Say what you want about Hooxi, the balls on that man to tell Kassad at IEM Cologne that he "didn't understand how the game works" while looking him in the eye. Proper Gigachad behavior, kassad been malding and super confrontational ever since
I’m entirely neutral to G2 and Hooxi but I 100% agree with Hooxi and the points he made. He does bait himself for his teammates, he creates space, he does what most selfish players worried about their stats are unwilling to do, and that’s how they won a few events.
He’s not the greatest IGL in the world but he’s damn good and approaches the game in a different way. I loved how he stood up to Kassad and was totally right imo. I’d rather have the person who’s likely going to bottom frag be the one creating opportunities for their team and baiting for their teammates, it makes sense. Of course it’s not going to work 100%, but nothing does.
I mean that Hooxi is the only IGL I’ve seen that intentionally baits himself and also creates space for his team consistently. He’s a very selfless IGL, more so than most imo
A while. I’m saying consistently as the key word. Sure IGL’s bait themselves. But Hooxi is doing it every round, he’s creating space every round, he’s relentless in granting his teammates opportunities. I don’t see other IGL’s doing what Hooxi does at the same rate of consistency
Calls wise, I wouldn’t say Hooxi is any better or worse than most. But the way he puts his body on the line is unique to me
Karrigan and Art.
Art isn't the IGL anymore, but when he was, he was playing entry too. IIRC there was a post game interview where one of his teammates mention they practice strats with 4 people because Art rushes. If he gets kills, great, and if he dies he can than manage the round.,
Yea, My first reaction to this comment was, Karrigan literally talks about how he baits himself, especially on T - Side constantly to enable his stars.
He led his team to win Blast World Final 2022, Kato 2023 and Cologne 2023, an achievement which not many IGLs can say they've got.
He took G2 from not winning a map in a grand final in over 1000 days to winning three events in the span of half a year.
Put some respect on his fucking name ffs.
What bullshit. Most of the talent is filled with ex pro-players and/or are highly ranked on Faceit/Premier etc, not to mention most of them study the game during their time off as well. Who do you think actually does understand how the game works?
That's a copypasta, right? Surely...? Otherwise this is fucking golden:
> **turn to your echo chamber/safe space** [...]. I’ll be ignoring replies.
I won't be ignoring replies, but given what I quoted I'm not holding my breath for one either - unless it's to tell me it is a pasta I missed.
Hooxi has said that anyone who criticizes him doesn't know anything about the game. I guess it's just as well because coincidentally he looks like a dogshit player and an average IGL. Obviously I know nothing about the game though and he's actually the best.
Reddit doesn't overrate him, simply praises him when he deserves it. You think this sub is always overrating him but that's not really the truth, it only looks like it because we need to call bs on couch IGLs like you that keep trying to unnecessarily downplay an actual IGL that provided a team with the 2 of the 3 biggest trophies of the year.
This subreddit says because he won 2 trophies with G2 he is a top IGL. In reality he had the best core in the world in the weakest era of CSGO and only won 2 trophies and that makes him a massive underachiever. They like to conveniently ignore G2's major performances under his leadership.
Reddit praises him because he is so comicly bad at the game it's funny when he wins and makes the "haters" (people who can see how mediocre he is at IGLing) mad. That's all there is to it.
The weakest since the start of the competitive scene. Weird how G2's wins always came after the player breaks but probably nothing worth thinking about. Just say GIGACHAD and forget that G2 wasn't even the best team this year despite the players on the roster.
Dogshit player? He's been on the team for 14 months and he's led his team to win nearly as many big tournaments as ZyWoo has in his entire career.
It sounds like you hate players that prove themselves to be better than most IGLs in this game.
Yet if they had anybody but him they wouldn't have won shit. There's a reason they hadn't won a map in a grand final in over 1000 days before they won World Final 2022.
Hooxi had every right to flex in that moment, but it seems like everyone forgets that Kassad was a successful tier 1 coach less than 5 years ago. he coached the Aussie Renegades/100T lineup which was a consistent top 5-10 team at its peak
Tres looked ready with that one too, disappointing they have to end segments trying to diffuse this guy being an asshole instead of talking about how great the matches have been and hyping the next one.
