"some weirdos call it connector" - I got caught here by surprise, because 98% of the time I played cache as an European player it's been "connector". Sometimes it's "Z", but "mid window" is a callout reserved for when somebody is standing in the actual window.
Alot of spots do also have completely different names depending on the language. Ladderroom in mirage is often called wh**e house in swedish. Due to the people using the spot being considered annoying in Sweden.
Argentina has the special honor of having a lot of callouts from cs1.6 be completely useless due to us having to speak basic brazilian portuguese just to play. We call Dust2 Long A "Largo" and they call it "Fundo", so we had to start saying Fundo or be literally kicked by the 4 brazilians in our team
1:10 whenever I play with my group of friends and one of us gets killed, we always call out the sport where we got killed from any derogatory term that comes to mind in the heat of the moment followed by spot or corner or smth like that. These imprecise callouts have no right to be anywhere near as effective as they actually are.
@@bukkcs probably mass popularity among new players made more names appear and more and more people using the new ones, i personally didnt play much 1.6 cuz i was a kid, i didnt even know cs source EVER existed when i got csgo for my birthday from a friend so i learnede many callouts along the way from different nations
A big reason you didnt mention is because this game is so old, the maps gets updated but the callouts remains because of standardisation, habits and simplicity. Market/kitchen was actually a kitchen in earlier games, hence kitchen callout. Btw ladderroom in Mirage is also called whørehouse.
I'm NA, and on Inferno we've always called what you call "alley" to be "Lane", and on Mirage what you call "short" we call "Arches", if they're at the actual arches it's just arches, but if they're in the deeper parts of it towards cat it's generally just called out as "back arches". Awesome video!
And get-right the left arch, and sometimes get-left for the right arch lmao. I've heard Russians say electronic (or some other Russian player) instead of get -right
I'm Brazilian but I usually watch CS videos in English, even when learning a map. So I always surprise my friends with funny callouts that they would never expect to hear in our region like "OPTIMUS PRIME" or "DILDO". I also sometimes forget the Portuguese callout and fallback to the English one, so yeah I'm not the best teammate lmao.
here in Ukraine we got some old-lan’s calls coming from 1.6 / pre-navi 2010 and widely use numbers for most of the positions despite the fact other regions don’t really understand when u make quick callouts lol
Мене відверто харить незнання нашими англ мови і коли ти чуєш sands на inferno, pants на ancient чи ad на dust ловиш іспанський сором. Не фанат назв по номерах
Also had that in Hungary from old lan players. The positions on Inferno B site were labeled with numbers going clockwise. Coffins or coils was around number 10
also in europe we call "Tripple" - "Default" but what you call "Tripple" we call "Fire box" for some reason P.S i was dead laughing my ass off on that "GAY SPOT" callout, dude thx, amazing videos
The new Cache was played in a showmatch at ESL One New York 2019 and Tarik was playing it, so he might've had a highlight there that made you start calling it Tarik box. My friend calls that box "kenny" because kennys had a highlight there during that showmatch.
@@jonasba2764 yeah same I call it new box but id understand if someone called it Kenny because I remember the showmatch but I don't think many people do
I'll dispute one myself. I think "jail" on mirage is older and originates from the old cpl_strike version's chain link fencing that made the area look pretty much like a jail cell. edit: On inferno I've heard the two routes from middle be called wrap side for wrapping the long way around, and truck or porch side for the shorter one. There's a bit of language barrier problems on B as well, in my mind the closest spots to the left of the entrance will always be first and second oranges, the dark corner "emo", and coffins spools/spindles despite the game asset having changed. As far as d2, "palm tree" for what is now a light post in top mid, and "gamehelper" for the old ad behind what is now car on the 1.6 version of the map.
CS:GO translator here -- Underpass on Inferno is not called Vietnam for the same reason as it is called Mexico, as the act of calling that position Vietnam in reality came from the fact that there's also a underground tunnel system in Vietnam, but it's for a completely different purpose -- it's a mention of Địa đạo Củ Chi, part of an underground defense system that helped the North Vietnam soldiers in their fight against the US and its allies back when the Vietnam War was still raging.
South Africans call quad (Roofed area outside of A) Afduk because we have both Afrikaans and English players. The callous here is very different due to smallest region and multilingualism similar to EU but way more confusing and a lot less players lol. Thanks for the content !
yaaasss, another Penguin vid. Good topic. I find that some of these spots that have multiple acceptable callouts work in my brain just as well as a single callout (for some of them at least). One that comes to mind is entering B site Inferno, "Under Grill" and "Water" are synonymous to me. played back in the day when that area had squishy water footsteps. Thanks for the vid.
double doors on long A on dust 2 are quite often called "box" in eastern european matchmaking. and that leads to confusion with the mid box, though, whenever someone calls long doors "box", they usually call mid box "xbox"
in south-africa when we play on inferno, the little roof outside boiler is quite commonly referred to as "af-dakkie" which is an afrikaans word for a roof or covering out doors like over a porch or verandah
I usually hear "Long doors" on dust2 referred to as Double doors and call them that myself. Funniest one that was used by German players was "Pommes" (aka fries) for the window in blue on nuke
I find it funny that I call it New Box on Inferno even though it has been there for as long as I've been playing. Of course, for a long time I thought Mexico was "Underground Railroad" because of the people I first played with, so it really does just come down to who you start with. I've been trying to teach my friend some callouts, so I think I'm just gonna try to do it from scratch since that will be easier for them and gives me way to much control.
