Saudi funded shitfests are funny to look at for a bit, but then you realise what their presence actually means for the wider community and conclude its better to avoid them altogether.
@@Askemanden a superteam is when a team with already strong players acquire other strong players in their respective teams. in this case, sphinx, flamez, and arguably mezzi were the best players in their teams. that's why c9 was called a superteam; they already had a pretty good lineup but went through a slump even with 3 top 20 players. sh1ro was a top 3 player, ax1le was considered niko's contender for best rifler, hobbit was a very impactful player, then add a fragging igl in electronic, and perfecto who was considered the best support player. just because vitality bombed-out of katowice, it doesn't disregard the 2 events they won prior. yes, the team would've been better if zonic didn't leave had vitality given him the paycheck he deserved while magisk also staying and not replaced by mezzi but their superteam status still remains. current superteams: vitality, faze, g2 (even with nexa in the lineup and m0nesy carrying this team's ass) could be a superteam: falcons (if they get a star rifler), cloud9 (if they get a strong awper)
@@Askemanden How so? It's about expectations -- lots of people were very low on Dupreeh at the time he was signed. Apex was constantly being called to be kicked by the community as well. Misutaa was considered pretty bad, but with some potential maybe. People were really only hyped about Magisk/Zywoo/Zonic. They really weren't a superteam until they got Spinx.
I think something you didn't touch on with FaZe is their approach to sticking with a very multinational team is pretty unique in contrast to other teams. Their first lineup with the former G2/Kinguin guys was an interesting lineup. Also, you didn't glaze Twistzz enough.
The problem is, expectations are too high for every tier 1 team, until they form an era. Teams that come out of nowhere, with zero expectations, get more respect than December 2022-2023 G2 winning the Blast World Finals, Katowice and Cologne. The majority of people don’t understand how tough winning really is
I completely agree, unless the team is created to DOMINATE in a short notice, through throwing money at the best possible players, then it's not a super team.
iirc i've ever tried to (seriously) argue anything about results when it comes to what makes a super team Peak Astralis being a super team is an argument that can be made because you took Astralis 2017 with 4 top 20 players (a top 3 team of the year, and a major winning roster) and gave them the choice of adding K0nfig (the best non-astralis danish player of 2017) or Magisk (the best non-astralis danish player of 2016). If you read threads at the time, there are a lot of people hyping of Magisk as a superstar and the roster as insanely stacked. I even found several people calling it a danish super team, at the time of the signing. Is 1 player change enough to make something a super team? Either opinion is fair, imo. Eventually it ends up being a theseus' ship situation, but obviously 2 player changes seems to be enough to define something as a super team (cloud9) even when 1 of 2 players was never in the top 20, so then you have to actually figure out exactly where to draw the line. Looking at faze for the 1 player change example things get a bit muddy, since at the time of their signings pre-ropz it was only a super team if "have big names cuz they used to be good" or "cost a lot of money because of name value" are the basis and not "actually are amazing players currently." Rain was seen as completely washed, twistzz was a bit of a ? and broky was mostly unknown. All of these players come together and actually start getting their form back on point under Karrigan, then you add Ropz and most people will call this a super team because you're re-analyzing the roster based on current form at the time of adding a new 5th. That's fair, but then you have to treat all teams that way and the argument for Astralis 2018 being a super team is hard to fight against. rambled a bit but i think this all started from me saying something like if faze 2021 was a super team then so was prime astralis and that's generally the logic intertwining the 2. nothing to do with results. generally my definition of super team would be just about player skill level at the time of the signing and you re-evaluate rosters after each individual signing. by this logic, astralis 2018 would at the very least be a danish super team, and faze would become a super team after adding ropz.
A superteam isn't the same as a really good team, a superteam aquires the world's best in order to try and dominate, a really good team takes good players, maybe a superstar, and develops into the world's best
I think a big thing with superteams is the feeling of it being artificial, like people joining forces to win rather than to developing the roster over time.
