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Valve added a custom_hud_layout entity, letting scripted maps draw their own panels, labels and buttons with CSS styling. A cs_player_camera entity takes over a player's view without moving them, plus new bomb plant and defuse hooks.
For your guild
This is for the people who run a community server, not the people who play on it. A map maker can now build a scoreboard, a shop or a round overlay into the map itself, which is what a custom game mode has been missing. Nothing changes for matchmaking.
Eight teams survived the group stage. The double elimination bracket starts at the SPD Bank Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai on August 20 and ends in a best-of-five Grand Finals on August 23, with matches beginning at 10 AM China Standard Time each day.
For your guild
Nothing here changes how the game plays. It is a fixed four-day schedule in a known time zone, which is all a clan needs to put a watch night in the calendar and to know that the usual scrim slots will be thinly attended.
