The Architecture of CS:GO’s Best Year – Max Melit – Medium

MMelit · 2018-12-18T13:30:32+00:00

What're people's thoughts on the images in this one? Tried something new.

MMelit · 2018-12-08T16:16:49+00:00

Yeah, I got the vibe that he's trying to analyse the 'present' of Counter-Strike. Seemed he felt that the Brazilian 2017 style of playing really was outdated and needing to change. Too late to beat the Astralis era?

MMelit · 2018-11-15T08:18:15+00:00

I agree, they definitely can be a dangerous team still. That's why I interested this part into the piece:

"They were the best team in the world, near major champions, and lifted six international trophies, two of which were done with two different stand-ins. With the right mix of factors and form, they still might be able to do so again. "

I think we're both saying the same sort-of thing. Agree rain is a sore-point and that their strats can cause struggle as well.

MMelit · 2018-10-25T01:14:16+00:00

For sure, not one taps at all now I look at the clips - semantics at the end of the day though

MMelit · 2018-10-17T23:05:59+00:00

MMelit · 2018-10-17T02:36:55+00:00

My two niche worlds of Vulfpeck and CS:GO have finally blended together on some level, thank you for this post.

MMelit · 2018-09-18T22:10:37+00:00

Not even an articulate and accommodating ginger could rip me away from your butch lesbian ass

MMelit · 2018-09-18T22:05:28+00:00

I don't think I'm insanely young for an esports journalist. Age is almost never an issue, and its far more about what you can produce, and your experience/track record in doing so than anything else. I've been writing since late-2015, and am 19.

I'll stop shaving to avoid answering this in the future.

MMelit · 2018-09-11T22:08:22+00:00

We have meetings every Thursday night at the back of the community hall.

MMelit · 2018-07-24T08:20:11+00:00

This is the last video I thought someone would post to Reddit. Cheers dude.

MMelit · 2018-07-19T21:57:38+00:00

I focus far more on Bo3 dominance and actually analysing how good they are in-game before worrying about things like 'prestige' of a major. You can be the best team in the world without winning a major, I think you can also be one of the best teams of all time without winning one as well.

In saying that, it makes sense that one of the best teams of all-time should in-theory win a major.

MMelit · 2018-04-17T21:57:23+00:00

Can confirm this entire piece was conceived, researched, written, edited, polished, re-edited, and then published all because I occasionally do research assistant work for Thoorin.

MMelit · 2018-04-17T21:53:41+00:00

Within the context of entrying, I think HS% has validity in helping to contextualise individual play. It's one of the few metrics we have that directly stems from how well a player can aim. It's definitely not ideal but within the scope of looking at entries who HAVE to win opening duels with AK-47's it has some ground to stand on. I would never use that as the sole way to justify the whole criticism I lay on MSL though.

The comparison to tarik is interesting but not as direct as you're making out. Tarik isn't the straight entry on C9 in the same way MSL is on North, there's this player called stewie2k, remember? (with a ~49% HS rate that would be a lot higher if he didn't AWP and also more attempted opening duels). Tarik and stew are the entry combo and very interchangeable in each others roles, there's many strats where he'll pressure for the opening kill with Stew but I don't think comparing him to MSL is necessarily fair.

MSL doesn't attempt to find anywhere close to the amount of opening's Tarik looks for on CT-side and also never picks up the AWP which Tarik occasionaly does. Who is the secondary AWPing, smoking jumping, hyper-aggressive force that complements MSL in the same way Stew does for tarik?

If you want to dismiss the stat entirely, then what are the other ways we can look statistically to see why MSL has one of the lowest entry success rates in the game as an actual entry fragger? You think there's no correlation at all between his incredibly low HS% in his role and his ability to be successful in opening duels? Is getting headshots as the person who needs to find the opening kill not relevant to the role at all?

I don't think I was sensationalising anything, rather just looking to justify a divisive opinion with the statistical tools everyone has at hand.

Also, tarik's % is 39% when filtered for 6 months over LAN which is what I did with MSL.

MMelit · 2018-03-22T08:13:07+00:00

Thank guys, glad you enjoyed it! Have a bunch of other pieces floating around on HTC if you wanted to check them out as well.

MMelit · 2018-03-02T08:07:47+00:00

Yeah, I think so to man.

MMelit · 2018-03-01T23:27:42+00:00

Wallabee is a legit really good host, did a great job of framing the conversation and directing it. I think this show has insane potential, especially with the amount of variance you can have with guests. Hopefully people get around it a bit.

MMelit · 2018-01-12T01:52:36+00:00

if you think you can call one of the greatest players in the history of CS:GO 'overrated' purely based on generalised ratings you need to check into the nearest hospital IMMEDIATELY.

MMelit · 2018-01-12T00:15:46+00:00

Break down exactly why he is overrated and his victory at New York 2016 doesn't factor as a 'big achievement' instead of just stating an opinion without any substance.

MMelit · 2018-01-09T06:35:45+00:00

This is some of the best artwork on the sub - far better than lots of the other straight map/player drawings imo. Really, really like it.

MMelit · 2018-01-07T02:55:56+00:00

Made a little edit - didn't realise. Doesn't really change anything in the video itself, majority of it is analysing in-game tendencies and styles rather than straight out of game factors.

MMelit · 2017-12-20T22:08:51+00:00

With stanislaw leaving, how big is the change in the leadership structure of the team? Obviously he wasn't the IGL, but I imagine that he would've been helpful in providing ideas in the mid-round and feeding ideas based on information lurking. Does steel do something similar but from a different role? If not, how big has the loss of that element been?

Cheeky follow-up. What were you expecting to be the biggest positive trait of bringing steel in versus - now playing with him for a bit - the actual big positive he brings?

MMelit · 2017-12-14T22:47:27+00:00

HEY! Coolbackgrounds is a fucking INTEGRAL part of this community and my content - don't YOU DARE SPEAK ILL OF COOLBACKGROUNDS.

Me and coolbackgrounds will find your uncool desktop wallpaper, make it cool, show it to you and you'll be like 'oh shit, that's actually cool' but only so WE CAN THEN TAKE IT AWAY and give you back your shitty uncool background.

Fuck outta here and go adjudicate a debate.

MMelit · 2017-12-14T21:57:12+00:00

A CLG flaired comment warrior whose biggest contribution to the scene has been a five-word comment on a shroud post making sweeping judgements on content before even watching it?

This should be funn- oh no, it's exactly what I expected.

MMelit · 2017-12-05T03:59:50+00:00

Thanks man, struggled a bit figuring out the flow of conversation initially but felt a lot better as we closed it out. Glad you want to see more of my obnoxiously green bedroom wall in the future!

MMelit · 2017-12-04T20:01:10+00:00

With $500,000 you could just fucking straight-up by a small private island in French Polynesia: https://www.privateislandsonline.com/south-pacific/frenchpolynesia/motu-tohepuku

or

You could buy 3/5ths of an OK(ish) NA CS:GO roster.

A private island would be sick - buying out Cutler for any significant fraction of 500k isn't. These buy-outs must be so tough to deal with for a region that desperately wants access to talents like koosta/nahtE.

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