I feel like it’s hard to put a definition to a superteam because there’s several ways it could come about. You kind of just know a superteam when you see it
Superteams can be enraging, but they're also exciting! I only got into pro cs when I heard that olof and GuardiaN (two guys I'd seen a lot in fragmovies) were joining a team with NiKo (also fragmovies) and rain (my first AK skin came with a rain signature on it) So I was like "damn that's cool I'll root for them" and here I am 6.5 years later still being a fan of NiKo, rain and karrigan In short, I agree with what launders said about the classification of superteams. The players' resumés and the expectations of the team are the most important things
I’d argue 2018 MIBR could be considered a superteam like Faze, they broke down region barriers to become an americas super team, and signed 2 superstars in Stew and Tarik to pair with a core of the greatest Brazilian’s to play the game.
know this game doesn’t matter to most cs players, but league recently had an amazing underdog story with DRX winning worlds. if you haven’t heard it was insane, team barely qualified and went on to win worlds. had the hardest teams back to back to back, gen g, previous worlds winners edg, t1 for the finals. had the most stacked and hard bracket and went insane. deft, a player on drx went to the same school as faker (4 time world champ) and was always in his shadow, watching him finally beat him was amazing. goes to say super teams are to me less impressive than underdogs 100%.
i remember watching liquid after they went a on a bad streak and was always yelling at my screen with some of stewies decisions and weapon choices. Then FAZE, who use to famously choke always, started winning alot more. Before i followed the players at all, i soon realized the star rifler of Liquid switched to FAZE and it made a lot more sense.
LOL the TH-camr beef! Voo's usually on point, but I do agree with you here about the difference between bringing together individually talented people on a single roster (which may not result in cohesive teamwork) like world cup or Olympic teams do, versus a team that sticks together and works their way to the top. There's no shortcut to the kind of chemistry that gets built over time, although a super team that sticks together long enough can get there.
My definition of a super team is a team that by all accounts is in that top3 or top 5 best teams of an era in terms of raw skill and talent. If we use football as an example, Manchester City was a 'superteam' even though they didn't win a single Champions League until just this past year. Pep as a manager, the way they would dominate and crush teams on the regular, and the pure talent and stature of the players in the side made them a superteam, regardless of the fact they kept failing at the biggest trophy in Europe. Even Real Madrid - they only won 1 Champions league in the 2000-2010 decade but you'd be laughed out of the room if you didn't think they were one of if not the best/consistently top 3 teams on the continent - thats why so many good players kept going there like Ronaldo ended up doing. In CS terms, yea the ones you mentioned are perfect examples of superteams. It didn't matter if they won it all or not, it was whether this was, on paper, the most stacked/consistent team you could pick. When Cloud9 won their major, the superteam to beat was Faze 100%
Great video as always. Would love to see a video talking about players who don't really post the best stats but without them a team's success is never possible. Cheers!
virtus pro 2013-2016 is a all time super team lineup imo. Snax, Pasha, Neo byali and taz is a super team on its own. The only team that could really challenge NIP or FNATIC in that era. No other team could really come close most of the times (besides that one LDLC run (womp))
I am finished being surprised when a "super team" fails to perform. All the hype and expectation is generated by fans and past performance on other teams, but until the delivery, it is all theoretical. When that theory falls apart, we react with massive dissapointment, but we are the ones that ultimately set ourselves up for that dissapointment in the first place. When will these organizations learn that you can't just take five players, a truckload of money, clout, and hype, mash them together and magically have a winning formula every time? It doesn't always work to manufacture success in that way. There has to be organic chemistry, the rise of Spirit being an excellent example. Additionally, while all these orgs attempt to construct their own colossus, there will always have to be losers, so the "failure" of any given team is inevitable, no matter how "super" it may be in name only.
You've gotta say yeah, right? The GOAT of csgo + top 3 IGL of 2023 + Magisk with 4 Majors (best anchor of 2023) + GOAT coach of csgo + #6 player of 2023
If at least 3 or more players in a team have won at least two S-Tier Events, then that team can be called a 'Superteam'. This means that if such team comes about one almost certain side effect in the community is that there will be much expectation from it. And one possible effect is the team actually wins multiple S-Tier Events.
