Its size, complex structure, and a number of strong rivals in the Workshop prevented Season from becoming one the community’s favorites. Season met a mixed reception in the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive community. Subsequently, however, everyone forgot about Season and it never appeared in the game again. Valve included it in the map list for such operations as Vanguard and Bloodhound. In October 2014, an updated version of the map was added to the Workshop. In December of the same year, the first Major - DreamHack Winter 2013 - took place which established the “official” map set, Season not included in it. The map didn’t stay in the tournament pool for long. The first version of the map came to light in 2007. Season was very popular in the times of Counter-Strike: Source and was even played at the first tournaments after the release of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. It’s unlikely that this map will ever appear in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.Īnother map from the past. All told, only nine maps have been played in all the Majors over the years! The last time when brute, the creator of Tuscan, updated his work in the Workshop was back in May 2015. Inferno, Dust 2, Mirage, Train, and Nuke were already played in the very first Major - and they are still used for tournaments today. Valve isn’t particularly interested in adding new maps to the game. With all that said, the map is perfectly suitable for both tactical and “lone wolf” play styles.īut there is a downside too. To add to it, the spacious passages alternate with shelters and obstacles. In the middle of the map, there are two “bridge” passages for quick repositioning. The spawn locations of attack and defense are connected by five passages, each of them also leading to one of the sites. The main appeal of the map is its complex structure. That’s how Tuscan appeared - the best tournament map in CS 1.6 according to many pros. This map was so good that an organization called CEVO hired its creator to create a clone of this map. MirageĪpart from CPL_Strike, there was another map that enjoyed huge popularity among the veterans - CPL_Mill. One such work is formally still alive today: it’s the Mirage map, which was originally dubbed CPL_Strike. The company hired map makers and ordered exclusive works from them, which could only be played at CPL tournaments. The CPL’s biggest contribution to the development of CS is still tangible today.
In the distant past, namely in the early and mid-2000s, there existed an organization called Cyberathlete Professional League which held a whole bunch of tournaments until it was closed in 2008.