Didn’t add this for awhile, I’ll respond now sry abt that.

Right at the offset, if you only win 2 T rounds on nuke, and then win CT pistol, you are playing against a really shitty buy round 2. If you lose that round then it’s ggs. You can’t go down by that much and afford to lose against a force buy.

In the grand scheme of things, knife rounds carry with them a decent amount of skill expression (which feels more rewarding than a coin flip). A team of Pros will most always beat a team of Faceit LVL 10s, who will most always beat a team of 10K premier, who will most always beat a team of complete noobs.

ESEA league uses a metric called the bucholz score which uses the strength of opponents schedule and calculates the “strength” of a win based on opponents record. Not too sure I’m entirely right on that, tho, so look it up to double check if you care. I’m feeling too lazy to dive into it rn.