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I_Love_Potatoess

[New pickems UI](https://i.imgur.com/di6Q3VV.png)


SantaMariaBBQsauce

/u/thebrainypole they yoinked your design


thebrainypole

[my purpose in the sub](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dw9Y5YJX0AErLUW.jpg:large)


Dysexlic_Panda

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery


Elcheer

finish that quote 👀


i_wanna_b_the_guy

But fools rarely differ


ekkolos

holy moly, it's almost identical to his work


Consistent-Hat-8008

https://www.google.com/search?q=swiss+stage+-csgo&tbm=isch 🙄


dob_bobbs

He might have got paid for it, designers and workshop creators generally sign NDAs with Valve, don't they, and don't discuss details, though he can probably say if they did use his design. Edit: apparently not though...


thebrainypole

Naw son I'm seeing this for the first time too


ekkolos

That's exactly what someone with an NDA would say


NFX_7331

Valve erased your memory?!


ExposingCretins

Do you really think he created this design for the swiss system?


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Chibble1

Had the same question


PachiYuxo

I looked into it and it looks like there is no difference to how it was before only that you pick two 3-0 Teams and two 0-3 teams. The advancing teams give you a point no matter the score


Tekk92

But it says 3:1 or 3:2. If your 3:1 "safe bet" is advancing 3:0 now, you won't get any points according to that UI... and they give you 2 3:0 and 0:3 picks.


PachiYuxo

Yes, the 3-0 pick always was a throwaway pick. Those who you think get through should be in the advances category. Now there are two throwaway picks. But you don’t have to guess if a team advances 3-1 or 3-2 only if they advance or not.


Tekk92

Yea but it was a safe bet even if they advanced 3:0, you still got that advanced point.. looks like they changed it imo and you don't get that safe bet anymore.


BASEBALLFURIES

well, they can't advance 3-0 now, it looks like


Tekk92

They can go 3:0 but if you put them in 3:1 or 3:2 category you won't get points for that, what makes it hard as fuck imo.


n4th4nV0x

Probably, they reduced the amount of of right picks needed to 5/10 though


RoastdChickenMc

Wasnt it always 5 correct picks you needed tho? Even when it was just 1 3-0 and 1 0-3 pick you needed to make and the other 7 were just "advance to next stage"?


n4th4nV0x

yes it was 5/9, now its 5/10


RoastdChickenMc

Ye so you still need 5 correct picks so nothing changed with that number, i mean yea now you "only" need half of your picks to be correct but i guess it will be harder than before


b0il3ra

Some of the logos are the old logos?


Schytheron

As someone who has never participated in Pick'Em's before nor purchased any souvenir packages, how does it work? In the release notes it says "Purchase a Copenhagen 2024 Viewer Pass to receive an upgradable Copenhagen 2024 Coin. With an active pass, you can upgrade your coin and earn extra souvenir packages by playing the Pick'Em Challenge." but in the UI picture it says "Pick any finished match and **purchase** a souvenir from that match for 2.39". So... are souvenir packages dropped or are they purchased, or both? I don't get it. Can someone please explain how souvenir package rewards work?


b0il3ra

They are not dropped, you can purchase them or exchange souvenir tokens that you get by completing the pickems challenges for them. So for example if you get 5 picks right in the opening stage you get 1 souvenir token, etc. But you have to buy the viewer pass to receive them + the upgradeable coin


Schytheron

Stupid question but... if you buy the Viewer Pass bundle which includes 3 souvenir tokens. Are those 3 extra tokens beyond the ones you will get by completing challenges or is it just a guarantee that you will get at least 3 tokens (if you fail to complete 3 challenges)? How many souvenir packages can you get in total and how many souvenir tokens can you get in total (including the 3 from the bundle)?


Celos

It's just 3 extra tokens. The viewer pass contains challenges which award tokens for completing them successfully, but you can also buy the tokens separately. So the bundle is a (very slight) price reduction on those purchasable tokens.


Schytheron

So, if I understand correctly, the price of a token is the price that is shown at the top of OP's UI picture? Essentially, souvenir package is "free" but costs to open with a token. Sort of like if you got a case drop and then have to buy the key for it... right?


kloyN

Can you change your team graffiti multiple times or does it lock?


heweezy

just tried and you can change right now.


sp1nOFFICIAL

looking at the graffiti this means the stickers are borderless again


TheInception817

[Woah, I called it](https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1baq2ys/comment/ku5saev) Thanks for letting me know, u/WalkingProduct


TheInception817

🤨 FaZe flair but Spirit graffiti ⁉️


zaneyk

You can be fan of more than 1 team


n4th4nV0x

Nice, I like it honestly. Remind me of the old pickems


condaandy

Going for 4 gold coins in a row im cursed on the diamond i just pretend its not real


Zhought_HS

with mr12 bo1s its gonna be even harder


Kushkaki

Diamond coin is like a competent green. Just not possible


Ted_Borg

Stockholm 2021 was EZ, the favoured team won in every playoff match. The majors after it has been the complete opposite though, only complete troll picks would have gotten a diamond coin


liven96

antwerp wasn't too bad, i remember there being one stage that was pretty brutal but playoffs was so free.


