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How to Form a Team

If you want to form a team, you should be aware of the following points. It's mostly not as easy as you think.

Define the Team Structure

If forming a team, you need to decide what kind of structure it should have:

5 player roster with stand-ins (1-2)
6-9 player roster with rotators
Now you need to decide out of these two systems:

5 player roster with stand-ins (1-2)

PRO:

Really effective
Everybody always plays
CONTRA:

Requires high activity
Requires really reliable people
6-9 player roster with rotators

PRO:

Really flexible
People are able to play even they are at specific times not here
CONTRA:

Requires many people
Training sessions need to be repeated with guys that weren't here
Sometimes people want to play but can't
Team Roles

Your team should have a decent split-up of the roles:

1 Primary AWP
1-2 Allrounder(s) (Secondary AWP)
2-3 Rifler(s)
And of course one of them needs to be the IGL.

Get the Right People

You can get people from next to everywhere of course, but there are some pages where you can search for players and make a team post.

For example www.csgoteamfinder.com

If you are finding some people, you need to figure out if they will fit into your team. For this, the best thing is to have a talk with them.

So you should be aware of following points:

From?
Age?
Ping?
Role?
Experience?
Same goals?
Same activity?
Reliable?
Same motivation?
Able to be critiziced?
Don't joke about the list above, you will see especially activity level, motivation as well as age are crucial to the team.

If you think a guy is fitting your requirements, you should play some games with him. In my opinion you should play 1 week with a guy everyday, look how he plays AND CALLS! Is he reliable ? Does he still wanna play and is motivated ?

If you did the scenario above 4x and you found 4 decent guys, you need to setup the first training and inform your team what the plan is, to make your team the next stepping up semi-professional CS team!

Getting Started with the Team

Congratulations you have past a milestone. Your first full team is ready to start and improve.

For that you should make sure that people are staying in contact and are able to communicate.

What I've done, is to make a Whatsapp chat and put everybody in there. Exchange Steam etc.

Now you guys need to decide, if you want to make a set training schedule, or a flexible:

For example you can write on your chat everyday if you guys are online, today, in the evening, after work etc.

Or you are making a shared document or calendar, where everybody can set in when he's available, and then you can decide when there's training.

Of course you can also make a set trainingschedule, based on availability of the people.

The Training and Improvement

Now you guys are ready and everybody's here for the first training.

But what are you going to do on the first training, this is really depending on the skill level of the players at the start:

Define on each map the Callouts, be specific about naming the corners and spots of the map.

For MOST of the teams it would make sense to make default setups on CT and T side.

Sit together and watch how you can defend a spot, how you should stay and play together on-site, what would make most sense.

Go play pcw/faceit/cevo/versus etc. vs same level enemies.

Talk about the default after some games, what went wrong ?

If you say you play the defaults decent, you can go one step further:

You can define a second default
You can start making executes, learn the nades needed
You can start making fixed roundstrats
Once you feel good about playing pcw enemies and you have some strats/executes for each map, go for a league or some tournaments:

CEVO
ESEA
ESL
FACEIT
Those are the biggest leagues, just go play some games.

After you played some games, look why you lost and what could you make better in your rounds. So you can start with this stuff:

Analyze your own demos
Analyze pro team demos, to get some thoughts to improve your play
Adapt your strats, to what you have seen and experienced, find the bottleneck
Maybe you can try to get a coach, if you don't know why you always losing, you want success in short amount of time
If you know who you are facing -> prepare yourself watch some demos of the enemy team.
Once your on the level where you are playing against amateur teams where you win/lose and you try to improve as a whole team, your pretty far.

Because until here, the biggest problem are the players of the team. The chance that one guy left, went inactive, raged out, is unmotivated, can't be criticized etc. is really high. That means only after some amount of time, you will see if people can be tolerant and also be able to build up a decent amount of chemistry between eachother.

So congratulations!

Now you can really improve as a team and get a good chemistry between the players and step-up.

So, that was the hard start of a team :)

cite:
Kwlski. "CS:GO Quick "how to Form a Team" • /r/GlobalOffensive." Reddit. N.p., 30 Sept. 2015. Web. 31 May 2016.