How CS:GO's Dirtiest Cheater Inspired the Game's Most Ridiculous Meme

[Music] esports is a truly global phenomenon but that doesn't mean that every region is on equal footing south korea china europe and yes even north america have become competitive across many games well some more than others another page in the tsm chapter of disappointment but among the regions that are expected to soak up all the silverware are those that are fighting just to be recognized formidable dark horses that have overcome incredible odds in spite of the challenges they've faced along the way he's in rage again he's defeated [Music] [Applause] is [Applause] the impossible two-time major winners you are gone the filipinos have eliminated rg tnz have done it but breaking into the top tier in any esport is never easy for a developing region and even some of the world's most prestigious scenes have had their reputations dragged through the mud by players looking for shortcuts to the top but in the world of indian counter-strike there is one event so infamous that it didn't just send shockwaves through the scene it killed it a despicable heinous act that would not only create the region's greatest villain but one of cs goes most notorious memes so how did optic gaming's indian long shot end in disgrace and what the hell does microsoft word have to do with any of this i think he got the punishment he deserves from social media itself i think being shunned and remembered as the person who destroyed indian counter-strike esports it'll carry on regardless of where he goes [Music] okay so first things first optic gaming announced the formation of the optic india roster in june of 2018 and for the counter-strike community there it seemed like a big opportunity to show what the country could do optic india is a new beginning cracking india as a region would be huge for both optic and counter-strike the country has over four times as many people as the united states living in an area one third the size you're talking about perhaps one of the biggest potential untapped market untapped market in esports why not get in right now when no one's there right want to grow the brand sure esports isn't that big right now but if you're going to be the first mover you get the community on your side so how did they decide who to pick up well the team didn't just appear out of nowhere the org actually held tryouts and they claimed to have had over a thousand applicants yeah so i remember it right uh i had like a long uh like written process where people had to just write down stuff and it was easy to like filter out a lot of people based on that and then of course a lot of people came for the land tryout so it's kind of like mixing people up taking notes the roster that emerged from the process was composed of marzil antidote haivan formless and nikhil forsaken kumawat a lurking support player who was introduced by optic as someone trying to redeem his image he was like the persona non-grata of the scene he rose to fame and success very quickly from being a nobody to somebody who is quite literally dominating most of the pro guys in the sea that tarnished image was because most members of the indian cs community were aware that forsaken had had previous run-ins with scandal in 2017. i remember he got banned temporarily by isik when he had confessed to or rather he was caught selling steam accounts of which one of the accounts got back fan if i'm not mistaken which he had owned in the past he claimed that he sold the account but according to esic rules it doesn't matter if you sold the account or not because you're not supposed to actually sell an account it's not legal per se but the ban still held and after that he wrote multiple emails or he claimed to have multiple emails and he got the band revoked to six months regardless of whether forsaken story was true he'd done well enough during trials to earn a spot on the roster and in july optic rounded out their lineup by bringing in german import yb as the team's in-game leader buoyed by his acquisition the team set their sights on qualifying for some big lan events to prove that they could hang with asia's best and eventually they did just that earning a spot at extremes land zowie asia cs go 2018 as their region's only representative so we were just trying to make sure we do our best in the event so that they have some reason to retain our roster to keep supporting it regardless of what happens uh at least make it to the quarterfinals semifinals and everything optic india had a dreamt of making history and they did just unfortunately not in a way that anyone predicted during optic india's group stage match against revolution marzil who was sitting next to forsaken tried to call a pause for a technical issue with his monitor so then i see an admin coming behind my pc rent because my pc is next to his pc and i'm like no no it's okay it's all good uh i have my issue resolved and then that was like no no wait anyone goes to forsaken's pc right and he minimizes the game now as it happens the admins had already discovered something out of place on forsaken's ssd so they took the opportunity to check the folder so he goes to that folder and then he opens that file and i distinctly remember around three words which was have fun and hack or something on those lines right and i'm like what the hell and that's when it that's the part of the video where you see i'm looking like days like what is going on forsaken tried to bat away the admin and delete the files but was asked to step aside that's when reality came crashing down on not only marzil but the rest of optic india and i'm