117 Fun Facts About CS:GO

Which studio co-developed Counter-Strike: Global Offensive with Valve, having begun by porting its predecessor?

Hidden Path Entertainment was porting the previous Counter-Strike to consoles when Valve saw the chance to turn the job into a full new game.

Which console version of CS:GO let players use motion controls or a USB keyboard and mouse?

PlayStation 3 players could use a DualShock pad, the PlayStation Move wand or a keyboard and mouse, which IGN's review counted as an edge over the Xbox 360 version.

In CS:GO's Arms Race mode, a kill with which weapon wins the match?

Golden knife is the last weapon in Arms Race: players trade up through the guns as they score kills, and the first to kill with the golden knife wins the match for their team.

What do CS:GO teams do after 15 Competitive rounds?

Swap sides: at halftime the teams trade roles, so each plays both Terrorist and Counter-Terrorist; the first to 16 round wins takes the best-of-30 match.

Which CS:GO mode arms every player with only an SSG 08 rifle and a knife?

Flying Scoutsman gives every player only an SSG 08 sniper rifle, nicknamed the Scout, and a knife, with gravity lowered so players float through long jumps.

In which CS:GO mode does everyone choose a loadout card instead of buying weapons?

Retakes starts with the bomb already planted: three Terrorists hold the site, four Counter-Terrorists try to win it back, and all of them pick from loadout cards.

Which equipment new to CS:GO kills an enemy in one shot at close range?

The taser (Zeus x27), new to the series in CS:GO, kills in one hit at very close range whatever armour the target wears, but it holds a single shot, so a miss leaves its owner exposed.

Which popular CS:GO community mod has players complete obstacle courses with advanced strafing and jumping?

Kreedz Climbing, or KZ, began when a mapper called Kreedz built the first climbing maps for the original Counter-Strike; other mappers took up the idea, and it later reached CS:GO servers.

What was the name of the August 2013 update that introduced weapon skins and cases to CS:GO?

The Arms Deal update of August 2013 introduced weapon skins, weapon cases and keys; the skin economy it created helped push CS:GO's player count past every earlier Counter-Strike.

Which purchasable events, accessed via passes, gave players objectives and an upgradeable coin?

Operations were time-limited events bought via an operation pass; each gave players missions and a coin that upgraded from bronze toward diamond as objectives were completed, with some revenue going to the community map makers.

What did CS:GO's October 2014 update add that plays the round MVP's own soundtrack for everyone?

Music kits swap the default soundtrack for tracks Valve commissioned from outside artists; when a kit's owner is named round MVP, their music plays for everyone in the match.

Which classic CS:GO map was remade and re-released in February 2016 as part of Operation Wildfire?

Nuke had been dropped from the competitive map pool in 2015 over balance problems; Valve rebuilt it and brought it back alongside Operation Wildfire in February 2016.

What did a player need to link to their account for CS:GO Prime matchmaking in 2016?

Prime matchmaking launched in April 2016 and required linking a verified phone number to the Steam account, aiming to keep legitimate players away from cheaters and from high-skill players smurfing on alternate accounts.

In October 2016 CS:GO's consumable graffiti items revived which customisable feature of earlier Counter-Strike games?

Sprays were custom images players could paint on walls in earlier Counter-Strike games; missing from CS:GO for four years, they came back in October 2016 as graffiti items with 50 uses each.

Which publisher released CS:GO in mainland China in September 2017?

Perfect World launched CS:GO in mainland China through its own launcher, free to players who verified their identity; the company later brought a Counter-Strike Major to Shanghai.

What was CS:GO's hidden matchmaking score, introduced in November 2017, called?

Trust Factor became CS:GO's default matchmaking after Valve's trial found it led to fewer player reports; it weighs behaviour across Steam, and Valve keeps the full list of inputs secret.

Which battle-royale mode was added to CS:GO in late 2018?

Danger Zone starts players with only their fists; they scavenge cash and order weapons on a tablet, which a delivery drone then flies in.

Which 2019 CS:GO operation introduced equippable agent characters and a battle pass?

Operation Shattered Web arrived in November 2019, the first operation since Hydra in 2017, and let players replace the default models with agents earned or bought through its battle pass.

CS:GO source code leaked in April 2020 alongside the code for which other Valve game?

Team Fortress 2 had its code leaked alongside CS:GO's in April 2020; some fan-run servers went offline as a precaution until Valve said players on current official builds were not at risk.

