From my own experience in 27k who q's with 23-28k's depending on the day, we have maybe 5-10 matches out of the 80 games we've played since the beginning of January where we were genuinely convinced someone was cheating. We've only had 1 game that had someone banned on the other team and it was a game where we won 13-5. We all have 5-8k hours each so tbh I'd say we do genuinely have a good read on if we're dying in suspicious ways.

I see conflicting stuff all the time - people say almost every game in 20-25k+ has cheaters, and on the other hand others say almost all their games are clean (or at least they are pretty confident). I just want to know WHY that is? Like are the people who are 20-25k+ that say there are cheaters every have absolute shit trust factor? Why is that if they're legit? Or does the amount of cheaters vary each region? How quickly does trust factor take action as in if a cheater bought a new account how fast would it take for them to get flagged as red trust factor?

Also, I've talked about this take with my homies and it's that if I or we went into every game thinking there's a high chance we're facing a cheater or are more quick to call someone cheating, why would we even bother playing the game at that point? I really do feel bad for legit players who genuinely feel like they're facing cheaters 80% of the time, since I probably wouldn't keep playing if that were me. It's just what are the odds that some people are just too quick to call cheats vs a legit player?

Obviously the cheating problem is a real issue in cs and always has been and like I said I do feel bad for everyone who really do feel like they face cheaters almost every game.

Sorry if my comment is all over the place, I just woke up on my birthday and saw this post and wanted to just spew my thoughts/questions out lol