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Evil Geniuses coach Wilton "zews" Prado joined the HLTV Confirmed podcast to talk about his coaching career, practicing tools, and his approach to his job in general. The participants discussed interseason roster changes, the role of rankings on the scene, and the ongoing online tournaments, including the EG's potential at the upcoming ESL One Cologne. ➡️ Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed

Complexity IGL Benjamin "⁠blameF⁠" Bremer joined the HLTV Confirmed podcast to talk about his career, leading a team, and the most efficient ways to practice. To figure out the latter, we tried out different tools, including ESEA Refrag, Skybox, and Shadow.gg. The Dane also talked about his approach to work ethic and working out, developing as a player, and gave tips for people trying to breakthrough. ➡️ Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed

Justin "jks" Savage joined HLTV Confirmed to discuss recent roster news, including nitr0's departure from Liquid, opened up about his development as a player and 100 Thieves' coaching change, and the chances of LANs, particularly Pro League and the Major, happening this year. The Australian is wary of the dangers the pandemic presents, but also admits that he would enjoy going to Europe where he could play against more different teams. He also touched on offers from other teams and his expectations at upcoming tournaments. ➡️ Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed

Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed Timestamps: 00:00 Podcast intro Hotseat with device 2:47 - device on the situation in Astralis 4:40 - How did the events in 2020 affect the device’s team?  7:35 - How to know if a player (gla1ve) needs to take a break? 9:30 - Was the initial 2020 calendar easier comparing with previous years? 11:30 - Did Astralis recover from 2019 travel and competition?  13:33 - Decision to sign es3tag 16:00 - device's honest opinion on the extended roster 18:17 - Pros and cons of just five players vs. expanded roster 20:55 - Was device at the point of needing a break? 25:00 - Playing with JUGi and Snappi, DH & BLAST 28:43 - device on community pressure, Twitter comments 30:50 - device dismisses player contract requiring 37-48 hours per week 35:05 - Who decides the roster shuffles in Astralis? Recent news:  38:00 - Update to Dust2 45:20 - Teams handed ownership conflict ultimatum 50:05 - Snappi to c0ntact 55:18 - BIG win DreamHack Masters BLAST Premier

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In a special episode of the HLTV Confirmed podcast, we delve deep into the current CS:GO competitive format, examine its potential flaws and explore solutions for issues such as map length, the coin-flip nature of pistol rounds, and the comeback mechanic within the new economy. SPUNJ presents his ideas on overtime, while Rejin chips in with mouz's experience with the latest changes. HLTV Confirmed: Gamechanger is the first of a series of in-depth shows focused on theorycrafting and further improving CS:GO. ➡️ Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed

➡️ Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction Hotseat with pronax 3:20 - Reading pronax biography 4:40 - What does pronax do now?  5:58 - What’s pronax role in the team?  7:55 - Looking back at the history of initial GODSENT 10:45 - Rebooting GODSENT 16:20 - How much does being a CS legend help pronax’s business?  19:25 - Book recommendation by pronax 20:40 - History of the GODSENT’s CS:GO squad 23:35 - kRYSTAL’s role as IGL 26:20 - How did pronax know that it was time to retire? 29:35 - Why pronax decided to not pursue coaching? 34:18 - Did pronax trial for FaZe? 36:45 - Has the game accelerated in terms of individual plays?   VALORANT effect 38:50 - pronax shares his opinion on VALORANT 40:20 - Who has switched to the game and why?  49:50 - How does GODSENT look at VALORANT? 53:30 - VALORANT as a chance for those who are not able to compete in CS 55:20 - The business reasons for mostly American players quitting Recent news 59:20 - Astralis to

Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed 0:00 Hotseat with MSL 1:47 - Welcoming MSL 3:00 - Running through the MSL’s history at Rogue and OpTic 7:11 - What were MSL’s goals in NA and what MSL experienced there 9:20 - MSL talks about rejoining North 12:40 - The role of the performance coach in the game 14:37 - MSL on AWPing  17:55 - MSL about device, acoR, and JUGi and their applications in the game 20:49 - MSL’s approach to using a coach 26:40 - North’s results at EPL and Road to Rio Recent news 29:27 - Major coaching rule vote 32:30 - Is bigger involvement of coaches an issue? 34:40 - SicK retires from competitive play 38:50 - ENCE add Jamppi as sixth 40:10 - 6-man rosters - do they make any sense? 42:05 - Conflict of interest ruling 47:50 - SPUNJ smashes Valve for throwing TOs under the bus Danish scene 49:57 - What is the Danish secret to success?  54:42 - Does a high recognition level among the general population of Denmark play a role?  56:47 - Danish scene power rankings 1:00

