How a CS:GO Prodigy Had to Leave Home to Get Back on Top

spotted he's got the C7 and he's gone it's all on the JW smoked away and in a notch on a Grand Slam he can sense players on the other side it's gonna be a kill between surely he gets the first is this where it ends aloe in a three versus one but he's got the kill and liquid have it they've got the championship they've got Masters and two in the Intel Grand Slam if it's off weekend let's drop that could be in serious trouble that should do it there we go I actually have a an announcement to make um that was actually my last games with Team Liquid yeah I hope that uh I'm back next year in a new home and still the play online see us and this one is just a sad State of Affairs it's beautiful from Fury up one versus three years cold and that's it Sprout have defeated phase and eliminated them from the Zara Mark they dominated and so close to phase it's heartbreak No Doubt first will be immediately found and taken down they'll even Elevate their positions twist trying to use the Gap to see through spot them sees him easy find to the kill ing twist has both that's such an incredible clutch and he slaps him down [Applause] 15. twists he just stands up and he tells the Army to sit down Sean robs falls out of the round but twist is still a threat out behind the big box another on the tally twist is on a mission four out of five one more to find and these 1v1s have been where phase Thrive baits the shot but it's twists the man who could make history today twiss is one of csgo's biggest names he's a major champion and a two-time grand slam winner but to earn those accolades he had to move across an ocean and leave his region and his team behind twist began his career in North America and quickly became known as one of the Region's hottest stars it's now going to just twist and energy could start to mount come back here twist gets one twist gets two bones dropped in the window third players away from it goes for silent before he can get the reload and twist has a chance to pull this back as he gets inside of the site goes to the face again and twists oh one versus three after a childhood of playing Shooters with his dad twists got through and at times abusive living situation and constant bullying at school by playing Counter-Strike and twists was really good he was one of the first players born after the release of the original Counter-Strike to GoPro and he did it when he was just 16. too young to even play in some tournaments he dropped out of school that year too a risky move but one that paid off after a rapid rise on TSM and misfits twiss joined Team Liquid in 2017 and despite a rocky start the team quickly became the best lineup in N A overtime may not matter spur gets closer he forced it with a czn but chances against four as they're completely surrounded or even less they know he's behind the watch and Elise will flank it liquid to the finals Cloud Nine to play off against Phase One North American team through and for the second week in a row they take down the number one rated team in the world as the years went on though International success eluded liquid they just couldn't overcome astralis the best CS go team in the world he's already shown his hand flash time so well and he goes [Applause] CS go has always been considered Europe's game and while astralis is absolute dominance was unprecedented it was also the natural order of things a few remarkable outliers aside European teams were supposed to win major tournaments for a North American Squad the Australis era felt inevitable but defying All Odds Team Liquid Rose to the occasion so we're still wait till pick Brolin spotted [Applause] liquid get their notch on a Grand Slam he can sense players on the other side it's gonna be a kill for Twist surely he gets the first is this where it ends aloe in a three versus one but he's got the kill and liquid have it they've got the championship they've got Masters and two in the Intel Grand Slam unbelievable scenes here ladies and gentlemen Team Liquid oh your season 9 pro league champions if it's rpk let's drop they come in serious trouble that should do it there we go it's steam liquid and that's what it means to them they've taken it in the fourth map the favorite is coming into the tournament have just unlocked the end of grand slam that's answer one can learn about and a million dollars bonus Team Liquid raced a complete the IEM Grand Slam which means winning four ESL events in one year and they did it in just five months and yet just after that historic Victory liquid started to fall off again twiss was still the star but he wanted to be more than just the big fish in a small pond the constant ups and downs was starting to get to him so he Dove deep into the unknown I actually have a an announcement to make um that was actually my last games with Team Liquid and that can be exciting to some people or very bad news for a lot of liquid fans but I just wanted them to hear it from me I've enjoyed all the support over the years uh the Orcs being nothing but family to me and yeah I hope that uh I'm back next year in a new home and still the play online CS okay so what was the feeling in the community then when twist left liquid I thought he got kicked was you really yeah no by the end of 2020 uh twists stats had really taken a dive like actual career low dive um you know and for a mechanical God light twists it was really stunning and the thing about being a mechanical God is that if your team can't really count on your aim then there's not much else they can count on right I feel like this kind of thing happens quite a lot in Esports generally you know you get these incredibly gifted mechanically talented players but you know as soon as a matter shifts slightly or they fall off they just have no skills to fall back off exactly and it looked as if that's what had happened to twists right liquid were in the dumpster and it was really clear that something needed to change it seemed as if he kind of just drew the Short Straw by a having a sort of ill-defined role right like he wasn't the igl the Opera the entry Etc um but also he sort of just had the worst hltv rating so is that actually what happened no no no it was actually way weirder than that so he went to liquid as it turns out it basically said look I think that we can