AWP | POP AWP (Field-Tested)

The AWP | POP AWP in Field-Tested (FT) is the working middle of the scale, where the bright mosaic still reads even though the white fields have lost their purity. Field-Tested on the AWP | POP AWP sits between floats 0.15 and 0.38. It is Restricted rank; the AWP is usable by both sides and belongs to The 2021 Train Collection.

What the AWP | POP AWP looks like in Field-Tested

The finish is built as a retro-techno collage. A mosaic of white, red and blue stripes and angular blocks with black outlines covers the receiver and stock. The barrel, scope and bipod stay black, so the whole design is gathered in the middle of the rifle. Valve defines the style as a white, red and blue pattern in the retro-techno spirit.

The mosaic does not let wear get lost, but it does so unevenly: any scratch shows better on the white fields than on the red and blue blocks. In Field-Tested the white has already lost its purity, while the colored areas remain readable.

Look for the AWP | POP AWP by number rather than by wear label, because a band of 0.15 to 0.38 is wide. It takes up 52% of the finish's scale, whose ceiling is 0.44, which is why there is no Battle-Scarred AWP | POP AWP. The finish has four wears, from Factory New to Well-Worn.

What to check before buying

These points are worth checking before you pay for the AWP | POP AWP:

• the float, which decides how light the white fields on the receiver and stock have stayed;


• the block edges around the mosaic's borders, where scuffs show earlier than in the center;


• the name tag and stickers this AWP | POP AWP already carries.

The AWP | POP AWP is a fixed pattern, and its price does not depend on the pattern.

What the AWP | POP AWP costs in Field-Tested

The other wears set against this one:

• Factory New asks about five times the price;


• Minimal Wear costs about a fifth more;


• Well-Worn costs the same.

Among Restricted AWPs this finish is second from the top in this wear: only AWP | Pink DDPAT costs more. The nearest ones below are Exoskeleton, Black Box and Atheris, cheaper by about a quarter, 30% and a third.

Getting the AWP | POP AWP

No CS2 case contains this skin. It appeared on September 22, 2021, when The 2021 Train Collection was added to the game.

A trade-up also yields it: ten skins one step lower. With all ten from this collection, the chance of this finish is one in five, since the collection has five Restricted skins. The finish also works as an input: ten Restricted skins give one Classified, which is FAMAS | Meltdown, MAC-10 | Propaganda or USP-S | Whiteout.

StatTrak and Souvenir

Stickers and craft on the AWP | POP AWP

No StatTrak™ version of the AWP | POP AWP was ever released. There were no Souvenir packages for this finish either: they were made only for the map collections of tournaments. But you can build a Souvenir copy yourself. The Souvenir-O-Matic puts gold tournament stickers and a player autograph on an ordinary skin from your inventory. That is why single Souvenir copies occasionally turn up even where packages never existed.

The mosaic is busy, and a sticker almost always lands on the artwork. Black stickers look like a continuation of the barrel and scope, while white ones sink into the light fields and lose legibility.

Every copy carries the same artwork, so in a craft only the sticker colors differ. Red and blue ones echo the blocks of the collage and read as a single set.

Who this wear suits

Buying the AWP | POP AWP here, in Field-Tested, makes sense on these terms:

• you want a Restricted AWP with a bright retro-techno design;


• Well-Worn costs the same, so the better buy is Field-Tested with a low float;


• in CS2 you need the rifle for either side, and it has to stand out in first-person view.

If the purity of the white fields matters, look at Factory New: it costs about four and a half times as much.