CSGO – Counter Strike Global Offensive Betting

We will discuss some of the main betting options below, these are typical bets that most Sportsbooks provide. In the game below the match consists of 2 maps. To win the match one team must have more round wins than the other team in total over the 2 maps. Example – Team A wins the first map by a score of 16-7 rounds vs Team B. Team B then win the second map by 3-16. Adding the rounds up gives Team A a total of 19 round wins and Team B has a total of 23 round wins. Therefore Team B wins the match.

Match Lines – This bet is simply to pick the match winner. There are 2 teams to bet on and one of them must win. The team with the highest total round wins over 2 maps wins the match.

 

Total Rounds – This is an over/under bet. The bookmaker provides a number of rounds for example 63.5 rounds and gives the odds of whether there will be more than 63.5 rounds (i.e. 64 rounds or more) or less than 63.5 rounds (i.e. 63 rounds or less).

Rounds Handicap – Both teams are given a round handicap. Example – Team A have a round handicap of -7.5. This handicap is subtracted from Team A’s total round wins (i.e. Team A beats Team B by 30-20 rounds). Subtract the 7.5 from Team A’s 30 wins which gives 22.5 round wins. 22.5 rounds is still more than Team B’s 20 round wins so the bet is won.

Map Bets – These are similar to the above bets but instead of being based on the whole match they are based on only a singular map and are based on the first team to 16 round wins. Additional bets include betting on the correct score of the match e.g. Team A winning 16-7 against Team B.

Overtime Map Bet – This only happens if a certain condition is met which is that both teams get to 15 round wins each (15-15).

 

CSGO Counter Strike Betting Odds

The latest betting odds for Counter Strike CSGO will appear here shortly.

 

CSGO Main Tournaments

Counter Strike: Global Offensive has become very popular in the Esports gaming world in recent times. There are different competitions and tournaments played in professional leagues hosted by 3rd party groups and tournaments known as ‘Major Championships’ or ‘Majors’ which are sponsored by the makers of the game – Valve. The first valve sponsored ‘Major’ was in Sweden back in 2013 with a total prize pool of $250k split between the 16 teams that played in the tournament.

There are several different tournaments in the CS:GO game and take place in various countries around the world. The tournaments with large prize pools and the best professional teams across the globe battle it out in offline S-Tier tournaments (the best ones). The second largest tournament behind the Valve sponsored ‘Majors’ in the CS:GO series is the Intel Extreme Masters which first started on the 1st March 2017.

There are several different tournaments in the CS:GO game and take place in various countries around the world. The tournaments with large prize pools and the best professional teams across the globe battle it out in offline S-Tier tournaments (the best ones). The second largest tournament behind the Valve sponsored ‘Majors’ in the CS:GO series is the Intel Extreme Masters which first started on the 1st March 2017.

Game Name	Tournament Name
CSGO	BLAST Premier Fall Finals
CSGO	Blast Premier Groups
CSGO	Blast Premier showdown
CSGO	BLAST Premier World Final
CSGO	BLAST Premier-spring/summer finals
CSGO	CBCS Elite League
CSGO	CBCS Masters
CSGO	CCT Central Europe Series
CSGO	CCT North Europe
CSGO	CCT South Europe
CSGO	Elisa Invitational
CSGO	Elisa Masters Espoo
CSGO	Elisa Open
CSGO	ESEA- Advanced Division
CSGO	ESL Challenger Atalanta
CSGO	ESL Challenger Hannover
CSGO	ESL Challenger League Europe
CSGO	ESL Challenger League- Asia-Pacific
CSGO	ESL Challenger League- NA
CSGO	ESL Challenger Rotterdam
CSGO	ESL challenger- Jönköping
CSGO	ESL Challenger- Melbourne
CSGO	ESL Impact Katowice
CSGO	ESL Impact League
CSGO	ESL Masters Spain
CSGO	ESL Pro League
CSGO	European Pro league
CSGO	FiReLEAGUE
CSGO	FiReLEAGUE Academy
CSGO	Forward Cup
CSGO	Gamers Club Liga- Série A
CSGO	Icelandic Esports League
CSGO	IESF World Esports Championship
CSGO	Intel Extreme Masters
CSGO	International Esports Federation World Championshi
CSGO	Monsters Reloaded
CSGO	Mystery Hype International
CSGO	PGL Major
CSGO	Pinnacle Cup
CSGO	Pinnacle Winter Series
CSGO	Sazka eLEAGUE
CSGO	Svenska Cupen
CSGO	Swisscom Hero League
CSGO	Thunderpick Bitcoin Series
CSGO	WePlay Academy League

 

A typical esports CS GO match consists of 30 rounds where each team plays 15 rounds as Terrorists and 15 rounds as Counter Terrorists. The first team to 16 round wins will win the map. If a tie takes place (i.e. 15 rounds each) then 6 extra rounds are played. The first team to reach 4 round wins will win the map. If there is another tie (i.e 33-33 rounds each) then the process is repeated until a winner is found. Typically each round has a maximum duration of 1 minute and 45 seconds.

Playing Counter Strike

 

Counter Strike: Global Offensive also known as CS:GO for short. CS:GO was first released in 2012 and is the fourth game in the Counter Strike series games which were released in 1999. CS:GO is a first person shooter game made by ‘Valve’ which was first released on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, MacOS, Windows PC and then later Linux.

In CS:GO there are several multiplayer game modes to choose from, these include ‘Casual’, ‘Competitive’ and ‘War Games’ with a battle royal mode called ‘Danger Zone’ which was added in late 2018. The most popular game is the ‘Bomb Scenario’ game mode in which the ‘Terrorists’ try to plant C4 at one of the 2 bomb site objectives whilst the ‘Counter-Terrorists’ try to defend the 2 bomb sites.

Valve made CS:GO free for all players back in 2019 so anyone can play it. Valve did this to gain more profit for when they release the new upcoming Counter Strike game.  There is a huge market for the skins used by characters used in CS:GO. Some skins can be sold for thousands of pounds depending on the rarity of the skin.

Counter Strike: Global Offensive has nine officially recognised game modes but in the esports betting scene only the most common competitive game mode is the bomb scenario game. Another game example is Arms Race – Each team starts with 6 terrorists and 6 counter terrorists. Players initially spawn with a SMG and for every 2 kills they get their weapon changes. The order of guns is always the same: 3 SMGs, 4 Assault Rifles, 2 Shotguns, 2 Snipers, 1 Machine Gun followed by 4 Pistols. Once a player has got 2 kills with each gun the player receives the gold knife, the first player to kill an enemy with the gold knife wins the game for their team.