It took s1mple until 6 months into 2018 to win his 2nd S tier tournament but I doubt anyone would argue that s1mple wouldn't be one of the biggest and most hyped signings at the time if he left Navi. Looking at 2017's HLTV list s1mple would surely be top 5 if he was judged by modern criteria
i'd honestly expand the definition of superteam to include national superteams - one team stealing away players from other teams from the same region to make one ultimate team
I stand by that if stewie had never been a twitch celeb he would have been a nobody. After teams learned to expect his push and random aggression his stats dropped of severely and the dude had almost no noteworthy plays in the second half of his career.
I like using "superteam" just like in the basketball. For me early Faze Clan, french G2, and in some way NIP, Fnatic and VP from first 2 years of csgo were superteam. Especially those last 3 team are very interesting cases for me. You take some of the greatest players from css and 1.6 and forge the best lineup in your country that you can make. Those teams were made of the most iconic and winning players of older cs. I would also say that Vitality is for me superteam. With one of the best cs players, legendary coach, some of the best players on the market. And at the end we have Falcons 🙃
Vitality was a super team. They brought in the goats magisk dupreeh and zonic purely to create a world ender lineup. Going international. Which was a massive risk.
People were low on Dupreeh at the time, Misuta was not very good, and the community hated Apex. By community expectations, I wouldn't call it a superteam (based on perception at the time) until they got Spinx. It was really only 3 pieces that people were very high on (Magisk+Zywoo+Zonic)
I think you forgot to mention Astana Dragons. Back in 2013,The true OG of CS:GO Superteam. The CIS most dominant players were there. If I remember correctly there was Edward, Markeloff, Dosia, adreN, ANGE1. They fell off because of money end or something, but in the interview then Edward said that team was not practicing, and they all think that they’re superstars and don’t need to practice.
My definition of Superteam is that you make a change that brings in an S-Tier player in their role and the change leads to at least 3 Superstars in their roles (ie., 3 of IGL, AWP, Opener, Closer, Anchor). It is most obvious when 2-3 of the stars are being added rather than a Star team adding a borderline S-Tier. And to define S-Tier, the player should be Top20 HLTV, preferably Top10 or a recognised Top 5-6 for their role. ropz to FaZe is a debatable Superteam signing, that I think you missed. rain and broky might not be considered Top 5 in role at this point but Twistzz (anchor) and Karrigan (IGL) likely were and with rain's recent past, I think it tips it over the line. Astralis was debatably a Superteam when Magisk joined. Magisk had got Top20 the year before and was joining an established team of greats. The fact that Kajerbye was seen as better doesn't change what the Magisk addition meant. Similarly Liquid adding Stewie could be debated as a Superteam as well. They were already the clear 2nd best team with 2 superstars in their roles in EliGE and NAF and then they added a Major champion. The expectations were high even with the GOAT Astralis.
Honetly the Saudis shoulda just said "alright Zywoo, magisk, Niko, s1mple, and Gla1ve we give you each 100 mil to join falcons" it would be a disaster but hilarious
Prime Astralis really forces you to specifically define what is a superteam. In 2018 FOUR of their players were top10, and the last one was #13. It feels absolutely insane not to call that a superteam, despite the fact that they were not acquired at that time to form a new "superteam". Having four players in the top10 hadn't happened since 2015 fnatic, and having all five players in the top20 has never happened again, before or after. Kinda makes Astralis look like the superest team to ever super. Of course it's more likely for a superteam to form due to acquisitions, but I don't think it should be a qualifier for the definition.
I think a super team is simply a team put together to win trophies. Buying the best a most expensive players for the specific goal of winning trophies. Currently I think Vitality and G2 are superteams.
yeah I'm definitely a superteam Hatemaxxer, I always prefer a more organic team on the come up made up of player that have played together on their come up, but a shame to see most top teams are a lot of the time attempting to make a superteam, like vitality or astrallis, feels odd to mash players together but I guess thats just how it works now
If you're a fan of the game, you WANT superteams. They make for the highest quality of matches, and as a superfan myself, I want to see the highest of the highest level of counterstrike.
Superteams is almost a misnomer because it implies the team is good when in reality most Superteams fail. Good teams are what fans of the game want, these aren’t necessarily Superteams
you got the concept wrong man. A team growing organically to become a great team is the best quality, just like freshly cooked food. superteam is like canned food.
