Bomb Planted
Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Counter Terrorists and Terrorists
Wide Variety of Guns
Maps
Case Openings
Game modes
Are you a silver?
There are two ranking systems in counter strike. One for both casual game play and competitive which is progressed through playing games and earning experience. When you level up you may earn a skin. The other ranking system is specifically for competitive. The lowest rank is "silver I" and the highest is "Global Elite." This rank is only affected in the competitive game mode and the rank is increased, or decreased, depending on how many rounds you win or lose. This rank sets you up with other players of similar rank so you have a chance of actually winning.
tourneys
In addition to normal tournaments held by third party organizations, Valve (the publisher of the game) also organizes tournaments, better known as ‘majors.’ Majors include large prize pools which are crowd funded by the counter strike community via keys bought in the game. The prize pools in the tournaments in 2013 and 2014 had a total value of $250,000. Pasha Biceps is an example of a competitive player who plays counter strike for a living and does twitch streaming as well as play tournaments to earn income.
Hundreds of Skins
In CS:GO, there are a wide variety of skins to buy with money or unlock after winning matches. There is a total of 43 gun types and 11 different knives and each of them have a wide variety of skins. In addition to skins, there are 7 different quality of weapons that add diversity to the game. The quality of the guns is color coded on the title of the skin. The highest quality gun color is red and they are normally more expensive to buy outright and hard to get from unboxing a case. For Knives, they have only one quality which is gold and normally knives are worth a hundred dollars to four hundred dollars.