With all the uproar over CPL going to Source for next summer, SPAMBOO wrote a very well-written article laying out the case for the need to have a pro mode. He essentially described his pro mode as Source: 1.6.

I say that this is the last thing the community needs. I was around through one of the biggest changes to CS ever: the jumping change, where they added the stutter-step after a jump. Even today, years after it was done, I still disagree with the change, but I'm still playing CS and reading about it on GotFrag, aren't I?

The reason I bring this up is because every single time there is a change, the community complains about it, sometimes in an eloquent way, and sometimes in a “kthxbye” way. But after every update, the game grows. Now, popularity isn't always a good thing, especially in a game with a certain level of randomness in it. You can easily compare CS to poker: online, it's much more random, with terrible people beating good people simply based on luck, whereas