So a lot of casters for the Paris major has called the spot on Anubis in your video “dark.” And it is dark and it makes sense. But what really makes this interesting is the path from ct spawn to a bombsite (where you drop down to beach and go up stairs to a) is referred to as sewers. And it doesn’t help that I believe there is a sewer grate down there too where the water comes out. I may be wrong but that makes more sense
@@fazejohncenachristogamerfaze Yes, it does. It derives of "pommes frittes" which apparently is because potatoes are also called earth apples in alot of European countries
@@Astrobay13 The word "pomegranate" and "grenade" in English both have the same etymological origin, and "grenade" to mean an explosive specifically, is called that in English because that form of the word is borrowed from French. Most other languages borrow directly from Latin which is why they use variants of "granata" instead Side trivia: You might think "Pineapple grenade" refers to the overall shape of the American Mk2 grenade, but actually it got the name "pineapple" because early version of the grenade were also painted yellow (Some can still be seen in pictures with a yellow ring at the top from where the paint was scraped off and some was leftover)
Im playing with that one friend all the time since mid 2017 and we have our own callout on every map "the spot". It is always asociated with some "spot" that is frequently used, like that spot on Inferno A site where you jump on the box to surprise people on short
Me and my friends play a lot Halo, Halo2, CoD4, etc back in the day, and we would have our own callouts for areas of the map. Even though we never played with other people, it was pretty crazy to hear pros and other casuals call our callouts the exact same name. At the end of the day, callouts should be easy, concise, and intuitive. Good video
Probably an old 1.6 player from a different country. They used to have callouts in their language, CSGO is much bigger now and mostly English is spoken. Some of the old calls translated well some not, that's where Connector and Mid Main probably come from
i love european cs and i spent a few years in the us so i know both sides of the medal. in european cs individual skill is way more important because 90% of the time there wont be an IGL or anyone that wants to call strats and even if they will prolly just say something like "lets rush b" or "go shift a" in the us people are much more talkative which makes sense because there is no inherent language barrier.
Imagine not mentioning Oranges and Sandbox on Inferno, They haven't been actually oranges or a sand pit for so long that new players have undoubtedly got new names for them - but I don't know what those names would be
I think part of the confusion is the history of the maps across multiple CS games. iirc, what is now commonly called triple box had a flammable symbol on it back in 1.6, hence the firebox callout. Jungle had some vines on the wall and we still call it jungle despite not having those vines anymore.
In Brazil for some reason we call the part of mirage with the ladder and the vent, that connects window and catwalk, “moscow” i don’t really understand why we call it that, but we do. And it sounds pretty damn cool to me.
If anyone is interested for how callouts go for Asian players like me specifically for Dust 2 For Chinese they always call a short (even in the catwalk side) as just A Short, even if you are still relatively near top mid. They do call out A Long (A da) Usually Anything near B, Like upper tunnel to B site itself they just refer to it as B and no specific callouts for box, car or window etc. However for Filipinos Any hit on A from the T's they always just call out just "it's A", whether it's from short or long My close circle of friends still call the T side of long doors as T side long For B, Filipinos bother to differentiate Tunnel from B itself, but from what I've experience both upper and lower tunnels are just called Tunnels either way by Filipinos. Filipinos like the Chinese tho call Short just short regardless of how far it is into mid and I once used the callout Catwalk and the Filipinos did not recognize what that was. Filipinos also call Spawns as base, T base or CT base, sometimes Attacker or Defender base on rare instances i had, probably due to the sheer popularity of valorant here I played with a few Russians and they by far are the most specific in terms of callouts and they roughly use the same csllouts as the NA and EU players on a standard basis, they unlike Filipinos or Chinese understand what "Goose" is and they differentiate the tunnels by calling lower tuns "dark" or "lower dark" sometimes, probably a nod to how dark it was in older cs titles. I found it interesting that in the span of experience I had playing with Indian players they actually differentiate short and catwalk, and they have an abriviation for Lower Tunnel to just call it LT. That's about all I know from my experience playing CSGO in Asia.
As someone who's climbed the ranks only in Asia, I can approve and say that everything you've said is accurate. Additionally, I've heard Chinese players call A apps in Inferno as "2F" as in "second floor". Same with palace on A site Mirage.
Ancient has a spot which is called cheetah in english but in Portugal we call "vacas"(cow) and donut (called originally by valve on twitter) "anel"(ring). On inferno, on top of balcony we call roman, because of the player rmn (saw) make some plays there (not sure why just listenned like that and start calling )
Yeah specifically eastern european players seem to call it pit and western call it ramp, or sometimes main. The CIS players also call B apps on mirage palace sometimes like mentioned.
YOU FORGOT THE MOST INFURIATING RUSSIAN ONLY CALLOUT of "pit" instead of ramp both on A mirage and T ramp inferno. ( I've also heard "Palace B" and "Aps A" be used for aps and palace on mirage a couple times in EU and it's equally hilarious every time )
@@kurtpunchesthings2411 Mostly Balkans or other countries a little more suseptible of russian influence, I’ve never heard anyone from north/west europe call it pit, only people with some sort of cyrillic on their profile
Oooooohhhhh, that's why it's double doors. I've been so confused for so long because all the doors are "double" on short, but that makes a lot of sense. I usually call it long house
Tarik's most iconic (Success) clip was acing from a functionally similar spot on A-Inferno during the finals, maybe you just made a crazy connection there. I personally started calling A on Overpass 'Nitro' 2019
Since 2017, I started convincing my friends that the 2nd mid entrance to apps on Inferno should be called "freezer", because it is the opposite side of "boiler". Idk if it caught on or not tho.
great video. couple of personal notes (i'm european): 2:00 arch is also common for EU servers, though not always. And i think there is a difference between arch and long, though i'm not sure what. 2:12 it's not called Vietnam for the same reason but because of the 'tunnel rats' the soldiers in Vietnam used to live in during the war. last little thing: you should try checking out russian callouts.. saw a post about that once and it's weird as fuck.
