Superteams in Counter-Strike
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I forgot to mention Falcons or which law of thermodynamics. I hope you liked the furry analogy.
0:00 - Intro
0:18 - voo is wrong
0:50 - THE HEATLES
1:25 - wtf is a superteam
1:45 - THE KD WARRIORS
2:11 - the expectations
2:35 - DA MONEY
3:35 - acezone baby
4:09 - boxr movement club
4:40 - KARRIGANS FAZE ✅
8:17 - OLD ASTRALIS ❌
10:38 - NAVI ❌
11:59 - NIP ✅
12:55 - VERYGAMES ❌
13:18 - OLD G2 ✅
14:18 - talent normalizes
15:05 - FNATIC ❌
16:37 - the modern era
17:00 - NEW ASTRALIS ✅
18:50 - CLOUD9 ✅
20:23 - LIQUID ❓
20:37 - SK/LG ❓
21:15 - conclusion
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Intro by / ramoalt - Hry
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Surely Vitality, after signing Magisk, Dupreeh and Zonic, could be considered a superteam.
@@znudzony223 I don’t think you understand the term superteam
yes 1000% that team was a lot more fun to watch than current vitality as well, in terms of name value
@@Askemanden a superteam is when a team with already strong players acquire other strong players in their respective teams. in this case, sphinx, flamez, and arguably mezzi were the best players in their teams. that's why c9 was called a superteam; they already had a pretty good lineup but went through a slump even with 3 top 20 players. sh1ro was a top 3 player, ax1le was considered niko's contender for best rifler, hobbit was a very impactful player, then add a fragging igl in electronic, and perfecto who was considered the best support player.
just because vitality bombed-out of katowice, it doesn't disregard the 2 events they won prior. yes, the team would've been better if zonic didn't leave had vitality given him the paycheck he deserved while magisk also staying and not replaced by mezzi but their superteam status still remains.
current superteams: vitality, faze, g2 (even with nexa in the lineup and m0nesy carrying this team's ass)
could be a superteam: falcons (if they get a star rifler), cloud9 (if they get a strong awper)
@@AskemandenHe’s right. I think Vitality truly became a superteam after Spinx. He was like a top 10 player when he came in.
@@Askemanden How so? It's about expectations -- lots of people were very low on Dupreeh at the time he was signed. Apex was constantly being called to be kicked by the community as well. Misutaa was considered pretty bad, but with some potential maybe. People were really only hyped about Magisk/Zywoo/Zonic. They really weren't a superteam until they got Spinx.
Next video on falcons?
Saudi funded shitfests are funny to look at for a bit, but then you realise what their presence actually means for the wider community and conclude its better to avoid them altogether.
Talk about all the players currently
Yeah i need the scoop on Falcons
Falcons simple I hear is raging again
thank you ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Can't wait for Voo's response video 9 months later
Just came out xD
Vitality. Even if we ignore Zywoo coming on in his rooky year you still have the danes and Spinx
I think something you didn't touch on with FaZe is their approach to sticking with a very multinational team is pretty unique in contrast to other teams. Their first lineup with the former G2/Kinguin guys was an interesting lineup. Also, you didn't glaze Twistzz enough.
The problem is, expectations are too high for every tier 1 team, until they form an era. Teams that come out of nowhere, with zero expectations, get more respect than December 2022-2023 G2 winning the Blast World Finals, Katowice and Cologne. The majority of people don’t understand how tough winning really is
I completely agree, unless the team is created to DOMINATE in a short notice, through throwing money at the best possible players, then it's not a super team.
0:00 MIKE MENTIONED RAHHHHHHH 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Astralis 2018/2019 were like the Spurs of Tim, Manu and Tony
bald head like xyp
Yes! And dev1ce is Tim!
nice MIKE in the promo
Amazing
fr i thought i accidentally pressed play on my spotify
came to say this
A superteam isn't the same as a really good team, a superteam aquires the world's best in order to try and dominate, a really good team takes good players, maybe a superstar, and develops into the world's best
opening a vid with MIKE is legendary
the murrsuiting analogy bro😭😭
iirc i've ever tried to (seriously) argue anything about results when it comes to what makes a super team
Peak Astralis being a super team is an argument that can be made because you took Astralis 2017 with 4 top 20 players (a top 3 team of the year, and a major winning roster) and gave them the choice of adding K0nfig (the best non-astralis danish player of 2017) or Magisk (the best non-astralis danish player of 2016). If you read threads at the time, there are a lot of people hyping of Magisk as a superstar and the roster as insanely stacked. I even found several people calling it a danish super team, at the time of the signing.
