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Surely Vitality, after signing Magisk, Dupreeh and Zonic, could be considered a superteam.

Can't wait for Voo's response video 9 months later

Vitality. Even if we ignore Zywoo coming on in his rooky year you still have the danes and Spinx

I think something you didn't touch on with FaZe is their approach to sticking with a very multinational team is pretty unique in contrast to other teams. Their first lineup with the former G2/Kinguin guys was an interesting lineup. Also, you didn't glaze Twistzz enough.

A superteam isn't the same as a really good team, a superteam aquires the world's best in order to try and dominate, a really good team takes good players, maybe a superstar, and develops into the world's best

The problem is, expectations are too high for every tier 1 team, until they form an era. Teams that come out of nowhere, with zero expectations, get more respect than December 2022-2023 G2 winning the Blast World Finals, Katowice and Cologne. The majority of people don’t understand how tough winning really is

0:00 MIKE MENTIONED RAHHHHHHH 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I completely agree, unless the team is created to DOMINATE in a short notice, through throwing money at the best possible players, then it's not a super team.

Astralis 2018/2019 were like the Spurs of Tim, Manu and Tony

opening a vid with MIKE is legendary

nice MIKE in the promo

the murrsuiting analogy bro😭😭

Great video as always. Would love to see a video talking about players who don't really post the best stats but without them a team's success is never possible. Cheers!

i think you nailed it. i hope this helps people better understand what super team really means, that's it's not simply a vehicle to success.

This makes sense. I'll be thinking the most about the IGLs in the major picks.

I love these news/topic/talking head videos, please keep doing them :D

I feel like it’s hard to put a definition to a superteam because there’s several ways it could come about. You kind of just know a superteam when you see it

I think a big thing with superteams is the feeling of it being artificial, like people joining forces to win rather than to developing the roster over time.

Holy cow that was one hell of an opening monologue

i like these types of videos were u are focused on one topic over the ones were u react to news and bounce all over the place.

Have not heard "Hubba Bubba" in 20 years, nice nostalgic flashbang lau🗯

thanks for the new wallpaper 2:55

fantastic video launders. love it.

MIKE in the intro got me torqued, well played Launders

bro that intro boxr ad is so fire it did NOT need to go that hard

Yo super clean edits and clips in this one. Keep 'em coming, S-tier CS content ❤

iirc i've ever tried to (seriously) argue anything about results when it comes to what makes a super team Peak Astralis being a super team is an argument that can be made because you took Astralis 2017 with 4 top 20 players (a top 3 team of the year, and a major winning roster) and gave them the choice of adding K0nfig (the best non-astralis danish player of 2017) or Magisk (the best non-astralis danish player of 2016). If you read threads at the time, there are a lot of people hyping of Magisk as a superstar and the roster as insanely stacked. I even found several people calling it a danish super team, at the time of the signing. Is 1 player change enough to make something a super team? Either opinion is fair, imo. Eventually it ends up being a theseus' ship situation, but obviously 2 player changes seems to be enough to define something as a super team (cloud9) even when 1 of 2 players was never in the top 20, so then you have to actually figure out exactly where to draw the line. Looking at faze for the 1 player change example things get a bit muddy, since at the time of their signings pre-ropz it was only a super team if "have big names cuz they used to be good" or "cost a lot of money because of name value" are the basis and not "actually are amazing players currently." Rain was seen as completely washed, twistzz was a bit of a ? and broky was mostly unknown. All of these players come together and actually start getting their form back on point under Karrigan, then you add Ropz and most people will call this a super team because you're re-analyzing the roster based on current form at the time of adding a new 5th. That's fair, but then you have to treat all teams that way and the argument for Astralis 2018 being a super team is hard to fight against. rambled a bit but i think this all started from me saying something like if faze 2021 was a super team then so was prime astralis and that's generally the logic intertwining the 2. nothing to do with results. generally my definition of super team would be just about player skill level at the time of the signing and you re-evaluate rosters after each individual signing. by this logic, astralis 2018 would at the very least be a danish super team, and faze would become a super team after adding ropz.

really good video, I like this style

A superteam for me is a team which could be someone's dream lineup

you really made the 18min intro explaining the super team concept to bash on the astralis roster? i love it

Thank you for the time stamps 🙂

Launders, i watched 30 seconds of unskippable ads for you. I love you.

thats why we love ence, the underdogs that are able to compete with the big guys

Another Lau upload, another good day in this life.