I once played cs go with a friend of mine. We fooled around and picked completely bullshit maps, including hostage maps. So the game started, and we found ourselves in CS_Militia. We didn't even know all of the map, had played it maybe 2 times before. The funny thing was, our teammates were VERY elaborate about calling places and were really into this map. At the stage where we heard the call "chicken!", we busted in laugh. After the next round, we heard "rabbit house!", and we were not playing any more, instead laughing our asses off. Thank you, with whoever we played that night, you made our day. We lost in the end, but that match created memories I don't want to miss. :-)
The box on new cache is called KennyS or Newbox. The KennyS callout originates from the first showmatch played on the map at ESL One New York 2019. (kenny was kinda sick wit it) also it's called connector on Cache, the entirety of Euroupe would agree! th-cam.com/video/_QdNbxpOdrk/w-d-xo.html (The KennyS play)
as a brazilian who watches tons of CSGO videos in english, I've been calling Overpass' connector "conector" my whole life, but they didn't seem to know where it was. it took me long to find out it was called "Liga" (pronounced Lee-gah)
on mirage I've heard the terrorist A entrance referred to as pit or ramp most of the time but also A main. You'd think "palace" was also quite ubiquitous until you hear "A apps"
Heard evil geniuses are switching it up to numbers as well. Sounds like a good idea. It would be hard to change after playing a long time but after the switch I can see it being good.
Hello! I just started watching your videos and I really like them! They're informative, funny and I really love your choice of soundtracks! Shoutout to the Persona 4 OST on the obsolete callouts vid and then for the Tekken one in here! Great stuff!
I love how the callouts change with the place you are from… So in Brazil almost everyone calls mirage's catwalk “L” and in Portugal we like to call Inferno's underground “rio seco” which translates to “dry river” and Nuke's mini “fora/dentro” which literally translates to “outside/inside” lol. I also hear a lot of russians calling Mirage's ramp “pit”?!? These are just some examples of callouts you didn't mention (mainly because theres no way for you to know these ones) that came to my mind.
Yeah for Cache, I call connector when the player is not in the window and when there is someone there I just call top connector. Also, the 'headshot' box on A I just call new box but I've heard people call it KennyS. Not sure exactly why but I remember him playing there when the map first came out but might have been a showmatch or something.
I learned 2:02 as crawlspace. But yeah, I'm trying to standardise callouts as much as possible. Short, Long, Mid, Connector are words that make sense on nearly every map/bombsite and don't have to be replaced by individual callouts imo.
i call that box on cache kennys because he hit the first ever clutch from that box during the esl one new york 2019 show match. i was there live. idk what tarik might’ve did there but i think kennys is an appropriate name
Mongolian here, we have a lot of local callouts despite using the English version for 80% of them nowadays. In Nuke, we call Hut "Yellow" because the hut was indeed colored yellow in 1.6 and it was the only thing colored so yellow in that map. The door in A is also called differently. Also in Nuke, "Mind" has been used to callout the ramps in B, AND the control room. It can get extremely confusing. "Hell" isn't used as often as I'd want them to, it's really just "below Heaven".
1:57 the reason people ( EU ) call that "LONG" and "SHORT" instead of "ARCH SIDE" and "ALLEY" is because you can communicate words with less syllables easier and faster.
Being a russian, there's a bunch of callouts that can get confused. We call heaven "nine" and hell "six" sometimes. Short can be called "ziga" from "zigzag". Tunnel can be called "kishka" - intestine, or "tyomka" from the word "tyomniy" - dark. Dust 2's long doors can be called "banka" - jar. Mirage is a complete mess - a mix of russian cs 1.6 names + russian csgo names + english csgo names. For example, we call the part that leads to B site's car is called "kovry" - carpets, from cs 1.6. There's many more
I call the big cylinders in both A and B on nuke "Nuclear reactor A" or "Nuclear reactor B" bcecuase I didn't know what it was called when I first played the map and I just kept calling it that
4:12 okay so about "donut" as "nether portal" this is a reference to the "Nether REACTOR machine" in pre-bedrock (v0.9.5 and older) Minecraft Pocket Edition, which is a dev contraption to testing Nether Realm in PE I rarely saw anyone refers to it as "nether portal" so that's just my asumption btw about the "long" and "short" argument in Inferno, i call the "long" "archway" (or arch), "moto" as "long", and sometimes calls "short" "boiler"
I feel like there’s a million more than you mentioned, i hear the area between B and Short on mirage called McDonalds or Arches, i hear the area Ts can get set up in before B on cache called Sun Room or Toxic. On inferno i hear the area just before tunnel if your coming from T side called ramp or T-base, maybe it’s because there’s so many languages in EU games but there’s almost no definitive call-outs, on Underpass graffiti isn’t always called that, sometimes it’s ABC
3:51 in Argentina that is called "KennyS" P.D. 0:03 In all South America is Market (Mercado). Kitchen (Cocina) is the spot where is a fridge and a kitchen before entering B
for those interested in learning callouts in other countries, in Brazil we say L for catwalk(bc its a L shape lol); "areia"(sand) for underpalace(idk why, theres not even sand there); in Inferno Long is NIP(probably a reference to Ninja in Pijamas), and short Xuxa(a brazilian actress)
os europeus também chamam aquela passagem do site A pro ct antes da biblioteca te NIP, mas só a passagem, a gente fala NIP tanto pra passagem (estão "nipando") tanto quanto a inferno long toda
I have a few on Nuke. I learned to call "mini" as "main" and some people call "hut": "pommes", which is german and means "fries" in english. Also, I heard some people call "outside" as "long", but I really think "outside" is a better callout
kinda surprised you didn't talk about "car" on inferno. It was a car before the remake, and then after the remake I've sometimes heard "barrels" or "boxes." Sometimes "top banana"
I think short vs catwalk can overlap. If a player is headed to short from cat, you can use callout "heading short". If a player is shooting at connector infront of the border to short, it can still be called short as to not confuse with further up catwalk
Agree. Callouts can sometimes just be rough areas because the enemy can move and also everything depends on context of the situation like you said. I also in general like thinking about short as either being the opposite of long (dust2 A, overpass A, inferno A) or being a zig-zag walkway to a bombsite.
One callout which newer players always gets confused about on Dust2 is "Palm/Palm tree" since back in the day there used to be a palm tree at the top of mid. Whenever I play with friends and their mates we all know where "Palm" is, but if i hop in to a random game it's not uncommon that no one on the team knows about it. Theres 2 sweden-specific callouts as well that newer players struggle with, the first one is "Piggelin" (a swedish popsicle that is green) which is on the opposite side of "Palm", on the right side of mid if you look from the CT side. Then there's "Horhus" (Whorehouse) which is "Ladder room" on mirage, candidly named that because "only a whore would camp there".
