CS-Nation

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love the site? donate and support CS-Nation!In July, 1999, Crazed-Dingo made a post on the CS forums about a new site, to be called "Planet CS" and be hosted by Planet Half-Life. RzE was the first to be admitted as a staff member, and soon others joined along. Right before we planned to launch, we were forced to change our name. We chose CS-Nation (though CS-Legacy was almost picked), and the rest is history.

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Our first design, by Crazed-Dingo.
On August 17th, 1999 we launched at Planet Half-Life:
Counterstrike Nation Launches
8/17/1999 9:13 PST | Community | Fragmaster
Counterstrike Nation the official Counterstrike fan site, has launched here at PHL. They've got Counterstrike strategies, tips, downloads, and a whole bunch of other stuff, so head on over.
After a day or two we were informed that we weren't the "official" fansite, which was a silly concept in the first place. In a mark of irony, however, we moved to Counter-Strike.net in October '99 by the wishes of cliffe. When RzE was hesitant about moving to CS.net, cliffe quipped that RzE is "thicker than crazed-dingo."

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Our second design, by Crazed-Dingo.
In November, 1999 BETA 4 was released and CSN got a new design (right). In early January, 2000 CS-Nation averaged about 4,500 hits a day, making it the most visited CS Fansite on the net. Around this time, Crazed-Dingo moved on to bigger things and RzE took over the daily duties of CS-Nation.

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Our third design, by rizzuh and cliffe. Since it sucked so much, cliffe didn't want to take credit but we decided that it was best to humiliate him.
In early June, 2000 CS-Nation received another new design, featuring the colors of the GIGN model (right) The design was launched just before BETA 6.5 of CS. In September, 2000 CS-Nation moved to stomped with the rest of the CS.network. In case your wondering, yes we did eventually realize how ugly that design was and updated it a bit. Then we realized that the updated one sucked as well.

Somewhere in this mess, RzE changed his nickname to rizzuh.

As of October, 2000 CS-Nation averaged about 18,000-25,000 page views a day, but we seemed to be getting more and more hits each month (about a 10% growth rate). CSN's webmaster, rizzuh, became too busy to effectively run the site. An unknown, ChuChuRocket, signed up for the job, but only weeks after taking over the site he completely disappeared.


Wrestlin' Nation: April Fools, 2002. Read the news posts.
In December, 2001 CS-Nation relaunched, featuring a new design, new backend, and rizzuh once again at the helm . This new site allowed for plenty of new content to be posted on a regular basis. By this time we received an average of 40,000 page views a day. January, 2002 saw CS-Nation focus on content and articles rather than just news. Another increase in average page views: now at 50,000.

April 1st, 2002. We missed two prime April Fools Days and couldn't resist the temptation to try it ourselves. Thus, Wrestlin' Nation (OH YEAH!!!) was born. Click here for the news posts and here for the site design (right).

During April, 2002's Counter-Strike 1.4 release CS-Nation received over 3 million hits in the twelve hours leading up to release. Thousands of CS fans got the latest versions of Half-Life and Counter-Strike from one of our many mirror links. This publicity drives the popularity of the site to over 120,000 page views per day on average.


CSN totally uncredited on TechTV.
In September, 2005, CS-Nation relaunched with yet another new design. At this time, Zips took over the day-to-day of CS-Nation.