Gen.G in-game leader Damian "daps" Steele joined the HLTV Confirmed podcast to talk about the recent updates to CS:GO, Valve's relationship with the game and how the coronavirus has affected North American Counter-Strike. The tenured leader also spoke about his removal from NRG, the relationship with tarik and stanislaw, as well as the coach change in Evil Geniuses, as they replaced ImAPet with zews. Connect with us: https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed

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https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed/ Hotseat with Rejin 1:35 - Reflecting on IEM Katowice results 3:54 - What’s different between mousesports before and now? 6:04 - Rejin on preparing for EPL 8:03 - Having a roster where everyone can show up vs. a superstar-based team? 10:40 - Who’s gonna be an upset in EPL? 12:20 - Are there any teams that will benefit from more online? Recent news 14:59 - Heroic-FPX situation 18:45 - Striker: “you’ve put 4 million dollars into CS and you allowed this to happen” 26:47 - Major postponed to November 32:00 - AdreN takes over as VP captain 40:36 - GamerLegion add coach, disband Six-man roster 45:11 - Discussing Astralis’ move to sign es3tag as 6th player 56:32 - Why six-man roster didn’t work in the past? EPL Season 11 1:07:47 - Impressions of Vitality with misutaaa 1:10:47 - Rejin on his experience of standing in and having a near-zero rating 1:14:51 - Astralis, Na’Vi recover after slow starts 1:23:04 - Who will top group C of EPL Europe? 1:30:40 - Professeur, BanKs, and St

https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed Timestamps: Hotseat with kassad 1:06 - Introducing kassad 1:40 - What do 100 Thieves do in LA?  2:42 - kassad on working on his team’s mentality 6:51 - Is there a specific goal to remain at the top? 7:56 - Is CS becoming more individualistic?  9:54 - Do 100 Thieves specifically prepare to face star players like ZywOo? 11:48 - How kassad started coaching and how his style has changed over time? 15:10 - What’s the outlook for kassad for 2020? 16:15 - What makes a good coach? 18:30 - How much does confidence matter?  19:30 - Were there any instances of potential rosters on the table? Recent news 23:25 - MAD Lions bench HUNDEN 25:17 - “Something doesn’t add up” - kassad on HUNDEN’s situation 31:30 - AcilioN replacing HUNDEN. Is it good or bad?  36:07 - ALEX steps down from Vitality 43:50 - “I’m afraid that he made the wrong decision” - kassad 47:51 - AGO sign seventh player Minors 51:00 - Overviewing the Minors 52:41 - Talking Europe Minor 54:18 - Surpris

Follow the show: ➡️https://twitter.com/HLTVconfirmed Timestamps: BO$$ Talk with Nomad 2:27 - What is Better Collective and what is the deal about?  3:40 - Does it mean HLTV will have more resources to develop? 5:38 - “They didn’t buy because they wanted to change something.” - Nomad 8:45 - “We’re 100% in control of this company” - Nomad addressing the concerns 9:42 - Is expanding to more games on the table? 12:33 - What’s coming up for HLTV? 14:13 - Will there be an open API for HLTV? 15:30 - Nomad addressing concerns of the potential removal of the forums 17:00 - Is a unified ranking possible? 19:19 - Nomad vs. Twitch chat 24:32 - Final words from Nomad  Recent news 25:45 - swag quits competitive CS:GO 28:32 - "Keeping them banned serves as a reminder" - SPUNJ 30:07 - Gen.G win DH Anaheim 37:15 - Minor change in AWP Good, Bad, and Ugly 40:40 - Ugly: The crowd less spectacle 42:46 - How it was watching the event without viewers? 50:00 - Ugly: what more can ZywOo do? 54:00 - Striker: “Vitality n

