Memories of CS:GO - The Early Years

memories Counter Strike is full of them oh my goodness where do we start from the wins of this is a insane life you know yeah can I have the gold bar too damn son H yeah the losses to this day I still haven't looked at that game I haven't looked at that V and the goodbyes this moment this moment uh the past 10 years of Cs have taken us from bedrooms to sold out arenas but how did this come about oh Bo who drove things forward and where did this all start here this one C Champions verus BR finally CL the title they are the champions Round of Applause for ldlc I came into this tournament with my father he passed away just before I got here second major championship in a row are E major [Music] champion for over a decade I've had the pleasure of commentating on some of counter strike's most historical moments in this film I'll be looking back at the early years a journey that began in 2012 when valve released Counter Strike Global Offensive this kickstarted a race to the top a push to be declared the best but who was leading the charge [Music] [Music] fin o what I see here very good memories and a lot of bad memories CS go picture says it all or now it does at least CSO got released in what was it 2012 I believe what a [ __ ] game it was let me tell you I think when you look back to 1.6 final year you saw a lot of tournaments pulling out um you saw the salaries of teams getting less and less we don't have the sponsors we don't have you know money for leaving some very important guy told us there is a no chance Global Offensive will be vas 1.6 so you need to guys like find a way to to join like a normal normal life I was getting to a point where it got really bad I actually started working uh towards the end of uh 1.6 like a part-time job it was definitely on its way out I'm and csgo became like the savior of of the C strike genre for sure uh csgo in the beginning though was not very beautiful it lacked a lot of things that people did like about Counter Strike um kind of how the movement felt how responsive it was was how the gun play worked but as the years went on and on it became one of the I no not one of the the best first person shooter ever made hands down and with a new game came the formation of new teams so how our team nip got together how we formed how we got paired with each other where did it all begin our whole Squad here fryberg exist me fif and getro we all looking very young uh how did we start how did we start getro actually approached me he said like hey they want to start up nip again uh I was like cool cool cool cool well I'm down don't ask to ask me twice to play and then he approached exist and then initially we wanted to incorporate like Source players since the engine in a sense was the same engine as Source we kind of wanted to get them in and get some more knowledge and just like see how it would fit and it turned out that fifin was absolutely perfect he had good in-game leading capabilities he was very good at like understanding the game and for the fifth player which ended up being fryberg was not my goto pick initially but yeah I got out voted on that one which I'm happy about sometimes hey hey you mess up okay I I can admit that Adam turned out to be the perfect fit when a CSO came up uh I don't know I will continue my esport career that is a fun funny story because I invite like a Tas and Neo to my wedding and there already was like my future boss because I Chang change work I I left the Eastport and Neo and us as my wife please let him play CS go there is a there is a future because player nip playing still playing there is something something wrong why they playing for what once F was decided uh getri uh invited us all over to like a pool party and it turned out that we like we all felt like we all became best friends that night uh and after a few hours of my wedding I came to my boss my future boss say to him boss I came back to eort with new teams forming and two scenes merging into one it was only a matter of time until fresh rivalries were [Music] born oh when csgo was released it was really a big excitement because in CSS we are owning everyone very games even myself I remember in 2010 I moved to one. s for several months because I was like there is no Challenge on CSS like it's just too easy and stuff and when CS go is coming out this is the real test you know this is really like the real thing we're going to face the 1.6 Monsters the oneing Legends they came in with a style that I was not used to play against very structured very tactical they used a lot of strategies where they do this big ass like big ass hits on a site where everything was timed perfectly with nad's timing and everything and I was a little bit Blown Away we had a a lot of set thing with smokes flashes just Runing in bomide looking at the floor and stuff like that you know so that was that kind of stuff this is existence many people say this like the biggest brain in in CS I can agree with this guy the The Mastermind everyone which uh like a play versus them lost everyone fifar and fryberg coming from Counterstrike Source they were hyping these guys up like they were beast beast that could not be tame Beast that would eat us up alive we had no idea what was coming for us of course I knew about forz g r and stuff like that and when I knew like I'm going to pay them I was really excited because I wanted to show them that I can be better than them so we are like the little brother on CSS and one6 was like the big brother and we are looking at them and probably waiting for one day where we can face them and CS go was actually like the perfect timing they were supposed to be what we became in csgo they were supposed to be the ones dominating and having this sick win streak obliterating um the scene from the get-go that was not the case however uh we play them I can't even count how many times we play it guys I can't count how many times we beat them I can't count how many times we stole final from them but they were actually an amazing team especially this guy everyone is scared of this guy like the fastest the quickest sniper in the in in the world the best very quick no one work quicker really kenes stuck in the sight finding more that's brilliant and Ken s again up close oh my goodness Ken s uh eventually did beat us and again and again yeah So eventually they did catch up up to us uh absolutely lovely rivalry though um but at the same time uh it was very interesting and just like a way for me to learn and adapt even more like to level up myself in a bit like okay they can do this I can do that better ni sound of fireberg it's a one versus two but no Forest the dream Ender we were playing so many times each other that it went to a point where after the finals we were drinking a beer all together and now I can say for example getra he is a close friends to me you know and it's actually czy to think that more than 10 years ago even 15 years ago I was fan of someone who became my friend it was definitely fun but a fredb and fif definitely set the bar a little bit too high in the beginning Forest the dream Ender and with those rivalries born and the storyline set all that was needed was a tournament to Crown who was King so with Counter Strike Global Offensive came also something uh that hasn't been done in in 1.6 actually we didn't have 1.6 and what didn't exist in C before before was like support from the developer uh and in this case valve actually like okay hey we want to make a tournament like the Cs like csgo major first major always is the most important like event we preparing for this a lot we we we have a new players we we would like to show up for for our fans for for world today as people know like the major has been become such a big part of the hype surrounding Counter Strike like weeks before before months before who's going to perform who's going to underperform like which team is going to win this specific first one I remember was such a big thing for us uh in ANP this was actually okay hey we're doing it big now we we we need to win we need to win let's focus we finish like a CS 1.6 with some wings and we we hope we do it the same with cs go was $100,000 for the winner with was a lot of money a lot of money that's like I think the first tournament we won was sitting at like $2,500 so this was like a big step up to like holy smokes we were the favorites win and we showed it as well during that major that we are the favorites yeah this is yours right this is yours you go up grab it grab the trophy walk home job is done we reached the final and then uh in the final like this team if we would play that match over a series of 50 games I I think we would probably beat them 45 out of 50 I'm pretty sure they had some faces that were well known from uh hello from looking at some old memories looking at some old memories my friend was just actually speaking about your about your win against us I even I even brought some some memories here uh one a little bit more good for me and one good for you went