The Truth CS:GO Podcast

Michael Carmody (EmJaeCaer) talks me through ESIC's bans on 42 Australian players for betting offenses in 2020 and 2021.

Interview with Kaspar Straube Hansen, the physiotherapist and osteopath for Heroic, discussing what it takes to keep the champions in peak physical condition.

What's the similarity between Daft Punk's 'One More Time' and William Goldman's 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'? Discover all that and more in this insane exploration of how our lives are like movies. And pop songs. And sentences. Music by Beaufort, Daft Punk and The Corrs.

Episode 100 is a monster, with an in-depth interview with Guardian, a delightful chat with INS’ mum, discussion of HenryG to Cloud9, the coaching bans, ESL One Cologne, some 19th Century American poetry, some final thoughts for the listeners, the winner of the Guardian hoodie announced and a new track from Beaufort, the creators of the intro and outro music(https://beaufort.asia). There was also a sneaky bit of ELO in the Guardian intro. Say goodbye on twitter @thetruthcsgo.

Interview with Colleen Kaiwai the mother of Gratisfaction. Also a chat about Lekr0's move to North and week one of ESL One Cologne. Music by Beaufort. @thetruthcsgo.

A bag of roster changes, Blast controversy with Neom, Summit 6 and listener questions about how to stop becoming too attached to girls and how to know when you're playing too much CS. Music by Beaufort and a special guest.

#97 by The_Truth CS:GO Podcast

HenryG responds to allegations, Launders accused and responds, Banks allegations against Redeye, a review of Zonic's book and an interview with a skin addict. News by Brax, music by Beaufort. @thetruthcsgo.

News from the last week of CSGO, including henryG accusations, Complexity and Evil Geniuses win BLAST premier finals, Penta returns to CS, mixwell deserts CS, Jamppi sues the wrong company, Astralis lies, MIBR beef with Furia, Giants may buy Copenhagen flames, Apecks signs Dennis and Byali gets a new team. News by Brax, music by Beaufort. @thetruthcsgo.

Artiic joins me for a chat about Dreamhack Masters Spring EU and NA.

A chat with Jeremy 'Junglist' Ray, with a new way of looking at CSGO, how to improve it and a very interesting theory about how to solve toxicity. @thetruthcsgo.

Drawing parallels between jdm leaving for Valorant and Pascal's wager from the 17th Century. Also Olofmeister leaves Faze, Lekr0 kicked from NiP and other roster news and Arctiic joins me for some Dreamhack Masters Spring chats. Music by Beaufort. @thetruthcsgo.

Interview with Thorin about Flashpoint. Also Road To Rio, NA players jumping to Valorant, Roster Changes and some thoughts on human nature featuring Christopher Hitchens.

The two latest in-game updates, Flashpoint Season 1, EPL Season 11, the new Road to Rio major qualification, a tonne of other headlines and then some talk about tribalism. Aristotle has the last word. @thetruthcsgo.com

Astralis sign a sixth player, Rio Major moves to November, Zews leaves MIBR and I come up with Fallen's only way forward. Oh and Jamppi sues Valve. Then I rant for a bit about the virus and try to work out what it's telling me about the world and the people around me. @thetruthcsgo.

Talking about IEM Katowice, Alex leaves Vitality, Hunden out of Mad Lions, Dreamhack Anaheim, Flashpoint's first day and a CSGO workout. @thetruthcsgo.

I review Danylo 'Zeus' Teslenko's autobiography, 'Against All Odds: The Way to Victory'. Plus give a rundown of Dreamhack Anaheim Day 1 and some other news. Buy Zeus' book here: https://storezeus.com/en @thetruthcsgo. thetruth@thetruthcsgo.com

The three new CSGO Leagues, roster stuff, what the 'ICE' in ICE Challenge stands for and a smidgeon of philosophy courtesy of Plato. Music by Beaufort: https://soundcloud.com/beaufort.

Recap of IEM Beijing, Complexity bring in Poizon and Konfig, Smash lose roster, thoughts on possible cheating in the pro scene (including OneThree's accusations) and a goodbye from an indefinite hiatus on the podcast. Music by beaufort.asia. Affiliated with CSGO2ASIA. Supported by patrons at patreon.com/thetruthcsgo. "Olofmeister, I love you! Guardian helped me and I made 85 episodes of a podcast!"

