Shroud claims CSGO is \u201cundeniably dying\u201d after 100 Thieves pull out Twitch: shroud \/ ESLMichael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek\u2019s CS:GO days might be long behind him, but the once-star of the Cloud9 roster has a grim outlook for the game\u2019s future. He claims it\u2019s \u201cundeniably dying\u201d as more teams like 100 Thieves pull out, especially in North America. Shroud was once one of the Kings of North American Counter-Strike. That\u2019s really where the 26-year-old got his start, playing professionally from 2013 to 2017. He spent most of his career on Cloud9, where he dominated the American scene. He made seven majors, won countless regional titles, and even took home some big global events like ESL Pro League Season 4 way back in 2016. However, since shroud moved on, so has the CS:GO scene. For the latter though, it\u2019s moving towards a slow demise. CS:GO, in North America especially, is on its final legs according to many, shroud included. Shroud has claimed the FPS title is dying \u2014 not because of any external competition, although that could play a part \u2014 but rather through teams pulling out like 100 Thieves. As the competition thins, the room for improvement slims. \u201cThere are [few] NA teams now. NA as a whole is not popular at all. You have EG, you have Liquid \u2014 and that\u2019s it. The rest of [the competition] is European,\u201d he said. \u201cNA just died in CS:GO, hard. In my opinion, that\u2019s a very big L to the community, to lose NA. [The region] brought so much hype, so much excitement into the game and scene, so for that to be lost kind of sucks.\u201d \u201cIt sucks for NA because you benefit off of each other. If NA as a whole is kind of sh*tty, then they won\u2019t advance as quickly [compared to] if they were all really good.\u201d Shroud questioned the amount of money being pumped into the CS:GO scene. He claimed that there are still players in North America on over $40,000 a month, and he wonders whether that investment is worth it at all. \u201cCS is undeniably dying, but players are still getting paid like $40,000 a month. I don\u2019t understand where this money is coming from and how it\u2019s still pumping.\u201d He also criticized NA\u2019s practice culture as a big reason for their lack of international success. The region has only won one Major: Cloud9 at the Boston Major in 2018 without shroud. There was lots of potential, but NA teams didn\u2019t have the right mentality. \u201cThe amount of sh*tty scrims we used to get \u2014 oh my God. Half of our practice was a waste of time. Whether that\u2019s our fault or the other team\u2019s fault, it was so lame. All NA wants to do is win, even in practice, and winning in practice does nothing for you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shroud claims CSGO is \u201cundeniably dying\u201d after 100 Thieves pull out Twitch: shroud \/ ESLMichael \u2018shroud\u2019 Grzesiek\u2019s CS:GO days might be long behind him, but the once-star of the Cloud9 roster has a grim outlook for the game\u2019s future. He claims it\u2019s \u201cundeniably dying\u201d as more teams like 100 Thieves pull out, especially in North […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}