for dipl diplomatic approach there make things a little bit better when you're right actually but I I was speaking about because you're you guys were not that well known right you would hey I'm going to ask you the question yeah did you expect to win this final like honestly cuz I I I was I was sitting here saying that like we were probably heavy favorites I mean you were enormous fa favor yeah because you guys haven't done really like anything before this right we weren't no no guys I mean we were such a random gang of players really one Health if G could find him he goes for the fake he looks all around he can't find Snider Snider's walking up here is he going to be able to do it there's not much time G has to find this kill he's not looking behind the barrel he misses him how did it happen and now Schneider gets the kill there's no doubt 14 to2 and that's the round look at him high fiving look at the complete happiness on fnatic right there you did not expect this did you Andrew and then you know we just felt good I don't know there was this harmony you know you get sometimes when you go to a tournament where everything just feels right it kind of stinks a little bit Yeah here like that but I understand and there it is complete celebration dream hack winter 2013 Champions you got them right here on your screen and then came this legendary picture of you uh putting down your p but you have to tell me the story of that one basically this Norwegian guy won a tournament and he took his shirt off and then I I I basically one uped it one uped it and said I'll take my pants off instead uh I W I just had to do it you know uh and then it's I it's so funny when you see get right here and he points his finger yeah imagine losing losing you see a guy pulling down his pants unbelievable obviously you guys were were idols and um you know people we we all in our team looked up [Music] to with that fanatic shocked the world to claim the first major title but Mages weren't the only thing that was new to CS go [Music] I'm about to redo my garage don't judge me here but we do have some pins here this what be neat to look at we got some of those and I have something I don't think I told you guys about this will be funny put this out here player card I actually don't even remember the company who made these but so far my my stats are Iceman 97 free stying 99 spray 95 entertainment 96 Flash Dance 99 I think we could have bumped a couple numbers there but whatever and we got all the lanyard some of the Cs knives look at these cran bit honestly not my favorite skin though I I would have liked an M9 boo I think I might have one shout outs to these guys oh my goodness where do we start one thing that um that came with the majors itself like eventually what they did was um they added stickers they added not only team stickers but they also added like individual autographs your name Forest could be actually be in Counter Strike or an A P logo on a gun no way to get my name like immortalized so to speak in the game was epic I mean now I have couple different types of stickers a song in the game all this stuff is just is just super cool to me and it's it's something that I could just show off literally if I'm just running around a public server and stuff it's so funny when people could recognize like a something on my profile little icon from a trophy or anything like that it's it's super cool I think they even announced like some some of the sales were going to go to the players which was also like oh what this hey hey what we talking about here huh but we also saw was an opportunity for fans to now support us directly in the game and for us to give them something cool that wasn't even you know even if we were selling them for 10 cents or giving them away for free it was just like you love the feeling when someone's wearing your jersey it's the same as when someone's got your skin on their gun I think I've been to a couple events [Music] huh see here oh man I'm glad we found these look at this you can almost consider it the most important thing in this box cuz halflife Counterstrike with the CD key on it was this is the origins here um and a lot of you these days don't even know what this is you guys can copy it even at this point I don't know what I'll get [Music] you I see steel smiling at me right away man we got all the emotions the Le crying wow there's a lot [Music] here so my first actual team that was basically pro team was was complexity here um we kind of put together what we thought was the super team that we could at the time myself heo and swag were considered three of the best like 1.6 players at the time the scene started growing and that's when you know the source players in the other team steel days and those guys n scadoodle was a new name here started coming up adjacent kind of to our complexity team and then that's kind of when we switched to Cloud9 2014 and heo was a big name there shroud kind of came out of the shadows and now starts to kind of become the C9 Legacy uh began right there so heo what was solid about him as a player Not only was his clutch ability and skill but what was also really helpful with him early on was his role was kind of defined he was like a lurker he was you know edge of the maps you know he's going to kind of Be Alive last and so you had something you could rely on creeping around the site now there's still time to oh my goodness how dides he do that how does heo do it again yeah heo started solidifying his clutch ability early on I mean obviously um what was it against the vice in the team amage so hio and Shan has a good Kill from heo but they realize thei still in there somewhere they're going to try and go for it here they want to go all in EO comes in with another kill and back to a two on two that bomb so far T they got to move quick right now going for it the diffuse is already happening he are you kidding me he's going to go for it they win the around heo heo are you kidding me know I can't copy Enders I won't try but uh obviously that same tournament I think he hit that flick shot on Dust two it is too late G is going to be waiting heo charges in DUS and check oh my God inhuman reactions shron at the end we were next to each other at a lot of events the first tournament with shroud was cologne and we just was like boom he's on the team we played online boom straight to Germany boot camp they're like you're going to room with Jordan he's like the veteran so it was funny I I showed him how to get a free breakfast cuz the hotel I was like listen we just lie about what room we're in these rooms get free breakfast and he was just laughing and kind of like he actually told me how much he looked up to me in the hotel room well I told him I was like listen Mike you look up to me but I guarantee you if you keep doing what you're doing the roles are going to be reversed and sure enough man wait until they get close of the site he ran shout I mean probably one of the first guys that I saw that laser aim it's now down to all oh oh my God he takes him down and that's going to be CL n winning it back it was their chance for a fresh start at uh North American because we weren't necessarily the most respected [Music] region inum reaction and so the scene began to grow whilst Legends sat waiting for their chance at Major Glory [Music] this is my famous wall this is my team I spent with them like more time than my family this is like a test igl this is like a Neo also igl this is like a snacks sometimes IG I will Co scan bi and the Papito maybe not IG but they have like a eagle Eagle nose like here and I of course in my team I was the sniper with the best skin in the game name dragon lord Papito losing the first major heading into the second major which once again is not usse lifting a trophy um verus Pro this major um kich kovit major and we say we're going to play in the big stage this is our goal we are we prepared for this I always say like a Polish crowd show the world how you can help how you can cheer from the crowd to the esport players we believed in ourselves so much and we were such a dominant team at that point uh that heading into the second major felt still like okay okay we didn't win the first one but we're definitely winning the second one and as well during this tournament run we did um what we always done right winning I want to see a grand final versus vus Pro I think it's going to be the most amazing game ever uh our team has prepared very well for this tournament and we're happy to be in the final we get up to the final and it's against verus pro at their home soil cat of packed out the matchup versus nip always was hard we know that wasn't be easy no way Neo and Forest there is like always special atmosphere in our team Neo always play the best Counter Strike and Forest the same but we have Advantage nip know we playing in front of our crowd very very good start and very nice piece of Round by be BR and everyone is cheering for them it is just crazy and I think in this day they playing they top level I feel I