{"id":19874,"date":"2025-01-27T15:33:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=19874"},"modified":"2025-01-27T15:34:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T15:34:22","slug":"valve-announces-premier-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/valve-announces-premier-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve Announces Premier Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>On January 25<\/strong>, the developers of CS2 released an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counter-strike.net\/newsentry\/520829437562848128\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a> revealing the imminent end of the first season of Premier and future innovations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Next week, we will say &#8220;goodbye&#8221; to Premier Season One and &#8220;hello&#8221; to Season Two. To celebrate, every player who earned a CS Rating during Season One will receive a commemorative Premier Season One Medal. Your medal includes detailed Season Statistics that you can view by clicking on the medal in your inventory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\"><sub>&#8211; Valve<\/sub><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The first season began on <strong>September 27, 2023<\/strong>, the day the updated version of the shooter was released. The second season will last until the end of <strong>BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025<\/strong>. The CS2 Major will occur from <strong>June 3 to June 22<\/strong> in the United States.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXfWinesdpmcZyB-uyEiRitaFLUiZIsith5VM2BrdIQm4_z8NPJteGNJ9Pd15LPAK3NXfF9lBiTaTJGk1a6y-l_aItrV7-NiTgkx2VyKm4mNqUF_N7Wu8wgV7lFCyFN-RhjNa_EQAw?key=IQ7lCmse0JPAs1V6zHZWsSql\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Users with a rating at least once will receive a medal and similar stats. Ten calibration matches are needed to get the new rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The color of the medal will depend on your <strong>maximum rating in Premier<\/strong>. Each stripe on the medal means 25 wins in the mode. There is a maximum of five stripes on the medal. To receive a medal for the second season, you will <strong>need 25 match <\/strong>wins and an active rating at the end of the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>While the changes coming to Special Forces weapons have yet to be fully revealed, Valve has given a hint of what&#8217;s to come on their blog and Twitter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great question, Erik: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rGzpjiuGzf\">https:\/\/t.co\/rGzpjiuGzf<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k1uesVqnUC\">pic.twitter.com\/k1uesVqnUC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CS2 (@CounterStrike) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CounterStrike\/status\/1882947765904592950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Season 2, the <strong>M4A4<\/strong> will be available for <strong>$2,900<\/strong>, which aligns with the M4A1-S. <strong>The FAMAS<\/strong> is getting buffs to its standing and crouching accuracy values and a price cut. There will also be changes to the map pool, with the <strong>Train map replacing the Vertigo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 25, the developers of CS2 released an announcement revealing the imminent end of the first season of Premier and future innovations. Next week, we will say &#8220;goodbye&#8221; to Premier Season One and &#8220;hello&#8221; to Season Two. To celebrate, every player who earned a CS Rating during Season One will receive a commemorative Premier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":19876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":{"0":"post-19874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-cs2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19891,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19874\/revisions\/19891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}