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Phoenix connection

With their reputation for killing anyone who gets in their way, the Phoenix faction has become one of the most feared terrorist groups in Eastern Europe. It was founded shortly after the collapse of the USSR.
— Description in Counter-Strike

The Phoenix Connexion is an Eastern European terrorist faction from Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike: Source, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The group is one of the four classic terrorist groups in the series and appears in all official offshoots.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is a multiplayer shooter computer game developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) is a sequel to the popular game Half-Life: Counter-Strike, which was released in 1999. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was released on August 21, 2012.

The Phoenix Connexion is the oldest terrorist faction from Counter-Strike. It was originally based on the Irish Republican Army and was to bear the same name. Ultimately, however, it was decided that none of the terrorist factions should be based on real models and the name was changed to Phoenix Connexion.
In Global Offensive, the members of the Phoenix Connexion sometimes quote the Heavy from Team Fortress 2, who comes from Russia and like them sometimes speaks Russian.

In the trailer of Global Offensive, the Phoenix Connexion fights against the GSG 9 on Nuke. In the game itself, however, Balkans and the Special Air Service compete against each other.

The popularity and audience of CS: GO is constantly growing.

It is not the first year that a large number of sports tournaments, from amateur to professional, are held in the discipline The prize fund of the tournaments in CS: GO is constantly growing and amounts to $1,000,000 in some competitions. The game has a large number of weapon skins, they do not provide any additional advantage in the game, the price of which reaches several thousand dollars, and anyone can get them by playing the game or opening skins that also fall into the game. The finals of the major tournaments are broadcast on television, and bets on the outcome of the game are made by bookmakers, who talk about the further development and popularization of CS: GO.