Today's update includes an adjustment to the Active Duty map pool as well as some weapon adjustments.



For starters, we're making changes to the Active Duty map pool, which will determine which maps get played at the 2023 Paris Major.

Anubis is being added to Active Duty and and Dust2 is being removed. But both maps are still available in Casual, Deathmatch, and Competitive modes.

We're also making some adjustments to weapons. The AWP has had its magazine size reduced to five bullets (so make them count!), and the M4A1-S now does less damage at long ranges.

Try the changes out and let us know what you think!

And thanks for the blog post title, Ryan on Twitter (@Schaffurr)!

After two unforgettable stages eight teams have survived and advanced to the Champions Stage of the IEM Rio Major.

Congratulations to Cloud9, FURIA, Fnatic, Heroic, Outsiders, MOUZ, Natus Vincere, and Team Spirit; they will compete in front of 18,000+ CS:GO fans at the sold out Jeunesse Arena to become Major Champions.

Champions Stage matches begin Thursday, November 10th, so lock in your picks for the Pick'Em Challenge! There's still time to support your favorite teams with team and player autograph stickers, earn (or purchase) Souvenir Tokens, and get ready for the conclusion of one of the most unpredictable Majors ever.

50% of the proceeds go to the players, teams, and organizations participating in the IEM Rio Major.

Good luck to all!

The 2022 IEM Rio Major is almost here and you can start supporting your favorite teams now! The IEM Rio Major Viewer Pass, Souvenir Tokens, Team, and Player Autograph sticker capsules are now available for purchase.

50% of the proceeds go to the teams and organizations taking part in the 2022 Rio Major.

Viewer Pass
With a Viewer Pass, you will receive a Rio 2022 Event Coin, Pick’em challenges to complete, all-you-can-spray team graffiti, Steam.tv flair, and exclusive access to Rio 2022 Souvenir Packages.

Upgradeable Event Coin
Activate the Viewer Pass and you will receive a Rio 2022 Event Coin that you can upgrade by playing the Rio Pick'Em Challenge. Complete enough challenges and upgrade your coin from Bronze to Diamond!

Team and Player Autograph stickers
Team and Player Autograph sticker capsules are now available. Both sticker types feature paper, glitter, holo, and gold sticker finishes.

The first matches of the Rio Major begin on October 31st, so get your items and picks in now!

It's CS:GO's 10th birthday, and we're celebrating with stickers, maps, and cupcakes!



The community pulled together for the 10th anniversary sticker competition, and the results speak for themselves--the 10 Year Birthday Sticker Capsule contains over 60 community submitted designs, including an all new animated 'Lenticular' quality. Congratulations to the winners!

You've been patient, and it's finally here. Tuscan is available in all game modes, so jump in to this classic map and put it through its paces!



And that's not all: we've brought back Anubis and Breach to competitive matchmaking, and added Primetime and Blagai to Wingman!

It wouldn't be a birthday without some cake... specifically, a cupcake topped with a birthday coin! For the next week (until Monday, August 22nd), CS:GO players with Prime status can grab their birthday coin by earning enough XP for their first in-game drop of the week.

Ten years. It's a big number, yet CS:GO is stronger than ever. Over the past 12 months alone, we've seen more players than ever before (averaging over 20 million monthly unique players), record viewership for Majors (2.7m concurrent viewers), and massive community support with over $70 million raised for professional organizations, teams, and players. The future could not look brighter.

Happy Birthday, CS:GO.

Today we are excited to ship the Recoil Case, featuring 17 weapon finishes from community artists and including the Broken Fang Case Gloves as rare special items!

The Recoil Case is dropping in-game now!

This weekend, thousands of screaming fans in Antwerp and millions of viewers around the world witnessed the crowning of a new Major Champion. Congratulations to FaZe Clan who proved to be an unstoppable force, taking the Grand Final 2-0.

Today we’re releasing the champions autograph capsule, featuring autograph stickers in paper, glitter, holo, and gold. Celebrate rain, karrigan, broky, ropz, and Twistzz by supporting them in style–50% of the proceeds are shared with the players and organizations taking part in the Major.

And so the Antwerp Major comes to a close. Onward, to Rio!

The Challengers Stage of the PGL Antwerp Major has concluded and 8 teams have advanced to the Legends Stage.

G2 Esports and Team Vitality went undefeated and faced the minimum number of opponents needed to advance. ENCE, Outsiders, and Team Spirit finished 3-1, and Bad News Eagles, Imperial Esports, and Team Liquid needed wins on the final day to book their ticket to the Legends Stage.

The Legends Stage begins Saturday, May 14th at 12:00 CEST. Watch the action live on Twitch or https://steam.tv/csgo as the final 16 teams compete for 8 spots in the Playoffs.

To celebrate CS:GO's upcoming 10th birthday we are accepting entries for another CS-themed sticker capsule.

This time, the theme is “CS:GO” (and CS:GO only). Over the last ten years CS:GO game has evolved from a beta to the most popular game on Steam, and we are excited to look through submissions to find great stickers that celebrate all things CS:GO! The sticker designs may be created in any style and all designs must be original with the exception of Counter-Strike logos or icons.

To help sort these themed submissions, please tag them with "CSGO10" in the title on the workshop (e.g. "CSGO10 | Sticker Name"). Previous workshop submissions are eligible for the capsule, just make sure to tag them so we can find them more easily.

All submissions for this event must be completed and submitted to the workshop by July 21st, 2022, and the capsule will release on or around CS:GO's 10th birthday (August 21, 2022). All items submitted for this event will still be eligible for future sticker capsules.

Good luck and have fun; we are excited to see what the community comes up with!

Today we shipping the Dreams & Nightmares Case, featuring 17 weapon finishes selected from the CS:GO Steam Workshop as part of the Dreams & Nightmares contest and the Gamma Knives from the Operation Riptide case as rare special items!

The CS:GO team reviewed over 15,000 entries from artists around the world and selected 17 weapon finishes to ship in the case. Each winning entry received $100,000 USD, for a grand total prize pool of $1.7 million.

The winning submissions were produced by 23 different artists, of which 14 were first-time contributors to the workshop. We want to thank everyone who submitted entries and took part in the contest.

The case is now available as an in-game drop and from the Steam Community Market!

Back in July we announced the Dreams & Nightmares Workshop Contest, a $1 mil art event offering the ten winning entries $100,000 each for their dream or nightmare themed weapon finish for CS:GO.

By the time the deadline for submissions hit in October, we had received over 15,000 entries.

The CS:GO team reviewed the amazing work from artists and teams from all parts of the globe, and decided that ten winners wouldn’t be enough. So, an additional seven winners were selected (17 winners total) for a grand total prize pool of $1.7 million.

Nextgenz
TheDanidem
Niran
Sebasteter & Kuch
Sparkwire & Druida
Druida
Maloo
supremat
oKeyush
Madara & Blazer
Anbu & kasim.tattoo
hook & KvaHu
Jerry & zlo
Des
Guardian Gear
Catmagen & b3d
Sorarox

The winning submissions were produced by 24 different artists, of which 14 were first-time contributors to the workshop. We’re currently contacting the winners, and will work with them over the coming weeks as we prepare their items to get shipped in the game.

We want to thank everyone who took the time to contribute their work. We hope to see more from you in the future.