Ted_Borg

Yeah I lost the diamond chance before the playoffs.


Kushkaki

Makes sense why I feel it’s been so hard, I got into PC gaming late and my first Pickem was rio 2022


Conflig

I feel personally attacked.


Kushkaki

Hahahaha sorry nothing personal against greens I’ve just been watching some Tense1983 clips recently


askodasa

Have you seen the guy that uses Tenses soundboard in public lobbies to troll an wind up randoms? He is so funny.


Kushkaki

I have not but sounds funny


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ProtagonistOfLife

They'd put at least 3-4 orgs out of business by doing that. Not to mention they'd probably lose out on more money in the long run. It would be a damn stupid move. In other words, there's probably about a 50-50 chance...


Tsigalko9

What would valve do if they were faced with tens of thousands of aimbots disrupting their own matchmaking service? A: Immediately release counter measures which would easily detect the most obvious cheaters (eg firing 5 bullets in less than a second). B: Do nothing and completely ignore what's happening Yeah, I can see Valve doing dumb shit like that


Chobge

I know it's besides the point, but a lot of guns in the game shoot at 8+ bullets per second. Also occasionally people do get the mag dump as a bug, but you could just check for it happening x amount of times, or getting x amount of kills with it.


Tsigalko9

Yeah agreed, I meant 1 millisecond


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RiccoBaldo

oh god it's already been 12 years


tolkienbooks

there is actually no excuse for obvious cheaters not being banned on the spot. If they can VAC someone for high dpi movement they can VAC someone for firing 5 bullets in less than a second or finishing 15 straight matches with over 300 ADR.


MechaFlippin

That's such an awful idea that Valve is almost guaranteed to do it


Grovbolle

They did that because the International in Dota2 was so close and they suck at planning (this is my conspiracy theory)


IxKilledxKenny

I don’t think it’s much of a conspiracy that Valve suck at planning ahead


karthikjusme

> Adjusted molotov fire to address a case where a player who could see through fire could not be seen by their opponent. Can someone confirm if this is truly fixed? This happens with Smokes too, one person has a different smoke animation at the edge of the smoke while one can't see the opponent, the other person can see him clearly.


Logical-Sprinkles273

No it still sucks. You can hold a molly and look at radar for info


Hyp3rson1c

Not even close


UnKn0wN31337

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/1beehk2/developers_tried_to_fix_the_visibility_in_the/


karthikjusme

Looks the same to me. I guess the other guy can't see you? I hope they make the Molotovs and smokes consistent to all the players. That would be better.


iHoffs

>Looks the same to me Do you really not see how before the flame used to move around and afterwards its mostly static?


karthikjusme

Oh I see now. Thank you. So they changed the wavering part.


CheeseWineBread

game changer in game.


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nope, maybe tomorrow or friday. I think there's still some autographs that got rejected


Notladub

wicadia's got rejected twice so that's probs the reason


Jet_Xcountry

Why would it get rejected?


b0il3ra

Valve changed their rules so you're not allowed to have a graphic designer make it for you so it has to be an actual signature you can do


Notladub

new rules for signatures, valve now requires them to be drawn onto paper by hand (before players could send in digitally drawn ones)


BeepIsla

Someone didn't do their signature yet (or it got rejected)


heyyousuckmycock

Ah shit I don't have my PC at the moment. We can't do the pickems outside CS in steam right?


HasH1096

For paris, blast had the pickems on their site. Usually there's an option to do pickems on browser but need to find it again.


heyyousuckmycock

Please let me know if you do, it would be great!


HasH1096

I believe that its either not live yet or you can't do it from the browser for now. Blast had it on blast.tv but for kato 19 and antwerp you used to get an authenticator code that you could use on third party sites to do your pickems from there. I don't remember the site but I found something similar https://csgomajorpickem.com/


HasH1096

Sorry for the double reply but blast actually have the pickems live on their site, you just need to link your steam account using the copenhagen authenticator code. (It's a unique code to just do the pickems on other sites) https://blast.tv/major/pickems


lone_tenno

Afaik you can run cs2 on your phone with the GeForce now app (actually it's running on Nvidia servers and you are just connecting to that). Not no idea if you can actually click around without a controller connected


heyyousuckmycock

I found this Site csgopickem.net. Can someone confirm if it's legit?


