Souvenir AWP | POP AWP (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The POP AWP pairs a plain black barrel and scope with a loud, comic-like pattern of white panels, black strokes and spots of red and blue. At Minimal Wear the collage still reads as clean in game, with only faint marks on the sharpest edges of the stock if you look closely. It gives nearly the full look of the cleanest grade at a more sensible level.

Item type: sniper rifle. Restricted sits in the middle of the rarity scale: noticeably rarer than Mil-Spec, yet not truly rare.

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The long barrel, muzzle, scope and bipod stay in plain dark gunmetal and black, which frames the decorated parts. The hydrographic print covers the receiver area, the magazine and the full stock with a dense collage on a white base.

Faint scuffs may appear on the sharpest edges of the stock and around the butt. The white base keeps its brightness, and the linework stays crisp. At normal distance in game it is hard to tell from Factory New. The magazine and the main stock panels still look clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir AWP | POP AWP ranges from 0 to 0.44; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 18% of this skin’s scale. Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

The skin’s collection is The 2021 Train Collection with 17 skins in total. It does not drop from a case: the collection has none — such skins come from operation drops, souvenir packages or the market.

Price by quality

Taking Minimal Wear as the baseline:

• Factory New — 11× dearer
• Field-Tested — 1.9× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 1.9× cheaper

The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

By price this skin is 3rd of 9 skins Restricted AWP in this quality (the first being the dearest).

Souvenir version

This is the Souvenir version: such copies dropped to tournament viewers in souvenir packages; the team stickers and signatures on them cannot be removed or chosen. Souvenir items never carry StatTrak™. There is also the regular version without tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

Red, blue, white and black stickers continue the retro palette without fighting the collage. Bold, simple designs read better on such a busy surface than detailed ones. Placing them on the flatter stock panels keeps them visible against the pattern.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since the white base shows wear more than darker finishes.
• Look at the edges of the stock, the cheek rest and the area around the magazine, which wear first.
• Compare the visible side of the collage between copies, as the red and blue patches can land in slightly different spots.
• Note any stickers or name tag already applied and whether they match your plans.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-clean look without paying for perfection.
• Crafters for whom tiny edge marks do not matter.
• In short: the balanced pick for most buyers.