Rival's Playbook

[CSN NewsBot]

After finishing third at the recent Summer CPL event, American team Rival garnered a lot of attention in the esports community. In the spirit of this, GotFrag has published a "playbook" describing some of Rival's best strategies. I personally think that Rival was one of the few teams at the CPL that won more on strategy than aim. Here's some totally out of context quote from the de_train pistol round analysis:

On de_train, Rival runs an overloaded setup on the outside site, which, correct me if I'm wrong (and I know you will in the comments), we first saw in a match last CAL season against TEC.



Here is how the setup works: two players setup on the bomb train, watching the ladder room. This exerts an enormous amount of pressure on these two players. Not only must both defend against the offense using the USP at AWP ranges, but they also must defend against the close-range attackers sweeping in from the alley to attack the front of the bomb train.

Check out the rest of the playbook here.

[DchozN]

another informative analysis by bootman. top notch stuff.

[L0stAngel]

I agree..top notch.

[DaRk-AnGeL]

Well, now I know what it's like to have your best friend steal your playbook and sell it to the enemy. >:-]

[MorgaN6]

gj to GotFrag nice stuff

[tonymontana]

chicken little flea flicker on 3! BREAK!

[raging dragon]

gj gotfrag very interesting!

[FeaRtheSam]

yay! some nuke strats for CAL-Open preseason!

[Stagger Lee]

Great. Now every kid in a clan will be emulating Rival now. "Now scrimming, The Rival wannabe's vs. the 3D wannabe's". <Groan>

[|=AoGO=| Vic da Dick]

Just out of curiosity, but:

While in the site masternook likes to toss an HE nade over the B tunnels wall to hear if the offense is working it slowly, much like de_train.

What does this do? Do you hear a little "uh" or groan-like sound when a T is present? Always wondered about that...

[Bert 004991]

#9: you get the same sound you get when you shoot people through walls. very easy to hear.

[xlokix]

|=AoGO=| Vic da Dick wrote..

Just out of curiosity, but:



What does this do? Do you hear a little "uh" or groan-like sound when a T is present? Always wondered about that...

you don't hear the nade explode, so the only thing that is heard is the player getting hurt by the nade if a player is there.

[azz0r]

new 36mb patch tonight, confirmed.

[Pharlap]

Bert 004991 wrote..

#9: you get the same sound you get when you shoot people through walls. very easy to hear.

yeah thats a cool tactic. i use really really loud custom bullet_hit.wav sounds so its even easier to hear if u hit ppl behind walls/boxes

[bullet_head]

Pharlap wrote..

yeah thats a cool tactic. i use really really loud custom bullet_hit.wav sounds so its even easier to hear if u hit ppl behind walls/boxes

Which is cheating, yes.