feel it because I think they a bit scared but this my opinion but I don't know them opinion verus Pro as a squad was was scary they like when people talk about scar I know VAR games right people were talking about very that's scary no no no you don't no scary these guys verus Pro they were scary these are the type of guys you play against and it doesn't matter if you're up like 141 and a half these guys would never and I mean never just give the game to you playing in Poland did you believe that you'd make it here it was our goal it was our Dream but it's not finished the job is not done yet our aims are ready to change the champion to change the number one in the world taking information just going onto the a bomb side and there's no one Pas get the first kill hasha picks up the first kill it's a head shot on to get right and he'll put him down I remember this was like a special final because after this match is starting one by round people cheering no even not round by round but by Kill by kill that a sight they've got four players in there and snack's coming in gets himself a head shot on the forest and every frag is being cheered off by the crowd people went crazy and this is what I remember every kill single kill so they were at one point I guess called the plow vus plow is the if if the if the team give us you know chance win round by round there is a no stop of us there is a no button to stop us just machines right they could absolutely stomp opponents you think you're winning but then uh suddenly the ignition turns on vom and then they just start plowing he will eventually go down at the hands of P they're three Franks away now Pro the last round that was Inferno that was like a four versus two the the bomb has imp planted and uh there was uh four versus one it's all on Forest he gets the first in this time I already like like a Vulcan like a pumping pumping pumping pumping myself even even I am even Forest I think was alive I am already like I think jumping he doesn't get the second that is bro haveone T has delivered in front of the whole crowd already jumping and uh be happy bup my biceps I go to the snacks already to hug him to F my team and we say we did it we did it what we say like one year ago we're going to play in the big stage and we won we realize the plan Maxim nothing more ladies and gentlemen put your hands together for your ems1 canav Champions verus BR yeah we did get plow that final actually we did get plow when I think about it this is the first CS go major final I played I think I've been in five where we lost two and it was not even close so maybe the cloud started from here who knows everyone was proud everyone was proud when we won C when especially I be home like a people you know on the street I don't even know the the eort they congratulation me because the everything you know was in tevision media media interesting even I go to my to my city when I am born like the government of the city like invite me the to the to the building give me some you know like a medal some papers like a flowers so I feel like a God I feel like a God first time in my in my orts career and from this from this moment I told many times it's my my orts career my personality Pasha biceps growing up till days after this event so I would like to say thank you thank you for for for K make this uh make this event and that's that's how I will remember my biggest my biggest match my biggest tournament how we love my team how we know stick together after many losses before we can always stand up and fight for the biggest achievements in the world the camaraderie they had and the trust they had in the uh was a very beautiful thing to see even in a rivalry team it was so nice to see a squad being so like tight they went on to be uh for sure one of the best teams in in Counter Strike absolute absolute Beast right now I show you my the best achievement in my esport career two in one one because I won the catov and second one I was the MVP of this event so I wish every player that kind of Moment One the best most important event of the year and in the same time MVP of this event this is me Papito BS always of you if ever there was one thing that was for certain in csgo you eventually got what you deserved I remember this one this is uh quite memorable for all of us uh it's when we won our first uh major uh with nip after like struggling for how many times was it I think was three major we lost yeah the relief winning this finally after two attempts earlier to actually be able to win the major the third time uh against fnatic um it was a lot of doubt and pressure and I think get right's emotion uh in this picture definitely speaks volumes uh of how important that win was I oh was it was it fryberg the one V3 or four a 1 V5 I think was it 1 V5 not 1 V5 2v5 exist just runs away and hides he he kills the plant when it's hidden seal this round it looked so good just a few seconds left here 7 six Le fireberg goes for the kill he's going to pick it up if jusis survives he's going to win the round there's no time oh my God fryberg are you kidding me fryberg till this day when I play with him still does that call out like when he does something amazing when we're playing he would himself scream like fber yeah yeah he's he's absolutely going him but he deserves it he deserves it like that tournament yeah Peak Peak tournament for Adam he always had that potential and I think we were so hungry for after losing two major finals I think everybody just needed that win so hard everybody just played out of their minds Adam especially but the whole team just stepped up big time it's a good moment though even as uh a competitor I could still kind of feel like yeah you you guys deserve it this was definitely the last chance for that lineup to win a major yeah it's hard to put emotions on a big uh Victory like this but I think everybody just exploded get right dropping to the floor crying I think it speaks like for everybody in nip team that um that we did it two second place finishes they finally the title they are the Champions fif wasn't around long after this win I believe so cementing the 87 to Z Squad with a major victory out of like one of the greatest highlights of my en timeing career and I think uh I think for many of us in that Squad uh I was going to be one of the biggest if not the biggest wi [Music] ever they are the chion but the scene was not without controversy with bigger tournaments and more money came allegations of Foul Play and even cheating so cheating allegations and I guess the man man of the hour is is is flasa here you know what this guy because of this guy the flasa our IG Neo can sleep Neo can sleep because of this guy Neo always think he he have something always Neo always analyzed this matches versus this guy always especially when we lost Neo went crazy I think at some point you I was probably dragged into like the whole like okay yeah he's cheating or like at some point no he's not cheating he has W I'm heart everything and and I always say poor Neo that going to be like a very bad night for my friend Neo for Philip flasher oh finds the angle on to Ola and the info on the other one surely not a 1 V3 from flusher R see you later n always have Obsession about cheaters Obsession about everyone but at the same time you like don't think anybody can cheat when you know like what dream hack did and everything they tried to do to like secure everybody that okay I think we had the highest security out of yeah was one point Tournament of course some things aren't that easily explainable in Counter Strike how you make reads there a lot of G feeling in counries sometimes you don't know you're going to you're going to just move your mous you're going to move your keyboard whatever and because on the game you cursor you're going to do that that and maybe there is a skin behind the wall but you don't know that you're going to be a cheater it's starting when the [ __ ] when the cockle is a killing me through the jump on the colone especially on the land in front of no many thousands of people that was like a quarterfinal was very important round I can't believe what I'm going to see right here get out of here get can you believe it that was the moment uh everyone starting something is something's wrong few weeks later there is like a information on the internet quickly get banned I still think about this I write to cookly a lot of times cookle you have something or no please tell me you have something or no and cookly I swear Pasha I I'm not cheating I'm not cheating to be honest I don't know to be I don't know from there from that period people can actually start thinking what people can cheat on a professional level on a competitive level in land it impacted us but we tried to kind of switch it into this us against them mentality where you know let's shut the crowd down like we we would take the silence yeah you were feeding on the yeah so the iby power band man we had heard you know the csgo lounge betting was happening and people were realizing their