just like perplexed i'm like wait what is this actually happening i i felt i felt my hands go numb i was like is this actually happening am i in a dream what is this going on and i i had like a series of emotions run through me i didn't know whether i should be angry upset sad i i had no control things moved quickly after that the team was disqualified and optics sent forsaken home immediately but the rest of the team had to wait for their return flights in a few days little did they know outside the walls of their hotel the clip had gone viral and the world of counter-strike was reacting to what had happened no i wasn't working that event i was i was at home i woke up and my my my phone my my alarm didn't drink because my phone had hung because too many messages and notifications it just blew up like my twitter my my whatsapp like everyone's like dude what the hell is going on right and a key detail that fans picked up on was the name that forsaken had seemingly given his cheats word.exe and similar to how vac became a popular meme in the aftermath of the 2014 bands word.exe became the standing term for describing someone's hacks it's become such a prevalent meme that if you search word.exe right now nearly everything that pops up first is actually related to forsaken and not microsoft word when you look at the overall scope of things yes that kind of blew up right it became a very memeable thing everyone's talking about it honestly for me i wasn't too uh perturbed with that fact i was like yeah it's going to be funny for a while people are going to be talking a bit about it but it's not a bad thing overall it's not going to lead to the death of the scene in the aftermath reporting from vp esports pointed to multiple complaints from teammates that something may have been awry with forsaken's aim but in the end it was the admins that exposed him and having been slammed with a five-year ban by the esic after it was revealed that he had used an aimbot to cheat at previous tournaments forsaken pretty much disappeared from the face of the earth he ruined a lot of things for a lot of people but there's no way any of that is coming back so there's no point in yelling at him i think he got the punishment he deserves from social media itself i think being shunned and remembered as the person who destroyed indian counter-strike esports it'll carry on regardless of where he goes and as fans combed through forsaken clips in october of 2018 one thing became pretty clear in hindsight there were some very obvious clips like hilariously obvious forsaken and antidote i'm gonna have to try and retake the site luckily there is a hole in the smoke so joseph's gonna get some nice positioning on the side and he's gonna be able to get rid of fog to the 2v2 nicely done but while the world was joking around the rest of optic india were facing a hard reality one in which they were unemployed and no longer had the support of their org we thought that optic would come out in support of us and then let us know that they got our backs and you know at least until the trip was over until we got back home to indian soil but all they said was we're shutting down this division goodbye and there was no funding support also from that point was cut there was no money coming in to actually feed us food when we were in china for lunch and dinner were still was the potential fallout optic were pretty much the biggest org to ever have taken a chance on the region and now they'd withdrawn in disgrace when we went and and and scouted in india for and obviously it turned out a [ __ ] show because of that cheater forsaken the world [ __ ] loser um put to put on that brand and to [ __ ] do that like he is lucky like that i wasn't [ __ ] there because i know that we're we're in indian rules are different there same thing if we were in mexico i'd approach them a different way in a situation like that right but in spite of the shame that the scandal had brought upon the former members of optic india it didn't sour their love for counter-strike marzel and his teammates went on to compete as part of signify against south african squad bravado at dreamhack invitational mumbai a couple of months later where they beat them in a 2-0 upset in the bracket and lost a narrow 2-1 grand final set proving once and for all that they didn't need forsaken's hacks to put up a fight maybe the forsaken situation means that counter-strike won't be india's breakout esports opportunity even if it does have a scene that players like marzil hang onto tenaciously but even still with the country's big population increasingly interested in gaming and esports it seems like keeping india off the stage forever is unlikely even if a scoundrel did write part of its story in word.exe it's an incident that happened left behind a lot of memes which honestly one life sounded pretty funny even at that time but it is what it is it wasn't really gonna leave a long-term effect on the scene overall even if a scoundrel did write part of its story in word.exe i just got it like i just got the last line really yeah that's why i was trying to change it yesterday because i was like it's so good i just didn't get it it's my bad i don't know what maybe i was just tired yesterday or like i don't know what the [ __ ] it was it's so good no no it's so good josh killed it i don't know whether i didn't yeah i just i i think yesterday was just a weird day like it was so dreary and i was tired and i was just like not in it

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Id: 6tZo5N5hQrs

Length: 12min 50sec (770 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 22 2020