@@launders I guess there's a good well balanced super team, and then there's the lazy "just buy the best players" superteam like astralis stabbi or c9 before boomich Projects like Falcons, Liquid, G2 and Navi (iM, Aleksi, B1t, S1mple) is still very exciting for me.
The reason FaZe pisses me off as an esports org is that none of their talent is their own except for broky. Ropz - bought, Frozen - bought, Olof - bought, Cold - Bought, Twistzz - bought, GuardiaN - bought, Rain, Karrigan, and Broky are the only ones brought up by FaZe and Karrigan is debatable they're just the free agent champions, they're at the top because their wallet is the biggest, not because they can develop top tier talent consistently. I get that that's what esports is and players are gonna go where the money is. But like Lau said, it's just a bummer
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Next video on falcons?
Saudi funded shitfests are funny to look at for a bit, but then you realise what their presence actually means for the wider community and conclude its better to avoid them altogether.
Talk about all the players currently
Yeah i need the scoop on Falcons
Falcons simple I hear is raging again
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Surely Vitality, after signing Magisk, Dupreeh and Zonic, could be considered a superteam.
@@znudzony223 I don’t think you understand the term superteam
yes 1000% that team was a lot more fun to watch than current vitality as well, in terms of name value
@@Askemanden a superteam is when a team with already strong players acquire other strong players in their respective teams. in this case, sphinx, flamez, and arguably mezzi were the best players in their teams. that's why c9 was called a superteam; they already had a pretty good lineup but went through a slump even with 3 top 20 players. sh1ro was a top 3 player, ax1le was considered niko's contender for best rifler, hobbit was a very impactful player, then add a fragging igl in electronic, and perfecto who was considered the best support player.
just because vitality bombed-out of katowice, it doesn't disregard the 2 events they won prior. yes, the team would've been better if zonic didn't leave had vitality given him the paycheck he deserved while magisk also staying and not replaced by mezzi but their superteam status still remains.
current superteams: vitality, faze, g2 (even with nexa in the lineup and m0nesy carrying this team's ass)
could be a superteam: falcons (if they get a star rifler), cloud9 (if they get a strong awper)
@@AskemandenHe’s right. I think Vitality truly became a superteam after Spinx. He was like a top 10 player when he came in.
@@Askemanden How so? It's about expectations -- lots of people were very low on Dupreeh at the time he was signed. Apex was constantly being called to be kicked by the community as well. Misutaa was considered pretty bad, but with some potential maybe. People were really only hyped about Magisk/Zywoo/Zonic. They really weren't a superteam until they got Spinx.
Vitality. Even if we ignore Zywoo coming on in his rooky year you still have the danes and Spinx
Can't wait for Voo's response video 9 months later
Just came out xD
I think something you didn't touch on with FaZe is their approach to sticking with a very multinational team is pretty unique in contrast to other teams. Their first lineup with the former G2/Kinguin guys was an interesting lineup. Also, you didn't glaze Twistzz enough.
The problem is, expectations are too high for every tier 1 team, until they form an era. Teams that come out of nowhere, with zero expectations, get more respect than December 2022-2023 G2 winning the Blast World Finals, Katowice and Cologne. The majority of people don’t understand how tough winning really is
I completely agree, unless the team is created to DOMINATE in a short notice, through throwing money at the best possible players, then it's not a super team.
iirc i've ever tried to (seriously) argue anything about results when it comes to what makes a super team
Peak Astralis being a super team is an argument that can be made because you took Astralis 2017 with 4 top 20 players (a top 3 team of the year, and a major winning roster) and gave them the choice of adding K0nfig (the best non-astralis danish player of 2017) or Magisk (the best non-astralis danish player of 2016). If you read threads at the time, there are a lot of people hyping of Magisk as a superstar and the roster as insanely stacked. I even found several people calling it a danish super team, at the time of the signing.