Discussion of Blast Pro Copenhagen 2019, Starseries iLeague Season 9, 100 Thieves purchase of Renegades, Omen Challnger Series, Windigo leave CSGO, the SG nerf and the trouble with texting in light of a message I received a recent break up. Music by Beaufort, server paid for by Patreons at patreon.com/thetruthcsgo. Twitter: @thetruthcsgo. Website: thetruthcsgo.com

Going over the top 20 teams in CSGO - who's at Starseries iLeague S8 and who isn't. Some ramble about news of the last two weeks, including ESL NY and Dreamhack Malmo and then a rumination on whether your life is a comedy or tragedy (inspired by Joker) in light of some of the lingo from the business of screenwriting. Music by Beaufort, server paid for by Patreons at http://patreon.com/thetruthcsgo. Twitter: @thetruthcsgo

Rostermania (NiP, eUnited, Singularity, NRG and Evil Geniuses, Navi, Faze, G2, Vitailty, Hellraisers, Fnatic, Tyloo) and some wisdom from Cus D'amato, the legendary trainer of Mike Tyson, about the nature of fear and why it's not Astralis' fault they can make CS boring. @thetruthcsgo. Music by Beaufort.asia. Support the podcast on Patreon.com/thetruthcsgo.

With Blast announcing their final tournament for the year in Bahrain, we do a little educational episode all about Bahrain. Where is it? Who lives there? Is the royal family related to Wiz Khalifa? @thetruthcsgo. https://www.patreon.com/thetruthcsgo

Analysis of the legends stage of the Berlin Starladder Major 2019, rostermania and all about The Milwaukee Protocol and why relationships are sometimes like this emergency rabies cure. This episode ends with a special piece of audio that long-time listeners will be familiar with. Music by Beaufort.asia. @thetruthcsgo. Support the podcast at patreon.com/thetruthcsgo.

Rambling about Starladder Major Legends stage and listening to some Chopin and wondering about whether we are in fact god. Music by Beaufort @beaufort.asia Chopin by Cecile Licad, published by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum under this license: https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Creative_Commons_Attribution_Non-commercial_No_Derivatives_3.0 and Harald Vetter under this license: https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Creative_Commons_Attribution_4.0 Twitter: @thetruthcsgo. Email: thetruth@thetruthcsgo.com. Discord: https://discord.gg/ArWCXuy

Discussion of Starladder Berlin Major 2019 Week One: New Challengers Stage, including Jason Lake's tweet and Pimp's criticism, roster changes in Ancient, Order, Heroic and others and some musings about sleep and mental health. @thetruthcsgo. Music by Beaufort at beaufort.asia. News by Gabriel G @GabrielGCali.

Predictions for the Starladder Berlin Major Main qualifier and roster changes on Fnatic, Heroic, Luminosity, Grayhound, Ancient and Big. Also my opinion on people liking half-nude gamer girls on my Twitter. @thetruthcsgo. Music by Beaufort - Beaufort.asia.

Talking all about Coldzera's explosive new interview, the splitting of Sadkisto and HenryG, the dissolution of Vega Squadron, the end of Gfinity Australia and GobB retires from active duty. @thetruthcsgo.

Ninjas in Pyjamas drama, Asia and CIS Minors, Elma Puddy leaves Order, Epsilon drops team, Astralis splits from Rfrsh, relationship stuff.

I smash through IEM Chicago, Blast Pro Los Angeles, EU and NA Minors for Berlin Starladder and some advice on avoiding FOMO. News by Liam. Music by Beaufort. Get busy living. @thetruthcsgo.

Liquid win ESL One Cologne 2019, Coldzera asks to be benched from MIBR, Cloud 9 announce their new roster. A special report from listener Johan from Cologne, some thoughts about social media and an email from listener Jesse who quit playing CS. News by Gabriel G and music by beaufort.asia.

Adren picked up by Avangar, MIBR and LUminosity swap Lucas1 and Felps, Furia sign controversial 5 year contracts, Ninjas in Pyjamas sign Plopski and release Dennis and announce Get Right’s upcoming retirement from active play, EPL Season 9 is won by Liquid and ESL One Cologne preview. @thetruthcsgo. Email: thetruth@thetruthcsgo.com

ECS Season 7 Finals, Dreamhack Summer, Starladder Berlin Minor Qualifiers, Roster changes on NRG, Lazarus and Tyloo and the four archetypes of man. Music by Beaufort @ beaufort.asia and Ian Findlayson. Twitter: @thetruthcsgo. Email: thetruth@thetruthcsgo.com

We Dreamhack Dallas, Max interviews Lekr0, player movements including the retirement of Pronax, Edward swaps with Boombl4, jdm out of Envy, Stanislaw out of Complexity and the disintegration of Icon. @thetruthcsgo. Max is @max_melit. Email: thetruth@thetruthcsgo.com. Music by beaufort.asia.

An interview with Andreas "Znajder" Lindberg, from the beginning of his career till today, including discussion of his twitlonger (https://twitter.com/znajdsanity/status/1005785188381741056?lang=en)We also touch on news - CS Summit 4 won by Vitality, Dreamhack Tours won by Mousesports and some other bits and pieces. Znajder's twitter and Instagram: @znajdsanity Our twitter: @thetruthcsgo. Music by beaufort@asia. Outro track "Shoreline" by Broder Daniel copyright Virgin.

