Meh.
Personally I despise the awp, I think it is cheap, one or two per team would be fine with me, that way good players will get to hang on to them and stupid player’s won’t get so *edited* lucky. Furthermore I think if you get *edited*ed over by a smoke while awping then you are just stupid, just as your target can come and flank you, soyou can you also move away from the location of the smoke. The choke *edited* will wait long enough that you can easily reposition. Also if your awping try and keep track of time in your head, has it been long enough for someone to come around and flank you?
I don’t know where the mad love for these weapons comes from. Personally I think it is like the people who *edited* about getting stomped at a game like Virtua fighter or Rogues in wow, they just want an easy mode in the form of an awp or auto.
Now if someone scoutz my *edited*, respect right there. And since the restriction i have noticed a few times where I have gotten scouted. Good players who make kills with that thing truly deserve it. Otherwise if i wanted to play with what amounts to a rail gun id load up some quake.