Is 1 player change enough to make something a super team? Either opinion is fair, imo. Eventually it ends up being a theseus' ship situation, but obviously 2 player changes seems to be enough to define something as a super team (cloud9) even when 1 of 2 players was never in the top 20, so then you have to actually figure out exactly where to draw the line. Looking at faze for the 1 player change example things get a bit muddy, since at the time of their signings pre-ropz it was only a super team if "have big names cuz they used to be good" or "cost a lot of money because of name value" are the basis and not "actually are amazing players currently." Rain was seen as completely washed, twistzz was a bit of a ? and broky was mostly unknown. All of these players come together and actually start getting their form back on point under Karrigan, then you add Ropz and most people will call this a super team because you're re-analyzing the roster based on current form at the time of adding a new 5th. That's fair, but then you have to treat all teams that way and the argument for Astralis 2018 being a super team is hard to fight against.
rambled a bit but i think this all started from me saying something like if faze 2021 was a super team then so was prime astralis and that's generally the logic intertwining the 2. nothing to do with results.
generally my definition of super team would be just about player skill level at the time of the signing and you re-evaluate rosters after each individual signing. by this logic, astralis 2018 would at the very least be a danish super team, and faze would become a super team after adding ropz.
voo! not reading allat but I hope my video helped 🥹
@@laundersgigachad launders destroys soy sipping counter strike armchair analysis.
Honestly it's hard for me to rate performances/form of teams during online era like FaZe's slump compared to on LAN
@@matan6737voo is about to drop a 23 minute video on why launders should've read his comment 😂
0:00 MIKE MENTIONED RAHHHHHHH 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
A superteam isn't the same as a really good team, a superteam aquires the world's best in order to try and dominate, a really good team takes good players, maybe a superstar, and develops into the world's best
I think a big thing with superteams is the feeling of it being artificial, like people joining forces to win rather than to developing the roster over time.
Astralis 2018/2019 were like the Spurs of Tim, Manu and Tony
bald head like xyp
Yes! And dev1ce is Tim!
opening a vid with MIKE is legendary
I feel like it’s hard to put a definition to a superteam because there’s several ways it could come about. You kind of just know a superteam when you see it
the murrsuiting analogy bro😭😭
i think you nailed it. i hope this helps people better understand what super team really means, that's it's not simply a vehicle to success.
This makes sense. I'll be thinking the most about the IGLs in the major picks.
i like these types of videos were u are focused on one topic over the ones were u react to news and bounce all over the place.
Have not heard "Hubba Bubba" in 20 years, nice nostalgic flashbang lau🗯
Superteams can be enraging, but they're also exciting! I only got into pro cs when I heard that olof and GuardiaN (two guys I'd seen a lot in fragmovies) were joining a team with NiKo (also fragmovies) and rain (my first AK skin came with a rain signature on it)
So I was like "damn that's cool I'll root for them" and here I am 6.5 years later still being a fan of NiKo, rain and karrigan
In short, I agree with what launders said about the classification of superteams. The players' resumés and the expectations of the team are the most important things
thats true, cant lie. the disappointment cant exist without the hype
I’d argue 2018 MIBR could be considered a superteam like Faze, they broke down region barriers to become an americas super team, and signed 2 superstars in Stew and Tarik to pair with a core of the greatest Brazilian’s to play the game.
know this game doesn’t matter to most cs players, but league recently had an amazing underdog story with DRX winning worlds. if you haven’t heard it was insane, team barely qualified and went on to win worlds. had the hardest teams back to back to back, gen g, previous worlds winners edg, t1 for the finals. had the most stacked and hard bracket and went insane. deft, a player on drx went to the same school as faker (4 time world champ) and was always in his shadow, watching him finally beat him was amazing. goes to say super teams are to me less impressive than underdogs 100%.
A superteam for me is a team which could be someone's dream lineup
i remember watching liquid after they went a on a bad streak and was always yelling at my screen with some of stewies decisions and weapon choices. Then FAZE, who use to famously choke always, started winning alot more. Before i followed the players at all, i soon realized the star rifler of Liquid switched to FAZE and it made a lot more sense.
thats why we love ence, the underdogs that are able to compete with the big guys
bro that intro boxr ad is so fire it did NOT need to go that hard
you really made the 18min intro explaining the super team concept to bash on the astralis roster? i love it
MIKE in the intro got me torqued, well played Launders
A superteam is when you take 5 GOATS to make 🐐^5
5:02 we needed that 🙌🏻
LOL the TH-camr beef! Voo's usually on point, but I do agree with you here about the difference between bringing together individually talented people on a single roster (which may not result in cohesive teamwork) like world cup or Olympic teams do, versus a team that sticks together and works their way to the top. There's no shortcut to the kind of chemistry that gets built over time, although a super team that sticks together long enough can get there.
