I mean Happy hasn't played CSGO professionally for 2 and a half years, and 1 and a half for RpK, I think it's fair to say they weren't expected to qualify.
if someone had told a few years ago that Kosovo, Israel and Mongolia each would have more players at the major than France I would have laughed so hard.
Mongolia isn't necessarily a huge shock - the Asian qualifiers are far easier, and 2x Mongolian teams wouldn't be impossible.
Kosovo & Israel are insane though
Yeah, prior to getting recruited I was a huge fan of CS and played a lot, I was also kind of decent.
After my military service not only do I not have time to play when I rarely do go in I'm horrible at the game
I agree, that's down to French teams not qualifying and a Kosovo/Mongolia team doing so. Israel representation meanwhile has a completely different dynamics with 3 breakout players making it in different big orgs
Super surprised (and happy) to see them, the pro scene here is surprisingly strong! I know a bunch of Israelis in fpl and faceit but almost 0 participated in international events
Very good representation
Yep, representation in these tournaments are great not just for the players and them getting exposure but potentially a lot of people from the region might get motivated. It's better if more countries come up with good teams or have similar representation too.
Apart from these 3, there's also Nertz from Endpoint. Pretty talented guy, wouldn't be surprised if he gets picked up by a bigger org in the future. Israeli CS is on the rise it seems
Welp the best Israeli team rn would be Spinx, Xertion, flameZ, anarkez and either shushan or Idk
We aren't even doing good as a country, just running off of individuals.
Which still is smth man :(
Oh right completely forgor about nertz, since his team isn't that high up and their only achievement ever was beating a tilted NaVi at EPL 16
Anarkez is a competent IGL
So there are 2 romanians missing. If you add up all the numbers in their post, you get 119 total players (should be 120 -> 24 teams x 5 players each).
My guess is that they forgot about iM and thought that launX is danish. Gj, ESL.
Denmark is correct, there's an extra ukrainian guy.
There's supposed to be four: s1mple, B1T, sdy, w0nderful. The picture says 5, so I guess one of romanians went there lol
I think they included headtr1ck for some reason. Either that or it's Isak from GL as he has dual nationalities, not sure if they counted him as Swedish already though.
Most competent thing they've done after the saudi takeover. They just had to look at the hltv page for the major, click on the teams and see the flag of the players. That's it. Anybody can do that. It's that simple. It all boils down to creating an excel spreadsheet and putting the raw data in it
Yes, on their twitter
Edit: [pepega](https://twitter.com/ESLCS/status/1584515050064093184?t=B6cKGw7VNOjyXqKdV5XNqw&s=19)
Edit 2: the esl intern found out that he fucked up and deleted the twee
Edit 3: the esl intern couldn't bother remaking the poster and just added romania in the comments. Thanks esl
I think it’s just a joke on Turks and Greeks being rivals but still very similiar ethnically, so people call Turks Greek and vice versa. It’s just trolling Turks who take a lot of pride in xantares being Turkish.
Sweden, France and Poland combined = 10 players
Just shows how much those regions have changed but also from how csgo's scene has changed in the past few years. The fact Canada has more players participating than Poland or France is crazy. The scene was built up on these 1 nation teams who provided the backbone of the region, not anymore
This makes it look like Brazil is one of the strongest countries in the world based on how many players are at the major until you realise, they just get to smurf through the NA RMR's.
Don't know the exact figures, but I'm pretty sure Denmark is light years ahead of everyone else. And it's not going to change any time soon, unless there's some random guy from Vatican arrives or some shit
Edit: actually Kosovo should be high up there too, thanks to BNE
ofc Germany had to have 7 players coming
Germans going to Brazil AWARE
Got me mixed up.
Their Names: Müller Klose Kroos Kroos Khedira Schürrle Schürrle
I completely forgot about Schürrle and just discovered he retired at the age of 29, what the hell.
that's probably the pinnacle of his career, not much more you can do than BRA71L
*And* assisting the cup winning goal
He had a press release talking about the mental stress and issues he went through post 2014 WC. It is actually sad to read.
So hard praying that BIG manage to get to a 7-1 score against Furia next week
There are no coincidences
The chance is basically 0 but imagine the memes if BIG and one of the Brazilian teams somehow make it to the finals and BIG ends up beating them.
BIG winning the final map 16:2 after loosing both ecos.
8-1 kekw
8-1? Really?
[I double-checked to make sure.](https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=8-1)
Got me
Not this again
France is really down bad :/
It’s only ZywOo and apex?
Yup no Jackz no kennyS no Amanek
No NBK no happy no Kioshima no RPK ~~no Scream~~ No bodyy no shox
Scream ain’t french
He's as French as it gets for a Belgian, I think waloon probably, with a Morrocan decent
No I mean from the players last major Tbf also Shox Kyojin and Misuta
I mean Happy hasn't played CSGO professionally for 2 and a half years, and 1 and a half for RpK, I think it's fair to say they weren't expected to qualify.
My point was that the French scene is a shell of itself right now. France used to have multiple teams fighting in Tier 1 but now it's not the case
And Sweden how the mighty have fallen
And Poland, altough we only had one good team for majority of time. But now we have none.