A controversial 'boost' spot used by olofmeister at DreamHack Winter 2014 came on which map?

Overpass was the deciding map: trailing 3-13, olofmeister's team used the boost to overlook much of the map and stormed back, but after a protest and an ordered replay they forfeited the match.

In 2019 Valve made new CS:GO keys untradeable after concluding key trading was being used for what?

In October 2019 Valve said key trading had become money laundering by fraud networks, stating 'nearly all' key purchases that ended up traded on the marketplace were fraud-sourced, so newly bought keys became untradeable.

In July 2018 Valve disabled case opening in which two countries over their gambling laws?

Belgium and the Netherlands had both ruled that paid loot boxes broke their gambling laws; Valve first froze item trading for Dutch players, then restored it and blocked case opening instead.

Which team threw a match in CS:GO's 2014 match-fixing scandal, earning four of its players Valve bans?

iBUYPOWER lost on purpose to NetCodeGuides.com in a 2014 league match, and skins won by betting on the result were passed to its players; Valve barred four of them from its sponsored events.

Which player escaped the 2014 match-fixing bans by refusing any payment, and later won a Major?

Skadoodle was the only one of the five players in the thrown match not banned, because he refused a share of the winnings; in 2018 he won the Boston Major and was named its MVP.

CS:GO's 2020 coaching scandal involved coaches exploiting a bug to do what?

Coaches used a spectator bug to see parts of the map they should not have, giving their teams a bird's-eye view of opponents; the Esports Integrity Commission banned 37 coaches in its first wave.

Which $4,750 sniper rifle in Counter-Strike kills with one hit to the chest, even through armour?

The AWP kills with a single hit anywhere above the legs, armour or not; in return, a kill with it pays only $100 in Competitive play, against $300 for a kill with a standard rifle.

The 2017 ELEAGUE Major in Atlanta was broadcast on which US cable network?

TBS is a Turner network, and Turner created ELEAGUE with the talent agency WME/IMG as a made-for-television esports league before hosting the Major at Atlanta's Fox Theatre.

CS:GO won an eSports title-of-the-year prize at which awards ceremony in 2015?

The Game Awards 2015 decided its eSports Game of the Year by fan vote, and CS:GO won it ahead of Dota 2, League of Legends, Hearthstone and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

The first Valve-recognised CS:GO Major, DreamHack Winter 2013, was held in which country?

DreamHack Winter 2013 was held in Jönköping, Sweden, at the DreamHack festival; players helped fund its $250,000 prize pool by buying keys for a special eSports weapon case.

Which team won the first CS:GO Major in 2013?

Fnatic were the upstarts of DreamHack Winter 2013: in the final they beat the heavy favourites 2-1, an upset that won them the $100,000 first prize.

Which team's CS:GO lineup put together an 87-0 LAN map winning streak in 2012-13?

Ninjas in Pyjamas won 87 straight maps on LAN in CS:GO's first year; the team then reached five of the first six Major finals but lifted the trophy only once, in 2014.

Ahead of MLG Columbus 2016, Valve raised the Major prize pool from $250,000 to what?

$1,000,000 became the Major prize pool starting with MLG Columbus 2016, four times the old figure; at the same time Valve cut the number of Majors a year from three to two.

Which organisation's Brazilian roster won MLG Columbus 2016 to become the first non-European Major champion?

Luminosity Gaming, led by FalleN, won MLG Columbus 2016 as the first non-European Major champion; the same roster won the next Major, ESL One Cologne 2016, playing under the SK Gaming banner.

Most of the Gambit players who won the 2017 Kraków Major came from which country?

Kazakhstan was home to most of Gambit's line-up, the first CIS team to win a Major; less than three weeks after the final, veteran Zeus left to rejoin his former team.

Which team won the 2018 Boston Major to become the first North American Major champion?

Cloud9 were one round from defeat on the deciding map before forcing overtime and winning in double overtime, the first Major title for a North American team.

Which Danish team won the most CS:GO-era Majors, with four?

Astralis saw Kjaerbye, the MVP of their 2017 Major win, go to rivals North early in 2018; with Magisk in his place they won the next three Majors.

Which city lost the first South American CS:GO Major when the 2020 event was cancelled over COVID-19?

Rio de Janeiro saw its Major pushed from May to November 2020 and then cancelled outright; the city finally staged one in late 2022, the first Major held in South America.

