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Practice it at the spot.
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CS2 demo review for players and teams
Know why you lost. Know how to beat them.
Upload a demo and watch it in 2D. Get the rounds that cost you the map, a fix for every player, the opponent's habits to counter, and your own numbers next to pros.
Real match: Aurora Gaming 19–17 NRG on Mirage. Checked against 342 pro matches. No AI writes the review.
Why NRG lost
Round 31, 15–15: up 5v3 with the bomb on A, and lost it.
Pros on Mirage win 92% of CT rounds that reach 5v3. NRG threw the same lead in round 1.
How to beat Aurora
Their full-buy T rounds went to A 5 of 6 times.
Round 31 went to A too. Stack A; save one player for the B hit.
Your numbersHallzerk · NRG · this match
1.14Rating
27–25K–D
73ADR
75%KAST
Work on: round 5, nitr0 was 19.6 m away with a flash. Ask for the flash over Short Corner before you peek.
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Find the habit that keeps costing you rounds.
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- Their habits on each map, with the rounds behind each one, and a game plan against their T side
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After the match.
One demo in: what happened, the fix for every player with how pros play that same fight, and how to practice it. Real screens from the app.
Every round in 2D, and what decided it.
Players, grenades, the bomb and the kill feed, and which kill or grenade turned the round.
Clutches
Save, or play it?
Every 1-vs-many you were left in, next to what pros do in the same situation with the same time left.
Utility
The grenades that did nothing.
Flashes that blinded no one and mollies that burned no one, cleared nothing and held back no push, next to how often pros waste theirs.
Compare
What changed?
Two matches side by side, a loss next to a win, with the biggest swings between them listed first.
Before the next one.
What the team needs the night before it plays.
Your next opponent
Know how they'll play.
The veto call and their players, then how they open rounds on each map, where their AWPer and lurker go, and a game plan against their T side.
Stratbook
Every strat they ran.
Their T rounds sorted into the plays they actually run, with how each one went.
Stacked rounds
Fifty rounds on one map.
Every round that matches a search, lined up by round time.
Strat board
Draw it, then share it.
Plays drawn on the radar step by step, or started from a real round that worked, sent to the team by link.
Share
One link for the whole roster.
A read-only scouting report anyone on the team can open, no account needed.
Built on real matches.
Every finding is worked out in code, checked against pro matches, and links the rounds it comes from. No AI writes the review: the only AI is the chat, and its answers are checked against the match.
342pro matches
7,244rounds
48,154kills
159,066grenades tracked
Chance-tested
No made-up differences.
Before we added the test, 3 in 4 match pages showed a "difference" for a team that played exactly like pros. Now it's about 1 in 20.
Win chance, checked
Tested on 69 matches it never saw.
When it gave CT 0–20%, CT won 5% of the time. At 40–60%, 51%. At 80–100%, 90%.
Every line links its round
Don't trust it. Check it.
One click opens the replay at that moment. If a sentence and the replay disagree, believe the replay.
“You got 7 opening kills, all on CT, and 6 of them came with the AWP. Four were at Bombsite A, in rounds 18, 26, 27 and 36.”
Five questions to ask any demo tool.
Most review tools tell you what happened. These decide whether you can trust what they say.
Who does it compare you to?
RetakeHQ:342 pro matches, on the same map, side and spot. A number is only called good or bad after that.
Could the difference be luck?
RetakeHQ:Every claim passes a chance test first. About 1 match page in 20 still gets a false line, down from 3 in 4.
Can you check each claim?
RetakeHQ:Every line links the rounds it comes from and opens the replay at that moment.
Does it help you beat the next opponent?
RetakeHQ:Their habits on each map, a veto call and a game plan against their T side, from every match of theirs you have.
Does it say what it can't know?
RetakeHQ:A demo has no voice, so it can't know the call or the plan. The page says so, and shows where it stops.
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See their A hit
before they run it.
Every match you have of theirs, summed into habits, with the rounds behind each one. It grows with every demo you add.
MAP POOL · TEAM SPIRIT
Where they win, and where they don't.
Dust II8–2
Anubis5–1
Ancient5–0
Nuke4–0
Mirage4–2
Cache2–3
Overpass0–2
Won and lost, from 39 of their matches in the library. Grayed: under 5 matches, too few to read much into.
TIMING · ANCIENT, T SIDE
Their A hit, second by second.
TEAM SPIRIT / de_ancient / T SIDE, A HITS
UTILITY
HE · Catwalk
Smoke · Stairs
Molly · B Site
PLAYERS
Totem + Outside A
BOMB
Plant ≈1:01
0:000:301:001:15
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From a real Player focus
Stop dying at Mid on T before the plant without a trade. You still had a flash in 3 of those 3 deaths: flash Underpass yourself before you swing. Pros win that fight 44% of the time; you won 1 of 4.
XANTARES, Aurora · Mirage
Questions.
The short answers. The full FAQ has the rest.
What do I need to start?
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