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The Brazilian Counter-Strike Championship was created in 2019 with the objective to professionalize their local teams. Organizations are following the trend and investing in the Brazilian local scene. “The Brazilian esports athlete Coldzera was named the best CS:GO player in the world by HLTV in 20’’ As an example, the ESL One: Belo Horizonte tournament gathered 15,000 fans in the Mineirinho Arena in 2018 and more than a million viewership hours. Brazilian fans are known in traditional sports for their excitement towards their biggest stars, and CS:GO esports athletes are not an exception. Their success is followed by a massive fanbase in the country. Players like coldzera, fer, or FalleN are among the most successful players over the last years in the competitive scene. Brazil and Counter-Strike: a story of successīrazil have two of the most popular teams in CS:GO: Furia and MIBR. The fanbase is massive: 10% of gamers worldwide are Latin-American. The projections are very promising: the industry is expected to grow +7.7% in 2020 and reach $40 million in revenues by 2021. According to Newzoo, esports attracted 43 million viewers within the region in 2019.

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Screenshot from a professional CS:GO game LATAM and its potential within the esports industryĪs an emerging market, LATAM is already establishing a strong role in the esports industry. Moreover, considering its longevity, it is already a very well tested entertainment product: people don’t get tired of it! However, it is easily accessible to everyone, and it sparks curiosity not only in gamers. It doesn’t mean the game is easy to play since there are a lot of skills and strategies you need to practice and learn to be competitive.

Contrary to other popular esports games like League of Legends or Dota 2, CS:GO is very easy to understand, even if you never watched it before or played the game yourself. The game brings constant action and a very joyful sense of teamwork among their players. After 30 rounds (plus 6 if there is a draw), there will be a winner. The first team needs to eliminate the second or detonate a bomb, while the second team aims to get rid of the first or defuse the bomb. The premise of the game is simple: five players are terrorists and another five are counter-terrorist. The latest version of CS:GO (released in 2012) is currently one of the most popular esports in the world, having Brazil as one of the top countries worldwide in terms of competitiveness and popularity. Today it gathers millions of fans, from millennials who are already in their 30’s and have played the game since their teenage, to the youngest generations. During these twenty years, its popularity has been increasing.

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The Counter-Terrorists ('the good guys') face off against the Terrorists ('the bad guys').CS:GO is rising in popularity among LATAM countries, especially in Brazil.Ĭounter-Strike was released in 2000 as a mod from the popular game Half-Life. There are three official scenarios (game modes), each with their own teams, objectives, and maps. Ĭounter-Strike has been praised worldwide for its highly rewarding multiplayer. Over time, however, several server-side modifications have added bots for in-game use. The original Counter-Strike came exclusively with multiplayer, without even computer-controlled players. Although basic, it is considered one of the most revolutionary online games of all time. In it, two teams, the Counter-Terrorists and the Terrorists, fight to complete an objective or eliminate the opposing team. Its fast-paced and team-oriented gameplay has stayed relatively the same throughout the years.

With the launch of Steam on Septem, these large patches became unnecessary and were replaced with smaller updates.

The most recent, 1.6, is now used as a title to differentiate the original game from the rest of the series. Even afterwards, development was ongoing and saw the release of several very large patches. On November 8, 2000, the game was ushered out of the beta phase and officially released as a fully licensed product. Post-release Main article: Counter-Strike patches Throughout this time, it grew in popularity and became one of the most popular first-person shooters of all time. It went through seventeen different iterations and was eventually released as a standalone game. The game started out as a Half-Life modification on the Goldsource engine. Development Beta Main article: Counter-Strike Beta

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