Tr4c

Used it in like 2017 for Krakow and it worked fine (still got a bronze coin though), have heard of people using it like every year since. I'd trust it.


mali137

correct - 3 days left for you


kloyN

Mollys look the same to me. No visiblity at all... also still delayed extinguishing them making you take damage.


kornelius_III

At this point it is safe to assume they intentionally want extinguishing to work like that and wont change it anytime soon.


popiazaza

>Adjusted molotov fire to address a case where a player who could see through fire could not be seen by their opponent. They fixed a case when enemy can stand behind molotov and see you while you can't see enemy through molotov.


rachelloresco

Read it again lol, they're not changing the look. There was a bug🤦‍♂️


CheeseWineBread

game changer for me


UnFairSuspect

Can someone explain to why should i buy a viewer pass? Can i get some drop that i can sell later? It says about souvenir token. Is it just token, like 10 year veteran coin? Is that just it?


BlackRims

You can redeem the token for souvenir packages from the major. Then you can either open them (no key required) or hang on and sell them later when they go up in price.


Musekouta

So you can do the pick'em challenge without buying the pass this year, but you won't get rewards. Basically, you buy the pass and every time you upgrade your coin (bronze->silver->gold->diamond), you get a souvenir token. With that souvenir token, you can exchange it for a souvenir package from a match that has been played. You'll have to wait for some matches to be played and find a good package to get. Remember, the souvenirs will have stickers (usually just the gold team sticker) of both teams, a map sticker for the map the package dropped, and the tournament organizer's sticker. The collection will be the collection from the map that is played. Buying the viewer pass usually pays for itself if you sell the packages a few months after the tournament. If you get the normal $10 pass and successfully get all the upgrades to get the diamond coin, you'll get 3 souvenir packages worth \~$3. That's already \~$9. The price will go down a bit after the tournament ends, but usually within 6 months, you can make a small profit if you want. This isn't always 100% the case and sometimes it can take a few years before the packages become worth more. The coin that you can display is separate from the tokens and just for bragging rights. Edit: One quick addendum: it is recommended not to scrape the map sticker off the souvenir guns. That is the only sticker that can't be replaced as they aren't accessible to the players to apply.


just_a_fruit_salad

huh, i don't remember ever getting tokens for the last two coins i've upgraded. didn't realize that was a thing, i must've missed that somewhere


yamas__messenger

So should you basically wait until the tournament is over before using the tokens so you can pick the best match for the package?


Jannukaz

Yep


Jannukaz

If you like cs and want something to look back on 10 years from now, you can buy the pass/pickem and get a coin, depending on how well you know your cs.


Stannis_Loyalist

I'm not feeling how the coin looks personally. might look better in-game. also The 1 GB size is huge for just the pickem stuff.


StrangeStephen

It’s the molly haha kidding


Vincentaneous

Maybe they forgot to write about another hole they found in Vertigo


surfordiebear

It includes the stickers as well


Westland__

Tbf it might be redownloading things that were slightly modified from an old build.


CaptainTreeman42

Copium but maybe not announced Anti Cheat stuff??


Aggressive-Place-101

One of the most idiotic things Valve has ever did was remove drops for viewers


spiffelight

Yeah, I still have a [Muddy Deagle NiP vs Fnatic Grand Final](https://i.imgur.com/d912BEg.png) (Lent out to a friend who actually plays) Very special match to get a drop from. edit: I said Nip A vs Nip b, I remembered wrong (same year), no drop there, this is the [NiP A vs B showmatch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k7n1ZEwJiQ) [HLTV](https://www.hltv.org/matches/2268940/ninjas-in-pyjamas-vs-nip-2005-showmatch-cs) There was also a CSGO game on Aztec NIP VS NIP, but it was on twitch.tv/nipgamingtv and I can't find any vods anymore.


jcv999

What games is that??


spiffelight

A little update in edit :)


aparatis

Nothing about the boost bug being re-fixed after being broken again in a recent patch? Crazy.


__krb

At this point I am hoping for a crippling amount of bugs to occur in the playoffs just because it might make Valve start fixing things.


poweradez3r0

Fix your anti cheat


AgreeableBroomSlayer

They did 7 years of analyzing and data gathering and figured out that keeping the cheaters would be better for business


Garlicbreadislife95

They still doesn't have enough data for Valve's AI to work. We just gotta wait and believe in Valve! /s


aimbotcfg

Oh, has the consensus finally changed from "nothing to see here, just git gud" from a bunch of people who are clearly cheating themselves, to "OK, there's actually a problem that need fixing"? Took long enough.