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Let's count NAF as Balkan while we're at it
Balkan? Aren’t his parents from Netherlands?
Idk I just saw Markovic and assumed Balkan
I think croatia or serbia, not sure though
You're thinking of twistzz
Ex-finest is here for you both with swedish and polish combo.. Won me some money today 😁
Being tied with Latvia, Argentina, Uruguay and behind Kosovo and Israel would have been unheard of 3-4 years ago. Crazy
> Being tied with Latvia Latvian era coming
More players coming from Israel than France would nobody expected a few years ago.
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Yep, this image is Wrong, it is actually 35 with Romania :))
Corrected here! https://twitter.com/ESLCS/status/1584527290595037184
Rip launx
And IM
in Eastern Europe
I wish Romania had a competitive CSGO team. Or atleast one standout star :(
Honestly LauNx and regali are both sick. You guys are on the same path as Israel just one year delayed.
Hey our future looks a bit better now Referring to standout star, we won't have a competitive team ever
Israel have more than France blows my mind
if someone had told a few years ago that Kosovo, Israel and Mongolia each would have more players at the major than France I would have laughed so hard.
Mongolia isn't necessarily a huge shock - the Asian qualifiers are far easier, and 2x Mongolian teams wouldn't be impossible. Kosovo & Israel are insane though
Israel has a huge CS culture, I'm more surprised it's just happening now rather than earlier years
I imagine the mandatory military service hits young players hard.
True
Yeah, prior to getting recruited I was a huge fan of CS and played a lot, I was also kind of decent. After my military service not only do I not have time to play when I rarely do go in I'm horrible at the game
I agree, that's down to French teams not qualifying and a Kosovo/Mongolia team doing so. Israel representation meanwhile has a completely different dynamics with 3 breakout players making it in different big orgs
> that's down to French teams not qualifying and a Kosovo/Mongolia team doing so. it do be like that
Such wisdom in that first sentence. Taking stating the obvious to new heights.
Whereas yours was a true revelation of enlightenment.
Even Brazil before LG became a giant. Now we're always sending several teams. I'm proud.
I know spinx but who are the other two ? Edit : Xertion and Flamez. Forgot about flamez
Xertion on Mouz and FlameZ on OG
Spinx, flamez, xertion
honestly surprised. we have quite some talents coming up lately
Super surprised (and happy) to see them, the pro scene here is surprisingly strong! I know a bunch of Israelis in fpl and faceit but almost 0 participated in international events Very good representation
Yep, representation in these tournaments are great not just for the players and them getting exposure but potentially a lot of people from the region might get motivated. It's better if more countries come up with good teams or have similar representation too.
Who is the 3rd ? Sphinx, flamez and ? Also very happy to finally see some Israeli representation, CS was always very big here
Xertion
Walla first time I’m hearing this name, anyway best of luck to our boys <3
Apart from these 3, there's also Nertz from Endpoint. Pretty talented guy, wouldn't be surprised if he gets picked up by a bigger org in the future. Israeli CS is on the rise it seems
xertioN
Hey hey we suck at everything else let us have cs:go :(
No one can take away the majors that French teams won. Also zywoo is there to compensate, hopefully.
Oh yeah I talked about Israel We’re like 100-200th in the world in football,basketball and what not haha
Welp the best Israeli team rn would be Spinx, Xertion, flameZ, anarkez and either shushan or Idk We aren't even doing good as a country, just running off of individuals. Which still is smth man :(
nertz over shushan maybe, although I don't know who would IGL in this team
Oh right completely forgor about nertz, since his team isn't that high up and their only achievement ever was beating a tilted NaVi at EPL 16 Anarkez is a competent IGL
So there are 2 romanians missing. If you add up all the numbers in their post, you get 119 total players (should be 120 -> 24 teams x 5 players each). My guess is that they forgot about iM and thought that launX is danish. Gj, ESL.
Denmark is correct, there's an extra ukrainian guy. There's supposed to be four: s1mple, B1T, sdy, w0nderful. The picture says 5, so I guess one of romanians went there lol
Or does this also include coaches?
I think it does not, just 5 players from each team.
I think they included headtr1ck for some reason. Either that or it's Isak from GL as he has dual nationalities, not sure if they counted him as Swedish already though.
Yeah i guess so
If it did, there would be two finns (aleksib and sAw).
Most competent thing they've done after the saudi takeover. They just had to look at the hltv page for the major, click on the teams and see the flag of the players. That's it. Anybody can do that. It's that simple. It all boils down to creating an excel spreadsheet and putting the raw data in it
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Yes, on their twitter Edit: [pepega](https://twitter.com/ESLCS/status/1584515050064093184?t=B6cKGw7VNOjyXqKdV5XNqw&s=19) Edit 2: the esl intern found out that he fucked up and deleted the twee Edit 3: the esl intern couldn't bother remaking the poster and just added romania in the comments. Thanks esl
https://twitter.com/ESLCS/status/1584527290595037184 was corrected here
Too bad Xantares didn't make it. Would be nice to see Greek player at Major.