get back to where we were in 2019. I just think that in order to do it we need to a remove a certain unruly roster member and B relocates to Europe he issued his org and ultimatum and basically said it's my way or the highway right but did anyone else other than him think he could do it well so that's the thing right so this is all happening during covet right and tier one Counter-Strike spots are very very few and far between especially for a North American player right the thing is at his Peak twists really was a world-class talent and in the world of professional Counter-Strike if you are a world-class player who's fallen on Hard Times there's pretty much only one place you can end up twists laptop liquid and moved across the ocean to Europe he realized that if he wanted to regain his old form he needed to be training against the best of the best I was struggling like in only North America and looking back now I'm just like how can like these players like aren't On My Level in no way but the team he landed on had some issues of their own twists joined FaZe Clan in January 2021 an international European roster that had been struggling for a long time FaZe have been through many roster changes over the years and twiss was the latest addition to the lineup and despite early wins over his former teammates twiss struggled to raise phase to new heights and this one is just a and that's the way it finishes couldn't be more convincing sprouter on the way now Brookie trying to shut this down but he can't do it 10 seconds to plant holder I won't have the angle for it one versus three is cold and that's it Sprout have defeated phase and eliminated them from the saramar and phase falling apart to seems here just running out of chances that something out of twist broke he presented an opportunity the bomb now loose but simple's too prepared and that's all under broke enough he recover Navi topped the table to put it simply phase was stuck they were a team loaded with Talent with one of the game's greatest Minds at their Helm but when it mattered most they just couldn't put it all together and they fell short over and over again something had to change Buster has that information and this should be pretty straightforward from VP they'll smoke him off as well they get worse he goes three to point one but it wasn't expecting two and foot gets the final kill vertis Pro not only come back in this series they dominated and so close to fees it's heartbreak No Doubt so what was so wrong with phased end that twist just couldn't make it work with them okay so if you've spent any amount of time watching professional Counter-Strike in the past like seven years you probably know that FaZe was literally a meme right they were always touted as this International super squad who are going to take over the world and time and time again they would burn fast and bright and just fizzle it never worked it must have worked sometimes right at some point like you you don't just stay in Counter-Strike that long with zero success surely it worked it just never worked for long I guess remember they'd have these periods where for a couple of weeks or a couple of months they were just stupidly good the best team in the world unquestionably couldn't drop a map but then there'd be a crack in the foundation and that crack would start to spread and that's when they would do their phase signature thing of bring in X Superstar to save them first it was Kerrigan's Gonna Save Us and then oh no now we need guardian and then it's Olaf and what we really need is Nico and then cold Zera and let's bring back hair again and it was just this like crazy revolving door it was a joke it kind of sounds like there you know there wasn't really high hopes for twiss when he joined the team then I mean I wanted it to work right like as a North American fan as a Canadian I love twists but I'd be lying if I said that I got my hopes up so what happens from here then if things don't work out well like I said at this point tier one contracts and Counter-Strike are very few and far between right so if things went South on FaZe Clan it's possible he could have got another shot he certainly would have landed you know an opportunity on a tier two team or could have taken a fat paycheck and valorant but I think that that would have been a real blow for twists like both professionally and personally yeah because I just feel like something has to give here right I mean you can't just go on losing indefinitely and I mean the last time twist found himself in this situation he just ditched liquid so is that all sort of solution here okay I know I just finished making fun of FaZe Clan for their you know save me roster moves but they really were about to make another roster move that would change everything but that's crumbling as well officers in a huge amount of trouble he's gonna try and take matters into his own hands couldn't find the second shot fast enough but Jax he drops in oh oh talk about in Estonia phase sign drops just days before I am kataviza 2022 and despite him missing parts of the tournament he arrived to help the team win their first ever katowitzer Trophy and prove the lineup still had some fight in it he's actually hit one plus two he did damage that's gonna drop them down Hunter final kill and fannies finally stays finally on the stage in Canada will take a championship robs's addition to the team unlocks something in the rest of phase but especially in twists his overall performance had markedly improved from 2021 and his numbers were way up from his last year on liquid in 2020. that cater Visa victory was only the beginning too just two months later FaZe lifted the trophy at the EPL season 15 finals setting them up as the team to beat at the upcoming Antwerp major it seemed like after a year in the wilderness twist decision to leave N.A was starting to pay off people were calling him one of the best players in the world again and his mechanical Excellence was on clear display twist will be immediately found and taken down they'll even Elevate their positions so it's trying to use the Gap to see through spasm season not looking the right way and twist has both the Canadian Canadian Academy itself has 12 for phase that's such an incredible clutch for the true tests of Twist's skills and decision making was still ahead while