matches on it they're like dude this match doesn't mean anything we go into this some some other North American teams say something's happening some match fix or someone got caught and we kind of heard someone without knowing the name and then they said I think it's Brax and all them I think I think they literally threw a match what is that they threw like we're like dude I think they throw look at these clips he's going to have two right there can they line up for him what is he doing why did he hesitates so much oh he says he wanted a knife I got to say the entries are looking a little weak from my power along with the straps I mean they're just doing very basic things I think they actually threw like is this for real like why would they like how much money could they have made like you're like wondering is is was this really worth like they're for sure something bad's going to happen and then of course the news comes out and boom valve bans them like we were still figuring out our scene like these are players that we for sure thought maybe we didn't play with again and at this time you're thinking wait like bra who I liked as a player Steel Days A K like these are all really good players are they done and then I kind of started like oh this is real Tyler of course said hey I wasn't part of this the other guys weren't denying it you're like really man uh it was a bummer honestly it just felt weird to even ask him about it I think eventually I talked to bra and he's like I didn't really even know what I was doing but but you did it so yeah I think at the time in North America we were already struggling for practice so not only did we lose like a really good practice partner um but like our rivalry you know rivalries push you to the next level I mean if I could turn back the clock and talk to power guys it's obvious like okay stay away this is just this is not worth it so I mean what else can I say really [Music] right however this wasn't the first time the csgo boat was rocked by drama for that we must look back to the time of the Olaf boost oh the ol of boost I'm going to remember it all my life you know uh so yeah uh the ol of boost yeah the sensitive topic for for many reasons gun Shing are you ready it's ldlc versus fanatic Make Some Noise yeah packed house here for this match and this could potentially be a grand final match so essentially we we ended up playing ldlc in the semifinals uh I remember uh we did a really good City uh side on over pass it was the third M ldlc are coming into this second half Ultra confident I mean they had a near Flawless first half here versus fanatic they have a great lead a great head start going in here I think we lost pistol as well uh shock comes in with another one here it's going to be a one two he just has to defend it's a one head shot he needs to pick up a second one and he's going to get it double kill ldlc they win the round so we we were essentially in a really really deep hole the pressure is bouncing on The Fanatic sign and then we are up like to 304 something like that and we are like okay we knew we we had the game uh and we're going to close it out and then we had this you know boost which we essentially wanted to save even further into the tournament but this was a Do or Die moment do they have a weird boost going on currently Bo my God my God this is beautiful he can look over to the restrooms as well but I must ask like who like who came up with the boo like where did you so it was JW came with it I don't know one and a half or 2 months earlier so we never used it in practice we never we had only like seen how it might play out so you didn't like you never used so that was actually the first time you actually like so you didn't actually know how it played out no patience game coming door well he's here he sees them down there straight head shot they have no idea Smith looking confused and dazed and it's going to be a followup head shot my you got to be kidding me fnatic they pick up the round the Boost works and then we started to get killed we don't really know how maybe we are missing some information make sure to communicate like wisely for your teammates and stuff like that so that's fine they still are not sure they're just getting fired they're going down all of my stuff they have no idea but after two three runs we're like he's still killing us and we're trying to do some timeouts and to speak between us like where is he oh man what a situation what an absolutely crazy situation I mean did you see him did you see him did you see him no no no like like what is going on no I think he's just juming there it is all of he's raining down Death from [Music] Above it's 13-7 I remember them looking so confused you can see I see AK is like looking up in the look at this now happy getting boosted up but he gets spotted all my sees it coming and what a crowd like next to us we like starting like just to to to jump or whatever like to look at us to say he what what is going on we don't understand you know what I mean fanatic they make their way to the semies of another major tournament here pron next with a final kill then we just like love the match and normally when you love the match you are frustrated you are sad you are angry whatever but you got emotions and it's probably one of the only match of my world carer that we didn't have emotions because we didn't understand we didn't know what's going on I mean uh the map is called ol of pass for a reason honestly I I don't I am genuinely speechless it it's made me so upset that because it is complete do do you think it's [Music] fair in the arena the fans were sharing right we were super excited I was screaming after every kill I think I was super excited and uh I was like yeah then we won right I was super happy and then yeah I was watching Twitter and that was just a weird vibe [Music] like after the match uh then of course went to watch the admin because we are like like he's seeing like 70% of the map how is it legit I remember being you know obviously sad um watching at the the reactions it was so weird as The Spectator as well I remember actually TW I said I wrote like this isn't Counter Strike at all yeah but it's it was all this circumstance because we're recently cheating accused of fla uh I remember even walking into the hotel some players would yell at us scream at us uh so we couldn't really talk to anyone it was like everyone hat isolated yeah we were isolated from the yeah competitive scene at that point yeah people were not liking us the community did not like us all the pro players everyone that that for me was very hard and I was close to stop playing professionally I I didn't want to do anything else this is not worth it you know weird VIP and very like depressing times I justed remember I wanted to leave I wanted to get out of there I think a lot of players myself included is like a little bit like regretful probably how it all turned out even if in my opinion it it was not legit to do something like that uh I can't say that it was also something uh good uh with all people going AR at them or whatever the bashing on their side like were too heavy way too heavy and I think it was really hard for them uh not the best memories after that win but um cuz uh at the end of the day we we decided to to drop out of the of the tournament fanatic has for fate the match between uh against ldlc okay so this is final and ldlc is through they're going to we essentially decied there's no there's no point that's actually true who can handle that actually no it was like you had to isolate for a while from from social media no I mean I don't think that boost was that overpowered and I've said this many times before if it happen again I will do the same like now even more so and I would fight the decision like I don't know I'm I'm different person now but uh yeah in the end it kind of helped because after that I think I became a better player and we as a team became uh a better team as well because we were like okay [ __ ] it it's we against everyone else let's just do this together and we we started winning and we won a lot your ESL C Champion pic for us and also for Fanatic in a way for all kind of this this [ __ ] that was going on like let's just not put that chance in a trash if we win against fanatic like that we win the event no matter what round of applause for ldlc oh they going to put it up there that win like you will remember it for for Lifetime and I was also playing with Smith who is my best friend uh and uh you know when the first measure cames out we were like okay let's do a promise that we're going to win all first major together and we did what we were actually like dreaming off when we were younger and I'm really happy to have been lucky with him and with my former teammates back then Round of Applause for and with the controversy behind us a new scene began Rising born out of South [Music] America so many years playing so many nice moments major trophy a lot of friends some Rivals very cool uh when csgo came out uh personally I