A possible future of Counter-Strike

[@FullForceGaming]

CSGO has the deepest tier 2 and 3 scenes in esports. Watching teams like Ence and Avangar build from mostly brand new players and go to the top is very impressive.

[@JorgeAlbertoBenavidesOjinaga]

Major was great, but I miss the voices of Anders/Pansy/Semmler.

[@Punkledunk]

Jorge Alberto Benavides Ojinaga me too

[@Yukari_MAiG]

You said it man. Absolutely agree

[@hezonJArecide]

Pansy :puke:

[@lol2easy]

Anders is the most overated caster of the lot. Glad he's taken a break. His analysis was poor and his hype was overused and fake.

[@JorgeAlbertoBenavidesOjinaga]

@@lol2easy Thats like... your opinion bro. I like that he calls the 200iq plays while it happens, not after.

[@wesam6385]

Best fucking caster in esports hands down. Wishing you best of you luck in your life

[@simonscholl4896]

Nice, thank you for your thoughts. Can't wait to see you cast again. :)

[@Nathan-hs2ut]

Love these vids, can't wait to see you back on stage casting!

[@Nathan-hs2ut]

And hope you're doing well.

[@sh0gun___]

I can't believe Male Feminist champion Anders Blume would allow ximself to be interviewed by the self proclaimed "Grand Dragon of Counter-Strike" Richard Lewis.

[@DrummPlaysGames]

That Richard lewis interview really helped bring a new angle to your personality always love listening to your commentary but now I’m more emotionally invested keep it up General

[@andiandana]

Anders, great refreshing thoughts and take on the CSGO scene and esports in general. I'm glad we share the optimism on the outlook of the industry, and that there is much room for individuals playing different roles in the scene to start something exciting. Your point on political leaders getting their hands on esports is a really great one, and it's especially true in Asia, South-east Asia specifically. With the announcement of esports being featured as official medal events at SEA Games 2019 Philippines, governments around the region are actively pushing initiatives to promote esports, and developments are happening at a break-neck speed. We started a podcast show on esports, inviting over leaders and pioneers of the esports scene here in SEA, to uncover their stories and perspective on the development of esports. The questions we ask are similar to yours, and we'll continue exploring the answers to the different sides of the industry. We've had CSGO2ASIA on the show, and one of the CS legends from Singapore, StrykerX of team TitaNs. Great insights and exciting projects ahead. Check out the episodes at esportsasia.tv Sorry if it sounded too much like self-promotion, but I just can't help discuss this passion of ours. All I want is to start conversations. I'd love to hear your thoughts and maybe discuss what we can work on together. Thanks again Anders.

[@DeezyGG]

I think this a really good perspective on how we create growth on a grassroots level, and its interesting you say about the UK as yes ego seems a massive issue with us at the moment as everyone wants to be the best not help to create the best. but i feel we need more league structures like how ESEA works. but for each country which can be done then we get a much more growing eco system of CS and at a grass roots level we create much more opportunities

[@che4tsrichter]

Anders is the fucking man! great stuff, keep it up brother

[@HaasTheFirst]

Hey Anders, maybe you will read this. Personally for me its funny how this topic just comes up right now. I finished my BA Degrees (unrelated to Esports) and in the last couple of months I started to think more and more about getting involved in Esports and professional cs especially. I m from Germany, there is an enermous potential here, Esports is in the General public not relevant, most people dont even know about it and its already inpressive size, in contrast it even gets often laughed at. That said: the youth is of course diffrent. Sadly the negative narrative prevents a lot of Talent to pursue its dream. That makes the need for New approaches and organization even more urgent. Its just difficult for me personally, where Do you even begin with?! Greetings! PS: I agree, I dont think cs will die anytime soon, the game Design is just to good in all its simplicity. And its already older than any other serious Esport game.

[@janhechenberger3790]

To know 50+ Team of any sports is tuff in my opinion, I mean football is arguably the biggest sport there is and I think I can't name 50 teams even though I follow football.

[@bucyv4455]

Jan Hechenberger i could do that easily and i dont fallow football that much

[@Snalleand]

If you follow more than one football league then naming 50+ football teams should be quite easy.

[@TehAwol]

Hold da op hvor ser du godt ud Anders !

[@josephriley3244]

Anders! You lost weight. Congrats. Thanks.

[@GSicKz]

Hey Anders, I have a question/video recommendation: After watching the videos of “the c0ncept” (kzbin.info/door/ubLiEbmNThb973yyi39viAvideos), I really started to believe that there are actually a lot (if not most) csgo pros that are using cheats, also in tournaments. After hearing that the pros can indeed bring their own equipment and have internet access in the tournaments, does it come down to VAC to make sure there are no cheats used? Taking into account how much money these pros earn with current tournaments prices, sponsorship deals, etc., they can afford to pay cheat coders a lot of money to develop a cheat that is super hard to detect and is designed to be human-like, so that it does not look suspicious at all, I found myself thinking that valve, esl, the tournament organizers etc. do not take great effort to enforce the integrity of this e-sport. It seems that now we reached a point where they (valve) would risk too much when everyone’s favourite players would get banned for cheating. You talk about interesting aspects like grass-roots coaching of this esport, getting it more organized etc.. People start playing sports like for example football because they watch the pros play and then fall in love with the game and then they want to start playing it themselves. For this to happen its important though that the professionals are not doping, otherwise people would not watch it. For me it seems that valve etc.. is not doing enough to enforce the integrity, so I believe that pros can use cheats, so I don’t feel like watching them play. I understand that this is a difficult topic to talk about, but at the same time a very important one. The youtuber “the c0ncept” has videos where he explains the anomalies he found in detail, and I feel like work from people like him that are trying to investigate this issue is mostly ignored or declared as “delusional” by most voices of the scene. I was wondering what your opinion was on the matter, whether you think that valve is doing enough to make sure the pros are not cheating etc. Keep up the great videos you are posting, I will keep watching and hoping that maybe one about the “pros cheating” issue will come! :)

[@garyhandt3858]

geezus Anders have u lost a crap tonne of weight ? you look great man :)

[@hastalavictoriasiempre2730]

You really loose a lot weight nice :) and i am sure many said this to you but i suggest you do a lot of swimming :)

[@KlausValk]

Your beard looks weird rn, what happened?

[@vn2100bc]

What is obscure about following German football? Are you kidding??? Bundesliga is one of the biggest leagues.

[@BeowulfGaming]

A game i had been playing for 12 years, always stopped and came back to it, because that competitive feeling when you play a match in CS is something i am missing in every other FPS game, but that game, my love...has died the moment they turned it free to play....RIP CSGO, i hope a new CS will come and new era will begin and i will find my love for the game once more.

[@denif609]

It is actually played by more people, so it's far from dying.

[@shushu4146]

@@denif609 if you look at the concurrent player rates on steam from 1-2 years ago and then now, players have dropped significantly

[@denif609]

@@shushu4146 Only peak concurrent players. However in terms of average concurrent players, more people play this game. Some maths :)

[@shushu4146]

@@denif609 April 2017 392,199.2 average concurrent players, February 2019 371,359.0 average concurrent player source, steamcharts

[@denif609]

@@shushu4146 CS GO in it's peak it had around 370,000 average players always. (2015) Then it became less played in first half of 2018, but since the free to play update it went back to regular 370.000, and it even reached 400.000. So my statement of saying that the game is far from dead is still true.

[@awaeken]

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[@HoobaBros]

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[@jeppe4344]

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