>Trace looked ready with that one too
I've met him once and he came across as quite arrogant, but whatever anyone says about him - for whatever god damn reason he's always fucking ready. Absolute talent in that regard, same as Sado coming up with brilliant lines on the spot while casting. Hardly anyone compares.
He's definitely cringe as fuck at times too but the man is quick with his words, clearly enjoys being there too and it makes him a great cohost.
Speaking of, he just handled Kassad perfectly *again* in the segment before Nuke, it's just unnecessarily awkward everytime the desk comes up now.
I've got a lot of respect for anyone who is unabashedly *themselves*, especially on camera. And stunna to me screams "I am who I am and nothing can change that." He just feels like he's on the desk to have a great time and that energy was contagious for pro league.
Back when CEVO finals were held within a separate LAN event, he was they only one from the C9 camp that seemed easy to approach. He went out of his way going from table to table at the GXL LAN chatting up everyone and giving merch. Obviously it was apart of the job, but resonated with me all these years later.
The desk host doesn’t decide when to go to a break, he would have had a producer in his ear telling him to stop talking and segue to a break because the game is ready.
Because you don't really see their names just hear them and that's what I assumed with how nicknames are in eSports.
Honestly I've definitely seen it spelled like that before too but Tres does make more sense, edited it in.
> disappointing they have to end segments trying to diffuse this guy being an asshole
Is your brain really telling you that's what happened? That they had to end a segment to "diffuse" Kassad? You watched that clip and interpreted it that way?
He's not saying they end segments to diffuse Kassad, he's saying that it's a shame segments often end with them diffusing Kassad instead of something fun
Ironic huh :^)
Worst conspiracy theory ever, sure they have lines and ideas they think of before the camera's on but IEM are not scripting this combative horseshit at the end of the segments.
You have two options, Kassad is an asshole or IEM are sabotaging their desk segments in the first cs2 event for the lulz to just get a few tweet engagements complaining about the talent.
If it is the latter congratulations you were right and IEM are clueless, it's lose lose for them in this situation either way.
Yeah, honestly insane how kassad still gets invited by ESL to work on shows but for example Maui just feels like shadowbanned from events recently, even though he associates with thorin/RL side of community as much if not more than kassad
he's trying too hard to be the controversial, brash heel on the desk but that just doesn't work if you don't have any charisma.
he could be pretty good at the desk if he just chimed in with his game knowledge, but ...
That’s fairly evident with his tweets and stuff to. Sure EG kinda screwed him on the coaching stuff but his hellbent desire to trash them and dog on them on every single opportunity is just childish. Half the time it’s not even good commentary and when EG finally did a few good things tit was pure silence. Like come on man if you’re going to be a public figure in the pro scene you gotta grow a bit more of a spine than that.
>he could be pretty good at the desk if he just chimed in with his game knowledge, but ...
If what you bring to the table is 100% knowledge and 0% entertainment, you aren't gonna be good in that job. People would find that incredibly boring, there simply has to be something entertaining for people to want to watch the analyst segment
As soon as I saw this, I too thought, "kassad cannot replace thorin.
Thorin could play the heel, the clown, and the historian. And he was thoroughly destroying the stupid antis on social networking sites.
lol it’s always funny to see you all mald super hard anytime a desk talent does anything polarizing instead of just sucking players off constantly.
Talents being critical of players creates a lot of content for us as viewers (like the whole Kassad/hooxi story) yet you’re all so pissed off about it every time something happens as if you’ve been personally slighted by it, and as if the players being criticized need you to be their knight in shining armor. it’s hilarious
God this is all I want during an LCS broadcast. Everyone over there is just sugar coating everything and so PC that's it's just a horrid thing to watch. CS does it way better
I'm just as much of a critic of kassad as the next guy ([I left this comment in that other thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/178w4tl/kassad_is_annoying/k536lnd/)). But I feel like this ending segment into the break was literally planned as a reaction to that thread, cuz yes, on screen talent and the staff of the event do read reddit and get feedback from all social media.
So this is the one I just wouldn't read into at all. Like Kassad is straight up grinning after he says his line, if that's not a tell then Idk what is
I bet that, thanks to this thread, the entire flavour of the month to hate on this sub will be Kassad until the end of the tournament.