had just joined University I was studying uh electrical engineering for two weeks and then CS go came out and for me it was like what the hell do I do now do I do I I keep studying do I finish this University or I do a really go win again on gaming because I had done that before it was in 2009 when I got the invitation to play with the best Brazilian players at the time and I I really went out in during that time but it was a tough time for CS overall because I think it was at the very end of P 1.6 and things were not looking that good anymore so yeah uh I had some thoughts B I decided I had to go all win again I had to keep [Music] going and then 2014 we decided to go to our first y go tournament uh it happened in France and on that specifically month we decided to use all the Gatherings all the money we received from the students and games Academy this is falling I'm here to talk today about C Mirage and we actually told the community hey we're going to be using the money to go to that tournament so the subscriptions doubled and we went from like 200 students monthly to 400 at that time and then we played our first tournament there I think we won a match and lost all of the others or maybe we lost all the matches and it was it was quite funny because even Pasha here I remember in F he was like from the tournament I'm going to take a photo with this guy I might not have ever seen him again you know and then that's when we went for our first International Tournament we play Emoji Aspen and that's when we really showcase ourselves to the world for the first time because we beat Cloud9 Jordan and his team was doing super good at the time and here comes the Brazilians coming from nowhere nobody ever heard of them and then we played an amazing match against D Mirage we were playing with a couple new strategies that no one have ever seen it we're literally throwing five smokes at the same time on way side to make sure that they don't take any losses once these grenades come in and they go see Cloud moving in a little bit you know what's going on we had all plan out where we going to plan the bomb which kills are going to come how they would freak out when they see all the smokees and then people are like oh my God like we we got to get this game Global just like that Cloud9 get obliterated against the Brazilians Kaboom I don't think anyone saw that coming and Cloud9 looks stunned they look speechless and Watch Out World Brazil's got a contender having the Brazilians as a rival were interesting cuz they moved to USA so now we had a new practice partner and these guys like wow these guys could these guys could shoot yeah so we we first went to us we went together to some Stars by the first tables got the first chairs you know we were deciding who is going to sleep with who because we didn't have enough uh rooms for everyone but you know there was just this feeling that what really mattered to us was playing some Cs and that's when we received the first um invite to play uh qualification process in katov for the major during that trip we didn't have enough money to do all the things we wanted and that's when flush had just won I think a pamera tournament in Sweden and he he decided to donate his winnings to our CS hey fla we're just Hing out here in Denver and realize that you made a donation for us of 4K wheels and because of you we are ready to go there thank you so much man with a lot of help from himself and other players and other Orcs like Esa and Brazilian commun were able to go to Poland and qualify for the first major and you can imagine the pressure right because not only really wanted to to go through and do well but a lot of people have helped us financially and emotionally and everyone supporting us and when we went to the last match we're playing the Danish guys and I just remember the feeling of finishing that match and recognizing how important that win was Fallen picks it up and Kaboom advanc another another step closer to the major couple changes here couple Chang there and we are able to get this guy in the team eventually ziki K uh was removed and kir was added and since day one he already showcased something different we would go play praxes and he was just a head shot machine you could see it on the first days even the pr were playing I remember even caran saying something like you where the hell did you find this guy you know he's like dropping 30 bombs every single PR and from day one he was very different he had a lot of um dedication he was the first one on the server last one off very smart very open-minded to the ideas that he wanted to play at certain point we felt that something was needed we decided to pick up Taco FNX and Ze the coach and make a big replacement to the team and that was just the beginning for us that's where all the magic happened ladies and Gentlemen let's make some noise here like the up yeah mg Columbus I remember at the time as well they had just double up the price pool he went from $250,000 to $500,000 which we're like who if it happens for us to win that's going to be the biggest ever there you have it folks and again I don't think you can nod enough to Fallen not only what he has done with this team what he does with any of his players around him and what he has done for the Brazilian scene they've already in in the space of a few months Elevate themselves they're already an elite team they're making finals they're coming close to winning the key thing is they've never won a big tournament before and they' certainly never been this deep in a major before so the obvious narrative is like oh is it their time yet and we played this tournament super well uh one of the de sighting matches happen on Mirage again and this time we had this guy 159 yeah he has the graffiti game now on on Van on bide Mirage here he comes once again the first base is a dren he's going to hit the ground there is cold oh what that's jumping double for cold what is that going on right now how does he do this he made some magic happen and they were like what the hell what what just happened and he was like I can't even explain what happened guys that's just win this thing out from that moment on we kept going and we came back into this match there even a a tackle on the second match on cash he wrongly or I think he Mis bought uh the auto sniper and he was getting so many kills with him I think he even bought it again afterwards big play from fur and now taco's in there with that auto sniper two frags he's going to get the L one as well some of those things that decides that you don't really account for but when it's your time to win when it's fate it it just really happened and then later on we played finals against na'vi and we won first map on on Mirage picking it up and Luminosity winning on Mirage and then from that moment the confidence was over the roof we just wanted to win this trophy so much that nothing was Stopping Us Now it's a one-on-one Guardian versus Taco it may just be destined to be it's Luminosity winning their first major championship so yeah this team was quite special quite special selfless player Taco playing for the team uh doing his anchor role every team wanted to have a taco at the time who had Cod Zer um best player in the world for two years in a row in Ane rifler we had fur the most aggressive player and I would say a meta changing game style you though like he so many people learn from him and we had FNX surviving From the Ashes clutching a lot and FNX the kind of player who you just see that he was born for the game going through my Minds that was like well everything really was worth it you know I have been play since 2003 I won that in 2016 so 13 years of uh grinding you know a lot of time looking for a moment like [Music] [Applause] that I know that you've sacrificed an awful lot you've moved home you've left family at home you've had no money you've put money into the scene you've helped the Brazilian Counterstrike scene so much can you sum up to me just what this means to the country of Brazil and your teammates uh just to sum it up this is our Dream coming true and I don't know just thanks it's our Dream to play Counter Strike competively and winning the biggest tournament ever on CS go means so much to me personally and I'm sure it means a lot to my teammates as [Music] well one by one the Great leaders of Counter Strike began to get their moments of Glory from Fallen to the legendary Ukrainian Captain Zeus I just say all of Ma I love you and second God help me and I won measure [Music] w but despite all of this the scene still yearned for a major win out of North [Music] America so going into probably my best csgo roster yet which was myself shroud Stewie automatic scadoodle we hit our stride for sure but really we hadn't done what we wanted this whole time we hadn't won a major you know I think that point something needed to happen our team myself and shroud out for T and rush and honestly it looked all the same everything looked the same until um e-league major Boston we're going to have FaZe