s1mple priced at $205k for ESLC Katowice Fantasy

20-10-2024 22:47

Katowice's LAN will contribute season points, while the online stage of Thunderpick World Championship 2024 is live as a partner game.

Fantasy players can choose s1mple for his two first events as Falcons' AWPer

ESL Challenger Katowice 2024

Why is it a Season game?

- We decided to include ESL Challenger Katowice 2024 in the Season since it still featured five top 20 teams (out of eight), and there was a long pause between other big events.

Format

- You can create your teams on the Fantasy page here.
- GSL group stage, four-team single-elimination playoffs.
- Openers and Winners’ matches are BO1, all the rest are BO3.

Teams

Group A

TEAM

Eternal Fire

SAW

Falcons

Group B

TEAM

Things to note 

- Due to the presence of BO1s, the importance of performance down the bracket is shifted further towards the latter half of the tournament.

- Likewise, if you expect a player to play well regardless of the outcomes of their match, the difference in points attributed due to BO1s in the "upper" bracket & BO3 in the "lower" bracket might compensate for the lack of padding points.

Player prices

- As this is the first event of Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev in a year, there was no other way to come up with a price for him other than arbitrarily, and we settled on $205K. What we took into consideration was his previous form, relative competition in Falcons' group, and the fact that s1mple is not replacing an obviously much weaker player in Álvaro "⁠SunPayus⁠" García. But all of this, again, is arbitrary, considering the prolonged length of s1mple’s absence.

Official: s1mple joins Falcons on loan

- As Eternal Fire are clear favorites at the event, we bumped the prices of most of their players.

Prizes 

- The users can count on both Season points and skin prizes brought to you by Chicken.GG as follows.

1. Hydra Gloves | Emerald (Field-Tested)
2. AWP | Hyper Beast (Field-Tested)
3. AK-47 | Asiimov (Field-Tested)

Thunderpick World Championship 2024

Format

- You can create your teams on the Fantasy page here.
- GSL group stage.
- Winners and runners-up of the group stage will play one match in the Play-in bracket.
- All matches are BO3.

Teams

Group A

TEAM

Virtus.pro

Falcons

3DMAX

Group B

TEAM

The MongolZ

fnatic

Cloud9

Group C

TEAM

Group D

TEAM

Things to note 

- This is an online stage (or a qualifier) to a $770K four-team LAN tournament. The LAN part is not included in this game.

- UNPAID were replaced by OG with Jakub "⁠M1key⁠" Krausko playing instead of Bram "⁠Nexius⁠" Campana. Since the swap happened after the game was opened, the OG players inherited the prices of UNPAID.

UNPAID part ways with h4rn

Player prices

- s1mple is valued at $210K at this event. The price differs from Katowice due to the difference in format and the level of competition.

Prizes 

- The users can count on skin prizes brought to you by Chicken.GG as follows.

1. AWP | Redline (Field-Tested)
2. AK-47 | Asiimov (Field-Tested)
3. M4A1-S | Hyper Beast (Field-Tested)

overrated

2024-10-20 22:48

11 replies

No he is litteraly not, everyone thinks he's washed. Every kill he gets will be a suprise for me, S1mple is still the csgo GOAT tho...

2024-10-20 23:47

7 replies

that's a tier 2-3 tournament i'm expecting s0mple doing at least a 1.1 or he's done

2024-10-21 01:01

4 replies

Spoilers: he's done

2024-10-21 04:31

3 replies

I'm one of the people who have been calling him washed in CS2 but it's different now. I think he practiced properly this time because he wants to come back for real. there was very little pressure on him last time because new game + role change + replacing someone who got kicked for his own problems. this time there is huge pressure because falcons benched sunpayus, an active and still well respected awper, for s1mple to make a return as an awper. will he bring 2022 and earlier s1mple dominance straight away? probably not. but I expect a surprisingly unwashed player showing crisp aim.

2024-10-21 04:39

i'm a 100% simple hater, but i'm not discarding he can comeback. it's a win-win situation for me: if he plays bad i can hate on him, if he plays well at least the scene will be more competitive

2024-10-21 23:30

Aged

2024-10-22 01:53

But Csgo is dead for 13 month now

2024-10-21 13:36

1 reply

kid, try reading that message again. Good luck next time ;)

2024-10-21 13:43

I'm grateful for everyone who thinks like this, this doubt regarding a player who has constantly remained at a very high level for a long time, (it even sounds illogical lol). Because thanks to this, S1mple is coming for just $205 in 1 camp and $210 in another. After all, he is now the awper and the maps he played in CS2, not being the awper, help even more. Now I'll get free points! I love you!

2024-10-21 00:03

overrated? here? he's the goat lmao he stopped 1 year

2024-10-21 00:57

no it will be of interestink

2024-10-21 02:27

THE GOAT IS BACK WE SHOULD ALL BE HAPPY TO SEE HIM AGAIN ON THE SERVER <3

AYE!

2024-10-20 23:03

is he paying you for this or what lmao

2024-10-21 01:02

lmao flair

2024-10-21 01:07

100% picked incoming

8 replies

for now he was picked "only" 3000 times with almost 5300 teams created So only a little bit more than half of the teams picked him until now (if im not wrong)

2024-10-20 22:52

2 replies

Nah I don't believe, that's probably ZywOo fans

2024-10-20 22:53

hltv.org/fantasy/491/overview you can see here brotha the number of players by now and if you scroll down a little bit more, you see the most chosen players and see how many times s1mple was chosen and then you do simple math and voila

2024-10-20 22:57

Not me. Given his performance when he subbed in last time, I wouldn't have him unless he was sub 190k.