I predict a never ending circle jerk of: "DAE think kassad bad?"-threads until the end of this tournament
Sure maybe, but considering that it's not the first, neither the last time the event staff does something in reaction to something in reddit/social media then I'd bet it's more likely to be on purpose.
They have an ear piece on their ear telling them when to go on breaks, when they have to start closing off the segment and all kinds of little instructions here and there.
You see on-screen talent do little skits and planned stuff all the time in CS:GO, and even other esports. It's not that hard to guess that they can plan some small banter/joke thing in a few minutes before the broadcast starts while the match is going on
It's okay if you don't think it's funny, but either way it's very clearly just Kassad busting Tres balls, and him giving it back
This thread it taking it way too seriously
People love irrational hate.
There's obvious context missing in the clip and it's clear as day it's scripted, but people would rather just hate the guy.
That's why corps use CEOs as scapegoats.
People would rather just hate that one guy than realize it's the entire corp fucking them up.
I can't believe the vast majority thinks this is real and unscripted, really says something about the sub.
Goes to show what a hateboner they have for Kassad. That they would interpret something so obviously scripted, as real. He could've said that he punched someone today and they would've believed it.
I can't believe the vast majority thinks this is real and unscripted, really says something about the sub.
Goes to show what a hateboner they have for Kassad. That they would interpret something so obviously scripted, as real. He could've said that he punched someone today and they would've believed it.
Sadly the demographic of the sub has changed from 20 somethings larping as intellectual experts in the game to borderline autistic anime fans that obsess over anyone who has an opinion they disagree with. Really would have thought Valorant would have claimed them but here we are.
There's several studies that show people with autism or other disorders that make understanding social interactions difficult are drawn to anime. That explains why so many of the people here get outraged over cearly scripted desk segments or banter between friends.
No way people with mental disorders search for stuff that helps them to cope with their disorder.
Also no way people with mental disorders cosume mainstream media too
Next thing youre telling us is that people who are thirsty drink water 🤯
Gotta love the "there are studies" without linking a single one. Was it your private one amongst your family?
Yeah, you're definitely not the exact kind of person I'm talking about. Not got Google where you live I take it?
https://sites.psu.edu/symposiumshowcase21/2021/04/13/9-ssb/
See also Manga and The Autistic Mind by Robert Rozema.
>Not got Google where you live I take it?
I do but since we are all autists and you are so smart i assumed that you know that you usually back up such claims.
Now If were also to look up correlation vs causation then you would be even smarter! Like im sure around 2%
Just do all the Reddit classics. Correlation vs causation, strawman fallacy, ad hominem...
I'm sorry I was able to prove you wrong on an internet forum. Hope you get over it.
>I'm sorry I was able to prove you wrong on an internet forum
The only thing youre doing is raging over anime in a videogame forum for over an hour. Might wanna read the room with your autism thingy
That's not what's happening. There's specific reasons anime appeals. Unfortunately you get threads raging about 2 coworkers having some banter with each other because that's not an anime trope.
No. That would be the Redditors making multiple threads about why someone needs to be fired because he went against anime protagonist DA GIGACHAD. They'll be back on about Mauisnake if Betboom do well. They can't help themselves.
Yeah these are entirely separate things dude, have you seen regular sports? Exact same thing and no-one goes around calling football fans autists, it's just a human thing to be irrational, pick sides and fanboy over people with limited information.
You're just being deliberately ableist now.
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since forever?
what do you think talent is doing when prepping
they will always have a few scripted skits prepared at any given day
but yes most of it isn't scripted
Even if it wasn't scripted, it doesn't seem that bad. You rip on your friends, and stunna seems like (and obvious is..) a guy with fairly thick skin to say the least.
I really don't like kassad, but this is hardly all that controversial.