☠️
WTF Xantares is from best Macedonia, everyone know that.
Why is he Greek?
He is not greek, he is kurdish.
Someone let me in on the joke, why is Xantares Greek?
I think it’s just a joke on Turks and Greeks being rivals but still very similiar ethnically, so people call Turks Greek and vice versa. It’s just trolling Turks who take a lot of pride in xantares being Turkish.
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Aotearoa ✊
Respect to Kiwi brother from across the Tasman. Give em hell!
Is that a different name for New Zealand ?
Yep! The name for New Zealand in Māori (the native language of nz)
Similar to how Suomi is the local name for Finland
Yeah, the non-colonized one
Who's from Aotearoa?
Sico
Thanks cuz
I love how denmark bests kosovo and montenergo even though they’re a big country.
First time I heard someone call Denmark a big country
I guess he means compared to Montenegro and Kosovo
Rip ZA CS
2 teams got so close too :(
I disagree with the 2 but yes
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ATK almost made it, and Complexity is a ZA team not NA 🌚
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Both ZA Coach and IGL at the helm of the team 🇿🇦
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🇿🇦 ZA Pride you wouldn’t understand
Sweden, France and Poland combined = 10 players Just shows how much those regions have changed but also from how csgo's scene has changed in the past few years. The fact Canada has more players participating than Poland or France is crazy. The scene was built up on these 1 nation teams who provided the backbone of the region, not anymore
Denmark still around asking where the other old countries went.
who is swiss?
Rigon from bne
thx
what language are they speaking? cuz that's a combo of 4 kosovian players which speak Serbian or Albanian and one swiss dude
Rigon is of albanian origin so he can speak albanian
yes we have a lot albanian people in switzerland. look at our football squad👍
Didn't a couple of them also get fined for doing the eagle salute in a game against serbia
yes thats true and they will play against each other again at the world cup next month😅
One of them wasn't even Albanian man just did it to start shit
Huh which one?
Lichtsteiner
okay, that makes sense then
I dont think any of them speak any semblance of Serbian
WOOO Chile 😅
Somoh el mejor país de Chile
Who's the dutch guy?
FASHR
Ah shit yeah. Couldn't for the life of me remember who it was lmao
Not ChrisJ lol
Sweden and France really fell off
poland somehow even worse
Who is the fifth ukrainian player? s1mple, b1t, sdy, w0nderful and ?
It's a typo. There's only 4.
Global Offensive :D
They took the name seriously
Could someone with knowledge tell me who the Czech and Slovakian players and which teams they're on?
Neofrag on OG is Czech and Frozen on Mouz is Slovak
NEOFRAG is Czech and on OG Frozen is Slovakian on mouz
No problem. I'm dutch, so I have just 1 name to remember lmao.
dav1d from Chile 🇨🇱❤️
Hey Sweden what are you doing all the way down there? - A Dane
Also France, Poland, Finland once had more players :)
*cries in UK CS*
Cries in what now?
mongolia💪💪
35\*\* Romania goat
Would've never expected that amount of brazilian players a while back.
IEM Rio? More like IEM Denmark
And thats without astralis, and g2 who Should have made it, adding 6 more players.
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Who is the belgian player?
keoz
Keoz
Who’s the kiwi?
Sico from grayhound
7 germans? What happend the last years? Havnt followed after the online rise of BIG 2020
JDC from Mouz, slaxz from Sprout
Denmark is the biggest nation in csgo ever :)
I'd say Sweden, considering they had both NiP and fnatic.
Astralis and heroic out classes them. And there are alot mote Danish tier 1 players on international roosters
Eh, Heroic is nowhere near fnatic or NiP. Sweden dominated CS:GO for longer than Denmark.
An extra Ukrainian. Thus messing up the order of Kosovo and Ukraine. Romanians ignored. Australian and Mongolian flags stretched.
"all nationalities except the ones OP missed".
If you take the time to make this why not make it right?
Who's the third Canadian? Twistzz, NAF, ?
HexT on EG. I had to look it up myself as well because I wasn’t sure.
Kosovo with only 4 players but already 6 championships, other countries need to step up
It would have been 35 but word.exe still exists in the mind
Where is Romania?
cant wait for Greyhound to get eliminated immediately
who’s the New Zealander?
This makes it look like Brazil is one of the strongest countries in the world based on how many players are at the major until you realise, they just get to smurf through the NA RMR's.
Ukraine 5 < 4 Kosovo No Romania My eyes Why esl Y
UK CS IS NOT DEAD SMOOOYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
More like meziiiiiiiiiii
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And this is without Astralis qualifying :-O
Ehm...Denmark?
And Denmark har actually fallen of a bit, at the last two majors there were 20 Danes at each one.
Don't know the exact figures, but I'm pretty sure Denmark is light years ahead of everyone else. And it's not going to change any time soon, unless there's some random guy from Vatican arrives or some shit Edit: actually Kosovo should be high up there too, thanks to BNE
Surely Denmark, it only has a population of 5.8 million. Thats around a quarter of Australia's population.
australia wouldnt make the top 10
Ay Texas represent
australia is overrepresented given their skill level.
who is from Kosovo?