Hey Richard, I‘m not one to comment much but I just want to thank you and all the lads for this amazing series! Been following you since 2016 and you‘ve been a big inspiration through my late teens early 20‘s keep up the amazing work man ❤️ Greetings from Germany
Been absolutely loving this series, brings back good memories of the teams I watched during their primes. Thank you Rich and the boys for the awesome content. And I won't lie, seeing 2015 Fnatic getting the love they deserve is awesome.
Thank you for this. This series has been amazing and a breath of fresh air in a scene that likes to post the same clips 10000 times, looking forward to watching this one and going down memory lane
What a great series. It kinda makes you wonder why major grand finals or other prestigious events' finals can't spare an hour to have something like this live, presenting the teams that are playing and just taking a look back on how the teams and players came to where they are today. Maybe this time travel LAN is also one for the future.
Really wanted to thank you so much for this incredible series. It really went under appreciated and you invested so much time into it. This is some of the most important content ever produced for CSGO. If you ever consider redoing this, I would love to see a CS:Source or CS:1.6 version in the future
Props Richard and Sam, it's been great to watch and remember all of this. I started watching Counter Strike in 2013 when I was 11, before I even started playing the game, and I got to see the NiP magic. Watching this 2015 fnatic, sometimes it was shocking how they would pull a game together, but especially as a Liquid fan, you gotta always admit that Astralis is the greatest to ever do it. I've loved this series and I hope you're doing well Rich!
This is now a part of cs history , I can’t think about how different the landscape is going to be in even the next 5 years and how will we revise this list. For me , fnatic and nip rivalries got me in the game and reminiscing about that era really brings back memories. Thankyou rich for this awesome idea, look forward to seeing more concepts like these. Cheers
Just wanted to thank you all for making this series - I know these don't have the most amount of views, but these are some of the best hardcore CS:GO content. Has been a hell of a series and have genuinely enjoyed and learned a lot about many of the teams that I had little knowledge about (VPlow, VeryGames etc). Thank you so much Richard, Duncan, Jason & Chad + Sam, for this great journey across csgo history. Really appreciated the entirety of this series.
This was a great series. One thing I appreciate about CSGO is the content creators [analyst, fragmovies, and all that], I never played this game, but started following in 2020 due to lock and it has been my favourite sport ever since.
over the past 3 days ive binge watched this whole series, What a wonderful look back at some of my fondest years playing this game. Thank you all 4 for the amazing content.
The Machine call from the intro gives me goosebumps every single time. Truly legendary stuff. I'm going to miss this series. I hope you would consider doing more fantasy brackets in the future, this really was a lot of fun and something different than our usual talking head analysis content. Thank you all for putting this together.
Just finished the final episode, I want to thank the panel, Thorin for providing important and rather crucial historical evidence. Spunj for bringing a players perspective to the discussion. Moses for bringing a coaches/casters perspective. And RLewis for creating this show and showcasing to everyone how to masterfully conduct and navigate a discussion of this magnitude. RLewis, you truly are a master of your trade and I am eternally grateful to yourself and the panel for taking me down this beautiful memory lane. P.S. the golden five vs. NaVi 1.6 would be a great discussion imo
Honestly this was the best series dedicated to CSGO history, great content, great minds, amazing input and analysis going down memory lane and honestly just great content for true CS fans. Thank you richard and the boyz, great work.
Loved listening to you guys talk about these teams on desks and shows over the years. Felt warm and fuzzy listening to the same voices talk about the same teams again. Thank you so much for this series Richard; it is a homage to the history of the scene and the nostalgia was unreal.
Thank you all the lads for the great content. Remembering hearing you talk about it on BTN, but never thought it would actually be made!! Again, thank you and take care, Rich!
This was a great series as a fan who didn't get to watch a lot of these teams in their prime, thanks for explaining what made these older teams so fearsome.
fnatic 2015-2016 is my favorite team of all time. I even got the tattoo of olof overpass graffiti. To top it all Cologne major final with fnatic was screened live in cinemas worldwide. I attended a sold out 400 seat showing and it was fucking amazing. Honestly those were some of my best memories ever.
Is it weird that I don't watch or know much about counterstrike? The way you focus on the players and the narratives makes this riveting content to listen to regardless. You can only do that through your years of history and experience so thank you for making this series.