Is 1 player change enough to make something a super team? Either opinion is fair, imo. Eventually it ends up being a theseus' ship situation, but obviously 2 player changes seems to be enough to define something as a super team (cloud9) even when 1 of 2 players was never in the top 20, so then you have to actually figure out exactly where to draw the line. Looking at faze for the 1 player change example things get a bit muddy, since at the time of their signings pre-ropz it was only a super team if "have big names cuz they used to be good" or "cost a lot of money because of name value" are the basis and not "actually are amazing players currently." Rain was seen as completely washed, twistzz was a bit of a ? and broky was mostly unknown. All of these players come together and actually start getting their form back on point under Karrigan, then you add Ropz and most people will call this a super team because you're re-analyzing the roster based on current form at the time of adding a new 5th. That's fair, but then you have to treat all teams that way and the argument for Astralis 2018 being a super team is hard to fight against.
rambled a bit but i think this all started from me saying something like if faze 2021 was a super team then so was prime astralis and that's generally the logic intertwining the 2. nothing to do with results.
generally my definition of super team would be just about player skill level at the time of the signing and you re-evaluate rosters after each individual signing. by this logic, astralis 2018 would at the very least be a danish super team, and faze would become a super team after adding ropz.
voo! not reading allat but I hope my video helped 🥹
@@laundersgigachad launders destroys soy sipping counter strike armchair analysis.
Honestly it's hard for me to rate performances/form of teams during online era like FaZe's slump compared to on LAN
@@matan6737voo is about to drop a 23 minute video on why launders should've read his comment 😂
I think a big thing with superteams is the feeling of it being artificial, like people joining forces to win rather than to developing the roster over time.
I love these news/topic/talking head videos, please keep doing them :D
Great video as always. Would love to see a video talking about players who don't really post the best stats but without them a team's success is never possible. Cheers!
I feel like it’s hard to put a definition to a superteam because there’s several ways it could come about. You kind of just know a superteam when you see it
i think you nailed it. i hope this helps people better understand what super team really means, that's it's not simply a vehicle to success.
This makes sense. I'll be thinking the most about the IGLs in the major picks.
Yo super clean edits and clips in this one. Keep 'em coming, S-tier CS content ❤
The motion and masking of the keyed-in gfx are so damn cleaaan
Holy cow that was one hell of an opening monologue
MIKE in the intro got me torqued, well played Launders
fantastic video launders. love it.
bro that intro boxr ad is so fire it did NOT need to go that hard
Have not heard "Hubba Bubba" in 20 years, nice nostalgic flashbang lau🗯
thanks for the new wallpaper 2:55
i like these types of videos were u are focused on one topic over the ones were u react to news and bounce all over the place.
A superteam for me is a team which could be someone's dream lineup
Thank you for the time stamps 🙂
you really made the 18min intro explaining the super team concept to bash on the astralis roster? i love it
Another Lau upload, another good day in this life.
really good video, I like this style
shoutouts boxr homies
Dicksonnnnnnnn
Launders, i watched 30 seconds of unskippable ads for you. I love you.
Nothin says more than that love u king
The moneyball edit was so good
I’d argue 2018 MIBR could be considered a superteam like Faze, they broke down region barriers to become an americas super team, and signed 2 superstars in Stew and Tarik to pair with a core of the greatest Brazilian’s to play the game.
4:16 moisturize those elbows homie
No, don't. Once you start, you're going to have to do it for the rest of your life lmao.
Do it for him cuh 😉
A superteam is when you take 5 GOATS to make 🐐^5
thats why we love ence, the underdogs that are able to compete with the big guys
yoo that intro was a banger bro
LOL the CZcamsr beef! Voo's usually on point, but I do agree with you here about the difference between bringing together individually talented people on a single roster (which may not result in cohesive teamwork) like world cup or Olympic teams do, versus a team that sticks together and works their way to the top. There's no shortcut to the kind of chemistry that gets built over time, although a super team that sticks together long enough can get there.
20 mins of fraudwatching voo but he does make a good video so subscribe 🥹 youtube.com/@vooCSGO?si=ooBHSVuc8Au4peIE
voo not beating the fraud alegations
Falcons are also a interesting thing, if s1mple does decide to stay would that qualify as a superteam?
You've gotta say yeah, right?