Something I’ve noticed is that in NA on overpass, we call the area where CTs come to the B bomb site “graffiti”, but I’ve heard people in EU call it “abc”. I’m not sure where the abc call comes from though
My guess would be A-to-B-Connector = ABC (just came up with that explanation). But me playing on EU servers for a long time I've heard both used, but I always thought graffiti meant the left side (from bombsite perspective) and not actually the place where CTs come from.
I actually found out that earlier in overpass history the left side had an actual graffiti on the wall. The text of the graffiti: "abc", sooooo well... I guess now we know.
All this video taught me is that I might have to get more specific with my callouts. I sort of blame that I play a lot of full team with native Norwegians so we will often just say "bakpå site", meaning "in the back of site a" but my lack of callouts translate poorly when I play with strangers.
btw, the tunnel on inferno is often called Vietnam not for the same reason as Mexico, but because during the American-Vietnam war, the Vietnamese used complex tunnel systems
we call the tunnel on inferno "rats" or "foxhole" and in our team we are using different callouts for the same spots from time to time, but since we are playing together for some time already no one gets confused anymore. Kinda weird if i think about it.
In Brazil ladders/ladder rooms recieve the name Bombeiro (Fireman), because, ya know, you slide 'em down. Also, we call Inferno's Long "NIP", and when the T's wrap B trough long we say they "Niparam" (Nipped).
"some weirdos call it connector" - I got caught here by surprise, because 98% of the time I played cache as an European player it's been "connector". Sometimes it's "Z", but "mid window" is a callout reserved for when somebody is standing in the actual window.
+1 exactly
Never heard it called anything else than connector
+1
Americans have no idea that they are the weirdos, not us.
@@bb_bb_ I always say Z and hear it as Z. I am from NA
Alot of spots do also have completely different names depending on the language. Ladderroom in mirage is often called wh**e house in swedish. Due to the people using the spot being considered annoying in Sweden.
I call it that aswell as EUW player
I remember it as hooker house.
this isn't church you can say whore on the internet
@@bpop2148 Well, yes. It can mean brothel as well. It's practically the same still.
I dont find White House that offensive so you have to censor it
Argentina has the special honor of having a lot of callouts from cs1.6 be completely useless due to us having to speak basic brazilian portuguese just to play. We call Dust2 Long A "Largo" and they call it "Fundo", so we had to start saying Fundo or be literally kicked by the 4 brazilians in our team
It's so weird watching english csgo videos and hearing people callout connector when I've heard liga my whole life
@@cpote i started calling it conector, then in mm or gamers club i started hearing liga
@@cpote liga, sem discussão! Mais rápido de gritar quando alguém não olhou o meio e já mataram 2 CT fazendo split
Deserved kick
congratulations on the world cup
I like the style of your videos, the combination of panning map sections slowly with the voice over and relaxed background music.
1:10 whenever I play with my group of friends and one of us gets killed, we always call out the sport where we got killed from any derogatory term that comes to mind in the heat of the moment followed by spot or corner or smth like that. These imprecise callouts have no right to be anywhere near as effective as they actually are.
honestly i think "gay spot" is one of the most used call outs ever
That's pretty much the origin of a bunch of Swedish calls, most notably ladder room as "whore house"
Just got That Gamer Sense
it's funny how the callouts change meaning depending on the language, for example: on mirage we call ladder room "moscow " in brazil
Because in 1.6 that was universally called moscow idk why it change.
@@bukkcs probably mass popularity among new players made more names appear and more and more people using the new ones, i personally didnt play much 1.6 cuz i was a kid, i didnt even know cs source EVER existed when i got csgo for my birthday from a friend so i learnede many callouts along the way from different nations
Wow that's so random. Do you know why it was called like that?
@@shuluspa absolutely no clue
That's because of the old russian team Moscow Five who used to play a lot in that position
A big reason you didnt mention is because this game is so old, the maps gets updated but the callouts remains because of standardisation, habits and simplicity. Market/kitchen was actually a kitchen in earlier games, hence kitchen callout. Btw ladderroom in Mirage is also called whørehouse.
it was called whorehouse because window was called crackhouse lol
crackhouse was the window room on inferno, so it transferred to mirage
3:54 as warowl said: "Im gonna call this box "new box"... because is a new box."
That's what we use.
My favourites in German are definitely "mini Döner" and "Pommes"
isso. auch wenn ich selbst freezer sag is schon lustig.
Pommes😎
warte welche spots sind das
@notSven Pommes ist Hut auf Nuke
@@maxi_muc und mini döner?😂
I'm NA, and on Inferno we've always called what you call "alley" to be "Lane", and on Mirage what you call "short" we call "Arches", if they're at the actual arches it's just arches, but if they're in the deeper parts of it towards cat it's generally just called out as "back arches". Awesome video!
I've always called alley/lane "boiler" from pre-rework
I call that arch spot get_right
And get-right the left arch, and sometimes get-left for the right arch lmao. I've heard Russians say electronic (or some other Russian player) instead of get -right
@@GrgmitI've always used boiler to refer to the room/staircase where you enter aps on the CT side of mid
I'm Brazilian but I usually watch CS videos in English, even when learning a map. So I always surprise my friends with funny callouts that they would never expect to hear in our region like "OPTIMUS PRIME" or "DILDO". I also sometimes forget the Portuguese callout and fallback to the English one, so yeah I'm not the best teammate lmao.
I don't watch CS gameplay in english but I always call ''sombra'' on Mirage shadow. I think its because of the character lol
here in Ukraine we got some old-lan’s calls coming from 1.6 / pre-navi 2010 and widely use numbers for most of the positions despite the fact other regions don’t really understand when u make quick callouts lol
Мене відверто харить незнання нашими англ мови і коли ти чуєш sands на inferno, pants на ancient чи ad на dust ловиш іспанський сором. Не фанат назв по номерах
да во всём снг так, честно говоря
Also had that in Hungary from old lan players.
