How a Nerdy Nobody Became Esports' Biggest Chad

[Music] there are certain tournaments in esports that will change your life if you win the lpl has never won before but that will change today the groundless are finally king and invictus gaming are your 2018 world champions all this happens they made and work clown nine are your alien major champions arsene is your evil japan champion whether you fought through blood sweat and b.o at evo clapped faker at worlds or finally lived up to your major sticker esports has grown to the point where a world championship won't just earn you a sense of spiritual fulfillment but a financial one as well three million dollars richer the biggest individual prize victory in competitive gaming history and nowhere is this sentiment truer than at ti from having your name etched onto the aegis to claiming the lion's share of a bajillion dollar prize pool there's nothing like watching someone's life change as they knock down the last tick of health on that final fateful ancient they're gonna do it they're gonna change the alliance wins they win ti3 but of all the demigods ever to make dota's ultimate ascension none have undergone as much of a transformation as to pius thompson tavit simon the finnish mid lane god of dota's greatest ever team winning his first ti wasn't just an incredible achievement and one of esports greatest underdog stories it was a turning point you see somehow in the matter of two weeks and one historic aegis lift this guy began a metamorphosis he went from being a virtual nobody to an all-worshipped god can he keep this man alive though he doesn't have the blacktop backup you have a banana with a big gust sending him back tornado thompson he's in the back of the beach coming down thompson with the save for them so how exactly did this unknown pub star turn in-game confidence into real-life swagger and what is the secret sauce that caused the meek topson to become chadsin the most successful ti participant of all time thompson he just does not give a crap anna will give all the life this is just fountain farming okay so to understand how our boy went from this topson to the tops and she told you not to worry about we have to go back back to the months preceding ti-8 when he was just an unknown unassuming pub star but all of that changed in an instant i got a message from jerax that og is in is looking for new players and i was one of the people they were looking at and then i was like in a disbelief that i would be able to play for og most of you may probably know the story by now following the anime grade betrayal they suffered at the hands of fly og couldn't find any top tier trouncers to stuff into their mid lane so with only eight weeks to go before ti they took a gamble on eu's topmost son fun fact he isn't the top son at all he has 11 siblings 11 7 older four younger that's a lot of sex anyway back then thompson was a super fringe dude he'd dropped out of culinary school to pursue his dota career and it reflected in his play he was incredibly creative which showed in his far from conventional hero pool a quality that drew criticism from some of his peers thompson is very obnoxious he's a weirdo he's a very weird player it's like what kind of mid player buys meteor hammer on invoker and plays pogba on monkey king like what's what's going on you know for most this was niche situational [ __ ] but not for thompson this guy ran it all day every day and he didn't just mainline cheesy [ __ ] he dumpstered people with it there's the setup into the stun cold snap that's me just leaves it it goes for the walk off kill he knows that he's got it he didn't you know that's cool guys don't look at explosions while thompson's in-game approach was exuberant it stood in stark contrast to the shy and subdued way he carried himself outside of game thompson i learned quickly that he was well similar to other scandinavians maybe a bit more reserved needless to say going into the international 8 which by the way was thompson's first actual land no one expected anything of this frightful little fin in addition to looking like he was always in need of an adult it honestly felt as if he was just happy to be included how did it feel coming into ti with that track record was it overconfidence was it the right amount of confidence talk to us about your mentality we were constant of course yeah i mean not overconfident for sure but we are good skilled team and we're gonna beat every team here here's the thing though they actually [Applause] did [Applause] that boy went toe to toe with the best of the best and more often than not conducted a master class in unorthodox ownage thompson is actually sticking around has the sentry advantage here so it doesn't know what ami is up to kind of looks like he's baiting at they yeah you did do that he was baiting it this man alive though he doesn't have the black hole back up here banana with a big gun sending him back tornado thompson he's into the back of the beater coming down thompson with the saves gets both for them doing it big time on the main stage that thompson he's actually got some damage miss uphill is it gonna happen noah doesn't the crepify he just has to wait and with the blast hobson he has been an absolute genius terror blade bt's forward the ball is up thompson needs to defend x over very visible you've got a very very low life mirana but og they can't find the target x nova he's got the grip he's got the control he's got the kill thompson is down but yes it's up where the echoes slam [Applause] and thanks to his contribution the tournament's biggest underdogs rallied to become its unlikeliest champions the best part was that it felt like thompson was as dumbfounded with the whole thing as we were thompson three thousand dollars in your pocket you come to tr you get an email from notel you're a ti champion what to say that the community couldn't believe it would be an understatement of all the competitors ever to hoist the aegis none had literally come out of nowhere the way thompson had it was unprecedented and unthinkably awesome