Attitude

There needs to be a serious attitude adjustment in many players. Whining on mm1 or mm2 during scrims does not help anyone, not even yourself. It pretty much makes everyone hate you. If I think the other team is cheating, I will never say a word to them, no matter how blatant it is. I pretty much tell myself that they are not cheating. I can’t see their point of view when they frag me - maybe they had a better angle than me? When someone I am playing with cries and cries about how the other team is cheating or how BS they are, all it does is make me hate them. It also puts the idea into your teammates’ heads, and then every time that player hits a nice shot, the guy HAS to be cheating. Everyone stops trying, everyone starts worrying about the player they think is cheating, and you start losing real bad real fast. It also boosts the other team’s confidence. I know when some idiot says I cheat it makes me think I’m good, and momentum is a powerful thing in CS. There is nothing you can do about cheating. Whining about it makes your team look immature, which leads to trash talk by other teams, which in turn frustrates your team, and causes all types of disaster. All complaining needs to be erased from your head; if that is all you do no one will want you on their team no matter how good you are. This is the number one reason teams die.

Knowing Smoke Grenades

Everyone knows how to use smokes on the offensive side, but they can be extremely useful in defending as well. Smokes should be placed in small areas where the smoke has little room to go so it is very thick. Alley on train is an excellent place for this, you can always see the offensive players seconds before they can see you. When they are in the middle of the smoke, they can see nothing but gray, and you can easily distinguish their models through the smoke.

Here is an example of my POV:



The attacker’s POV (6800GT, amazing computer):



Following Simple Instructions

During the freezetime at the beginning of every round, all talking on the mic should stop, and nothing should be said on mm2 except for your money every round. I don’t care how badly you got bs’d or if you are up 50-0, TYPE YOUR MONEY. Do not buy until it is established that everyone has enough, and if not who is dropping who a gun; there is more than enough time for this. Misbuys can cost your team several rounds and put you at a severe money disadvantage for the entire half. If you have 4.5k and one player it has 16k, it makes absolutely no sense for you to buy your own gun. Keeping money evenly distributed among players increases your buy rounds dramatically. On your save rounds, stop buying deagles unless you are instructed to do so. You will probably get enough frags to win the round 1% of the time, it’s not worth it. During freezetime, please listen for your strat caller to call something. If he calls nothing, do whatever you consider the default setup. Don’t just rush B because he didn’t call anything.

Aim Process

I believe it was bootman who said that the best way to improve your aim is by playing deathmatch with an AWP and a deagle. I honestly think this is the worst thing to do to improve your aim, unless you are strictly an awper. I do advise, however, playing deathmatch. You need to find your style, I found mine by playing TONS of deathmatch. I know when to tap, I know when to burst, I know when to spray. I never have to think twice about it. It all comes from experience, but like I said in the beginning, I think it's more about the process of fragging than it is about your actual “aim,” which I consider the process of moving your crosshair to the enemy. Most people can do this pretty easily. I’m pretty much always tapping my AK from mid to long range, sometimes even close range, and on my colt I usually spray close to mid range, and burst long range. When an opponent is crouching or in an area where it is hard for them to move (hut door of nuke), I always strafe and burst to counter their increased accuracy while crouching. When I am in a situation like I just mentioned, I always tap. The two best ways of improving your aim process is deathmatching and watching point of view demos of top players. Always note their shooting METHOD, not how good their aim is. Their aim is usually not what nets them the frag.