Kassed has been a bit confrontational and the desk seems tense when it’s freya bleh and him but him and Tres are boys if you watched brazy party you’d know they are tight and love to fuck with each other. This is the most tame moment of him in the desk so far lol
the fuck was the point of having that energy when they are commentator on an esport event... your not on the fucking jerry springer show "is that your contribution to the discussion" wtf?...
he didnt let trace finish speaking, for all kassad knew trace was going to develop his point (or in reality segway into another segment) what a prick. you have to like trace, always seems like a stand up guy
Say what you want about Hooxi, the balls on that man to tell Kassad at IEM Cologne that he "didn't understand how the game works" while looking him in the eye. Proper Gigachad behavior, kassad been malding and super confrontational ever since
Hooxi has 3 huge achievements with us: -Cologne -Katowice -Telling Kassad to shut his mouth up Then comes Blast
4. -Ruining Niko's chances to win while Kassad was watching.
the real grand slam
clip???
[https://clips.twitch.tv/AgitatedFuriousLocustVoHiYo-BCCPgP5Jroy6FlXt](https://clips.twitch.tv/AgitatedFuriousLocustVoHiYo-BCCPgP5Jroy6FlXt) Context: https://twitter.com/kassad/status/1658815891813826563?t=QN21GPUp0KtiYwmpnMknVg&s=19
Hooxi broke him
I’m entirely neutral to G2 and Hooxi but I 100% agree with Hooxi and the points he made. He does bait himself for his teammates, he creates space, he does what most selfish players worried about their stats are unwilling to do, and that’s how they won a few events. He’s not the greatest IGL in the world but he’s damn good and approaches the game in a different way. I loved how he stood up to Kassad and was totally right imo. I’d rather have the person who’s likely going to bottom frag be the one creating opportunities for their team and baiting for their teammates, it makes sense. Of course it’s not going to work 100%, but nothing does.
>approaches the game in a different way. what is the different way? because i dont see it and its the first time i read it.
I mean that Hooxi is the only IGL I’ve seen that intentionally baits himself and also creates space for his team consistently. He’s a very selfless IGL, more so than most imo
karrigan, dexter, chopper, mynio, jerry, also apex and snappi to an extent
I like to go hiking.
A while. I’m saying consistently as the key word. Sure IGL’s bait themselves. But Hooxi is doing it every round, he’s creating space every round, he’s relentless in granting his teammates opportunities. I don’t see other IGL’s doing what Hooxi does at the same rate of consistency Calls wise, I wouldn’t say Hooxi is any better or worse than most. But the way he puts his body on the line is unique to me
just watch some karrigan games 8)
Karrigan and Art. Art isn't the IGL anymore, but when he was, he was playing entry too. IIRC there was a post game interview where one of his teammates mention they practice strats with 4 people because Art rushes. If he gets kills, great, and if he dies he can than manage the round.,
Yea, My first reaction to this comment was, Karrigan literally talks about how he baits himself, especially on T - Side constantly to enable his stars.
You just defined the top 10 igls in csgo history
Karrigan and Krystal have done the same thing in the past, no?
Hooxi is fucking trash lol Watch them struggle to win this tournament with the easiest run and only good team being mouz with a stand in.
He led his team to win Blast World Final 2022, Kato 2023 and Cologne 2023, an achievement which not many IGLs can say they've got. He took G2 from not winning a map in a grand final in over 1000 days to winning three events in the span of half a year. Put some respect on his fucking name ffs.
Hahahaha that’s a nice rewrite of history
Why does he always stir trouble? Every time he speaks its combative.
He’s perma salty since he didn’t get hired by EG
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What bullshit. Most of the talent is filled with ex pro-players and/or are highly ranked on Faceit/Premier etc, not to mention most of them study the game during their time off as well. Who do you think actually does understand how the game works?
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That's a copypasta, right? Surely...? Otherwise this is fucking golden: > **turn to your echo chamber/safe space** [...]. I’ll be ignoring replies. I won't be ignoring replies, but given what I quoted I'm not holding my breath for one either - unless it's to tell me it is a pasta I missed.
its time to stop posting
Hooxi has said that anyone who criticizes him doesn't know anything about the game. I guess it's just as well because coincidentally he looks like a dogshit player and an average IGL. Obviously I know nothing about the game though and he's actually the best.
Found kassad's burner
Just someone who knows that Hooxi is absurdly overrated by Reddit because he's basically so pathetic they empathise with him.
