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<div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;">[[File:Midlans2012.jpg | 250px | x188px | Irish Counter Strike events used to look like this only a few years ago]]<div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"></div>Irish Counter Strike events used to look like this only a few years ago</div></div></div>Counter Strike as a game modification was released on 19th of June 1999 and the game itself was packaged and released by Valve Software on the 8th of November 2000. It took just over one year for Valve to realise the potential of this Half Life mod to package it as an official Valve product. Almost exactly 18 years later we have seen how large the game has grown around the world in terms of player numbers, professional scene, community involvement, etc. In all this time Counter Strike has yet to truly establish itself as a game with a large community in Ireland. This seems to be the exception rather than the rule in most European nations so I believe the potential is there for a great Counter Strike scene. After all, if we look at populations this island has more potential players than Denmark, a Counter Strike powerhouse. With than in mind I would like to briefly touch on the past of the CS scene in Ireland and give my opinions on why we should look forward to its future.

<center>[[Blog:Why_the_future_of_the_Irish_Counter_Strike_scene_has_great_potential | Read the rest of the article]]</center></div>

<span class="team-template-team-standard"><span class="team-template-image">[[File:KrouchingTigerSmall.png | link=KrouchingTiger | Krouching Tiger]]</span> <span class="team-template-text"></span></span> 2017-03-18&nbsp;|&nbsp;<span class="plainlinks">[[Blog:GamerCon_2017:_Niall_%E2%80%98Digs%E2%80%99_Diggins_Interview | GamerCon 2017: Niall ‘Digs’ Diggins Interview]]</span>&nbsp;by&nbsp;[[Patton]]&nbsp;of&nbsp;CS Codex

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