The positions on Inferno B site were labeled with numbers going clockwise.
Coffins or coils was around number 10
That username tho 💀💀💀
bro why u playing csgo in ukraine just step outside
also in europe we call "Tripple" - "Default" but what you call "Tripple" we call "Fire box" for some reason
P.S i was dead laughing my ass off on that "GAY SPOT" callout, dude thx, amazing videos
Yeah default is default plant and triple is firebox :D I think the "triple" boxes used to have fire explosive symbols on it earlier. Ninja had it too
So good to see videos on such simple but quite unique topics that u make. Keep up the good work :D
The new Cache was played in a showmatch at ESL One New York 2019 and Tarik was playing it, so he might've had a highlight there that made you start calling it Tarik box. My friend calls that box "kenny" because kennys had a highlight there during that showmatch.
I just call it new box because it's a box and new
Yeah I think he had a highlight in the showmatch
@@jonasba2764 yeah same I call it new box but id understand if someone called it Kenny because I remember the showmatch but I don't think many people do
I also call it Kenny because of that
kennyS had one behind and on that box
I'll dispute one myself. I think "jail" on mirage is older and originates from the old cpl_strike version's chain link fencing that made the area look pretty much like a jail cell.
edit: On inferno I've heard the two routes from middle be called wrap side for wrapping the long way around, and truck or porch side for the shorter one. There's a bit of language barrier problems on B as well, in my mind the closest spots to the left of the entrance will always be first and second oranges, the dark corner "emo", and coffins spools/spindles despite the game asset having changed.
As far as d2, "palm tree" for what is now a light post in top mid, and "gamehelper" for the old ad behind what is now car on the 1.6 version of the map.
I've played csgo for 5 years and have never once heard if called Jail its always forest
CS:GO translator here -- Underpass on Inferno is not called Vietnam for the same reason as it is called Mexico, as the act of calling that position Vietnam in reality came from the fact that there's also a underground tunnel system in Vietnam, but it's for a completely different purpose -- it's a mention of Địa đạo Củ Chi, part of an underground defense system that helped the North Vietnam soldiers in their fight against the US and its allies back when the Vietnam War was still raging.
UM AcTuAlLy....🤓
I really enjoy the subtle effects you're adding to the video, it gives the content a sort of branding
South Africans call quad (Roofed area outside of A) Afduk because we have both Afrikaans and English players. The callous here is very different due to smallest region and multilingualism similar to EU but way more confusing and a lot less players lol. Thanks for the content !
Me and my Dutch friends usually stick to English callouts, but we would probably call it afdak too :)
yaaasss, another Penguin vid. Good topic. I find that some of these spots that have multiple acceptable callouts work in my brain just as well as a single callout (for some of them at least). One that comes to mind is entering B site Inferno, "Under Grill" and "Water" are synonymous to me. played back in the day when that area had squishy water footsteps.
Thanks for the vid.
double doors on long A on dust 2 are quite often called "box" in eastern european matchmaking. and that leads to confusion with the mid box, though, whenever someone calls long doors "box", they usually call mid box "xbox"
Mid box are "temka" or "dark place", no?
I always call it long house, and the mid box is still called xbox. This is because it used to have a giant X on it in 1.6 btw)
in south-africa when we play on inferno, the little roof outside boiler is quite commonly referred to as "af-dakkie" which is an afrikaans word for a roof or covering out doors like over a porch or verandah
I usually hear "Long doors" on dust2 referred to as Double doors and call them that myself.
Funniest one that was used by German players was "Pommes" (aka fries) for the window in blue on nuke
a lot of russians also call it "box"
in poland we call that spot anarchy
A former teammate of mine (we're german) kept calling it apple, because he always confused it with the french word pomme xD
I always heard "Long doors" for the doors at long, and "Double doors" to refer to the ones by T spawn
Bro the German callouts in general are hysterical, especially once you go off the deep end with old 1.6 or CSS era as well as streamer calls! 😅
In Australia we still call short / quad on inferno diggity
I find it funny that I call it New Box on Inferno even though it has been there for as long as I've been playing. Of course, for a long time I thought Mexico was "Underground Railroad" because of the people I first played with, so it really does just come down to who you start with. I've been trying to teach my friend some callouts, so I think I'm just gonna try to do it from scratch since that will be easier for them and gives me way to much control.
I know all my callouts from casters so that’s what I go off of and they call it new box
@@TotalxTroll25k yea that's a good point
So a lot of casters for the Paris major has called the spot on Anubis in your video “dark.” And it is dark and it makes sense. But what really makes this interesting is the path from ct spawn to a bombsite (where you drop down to beach and go up stairs to a) is referred to as sewers. And it doesn’t help that I believe there is a sewer grate down there too where the water comes out. I may be wrong but that makes more sense
In finnish cs a lot of dark places are called the nword 💀
relatable
Short A Inferno being called "Diggity" is one of my favourite obscure callouts from Aus CS
was looking around for someone saying something about diggity
They call every spot diggity in aus
And you call Mexico/underpass “giggity” then, eh? 😁
Conclusion from the video:
EU: Mostly well put together callouts that just make sense.
NA: "Yo, pass me the blunt"
Hut on Nuke is referred as "Pommes (French Fries)" in German because there used to be a small window so it looked like a snack bar.
oh. now i get it why some call it that xD
Does pommes really mean french fries in german? If yes its kinda funny since in french pommes means apple at the plurial form
@@fazejohncenachristogamerfaze Yes, it does. It derives of "pommes frittes" which apparently is because potatoes are also called earth apples in alot of European countries
@@Astrobay13 Same in French, they are called "pommes de terre". That's why we say "pommes frites".
