I’m sure you often watch esports streams on Twitch and keep an eye on professional CS players. After that, you are motivated and enter the game matchmaking trying to carry games as cool as pros do.
Still, things are not as easy in practice as they seem on a stream or a lucky highlight video. In this article, I’ll describe the system that would help you reach the highest rank. I’ll tell you how to become a Global Elite player in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (thanks for help SirAzAzeL's CSGO FAQ).
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The Way to CS:GO Global Elite Rank
I’ll start with saying the most important thing: if you came here hoping to read a magic phrase that would change your gaming life and make you the CS:GO Global, you made a mistake. Global Elite is the highest rank in CSGO. To get it and keep it after, you need to work on yourself and your game very much. So, there won’t be anything “simple” in CS battlefields. Gain patience and let’s move on.
Mood
To get CSGO Global Elite rank, you’ll need a lot of time and practice. There won’t be quick result. Only people obsessed by their goal can reach highest results, and you are not an exception. Reaching the Global Elite rank is not only the reason to show off for friends. This rank gives you the way to the esports world able to make you rich and famous. So, you better treat it seriously.
Work on Yourself
A defeat is an experience and nothing more. If you lost the game and then worked on your mistakes, you became better and more experienced. Always review your failures and perceive them as free tips. Only players getting good experience from negative moments can become CS:GO Global Elite rank holders.
Physical Condition
To make it all perfect, you better go in for sports. To begin, don’t drink alcohol before and during your games. You physical condition means your reaction. To make it quick, you need to sleep well, be sober and keep yourself in a good shape.
Mental Condition
Things are much more complicated here. To keep your physical condition, it is enough to sleep well, eat well, exercise regularly and refuse drinking. Mental condition requires more self-control. If you didn’t do enough warm-up and entered the matchmaking too quickly, you start losing rounds. When you start losing rounds, you start raging. Rage is the first enemy of concentration. Your reaction might get faster but you stop thinking and make wrong decisions. So, if you want to reach Global Elite rank in CS:GO, you have to control your emotions. I’ll tell how to deal with psychological load later, it a separate article.
Time Management
To make your learning process effective, you need to play regularly. It is important to play productively, to improve your weaknesses, to analyze your game and mechanics, and not only to play many hours in a row. If you manage your time effectively, your learning and rank progress will be much faster.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Determine what you are strong and weak at clearly. Many global elite players have their special features: some of them are extremely accurate with AWP, others destroy people in pistol rounds and have a lightning-fast reaction. Be proud of your strengths and always improve your weaknesses.
Aiming
Here we proceed to in-game basics. The most important thing in CS GO is your aiming. If you can’t shoot accurately, all the tips mentioned above are useless. This skill is the hardest one in Counter-Strike. Numerous esports players still feel it difficult to aim perfectly: they can position their crosshair greatly but think for too long to shoot in time. So, ass the future global elite player, you need to know aiming as your basic skill.
Crosshair Positioning
Your main goal is to keep your crosshair at your opponent’s head level. No matter how difficult it seems to be, you need to gain that habit.
Shooting Mode
Shooting tactics is another important moment for global elite CS GO players. You can go in for 3-bullet burst, 2-bullet shots, single one shooting, etc. Every method is good, you only need to choose the one suitable for you and practice it. It is possible to watch esports broadcasts and copy professional tactics, that’s not forbidden.
Bullet Spray
Take every gun, stand in front of a wall and shoot all bullets out. Learn where the 2nd, the 3rd, the 10th bullet flies. You need to know spraying of each kind of weapon you use. Difficult situations will be frequent: you’ll have to push the LMB and shoot the whole magazine out. At that moment, you need to know precisely where to move your crosshair to make bullets hit your enemy.
Training Maps
Training maps are the best places to practice and warm yourself up before competitive games. They are very important for a player willing to become the Global Elite.
After entering the matchmaking mode, you should get 500 to 1000 frags on training maps: this guarantees you a good warm-up and safety for statistics. Don’t forget to practice all weapons you use on training maps, not only AK-47 or AWP.
Other Important Moments
Flashbangs and Smoke Grenades
These seem to be negligible details you were rare to use. But grenades are necessary for players willing to reach CS GO Global Elite rank. You can search YouTube videos to find out when and how to use these grenades: it is quite difficult to describe principles with text, but the video is much easier to perceive it.
Game Replays
Always watch your replays and think how you could act in this or that situation. If you don’t watch replays, you won’t notice your mistakes and correct them. In addition, you can watch esports games to see how professionals play and which tactics they use. This will help you correct your playstyle.
Movement
Global Elite players continue moving. It looks like a philosophic quote but in fact that is an important in-game rule. During the game, you have to be mobile. If you stand still, you are a perfect target. Learn how to move correctly.
To Conclude
You should remember: nobody becomes the CS GO Global Elite player since first games. Global Elite means working on yourself and a good perspective. So, just treat it as a good investment. Never give up, improve your skills and one day you’ll raise a CS GO major esports cup above your head.
Have a good luck!
See you soon!