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CS2 Premier Season 5 adds Cache and reworks C4 damage
CS2 Premier Season 5 brings Cache into Active Duty, removes Overpass and changes how C4 blast damage travels through official defusal maps in ranked play.
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CS2 Cache CT rotation guide for Premier Season 5
Use this CS2 Cache CT rotation guide to assign anchors, protect middle, rotate through connector and retake without abandoning both bombsites. Analysis.
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Vitality beat The MongolZ to win Austin Major 2025
Vitality beat The MongolZ 2-1 in the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 final, recovering from Mirage to secure the CS2 Major and $500,000. Analysis. Details.
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CS2 removes map-wide minimum C4 damage in July 9 fix
Valve’s CS2 July 9 update removes unintended map-wide minimum C4 damage, fixes area-boundary calculations and increases force on dropped weapons. Analysis.
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BLAST Open Porto 2026 brings 16 teams to a $1.1M event
BLAST Open Porto 2026 starts August 26 before six teams reach the Porto arena. The CS2 event offers $1.1 million in prize money and participation fees.
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CS2 updates four community maps in July 15 patch
The CS2 July 15 update refreshes Fachwerk, Boulder, Shelter and El Dorado to their latest Workshop versions and adds stability and security fixes. Analysis.
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CS2 utility handoffs: who owns the grenade after rotation?
CS2 utility handoffs prevent late-round grenades from becoming orphaned resources. Assign ownership as players rotate, save and retake together.
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CS2 mid-round resets: stop solving the old round
A useful CS2 reset replaces the opening plan with one current win condition, one information task and one shared timing.
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CS2 timeout protocol: four questions before play resumes
A useful CS2 timeout is not a speech. It is a short decision protocol that fixes the next round without flooding players with information.
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CS2 anchor survival: a drill for delaying without disappearing
This CS2 anchor drill trains information, utility and escape timing. The goal is not passive survival but buying useful seconds for the rotation.