My definition of a super team is a team that by all accounts is in that top3 or top 5 best teams of an era in terms of raw skill and talent.
If we use football as an example, Manchester City was a 'superteam' even though they didn't win a single Champions League until just this past year. Pep as a manager, the way they would dominate and crush teams on the regular, and the pure talent and stature of the players in the side made them a superteam, regardless of the fact they kept failing at the biggest trophy in Europe.
Even Real Madrid - they only won 1 Champions league in the 2000-2010 decade but you'd be laughed out of the room if you didn't think they were one of if not the best/consistently top 3 teams on the continent - thats why so many good players kept going there like Ronaldo ended up doing.
In CS terms, yea the ones you mentioned are perfect examples of superteams. It didn't matter if they won it all or not, it was whether this was, on paper, the most stacked/consistent team you could pick. When Cloud9 won their major, the superteam to beat was Faze 100%
Great video as always. Would love to see a video talking about players who don't really post the best stats but without them a team's success is never possible. Cheers!
virtus pro 2013-2016 is a all time super team lineup imo. Snax, Pasha, Neo byali and taz is a super team on its own. The only team that could really challenge NIP or FNATIC in that era. No other team could really come close most of the times (besides that one LDLC run (womp))
They were also called the Golden 5 :DDD my favourite roster all time even though they didn't win too much in retrospect
You missed the whole point of the term «Super Team» though?
No
I am finished being surprised when a "super team" fails to perform. All the hype and expectation is generated by fans and past performance on other teams, but until the delivery, it is all theoretical. When that theory falls apart, we react with massive dissapointment, but we are the ones that ultimately set ourselves up for that dissapointment in the first place. When will these organizations learn that you can't just take five players, a truckload of money, clout, and hype, mash them together and magically have a winning formula every time? It doesn't always work to manufacture success in that way. There has to be organic chemistry, the rise of Spirit being an excellent example. Additionally, while all these orgs attempt to construct their own colossus, there will always have to be losers, so the "failure" of any given team is inevitable, no matter how "super" it may be in name only.
Launders is a blessing to the cs community
Holy cow that was one hell of an opening monologue
thanks for the new wallpaper 2:55
Falcons are also a interesting thing, if s1mple does decide to stay would that qualify as a superteam?
You've gotta say yeah, right?
The GOAT of csgo + top 3 IGL of 2023 + Magisk with 4 Majors (best anchor of 2023) + GOAT coach of csgo + #6 player of 2023
Launders, i watched 30 seconds of unskippable ads for you. I love you.
Nothin says more than that love u king
If there's no salary cap, then creating a "superteam" becomes irrelevant.
The most money will ALWAYS attract the best players.
i just realized, that faze squad with olof and coldzera is literally the only instance of two #1 players playing along each other….
tSuperteam is when already established stars are brought together. like lebron, wade, and bosh teaming up in miami. or the old faze team.
shoutouts boxr homies
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If at least 3 or more players in a team have won at least two S-Tier Events, then that team can be called a 'Superteam'. This means that if such team comes about one almost certain side effect in the community is that there will be much expectation from it. And one possible effect is the team actually wins multiple S-Tier Events.
It took s1mple until 6 months into 2018 to win his 2nd S tier tournament but I doubt anyone would argue that s1mple wouldn't be one of the biggest and most hyped signings at the time if he left Navi.
Looking at 2017's HLTV list s1mple would surely be top 5 if he was judged by modern criteria
Crazy I didn't think people were confused on what a super team was. Cheat code is a good term. Current clippers are also a great example
i'd honestly expand the definition of superteam to include national superteams - one team stealing away players from other teams from the same region to make one ultimate team
I love these news/topic/talking head videos, please keep doing them :D
I stand by that if stewie had never been a twitch celeb he would have been a nobody. After teams learned to expect his push and random aggression his stats dropped of severely and the dude had almost no noteworthy plays in the second half of his career.
