Marcus Schön
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Marcus Schön
@mcknschn
Esports fan | CFO / COO at @9INEGG
Sweden Katılım Haziran 2015
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Data supports the current narrative about EliGE. Fantastically gifted player, but more error-prone than usual this year. Trying to do too much to keep the sinking ship afloat.
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I packaged up the "autoresearch" project into a new self-contained minimal repo if people would like to play over the weekend. It's basically nanochat LLM training core stripped down to a single-GPU, one file version of ~630 lines of code, then:
- the human iterates on the prompt (.md)
- the AI agent iterates on the training code (.py)
The goal is to engineer your agents to make the fastest research progress indefinitely and without any of your own involvement. In the image, every dot is a complete LLM training run that lasts exactly 5 minutes. The agent works in an autonomous loop on a git feature branch and accumulates git commits to the training script as it finds better settings (of lower validation loss by the end) of the neural network architecture, the optimizer, all the hyperparameters, etc. You can imagine comparing the research progress of different prompts, different agents, etc.
github.com/karpathy/autor…
Part code, part sci-fi, and a pinch of psychosis :)
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Current Tier-2 10k LAN landscape is oversaturated.
We need higher prizepools, not more events.
TOs - you need to find a way to top up prizes budget. Otherwise you won’t get even covered by hltv soon due to poor quality of participants.
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Were @StarLadder_CS listening in on our conversation in Belgrade @mcknschn ?
StarLadder CS2@StarLadder_CS
@Stake × @StarLadder_com A brand-new Tier-2 LAN tournament series built to give rising CS2 teams real LAN experience and global visibility. 🇪🇺 Stake Ranked 📅 Ep.1: April 1–4 | Ep.2: May 27–30, 2026 💰 Winnings: $100k 🏟️ Main Event: LAN | Qualifiers: Online 📍 Finals in European capitals (Schengen) ⚔️ Format: Double Elimination Bo3 🎟️ Stake Ranked Ep.1 | Invites & Ranking • Main Event: 8 teams – 6 Teams: Direct invitations based on Global VRS starting from 13th rank. – 2 teams advancing from Closed Qualifiers. • Closed Qualifiers: – 14 teams invited via Global VRS – 2 teams advancing from Open Qualifiers. • Open Qualifiers: – Will be held online on Faceit platform – Game servers location: Europe. • VRS used for Direct invites: 12th of February (VRS update released on 2nd of February will be used) • VRS used for Closed Qualifier seeding: 2nd of February (February VRS update) • VRS used the Main Event seeding: 2nd of March (March VRS update). 📅 Qualifiers • Open Qualifiers: February 21–22, 2026 Online, Single Elimination Bo1/Bo3 • Closed Qualifiers: March 4–8, 2026 Online, Single Elimination Bo3 ⚖️ Integrity & Fair Play • Teams must meet all Valve requirements to be eligible for accepting invitations and participating in the tournament. • Teams and players with an active ESIC ban at the start of their scheduled matches will not be allowed to participate in the tournament. • If a team does not accept the tournament invitation within the specified deadline, the invite will be passed to the next eligible team based on the VRS ranking. • If a team withdraws from the tournament after qualifying or after accepting a direct invite for any reason, including visa-related issues, the tournament slot will be offered to the next eligible team in the VRS ranking. #StakeRanked
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CS2 VRS LANs
So, we've created a discord server in order to help teams and organizers reach each other faster.
If anyone is interested in joining DM me and I will send you an invite link.
retweets are appreciated.
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@Strack091 Maaaan it’s us who should be thanking you. Hope you have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year ❤️
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Filipino
Eesti
.@phzycs ska till Miami 🌴 9INE anmälda till LAN-tävling i USA
fragbite.se/cs/news/60375/…
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The contract with 9INE is coming to an end and this adventure will not continue. I'm really happy for this experience, it was short but extremely valuable. Almost making the Major with 0.1% chance was insane!
Free agent from December 15th and I'm ready for the next chapter!
9INE Pusulabet@9INEGG
We would like to inform you that faven is being transitioned to the bench, and MoDo’s short-term contract has concluded through a mutual agreement in which both parties agreed not to continue. We sincerely thank both players for their commitment, positive energy, and determination throughout every challenge and achievement. Thank you for everything! #9INENATION
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Its a giant competitive issue though.
Blast Bounty invites will be missed due to this missing coverage or rather.. gained from the crazy coverage of GIBAWAY and DraculaN.
You can argue both ways, but its wildly inconsistent.. you cant argue that.
Many of OG, Ecstatic, 9INE, HOTU, etc will now miss getting a Blast Bounty invite and some of them because they prioritised this bigger LAN over the smaller GIVEAWAY LAN which turned out to be a golden VRS lottery ticket for those who signed up for that one.
Its so inconsistent.
What HLTV can be blamed for in my opinion is not being transparent in any way about what kind of coverage events will get.
They must have some internal rules/guidelines for coverage and when teams are "forced" by VRS to make these investments in LAN participation it is not unfair to ask for some guidelines on what coverage events will get.
Right now its just a lottery from event to event.
Its not ok if it really is this random whether groups are covered or not. Its such a huge factor for trying to navigate whether its worth signing up for or not.
Some consistency is needed!
If the rule is that 32 team events will not get coverage while 24 team events will, then let it be publicly known so teams can navigate what events to prioritise.
Just some thoughts because I completely understand the frustration of the teams too while also understanding HLTV is also in a tough spot...
Once again its Valve to blame really, they are so uninvested in fixing the ecosystem.
All it would take is probably one dedicated employee who connected with the scene and evaluated quickly on the learnings and updated the rules along the way.. its so frustrating 😔
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We gave it all and came so so close to achieve the impossible. Proud of you guys!
@BERRYCSGO @ponczekcs @RAALZCS @faven @kraghenCS @cej0t @MoDoCSGO
#9INENATION
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What a wild ride by the boys. From Top 56 in August to Top 24 today. We've put ourselves in a really good position going forward, but man it's so rough to miss the major by just a couple of rounds, especially since we missed invite to the last RMR by a couple of ranking points.
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About to make Fragadelphia my bitch, just like I did with Birch.
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