One of the biggest Counter-Strike leagues of the year has just kicked off. It’s called the ESL Pro League and is running across Europe and North America, with 12 teams in each region.
It’s immediately interesting for locals thanks to the presence of Renegades, whose CS:GO team consists of five Australians. But there’s a more immediate, and funnier, reason to pay attention.
The latest match between Danish outfit Astralis and the Ukranian stalwarts Natus Vincere (Na’Vi) looked like being a complete blowout. It was being played on Overpass, which can be a bit of a nightmare offensively. The counter-terrorists — that’s the defending team — have plenty of excellent defensive positions on both sites, and it can take a lot of co-ordination to break teams down.
Na’Vi wasn’t having much luck breaking Astralis down. It was 8-1 in the first half, and things were going so badly that even the bomb was conspiring against the Ukranians.
There’s plenty of similarly hilarious instances of people being saved from headshots and stray bullets by throwing away rifles at the last moment. Thing is, you don’t see an awful lot of them crop up in professional play.
But perhaps the best part of all of this was the result. Astralis went on to wipe the first half 13-2. The end score? Na’Vi won 16-14.
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2 responses to “In Counter-Strike, Sometimes Even The Bomb Conspires Against You”
So… for someone who doesn’t play CS, what happened here? The article doesn’t say and I don’t understand what’s happening in the clip.
when the first guy gets killed, the bomb falls off is back, in the line of sight of the sniper, the sniper shoots at the enemy, but hits the bomb instead, blocking the shot.
At 0:29 the Terrorist player on the left, the one carrying the bomb, gets shot by a CT player. The bomb is flung into the air crosses in front of the shot taken by the player the camera is focused on. Instead of a one-shot kill on the CT player (the AWP sniper rifle can one-hit kill with a body or head shot), the bomb is hit and the CT is unaffected.