2016 Service Medal
About 2016 Service Medal
The 2016 Service Medal is a collectible CS2 item featuring a silver-toned six-pointed medal with a blue center, suspended from a striped blue, yellow, and white ribbon. Unlike weapon skins, this item is notable for its formal medal design and its role as a service award within Counter-Strike rather than a finish applied to a weapon.
Release & Source
The 2016 Service Medal is a Extraordinary-tier skin with an estimated drop chance of ~0.64%, making it one of the rarest skins in CS2.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The 2016 Service Medal marks a player who reached Global General Rank 40 during the 2016 service year and chose to reset their Profile Rank. It functions as a yearly progression coin rather than a weapon skin, and it appears on the account as a record of playtime and rank progression from that year.
A Service Medal is an account collectible awarded when a player reaches Profile Rank 40 and redeems it, which resets their rank back to 1 for that service year. Unlike weapon skins, knives, or gloves, Service Medals are tied to account progression and cannot be applied, traded, or equipped as weapon finishes.
Service Medals can be upgraded multiple times within the same year by reaching Rank 40 again after each reset. The top tier is the red Level 6 version, which indicates the player completed the yearly rank cycle several times beyond the base medal.
There is no fixed hour requirement because Service Medals depend on earning enough XP to reach Profile Rank 40, and XP gains are affected by weekly bonus XP, match performance, and game mode. For most players, it takes a substantial amount of regular play across Competitive, Premier, Casual, or Deathmatch rather than a predictable number of hours.
