Souvenir Nova | Bloomstick (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The skin keeps its recognisable split between gunmetal front and red, blossom-covered rear in Minimal Wear. Any marks at this grade are tiny and usually sit on edges that are hard to spot in game. It gives almost the same glossy red look as the cleanest grade with a less strict condition.

Item type: shotgun. Classified is the second-rarest weapon tier, only Covert sits above it.

Custom Paint Job: hand-painted across the whole body; this is the type where wear shows most, the artwork rubs down to metal.

Other qualities of this skin: Factory New, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The barrel, magazine tube and ribbed pump forend are finished in dark gunmetal grey and form a plain front half. The receiver and stock are painted bright red with black branches and small pale pink blossoms running along them, airbrushed by hand under a high-gloss topcoat.

Small specks may appear on the receiver edges and the top of the stock. The flower pattern stays intact and the gloss is largely preserved. From normal distance in game it looks practically the same as Factory New. The dark barrel and pump remain clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Souvenir Nova | Bloomstick is 0.06–0.8; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (11% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The eSports 2014 Summer Collection with 17 skins in total.

It drops from eSports 2014 Summer Case (on sale since Jul 9, 2014).

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, black, white and gold stickers sit well with the cherry blossom artwork. Placements on the dark barrel or pump stand out cleanly, while stickers on the red receiver should not cover the blossoms.

What to look at before you buy

• Check the receiver edges and the top of the stock, where the red paint wears first.
• Compare the float with the range of the chosen grade, especially for Factory New, which covers only a narrow band for this skin.
• Look at the butt end of the stock, since wear there is visible in the inspect view.
• Make sure stickers or a name tag match the red and black scheme if they are already applied.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-flawless look while saving over the cleanest grade.
• Sticker crafters who accept tiny edge marks that are hard to see in game.
• Conclusion: the most sensible clean option.