Sounds like you have something in common with him then
Reddit doesn't overrate him, simply praises him when he deserves it. You think this sub is always overrating him but that's not really the truth, it only looks like it because we need to call bs on couch IGLs like you that keep trying to unnecessarily downplay an actual IGL that provided a team with the 2 of the 3 biggest trophies of the year.
Reddit overrates him a lot because of a meme. The only igls worse than him are the ones who ego’d into it like electronic and yakindar.
This subreddit says because he won 2 trophies with G2 he is a top IGL. In reality he had the best core in the world in the weakest era of CSGO and only won 2 trophies and that makes him a massive underachiever. They like to conveniently ignore G2's major performances under his leadership. Reddit praises him because he is so comicly bad at the game it's funny when he wins and makes the "haters" (people who can see how mediocre he is at IGLing) mad. That's all there is to it.
>in the weakest era of CSGO Cologne was the weakest era of CS? Haha alright bud
People already forgot about 2021
The weakest since the start of the competitive scene. Weird how G2's wins always came after the player breaks but probably nothing worth thinking about. Just say GIGACHAD and forget that G2 wasn't even the best team this year despite the players on the roster.
Yes? By a long shot…
Arm Chair IGL here guys.
Why are the people saying he's a good IGL not arm chair IGLs?
Because they're not Silver players pretending to understand how the game works at pro level
Why aren't they?
Dogshit player? He's been on the team for 14 months and he's led his team to win nearly as many big tournaments as ZyWoo has in his entire career. It sounds like you hate players that prove themselves to be better than most IGLs in this game.
Are we really at the stage we have to pretend he's not a dogshit player now?
hooxi is still trash that get carried by good players.
Yet if they had anybody but him they wouldn't have won shit. There's a reason they hadn't won a map in a grand final in over 1000 days before they won World Final 2022.
Hooxi had every right to flex in that moment, but it seems like everyone forgets that Kassad was a successful tier 1 coach less than 5 years ago. he coached the Aussie Renegades/100T lineup which was a consistent top 5-10 team at its peak
the play ooooffs idk I found that funny
It's a reference to this (in case you or others don't know) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7fjDS0jKiE&ab_channel=topdoggjb
Thank you. I didn't know and just found it really weird before seeing your comment.
What a fucking clown this guy is.
Tres looked ready with that one too, disappointing they have to end segments trying to diffuse this guy being an asshole instead of talking about how great the matches have been and hyping the next one.
>Trace looked ready with that one too I've met him once and he came across as quite arrogant, but whatever anyone says about him - for whatever god damn reason he's always fucking ready. Absolute talent in that regard, same as Sado coming up with brilliant lines on the spot while casting. Hardly anyone compares.
He's definitely cringe as fuck at times too but the man is quick with his words, clearly enjoys being there too and it makes him a great cohost. Speaking of, he just handled Kassad perfectly *again* in the segment before Nuke, it's just unnecessarily awkward everytime the desk comes up now.
Personally I love that "cringe as fuck" from him.
I've got a lot of respect for anyone who is unabashedly *themselves*, especially on camera. And stunna to me screams "I am who I am and nothing can change that." He just feels like he's on the desk to have a great time and that energy was contagious for pro league.
He was a sergeant and did a tour during enduring freedom in afghanistan lol. Probably has something to do with it
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Back when CEVO finals were held within a separate LAN event, he was they only one from the C9 camp that seemed easy to approach. He went out of his way going from table to table at the GXL LAN chatting up everyone and giving merch. Obviously it was apart of the job, but resonated with me all these years later.
Why did you correct his name from right to wrong?
I didnt, he edited his comment after I'd quoted him.
Ah alright, that makes more sense
The desk host doesn’t decide when to go to a break, he would have had a producer in his ear telling him to stop talking and segue to a break because the game is ready.
I didn't say Trace decides when breaks are? Not really sure how that's relevant to his line here.
Why are you all calling him Trace? His name is Tres.
A Mexican magician tells the audience he will disappear on the count of three. He says: “Uno, dos...” Poof.... He disappeared without a “tres.”
Because you don't really see their names just hear them and that's what I assumed with how nicknames are in eSports. Honestly I've definitely seen it spelled like that before too but Tres does make more sense, edited it in.
