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On November 5th, 2024, The MongolZ secured their third international title of 2024 by winning this year’s Thunderpick World Championship. They faced off against HEROIC in a best-of-five grand final and won the series 3-1 to take home the $500,000 prize. The MongolZ were very confident going into the grand final as they boasted a dominant form the entire tournament, dropping just two maps overall.

As CS2 is one of the most popular shooters, it is evident that this discipline has competitions. There are several types of tournaments in counter-strike. In most cases, they are connected, but some tournaments are separate from the primary events grid.

On September 24th, 2024, many professional CS2 players such as Liquid’s Twistzz, FaZe’s karrigan, Falcons’ Snappi, and Vitality’s apEX all posted on X (formerly Twitter) that “I might be unfit for Blast Media tomorrow.” Such a coordinated set of the exact same tweets spells nothing but a boycott, as almost half the players skip out on media obligations on the eve of a Major is a very serious matter.

On October 4th, 2024, more details were revealed about the upcoming IEM Rio 2024 that every CS2 fan is looking forward to. The tournament is shaping up to be one of the most important events of the year as it's the final IEM (Intel Extreme Masters) event of 2024, meaning it’s the last chance to qualify for 2025 ESL Pro Tour. Organized by ESL FACEIT Group, 16 teams will go head-to-head from October 7th to 13th in Rio de Janeiro, also for a prize pool of a quarter of a million dollars.

On October 1st, 2024, LVL, teaming up with GRID, shared important details for the upcoming Thunderpick World Championship (first announced back in April), and it’s shaping up to be quite a historical event in the Counter-Strike circuit! It will go down as one of the biggest events in CS2 esports, with a prize pool of one million dollars, higher than anyone has ever seen. The prize pool, coupled with the premium venue of Berlin, CS2 fans are excited to see how things will unfold!

On October 24th, Andrey "⁠Xoma⁠" Mironenko, former coach on Virtus.pro sat down with HLTV to give an interview on his time at the team, what he learnt, and what he felt were its biggest shortcomings. For those unaware, Xoma coached Virtus.pro from June to September, partaking in many tournaments like IEM Rio 2024, ESL Pro League Season 20, all of which we have covered on our website. Xoma left the team recently and joined Aurora as their assistant coach, working alongside head coach Stepan "⁠brain⁠" Sivoronov to make the team into the best version of itself.

On September 17th, 2024, it was confirmed by the CEO of K10, one of the most influential esports organizations in the UK when it comes to Counter-Strike, that they would be shutting down. Oliver ‘Taz’ Holloway, CEO and co-owner of K10 said the following on X (formerly Twitter): “Just want to address all the messages. It’s true – after a long and hard two years of trying, we will be closing the doors at K10 and my official leave of esports. It’s been amazing working with so many talented people but for now, it’s time to say goodbye. Sorry. Thank you all for sticking by me the staff and all the players that have been with us over this journey. What’s next? Who knows!”

On October 11th, 2024, Bleed Esports' CS2 coach Aleksandar "Kassad" Trifunovic dropped a bombshell on X (formerly Twitter), highlighting the organization's very concerning malpractices. From the statement issued, it seems that the team had relentlessly attempted to resolve their disputes internally, but due to persistent ignorance from the organization, they decided to go public and cut ties with BLEED Esports as a whole.

On November 7th, 2024, Valve dropped a new update for Counter-Strike 2 mainly focused on technical adjustments ranging from map and animation fixes to lag compensation and bullet hit feedback. Many of the issues addressed were the highlights of criticism back when CS2 first launched, so it’s a good sign to see Valve giving the game some love.

Every CS2 player has their own quirks and unique settings, from custom key binds to unconventional video configurations. Manually adjusting these every time can be tedious. However, using config files, you can automate the process effortlessly. Here’s how to create a CFG file and set up an autoexec function in CS2.

On December 12th 2024, news dropped from several organizations regarding recompositions of their CS2 rosters following their elimination from the Perfect World Shanghai Major. Notably, Complexity and Virtus.pro have made the most shocking changes out of them all, paving the way for major changes to each organization’s rosters.

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On November 26th, 2024, Nabil "⁠Nivera⁠" Benrlitom announced on X (formerly Twitter) that his current organization, Revenant, has allowed him to explore his options. While this does cast doubt on Revenant’s commitment to having a long-term CS2 roster, given that they’re now just down to two players, Kamil "⁠reiko⁠" Cegiełko and Laurențiu "⁠lauNX⁠" Țârlea, Nivera’s future is also uncertain. Despite the struggle, Nivera is a well-known name in the VALORANT and Counter-Strike sphere, given that he has competed at the highest level in both scenes.

On November 20th, 2024, many more teams qualified for the Perfect World Shanghai Major coming up in December later this year. Even though they lost pretty badly to Vitality the day before, with the latter not conceding a single map, FaZe showed up unfazed (pun intended) in their match against FNATIC. They delivered a 2-0 blow to FNATIC, with a 13-5 scoreline on map 1 (Anubis) and 13-8 scoreline on map 2 (Ancient) - a similar beating to what Vitality gave them.

On November 30th, 2024, fans looked back at Cloud9’s performance at the RMR while many doubted their ability to even qualify for the Perfect World Shanghai Major. The team had genuine struggles up to the RMR, prompting them to implement equally drastic changes, notably changing Nikita "⁠HeavyGod⁠" Martynenko’s role on the roster. HeavyGod was known for being a good hard anchor during his time on OG, but Cloud9 decided to have him play as an aggressive star rifler.