Which team won PGL Major Stockholm 2021 without dropping a single map, a CS:GO first?

Natus Vincere won every map they played in Stockholm, the first team to take a Major without losing one; it was also the first Major in more than two years, after the pandemic wiped out 2020's.

s1mple, HLTV's No. 1 player in 2018, 2021 and 2022, is from which country?

Oleksandr 's1mple' Kostyliev is from Ukraine, born in Kyiv; his falling double no-scope at Cologne 2016 was so admired that Valve marked the spot on the map Cache with graffiti.

Which organisation won PGL Major Antwerp 2022, the first international roster to win a Major?

FaZe Clan beat the defending champions 2-0 in the Antwerp final; captain karrigan had left the team in 2019, returned in 2021 and, at 32, became the oldest player yet to win a Major.

Under which neutral name did the Virtus.pro roster win a CS:GO Major in 2022?

Outsiders was the neutral banner Virtus.pro's roster adopted in March 2022, after tournament organisers barred teams they tied to the Russian government; under it they beat Heroic 2-0 in the final.

Which French organisation won BLAST Paris 2023, the final CS:GO Major?

Team Vitality had missed the playoffs at the previous Major six months earlier; in Paris they beat GamerLegion 2-0 in the final in front of a home crowd.

Which French sniper was named HLTV's best player of 2019 at the age of 19?

ZywOo had kept professional teams waiting: his mother insisted he finish school and pass his baccalauréat first, so he only turned pro in 2018, the year before he topped the ranking.

Where was the first Counter-Strike 2 Major held in March 2024?

Copenhagen's Royal Arena hosted the first Counter-Strike 2 Major in March 2024; during the playoffs a stage invader was tackled into the trophy, smashing it, in a stunt claimed by a skin gambling site.

Which classic map did designer David Johnston add to the original Counter-Strike in March 2001?

Dust II was David Johnston's sequel to his own map Dust; doubting it could match the original, he first titled it 'Dust 3', reasoning that nobody expects a third instalment to be as good.

The original Counter-Strike began in 1999 as a mod for which game?

Counter-Strike began in 1999 as a Half-Life mod by Minh Le and Jess Cliffe; it grew so popular that Valve bought the rights and hired both of them.

Counter-Strike: Source (2004) was developed by Valve with which studio, later famous for Left 4 Dead?

Turtle Rock Studios had already worked with Valve on Condition Zero and the Xbox version of Counter-Strike; Valve bought the studio in 2008, the year its Left 4 Dead came out.

Which grenade's effect became a physical object in Counter-Strike 2, growing to fill spaces and reacting to gunfire?

Smoke grenades in Counter-Strike 2 make a cloud that spreads to fill its surroundings; bullets punch brief holes in it and an HE grenade blast clears it for a moment.

Support for which operating system was dropped when Counter-Strike 2 arrived?

Apple macOS lost support when Counter-Strike 2 launched, along with DirectX 9 and 32-bit systems; Mac owners were left with only a legacy version of CS:GO to play.

What is the numerical ranking used in Counter-Strike 2's Premier mode called?

CS Rating is the number Premier players earn in Counter-Strike 2; it places them on global and regional leaderboards, while regular Competitive keeps separate skill groups for each map.

Under Valve's rules, who holds a team's Major qualification spot?

The players hold the spot under Valve's rules, not the organisation: when three EnVyUs players moved to G2 Esports in 2017, EnVyUs lost the qualifier place it had earned at the previous Major.

Since 2017 the Counter-Strike Major group stages have used which tournament format?

The Swiss system replaced four-team GSL groups at the 2017 ELEAGUE Major: teams with the same record keep meeting until three wins send a side through or three losses send it home.

Which high-profile French pro was VAC-banned in 2014 while playing for Titan?

Hovik 'KQLY' Tovmassian was VAC-banned in November 2014 while playing for Titan, days before DreamHack Winter 2014, which cost the team its place at the Major; VAC bans are permanent.

What is the name of the CS:GO system in which experienced players review replays of suspected cheaters?

Overwatch hands trusted players an eight-round replay of a reported match; if the investigators collectively agree that an offence took place, the suspect is banned.

Which animals in CS:GO will trail behind a player who presses the use key on them?

Chickens follow whoever presses use on them until they are killed, and Valve dresses them up for the holidays: its December updates have put them in festive sweaters.

Which platform got CS:GO in September 2014, more than two years after the other versions?