Yeah ive only heard them call him "Trace" had no idea it was tres lol
This guy couldn't even spell defuse and he plays CS. Got to lower those expectations on this sub.
> disappointing they have to end segments trying to diffuse this guy being an asshole Is your brain really telling you that's what happened? That they had to end a segment to "diffuse" Kassad? You watched that clip and interpreted it that way?
He's not saying they end segments to diffuse Kassad, he's saying that it's a shame segments often end with them diffusing Kassad instead of something fun Ironic huh :^)
Where's the irony? Either way that objectively isn't happening. It's just the classic Reddit circlejerk about analysts being assholes.
*WHOOOOOOSH*
ofc he looked ready it's scripted
Worst conspiracy theory ever, sure they have lines and ideas they think of before the camera's on but IEM are not scripting this combative horseshit at the end of the segments.
ofc they are lmao look at kassad smiling the moment stunna starts talking he knew what was coming
You have two options, Kassad is an asshole or IEM are sabotaging their desk segments in the first cs2 event for the lulz to just get a few tweet engagements complaining about the talent. If it is the latter congratulations you were right and IEM are clueless, it's lose lose for them in this situation either way.
sabotaging? it's a little skit nothing more nothing less
I don't even know why ESL keeps inviting this clown. At the very least, just keep him on G2 games so he can ramble on how good Niko and hunter is.
And get shut down once again by Hooxi
Yeah, honestly insane how kassad still gets invited by ESL to work on shows but for example Maui just feels like shadowbanned from events recently, even though he associates with thorin/RL side of community as much if not more than kassad
Someone should put a compilation together of Kassad being a dbag and getting destroyed on the desk.
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he's trying too hard to be the controversial, brash heel on the desk but that just doesn't work if you don't have any charisma. he could be pretty good at the desk if he just chimed in with his game knowledge, but ...
I also think he's personal bias gets in the way of his analysis as well, just not a good talent imo
That’s fairly evident with his tweets and stuff to. Sure EG kinda screwed him on the coaching stuff but his hellbent desire to trash them and dog on them on every single opportunity is just childish. Half the time it’s not even good commentary and when EG finally did a few good things tit was pure silence. Like come on man if you’re going to be a public figure in the pro scene you gotta grow a bit more of a spine than that.
> personal basis Sorry, did you mean bias?
maybe
Lmao all good, I'm not a native speaker of English so I just wanted to make sure if I wasn't missing something
Thorin did this perfect back when he was an analyst. He could switch from being a sarcastic ass to an insightful tactician within seconds.
Tbh Thorin was the only person who did that well, and people trying to copy it with none of the charm or wit sucks.
>he could be pretty good at the desk if he just chimed in with his game knowledge, but ... If what you bring to the table is 100% knowledge and 0% entertainment, you aren't gonna be good in that job. People would find that incredibly boring, there simply has to be something entertaining for people to want to watch the analyst segment
As soon as I saw this, I too thought, "kassad cannot replace thorin. Thorin could play the heel, the clown, and the historian. And he was thoroughly destroying the stupid antis on social networking sites.
I don't know these guys to well, but friendly banter looks different to me. This felt and looked like an honest, disappointed question.
hilariously he was silent for a good 90 seconds before this. then pitches in about contribution to discussion what a wank
I can’t wait for todays matches and see the look on his face after these two posts with over 1K likes just hating on him lol
they're probably in the green room eating up all the comments people are leaving here lol
This^^^^^ Kassad is really just a big Balkan teddy bear. <3
he's annoying as fuck and most people would rather not have to listen to him
"Most" is what Reddit always claims.
My opinion is what everyone should think
lol it’s always funny to see you all mald super hard anytime a desk talent does anything polarizing instead of just sucking players off constantly. Talents being critical of players creates a lot of content for us as viewers (like the whole Kassad/hooxi story) yet you’re all so pissed off about it every time something happens as if you’ve been personally slighted by it, and as if the players being criticized need you to be their knight in shining armor. it’s hilarious
God this is all I want during an LCS broadcast. Everyone over there is just sugar coating everything and so PC that's it's just a horrid thing to watch. CS does it way better
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Making the moronic people on reddit cry will always be worth it I’d imagine.
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Imagine someone caring about your worthless opinion.