A superteam is when you take 5 GOATS to make 🐐^5

The moneyball edit was so good

lau forever the man for the MIKE intro

LOL the KZfaqr beef! Voo's usually on point, but I do agree with you here about the difference between bringing together individually talented people on a single roster (which may not result in cohesive teamwork) like world cup or Olympic teams do, versus a team that sticks together and works their way to the top. There's no shortcut to the kind of chemistry that gets built over time, although a super team that sticks together long enough can get there.

yoo that intro was a banger bro

That intro is insane

Launders is a blessing to the cs community

Falcons are also a interesting thing, if s1mple does decide to stay would that qualify as a superteam?

shoutouts boxr homies

im wondering what roles the good igl's used to fill before they started calling, maybe theres a pattern? e.g.: fallen and cadian beeing awpers, karrigan and apex beiing entrys

I’d argue 2018 MIBR could be considered a superteam like Faze, they broke down region barriers to become an americas super team, and signed 2 superstars in Stew and Tarik to pair with a core of the greatest Brazilian’s to play the game.

Background was cool but I didn't like it reversing. Great thoughts as always 👏

Would you say the recent g2 with niko, monesy, jks, hunter, hooxi was a super team?

i remember watching liquid after they went a on a bad streak and was always yelling at my screen with some of stewies decisions and weapon choices. Then FAZE, who use to famously choke always, started winning alot more. Before i followed the players at all, i soon realized the star rifler of Liquid switched to FAZE and it made a lot more sense.

that kennys cobble clips makes me laugh so hard when it cuts to Xyp9x face lol

Launders is the Gerbert Johnson of Cs

4:16 moisturize those elbows homie

Superteams can be enraging, but they're also exciting! I only got into pro cs when I heard that olof and GuardiaN (two guys I'd seen a lot in fragmovies) were joining a team with NiKo (also fragmovies) and rain (my first AK skin came with a rain signature on it) So I was like "damn that's cool I'll root for them" and here I am 6.5 years later still being a fan of NiKo, rain and karrigan In short, I agree with what launders said about the classification of superteams. The players' resumés and the expectations of the team are the most important things

virtus pro 2013-2016 is a all time super team lineup imo. Snax, Pasha, Neo byali and taz is a super team on its own. The only team that could really challenge NIP or FNATIC in that era. No other team could really come close most of the times (besides that one LDLC run (womp))

I’m really a simple man, I see launders upload, I click.

know this game doesn’t matter to most cs players, but league recently had an amazing underdog story with DRX winning worlds. if you haven’t heard it was insane, team barely qualified and went on to win worlds. had the hardest teams back to back to back, gen g, previous worlds winners edg, t1 for the finals. had the most stacked and hard bracket and went insane. deft, a player on drx went to the same school as faker (4 time world champ) and was always in his shadow, watching him finally beat him was amazing. goes to say super teams are to me less impressive than underdogs 100%.

Intro is heat

Dude the intro for the merch is so lit wtf. who made that!

thank you counter strike historian

My definition of a super team is a team that by all accounts is in that top3 or top 5 best teams of an era in terms of raw skill and talent. If we use football as an example, Manchester City was a 'superteam' even though they didn't win a single Champions League until just this past year. Pep as a manager, the way they would dominate and crush teams on the regular, and the pure talent and stature of the players in the side made them a superteam, regardless of the fact they kept failing at the biggest trophy in Europe. Even Real Madrid - they only won 1 Champions league in the 2000-2010 decade but you'd be laughed out of the room if you didn't think they were one of if not the best/consistently top 3 teams on the continent - thats why so many good players kept going there like Ronaldo ended up doing. In CS terms, yea the ones you mentioned are perfect examples of superteams. It didn't matter if they won it all or not, it was whether this was, on paper, the most stacked/consistent team you could pick. When Cloud9 won their major, the superteam to beat was Faze 100%

i just realized, that faze squad with olof and coldzera is literally the only instance of two #1 players playing along each other….

Xyp9x is so underrated. He did lot of clutch rounds to save his team.

I think you forgot to mention Astana Dragons. Back in 2013,The true OG of CS:GO Superteam. The CIS most dominant players were there. If I remember correctly there was Edward, Markeloff, Dosia, adreN, ANGE1. They fell off because of money end or something, but in the interview then Edward said that team was not practicing, and they all think that they’re superstars and don’t need to practice.

goated intro song man mucho respect

Hear me out imagine the french G2 but Apex is already in the midst or starting his IGL Arc rather than shox calling

I miss 2021 Navi 😢

no way you open it up with a mike song

wait using MIKE for your ad goes insanely crazy... good taste

Great video

Greatest cs KZfaqr dead or alive no kizzy on stizzy

completely agreed with all the takes. what about the current Liquid, performing or not so far, would that be considered a superteam? 🤔

MIKE I’m the promo, great taste in music 👍🏽

tSuperteam is when already established stars are brought together. like lebron, wade, and bosh teaming up in miami. or the old faze team.

was polish virtus pro a superteam?

