Recently had a six week griefing ban. While I was away I managed to get a better PC and some other nice things. I've worked on my game a lot. Spending 10-20 minutes of basic warmups for mechanical purposes and at least 3 hours of DM a day. Well, I tried to at least. Usually broke it up in two 90 minute sessions. Some days I just didn't play. I'm here though, lets get a game some time.

RodShotHot (Bart)

I'm going to keep this one kind of short. I want to be clear with my thoughts and express my thoughts on how people are playing as well as I can.

First, a simple statement that can be debated. CS:GO t side is years a head of CT side in a sense of tactics. Most people are going to know how to take a bomb site in some way. Rather it be by early utility usage or excellent timing and clock management. But how well are people playing CT side?

"Hold site." The desperation com we've all heard at some point. 40 seconds leater you're smoked off, flashed twice and missing 50 hp. While your team is thinking rotate, you still have no info to give. There are fundamentals to CT side that can't be ignored. To me, gaining map control for info is most important. The second most important is just slowing down the obvious stuff. You should have a general idea which way someone can come from in the first thirsty seconds of a round, so use your utility wisely.

Map control. This would be easier to say, rather than typing it. But, think of maps in a 0-100 sense in terms of positioning. 20%, 40 yard line etc. just something that can be realitive to you, and help understand seeing important areas of the map you need to control.
On the CT side you know 0-20% of the map will be key late game on most maps. But thats all we know. We can listen, predict and try to hold sites in that fashion. This is where understanding the map comes in. Can the CTs push a spot really easy? Is there a downhill grenade thrown thats likely to do 300 damage? Are we over rotating?

Train, Mirage, Inferno, Cobblestone, and Cache are the maps in the practice pool. I will be covering CT sides. When we're gonna play 0-20 of the map and how/when to take 40% of the map. Map control doesnt mean rushing but its more aggresive at times than what most people are doing. I think the CT meta can be improved. After CT side we can talk T side, I somewhat expect most people to know a smoke, if not its fine. I can show you some of the basically utility and explain what it does.

Guys thanks for reading. Progress has haulted it seems. I think I need to stay in group chat. I afk a lot but i can always make time for some practice. I am putting in the hours to become a good IGL. I'm looking to add about 10 people, Once we're fundamentally sound I'll probably have an assistant coach role.

GGs

Iron sharpens iron. Hard work pays off. Motivation inspires.

There has been a seperation and lack of communication. The group is staying small as intended. I'm usually working on getting better at the game. I plan to do some video editing and uploading basic stuff we can do as a team.

If anyone ever wants to learn and put it some work, let me know. I have a lot of knowledge on smokes, flashes and something I see missing way too often, MOLOTOVS/INC. gernades. I also want to set up some simple CT positioning ideas. Mics should be for tactical use only. Better coms to set up crossfires and hold sites will go a long way for us winning CT sides.

01/19/2018,
Bart/Rodney

The holidays are upon us. Seasons greetings to all, but we still need practice. I am for training smokes for all maps Saturday at 11am EST. I would love to have the group dedicate 30 minutes to controlling maps. Taking sites, planning crossfires etc. I study the pros and put in lots of work to understand this game. I will have strats for any and all maps that everyone enjoys playing

Happy Holidays,
Rodney

https://discord.gg/KeYAVy

Share workshop maps that have helped you, or interesting warm up routines (if you even warm up), or send screenshots when you go off and drop a 40 bomb on some noobs!