The Truth About Counter-Strike

Chat with apEX just after Vitality won IEM Melbourne 2025 and the ESL Grand Slam.

Chat with Liazz from FlyQuest at IEM Melbourne 2025. Talking about how the roster is leveling up, who's been cracking the whip and the benefits of jet lag.

Interview with Zywoo at IEM Melbourne 2025 before the grand final, which Vitality won, also winning the ESL Grand Slam. We talk about the addition of Ropz, finding balance with the game, being French and other games he plays.

The final Truth CSGO Podcast before it's reinvented for the next iteration of CS. All about what it's like loving the game and yet turning 40.

An interview with Viacheslav 'innersh1ne' Britvin's, the coach of BetBoom at IEM Sydney 2023. 1:30: Interview starts. 1:42: Owes his career to Reijin, Karrigan, Robban and Hampus. 2:33: How he got his start as an analyst 4:15: Betboom fucked up IEM Sydney 5:37: Working with Nafany 7:40: Applying his experience from Faze, to Aurora, to Betboom 8:45: How he fucked up at Aurora 10:15: Robban is still helping him 12:50: How he joined Betboom 13:48: Difference between EU and CIS teams 15:20: Why Faze is crushing CS2 17:14: Betboom’s facilities and setup in Belgrade 17:55: Nafany and the haters

Chat with Declan 'vexite' Portelli at IEM Sydney 2023. We talk about Grayhound finally getting a coach, CS2 and how they plan to deal with a sparse calendar ahead.

Interview with Faze coach Filip 'Neo' Kubski after winning IEM Sydney 2023. We talk about the similarities between Faze and VP, the beauty of CS, how the emotions of playing change when you're a coach, how he's adapting to coaching and how Robban might return to the team at some point.

Interview with Eetu "sAw" Saha, the coach of Ence, at IEM Sydney 2023. Ence had an ok start to Sydney, beating Lynn vision in a best of 1 then Fnatic in a best of 3, but were 2-0d by G2 and then Faze pretty soundly. After their losses, I climbed in the Truth sauna with with Eetu Saha, aka Saw, the Finnish coach, and chatted all things Ence - where they came from, where they’re going and what it’s going to take to have a peak era.

Interview with T.c, coach of Complexity, at IEM Sydney 2023, the first major Counter Strike 2 tournament, after they qualified for the grand final with a victory over G2 in the semi-finals.

Global Offensive is no more! Counter Strike 2 is out and IEM Sydney is gonna be on it. Get on it.