versus Cloud9 so much history and it's all about this trophy yeah the e-league major uh the final the the sh yeah it's a hard one I mean uh we played uh super good going into that tournament we were super confident and during the tournament we just became better and better and better B clamp this is meant to be their major they've been the favorites for like coming in one of the most expensive rosters if not the most expensive roster if they don't win this this is a missing ring FaZe Not only was their team top to bottom skilled Olaf was probably considered the previous couple years one of the best players in the world came back as like not even their star player at that point and he was still such a beast then you got Nico who's arguably the best rifle FL of all time in csgo krian who's arguably one of the best STP callers rain who's one of the most solid land players every shot he needs to hit he's going to hit and then Guardian who was he was one of those operas who you felt his presence always and uh then in the final right we play Cloud n which was a very big surprise they went down ser2 in the group stage boom you go to E League major groups 0 and2 you're 0 and2 dead team Walkins starts to rise as zombies start to stand up there's like resentment building in the team people aren't very happy behind the scenes there was a lot of rumors going around that cloud n the team was finished like they were done they didn't want to play with each other and they flipped a switch and that switch was now they're 1 and two now they're 2 and two now they're three and two they're out of groups and now all a sudden Something's Cooking here now Cloud9 on the other hand an unbelievable difficult run that they faced it was an uphill battle they had to beat all of the top teams above them to get there we were kind of happy to play Cloud line in the final and we were like oh yeah okay now we got a very big opportunity right and then yeah the final we win the first map and then we lose the second map and then we play the third map Inferno and uh yeah I think every everybody knows how that went I to this day I still haven't looked at that game I haven't looked at that V uh I can't do it you've never watched it back no I have a very hard time doing so uh I've watched The Mirage game that's the only one I watched the one we won and I I'm like I'm not watching more man I don't really see the point because I know that I'm just going to get pissed off I'm just going to get angry I'm just going to get tilted all right let's watch this [ __ ] again you know um we're here on na soil you got Stu coming out at T shoulders I think the boys were just first of all like the fact that they were there at all after being on0 two was probably going through their heads and then I think just in general they knew they need to get this crowd going like any advantage you can get yeah it was a super big moment for Americans not only first time in a major final I think it is for the Americans or second time but also being on on home soil nobody expected it Boston makes a noise in his [ __ ] they start depressed and the pistol bullets are all over the place but it's going to be FaZe who get the defuse I think the the whole game was very close and then on the T side when we switch over we played super good in the start I don't know I felt super confident during the whole final during the whole major I had a feeling that we were going to win Matt's Point pH they are on the CP of winning this major and after that I think we all started to believe maybe a little bit that we had already won and you said Cloud M if they wanted to do it they'd have to do it the hard way but at the same time this makes me feel a little bit better because I thought it was 59 but 15 11 but we should yeah we should still win this uh T is not done with this majer yet here it is T they stay alive for one more round T gets big op kills big clutches big be holds like they definitely needed to show up it wasn't easy in the most P moment it has to be Carri it has to be the leader but it's Rush all the way and again again they stay alive then um still we started playing off eating pool on banana like every round and uh we had a very hard time adapting to that being P automatic coming off his position the smoke the flashes automatic flly Ste he need to land some shots and he is two kills for him there's a couple moments where it looked Bleak and then all of a sudden boom goes down he must stay alive Stewie is going absolutely crazy on the B bomb site there's no time to BL the B it's too late the money's not there one more round what was a lot of noise the hard starts pumping 10 times faster because you just want to end it the final buy the final run and this is a lot of pressure because we felt that we should win this major and there was a lot of people that really wanted to win a major Guardian has been in a major final like four times and this was his fourth one and we are 15 14 and it kind of feels like this is the only chance we have take a breather here recompose for the final round of Regulation I think they like faked a and they were falling back last second B Clan trying to force the CTS back on a it's 1 minute left I think we have a little bit hard time to decide what we want to do I make a stupid play has been taken out towards the bomb it's about the pressure he gets to you man and I think fa like might have got a kill but there's like 12 seconds they are One V three on beam now if Stewie just gets run over they probably get bombed down Stewie's on his side but look at a time and this this by Ste man look at time there seconds got the boom time's wearing now you can hear 's voice right now they're trying to but it's no more play Boom Stewie holds the Stewie around we go P that not have done it how they done that they came back all the way he hits every shot if he misses one of those and I get the refrag we win the major so that feels hard to see yeah it's hard to watch man it is it's first time seeing this so yeah yeah I don't know secured the overtime which was still not a done deal but uh what an epic feat in that Arena and that's when the crowd started losing their mind saying I think I think we can close this let's do it here they give themselves another chance and you have to wonder these personalities I feel like both Ty and St especially they kind of become better when the crowd is on their side they can feed of it you know right and they didn't get up and you have to give it to them na wanted this major so bad that I think right when they hit that overtime round it was like it was like a release Collective release of the audience like losing their mind I mean for us it was hard to reset mentally right because you feel like you kind of have already won the metor when you're at 15 and 11 side and then you're on overtime you're like [ __ ] we had four tries cloud 's defense is looking very strong indeed press back at it again from the pit position and it doesn't seem like there's a way to stop Cloud line now but it's hard watching because there's so like small stuff that could have changed a lot of rounds and that's it's Guardian he's the only man standing between Cloud n and the major it's going to be a double Peak there the first one out time number two Guardian did clutch a lot in this tournament so you felt like was still a possibility you're hoping right can he do it again he in this position before to win phase is around a very important very crucial one can he deny Cloud L he's going to close his one too this is what he does saw from this position before he cannot miss a single shot could hear them saying send them home guardian Waits patiently it sucks wanting your teammate to clutch but this I don't know as croud sets the push up oh oh this happens and they peaked him and he missed a shot and I was like dude that that was it right there oh no are your e major [Applause] Champions so I was just like honestly watching on my phone when they were in the playoffs while they're doing this what's going on I'm like dude I about to win a major and then all of a sudden I'm checking my phone this map that map third map they oh they lost oh my gosh I didn't lose it's overtime oh my and like watching and I was like dude they just the major you're shocked you don't know what to say you don't know what to do and you don't understand what just happened because like 10 minutes ago you were up 5 and 11 you were going to win a major but you end up losing in double overtime yeah that was uh it's a tough one and it's the hardest loss that I ever had in my career and one of my hardest days in my entire life oh dude I can't imagine uh for Alla Nico all those boys on face I mean one to just feel like you're just such a better team top to bottom and then two actually be at match point and let the map slip out of your hands like that yeah yeah that's that's one that they didn't sleep well for a couple nights at least after that to this day I mean uh people talk about that upset and Nico should have won and that could have