@@Astrobay13 The word "pomegranate" and "grenade" in English both have the same etymological origin, and "grenade" to mean an explosive specifically, is called that in English because that form of the word is borrowed from French. Most other languages borrow directly from Latin which is why they use variants of "granata" instead
Side trivia: You might think "Pineapple grenade" refers to the overall shape of the American Mk2 grenade, but actually it got the name "pineapple" because early version of the grenade were also painted yellow (Some can still be seen in pictures with a yellow ring at the top from where the paint was scraped off and some was leftover)
I think it'd be interesting to have a video of all of the callouts based on pro player names.
This is the best CS channel. Focusing on the best thing about it, maps!
Im playing with that one friend all the time since mid 2017 and we have our own callout on every map "the spot". It is always asociated with some "spot" that is frequently used, like that spot on Inferno A site where you jump on the box to surprise people on short
Me and my friends play a lot Halo, Halo2, CoD4, etc back in the day, and we would have our own callouts for areas of the map. Even though we never played with other people, it was pretty crazy to hear pros and other casuals call our callouts the exact same name. At the end of the day, callouts should be easy, concise, and intuitive. Good video
One of my teammates in mm on dust 2 called bottom mid “mid main” and CT “connector” I was dumbfounded
Probably an old 1.6 player from a different country. They used to have callouts in their language, CSGO is much bigger now and mostly English is spoken.
Some of the old calls translated well some not, that's where Connector and Mid Main probably come from
I'm native English speaker from The United States, been playing CS since 1.5 in 2003, and always heard CT called "connector"
i love european cs and i spent a few years in the us so i know both sides of the medal. in european cs individual skill is way more important because 90% of the time there wont be an IGL or anyone that wants to call strats and even if they will prolly just say something like "lets rush b" or "go shift a" in the us people are much more talkative which makes sense because there is no inherent language barrier.
Imagine not mentioning Oranges and Sandbox on Inferno, They haven't been actually oranges or a sand pit for so long that new players have undoubtedly got new names for them - but I don't know what those names would be
I think part of the confusion is the history of the maps across multiple CS games. iirc, what is now commonly called triple box had a flammable symbol on it back in 1.6, hence the firebox callout. Jungle had some vines on the wall and we still call it jungle despite not having those vines anymore.
In Brazil for some reason we call the part of mirage with the ladder and the vent, that connects window and catwalk, “moscow” i don’t really understand why we call it that, but we do. And it sounds pretty damn cool to me.
In all South America is Moscow / Moscú from what i heard from different people
it is Moscow Five, in tribute to a Russian team
@@giulianogotodemello9823 i didn’t know that! That’s pretty damn awesome!
Excited to watch you blow the fuck up on here, these are some of the best cs:go vids to ever be put out. get that money, dawg.
If anyone is interested for how callouts go for Asian players like me specifically for Dust 2
For Chinese they always call a short (even in the catwalk side) as just A Short, even if you are still relatively near top mid.
They do call out A Long (A da) Usually
Anything near B, Like upper tunnel to B site itself they just refer to it as B and no specific callouts for box, car or window etc.
However for Filipinos Any hit on A from the T's they always just call out just "it's A", whether it's from short or long
My close circle of friends still call the T side of long doors as T side long
For B, Filipinos bother to differentiate Tunnel from B itself, but from what I've experience both upper and lower tunnels are just called Tunnels either way by Filipinos.
Filipinos like the Chinese tho call Short just short regardless of how far it is into mid and I once used the callout Catwalk and the Filipinos did not recognize what that was.
Filipinos also call Spawns as base, T base or CT base, sometimes Attacker or Defender base on rare instances i had, probably due to the sheer popularity of valorant here
I played with a few Russians and they by far are the most specific in terms of callouts and they roughly use the same csllouts as the NA and EU players on a standard basis, they unlike Filipinos or Chinese understand what "Goose" is and they differentiate the tunnels by calling lower tuns "dark" or "lower dark" sometimes, probably a nod to how dark it was in older cs titles.
I found it interesting that in the span of experience I had playing with Indian players they actually differentiate short and catwalk, and they have an abriviation for Lower Tunnel to just call it LT.
That's about all I know from my experience playing CSGO in Asia.
As someone who's climbed the ranks only in Asia, I can approve and say that everything you've said is accurate. Additionally, I've heard Chinese players call A apps in Inferno as "2F" as in "second floor". Same with palace on A site Mirage.
Ancient has a spot which is called cheetah in english but in Portugal we call "vacas"(cow) and donut (called originally by valve on twitter) "anel"(ring).
On inferno, on top of balcony we call roman, because of the player rmn (saw) make some plays there (not sure why just listenned like that and start calling )
I have also heard people in Mirage A site regard "ramp" as "pit". And many times people mix palace and appartements.
Yeah. Just had a guy call a "rush pit with nades". And also people saying "A aps, B aps" or just call both palace and apartments "palace"
On my games it's always B apps and A palace. In Polish we also say "dywany" as b apps which means "carpets".
Yeah specifically eastern european players seem to call it pit and western call it ramp, or sometimes main.
The CIS players also call B apps on mirage palace sometimes like mentioned.
Am I the only one who got masive flashbacks when the tekken music came on?? Great video btw!
YOU FORGOT THE MOST INFURIATING RUSSIAN ONLY CALLOUT of "pit" instead of ramp both on A mirage and T ramp inferno.
( I've also heard "Palace B" and "Aps A" be used for aps and palace on mirage a couple times in EU and it's equally hilarious every time )
Palace B is my favourite its hilarious
Im guilty of calling A apps
Idk bro I've heard alot of Europeans who are not Russian call it Pit including myself
@@boreinouchiha8323 yea that happens alot don't worry people get angry if you call it a apps LOL
@@kurtpunchesthings2411 Mostly Balkans or other countries a little more suseptible of russian influence,
I’ve never heard anyone from north/west europe call it pit, only people with some sort of cyrillic on their profile
Great concept dude I moved from Europe to NA 5 Years ago and at the beggining I always had this problem
"long doors" to me has always been "double doors" cause theres two sets of doors, it just makes sense to me
shut your heretical mouth, mid doors are double doors, if i heard that call-out mid game there would be a very serious vote kick
Oooooohhhhh, that's why it's double doors. I've been so confused for so long because all the doors are "double" on short, but that makes a lot of sense. I usually call it long house
Yeah I always heard doors near T spawn as "double doors"
Tarik's most iconic (Success) clip was acing from a functionally similar spot on A-Inferno during the finals, maybe you just made a crazy connection there.
