep yep it's exactly how I saw it as well." A lot of confirmation. But keep up the great work. Would love to hear more content in future.