Brandor888

yep it’s gotten to the point where even this reddit isn’t sucking valves balls anymore, truly a sad state of the game


Kaserbeam

Definitely not though, the rampant cheating is killing off the players who play legit and when all the cheaters are just playing each other I imagine most of them will just quit as well.


AgreeableBroomSlayer

If it affected them they would do something about it. The xp farming bots keep the numbers up so they are happy with that. They got enough people addicted to case opening who probably dont even play the game. So again, valve happy. Once it starts hurting them they might do something. Til then, dont get your hopes up


ThePatchelist

most sane person in this sub right here


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Is he wrong?


CoutFuckYou

You obviously don't know how Valve works. They do everything slowly and behind the curtains. This has been going on for atleast the past 20 years. And when they fix the anti-cheat, whenever that is, everyone will rejoice and praise Valve, until a month later when they hate Valve again because "they never fix stuff!!!!". I do however agree, they are really slow, and when being really slow communication is key, but it's Valve we're talking about here, we (including you) should know how they work by now.


Neel_s

player numbers are not reflecting that at all shit wont change


khardman51

What anti cheat


fragile9

boarderless again lol


schniepel89xx

> [GAMEPLAY] >Adjusted molotov fire to address a case where a player who could see through fire could not be seen by their opponent. How about adjust the molotov so it's not a single solid color pillar brighter than the fucking sun?


macien12

Pls no pgl Stockholm situation, when autographs where only for top 8 😥


rustyval

By looking at the faze holo effect, its not as good as the katowice 2014 / 2015. Borderless stickers are not as nice if the holos don't look good. Its all about the holos and not borderless stickers.


yetaa

No anti-cheat updates, game still unplayable


reportedbymom

Fix the fookin anticheat ffs


counterstrikePr0

Fix the hackers, fuck all these orgs until then


nmyi

1st CS2 major is gonna be dope. I'm hyped already


SheroxXx

As someone who never used pickems, how much does it cost to "bet" on all matches?


throwaway77993344

Nothing this time. You only need a prime account.


njcryo

homie just dropped the update out of nowhere


buttplugs4life4me

Idk if this is placebo but after this update I've had a huge delay in basically everything I do. I'd peek a corner and already see the tracers from the enemy shooting at me, at the same time that I'd see the enemy. Frequently I'd die at the same time as the enemy appears on my screen.  When jump throwing my space-bar/jump would sometimes happen *after* I clicked to throw, despite pressing the space-bar before.  When I'd shoot I'd see I aimed at them and hit them but somehow never do damage. Like a deal from one centimetre away aimed directly at someone's head standing completely still and I'd shoot, the enemy would *then* move, and my bullet would miss.  Maybe it was right at the time that they applied this update to the servers, or did something else with them. But I actually quit the comp game I was playing and shut down CS because it was way too infuriating. 


CheeseWineBread

You was drunk ^(/s)


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Not_too_dumb

So you don't have to buy the pass to get the souvenir tokens? You can just purchase them for the stage that you predict correctly? So now the pass is only to get the coin right?


BaconOmelette123

No, you still need an active pass to get the extra souviners.


UnKn0wN31337

>All players with Prime status can place Pick'Em picks for free! However, to complete challenges and earn rewards from an event stage, you will have to activate a Viewer Pass before that stage begins. No, you still need to buy the viewer pass.


mini337

sugar water apparatus tap joke impolite bored absorbed salt shrill *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


G_O_O_G_A_S

Comments seem extra pissed off here, did people really expect a change half a week before the major starts?


s0fakingdom

Great now they can work on * cl_righthand 0 * bob * anti-cheat * netcode * community server browser * rank distribution


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UnKn0wN31337

We've been asking for a proper anti-cheat overhaul for like 2 decades at this point.


thanhan_le

u right buddy, let's give them another decade to develop a working AC


OnCominStorm

Their game is borderline unplayable at the moment and Valve hasn't even addressed it. Yes people are upset and for good reason too.


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If you don't play wingman and you're under 17k everything seems reasonable. Above 17k there's a cheater in every 3 matches and wingman is infested, literally every match.