changed his whole career and in trajectory these are the moments that you remember more than the winds like the winds you kind of get over them pretty fast but the losses they still haunt you to this day you know Cloud n the e-league major Champions nacs definitely felt back after we won that yeah and they it did and for the fans now we had something to hold on to and then as players now you knew that everything was going to be taken more [Music] seriously today you have made history you are the e League major Champion uh thank you thank you um I don't really have much words to say as you know I'm not crying you're crying stop uh it's just so epic to have scadoodle do that interview because that's not him like he was always in the background and to have I'm not crying you're crying you know um that I understand to pass that barrier and to overcome that is kind of what they were all playing [Music] for are e major Champions finally with a North America major win the scene rejoiced and boy did we ever have fun in doing so where did all the memes come from you are not my friend you brother my friend you're not my friends my brother is my friend I definitely think North America had the most like content you know like Mo you know the chicken C scene please please chicken Co chicken Co chicken [ __ ] C I could hear his voice from a picture I don't know how often you can say that ter eating cereal getting AC Freakazoid our whole team you know tank top nine um I always the guy like a memes coming hereo to me the score Esports they have an application uh where you can basically catch up on all of the people very shy in Poland because they think about me bad I am stupid I don't know English and I don't care when someone ask me Pasha go to interview I go for interview hello my friends here is talking Pasha biceps from vus Pro hello morning good morning my friends people would recognize me in 2009 but not to the same extension it happened in 16 17 I think I became the most followed uh Pro player in CS I was able to be uh presenting a shampoo for example for clear just like Cristiano Ronaldo you know there which which one you want people are like in Brazil saying do you want the Cristiano Ronaldo face or falling face of course I think the falling one [Music] GG oh man I already know you the flashbang it's just a simple one I can only do a little one behind the chair here with the flashbang dance it started as the character in csgo when they got blind their arm goes in front you have the gun out it was kind of goofy and then like we beat dignitas on stage and a clone and I just flashbang on him like right before the handshake on the stage and then it just like it just started rolling where people were like flashbang dance and like that was that was the thing that I created all the way to this point where now we have a song in the game called the flashbang dance so we saw that neyar was playing and then he wanted to to start investing into a team like he even thought about buying us from skap from what I heard quite frankly he he's he's good he's smart like he knows some tricks he knows what to clutch terrorist I swim a all and I go to matchmaking and there was the guy who you know act bad and I say to him you are not my friend you are not my friend and uh he was you know he feel bad and I said you are not my friend you are my brother my friend you are my brother my friend I went to Russia and boom the guy had a fallen face with a full bird on his arm and I'm like what the heck like you what what do what do I mean to you for you to put my full face on your bicep I always say my friend my friend my friend I like it I'm proud of this because it's very good good sentence it's very good [Music] sentence but amongst all of that fun little did the scene know that a new King was emerging from the icy of the [Music] north okay so Peter a lot of people say that uh this is where the action happens this is not the bedroom I'm not talking about the bedroom but I know that there should be some trophies in here there's a little bit of trophies in and I'm curious to see which ones you can show me there's a few I mean you mentioned I have this one it's not not as pretty but it's an MVP at least from blast it's like uh quality has upten yes it has but MVP huh yeah I got this is like one of the oldest like trophies that I have like from the like it's called steel series go League it was like a Danish small Championship you you also know it's small when it says congratulations with you a nice placement in the steel SE League thank you for participating and keeping the Esports going yeah that's keeping it alive yeah that's true uh we had the cat one here nice and there's like uh ECS season 5 was the one in London yeah I think so and this one as well from I mean carefully you might DW on your toast my her you can just give me all of them I'm going to present for one day that I'm dpri I guess and then of oh this is a insane life you know yeah can I have the gold bar too damn son I brought you some tea Casper lovely you told me I could give you the best one in the house so I brought you the mango one you gave me yours I think I know I did there's a lot of pictures here and I can definitely tell that this is like a really great combination of everything that CS go has brought to us this is I think the first iteration of astralis yeah and probably the first organization that was owned just by players yeah like the first player owned organization we wanted to have like we wanted to have a voice within the team and I think that was one of the main reasons why we wanted to create it um also because we wanted to create something Danish I think that was also one of the things that was that stood out for us but that was also like maybe the Kickstart of the choking thing that we also had in astrales I think that came later in astrales um we won a couple of tournaments in TSM but there was without a doubt that we had issues dealing with the pressure and dealing with the expectations that that came along with the whole winning process um and I think uh this is like me I don't know how many people actually know her but she was the first one that we picked up in asales to help us like get like solve these problems you know I tried to make us see ourselves as athletes in a different way and she was also one of the forces for us winning our first major I believe it's Championship Sunday in the grand final of the 2017 eag major te asral is like organization I always remember them like a very professional team like a players then staff before the final when I saw like a the psychologue and we said what the hell is going on they got psychologue in the team the girl and everyone you know they are one step ahead of us with psych guys actually prior to this this MJ when um I was like given a warning from from Sonic at that time cuz I had I had my my struggles in my personal life that I I couldn't figure out and it didn't it yeah it just made me a bad teamate I guess and I couldn't find the focus so he actually told me maybe 3 months before the major that you know you need to like get your [ __ ] together otherwise you know we might eventually have to look for someone else and obviously the further we got into the tournaments I feel like we started playing better and then all of a sudden we found ourselves in the Grand Final against ver Pro you know like the polls at that time they were like really experienced and I remember going up against him in the final was like okay this is like a little bit of like the final bus you know we've got an amazing story going into this final to and just give me some thoughts for me Australis I mean win or lose they're the best team in the world you look at their record three finals in a row but they're facing the Legends you know this this is a team where they've had the same lineup since they won that last major which was in early 2014 so you know this is a legendary team and they kind of play that final boss role in this era we never found ourselves in a grand final of the of a major before that's what we all want to see but winning one is also what what you're fighting for as a Counterstrike player yes maybe you want to talk us through the third map train cuz you were behind quite a lot yeah yeah we were so can you remember anything from this comeback like I think I remember everything it would require nothing short of a miracle ases to bring this game back we lead in the last map like a 13 to6 I guess 13 to6 it's almost three rounds to to get like a second major I already think about you know like uh my achievement about you know like a money we can bring the Poland I can you know do something I can invest something you're telling me that on the CT side when you were trailing behind quite a lot there was no point where you like this is getting away from us we're not winning yeah a little bit of course there is I mean I think you always have a little bit of Doubt but I think it's about like not let the doubt take over like you always need to keep fighting for every single