I personally started calling A on Overpass 'Nitro' 2019
I've heard so many people call the stairs down to connector on Overpass "Phoenix". Not sure if it's regional or the history behind it.
I assume cause it's a common place to moly
Since 2017, I started convincing my friends that the 2nd mid entrance to apps on Inferno should be called "freezer", because it is the opposite side of "boiler". Idk if it caught on or not tho.
great video. couple of personal notes (i'm european):
2:00 arch is also common for EU servers, though not always. And i think there is a difference between arch and long, though i'm not sure what.
2:12 it's not called Vietnam for the same reason but because of the 'tunnel rats' the soldiers in Vietnam used to live in during the war.
last little thing: you should try checking out russian callouts.. saw a post about that once and it's weird as fuck.
arch is when you are actually standing in/around the arch
I once played cs go with a friend of mine. We fooled around and picked completely bullshit maps, including hostage maps. So the game started, and we found ourselves in CS_Militia.
We didn't even know all of the map, had played it maybe 2 times before. The funny thing was, our teammates were VERY elaborate about calling places and were really into this map.
At the stage where we heard the call "chicken!", we busted in laugh. After the next round, we heard "rabbit house!", and we were not playing any more, instead laughing our asses off.
Thank you, with whoever we played that night, you made our day. We lost in the end, but that match created memories I don't want to miss. :-)
The box on new cache is called KennyS or Newbox. The KennyS callout originates from the first showmatch played on the map at ESL One New York 2019. (kenny was kinda sick wit it)
also it's called connector on Cache, the entirety of Euroupe would agree!
th-cam.com/video/_QdNbxpOdrk/w-d-xo.html (The KennyS play)
as a brazilian who watches tons of CSGO videos in english, I've been calling Overpass' connector "conector" my whole life, but they didn't seem to know where it was. it took me long to find out it was called "Liga" (pronounced Lee-gah)
In Australia Quad on Inferno A is called Diggity and Mini on Nuke is called Annex.
Mini on Nuke is called Main in Europe
We've been calling our 'sewer' 'connector' since the last operation.
It makes sense because it has a similar shape and vibe to the other connectors
In Europe headshot box on cache is called Kenny's because in the first showmatch on new cache he got a 4k from there.
I’m in NA and I’ve used and heard others use kennyS as well
on mirage I've heard the terrorist A entrance referred to as pit or ramp most of the time but also A main. You'd think "palace" was also quite ubiquitous until you hear "A apps"
Most times I've heard someone call it a apps someone in team got angry
It’s pretty cool how NaVi renamed all the spots to numbers, they say it makes it easier for them
Heard evil geniuses are switching it up to numbers as well. Sounds like a good idea. It would be hard to change after playing a long time but after the switch I can see it being good.
Many teams just add numerals to unnamed spots too
Well its easier to say a number then a word quicker to
Ukraine and some Polish players use numbers even in MM.
ofc they say that, b1ad3 has gun to their head
Hello! I just started watching your videos and I really like them! They're informative, funny and I really love your choice of soundtracks! Shoutout to the Persona 4 OST on the obsolete callouts vid and then for the Tekken one in here! Great stuff!
I love how the callouts change with the place you are from… So in Brazil almost everyone calls mirage's catwalk “L” and in Portugal we like to call Inferno's underground “rio seco” which translates to “dry river” and Nuke's mini “fora/dentro” which literally translates to “outside/inside” lol. I also hear a lot of russians calling Mirage's ramp “pit”?!? These are just some examples of callouts you didn't mention (mainly because theres no way for you to know these ones) that came to my mind.
@@11energize ive seen alot of ppl calling it like that in english speaking mm
Yeah for Cache, I call connector when the player is not in the window and when there is someone there I just call top connector. Also, the 'headshot' box on A I just call new box but I've heard people call it KennyS. Not sure exactly why but I remember him playing there when the map first came out but might have been a showmatch or something.
in australia '' diggity'' refers to any spot on a site mirage.... literally any spot.
It's funny because its just not true
my friend calls everything "he's there"
The pro scene has really simplified a lot of the callouts, especially on that Mirage A site (thank god)
EDIT: OH FUCK I FORGOT BLASTPRO WAS ON
I learned 2:02 as crawlspace.
But yeah, I'm trying to standardise callouts as much as possible. Short, Long, Mid, Connector are words that make sense on nearly every map/bombsite and don't have to be replaced by individual callouts imo.
love the video and good to see new passionate creators for CS keep it up pengy TEAM OPTIMUS BABY
i call that box on cache kennys because he hit the first ever clutch from that box during the esl one new york 2019 show match. i was there live. idk what tarik might’ve did there but i think kennys is an appropriate name
In the Irish CSGO scene, the window that used to be on Vertigo to jump into B site from mid was called sickomode, not a clue where that started lol
Probably because "going sickomode" means to do something crazy or brash
Mongolian here, we have a lot of local callouts despite using the English version for 80% of them nowadays.
In Nuke, we call Hut "Yellow" because the hut was indeed colored yellow in 1.6 and it was the only thing colored so yellow in that map. The door in A is also called differently.
Also in Nuke, "Mind" has been used to callout the ramps in B, AND the control room. It can get extremely confusing. "Hell" isn't used as often as I'd want them to, it's really just "below Heaven".
1:57 the reason people ( EU ) call that "LONG" and "SHORT" instead of "ARCH SIDE" and "ALLEY" is because you can communicate words with less syllables easier and faster.
In Spain we call the ladder room in mirage "Iniesta" (name of a famous football player).
Being a russian, there's a bunch of callouts that can get confused.