Yo Richard and the boys, love yall. Great finale, I hope you make a 1.6 version eventually. But there's just this one small, impactful thing i wanna steer your mind towards. The CS:GO Blog, go to page 62 and browse the update called " /second-shot/ ". Moses actually detected this instinctively, so i wanna highlight this cause it's far more grave than what you guys... Well you just haven't noticed because one had to test it manually as the update dropped to notice. But tapping and bursting was IN EFFECT 3 times more effective after-update 03.08.2016. The reset-rate of a burst used to be prior to the update, certain doom in a 1V2 scenario. Even the pictures Valve provided were miss-leading because of how insanely aggressive the reset rate was in effect. The time to reset went from maybe 1.5 seconds down to 0.5 for heavier bursts, and that scale insanely well towards let's say 0.5sec burst - you can restart your burst asap. That's why Fnatic always ran 2V1 back then! That 1 dude they faced could never reliably reset his aim and take down 2 players as often as those 2 could take him down fast. But after fnatic's decline, this update dropped and it completely changed the entire game due to how ALL trading mechanics now were a whole lot more fluid. So the game had a hard change from harder strategy towards more random, but later all of this got tamed by Astralis in other different ways. We went from a world were s1mple would be smothered in 2V1's towards him being able to take on 3 people on a string. It became a completely different game. And just the other day, ansimist on twitter analyzed and noticed that during this time - ALSO - Valve actually upped the HEAD hitbox SIZE of CT's with their hitbox model updates. He made a great RUclips video on it also, ultra-detailed. This was before you could get custom player model skins. No wonder i preferred to steal the M4A1/s on T size, the accuracy wasn't better, the heads were objectively larger?!?!? What's my point, then? I can't tell what team is better to be honest. But I've repeated these facts countless times since 2017, because CS:GO felt different. But now we got the hard data so it is undeniable. Fnatic mastered the era of CS:GO before a part of it's core/skeleton got changed. Astralis mastered the next version. After learning how insanely different the core-game became, I'd call this a draw. If you load up an older CS build, it's easy to manually test my claims. But i played trough it all as an avid rookie IGL. To me, this threw my mimicry off so hard at the time. The impact was undeniable. CS:GO past this update + the hitbox update, is fundamentally a different game with different strategic mechanics.
Sad that this series wasn’t as popular as it should have been. For one, if this is the last group talk esports series you do Rich, it was such a good combo to have. Not just for the way you guys bounce off each other, but the stories you all brought made for a very interesting listen. There was a ton of great tidbits from cs history before my time, and even some BTS from tournaments I did. Cheers again.
A 1.6 version would be awesome, especially for someone who is relatively new to the competitve counter strike scene. And with you and thorin being two of the most knowledgeable people of this era who still create content, this would be a banger!
what a banger of a series this was, among all the clips of these teams your boys historical knowledge and having seen all of them in this long form gives a better picture of these teams I got to watch and a lot I didn't than multiple clips could've ever given thanks Rich and here's to another 10 years of greatness waiting in the wings for another Time Travel LAN 🎉
Thank you for the most amazing series I watched to date. It was incredible to put everything into historical perspective especially for someone like me who got into CS only recently. Huge props to all of you!
Thanks for an amazing series to You Richard and to the rest as well. I realize this content is not bringing the best numbers but I'm glad it was made, had a ton of fun listening to You guys talk about the earlier periods of CSGO in particular.
Absolutely LOVED this series, was really awesome to get the insight we go from amazing people like you 4 and the unique perspectives from hosts, casters, ex-pros and analysts/historians really helped to put me back into those periods of time and helped me relive some of those memories of counter-strike past
One thing I remember about the old Fnatic lineup is that their trading was on point. They always managed to trade perfectly. Anyways, thanks for finishing the series despite it not being very popular.
Hi Richard, a nice conclusion to a great series. Would like to see similar series for other esports and even none esports content. Time travel fa cup would be a banger.
I know it’s a ton of work, but the bot major is some of the most entertaining content you’ve produced. The fact that the simulations predicted the rise of Gambit is just so cool to me.
I've been watching cs since 2014 and this has been a great stroll down memory lane. I've really enjoyed listening to this series. The 2015 Fnatic squad is definitely my favorite lineup I've ever seen play but I do think I have to agree with the results of the finals here.
