In 2014, Valve added to the game stickers of teams that were participating in the Major. Thanks to that, each fan was able to decorate their skins and show everyone for whom they rooted or “raised shields” in the Twitch chat.
CS.MONEY here to tell you everything you need to know about team stickers in CS:GO.
What Are Stickers?
Stickers are a special item in the game that can be applied to weapons with or without a skin. After attempting to apply, a window will appear where you can select one of the four positions on the weapon. In each position, there can only be one sticker. Note that knives and gloves can’t have stickers.
How Do I Get Them?
A sticker can be either bought or obtained from a special capsule. You can’t get stickers in post-match drops or craft them. You can buy them from someone, and the best and fastest way to do it is using our website CS.MONEY — or you could engage in the game of luck with the capsules.
By the way, capsules don’t require a key to open them. You only need to have a capsule.
What Kinds of Stickers Are There?
All stickers can be divided into esports stickers and regular ones. Esports stickers are, say, stickers of Astralis or a sticker with an autograph from s1mple. Regular stickers would include hieroglyphs or bananas with a knife.
Esports stickers can only be obtained from tournament capsules, with the time of their appearance limited. Stickers can be regular, Holo, or Metal. The last two options are more expensive.
The Coolest Stickers?
The less common the sticker, the cooler it is. Stickers from the very first Majors can cost huge amounts of money. For example, just one iBUYPOWER sticker from EMS Katowice 2014 costs thousands of dollars, all because it’s very limited in number and there will never be more.
Golden autographs can also be considered as doubtlessly cool. AWP Asiimov decorated with a couple of stickers with autographs from kennyS or ZywOo looks fantabulous.
Can I Reuse the Sticker?
You can only use capsules and stickers one time, meaning you can only open the capsule once and only get one sticker. The sticker can stay in your inventory as long as you want.
The main feature of stickers is that after applying them to skins, you can’t just remove them and take them back. In the game, the only option you have to vacate a position on your gun for another sticker is rubbing stickers away until they disappear completely.
By the way, this rubbing process can be associated with some curious things. Some tournament stickers, for example, those from the Major in Berlin, are rubbed away in a very special way. First, the background fades away, then the logo of the tournament, and only then the autograph or logo of the team. This feature can be used to decorate your favorite skins in a rather spectacular way.
That’s it. Now you know everything there is to know about team stickers. All that’s left for us to do is advise you to follow their prices. Stickers are a risky yet often profitable investment.