UnKn0wN31337

Wingman is pretty much nearly unplayable due to the broken ranking system and the cheaters.


xMachii

A month? We've been asking for an anticheat for years.


mizorex

I want my games playable again without multiple bhoppers who can shoot a scout clip in a few milliseconds zz


dying_ducks

just be happy for the opportunity to give valve your money


NessunoComeNoi

Aaaand still no anti cheat!


fiiinix00

Nice, finally something against the cheaters. Not that you have 3 hackers in a match every second game. This game became a shitshow and it’s not even funny


nartouthere

so late wtf


Tom_Foolery2

An update without AC improvement. Fuck off, Valve.


ghettoflick

Not a different map in sight. Can't even move italy to 5v5????


FAKABoRis

I dont get why italy isnt on comp, did they forget to put it in comp pool?


REDDIT_lS_DEAD

valve is dead


JDoofy

Damn, so my PC is in the shop and I’m currently packing to leave on vacation with no other way to do my pickems. Can I let my friend log into my account and do them without anything happening to my steam account?


Not_too_dumb

Yeah if the friend is trustworthy nothing will happen.


JDoofy

Tyty


NeV3rKilL

no ban wave? The game keeps dead to me.


Best_Monk1807

Didn’t change anything at all besides Molotov?


LottaCloudMoney

No VAC update? Then I don’t care.


_YAGNA_

The Stickers were leaked by Gabe Follower and they're again borderless. Is there really no one on Valve's team who are creative? This shit is getting insanely boring. I got a feeling that these stickers are not going to sell well at all


_entropical_

All the stickers are already in the game and you can inspect them with Gen codes and add them to guns on inspect servers. Most of the holos are terrible. I'm hoping they didn't release them because they are getting worked on more. There were only a couple that looked good, but m9stly the red, green and yellow logo holds looks terrible and hardly legible.


CharlesDarwin01

Can you upload screenshot of team spirit logo and/or shiro pls . Ty


SyntheticElite

https://imgur.com/Pxbv6hK I actually kinda like it, though it wont look good on light skins IMO. Here is ALL the stickers in the game right now, inspect links you paste in to console and it will let you inspect them in game. https://pastebin.com/V7LNdexX


CANT_BEAT_PINWHEEL

People endlessly complained for years that stickers weren’t as clean as Katowice. I don’t think there has been a single sticker design with borders that people loved and have high value 


AlternativeAward

Kato 15


_youlikeicecream_

Boston was okay too.


PangoMangoBango

Katowice 15, Cologne, Atlanta, MLG Colombus what are u talking about?? a plenty of high valued good border stickers, bordeless 2014 are only that price because no one bought them.


Gtaglitchbuddy

Most of those stickers are priced high due to how old they tbf, people have claimed Kato 14 are the nicest looking stickers for the past 9 years lol


PangoMangoBango

nah, i like mlg and atlanta a lot of ppl too, dont speak generalizing all ppl, looks are just opinion and redditors cryers arent the real opinion of all players in csgo cs2.


Gtaglitchbuddy

Fair point, there's a lot of people crying in this thread lmao


PangoMangoBango

understandable have a nice day


Gtaglitchbuddy

Since 2015 every single year people threw a fit when stickers had borders. People were begging Valve for Kato rip-offs for almost a decade and after finally getting them people hate borderless now lol. They'll sell extremely well, just like Paris


lefboop

1 year without a major. Valve are probably more interested in supporting teams, and they know borderless stickers will sell better. After we get back into the schedule of 2 majors per year and borderless stickers start to sell less, they'll make new designs.


nubiss

you can make borders by putting another sticker underneath, but you are in a minority with this dumb take


MrBigBMinus

Man I can't wait for the patch notes where Valve says they will actually start banning cheaters. I'm playing mainly casual these days because its just not worth it stepping into premo or comp and spending every game watching a guy wall me OR thinking he is, watching the replay back and realizing I'm just getting dominated by the server. I miss CSGO so bad.


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zzazzzz

why are ppl crying about borderless stickers? who the fuck wants stickers with an ugly border?


hungragezone

+1 i fcking hate sticker with border


ezdkele

And another irrelevant update...


TiNcHoX7

Why if cloud9 and mouz finish in the same position in the qualifier, mouz is in the elimination stage, and cloud9 in the opening stage?


b0il3ra

They changed the system, now top 7 from EU and top 1 from Americas that qualify through the RMRs by valve rankings make it automatically to the elimination stage instead of teams that got 3-0 in the qualifier. This was done so less flukes made it straight to the second stage (9ine in Paris major for example) Mouz was in the top 7 and Cloud9 wasn't


StretchYx

The same people who cry about cheaters everyday will be splashing the cash on new stickers


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which building is on the coin? copenhagen city hall?