The team names are referring to the first names of the analysts of the event (Duncan "Thorin" Shields and Tomi "Lurppis" Kovanen). Although this was only an exhibition match, there were just as many viewers as a group stage match, meaning that these drops were fairly plentiful. There was also an exhibition match that was between Team Duncan vs Team Tomi. The teams consisted of the following players:Īn example of a NiP team test drop and an NiP team test souvenir package: Since NiP was involved in the second test, this pre-event test had more viewers than the first and likely had around 100-150 drops. There were most likely around 60 drops for this first pre-event test.Īn example of a Valve Squad test drop and a Valve Squad souvenir package:Ī second test was between members of Ninjas in Pyjamas on the map de_aztec. The original test match was canceled due to technical difficulties, which meant that there were very few viewers for this test. As previously mentioned, the Valve squads were made up of Valve employees and ESL staff, and would take place on the map de_militia. The two tests were named Valve Squad Alpha vs Valve Squad Bravo and NiP Team A vs NiP Team B.
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This was done by the Valve developers and ESL staff playing against each other, as well as another pre-event test done by pro players. In order to make sure everything would run smoothly, Valve did a mock run of how the tournament would go through the use of pre-event tests. Here is an example of a souvenir drop from the grand final between NIP and Fnatic: Some people prefer to collect skins from a specific stages of a tournament which their favorite teams played in, such as the Group Stage, The Quarterfinal, the Semifinal, or the Grand Final. This layout of the Group Stage includes all of the teams who competed in the Dreamhack Winter 2013 tournament. The only Factory New Souvenir M4A1-S | Nitro in existence: ** = This is most likely a glitch, and currently only pertains to the R8 Revolver | Bone Mask from the Bank collection being available as a souvenir.Ī souvenir from the Safehouse collection. These skins are listed in the section of the guide that is titled "Discontinued Souvenirs". This can make certain weapons from these discontinued maps very collectible. After these 2 tournaments, the Safehouse, Lake, and Italy souvenirs were discontinued, and souvenirs would go one to only include skins from the active duty map pool. These map collections included the Safehouse Collection, the Lake Collection, and the Italy Collection. * = there were a few map collections which only appeared in the Dreamhack 2013 and the Katowice 2014 tournament. The souvenirs from this major came from the following map collections: One example of a foil sticker on a factory new AWP:
Many skins of this era are considered very desirable if they are both factory new and include a foil sticker. A total of 6 normal and 6 foil stickers were available (with foil obviously being more desirable): This guide was created by several contributors, if you have any questions, feel free to add them, they will help you :)īeing the very first tournament to offer souvenir skins, this was the only tournament where all of the souvenirs only came with one sticker. Keep in mind that due to the number of tournaments and changes made throughout, this guide is not a short read. This is not a price guide, nor is it meant as any type of way to predict trends in items. The guide will try to give the reasons behind the popularity of certain items, while providing a little bit of history behind what makes certain souvenirs collectible. It is also meant to give some insight into the souvenir designs for each tournament. This guide gives a brief overview of the types of collectible souvenirs that are uncommon, rare, or just plain interesting. Many souvenirs can also be found on the Steam market. In order for a player to receive them, they must have their Twitch account linked to their Steam account, or by simply watching through GOTV. Souvenir packages are only dropped during Valve-sponsored CS:GO tournament matches. Since then, souvenirs have continued to bring viewership to the Katowice, Cologne, and Dreamhack tournaments by giving viewers the chance to receive a digital item for simply watching the tournaments. CS:GO souvenir drops were first introduced in 2013 at the Dreamhack SteelSeries Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Championship.