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Counter-Strike: Bootman's Playbook: SK

By: Chris Boutte - Published October 06, 2004 at 2:30 AM EDT - Writer Archive
WCG is just a few days away and it is time to get into a deep analysis of the team everybody is watching at the event, SK. SK is the 2003 reigning champion team and everyone wants to know if hyper can help them keep the title. In this article we go over SK's most recent setups and tactics and try to get behind the minds of some of the greatest Counter-Strike players to ever touch the game.

Introduction

It is finally here, the SK playbook. SK is the reigning champions of the World Cyber Games after beating USA's Team 3D in the grand finals in a very well fought match on train. SK has been in a bit of a rut as of late, but they are still the #1 ranked team in the world and more than worthy of a playbook to get inside of the minds of some of the greatest thinkers in the game, as well as tactics that may work to counter them.

Now we all know that SK has recently picked up the all-star from the Summer CPL championship team EYE, hyper. He is a great player and rumored to be the new in-game leader for the team. Also we have recently been informed that due to an illness, SpawN will be unable to attend this event.

Although there have been these changes to the lineup, this playbook does as much as it can and goes over SK's most recent playing style. Expect their offense to be different, there is no doubt about that, but not the defense. As you have read in the "Bootman's How To Guide on Making A Playbook" article, the is the predictable defense theory. Defense is the most overlooked part of the game and even the top players fall victim to it. I won't guarantee anything, but it will be interesting to see how much the old SK defense looks to the new one.
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dope
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i agree with you #1, who wouldnt ;)

This comment was edited at 10/06/2004 2:37 AM
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not bad son, not bad :P

love the new logo,looks like hes looking at something very naughty haha
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sorry about hte pictures. fixing now
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Just as promised. Nice job, bootman. Although maybe kEEf and I should hold a grammar conference after all....
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good read, one complaint is where are the other maps (nuke, mill etc)

Otherwise good read.
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those maps arent played at wcg brute :-/
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WOW Bootman looks terrible in that banner pic :< The article is good though.
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im hawt
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Nice article. And I know a lot of American teams that are breathing a huge sigh of relief over this nugget of gold you've come up with.

I'll probably get flamed for this, but if a team can push SK out of their patterns like EYE did at CPL, SK falls back upon pure aim and reaction, and when they do that, they can be taken by the likes of 3D, U5 and Rival. This playbook could help a lot in doing that.
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very nice playbook. such basic setups and strats, yet they were so deadly throughout the entire 2003 season and very good through the 2004 season. just does to show how good a basic strat or setup can be with such awesome teamwork and confidence in your teammates.

i look forward to see how sk plays in wcg. especially since im a huge sk fan and have been since the nip days.
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very nice!
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Really a nice one here..
i guess someone did this once.. i dont remember at which "gaming web" but they did.. at 2002 i guess or so...
but this one is like more objective...
Nice really nice
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sks going to be mad if they didn't change their tactics!
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Nice article except that its probably useless since SK now has a new ingame leader, Hyper.

edit I see that was addressed in the introduction, but I think Hyper will bring more tricks to the table than just for offense.

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there is no way, that SK did not change their tactics. They are not that stupid. So I think this wont help no teams.
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good now i can beat sk
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still helps them a little. If SK DOES change their strats you've just eliminated alot of possibilitys.
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#10 Lots of American teams? More like 1 :P

Besides, SK will change their strats or at least have some in the case of Inferno :P
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I think that with the introduction of Hyper most of this will be changed in fact i think this will probably be a disadvantage if u read some of things bootmans says such as if u see more than 1 sk here its certain it will be b etc.

sk's weakness was there tactics IMO hopfully they will step back up to the table and OWN.

Having one person or team dominate a scene makes everyone else have to try much harder to catch up with that person just look at Golf and Tiger Woods as a example.

This comment was edited at 10/06/2004 4:57 AM
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very nice as usual
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Next up: SK, Butthurt.
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.... but bootman, is this taking into account hyper/vilden's strats? coz they are going to use those as well now and i think be a LOT more agressive that we saw at cpl summer!
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why isn't this prime?
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#14 why should they change their (NEW) tactics because someone at gotfrag who don't even know the team irl is trying to figure out their strats? that's just silly.

If the teams who are trying to beat SK starts to rely on this article and forgets about their REAL tactics they gonna lose BIG!

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peak should be peek.

waiste should be waste.

otherwise good job
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well since they have hyper as a ingame leader and stratmaker this playbook is kinda useless now. :p
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nice, no cbble? only 3 maps?

Also anychance you cld add target="_blank" to your imag tags so when you click for the bigger image it opens in a new page :)
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nice.
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HAHAHA
nice try bootman nice read but really, Do you really think that they will keep the same tactics

better luck next time
Was a nice read :)
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good stuff guys.
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greatest bootman photo ever !

Nice read too
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Interesting Info, but I feel that some of SKs plays are slipping off the timeline so to speak..
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stupid CZ. Would someone please release an .avi instead of demos or something
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turbo thugs 4 life foo
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gj bootman!~
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hay boots!
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mu question is :
if bootman is SO good(and he is) at predicting and knowing the strats of all the top teams..WHY THE HECK CANT HE COME UP WITH A TEAM AND GO TO CPL AND WIN THE FREAKIN THING...COME ONE MAN..NOWS YOUR CHANCE AHHHH!!
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very nice write up and a nice read. Keep the great work coming bootman, someone give this guy a raise :-P
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Pictures don't work for me .. Anyone having the same problem?
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I'd rate bootman a 8/10
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Nice Read.

And even Hyper does make some changes for the Strats, its just hyper + 4 SK. So there will be some left of the old tactics, since things that worked before, may still work today.
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very nice writeup! :D
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can't wait to see some pre-nading and spamming from other teams on sk :o
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wicked writeup, only thing i noticed were a few mistakes, like near the end where the paragraph splits randomly and where you say...

The SK defense will be extremely week to a 4-1 defensive set up.
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nice article....the only question is did hyper have enough time to change their tactics?
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Pretty good article, though I believe SK has changed their tactics by now.
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They're not going to play nuke? I understand about the cpl maps, but why no nuke?
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#40 If your pictures are not showing, turn off some of the browser privacy in Norton (I believe it's browser privacy->custom->advanced->uncheck top box).
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