ESL One Cologne 2015: Finals
We’re down to four teams, and soon will find out who will emerge as the ESL One Cologne 2015 CS:GO Champions! The Semi-Finals start at 11:45 am CET (5:45 am EST, 2:45am PST) with Team…
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ESL One Cologne 2015: Quarter-Final
The championship hopes of eight teams have ended. Congratulations to the advancing teams who fill out Saturday’s Quarter-Finals bracket. Games begin at 1:45 pm CET (8:45 am EST, 5:45 am…
ESL One Cologne 2015: Group Stage
The stage is set. Sixteen teams are getting ready for Thursday’s Group Stage games. Four teams will advance to the quarterfinals today, and the remaining four teams to advance will be…
Cologne 2015 Pick’Em Challenge
ESL One Cologne 2015 may be a week away, but you have two ways to support your favorite teams and players right now!
ESL One Cologne Asia Qualifier
We’re just a month away from ESL One Cologne 2015, and while the Legends are ready, the Challengers have yet to emerge.
ESL ESEA Pro League Season 1 Finals
The top teams from Europe and North America are set to clash as the ESL ESEA Pro League reaches the end of its very first season.
ESL One Cologne 2015
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship at ESL One Cologne 2015
ESL One Katowice 2015: Infographic
ESL One Katowice 2015 was a huge success thanks to the ever-expanding CS:GO community. Over a million of you tuned in for the Grand Final and watched as Fnatic took the $100,000 Grand Prize!
ESL One Katowice 2015: Champions
Congratulations to Fnatic for winning ESL One Katowice 2015 – making them the first team to repeat at a CS:GO Major Tournament! After defeating Ninjas in Pyjamas in a hard-fought…
ESL One Katowice 2015: Grand Final
ESL One Katowice 2015 has reached the Grand Final, but only one team can walk away a champion!
ESL One Katowice 2015: On to the Finals
The last Quarter-Final match starts at 13:00 CET and leads into today’s Semi-Finals on the way to tomorrow’s Grand Finals.
ESL One Katowice 2015: Quarter-Finals
After a hard-fought group stage, eight teams remain. Don’t miss a minute, watch the quarter-finals get under way at 13:00 CET.
ESL One Katowice 2015
They’ve proven themselves in prior majors, battled through online and offline qualifiers, and prepared for months. Sixteen teams have arrived at ESL One Katowice 2015, where they will soon…
ESL One Katowice Qualifier
This Saturday and Sunday, 16 teams will fight for the eight remaining Challenger slots to join the eight Legends at ESL One Katowice 2015.
ESL One Katowice 2015
CS:GO Major Tourney At ESL One Katowice 2015
DreamHack Winter Is Coming
Ready to support your favorite teams? The 2014 DreamHack CS:GO Championship is still a week away, but you can start playing the DreamHack 2014 Pick’Em Challenge today!
ESWC Playoffs
Looking for the world’s best CS:GO teams? They’re competing at the 2014 Electronic Sports World Cup, which is marching toward the Grand Final this weekend.
DreamHack CS:GO Championship
CS:GO MAJOR TOURNEY AT DREAMHACK WINTER 2014
ESL One Cologne 2014 – Winners
Congratulations to Ninjas in Pyjamas on winning the ESL One Cologne 2014 CS:GO Championship. They take home $100,000 of the $250,000 community funded prize pool. Ninjas in Pyjamas won match…
ESL One Cologne 2014 – Final Day
It all comes down to this one day. Four teams remain, only one will be crowned the ESL One Cologne 2014 CS:GO Champions.
CS2 update questions
How often does Counter-Strike 2 get an update?
Valve ships small updates most weeks — usually community map refreshes, gameplay fixes and map-scripting additions — with a larger release every few months that brings a new Premier season, Armory collections or an operation. Every one of them is listed here, newest first.
Where do these patch notes come from?
Straight from Valve. This archive reads Counter-Strike's official Steam announcement feed, so each entry is the release note Valve published, with a link to the original post. Nothing is rewritten or summarised away.
How quickly do new updates appear here?
Within about 15 minutes of Valve posting. The feed is re-read on a short interval, so a build that ships in the evening shows up here the same evening.
Do CS2 updates move skin prices?
Frequently. Case and collection changes, Armory rotations, operation launches and Major shop releases all change what is available and what people are buying. When an update touches items, open the skin or case page to see what actually happened to the price around that date.
What do the section names on each update mean?
They are Valve's own headings. "Gameplay" covers mechanics and weapon behaviour, "Maps" lists per-map fixes and Workshop refreshes, "Map scripting" is the scripting API for custom maps, "Armory" and "Misc" cover items and everything else. Each update card lists the sections that build touched.