these points are then used to rank every team on a global ranking as well as broken down into region (europe, americas, asia) and subregion (north america, south america, oceania, etc), and most high tier tournaments primarily invite based on these rankings

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the cs year is broken down into two half-year seasons, each of which are capped off with a "major", a valve-sponsored megatournament with its own structure, in-game cosmetics, etc. majors are the biggest, most prestigious, and arguably most difficult tournaments to win
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faze and liquid are both tier 1 (a nebulously defined term for the highest level of cs competition) teams that are, generously, struggling. both teams have primarily played high level competition this season and bombed the fuck out, usually against lower ranked, sometimes tier 2 opponents
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