This was an amazing show. I do however kinda feel sad that 2022 FaZe happened during this time travel lan. They're definately a team which desereved to be in the discussion and the discussion would have been awesome to hear.
Fucking class series Rich, loved it. I know you’re phasing out esports but I’ll follow ur content regardless because the quality is just insanely high. Time travel champions league next….?!
Don’t really comment much on any videos, but had to just say thank you for this series. I took a break from watching cs between 2016-2019 so this series was both nostslgic and informational for me. Also, Richard, please tell me, can Thorin finally get his showmatch atleast in this Time Travel LAN? Cheers!
During ESL pro league S11, there was graphic during a group stage match between Astralis and Fnatic, the core of these teams, Xypex Dupreeh Device and JW Flusha Krimz have played each other over 100 times in officials and at the time, their head to head was... a tie. 66 -66. Sadly that was last time we saw fnatic core be great. who was better at peak will be debated long after time travel lan, but in terms of longevity, they were equal.
Fantastic piece of work here, thanks to all the boys. I agree with the majority of the calls here, although with the final I would still hand it to Fnatic. One key point I think you 4 missed in this final is that Fnatic would just win tournaments when they have no right to, on paper Astralis 2018 should beat Fnatic, which is why they would lose. Crazy sentence but really summarises this team Fnatic team for me. If they met earlier in the tournament, I see no world where Fnatic wins. However as it’s the final, one of them would just pull a mega performance out of their arse to win it, it happened too much over the years. Even looking at the 2018 final between Karrigan’s Faze and Golden’s Fnatic, Flusha found a new peak to pull Fnatic over the 5th map, I truly insane final in itself.
Whoever is not watching this series (looking at you Reddit hateboner chumps) is doing a disservice to themselves. Congrats to Richard and the team, loved it!
Fitting that these 2 duked it out in the finals, gotta give it to fnatic tho, still remember watching olof run over ppl and JW jump out windows with an awp and flusha just wall hack xD. Also the "sweedish blonde" comment from thorin was sheer gold. GGWP
The video that too few people have been looking forward to
Hey Richard, I‘m not one to comment much but I just want to thank you and all the lads for this amazing series! Been following you since 2016 and you‘ve been a big inspiration through my late teens early 20‘s keep up the amazing work man ❤️
Greetings from Germany
I second this
me too, beautifully said
This series has been the best celebration of CSGO's 10th birthday hands down. One I'll be revisiting regularly. Thank you so much to everyone involved
Been absolutely loving this series, brings back good memories of the teams I watched during their primes. Thank you Rich and the boys for the awesome content. And I won't lie, seeing 2015 Fnatic getting the love they deserve is awesome.
Thank you for this. This series has been amazing and a breath of fresh air in a scene that likes to post the same clips 10000 times, looking forward to watching this one and going down memory lane
Thanks to everyone for making this great piece of content!
What a great series. It kinda makes you wonder why major grand finals or other prestigious events' finals can't spare an hour to have something like this live, presenting the teams that are playing and just taking a look back on how the teams and players came to where they are today. Maybe this time travel LAN is also one for the future.
Thank you for sticking it out, Richard and friends!
Really wanted to thank you so much for this incredible series. It really went under appreciated and you invested so much time into it. This is some of the most important content ever produced for CSGO. If you ever consider redoing this, I would love to see a CS:Source or CS:1.6 version in the future
The only thing as legendary as the teams in the finals is the content you provided covering it.
Thanks for all you do Richard.
Props Richard and Sam, it's been great to watch and remember all of this. I started watching Counter Strike in 2013 when I was 11, before I even started playing the game, and I got to see the NiP magic. Watching this 2015 fnatic, sometimes it was shocking how they would pull a game together, but especially as a Liquid fan, you gotta always admit that Astralis is the greatest to ever do it.
I've loved this series and I hope you're doing well Rich!