I don't know if the length of the video (21:37) is intentional, but Polish community should be pleased with that
that kennys cobble clips makes me laugh so hard when it cuts to Xyp9x face lol
He was holding so much emotion back lmao
I like using "superteam" just like in the basketball. For me early Faze Clan, french G2, and in some way NIP, Fnatic and VP from first 2 years of csgo were superteam. Especially those last 3 team are very interesting cases for me. You take some of the greatest players from css and 1.6 and forge the best lineup in your country that you can make. Those teams were made of the most iconic and winning players of older cs. I would also say that Vitality is for me superteam. With one of the best cs players, legendary coach, some of the best players on the market. And at the end we have Falcons 🙃
Hear me out imagine the french G2 but Apex is already in the midst or starting his IGL Arc rather than shox calling
A superteam is a team that has 4-5 star players on the roster from day one. If it doesn't have that, it's not a superteam.
I’m really a simple man, I see launders upload, I click.
lau forever the man for the MIKE intro
4:16 moisturize those elbows homie
No, don't. Once you start, you're going to have to do it for the rest of your life lmao.
Do it for him cuh 😉
Vitality was a super team. They brought in the goats magisk dupreeh and zonic purely to create a world ender lineup. Going international. Which was a massive risk.
People were low on Dupreeh at the time, Misuta was not very good, and the community hated Apex. By community expectations, I wouldn't call it a superteam (based on perception at the time) until they got Spinx. It was really only 3 pieces that people were very high on (Magisk+Zywoo+Zonic)
20 mins of fraudwatching voo but he does make a good video so subscribe 🥹 youtube.com/@vooCSGO?si=ooBHSVuc8Au4peIE
voo not beating the fraud alegations
Launders is the Gerbert Johnson of Cs
no way you open it up with a mike song
2018 Cloud9 beating FaZe was like when the NY Giants upset the undefeated Patriots in the Super Bowl.
Another Lau upload, another good day in this life.
The moneyball edit was so good
I think you forgot to mention Astana Dragons. Back in 2013,The true OG of CS:GO Superteam. The CIS most dominant players were there. If I remember correctly there was Edward, Markeloff, Dosia, adreN, ANGE1. They fell off because of money end or something, but in the interview then Edward said that team was not practicing, and they all think that they’re superstars and don’t need to practice.
Why everyone ignoring this banger comment….😢
YOOOOOOO USING A MIKE SONG FOR THE BOXR INTRO I ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE GOATED LAU
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Xyp9x is so underrated. He did lot of clutch rounds to save his team.
Yo super clean edits and clips in this one. Keep 'em coming, S-tier CS content ❤
The motion and masking of the keyed-in gfx are so damn cleaaan
Winning alot does not = super team. Fnatic 2015 wasn’t a superteam. Astralis 2018 wasn’t a superteam. SK 2016 wasn’t a superteam.
Dude the intro for the merch is so lit wtf. who made that!
@ramoalt twitter 🌚
My definition of Superteam is that you make a change that brings in an S-Tier player in their role and the change leads to at least 3 Superstars in their roles (ie., 3 of IGL, AWP, Opener, Closer, Anchor). It is most obvious when 2-3 of the stars are being added rather than a Star team adding a borderline S-Tier.
And to define S-Tier, the player should be Top20 HLTV, preferably Top10 or a recognised Top 5-6 for their role.
ropz to FaZe is a debatable Superteam signing, that I think you missed. rain and broky might not be considered Top 5 in role at this point but Twistzz (anchor) and Karrigan (IGL) likely were and with rain's recent past, I think it tips it over the line.
Astralis was debatably a Superteam when Magisk joined. Magisk had got Top20 the year before and was joining an established team of greats. The fact that Kajerbye was seen as better doesn't change what the Magisk addition meant.
Similarly Liquid adding Stewie could be debated as a Superteam as well. They were already the clear 2nd best team with 2 superstars in their roles in EliGE and NAF and then they added a Major champion. The expectations were high even with the GOAT Astralis.
New cs2 rules gives the ability to remove the enemy IGLs microphone for a single round to any team that holds both Jabbi and Stavn at the same time.
To balance it, Jabbi and Stavn will have their microphones isolated for the remainder of the game. Its a high-risk thematic play.