The GOAT of csgo + top 3 IGL of 2023 + Magisk with 4 Majors (best anchor of 2023) + GOAT coach of csgo + #6 player of 2023
know this game doesn’t matter to most cs players, but league recently had an amazing underdog story with DRX winning worlds. if you haven’t heard it was insane, team barely qualified and went on to win worlds. had the hardest teams back to back to back, gen g, previous worlds winners edg, t1 for the finals. had the most stacked and hard bracket and went insane. deft, a player on drx went to the same school as faker (4 time world champ) and was always in his shadow, watching him finally beat him was amazing. goes to say super teams are to me less impressive than underdogs 100%.
lau forever the man for the MIKE intro
Launders is a blessing to the cs community
That intro is insane
Superteams can be enraging, but they're also exciting! I only got into pro cs when I heard that olof and GuardiaN (two guys I'd seen a lot in fragmovies) were joining a team with NiKo (also fragmovies) and rain (my first AK skin came with a rain signature on it)
So I was like "damn that's cool I'll root for them" and here I am 6.5 years later still being a fan of NiKo, rain and karrigan
In short, I agree with what launders said about the classification of superteams. The players' resumés and the expectations of the team are the most important things
thats true, cant lie. the disappointment cant exist without the hype
Would you say the recent g2 with niko, monesy, jks, hunter, hooxi was a super team?
goated intro song man mucho respect
im wondering what roles the good igl's used to fill before they started calling, maybe theres a pattern? e.g.: fallen and cadian beeing awpers, karrigan and apex beiing entrys
that kennys cobble clips makes me laugh so hard when it cuts to Xyp9x face lol
He was holding so much emotion back lmao
Launders is the Gerbert Johnson of Cs
no way you open it up with a mike song
I’m really a simple man, I see launders upload, I click.
i remember watching liquid after they went a on a bad streak and was always yelling at my screen with some of stewies decisions and weapon choices. Then FAZE, who use to famously choke always, started winning alot more. Before i followed the players at all, i soon realized the star rifler of Liquid switched to FAZE and it made a lot more sense.
virtus pro 2013-2016 is a all time super team lineup imo. Snax, Pasha, Neo byali and taz is a super team on its own. The only team that could really challenge NIP or FNATIC in that era. No other team could really come close most of the times (besides that one LDLC run (womp))
They were also called the Golden 5 :DDD my favourite roster all time even though they didn't win too much in retrospect
You missed the whole point of the term «Super Team» though?
No
Background was cool but I didn't like it reversing. Great thoughts as always 👏
I don't know if the length of the video (21:37) is intentional, but Polish community should be pleased with that
Dude the intro for the merch is so lit wtf. who made that!
@ramoalt twitter 🌚
I miss 2021 Navi 😢
@@ropzicleWdym, Boombl4’s calling and Electronic’s secondary calling combined with S1mple’s skills made them so fun and unpredictable to watch
it was pretty boring, remember their tournament runs where enemy teams couldn’t take more than like 5 rounds? In Mr15
Yeah, that team had so much potential. Thx to Putin that team was destroyed without reaching their full potential.
Intro is heat
thank you counter strike historian
What music do you use in your vids #2
My definition of a super team is a team that by all accounts is in that top3 or top 5 best teams of an era in terms of raw skill and talent.
If we use football as an example, Manchester City was a 'superteam' even though they didn't win a single Champions League until just this past year. Pep as a manager, the way they would dominate and crush teams on the regular, and the pure talent and stature of the players in the side made them a superteam, regardless of the fact they kept failing at the biggest trophy in Europe.
Even Real Madrid - they only won 1 Champions league in the 2000-2010 decade but you'd be laughed out of the room if you didn't think they were one of if not the best/consistently top 3 teams on the continent - thats why so many good players kept going there like Ronaldo ended up doing.
In CS terms, yea the ones you mentioned are perfect examples of superteams. It didn't matter if they won it all or not, it was whether this was, on paper, the most stacked/consistent team you could pick. When Cloud9 won their major, the superteam to beat was Faze 100%
Xyp9x is so underrated. He did lot of clutch rounds to save his team.
Greatest cs CZcamsr dead or alive no kizzy on stizzy
i just realized, that faze squad with olof and coldzera is literally the only instance of two #1 players playing along each other….
I stand by that if stewie had never been a twitch celeb he would have been a nobody. After teams learned to expect his push and random aggression his stats dropped of severely and the dude had almost no noteworthy plays in the second half of his career.
wait using MIKE for your ad goes insanely crazy... good taste
Hear me out imagine the french G2 but Apex is already in the midst or starting his IGL Arc rather than shox calling
Would the MIBR with Stew and Tarik count? These were the two biggest riflers from Cloud 9 joining in with the core of the legendary Brazilians, although my thoughts at the time was that this wouldn't work
Is that a MIKE song he’s playing in his intro ?
Great video
was polish virtus pro a superteam?