2024-10-21 04:15

impossible to compare. you are in for a surprise.

2024-10-21 04:40

For someone that has basically been out of it entirely for a year? I doubt it. Faceit grind all you want, nothing matches being in an actual competition. And it will take a little bit to get back into the swing of it.

2024-10-21 10:15

did you watch it? what did you think?

2024-10-21 17:10

Nah, doing other stuff when the first match was on and had gone to bed before the 2nd.

2024-10-22 03:50

Too expensive mens

why tf is he 205 lmao, ik he didnt play for a long time but you can adjust it to like 217 or something

2024-10-20 22:49

any recent data is from one loss with falcons from a fkn tier 3 swedish mix

2024-10-21 02:28

5 replies

that iteration of metizport deffo wasnt tier 3

2024-10-21 10:03

They arent tier 2, you dont even see them playing tier 2 tournaments.

2024-10-22 18:15

They WERE tier 2, do you not have reading comprehensions? "That iteration", meaning a non-current one. hltv.org/events/7553/blast-premier-sprin..

2024-10-22 18:54

links one tournament they did ok in

2024-10-23 12:01

Because that was the tournament you were talking about? And because the roster after that tournament got dismantled due to player stock rising. Notable results that would speak to the fact of them being t2 prior to getting knocked out by Spirit 2-1: Beat Monte 2-0 Falcons 2-1 (the game s1mple played) Endpoint 2-1 Apeks 2-1 Furia 13-5 twice in Bo1's Literally the definition of being the midst of t2.

2024-10-23 12:21

bro, he was at 210 when the fantasy first came out, they lowered him to 205 and stil is a bad pick because there's no guarantee that falcons will make it out of groups even if he performs well; lots of eyes on the current thunderpick camp that's happening right now as it might change many people's mind if falcons does "well", but still, for 205 there are better picks overall if you consider the +6 from winning matches vs the -3 from losing.

2024-10-21 18:41

scam

if you pick him up you're just throwing lmao he ends with negative points

or he ends with 200

2024-10-20 23:16

6 replies

I doubt it, on his single match loan spell he got a 0.93 rating against Metizport. I think he's still able to be a top 10 player. But i don't know if he can cope with not being the absolute best anymore. We'll see

2024-10-21 02:21

as a rifler in a game he hated and refused to grind.

2024-10-21 04:41

now he is awper in game he hates and refuses to grind did you see his faceit stats bro is not training

2024-10-21 04:48

he did practice more recently, and awping is obviously his wheel house. he had some mental hang-up believing the awp was nerfed too much by peeker's advantage but by now he should be over that, and somebody should have advised him on the strange ingame settings he was using that introduce more lag. m0nesy and zywoo showed that awping was viable even in early CS2 and by now peeker's advantage has finally been dealt with. the game should be similar enough to GO now that s1mple's way of holding angles and such should work again. plus his greatest strength were always flick shots and the mouse input for flicks is at this point better in CS2 than it was in GO.

2024-10-21 04:52

you know what? i dont agree with everything, especially the thing about "mouse input for flicks", but i'm on board. it's proven that awp still works in cs2 and if others can do it then why not him? im with you!!

2024-10-21 05:11

I'd say he performed like I expected. the first map had me doubting but anubis is a map he always struggled on, whether in Navi or when he's streaming so it makes sense. on Nuke I don't care what anyone says about baiting, he was himself. and he wouldn't have been last alive so often if anyone on falcons could get a fucking entry frag or at least trade the first guy.

2024-10-21 16:15

Why this is season fantasy????? Edit: lol I just need to read first.

2024-10-20 22:51

because s1mple is in it

2024-10-20 23:55

Is this the cheapest s1mple has ever been in fantasy?

2024-10-20 22:54

Was cheaper in blast showdown. Like 196k, as I remember

Bo1 again you have to be joking

2024-10-20 22:55

GOAT is back.

2024-10-20 23:05

NT but won’t bait me into picking him

2024-10-20 23:13

Tbh I wouldn't care if he was cheaper then everyone else, until we see how he's gonna play im not going to put him on my fantasy team but hey I'm not pro at this either lmao

2024-10-20 23:18

too much

2024-10-20 23:25

bro about to get obliterated by online demons

2024-10-20 23:27

205k for this KEKW actually overpriced by at least 100k

2024-10-20 23:34

why different pricing for thunderpick and challenger? edit: i only read headlines sry

2024-10-20 23:37

lol

2024-10-20 23:57

lol Isnt worth even 50k.

2024-10-21 00:18

I picked him up instantly lets see, i also have xantares

2024-10-21 00:19

All because of Turkey-Serbia relations?

too costly

2024-10-21 00:36

That price is a steal.

2024-10-21 01:22

people here really thinking s1mple, after not playing for a year, would drop to a 1> rating player lol. Even in 2023 he had 1.18 rating

2024-10-21 09:39

What you didn’t see was he was practising a lot in EPL…

2024-10-21 13:35

overpriced, should be at 185 000

2024-10-21 02:41

70% sure EF will bomb out.

2024-10-21 02:42

this is an absolute joke

2024-10-21 02:44

Hahahahaha he is washed af

2024-10-21 06:28

No one picked him, even for free

2024-10-21 06:30

I ain’t no simple fan but isn’t it always the same thing with him and you guys? “Oh he’s done.” Then he starts doing ridiculous stuff once again like always.

2024-10-21 06:52