Linux had no Steam client when CS:GO launched in 2012; Valve released one in February 2013 and then ported its own games across, with CS:GO arriving in September 2014.

Why did Valve drop CS:GO's planned cross-play between PC and consoles?

Valve cut cross-play to update the PC version freely, without waiting on the consoles; the console editions were then left behind while the PC game went on being patched for a decade.

What did two lawsuits filed in mid-2016 accuse CS:GO skin-betting sites and Valve of encouraging?

The two 2016 suits accused Valve and skin-betting sites of encouraging underage gambling and alleged undisclosed promotion by streamers; Valve responded by cutting the sites off from Steamworks, and several closed.

In Counter-Strike 2, a standard match ends when one team wins how many rounds?

13 round wins now end a Counter-Strike 2 match, down from the 16 that CS:GO required, so a full match runs to at most 24 rounds of regulation play.

What is the name of the seven-map pool used in Counter-Strike 2's Premier mode?

Active Duty is the group of seven maps Premier draws on; before each match the two teams take turns banning maps until one is left to play.

Which Brazilian star's jumping no-scope double kill at MLG Columbus 2016 was honoured with graffiti on Mirage?

Marcelo 'coldzera' David was defending a bombsite with his team one round from losing the map when he killed two rivals with a single leaping shot; his side went on to win the Major.

Which map did Valve rebuild from the ground up as an 'Overhaul' for Counter-Strike 2?

Inferno was rebuilt from the ground up on the new engine, while Dust II was left almost untouched as a 'Touchstone' so players could judge the new game on a map they already knew.

Who composed the new music for Counter-Strike 2?

Mike Morasky worked on visual effects for the Matrix and Lord of the Rings film trilogies before turning composer at Valve, where he also scored Portal 2.

Roughly how many Counter-Strike weapon cases did players reportedly open during 2023?

400 million: one case tracker counted 400,318,821 unboxings in 2023, and because every case needs a paid key, players spent about $980 million on keys alone.

Which Counter-Strike 2 mode pits two players against two on a single bombsite, first to nine rounds?

Wingman is played on smaller maps cut down to one bomb site, because four players are too few to contest two sites at once.

What kept Counter-Strike 2's Steam score high despite negative launch reviews?

CS:GO's old reviews carried over and made up nearly all of the 7.5 million on the page; Rock Paper Shotgun counted 3,450 reviews since launch, only 59% positive, a 'Mixed' score on their own.

What was Counter-Strike 2's invite-only beta, opened to select CS:GO players in March 2023, called?

The Limited Test opened with only Dust II, in Deathmatch and unranked Competitive, and Valve picked testers by their recent playtime on official servers and their Steam account standing.

What do CS:GO players call experts using low-ranked second accounts, a habit Prime matchmaking targeted?

Smurfing pits experts against beginners; with fewer such accounts getting in, Prime matches turn out more evenly balanced.

Which Soviet symbol was removed from the maps Cache and Train in the version of CS:GO released in China?

The hammer and sickle disappeared from both maps in the Chinese build, which also censored skulls and had to disclose the odds of its loot boxes.

Which Competitive Skill Group sits at the very top of the CS:GO ranking ladder that starts at Silver 1?

The Global Elite is the last of the Skill Groups players earn and display in Competitive mode, while the 2v2 Wingman mode hands out its own separate rank.

Which map from the original Counter-Strike took Cache's place in CS:GO's competitive pool in March 2019?

Vertigo is set on top of a skyscraper in an unnamed city, and it kept its competitive slot until Train took over in January 2025.

Which American CS:GO organisation was bought in 2017 by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and moved to Texas?

Complexity set up in Frisco after the sale, 14 years after Jason Lake founded the team in 2003.

In Counter-Strike 2, gunshots and hand grenades can reshape which battlefield obstacle in real time?

Smoke clouds in Counter-Strike 2 grow to fill the space around them and can be altered in real time by bullets or a grenade blast.

Which Valve-run service lets CS:GO fans upload their own maps and weapon skins for the community to judge?

Steam Workshop uploads can pay off: when Valve adds a community-made skin to a weapon case, its creators are paid.

Which Counter-Strike league's anti-cheat software was caught secretly mining bitcoin on its users' PCs?

ESEA's co-founder confirmed the report on the forums, by which point about $3,700 worth of bitcoin had been generated.

Which designer, known online as Gooseman, built the first Counter-Strike mod with Jess Cliffe as a student?