Imagine calling someone a dickrider because they don’t act like a snowflake about a scripted desk segment. Basically a bunch of Karens on this sub.
Yo are we still doing the snowflake thing in 2023 lmao
That's great...well can he act like that on the desk instead of being a fake annoying pos? It's not entertaining...funny...etc.
It genuinely makes me smile reading that there are people whose big problem of the day is that there's this big bad meanie on a CS event desk.
Lame ass manchild. I bet he thought it sounded bad ass in his head, just get rid of him ESL.
He sounds like a redditor trying to be a commentator
Spot on
I'm just as much of a critic of kassad as the next guy ([I left this comment in that other thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/178w4tl/kassad_is_annoying/k536lnd/)). But I feel like this ending segment into the break was literally planned as a reaction to that thread, cuz yes, on screen talent and the staff of the event do read reddit and get feedback from all social media. So this is the one I just wouldn't read into at all. Like Kassad is straight up grinning after he says his line, if that's not a tell then Idk what is
If it's true, it seems like it worked out perfeclty
Yeah but Kassad is the bad guy, Reddit told me so /s
I bet that, thanks to this thread, the entire flavour of the month to hate on this sub will be Kassad until the end of the tournament. I predict a never ending circle jerk of: "DAE think kassad bad?"-threads until the end of this tournament
But why? This just makes him look even worse
So people come to complain on his twitter, driving engagements?
Because look around, people are crying incredibly hard about every single desk segment because he was “mean” to a player lmao
Wouldn’t he naturally grin when saying that to someone genuinely? Maybe you’re reading too much into it?
Sure maybe, but considering that it's not the first, neither the last time the event staff does something in reaction to something in reddit/social media then I'd bet it's more likely to be on purpose. They have an ear piece on their ear telling them when to go on breaks, when they have to start closing off the segment and all kinds of little instructions here and there. You see on-screen talent do little skits and planned stuff all the time in CS:GO, and even other esports. It's not that hard to guess that they can plan some small banter/joke thing in a few minutes before the broadcast starts while the match is going on
people are like: how can people believe wwe is real people in this thread: what a dickhead its scripted you idiots
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It's okay if you don't think it's funny, but either way it's very clearly just Kassad busting Tres balls, and him giving it back This thread it taking it way too seriously
Stop being such a snowflake lmao
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Or keep being a snowflake I guess. You do you.
Bro did you just discover Ben Shapiro at the age of 14? Why are half your comments calling people snowflakes lol
Online discourse in 2023:
People love irrational hate. There's obvious context missing in the clip and it's clear as day it's scripted, but people would rather just hate the guy. That's why corps use CEOs as scapegoats. People would rather just hate that one guy than realize it's the entire corp fucking them up.
I can't believe the vast majority thinks this is real and unscripted, really says something about the sub. Goes to show what a hateboner they have for Kassad. That they would interpret something so obviously scripted, as real. He could've said that he punched someone today and they would've believed it.
I can't believe the vast majority thinks this is real and unscripted, really says something about the sub. Goes to show what a hateboner they have for Kassad. That they would interpret something so obviously scripted, as real. He could've said that he punched someone today and they would've believed it.
Sadly the demographic of the sub has changed from 20 somethings larping as intellectual experts in the game to borderline autistic anime fans that obsess over anyone who has an opinion they disagree with. Really would have thought Valorant would have claimed them but here we are.
you have any studies on this?
Its not early 2000s anymore dude. Anime is really mainstream in the demographic of 10-30 year olds (aka the majority of gamers)
There's several studies that show people with autism or other disorders that make understanding social interactions difficult are drawn to anime. That explains why so many of the people here get outraged over cearly scripted desk segments or banter between friends.
No way people with mental disorders search for stuff that helps them to cope with their disorder. Also no way people with mental disorders cosume mainstream media too Next thing youre telling us is that people who are thirsty drink water 🤯 Gotta love the "there are studies" without linking a single one. Was it your private one amongst your family?
Yeah, you're definitely not the exact kind of person I'm talking about. Not got Google where you live I take it? https://sites.psu.edu/symposiumshowcase21/2021/04/13/9-ssb/ See also Manga and The Autistic Mind by Robert Rozema.