phase were favorites going into the major they were far from sure bets CS go Mages are often unpredictable beasts and many were looking to defending Champions navi for a back-to-back Victory but still twiss was a favorite to win a major for the first time in his career he was on the cusp of glory and when he stepped onto the server he did not disappoint now that they get those two steps closer do they just want to take this they're going to press hard into the pit oh my god with a quick flick of this one they're all gone easy pickups on this half fight twists still waiting for a Long Peak so measured for spirit so slow until the Intensive move until they intend to go and here it is both players fighting back in this side follows up it's a 1v1 oh man [Applause] it's off the character broke he does hit the shot and Carrick is good for the headshot now running out of options [Applause] he's not done away [Applause] so here's a question Dimitri how did you personally feel when phase won that major great it was great are you calling me out for well I don't know I feel like throughout all of this that Journey you didn't really believe in them perhaps I mean sure but like you know all the stuff I talked about was like a year before this right like signing rops was no small feat right like you know the term is overused in Esports but he really is a generational Counter-Strike player and more importantly I think that he and twists really connected like both in the server and outside of the server in a way that neither of them expected okay so you just kind of conveniently change your mind then let's say look man put me on blast all you want phase went from a meme to Champions in a really short period of time everyone was surprised at their transformation and twist was a huge part of it right so it talk to me about what twist was bringing to the team at this point then sometimes you just need a guy a you know clutch confident player who can just hit shots twist is unquestionably one of the best aimers on planet Earth and sometimes a team just needs a guy who an igl can look at and say look the economy is we got a hero rifle two flashes and a smoke we get one shot at this and I need you to get to here and twists is one of the best players in the world at doing that especially in the crutch and do you think that him moving to Europe helped with that specific part of of his skill set absolutely right you know he he moved to a stronger region to play against stronger players and homeless craft right which is exactly why he wanted liquid to move there in the first place right it's like that old saying about steel sharpening steel right so it sounds to me like the risk paid off absolutely right this is a guy who you know look twist comes from a relatively you know troubled childhood he took refuge and Counter-Strike and decided that he didn't just want to go pro he wanted to become one of the best players ever to touch the game and he did that in North America and then watched as he and his roster sort of became complacent and realized that in order to reignite that hunger that he had when he was a kid he was gonna have to relocate to a region where they actually took the game as seriously as he did and it's all because he never really lost that hunger did he I know it is like really corny to say but he really is just one of those one in a million competitors who just doesn't take no for an answer and [Applause] and the dying stages of Regulation as they're gone 15. twist he just stands up and he tells Darby to sit down phase continued their victory march over the rest of the year winning IEM cologne in July the victory marked their third ESL title in under 10 events putting them just one win away from a grand slam twiss already had one grand slam win of course all the way back in 2019 with Team Liquid but he wanted another one that would prove he was right to move to Europe to join phase and to bet everything on himself and his chance for Vindication came at the ESL Pro League season 17 finals it's only npl up against three twist Nails it phase took a ticket to the Grand finals live from Malta and I'll be quick to exit the server after that one phase was set for a grand final showdown against C9 Victory here meant a grand slam win losing well it just wasn't really an option for twists a man on a mission a man trying to make history in this Grand Final left up in the clutch be ready for the DP down the stairs he is decapitates the first shot came with the clothes you could just see it coming together right what a flick on Buster and the pre-aim is perfection for twists it could all go downhill for cloud nine Shiro deals with Carrigan axle traded twists with a double he's looking for a second Intel ground slap he's trying to be the Difference Maker to find 15 to find match point with so much on the line twist has answered the call battled back into the three on three six waiting for Roxy's contact sure robs falls out of the round but twist is still a threat out behind the big box another on the tally twist is on a mission five one more to find and these 1v1s have been where phase Thrive baits the shot [Applause] that realization is starting to set in that in a moment's time foreign trophy that they've been chasing to find the Intel Grand Slam Reign the Hammer's been slammed down by Thor himself and now it's just Buster and Hobbit left up in this one but they can't find a thing [Applause] cross a career of ups and downs over the course of a life of challenges and setbacks twists never stop believing in himself he stayed hungry and never doubted the power that gave him he never stopped believing the victory could be attained through hard work and dedication to the game that changed his life FaZe ended up losing in the quarterfinals of the most recent major but twist remains one of the most exciting players in the world and as long as he continues to bet on his skills and passion for the game it's hard to imagine him ever fading away thanks for watching if you want more content like this hit the sub button and ring the notification Bell for Unique bite-sized videos you won't find anywhere else hit us up on our Twitter Instagram Facebook and tick tock

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Length: 22min 58sec (1378 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 19 2023