Get the latest tech news

When Is a Counter-Strike Player Good?

participated in a Counter-Strike tournament with a few coworkers during April. Not that I’m particularly good at the game1 I only played very casually back in the 1.6 days, peaked at the dmg rank in cs:go and 14,000 in cs2.

But it’s worth emphasising that one of the draws of the game is that shooting is not the objective; it is theoretically possible (though highly unlikely) for either team to score a point without firing a single bullet. In other words, a negative Leetify rating means the player actually reduced their team’s chances of winning compared to if they had run away and hid somewhere on the playing fiend. By downloading this data from a few of my own matches, it might be possible to see how each of these variables affect the Leetify rating, which we will take as the ground truth for when a player contributes positively to their team’s chances of winning.

Get the Android app