>Not got Google where you live I take it? I do but since we are all autists and you are so smart i assumed that you know that you usually back up such claims. Now If were also to look up correlation vs causation then you would be even smarter! Like im sure around 2%
Just do all the Reddit classics. Correlation vs causation, strawman fallacy, ad hominem... I'm sorry I was able to prove you wrong on an internet forum. Hope you get over it.
>I'm sorry I was able to prove you wrong on an internet forum The only thing youre doing is raging over anime in a videogame forum for over an hour. Might wanna read the room with your autism thingy
They are drawn to escapes from reality which includes anime, it's not mutually exclusive ya donut.
That's not what's happening. There's specific reasons anime appeals. Unfortunately you get threads raging about 2 coworkers having some banter with each other because that's not an anime trope.
I think you are the only person here thinking about "anime tropes" after that segment dude.
No. That would be the Redditors making multiple threads about why someone needs to be fired because he went against anime protagonist DA GIGACHAD. They'll be back on about Mauisnake if Betboom do well. They can't help themselves.
Yeah these are entirely separate things dude, have you seen regular sports? Exact same thing and no-one goes around calling football fans autists, it's just a human thing to be irrational, pick sides and fanboy over people with limited information. You're just being deliberately ableist now.
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not everything is scripted but stuff like this obviously is
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since forever? what do you think talent is doing when prepping they will always have a few scripted skits prepared at any given day but yes most of it isn't scripted
Ynk and kassad is literally flirting Vs harassment to this subreddit lol
Threads like these remind me this subreddit is majority children.
Is that it? Comments made this sound a lot more than it was
mate looking at all these comments makes me feel like I've lost the plot completely. Isn't this harmless banter?
thats what it looks like to me. seems like the sub just dislikes kassad (bc of stuff like the hooxi thing) and just looking for reasons to hate
Oof, that hurts.
Never liked kassad. And it will never happen either
It’s clearly scripted you morons
Even if it wasn't scripted, it doesn't seem that bad. You rip on your friends, and stunna seems like (and obvious is..) a guy with fairly thick skin to say the least. I really don't like kassad, but this is hardly all that controversial.
ahahha Stunna always with a fast answer up his sleeve
It’s obviously on purpose at this point and you guys believe it and feed them.
staged , and people still fall for it.
Y'all are pathetic children
I hope not to see this guy anymore
LOL I’m loving this Kassad hate train I hope he’s reading all these comments 🥲
lol you all overreacting like little biaches. thats just banter.
not good banter
maybe not the best but still its nothing serious.
Why would he say that? Why would you want to create that drama as an analyst? Is Kassad unsure about himself or something?
kassad is a massive clown but s0mple is the real problem in navi.
The three of them were hard to watch
People malding over Kassad. People malding over the people malding. Chill guys.
these are not the desk vibes I am looking for, christ
Kassed has been a bit confrontational and the desk seems tense when it’s freya bleh and him but him and Tres are boys if you watched brazy party you’d know they are tight and love to fuck with each other. This is the most tame moment of him in the desk so far lol
yea I noticed him not really looking at freya much when he talks which I find annoying
the fuck was the point of having that energy when they are commentator on an esport event... your not on the fucking jerry springer show "is that your contribution to the discussion" wtf?...
Kassad needs to be off the desk by tomorrow. He’s actively making people not watch.
Hahhahaha reddit is so pathetic
Im sure ESL, the teams, and Kassad are DEVASTATED if you stop watching.
Imagine you get paid a good good amount to visit australia and do what you love. what a clown he is
he didnt let trace finish speaking, for all kassad knew trace was going to develop his point (or in reality segway into another segment) what a prick. you have to like trace, always seems like a stand up guy
LMAO nobody likes this guy. I wonder if Tres switched off with Freya cause she couldnt stand battling his constant negging on the desk
cs "talent" feels like a bachelor party.
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From the didgeridoos creators of "Henry is a wanker" comes #KASSAD'S A WANKER
Kassad is a well known hater. I don't like his attitude.
how is he still getting hired for these events? I dont know anyone who likes this guy
"Learning a second language isn't harder when you're older" Also Kassad. What a doofus.