Souvenir SSG 08 | Blue Spruce (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This SSG 08 finish has no pattern. Its look comes entirely from the split between a dark teal frame and light mint accessories. In Minimal Wear the paint looks almost untouched, and the few small marks sit where you rarely look during a round.

Item type: sniper rifle. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

Solid Color: a single colour without a pattern; wear dulls it evenly and rubs it off along the edges.

Other qualities of this skin: Factory New, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The receiver and handguard are painted in a dark blue-green, while the barrel and muzzle brake stay dark grey. The scope tube, scope rings, pistol grip, cheek rest and butt pad are a pale mint green, which makes them stand out against the darker frame.

Minimal Wear adds tiny scuffs, mostly on the muzzle brake and the front edge of the scope. The receiver, handguard and stock still look solid. At normal distance it is very hard to tell apart from Factory New, so it is the practical clean choice.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir SSG 08 | Blue Spruce ranges from 0.06 to 0.8; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 11% 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

Souvenir SSG 08 | Blue Spruce belongs to The Safehouse Collection, which holds 15 skins.

It drops from:

• DreamHack 2013 Souvenir Package
• EMS One 2014 Souvenir Package

Price by quality

By price this skin is 6th of 8 skins Consumer Grade SSG 08 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

Stickers in teal, mint, white or muted gold blend well with the flat green colour blocks. The dark receiver and handguard give light stickers a strong contrast. Bright red or purple stickers will clash with the calm moss scheme.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, because chips on the scope and muzzle grow quickly toward the worse end.
• Pattern does not matter here, since the finish is made of solid colour blocks.
• Souvenir copies come with fixed stickers, so check whether they suit the green scheme.
• Look at the scope and the muzzle brake in the inspect view, as these parts lose paint first.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a clean-looking scout without paying for the top grade.
• Sticker crafters who accept tiny marks on the muzzle and scope.
• Conclusion: nearly Factory New in game, a sensible clean option.