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Today we are going to talk about the annual e-sports feast, but also one of the most important events of CS:GO - Katowice, this competition has given birth to many legends, many stories, as a loyal audience of CS:GO, this issue takes you to understand its history.
Katowice 2014
Katowice 2022
Katowice is a southern city in Poland, where the CS:GO event has been held annually since 2014. And 2022 Cato has just finished playing, I believe you can still remember the galaxy battleship roaring through the spodek stadium picture.
Due to the scale of the event, the team lineup and the excellent production of the organizers, Katowice has a high status in the minds of players, plus two seals of the gods, IBP and Titan, which are also produced in 14 years, so many people have equated the prints with Cato... Each time, a player will ask what kind of print cato is this time. In fact, whether there is a stamp depends on which organizer the V Society will hold the Major, and only the Major can be printed, which is equivalent to the joint name of the V Society and the event party.
Katowice has hosted a total of three Majors in 2014, 2015 and 2019. In the history of CS:GO, in addition to the 3 Majors in 2014 and 2015, since 2016, the V Society has set the number of Majors to 2 on the grounds that the competition is too intensive. (The cause of the epidemic is that there is no Major in 2020, only one in 2021)
Katowice's trophies look the same every year when we watch the competition, in fact, it is not just the same length, it is the same. Unlike other competitions, where the trophy is awarded to the champion team, Cato engraves the champion's name on the trophy and waits for the engraving to be filled before replacing the next one.
Katowice in 2014 was not as mature as the current event process, the analysis desk at that time did not have professional analysts, basically invited the players who did not have the game to do the analysis, the analysis desk of the final was the top commander of the Heroic team, CadiaN, who roared at the sky, look at the youthful appearance of the year, I did not recognize it for half a day.
And the uniform he was wearing was a rat! He spent less than 3 months in rats, and he is not even written about in the records of the history of the rats.
Next, let's talk about that year's Kato VP team won their only Major title at home with an all-Polish squad.
Look at the crowded Spodek Stadium that year, there are nearly 7,000 spectators on the scene, how spectacular it is to sit full, this year's final FaZe playing G2 is also two top streams, but compared to 14 years, this session is really a small witch (after all, there is an impact of the epidemic).
After this Major, VP became a legendary Polish team that maintained the lineup for 5 years, and many people still miss the old VP. However, at that time, the VP was not inevitable to win the championship, because in the early days of CS:GO, NIP was the great devil, and the dynasty they established lasted for more than 1 year, and interestingly, they only won the Major championship.
NIP played the first 5 Major and won 4 runners-up and 1 championship, which can be said to be a crotch pull as soon as it reaches the final, which is very similar to a legendary player today.
The VP squad includes legendary Polish players who have continued CS1.6: Neo, the god of war, TAZ, whose age is written on the scalp, and the friend of all of us, pashabiceps.
In Katowice in 2014, pasha was more brilliant than the other two veterans in terms of play, and he won the MVP of this major, and the final was second only to Snax's play, with a 1.49 rating. You should know that the current rating 2.0 system was not used, and if it is put into the present, it may be 1.6rating.
TAZ and Neo swept the major events of CS1.6 since 2007, until the successful transformation of CS:GO in 2012 brought their successful experience together. Although the initial results were not ideal, after several substitutions, they finally found the experience that could integrate them, and successfully played two thigh-level young players with personal ability.
Polish White Bear Snax, who is 20 years old but is already the core of the team, played the first number in the team in the final against NIP. Another young player, Byali, was only 19 years old at the time and reached the peak of his life in only half a year.
After the introduction of the 5 contestants, let's talk about the map, and this year's Major only had 5 maps, namely: town, sand two, desert, nuclear and train. Even in the case of only 5 maps, the map bias is still very serious, and the town is almost a must-have map for every BO3, followed by desert and sand two. The core and the train are basically the cold map or the map that the professional players feel unbalanced, so it can be seen that although everyone occasionally complains about the current map pool, after all, the balance and the number of seven maps are indeed very reasonable.
That year's final is very exciting even if it is put to the present, and the old VP is worthy of the tactical team characterized by communication and communication. In 14 years CS:GO was only introduced for more than a year, the desert attackers actually fought almost as much as today. By the current standard of judging, their rhythm has fast and slow, synergy, props, and all the smoke in the middle of the road. Of course, here we also have to praise the economic system modified by the V Society, when the final still had an economic reset, which is well known to old players, winning a hand and losing only 1400 knives.
NIP scored 1 point each at 0:3 and 1:7 respectively, the first half was a 2:8 start, 10 games had played 3 pure ECO innings, 2 1/2 half starts, and then removed the pistol innings and only played 4 long gun innings. This economic system is simply torture, after the first half of the game by the desert maze attacking VP took 11 points, the mentality has collapsed half. After a collapse, plus the 2 maps of the Fira people combined to kill a total of 9 people of the miserable play, may not be suitable for the final NIP.
The 2014 Cato Major is also the first Major of CS:GO to go out of the team print, because the first Major - DH Winter Race is a dropped souvenir bag, and there is only one event party or sponsor stamp on the skin of the gun after opening, so 2014 Cato is the earliest CS:GO team print in the history of CS:GO.
From the player Oh de Pain
There are two of the most legendary prints of CS:GO now: Titan and iBP, because it is the first stamping competition, so most players buy it and paste it themselves. The number of survivors is small, and the IBUYPOWER team was hammered due to the fake match, resulting in the club being banned by the V Society along with 4 players. Titan was called up to KQLY after this tournament, and he was permanently banned by VAC during his time playing for the Titans, resulting in the damage to the club's image, the withdrawal of sponsors, and finally the club could not continue to operate and had no choice but to disband.
The genius teenager swag of the iBP team
Titan Team's KQLY
In addition to the prints, let's take a look at some of the familiar faces that everyone can see now, in this year tabseN and tizian are already teammates, one 18 years old and one 17 years old, once again proving how important it is to debut early. The performance data of the two of them in 2014 is similar to that of now, the position is basically the same, and the level of the team they play for is also repeatedly friction between the first and second lines, interpreting what is called from one to the end from another dimension, showing the spirit of German craftsmen.
Do you recognize the 18-year-old tabseN?
At that time, big-eyed Dignitas had a 3-man group of the later Dynasty Legend A team: Adu, Atang and 9 Ye, that year Atang ge entered the TOP20 to open his TOP20 list show, but unfortunately this year he may be a little difficult.
Big Cousin and Gla1ve, apEX, who is now the top conductor, also participated in this Major competition. At the same time, from the overall point of view, it can be said that France, Denmark, Sweden 3 countries stand tall, each country has 3 whole teams, at least 15 people.
Interestingly, three years of Hedong and three years of Hexi, now the newcomers of these 3 countries are basically in a precarious position. Today's CS:GO is the turn of the CIS district, due to the continuous emergence of new people, it seems to have become the embodiment of the highest level of CS:GO, after experiencing round after round of dynastic changes, then the question is, when will it be the turn of CNCS?
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