#68: Max Meets GeT_RiGhT (IEM Sydney 2019) by The_Truth CS:GO Podcast

Truth reporter-at-large Max Melit becomes best mates with Woxic of Mousesports at IEM Sydney 2019. They chat staying focused, getting hype and YES - playing soccer. If I was a CSGO coach I'd have all my players playing soccer DAILY. When are people going to learn? Rank up fast by playing soccer, you fools. No /s. Music by beaufort.asia. Email: thetruth@thetruthcsgo.com. Twitter: @thetruthcsgo Reporter: @max_melit

Truth reporter-at-large Max Melit chats with Daps of NRG at IEM Sydney 2019, about what Tarik brings to the team, how he packaged himself with Brehze following Optic and how to break out in the scene these days. Music by beaufort.asia. Email: thetruth@thetruthcsgo.com. Twitter: @thetruthcsgo Reporter: @max_melit

News from Blast Series Miami, Charleroi Esports, Starseries Season 7, China and the Uighur situation, updates, roster news and I respond to listener questions regarding the last podcast: should I be playing CS:GO or not? The answer ends with Nietzsche.

News from the last two weeks of CSGO, including Blast Pro São Paulo, WESG and roster changes. Then, in response to listener requests, a discussion of Jordan B Peterson with an eventual look at CSGO through the lens of his work. News by Josh, music by Beaufort, affiliated with CSGO2ASIA.

Rundown of the final week of the IEM Katowice Major 2019, the roster changes including Cloud 9 and a chat about diet and mental health. News and player of the week by Josh, music by Beaufort and affiliation with CSGO2ASIA.

Rundown of the legends stage of the IEM Katowice Major 2019, roster changes in NRG and Vega Squadron, Ancient and Uruguay teams form, a little section on testosterone and our player of the week.

Recap of the Challengers Stage of the IEM Katowice Major 2019, the smoke radar bug, the AUG meta and the announcement of the next major.

I make a case for not shitting on Smooya, talk about Mousesports and eUnited roster changes, and come up with a bunch more name suggestions for the Danish Niko. Music by Beaufort, news by Josh, affiliated with CSGO2ASIA. Peace.

Rundown of E-League Invitational with in-game highlights of the top plays, NA and Asia Minors, IBP Masters day 2, appraisal of Cloud 9, highlights from S1mple's best plays of 2018 and a short mention of North's campaign against toxicity. News by Josh, music by Beaufort and affiliation with CSGO2ASIA.

Discussion of EU and CIS Minors, IBP Masters Day 1 disaster, how Tarik's twitlonger can be further examined through the philosophy of Spinoza and then I get deep into some other random stuff like the effects of social media on our id and ego, the pick up artist community, R.D. Laing and his research into schizophrenia and round it up with a cracker of a quote from Marcus Aurelius. Music by Beaufort @ Beaufort.asia. Affiliated with CSGO2ASIA.

Lucky dip episode. I talk about Felps to Mibr, Seized's new team, an excerpt from an unplayed interview with Boltz, things I've learned, different cultures and the most important dyad in their families and the value of uncertainty. Oh and the upcoming Minors, but that's fairly cursory. All in all, a complete shambles. Music by beaufort.asia, including new track 'That Feeling', featuring Meli Sul. Affiliated with CSGO2ASIA.com.

Quick rundown of all roster changes and interviews with nahtE from NRG and xcurrate from Tyloo. Pretty sick with this one, so it's a slim pod. Music by beaufort.asia, podcast affiliated with CSGO2ASIA.com.

Interview with Fer about his ear trouble, Xantares to Big, adreN to coach Liquid, Android, Yay and Rambo out of Complexity, tips on how to be consistent in CSGO and a discussion on how to deal with your difficult dad at Christmas.

Karrigan benched by Faze, MIBR to trade Liquid for Stewie 2K for taco and Zews, Boltz to Luminosity, Virtus Pro lineup ceases competition and the PLG Grand Slam and Blast Pro Lisbon. Music by Beaufort, news by Josh, podcast affiliated with CSGO2ASIA. @thetruthcsgo.

CS:GO goes free to play with the Danger Zone update and adds a battle royale mode. Astralis win EPL Season 8 finals and the Intel Grand Slam, netting them 1.25 million dollars. Also a recap of Dreamhack Winter 2018 and the Supernova Malta 2018. News by Josh, music by Beaufort @ beaufort.asia. Podcast affiliated with CSGO2ASIA.com. Contact: thetruth@thetruthcsgo.com.