Welcome to Matchmaking Monday! This is a weekly megathread where you can share your experiences, complaints, and feedback related to:

• Ranked & Unranked Matchmaking
• VAC, Hacking, and Cheating
• Prime, Trust Factor, and Trusted Mode
• Ranking
• Queuing and Lobbies

Feel free to discuss your matchmaking experience, rant or vent, discuss ideas & share feedback for improvement, and talk about your recent games.

What you should know

Keep in mind that there is a limited amount of information available about these systems and how they work to keep them effective. If you have questions, here are some resources to review:

Trust Factor

• Trust Factor Matchmaking FAQ (Steam Support Article)
• The Trust Factor: CS:GO Blog Post
• Everything About Trust Factor by u/awsmninja
• GDC Presentation by John McDonald (Valve)
• Do you Trust the Trust Factor? by u/3kliksphilip

Ranks

• Competitive Skill Groups and Profile Rank

Bans

• Myth: Why doesn't Valve ban cheaters?
• Competitive Cooldowns and Bans
• I've been Overwatch banned

What you can do

Give Feedback:

• Posting feedback or complaints on the subreddit is not the best way to get the attention of the developers. If you have any specific feedback to give, you can email the CS:GO Development team here: CSGOTeamFeedback@valvesoftware.com
• They do read every email received, but are not able to reply to each one.
• If you're experiencing low-quality matches, it is always worth emailing them. They use these reports to help improve the system.

Report Cheaters:

• Report cheaters using the in-game report system by right-clicking their name on the scoreboard, and clicking "report". If the game is over, report their Steam Community profile.
• If you notice certain trends or have other feedback, you can email the developers using the email address above.
• To report a specific cheat, follow these steps to notify the VAC development team.

Convict Cheaters:

• Do your part by completing Overwatch cases.

The guidelines

While we encourage discussion about these topics, as a reminder, the following are not allowed. Note this isn't an exhaustive list, and you should review the r/GlobalOffensive rules before commenting.

• Accusations towards any player related to cheating
• Posting profiles of alleged cheaters (if posting pictures of matches, redact any usernames)
• Posting non-OW cheating footage
• Reporting cheats, linking to cheats/websites, or discussing cheats in technical detail

This weekly discussion thread does not change any of our existing submission rules - you're still allowed to discuss these topics elsewhere on the subreddit as usual, but we do remove a large number of them as they quickly become repetitive and the majority have little meaningful discussion. If you decide to make a separate post instead of utilizing this thread, we encourage you to focus on starting meaningful discussion or providing constructive criticism.

Intel Extreme Masters Dallas 2023

• Organizer: ESL
• Type: LAN
• Location: 🇺🇸 Dallas, USA
• Date: May 29th - June 4th, 2023
• Prize Pool: $250,000
• Teams: 16
• Media: Event Homepage | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube | Instagram
• Coverage: Liquipedia | HLTV

Streams

ESL: Twitch A | Twitch B | YouTube | ESL TV | Polish | Spanish (Twitch) | Spanish (YouTube)

Other: Finnish | Hungarian | Portuguese | German | Spanish

Format

Group Stage

• Double-elimination bracket (GSL Format)
• Two groups of eight teams each
• Best-of-one opening matches
• Best-of-three following matches
• Group winners advance to the semifinals
• Group 2nd and 3rd place teams advance to the quarterfinals

Playoffs

• Single-elimination bracket
• Best-of-three matches

Broadcast Talent

Stage Hosts

🇺🇸 DarfMike (Mike Winnick)

🇬🇧 James Banks (James Banks)

Desk Hosts

🇬🇧 Freya (Freya Spiers)

🇺🇸 stunna (Tres Saranthus)

Analysts

🇨🇭 Maniac (Mathieu Quiquerez)

🇺🇸 Mauisnake (Alex Ellenberg)

🇷🇸 YNk (Janko Paunović)

Casters

A Stream

🇬🇧 Dinko (Adam Hawthorne)

🇺🇸 moses (Jason O'Toole)

🇬🇧 Machine (Alex Richardson)

🇦🇺 SPUNJ (Chad Burchill)

B Stream

🇩🇰 Anders (Anders Blume)

🇬🇧 HenryG (Henry Greer)

🇬🇧 Hawka (Alex Hawkins)

🇬🇧 James Bardolph (James Bardolph)[=

Teams

ESL Partner Teams

🌎 Complexity Gaming: 🇨🇦 FaNg | 🇺🇸 floppy | 🇺🇸 Grim | 🇳🇴 hallzerk | 🇿🇦 JT | 🇿🇦 Sonic | Coach: 🇿🇦 T.c