This is now a part of cs history , I can’t think about how different the landscape is going to be in even the next 5 years and how will we revise this list. For me , fnatic and nip rivalries got me in the game and reminiscing about that era really brings back memories. Thankyou rich for this awesome idea, look forward to seeing more concepts like these. Cheers
This Faze team would have to be in the next tournament, but yeah, it puts a lot of perspective on the history of the game and the teams
Just wanted to thank you all for making this series - I know these don't have the most amount of views, but these are some of the best hardcore CS:GO content. Has been a hell of a series and have genuinely enjoyed and learned a lot about many of the teams that I had little knowledge about (VPlow, VeryGames etc).
Thank you so much Richard, Duncan, Jason & Chad + Sam, for this great journey across csgo history. Really appreciated the entirety of this series.
Richard this has been a great series!
Great series. Would definitely love to see a more historical version of this about the 1.6 era.
Excited for this! What a banger series. Thanks everonye.
This was a great series.
One thing I appreciate about CSGO is the content creators [analyst, fragmovies, and all that], I never played this game, but started following in 2020 due to lock and it has been my favourite sport ever since.
I was just rewatching all the old videos and I really missed the probably best rewinds in all of CS. I'm so happy that you are back!
over the past 3 days ive binge watched this whole series, What a wonderful look back at some of my fondest years playing this game. Thank you all 4 for the amazing content.
The Machine call from the intro gives me goosebumps every single time. Truly legendary stuff. I'm going to miss this series. I hope you would consider doing more fantasy brackets in the future, this really was a lot of fun and something different than our usual talking head analysis content. Thank you all for putting this together.
Your content will never be appreciated enough, thank you for making this both for esports enthusiasts and history of the game itself!
I *plowed* through this series. I’m glad you brought it to my attention on your stream a week ago. Thank you Ricardo.
Just finished the final episode, I want to thank the panel, Thorin for providing important and rather crucial historical evidence. Spunj for bringing a players perspective to the discussion. Moses for bringing a coaches/casters perspective. And RLewis for creating this show and showcasing to everyone how to masterfully conduct and navigate a discussion of this magnitude. RLewis, you truly are a master of your trade and I am eternally grateful to yourself and the panel for taking me down this beautiful memory lane.
P.S. the golden five vs. NaVi 1.6 would be a great discussion imo
Honestly this was the best series dedicated to CSGO history, great content, great minds, amazing input and analysis going down memory lane and honestly just great content for true CS fans.
Thank you richard and the boyz, great work.
Salute to Richard and the boys for bringing good content over the years
Absoultely loved this series. It feels like a love letter to the game, with great insight for the different teams, and the era they played in.
Olof doesn't get mentioned in "best players of all time" discussions enough. He was unstoppable.
Loved listening to you guys talk about these teams on desks and shows over the years. Felt warm and fuzzy listening to the same voices talk about the same teams again.
Thank you so much for this series Richard; it is a homage to the history of the scene and the nostalgia was unreal.
Thank you all the lads for the great content. Remembering hearing you talk about it on BTN, but never thought it would actually be made!!
Again, thank you and take care, Rich!
Without this, memories would eventually fade into nothing. This is a meaningful legacy, and celebration of the players and coaches. Thank you.
This was a great series as a fan who didn't get to watch a lot of these teams in their prime, thanks for explaining what made these older teams so fearsome.
Thanks for this series, never seen a better CS series/podcast than this
fnatic 2015-2016 is my favorite team of all time. I even got the tattoo of olof overpass graffiti. To top it all Cologne major final with fnatic was screened live in cinemas worldwide. I attended a sold out 400 seat showing and it was fucking amazing. Honestly those were some of my best memories ever.
Thanks for this series, it's a shame it has not blown up as much as it should have but this kind of content it what is needed!
What a tournament. Thanks you so much for the historical recount and all the analyses. Such a great educational eSports content
Is it weird that I don't watch or know much about counterstrike? The way you focus on the players and the narratives makes this riveting content to listen to regardless. You can only do that through your years of history and experience so thank you for making this series.
Great final, started actively watching during the ence katowice run in 2019. these historical videos help.
Quality series, takes me back to the golden age. Thanks guys
Watched every last one of these, loved the historic insight into the teams! Really appreciate the creation of this content.
Yo Richard and the boys, love yall. Great finale, I hope you make a 1.6 version eventually. But there's just this one small, impactful thing i wanna steer your mind towards. The CS:GO Blog, go to page 62 and browse the update called
" /second-shot/ ". Moses actually detected this instinctively, so i wanna highlight this cause it's far more grave than what you guys... Well you just haven't noticed because one had to test it manually as the update dropped to notice. But tapping and bursting was IN EFFECT 3 times more effective after-update 03.08.2016.
