[JackMonroe]

That doesn't make sense to me. It is much harder for anybody untalented to become extremely good at CS then it is for COD, and there has always been huge gaps of skill between players in CS. It isn't hard for someone relatively new to do well in COD, but someone relatively new to Counter Strike isn't going to do nearly as well. Even in pubs in CS, similar players are always at the top of the leaderboards because the gap between those players and the less skilled players is so huge that the less skilled players have no chance to excel at the game and overcome the more skilled players. But in COD, it is much easier for a bad player to finish at the top of his team, and to do well much more frequently because the skill gap is smaller.

What he said.  It takes a few months to master COD.  It takes years and years to get better but never master CS.  I have played for 12 years now and I am still just like wow, I need to do this or that better.  Granted I haven't been playing in leagues for a while now which is what it really takes to get better once you reach the limitations of public game experience.