before ti8 no one knew or cared who tops in was but afterward dota fans across the world worshiped him and you could see the effect it was having on him too he started growing out his hair getting swole and developing a sort of swagger i stupid laura all day long the only thing is that i don't have to like count my every euro i spend like i can go shop i can buy food and i don't have a care like how much it costs like you know but it wasn't until og sauntered into ti9 as last year's cinderella sensation the things really ramped up they've taken most of the year off to recuperate and given that no single player had ever amassed a second ti no one expected lightning to strike twice least of all for thompson although i'm pretty sure you can guess what happened next back to the bases liquid have nothing they have nothing to offer [ __ ] they're just giving look at this they're diving fountain and ti finals they want karaoke in the fountain as well they're gonna get it they're chasing miracles well oh my god i can't believe this i can't believe what we're seeing in this game for oh gee you thought you saw it on game [Applause] so how did ti's unlikeliest champion become its first ever two-time honestly by giving even fewer shits than the previous year ti8 saw thompson's idiosyncratic playstyle get validation on his game's biggest stage he showed up to ti9 with even weirder and more self-assertive [ __ ] to flex but this time he rolled everybody with it without hesitation thompson he just does not give a crap adam will give all the life this is just fountain bombing defusal gyrocopter wait what diffuser gyrocopter tourette's defusal gyrocopter fancy that thompson doing something i don't i don't think i've ever seen this he's got three's available but he's gonna burst and he's got the shield and now they'll be able to turn cooldowns dropped down by thompson and here we have it beautiful this man is gone he's able to pop the stick get it a fair bit of it back and he's here but let's head back in pushing og back behind the racks they're getting a good amount of damage onto the c3 tower liquid little push-ups on io that spirit hero damage is there now going to join the freight finally there we have it miracles mana it's pretty much entirely gone by thompson's folks he'll look forward thompson focusing miracle miracles still out of mana because of his diffusion he's over the cop of the ga is out we will fall down the basic damage is there from thompson miracles trying to run another stick jackpot but jericho could shut him off in fact jazz he's ready to try and look for more potentially there's only the ones thompson he's on top of another cooldown there that turns back into the combo they're all getting picked apart as my control falls miracle is surrounded and they're all dead it's kind of fun when you like when you're playing with your team and you you know you're reading then you just buy some random weird item and they're like why do you have this if you thought the community was going buckwild over this guy before man his so-called 15 million defusal was instantly recognized as one of the ballsiest and biggest brain moves in ti history and so the people dubbed him godson thompson's god dude that guy can do whatever he wants man i actually don't give a [ __ ] but that wasn't the only thing they called him this isn't even his final form yet you better be ready it's only coming next year you see in the months following ti9 thompson underwent yet another transformation fresh cut pierced ears he even lost the glasses he didn't just cement himself as a champion for the ages but as a literal chad i mean just look at that drip manza's looking like a whole damn snack which is presumably how he became dadson i'm gonna teach you how to play dora i'm gonna be the best daughter player don't i'm gonna tell you no don't play dota there gonna ruin your life it's becoming increasingly common for esports to afford their competitors the lives they always dreamed of but in thompson's case it feels like it was expedited from topsoil to flopsyn to thompson to top god to godson it got to the point where the community was pretty much forced to create a super saiyan chart in his honor and sure he's had his share of good fortune but the truth is he's also just that talented underneath all of the memes surrounding thompson's transmutation is one of the most staggering stories of success and self-discovery that esports has ever seen he is a god in game and out that guy is like the best player i've seen in dota a long time because he doesn't just play the game like it's not even the stupid little [ __ ] that he does it's just like how he plays he just creates pressure not the pressure that people think what pressure is it's like not mental pressure it's like literally dota pressure he creates builder pressure on the map like he creates situations and there aren't that many players that do it so where does chadson go from here does he continue to ball out of control or does he quit while he's ahead and preserve his 100 ti win rate at the end of the day it doesn't really matter what he chooses to do since bursting onto the scene he's given dota fans reason to question everything they thought they knew about their sacred game thompson 100 ci win right here on this man in a matter of two years thompson has shown that you can successfully reach the apex of competition armed with a batshit imagination and most importantly a ton of self-belief and whichever version of him you stan whether it's thompson or godson the man has proven himself to be the biggest gangster dota's ever seen and the scariest part is that in spite of all the hunger and humility now he knows it yeah [Music] if you thought the community was going buck wild over this guy before man i don't know why i tried i tried to perfectly safe and it destroyed me buck wild buck wild into a it's serious but yeah here we go

Channel: theScore esports

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Id: ogrdAnDs3xA

Length: 15min 20sec (920 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 15 2020