The reset-rate of a burst used to be prior to the update, certain doom in a 1V2 scenario. Even the pictures Valve provided were miss-leading because of how insanely aggressive the reset rate was in effect. The time to reset went from maybe 1.5 seconds down to 0.5 for heavier bursts, and that scale insanely well towards let's say 0.5sec burst - you can restart your burst asap. That's why Fnatic always ran 2V1 back then! That 1 dude they faced could never reliably reset his aim and take down 2 players as often as those 2 could take him down fast. But after fnatic's decline, this update dropped and it completely changed the entire game due to how ALL trading mechanics now were a whole lot more fluid. So the game had a hard change from harder strategy towards more random, but later all of this got tamed by Astralis in other different ways. We went from a world were s1mple would be smothered in 2V1's towards him being able to take on 3 people on a string. It became a completely different game. And just the other day, ansimist on twitter analyzed and noticed that during this time - ALSO - Valve actually upped the HEAD hitbox SIZE of CT's with their hitbox model updates. He made a great RUclips video on it also, ultra-detailed. This was before you could get custom player model skins. No wonder i preferred to steal the M4A1/s on T size, the accuracy wasn't better, the heads were objectively larger?!?!? What's my point, then? I can't tell what team is better to be honest. But I've repeated these facts countless times since 2017, because CS:GO felt different. But now we got the hard data so it is undeniable. Fnatic mastered the era of CS:GO before a part of it's core/skeleton got changed. Astralis mastered the next version. After learning how insanely different the core-game became, I'd call this a draw. If you load up an older CS build, it's easy to manually test my claims. But i played trough it all as an avid rookie IGL. To me, this threw my mimicry off so hard at the time. The impact was undeniable.
CS:GO past this update + the hitbox update, is fundamentally a different game with different strategic mechanics.
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Thank you for this series, Richard and everyone else. Loved every second of it
Sad that this series wasn’t as popular as it should have been. For one, if this is the last group talk esports series you do Rich, it was such a good combo to have. Not just for the way you guys bounce off each other, but the stories you all brought made for a very interesting listen. There was a ton of great tidbits from cs history before my time, and even some BTS from tournaments I did. Cheers again.
A 1.6 version would be awesome, especially for someone who is relatively new to the competitve counter strike scene. And with you and thorin being two of the most knowledgeable people of this era who still create content, this would be a banger!
Sad to see a great series end. Can’t wait to see what other ideas you have.
This was awesome. Thanks for the whole bracket.
The conclusion to such an amazing series. Thank you so much for the content Richard.
what a banger of a series this was, among all the clips of these teams your boys historical knowledge and having seen all of them in this long form gives a better picture of these teams I got to watch and a lot I didn't than multiple clips could've ever given
thanks Rich and here's to another 10 years of greatness waiting in the wings for another Time Travel LAN 🎉
Thank you for the most amazing series I watched to date. It was incredible to put everything into historical perspective especially for someone like me who got into CS only recently. Huge props to all of you!
Thanks for an amazing series to You Richard and to the rest as well. I realize this content is not bringing the best numbers but I'm glad it was made, had a ton of fun listening to You guys talk about the earlier periods of CSGO in particular.
Richard and friends thank you so much for these long podcasty ranty videos. Appreciate the free enjoyable content!
Absolutely LOVED this series, was really awesome to get the insight we go from amazing people like you 4 and the unique perspectives from hosts, casters, ex-pros and analysts/historians really helped to put me back into those periods of time and helped me relive some of those memories of counter-strike past
I hate that this is the finals. Genuinely looked forward for every episode. Thank you lads
One thing I remember about the old Fnatic lineup is that their trading was on point. They always managed to trade perfectly.
Anyways, thanks for finishing the series despite it not being very popular.
Thank you for this series ! Awesome content !
Hi Richard, a nice conclusion to a great series. Would like to see similar series for other esports and even none esports content. Time travel fa cup would be a banger.
Thanks Richard and everyone who put in time to make this series
As one of the few, I've loved every minute of this series. Can't get enough of this kind of analytical historical content.
