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One reply under a Reddit post called "BlameF stats since joining BIG", at the end of January 2026, put it bluntly: "BlameF is insanely overqualified to be in T2." He'd been on the team for three weeks. People were already arguing about whether his numbers meant anything.

People are still having that argument in October 2026, and the numbers keep giving them reasons to. Benjamin "blameF" Bremer is a Dane, born 10.06.1997, who made HLTV's top 20 four years running (2020-2023), and he calls for BIG, ranked #37 in HLTV's world ranking of 19.10.2026.

blameF's CS2 settings, per his ProSettings page checked on 25.10.2026, are 400 DPI at 1.55, which works out to 620 eDPI. That's a slower setup than NiKo's or ZywOo's, and it hasn't stopped him rating above 1.2 on three different teams.

Mirage had just gone 2-13. One map left at PGL Major Copenhagen, karrigan's FaZe on the other side of the stage, and a Finnish in-game leader who had already lost one Major final, five years earlier, with ENCE. NAVI won Inferno 13-3 on 31 March 2024. Aleksi "Aleksib" Virolainen had his Major, and Finland had its first Major winner.

He's still calling for the same organization. As of 08.10.2026, HLTV lists Aleksib as a starter on Natus Vincere next to iM, b1t, w0nderful and makazze, with B1ad3 as coach. It hasn't been a good week. NAVI went out of ESL Pro League Season 24 in 9th-11th place after a 1-2 loss to PARIVISION on 07.10.2026.

If you only came for the Aleksib CS2 settings, here's the short version. 800 DPI times 1.06 sensitivity gives 848 eDPI, played at 1440x1080 on 4:3 stretched, according to his ProSettings page last updated 07.10.2026 (we checked it on 08.10.2026). The rest of this page puts that desk next to the thing that matters more for a captain: where he called, what he won, and how little of it depended on his own aim.

Four Major trophies. Twenty-two Majors played. Still calling the rounds for Vitality. That is Dan “apEX” Madesclaire as of 01.10.2026 - France, IGL, STARTER on the HLTV sheet next to ZywOo, flameZ, mezii, and ropz.

Not Apex Legends. Not a battle-royale reticle guide. This page is the Counter-Strike player.

HLTV tags him 4× Major winner: Cluj-Napoca 2015 with Envy, then Paris 2023, Austin 2025, and Budapest 2025 with Vitality. The same card lists 22 Majors played and a quarter-final exit at IEM Cologne Major 2026. Desk math before the jersey chapter: 400 DPI × 1.91 sens = 764 eDPI - ProSettings last updated 22.09.2026.

Wider field: CS2 pro settings and CS2 crosshairs.

If you want to try YEKINDAR's mouse settings, the starting point is 800 DPI and 1.2 sensitivity, or 960 eDPI, as listed on SPECS.GG. You don't need to replace your mouse to match those numbers. What matters is how the sensitivity feels with the space you have to move it.

The crosshair below comes from Total CS's entry for a match on 4 September 2026. Importing it is straightforward. Copying every video setting alongside it takes a little more thought, especially if your PC and monitor are different.

Sources checked on 6 September 2026. These are public listings, not a config supplied by YEKINDAR or a setup tested by CSGamble.

Finn "karrigan" Andersen became the oldest Major champion in Counter-Strike history for the second time on June 21, 2026, lifting the IEM Cologne trophy with Team Falcons at 36 years and 68 days old, just 61 days after he signed with the team. He is a Danish-German in-game leader who has been a professional player since 2006, and the only person to ever hold, lose, and reclaim that exact age record. Here is how he got there, what makes his career different from the rest of this site's player profiles, and the settings he plays on right now.

CS2 can show 300 FPS and still feel like it's dropping frames. That gap is frame time, not frame rate: how consistently each frame gets delivered, not how many land per second. Most stutter advice targets the wrong number. Here's how to tell network stutter from performance stutter in about three minutes, then which fix actually matches what you find.

Agent skins are CS2's character models, cosmetic reskins of your in-game player instead of your weapons. They sit in four rarity tiers, Distinguished, Exceptional, Superior, and Master, and unlike every weapon skin or glove, they never drop from a case. Prices run from under $5 for a common Distinguished pick to well over $100 for a Master-tier agent from a discontinued Operation.

The AWP separates good players from great ones, and the right skin makes every one-tap feel earned. Here's what actually holds value in 2026, from a $0.07 community finish to skins that trade for five figures.

Nikola "NiKo" Kovač spent nine years as the best CS:GO and CS2 player never to win a Major. In June 2026, at IEM Cologne, that changed for good.