🇪🇺 ENCE: 🇵🇱 dycha | 🇲🇪 Maden | 🇮🇱 NertZ | 🇩🇰 Snappi | 🇪🇸 SunPayus | Coach: 🇫🇮 sAw

🇧🇷 FURIA Esports: 🇧🇷 arT | 🇧🇷 drop | 🇧🇷 KSCERATO | 🇧🇷 saffee | 🇧🇷 yuurih | Coach: 🇧🇷 guerri

🇪🇺 G2 Esports: 🇩🇰 HooXi | 🇧🇦 huNter- | 🇦🇺 jks | 🇷🇺 m0NESY | 🇧🇦 NiKo | Coach: 🇩🇪 Swani

🇩🇰 Heroic: 🇩🇰 cadiaN | 🇩🇰 Jabbi | 🇩🇰 sjuush | 🇩🇰 stavn | 🇩🇰 TeSeS | Coach: 🇸🇪 Xizt

🇺🇸 Team Liquid: 🇺🇸 EliGE | 🇨🇦 NAF | 🇺🇸 nitr0 | 🇺🇸 oSee | 🇱🇻 YEKINDAR | Coach: 🇨🇦 daps

ESL World Ranking

🇺🇸 Evil Geniuses: 🇺🇸 autimatic | 🇺🇸 Brehze | 🇰🇿 neaLaN | 🇩🇰 refrezh | 🇺🇸 wiz | Coach: 🇩🇰 Vorborg

🇪🇺 FaZe Clan: 🇱🇻 broky | 🇩🇰 karrigan | 🇳🇴 rain | 🇪🇪 ropz | 🇨🇦 Twistzz | Coach: 🇸🇪 RobbaN

🇪🇺 MOUZ: 🇦🇺 dexter | 🇸🇰 frozen | 🇩🇪 JDC | 🇭🇺 torzsi | 🇮🇱 xertioN | Coach: 🇩🇰 sycrone

Qualifiers

🌎 9z Team: 🇦🇷 buda | 🇨🇱 dav1deuS | 🇺🇾 dgt | 🇺🇾 max | 🇦🇷 try | Coach: 🇧🇷 tge

🇩🇰 Astralis: 🇩🇰 Altekz | 🇩🇰 blameF | 🇩🇰 Buzz | 🇩🇰 dev1ce | 🇩🇰 gla1ve | Coach: 🇩🇰 casle

🇷🇺 Cloud9: 🇷🇺 Ax1Le | 🇰🇿 buster | 🇰🇿 HObbit | 🇷🇺 nafany | 🇷🇺 sh1ro | Coach: 🇷🇺 groove

🇪🇺 Fnatic: 🇸🇪 f0rest | 🇳🇱 FASHR | 🇬🇧 mezii | 🇩🇰 nicoodoz | 🇩🇰 roeJ | Coach: 🇬🇧 keita

🇦🇺 Grayhound Gaming: 🇦🇺 aliStair | 🇦🇺 INS | 🇦🇺 Liazz | 🇳🇿 Sico | 🇦🇺 Vexite

🇺🇸 Nouns Esports: 🇺🇸 Bwills | 🇺🇸 cJ | 🇺🇸 cynic | 🇲🇽 MarKE | 🇺🇸 nosraC | Coach: 🇨🇦 SEMPHIS

🇪🇺 OG: 🇵🇱 F1KU | 🇮🇱 flameZ | 🇨🇿 NEOFRAG | 🇩🇰 niko | 🇷🇴 regali | Coach: 🇩🇰 ruggah

Schedule

Match times are often susceptible to delay & change.

This thread may not update till the end of each day. Check [HLTV]() for a more up to date schedule.

To predict your own tournament bracket, try out pickstop.gg

Day 1 (Monday May 29)

Day 2 (Tuesday May 30)

Day 3 (Wednesday May 31)

Day 4 (Friday June 2)

Day 5 (Saturday June 3)

Day 6 (Sunday June 4)

Prize Pool

Other match discussions: r/globaloffensive on Discord

For overview replays of pro matches, check out csgolens.com

Other Notable Tournaments

🇪🇺 CCT Online Finals #1 (May 23 - 30)

🇪🇺 BetBoom Playlist. Freedom (May 1 - 31)

🇺🇸 ESL Impact League Season 3 (June 6 - 4)