round and I think that's what we did Z but Z he's playing this magnificently and there's the clutch point blank with the tech 9 and the further we got into the game like the closer we got to the end one kill after another astralis have now found their way to 10 rounds and then we got the 14 15 round pass and T are left it two on four aalis to bringing back to go for that kind of play to throw it all on on one round a rush onto a VP definitely did not expect that the last call the GLA I think is like one of the most iconic things in my career is that the glay was like guys we're just going to rush outside just do the rush again and everyone's like yeah yeah let's do it everyone felt that okay this is going to work no matter what are they going to win their first major the first time they're in the finals and their first title we'll find out cuz the action's on and Gabby opens it up takes down bii already the bomb has been picked up by Dei they get the spray Neil takes one and T is there and a strong they win the f major championship 1614 like I say like uh like kov was my favorite tournaments a major Atlanta was the most heartbreaking moment in my career after the finals we ask asales guys what you doing what the tactics how you want how you want versus us this impossible and know you know what they said they said guys on the arena on the crowd was so loud very loud we don't hear nothing and we just say go rash a and that's it you can imagine nothing special nothing special just rush just press the W forward and go you know to the map this is what you know I don't know what to say I ended up getting the last kill as well and all this you know the the feelings of getting a warning and being oh there's a chance I might get replaced and everything you know I had all that taken away from me these days I don't know how we how we lost really 13 six three rounds three round it's so close when I started playing I don't think I expected me to win a major I don't think anyone does that in some sense like you want to achieve and win a major but actually getting there is kind of crazy so this is the the relief photo right with the confetti and your tongue is out and Yeah like yeah I remember when we won that round everyone just jumped up and threw the headsets off and Danny started crying and I started crying and I was seiling on the floor crying and probably the the case out this TR era as well this must be the coolest thing you have here I think so yeah ins Grand Slam Peter the pre rason dreamhack maray pro League season 7 I am Chicago and then you ended with the eel Pro League season 8 home turf in Odin what a run hell yeah what a run that's pretty cool this is probably the one that I I love the most from all the things I have here yeah the first one the first one to do it I think that's also the setus phrase when you won oh yeah that's actually pretty cool the best to ever think the best to ever [ __ ] do I think yeah and for the first time in history the best of all [ __ ] time until Grand Slam in the strong this is actually from the wi in od where we won the Grand Slam where my where I hked my dad it was like maybe half a year 5 months before we passed away so this is like one of the oldest p like the news pictures I have with him and then I have one with my son above so it's like dad and son dad and son [Music] yes you know it's been kind of a thing that has been following my whole career that my my father was um was suffering from cancer so the whole idea of me you know having to go to the major and play there and play you know to defend our championship and everything was like was was super tough um but his wish was just that he wanted me to to do the things that make him proud I came into this tournament with my father uh yeah he passed away just before I got here and His Last Wish was that I I went here and so I really want to dedicate this this man to my father when I got there it it it kind of felt like I got to my second family in some sense you know and it just felt really nice knowing that all the rivals that I had you know all the players that I was competing I think we know that we can put things aside if things get get serious and for me that was a really warm feeling and so that was that was amazing at [Music] least with every year that passed we began to wave goodbye to the legends that have made this game what it is today uh this moment this moment uh I feel it I feel it I a bit cry this is this is me this is all of me here in in one [Music] moment I will remember this day for a good day and with those foundations set we ushered in a new generation of competitors each with their own struggles and Journeys a set of memories waiting to be [Music] told [Music] [Music] I guess looking back at the early years it really was all about the memories if I take a look at all the pictures and all the memories what would be my takeaway is that what an incredible Inc Incredible Journey we have done as a team as an individual and also like how big esport has become for people's lives it's a big story and we're all part of that story in Counter [Music] Strike oh I don't think I would have seen like one 16th of the world without Counter-Strike not only seeing other places has always been such a big honor for me but just getting to see other cultures and and see the different sides of humans depending on their backgrounds it's it's always been a big big big blessing for me I think when it comes to greatest memories being on a team and like really getting to have the bond with your teammates is probably like the thing I celebrate most other than that man always able to be pretty proud that I left most fit in the [Music] server when I see this um this picture and all this badge it's kind of feel like honestly it was yesterday I don't feel like it was more than 10 years ago like there is no [Music] way yeah I don't think I still realize like how fast actually uh the 10 years just [Music] went looking at all these pictures it reminds me of when I was at the anur uh major I just here the crowd Roar and it started to cry like I couldn't I couldn't handle it cuz I thought back to when we were sitting on like gym hall or something with these chairs and you know sitting it looks like this you you yeah exactly uh and now it looks like that this is like half my life you [Music] know the journey was beautiful we have up and downs up and downs you know like a roller coaster in this life ort like a DP show me the w I spend with my team like more time than my family I sit with them on the team PE like eight sometimes 10 or 12 hours per day I travel with them I boot camp with them I see them you know much more than my kids than my than my than my wife so we are like a family in one time I can love them and in one moment I can hate them but to be honest I can say after many years this Pro you are not my friend you are my brother my friend Counter Strike can teach you a lot of things and not just about winning or earning money but also like more like how to work together and stuff I met my I met my girlfriend I was just going to say it literally gave you your apartment your girlfriend your your child yes you have a son at some point you're going to teach him to play Cs and of course I will you know and that's how it goes down through the you know Generations I think knowing that the new game has has just launched and in 10 years maybe someone else will be sitting like we do and look back at how CS to changed their life I am more thankful that than you can ever become of Cisco because I've not only become a better player in the game and got my work from it but I grown as a person and done things that I would never expect to do I have lost words it's it's everything to me if I look back over the 20 years I have been playing there's so many friendships and so many moments that I share with others and that's why we're going to take on the trophies are nice but when you look back I think it's all the moments of people and all the joy you had and all everything you learned that's going to stay with you the most how many more years you think you have of career 10 damn bro if I had 10 more years and would you do it all again 100% I will do it all again will I do it all over again bro please I mean I would in a heartbeat if I would do it one more time oh yeah yeah can we just rewind 10 years and then start over and I guess with that It's Time to Say Goodbye take it away shocks if you are new to Counter Strike and if you are coming to CS2 then I would recommend you should actually follow the right because it's not only a game it's a passion it's a group it's smile it's happiness its emotions its tears you're going to Al it you're going to brace it and everything is going to change kind strike it's not only a game it's a [Music] family [Music] those red balls only for the commercials or can you actually drink them no you can you can drink them

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Length: 87min 38sec (5258 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 26 2024