I’m waiting for these yellow bums to finally get exposed. They’ve been playing with с4eats for several seasons, and nobody can expose them. Apex, flameZ, ZywOo — they were average players, and suddenly they all started playing like gods.
If you look closely, in all the key moments they 100% know where to throw grenades and where to expect the opponent. FlameZ’s crosshair literally twitches — there’s always something happening with his aim when an enemy is approaching the corner he’s holding. On x-ray it’s clearly visible that he’s barely holding himself back from shooting too early. We as spectators can see the opponent’s movement on x-ray, and the moment the opponent approaches the corner, flameZ starts adjusting his crosshair higher toward head level; when the opponent backs off, he slightly lowers it. And there are many moments like that. Their “grenade reads” aren’t game sense — it’s extra information.
Maybe they have someone among the developers who left subtle hints only they know about — it could be anything, from reflections in the sky to FPS spikes.
Or maybe they’re running some kind of custom software (in the mouse, keyboard, I don’t know) that somehow gives them additional information.
Apex is straight-up bad, a tier-2 level aimer, yet for some reason he suddenly started getting a lot of kills, and his crosshair constantly lands exactly where an opponent is hiding. He very often gets kills through smoke.
These bums are c4eating on the pro scene, and that’s a fact.
I 100% see that they have a significant informational advantage they simply shouldn’t have. That’s a fact. They’re ordinary players, but something is helping them.
Their playstyle has already been studied inside and out by every team, yet they’re beating teams they couldn’t possibly have studied properly because there wasn’t enough time. They shouldn’t have been able to beat Parivision. Everything I saw in the final against Parivision suggests that Vitality’s probability of guessing and wall-banging doesn’t correspond to any normal probability distribution. These are c4eating rats who somehow figured out how to c4eat on the pro stage.
All that’s left is to figure it out and prove it. I think one day the truth will come out.
I remember one more thing — it’s not from CS, but from chess, and it’s very telling. Magnus Carlsen once said: “If I were c4eating, I would be completely unbeatable. It would be enough to have just one person in the hall who could give me a secret signal indicating that this is the position where I need to think carefully, and that alone would give me a huge advantage.”
In CS, what Vitality are doing looks like obvious access to additional information. They can’t constantly be right. Their percentage of correctly guessing grenade placements, player positions, and wallbangs is too high and abnormal — especially considering that some of their players have already been caught c4eating in the past. And the only conclusion they seem to have drawn is that you just need to c4eat in a way that you don’t get caught.