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Overview
Create Playbook shows you every tactic the world's best teams run on a given map, organized and ready to study. Instead of watching demos one by one, you browse the detected plays — executes, defaults, rushes, splits, fakes — from whatever slice of top-level CS you care about, and turn the best ones into your own playbook.
The workflow is simple: configure a search (opponent ranking, date range, side and map), browse the tactics grouped by round category, pick the best round of each play you like, and save everything to your Private Playbook — optionally sending each round to cloud recording so it comes back as a video.
Create Playbook is available on the Teams plan. You'll find it in the sidebar, next to the Private Playbook.
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Configure your search
When you open the module, a wizard asks what strategies you're looking for:
- Opponent ranking — Include teams up to Top 10, Top 20, Top 30, Top 50, or all ranked teams.
- Date — From the last week up to all time — 'Last 3 months' is the default sweet spot between freshness and sample size.
- Side — Terrorist or CT. Tactics are detected per side, so pick the side you're building for.
- Round type — Both, Default or Execution — separate slow defaults from straight site hits.
- Map — One map per search: Inferno, Dust2, Nuke, Ancient, Mirage, Anubis, Overpass or Cache.
- Result — All results, won rounds only, or lost rounds only — useful to study only what actually worked.
Your configuration is remembered while you work, and you can change it anytime with 'Reopen filters'.
Configuring a search and browsing tactics by round category
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Round categories
Results are organized in a left rail by round economy, in the order rounds actually happen in a match:
- Pistol — Rounds 1 and 13 — how teams open each half.
- Second round — Rounds 2 and 14, right after the pistol.
- Full eco — Minimal buy rounds (under $2k).
- Eco — Low buy rounds ($2–6k).
- Force buy — SMG / partial buy rounds.
- First force — The first force buy of each half — a key momentum round.
- Full buy — Full economy rounds — the core of the meta.
Each category shows how many tactics your search surfaced, so you always know how much material you have to work with — jump straight to the rounds that matter for your prep.
Jumping between round categories — pistols, forces, full buys
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Refining results
On top of the category, secondary filters let you zero in on exactly the situation you're preparing for:
- Finalization — Filter by where the round ended — bomb plant on A, on B, or no site.
- Round timing — Early (1:30–1:55), mid (0:45–1:30) or late (0:00–0:45) rounds — separate fast hits from late-round conversions.
- Enemy economy — Full buy only: see how a play performs against ecos, forces or full buys.
- Previous pistol — Second round only: filter by whether the team won or lost the pistol before it.
- Team — Select one or more teams to focus on specific opponents or references. With none selected, every team is shown.
Slicing the results with the secondary filters
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Timings, teams & win rates
Win rates aren't static numbers — they recalculate live with every filter you touch. Switch the round timing between early, mid and late and watch each tactic's win rate move: in seconds you know whether a strategy actually delivers as a fast hit, a mid-round call or a late conversion.
The same happens with teams: select the ones you care about and the win rates update instantly, so you can see which teams really make a play work — or how it performs in exactly the style of CS you want to copy.
Win rates recalculating as timings and teams change
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Tactic cards & win rates
Every detected play appears as a card with its name and category, translated per map — execs, rushes, splits, contact plays, fakes:
- Real win rate — Calculated over decided rounds, with a color code (green from 55%, red under 48%). You see what actually works before you copy it.
- Round list — Up to 50 rounds per tactic, each with the executing team and its world ranking, the opponent, the result and the round time.
- Built-in 2D viewer — Play any round — or all rounds of a tactic — full-screen in the 2D viewer without leaving the module.
- Picking rounds — Choose the best round of each play; you can pick several rounds of the same tactic if you want variations.
- One-click add (+) — Hit the + on any strat and it goes straight into your private playbook — build your game plan as you browse, no notes app, no copy-paste.
- One-click recording — The camera button sends the round to cloud recording automatically: our servers replay the demo and it comes back as a video, ready to share with your team.
Adding a strat to your playbook and sending it to cloud recording in one click
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My playbook
Everything you pick accumulates in the 'My playbook' panel on the right, showing map, buy type, side and the teams involved:
- Rename any pick — the default name is descriptive (e.g. 'FaZe Exec A Round 23'), but you can call it whatever your team uses.
- The draft is shared with your whole team and persisted server-side: it survives page reloads and everyone sees the same list.
- Picks accumulate across maps — run one search per map and build the whole playbook in a single session.
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Cloud recording
Any pick can be recorded in the cloud — our servers replay the demo and record the round in-game, no gaming PC required on your side:
- Toggle recording per tactic or use the 'all' switch; a counter shows how many of your picks will be recorded.
- Cloud recordings share your team's weekly quota, shown as remaining/limit with the renewal date.
- Very old demos (before our game-build coverage) can't be recorded — the module marks them so there are no surprises.
Cloud-recorded rounds appearing in My videos and attached to the tactic
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Saving to your Private Playbook
'Save playbook' creates one strategy per pick in your Private Playbook, marked as pending review so your team knows what's new.
Each strategy arrives with the 2D round linked and the players detected from the demo, ready for you to assign tasks and utility.
A shortcut takes you straight to the pending list in the Private Playbook, where you categorize, rename and complete each tactic.
If you enabled recording, the rounds are queued immediately and you get an estimated completion time; finished videos land in My videos and on the tactic itself.