Great final - organised pure strategy vs unpredictable chaotic synergy
Cheers for the content lads.
Loved this series! Been looking forward to the final but sad to see it end. Would love to see a 1.6 edition. Cheers guys!
What an amazing series this was, thank you
I know it’s a ton of work, but the bot major is some of the most entertaining content you’ve produced. The fact that the simulations predicted the rise of Gambit is just so cool to me.
What an amazing series. Nothing but love for all yall and thanks for doing this.
Been a great series, thank you Richard and the rest for making this. Loved it!
A great series loved it all
Really appreciate all of you for this serries. We are all lucky to have content like this.
Thank you for all the content over the years as well as this masterpiece, Richard.
Beautiful, cheers to you and the lads.
I've been watching cs since 2014 and this has been a great stroll down memory lane. I've really enjoyed listening to this series. The 2015 Fnatic squad is definitely my favorite lineup I've ever seen play but I do think I have to agree with the results of the finals here.
This was an amazing show. I do however kinda feel sad that 2022 FaZe happened during this time travel lan. They're definately a team which desereved to be in the discussion and the discussion would have been awesome to hear.
The next hour is going to be amazing! Can’t wait
Thank you getting this done. Even when its the content few care for.
Thank you so much for your continued work and great content, really appreciate you Richard!
Fucking class series Rich, loved it. I know you’re phasing out esports but I’ll follow ur content regardless because the quality is just insanely high. Time travel champions league next….?!
Loved the series. Every time I saw a new episode I knew I was in for a great show.
please do continue to make these time travel conversations they're incredibly interesting
It's been a lovely serious to reminisce and think about the good old days!
Don’t really comment much on any videos, but had to just say thank you for this series. I took a break from watching cs between 2016-2019 so this series was both nostslgic and informational for me.
Also, Richard, please tell me, can Thorin finally get his showmatch atleast in this Time Travel LAN?
Cheers!
Been waiting for this one
this was amazing, thank you.
Absolutely loved this series
During ESL pro league S11, there was graphic during a group stage match between Astralis and Fnatic, the core of these teams, Xypex Dupreeh Device and JW Flusha Krimz have played each other over 100 times in officials and at the time, their head to head was... a tie. 66 -66. Sadly that was last time we saw fnatic core be great. who was better at peak will be debated long after time travel lan, but in terms of longevity, they were equal.
Fantastic piece of work here, thanks to all the boys.
I agree with the majority of the calls here, although with the final I would still hand it to Fnatic.
One key point I think you 4 missed in this final is that Fnatic would just win tournaments when they have no right to, on paper Astralis 2018 should beat Fnatic, which is why they would lose. Crazy sentence but really summarises this team Fnatic team for me.
If they met earlier in the tournament, I see no world where Fnatic wins. However as it’s the final, one of them would just pull a mega performance out of their arse to win it, it happened too much over the years. Even looking at the 2018 final between Karrigan’s Faze and Golden’s Fnatic, Flusha found a new peak to pull Fnatic over the 5th map, I truly insane final in itself.
Ive eagerly awaited every episode, thanks rich! Much love 🖤
this is some of the best content in csgo ever
Loved this series!
This is the match ive been waiting for!
Now we need a Time Travel Lan showmatch
Fantastic content, sad it's over!
Whoever is not watching this series (looking at you Reddit hateboner chumps) is doing a disservice to themselves. Congrats to Richard and the team, loved it!
to make it even more competitive allow flusha to cheat and allow astralis to use the crowd
I enjoyed this so much.
Though I don't think anyone shocked by the outcome.
I would sacrifice my first born child to see the IGL version of this format.
Fitting that these 2 duked it out in the finals, gotta give it to fnatic tho, still remember watching olof run over ppl and JW jump out windows with an awp and flusha just wall hack xD. Also the "sweedish blonde" comment from thorin was sheer gold. GGWP
The Two Greatest CSGO Teams of all-time. Love it!
Great job lads!
Counter-Strike is a simple game; 10 men shoot each other until 16 round wins and at the end, Astralis wins.
Well, we know how it's gonna go, but I'm gonna love listening to the reasoning
Can't wait for the Time travel LAN BOT major
Banger
Im so happy this was finished, despits the low interest of the community. Thank you.