We call heaven "nine" and hell "six" sometimes. Short can be called "ziga" from "zigzag". Tunnel can be called "kishka" - intestine, or "tyomka" from the word "tyomniy" - dark. Dust 2's long doors can be called "banka" - jar. Mirage is a complete mess - a mix of russian cs 1.6 names + russian csgo names + english csgo names. For example, we call the part that leads to B site's car is called "kovry" - carpets, from cs 1.6. There's many more
"2 going shoelace, 3 going sea urchin"
"1 carpet"
I just call everywhere diggity
I call the big cylinders in both A and B on nuke "Nuclear reactor A" or "Nuclear reactor B" bcecuase I didn't know what it was called when I first played the map and I just kept calling it that
4:12 okay so about "donut" as "nether portal"
this is a reference to the "Nether REACTOR machine" in pre-bedrock (v0.9.5 and older) Minecraft Pocket Edition, which is a dev contraption to testing Nether Realm in PE
I rarely saw anyone refers to it as "nether portal" so that's just my asumption
btw about the "long" and "short" argument in Inferno, i call the "long" "archway" (or arch), "moto" as "long", and sometimes calls "short" "boiler"
Long doors on Dust are also referred to as "box" by many players.
I feel like there’s a million more than you mentioned, i hear the area between B and Short on mirage called McDonalds or Arches, i hear the area Ts can get set up in before B on cache called Sun Room or Toxic. On inferno i hear the area just before tunnel if your coming from T side called ramp or T-base, maybe it’s because there’s so many languages in EU games but there’s almost no definitive call-outs, on Underpass graffiti isn’t always called that, sometimes it’s ABC
In australia we call outside of boiler/quad “Diggity”
Donut should forever be nether portal now
3:51 in Argentina that is called "KennyS"
P.D. 0:03 In all South America is Market (Mercado). Kitchen (Cocina) is the spot where is a fridge and a kitchen before entering B
for those interested in learning callouts in other countries, in Brazil we say L for catwalk(bc its a L shape lol); "areia"(sand) for underpalace(idk why, theres not even sand there); in Inferno Long is NIP(probably a reference to Ninja in Pijamas), and short Xuxa(a brazilian actress)
os europeus também chamam aquela passagem do site A pro ct antes da biblioteca te NIP, mas só a passagem, a gente fala NIP tanto pra passagem (estão "nipando") tanto quanto a inferno long toda
xuxa nn eh A xuxa, mas O xuxa. Xuxa era o apelido de um jogador da g3x que jogava ali
I have a few on Nuke. I learned to call "mini" as "main" and some people call "hut": "pommes", which is german and means "fries" in english. Also, I heard some people call "outside" as "long", but I really think "outside" is a better callout
i call outside grass sometimes as a joke
To the people that call market kitchen, do you have a cash register in your kitchen?
kinda surprised you didn't talk about "car" on inferno. It was a car before the remake, and then after the remake I've sometimes heard "barrels" or "boxes." Sometimes "top banana"
It would stay a "car" for centuries 😂
"what do you call this place?"
Me: "over there"
I think short vs catwalk can overlap. If a player is headed to short from cat, you can use callout "heading short". If a player is shooting at connector infront of the border to short, it can still be called short as to not confuse with further up catwalk
Agree. Callouts can sometimes just be rough areas because the enemy can move and also everything depends on context of the situation like you said. I also in general like thinking about short as either being the opposite of long (dust2 A, overpass A, inferno A) or being a zig-zag walkway to a bombsite.
One callout which newer players always gets confused about on Dust2 is "Palm/Palm tree" since back in the day there used to be a palm tree at the top of mid. Whenever I play with friends and their mates we all know where "Palm" is, but if i hop in to a random game it's not uncommon that no one on the team knows about it. Theres 2 sweden-specific callouts as well that newer players struggle with, the first one is "Piggelin" (a swedish popsicle that is green) which is on the opposite side of "Palm", on the right side of mid if you look from the CT side.
Then there's "Horhus" (Whorehouse) which is "Ladder room" on mirage, candidly named that because "only a whore would camp there".
Something I’ve noticed is that in NA on overpass, we call the area where CTs come to the B bomb site “graffiti”, but I’ve heard people in EU call it “abc”. I’m not sure where the abc call comes from though
My guess would be A-to-B-Connector = ABC (just came up with that explanation). But me playing on EU servers for a long time I've heard both used, but I always thought graffiti meant the left side (from bombsite perspective) and not actually the place where CTs come from.
I actually found out that earlier in overpass history the left side had an actual graffiti on the wall. The text of the graffiti: "abc", sooooo well... I guess now we know.
All this video taught me is that I might have to get more specific with my callouts. I sort of blame that I play a lot of full team with native Norwegians so we will often just say "bakpå site", meaning "in the back of site a" but my lack of callouts translate poorly when I play with strangers.
On Dust2, oldschool russian players often call "car" on A long "advert". This callout originated from 1.6 back when D2 had advertisements in it
3:54 idk the answer for why you would call it tarik box but i have to say, REAL FORSAKEN VIBES from that clip ahah
3:54 In my region we call it kenny. as kennyS made some plays in the showmatch of the new cache.
btw, the tunnel on inferno is often called Vietnam not for the same reason as Mexico, but because during the American-Vietnam war, the Vietnamese used complex tunnel systems
over there, up there, under there, site, backstab. thats all the callouts i need
we call the tunnel on inferno "rats" or "foxhole" and in our team we are using different callouts for the same spots from time to time, but since we are playing together for some time already no one gets confused anymore. Kinda weird if i think about it.
Get_Right on Mirage is sometimes called Edward in EU. G2 calls cubby on ancient Juliana.
i just remembered the callout on dust 2 "mid closet", i dont even recall anyone saying that anymore, just top mid or right side top mid.
In Brazil ladders/ladder rooms recieve the name Bombeiro (Fireman), because, ya know, you slide 'em down.
Also, we call Inferno's Long "NIP", and when the T's wrap B trough long we say they "Niparam" (Nipped).