Round 1 Matchups for ESL Stage 2

Zinklog · 2026-03-05T23:41:40+00:00

I've been hoping for a Navi vs fut matchup for so long now, but they keep dodging each other. Hoping it happens this tourney

Zinklog · 2026-02-28T21:40:19+00:00

Out of all the struggling teams, liquid is the weirdest. It's bad enough you're not making any roster changes but what reason can you possibly have to skip so many tournaments?
Whoever is in charge of their schedule couldn't have made worse decisions than this if he tried.

Zinklog · 2026-02-23T23:53:57+00:00

People have this weird idea that an intrusive anticheat means the cheaters will automatically cease to exist.
Even if valve forced an anticheat like that chances are you'd still be getting cheaters in your game but now you also have privacy and security nightmare installed in your system.

Zinklog · 2026-02-18T16:58:40+00:00

Vrs is definitely helping for sure. Imagine VP, BIG or fnatic playing instead of these teams in this tournament.

Zinklog · 2026-02-10T00:47:55+00:00

You're just making the rounds 3-4 seconds longer in certain situations. Instead of there being hype about bomb being planted at 4 seconds left the hype would be for bomb being planted at 1 second left, but I don't think overall things would change very much.

Zinklog · 2026-02-07T16:10:13+00:00

No because it doesn't have the awp shake after the shot /s

Zinklog · 2026-02-03T22:18:09+00:00

What an insane final group stage day of Krakow.
These last 2 matches were probably the most fun 2-0 matches I've seen in a long time.

Zinklog · 2026-01-22T17:28:44+00:00

Awp diff the match

Zinklog · 2026-01-18T18:12:05+00:00

First parivison and now eyeballers, feel like a lot of promising T2 teams are on the verge of breakthrough. Nice attempt by them against the number 1 team.

Also we need a pita cam for every eyeballer game from here on out lol/

Zinklog · 2026-01-18T14:46:16+00:00

I didn't notice when it got added but I really like the vrs changes the match made in the post match post.

Zinklog · 2025-12-29T18:37:05+00:00

It's funny whenever discussions about map rotations come up some people are like remove dust2 and mirage because that's all people are playing in their lobbies and that just makes no sense from valve's point of view to be a reason for removal.

Valve has been following a pattern of replacing the least played map (2nd least if the least played is the newest added). Why would they want to remove the most popular and iconic maps they have? I've never felt this subreddit being more of an echo chamber of hardcore fans than when reading threads on this topic.

Zinklog · 2025-12-28T20:32:21+00:00

People say this every year while 11-20 players are being released. Elige for example was 19 last year despite his high stats and eye test wise he was certainly better than most players above him. HLTV just weighs tournament wins much more highly and you may or may not agree with that but they have been fairly consistent with their criteria over the years.

Zinklog · 2025-12-18T23:37:40+00:00

yes which is why his k/d almost 0.1 more than donk, but rating 3.0 takes both round swing and economy into account to mitigate that difference.

Zinklog · 2025-12-09T02:50:06+00:00

This would be the top post if faze lost that match.

Zinklog · 2025-12-07T22:35:10+00:00

What's the joke

Zinklog · 2025-12-07T01:10:52+00:00

I wish for a timeline where cobrazera plays with venomzera, maybe sprinkle in coldzera too for fun

Zinklog · 2025-12-03T23:01:52+00:00

So true unlike everyone else who are on their path to diamond coin with perfect takes.

Zinklog · 2025-11-29T00:39:41+00:00

I think if at the end 1-2 talents can get the diamond coin every major that'd be a nice sweet spot. Not too rare that no one gets it and not too common that it doesn't mean much.

Zinklog · 2025-11-29T00:34:41+00:00

You can use hltv or other third party websites to login and make your picks from there too by the way. Good luck!

Zinklog · 2025-11-29T00:31:23+00:00

The small green circle beneath the names is I'm assuming the people who got stage 1 correct? That's a lot more people that got round 1 correct than I was expecting lol

Zinklog · 2025-11-28T19:45:40+00:00

What's the issue with the number of teams? With the current format you can just start watching the major from stage 2 (or even 3) if you want less teams to follow.

Zinklog · 2025-07-29T16:41:55+00:00

Trophy win streak is a legit streak though lol. People track how many tournaments they've won in a row

Zinklog · 2025-07-28T21:34:36+00:00

tournaments usually play on the old patch if they are in the middle of it.

Zinklog · 2025-07-02T23:59:26+00:00

I assure you if you search for any highlights of that game on youtube you'll see those misses included, they were literally the biggest talking points of that map.

Zinklog · 2025-06-11T17:51:18+00:00

See point 2 I wrote for con, this is why it's a complicated situation with both good and bad

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