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5 months ago
moOe
The world is trying to bury CS

I started playing cs just when everyone was about to switch to 1.6 I believe this happened early 2003, which I believe Even then people didn’t want to accept the change since most people are afraid of change. However it happened and everyone was loving it until Valve just had to kill it. A year later when I was getting hold of 1.6 and started owning the noobs on the servers, the time when the esports opened up really good to the world. Half Life 2 came and obviously they needed to mix in counter-strike. Voila source came alive, The 1.6 community was against it in every possible humanly way.

So the esports competition couldn’t have source as their official tournament game. However the source pest slowly crawled over the 1.6 community and it’s major tournaments. CPL who already had problems with the Quake community, well when it announced in January 2006, that the CPL summer will have Counter-Strike:source will be its official tournament game it did the biggest mistake in it’s history. Well for those who don’t know check my earlier article(CPL down, time for other leagues to shine).

Even today we still got great tournaments that supports cs 1.6, tournaments like CEVO, CB Eurocup, WCG , ESWC etc. Money makes the world go around as they say, I found something very interesting and it’s bad news for us who supports 1.6. Over at gotfrag.com they have something called money list. It calculates all the price for the tournaments that hosted counter-strike 1.6, well I did some math which let me round it up. $ 1, 130,000, yeah that’s all the prize money from all the tournaments for 2007.....

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5 months ago
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I notice all the tournies in the US are pretty much Source. It seems all the European tournies are 1.6 (which I prefer.) Sucks for me being in the states. Oh well, go Euros! Keep 1.6 alive.
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Feels like the big tournaments everywhere is giving up on 1.6, a lot of it has to do with the money.
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You see this is a common mistake with alot of people. 1.6 is played alot more than css ever has and the reason for the lack of lan's pricemoney and just overall dead'ness of 1.6 is just majour tourenements and sponsor's un-willling to sponsor teams. At the end of the day sponsor's, valve, and tournements gernerally dont care about 1.6 which is a real shame and a tournement that keeps on keeping 1.6 alive for me is WCG which is always choosing 1.6 every year which i think is really great of em :D. There is not alot as a community we can do about this, it's just all about money and as you said "makes the world go round". I remeber when i started playing cs in september or 2003 it was so fun and enjoyable. There was none of this e-hardism you see these days and everyone just wanted to play the game :D Also their was no steam w00t :D. Anyway yes they are trying to kill 1.6 but as long as we as a comunity keep playing it in our hundred's of thousand's it will never completly die. The only way to kill it would to be either to close all 1.6 tournements or for valve to create a new cs on a new half-life engine comepleltly different to 1.6 and css this could bring both communities together again in a completly new game.
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