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Connect with us: @HLTVconfirmed Timestamps: 1:10 - Introducing Carmac 1:54 - Carmac sharing his history 3:20 - Explaining the EPL format 5:50 - Carmac on the reasons behind the changes in the format 8:09 - Are the changes caused by the "B Site"? 10:31 - Carmac talks about the business side of making a league 17:13 - What is the way ESL makes CS:GO events profitable? 24:16 - "If we had a complete monopoly ... , we would probably be, in relative terms, bathing in money" - Carmac 25:52 - When was the decision on the current format made? 28:41 - Why the changes in EPL happened with short notice comparing with Pro Tour? 31:25 - Carmac on the published graphic with teams and the negotiations rumors 35:07 - How the Member Teams are decided? 41:40 - How many teams will be partnered?  44:14 - How being a Member Team affects team's ESL ranking? 48:43 - Carmac's view on the Valve's Major ranking events 51:49 - Are the newly scheduled tournaments going to affect ESL events? 53:04 - What ESL is preparing for the Ri

Follow the show on Twitter for updates: @HLTVconfirmed The discussion about CS:GO leagues continues with guest Auguste "Semmler" Massonnat, a spokesperson for B Site, with topics ranging from the business side of things (revenue share, sustainability, inflation) to how it will affect the Counter-Strike played and the viewers. The podcasts' panel also talks about ESL's PR blunder while downsizing Pro League, and looks at which teams are affected. Wrapping up the HLTV Confirmed episode is talk about the recently finished DreamHack Open Leipzig and the upcoming BLAST Premier group stage. Timestamps 1:25 - Introducing Semmler 2:05 - Semmler on his return to CS:GO 2:57 - The difference between working on Overwatch League and CS:GO events 4:29 - What Overwatch League experienced gave to Semmler? 5:50 - Did Semmler always want to come back to CS:GO? 7:24 - What role in the broadcast Semmler is going to pursue? 9:56 - Semmler’s opinion on the changes that happened in the game 13:42 - Striker explains BLAST’s for

Follow the show on Twitter and give us feedback twitter.com/hltvconfirmed Timestamps Hotseat with YNk 1:26 — Welcoming YNk 2:09 — Plans for 2020 3:32 — The effect of victory at BLAST Pro Series 2019 and reflection on other results of the last year 5:14 — YNk on the consistency issues of FaZe 7:42 — What should we expect from broky? 9:32 — How the team change changed coldzera’s role and play style 11:57 — How CS:GO has changed in the last few years  14:38 — CS:GO at the moment: what is the number one issue? 16:23 — Sponsors’ hesitance about entering the CS:GO events sponsorship market  Recent News 18:20 — NiP ‘13 reunion confirmed under Dignitas 20:19 — SPUNJ desperately trying to get insight from YNk on the new Dignitas roster performance 21:28 — Pointing out the negatives of the new Dignitas roster 26:52 — nawwk to NiP as second AWP 28:52 — YNk talks about nawwk as a player and NiP’s decision to get him  31:03 — MSL returns to North 34:20 — Complexity in EU Minor after all 36:50 — Na’Vi can

In-game leader of one of the most improved CS:GO teams in 2019, forZe Jerry, joined the HLTV Confirmed podcast to talk about his quest for breaking out of tier 3, the most iconic moments of CIS Counter-Strike, and the upcoming AWPers of the CIS region. The episode was recorded before the report about Na`Vi looking to replace GuardiaN. Timestamps: 0:03:25 Joining first team as DMG in 2016 0:07:20 How is it possible to get from DMG to a Major in such a short time? 0:09:50 Finalizing forZe roster with FL1T, xsepower, facecrack and almazer 0:15:10 (CIS) IGLs that influenced Jerry 0:21:10 Goals for 2020? Recent news: 00:25:00 CR4ZY agree on team sale 00:29:30 smooya joins CHAOS 00:33:02 TYLOO add xeta 00:35:32 TSM to build around WARDELL 00:39:30 Envy changes 00:41:02 Bulding the best Polish team 00:44:44 Jerry vs. Twitch chat 00:52:10 The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Katowice and Leipzig qualifiers Cloud9, FaZe, MAD Lions qualify Complexity, ENCE can't make it through lack of streams 00:57:15 Jerry explains xsepow