YOOOOOOO USING A MIKE SONG FOR THE BOXR INTRO I ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE GOATED LAU

Would the MIBR with Stew and Tarik count? These were the two biggest riflers from Cloud 9 joining in with the core of the legendary Brazilians, although my thoughts at the time was that this wouldn't work

What music do you use in your vids #2

I like using "superteam" just like in the basketball. For me early Faze Clan, french G2, and in some way NIP, Fnatic and VP from first 2 years of csgo were superteam. Especially those last 3 team are very interesting cases for me. You take some of the greatest players from css and 1.6 and forge the best lineup in your country that you can make. Those teams were made of the most iconic and winning players of older cs. I would also say that Vitality is for me superteam. With one of the best cs players, legendary coach, some of the best players on the market. And at the end we have Falcons 🙃

If at least 3 or more players in a team have won at least two S-Tier Events, then that team can be called a 'Superteam'. This means that if such team comes about one almost certain side effect in the community is that there will be much expectation from it. And one possible effect is the team actually wins multiple S-Tier Events.

16:28 Could you do a series about pro player and how good they were! Showing highlights and demos and explaining the thought process, what they sid that was impressive at the time, so on and so forth. Please :-)

I am finished being surprised when a "super team" fails to perform. All the hype and expectation is generated by fans and past performance on other teams, but until the delivery, it is all theoretical. When that theory falls apart, we react with massive dissapointment, but we are the ones that ultimately set ourselves up for that dissapointment in the first place. When will these organizations learn that you can't just take five players, a truckload of money, clout, and hype, mash them together and magically have a winning formula every time? It doesn't always work to manufacture success in that way. There has to be organic chemistry, the rise of Spirit being an excellent example. Additionally, while all these orgs attempt to construct their own colossus, there will always have to be losers, so the "failure" of any given team is inevitable, no matter how "super" it may be in name only.

I don't know if the length of the video (21:37) is intentional, but Polish community should be pleased with that

you forgot G2 superteam Aleksi, niko, monesy, jackz, hunter. What about the mibr one with stew and tarik?

We need a podcast!

what the hell is that moneyball picture lmao

Much love lau❤ Can you make a video on cs casters? Might be a touchy subject and probably difficult to stay unbiased in your position. But still, would be nice to hear your thoughts. I think there is a huge gap in terms of skill between the your top casters and the rest. And just a handful who seem to be true naturals. Not many new faces over the years and too many who seem to try too hard.

2018 Cloud9 beating FaZe was like when the NY Giants upset the undefeated Patriots in the Super Bowl.

I stand by that if stewie had never been a twitch celeb he would have been a nobody. After teams learned to expect his push and random aggression his stats dropped of severely and the dude had almost no noteworthy plays in the second half of his career.

Oh man you wanna see a NBA example superteam check out the olympic US Dream Team 1992 and 1996 lol! Those are some bonkers rosters.

Money ball mentioned Billy beane activated

now we just need an actual pro furry superteam

perfect

Is that a MIKE song he’s playing in his intro ?

My definition of Superteam is that you make a change that brings in an S-Tier player in their role and the change leads to at least 3 Superstars in their roles (ie., 3 of IGL, AWP, Opener, Closer, Anchor). It is most obvious when 2-3 of the stars are being added rather than a Star team adding a borderline S-Tier. And to define S-Tier, the player should be Top20 HLTV, preferably Top10 or a recognised Top 5-6 for their role. ropz to FaZe is a debatable Superteam signing, that I think you missed. rain and broky might not be considered Top 5 in role at this point but Twistzz (anchor) and Karrigan (IGL) likely were and with rain's recent past, I think it tips it over the line. Astralis was debatably a Superteam when Magisk joined. Magisk had got Top20 the year before and was joining an established team of greats. The fact that Kajerbye was seen as better doesn't change what the Magisk addition meant. Similarly Liquid adding Stewie could be debated as a Superteam as well. They were already the clear 2nd best team with 2 superstars in their roles in EliGE and NAF and then they added a Major champion. The expectations were high even with the GOAT Astralis.

Crazy I didn't think people were confused on what a super team was. Cheat code is a good term. Current clippers are also a great example

i'd honestly expand the definition of superteam to include national superteams - one team stealing away players from other teams from the same region to make one ultimate team

Honetly the Saudis shoulda just said "alright Zywoo, magisk, Niko, s1mple, and Gla1ve we give you each 100 mil to join falcons" it would be a disaster but hilarious

mike song on the intro real recognize real

greyhound saying bye bye