The knife is extremely important as a good number of professional Counter-Strike tournaments around the world enforce 5 vs. 5 knife rounds before matches to determine who gets to pick sides on maps. Therefore winning a knife round would allow your team to choose CT side on de_train first which is an advantage. Watch all the neat tips, tricks, secrets and full analysis of the CS: GO knife by CAKEbuilder and dong from ESEA News. They even go in-depth by comparing it to the CS 1.6 and CS: Source versions of the knife along with many other unique revelations with high level commentary throughout.
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