I am finished being surprised when a "super team" fails to perform. All the hype and expectation is generated by fans and past performance on other teams, but until the delivery, it is all theoretical. When that theory falls apart, we react with massive dissapointment, but we are the ones that ultimately set ourselves up for that dissapointment in the first place. When will these organizations learn that you can't just take five players, a truckload of money, clout, and hype, mash them together and magically have a winning formula every time? It doesn't always work to manufacture success in that way. There has to be organic chemistry, the rise of Spirit being an excellent example. Additionally, while all these orgs attempt to construct their own colossus, there will always have to be losers, so the "failure" of any given team is inevitable, no matter how "super" it may be in name only.
tSuperteam is when already established stars are brought together. like lebron, wade, and bosh teaming up in miami. or the old faze team.
completely agreed with all the takes. what about the current Liquid, performing or not so far, would that be considered a superteam? 🤔
I like using "superteam" just like in the basketball. For me early Faze Clan, french G2, and in some way NIP, Fnatic and VP from first 2 years of csgo were superteam. Especially those last 3 team are very interesting cases for me. You take some of the greatest players from css and 1.6 and forge the best lineup in your country that you can make. Those teams were made of the most iconic and winning players of older cs. I would also say that Vitality is for me superteam. With one of the best cs players, legendary coach, some of the best players on the market. And at the end we have Falcons 🙃
mike song on the intro real recognize real
what the hell is that moneyball picture lmao
We need a podcast!
I think you forgot to mention Astana Dragons. Back in 2013,The true OG of CS:GO Superteam. The CIS most dominant players were there. If I remember correctly there was Edward, Markeloff, Dosia, adreN, ANGE1. They fell off because of money end or something, but in the interview then Edward said that team was not practicing, and they all think that they’re superstars and don’t need to practice.
Why everyone ignoring this banger comment….😢
My definition of Superteam is that you make a change that brings in an S-Tier player in their role and the change leads to at least 3 Superstars in their roles (ie., 3 of IGL, AWP, Opener, Closer, Anchor). It is most obvious when 2-3 of the stars are being added rather than a Star team adding a borderline S-Tier.
And to define S-Tier, the player should be Top20 HLTV, preferably Top10 or a recognised Top 5-6 for their role.
ropz to FaZe is a debatable Superteam signing, that I think you missed. rain and broky might not be considered Top 5 in role at this point but Twistzz (anchor) and Karrigan (IGL) likely were and with rain's recent past, I think it tips it over the line.
Astralis was debatably a Superteam when Magisk joined. Magisk had got Top20 the year before and was joining an established team of greats. The fact that Kajerbye was seen as better doesn't change what the Magisk addition meant.
Similarly Liquid adding Stewie could be debated as a Superteam as well. They were already the clear 2nd best team with 2 superstars in their roles in EliGE and NAF and then they added a Major champion. The expectations were high even with the GOAT Astralis.
If there's no salary cap, then creating a "superteam" becomes irrelevant.
The most money will ALWAYS attract the best players.
Money ball mentioned Billy beane activated
YOOOOOOO USING A MIKE SONG FOR THE BOXR INTRO I ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE GOATED LAU
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MIKE I’m the promo, great taste in music 👍🏽
you forgot G2 superteam Aleksi, niko, monesy, jackz, hunter. What about the mibr one with stew and tarik?
Winning alot does not = super team. Fnatic 2015 wasn’t a superteam. Astralis 2018 wasn’t a superteam. SK 2016 wasn’t a superteam.
Crazy I didn't think people were confused on what a super team was. Cheat code is a good term. Current clippers are also a great example
If at least 3 or more players in a team have won at least two S-Tier Events, then that team can be called a 'Superteam'. This means that if such team comes about one almost certain side effect in the community is that there will be much expectation from it. And one possible effect is the team actually wins multiple S-Tier Events.
It took s1mple until 6 months into 2018 to win his 2nd S tier tournament but I doubt anyone would argue that s1mple wouldn't be one of the biggest and most hyped signings at the time if he left Navi.
Looking at 2017's HLTV list s1mple would surely be top 5 if he was judged by modern criteria
2018 Cloud9 beating FaZe was like when the NY Giants upset the undefeated Patriots in the Super Bowl.
16:28 Could you do a series about pro player and how good they were! Showing highlights and demos and explaining the thought process, what they sid that was impressive at the time, so on and so forth. Please :-)
perfect
now we just need an actual pro furry superteam
Oh man you wanna see a NBA example superteam check out the olympic US Dream Team 1992 and 1996 lol! Those are some bonkers rosters.
What'a the song in the intro? fire af