Minh Le borrowed his nickname from a hero of the 1980s cartoon The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, and Valve hired him in 2000.

In which CS:GO mode do players automatically receive armor and defusal kits, with team damage switched off?

Casual mode also runs a simplified economy and lets players drop in and out, which is why Valve pitches it as the place to learn the fundamentals.

Who claimed the Intel Grand Slam in 2019 by winning four big CS:GO tournaments in just 63 days?

Team Liquid finished the job in July 2019, the quickest any team had completed the Grand Slam.

Which organisation founded by ex-League of Legends pro 'ocelote' signed NiKo for its CS:GO team in 2020?

G2 Esports was founded in Spain in 2014 as Gamers2, taking its shorter name the following year and settling in Berlin.

The Brazilian five who won MLG Columbus 2016 were hired that July by which German organisation?

SK Gaming announced the signing only days before the lineup won ESL One Cologne 2016, so the German brand owned a Major title almost at once.

Which CS:GO team, built on the Australian squad Vox Eminor, was bought in 2016 by NBA player Jonas Jerebko?

Renegades had signed the Australian roster in June 2015, and the franchise changed hands after its founders were banned from owning a League of Legends team.

Which team's run to the 2019 Katowice Major final turned a fan song by Finnish duo The Verkkars into a viral hit?

ENCE lost that final, but the song named after the team's chant became the fourth-most-popular track in Spotify's Finnish top 50.

Which CS:GO map set in a Middle East-inspired town began as the community map de_cpl_strike?

Mirage was remade by Valve from Michael 'BubkeZ' Hüll's original in 2013 and went on to feature at every CS:GO Major.

Which name did Valve give the redesigned CS:GO interface that replaced the older Scaleform menus?

Panorama launched as a preview in June 2018, and Valve called it the biggest change to CS:GO's look and feel since the game came out in 2012.

Which CS:GO bomb-defusal mode upgrades a player's gun only after a kill in the previous round?

Demolition has teams take turns attacking and defending a single bombsite, working up to stronger weapons such as sniper rifles.

CS:GO's Arms Race mode is a variant of which kill-to-upgrade mod from earlier Counter-Strike games?

Gun Game hands players a new weapon after every kill, a formula Arms Race keeps, with instant respawns built for close-quarters fights.

Which skin-betting site was exposed in 2016 as owned by TmarTn and Syndicate, two YouTubers who promoted it?

CSGO Lotto's owners had not disclosed their stake in the videos, and Valve blocked the site from Steam only to lift the ban days later.

Which CS:GO matchmaking platform, founded in London in 2012, was bought alongside ESL in a $1.5 billion deal?

FACEIT and ESL were acquired together by Savvy Games Group, owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, and merged into the ESL FACEIT Group.

Which Brazilian team, co-founded by poker pro André Akkari, reached the semi-finals of the 2022 Rio Major?

FURIA went that far in front of a home crowd, its best Major result at the time, only five years after the club was founded.

Which security system, launched with Counter-Strike in 2002, at first banned cheaters for only 24 hours?

Valve Anti-Cheat bans later stretched to one year, then five, and became permanent once VAC2 arrived in 2005.

Which organisation's 2001 Winter Championship in Dallas became known as the first Counter-Strike 'Major'?

CPL, the Cyberathlete Professional League, put up $150,000 for that Dallas event and ran twice-yearly tournaments until it shut down in 2008.

Which organisation signed NRG's CS:GO roster a day before ESL One New York 2019 and saw it win the event?

Evil Geniuses had been out of Counter-Strike since dismissing its long-standing squad in 2012, so its comeback began with a trophy.

For which in-game item has Valve released a design for every team at a CS:GO Major since Katowice 2014?

Stickers fund the scene directly: half of each purchase goes to the team or player shown and half to Valve.

Which CS:GO map, added in late 2020, was created as a homage to the classic map de_aztec?

Ancient is set in an archaeological site, probably in Central America, and it took Train's place in the competitive pool in May 2021.

Which community-made map did Valve buy from its creators in 2022 to replace Dust II in the competitive pool?

Anubis went from the least popular competitive map to a favourite choice at the 2023 Paris Major.

Which Danish AWPer, real name Nicolai Reedtz, made HLTV's top three players five times between 2015 and 2020?

dev1ce was also an exceptional badminton player, but at 14 he turned down Denmark's big clubs, citing a knee injury and a greater passion for video games.

