Sports tipsters & Betting

The eSsports have come for good in our lives in recent years, and in Europe more and more players choose to deal with these bets. In the following text we will deal with one of the most popular games in this industry, Counter Strike: Global Offensive or CS: GO for short. It is a first-person, multi-player video game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and Valve Corporation.

It is the fourth game in the Counter Strike series and was released for both PC and Playstation and Xbox consoles in the summer of 2012. Counter Strike: Global Offensive has millions of users worldwide, which has led many betting companies to make purchases. to bet on it.

The birth of online gaming

In the early 2000s, computers were slowly entering our lives and neighborhood internet cafes opened their gates one after the other, offering an unprecedented experience to all. eSports gaming was an unknown word in the sense we know it nowadays, the reference to electronic games was made for the consoles of Sony, Nintendo and Sega.

It was then that Valve decided to create an FPS (First Person Shooter) game in which two teams, the Terrorists and the Counter-Terrorists, clashed on various maps with the ultimate goal of killing each other. Counter Strike was so simple, but at the same time so fun and innovative for the data of the time that it caught everyone's eye. Twenty years later it remains at the forefront of gamers, filling arenas with audiences to watch the world's best teams in major tournaments with multi-thousand euro prizes.

The way of playing

Each map consists of 30 rounds, with the teams changing sides after completing 15 rounds. The first to win 16 rounds is the winner. In case of a tie, an extension follows, which is judged in six rounds. Each team plays three rounds on each side. The team wins when it prevails in at least four of the six rounds. The ultimate goal of both teams is to neutralize the opponent. However, they will have to "chase" some other goals in the game:

Terrorists to plant a bomb in one of the two places where it is allowed and Counter Terrorists to try to neutralize it before it explodes. When activated, the latter have 40 seconds to act. In the event that the bomb explodes or all members of the Counter Terrorists are killed, then the Terrorists win the round. If the Counter Terrorists deactivate the bomb or prevent it from being placed within the time allowed then they win.

Counter Strike: Global Offensive in betting

As the audience for Counter Strike: Global Offensive continues to grow, with more and more gamers making it professionally, betting companies have decided to include it in their coupons, offering many markets for betting. Some of them are the winner of the map, the exact score, the total kills and the winner of the round with pistols on the map.

At the same time, there are many special bets that have to do with the players of the teams. Those wishing to bet on Counter Strike: Global Offensive can do so at various year-round tournaments in many parts of the world, which can be watched live streaming through the betting platforms, Twitch. tv, Stream.tv., YouTube etc.

Some of the countries that have been conducted are England, Germany, USA, Russia and China. In some of them, 1,000,000 euros are distributed to the participating teams! Some of the top teams in CS:GO are Astralis with total prizes reaching $ 6,000,000, Fnatic ($ 3.5 million), Faze ($ 2.9 million) and Virtus.pro ($ 2.6 million).