Honetly the Saudis shoulda just said "alright Zywoo, magisk, Niko, s1mple, and Gla1ve we give you each 100 mil to join falcons" it would be a disaster but hilarious
Prime Astralis really forces you to specifically define what is a superteam. In 2018 FOUR of their players were top10, and the last one was #13. It feels absolutely insane not to call that a superteam, despite the fact that they were not acquired at that time to form a new "superteam".
Having four players in the top10 hadn't happened since 2015 fnatic, and having all five players in the top20 has never happened again, before or after. Kinda makes Astralis look like the superest team to ever super. Of course it's more likely for a superteam to form due to acquisitions, but I don't think it should be a qualifier for the definition.
Greatest cs TH-camr dead or alive no kizzy on stizzy
I think a super team is simply a team put together to win trophies. Buying the best a most expensive players for the specific goal of winning trophies. Currently I think Vitality and G2 are superteams.
MIKE I’m the promo, great taste in music 👍🏽
Nah, using MIKE as an intro is unfathomably based.
thank you counter strike historian
yeah I'm definitely a superteam Hatemaxxer, I always prefer a more organic team on the come up made up of player that have played together on their come up, but a shame to see most top teams are a lot of the time attempting to make a superteam, like vitality or astrallis, feels odd to mash players together but I guess thats just how it works now
Background was cool but I didn't like it reversing. Great thoughts as always 👏
If you're a fan of the game, you WANT superteams.
They make for the highest quality of matches, and as a superfan myself, I want to see the highest of the highest level of counterstrike.
Superteams is almost a misnomer because it implies the team is good when in reality most Superteams fail. Good teams are what fans of the game want, these aren’t necessarily Superteams
you got the concept wrong man. A team growing organically to become a great team is the best quality, just like freshly cooked food. superteam is like canned food.
Superfan ahhahahah
@@launders I guess there's a good well balanced super team, and then there's the lazy "just buy the best players" superteam like astralis stabbi or c9 before boomich
Projects like Falcons, Liquid, G2 and Navi (iM, Aleksi, B1t, S1mple) is still very exciting for me.
yoo that intro was a banger bro
Thank you for the time stamps 🙂
That intro is insane
Astralis were a super team, not a superteam; current astralis ̶i̶s̶ ... were a supposed superteam.
wait using MIKE for your ad goes insanely crazy... good taste
goated intro song man mucho respect
now we just need an actual pro furry superteam
nice MIKE in the promo
Amazing
fr i thought i accidentally pressed play on my spotify
came to say this
no falcons mention? superteam with magisk, s1mple, SunPayus, do i have to go on?
surely they will win this upcoming major..... surely...
right guys?
Maden superstar? Snappi super-igl? S1mple that hasn’t played for 3 months and clearly washed - superstar? lol.
if u didn't understand this clear satire i dunno what to tell u man@@inho5399
Oh man you wanna see a NBA example superteam check out the olympic US Dream Team 1992 and 1996 lol! Those are some bonkers rosters.
I miss 2021 Navi 😢
@@ropzicleWdym, Boombl4’s calling and Electronic’s secondary calling combined with S1mple’s skills made them so fun and unpredictable to watch
it was pretty boring, remember their tournament runs where enemy teams couldn’t take more than like 5 rounds? In Mr15
Yeah, that team had so much potential. Thx to Putin that team was destroyed without reaching their full potential.
The reason FaZe pisses me off as an esports org is that none of their talent is their own except for broky. Ropz - bought, Frozen - bought, Olof - bought, Cold - Bought, Twistzz - bought, GuardiaN - bought, Rain, Karrigan, and Broky are the only ones brought up by FaZe and Karrigan is debatable they're just the free agent champions, they're at the top because their wallet is the biggest, not because they can develop top tier talent consistently.
I get that that's what esports is and players are gonna go where the money is. But like Lau said, it's just a bummer
really good video, I like this style
fantastic video launders. love it.
I think everyone understands that if corona didnt happen Navi would have had an era for them selves
I remembered some faze fans getting extremely mad at me for calling their current lineup a super team lmao
imagine danish faze, i'll let you do that because i can't think about faze without rain