Which Swede, real name Christopher Alesund, did HLTV rank the best CS:GO player in the world in 2013 and 2014?

GeT_RiGhT is credited with popularising the lurker role in competitive play, and he joined the HLTV Hall of Fame in 2025.

Which Swedish star famously defused a bomb on Overpass milliseconds before a Molotov would have killed him?

olofmeister only took the game seriously after a knee injury at 15 ended his football, and he went on to win two Majors in 2015.

Which Brazilian did HLTV name the best CS:GO player in the world in both 2016 and 2017?

coldzera took the first of those awards in his first full year as a professional, having signed his first contract only in August 2015.

Which French AWPer, once considered CS:GO's best sniper, announced his retirement at the 2023 Paris Major?

kennyS bowed out one day after his 28th birthday, breaking the news just before a semi-final on home soil.

Which Brazilian two-time Major winner, real name Gabriel Toledo, also founded the organisation Games Academy?

FalleN was chosen as the most influential person in Brazilian esports in 2015, a year before he won both of his Major titles.

Which Danish rifler is the only player to win five CS:GO Majors and to have played in every one ever held?

dupreeh won his fifth in 2023 with a new team, beating the record of four he had shared with three former teammates.

Which Canadian, real name Michael Grzesiek, left pro CS:GO to become one of Twitch's biggest streamers?

shroud, once known as mEclipse, left the starting roster in 2017 and had more than 11 million Twitch followers by 2025.

Which American was named MVP of the ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018 and later became a full-time Twitch streamer?

tarik had already won ELEAGUE Season 2 with a different lineup, and in 2022 he signed with Sentinels as a content creator.

Which American, later a Major champion, signed his first big CS:GO contract hours after his 18th birthday?

Stewie2K had flown to Los Angeles at 17 to chase a career, was signed on a departing captain's recommendation, and won a Major two years later.

Which Norwegian, the longest-serving member of any CS:GO lineup, joined his team in its Team Kinguin days?

rain was hired by Team Kinguin in May 2015, when it was one of the first organisations to experiment with international rosters.

Which Estonian star played Call of Duty as a sniper before joining mousesports to play CS:GO in 2017?

ropz lifted a string of trophies with mousesports and was regarded as the MVP of the ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals.

Which Canadian rifler did HLTV name the MVP of both ESL One New York 2018 and IEM Sydney 2019?

Twistzz took the New York medal even though his team lost the final there, then earned the Sydney one as a tournament winner.

Which American rifler, born Jonathan Jablonowski, did HLTV rank the No. 4 player in the world for 2019?

EliGE traces his competitive streak to childhood, when he played his older brother's games determined to become better than him.

Which Russian AWPer, born in May 2005, did HLTV rank as the seventh-best player in the world for 2022?

m0NESY was only 17 when he collected his first HLTV MVP medal at a big event, and he climbed to second in the 2024 ranking.

Which Russian teenager, known for his aggressive style, was named HLTV's Player of the Year for 2024?

donk won it at 17 in his first full year as a professional, having first picked up Counter-Strike at the age of four.

Which Polish 'Golden Five' member did HLTV users vote Counter-Strike's greatest player of the decade in 2010?

NEO was rated by HLTV as the best player in the world for 2011, the year after that vote, and went on to win a CS:GO Major with Virtus.pro in 2014.

Which American veteran, a Counter-Strike 1.6 star before CS:GO, later guested on The Joe Rogan Experience?

n0thing, real name Jordan Gilbert, first made his name in Counter-Strike 1.6 as the star player of a top American team that signed him in 2008.

Which rifler was reunited with his cousin NiKo when the two became CS:GO teammates in October 2020?

huNter was already on the team when NiKo arrived after three and a half years elsewhere, and the cousins reached a Major final together in 2021.

Which Dane, real name Andreas Højsleth, was part of the first lineup to win three CS:GO Majors in a row?

Xyp9x, nicknamed the Clutch Minister, won those three in a row in 2018 and 2019 on top of an earlier Major title in 2017.

Which CS:GO map, added in March 2017, was the first new official map since Overpass in 2013?

Canals takes place in a city inspired by Venice, with a layout that breaks from traditional Counter-Strike level design.

Which Danish captain, real name Casper Møller, wanted to be a professional handballer before an injury?

cadiaN spent five months on a team's bench while working on TV coverage of the game, then became a captain and won ESL One Cologne in 2020.