The Beautiful Aim God: The Story of shox

[Music] if you give him confidence you give him good words he will he will be the best but it's all about screaming shocks because g2's have the luxury of having these guys peaking at the moment okay i'm not supposed to be a captain like it started in my first 90s i tried and it was a good experience i can bring way more as a player that i can as a captain in the team [Music] that's a deadly kill goes for the second and he's moving closer looking for the quad chair for next the last man alive he's gonna tap the bomb once sounds a cold [Music] what a god lives and breathes counter-strike born in france in 1992 he discovered the game at nine years old and it gripped him by his mid-teens he was competing in france's domestic counter-strike scene and incredibly convinced his parents to support his attempt to become a pro [Music] under in the years after source's release most of the competitive world eventually went back to the older 1.6 but shocks his native france did not and it was building one of the strongest competitive scenes for source in the world to start for the for the french css player it was very tough because we wasn't we weren't respected by uh by other criticized players from the 1.6 and we we wanted to earn their respect you know and to be a successful in that environment shock showed off incredible aim strong instincts and the ability to clutch out lopsided situations and he was starting to turn heads uh i was the first to to say this guy is gonna be he's gonna be a [ __ ] god of the game so i think he and i was i was not a type of guy would give a lot of respect to a young player and that early success led to some pretty big opportunities including the chance to play with the frenchie's best igls like existence and krl and even represent his country in international competition he started to get a reputation and his teams built around his abilities but shox was still young and an emotional player he was clearly one of his region's brightest stars but when he was 20 years old he faced a new challenge [Music] when cs go was announced the source and 1.6 scenes were reunited in a new game one where france's legacy of source excellence was tested shocks entered cs go as part of millennium and both his squad and very games were seen as the french scene's biggest hopes but it was very games who proved themselves as the region's best team and with that one of the best in the world while ninjas and pajamas dominated this early stage of cs go they were routinely pushed to the limit by very games but shocks struggled to find a home he bounced from imaginary gaming to tcm gaming and even tried an international mix team that included one lotuslove guardian kovach even when his teams did poorly sharks was able to show his individual skills were still sharp get himself a kill on dreamy and locks replies back we're at two versus two double great g grenade into the bomb site disposes of two epsilon players shocks he picks them both up all the while he watched vari games from afar he knew that eventually their inability to defeat nip might provoke change eventually shocks got the call from vari games and he replaced a young up and coming talent by the name of kenny s it wasn't the first time that sharks had played under the very game's banner during source back in 2011 he had been removed from the roster due to internal issues but the team's early performance showed that drama had been left behind they got into shape fast defeating virtus pro at esl one summer 2013 about a month after sharks joined the team gotta land the shots and gotta do it quickly here 30 seconds remaining shock shows in his head that's cheeky the two men who have played together and don't play together anymore nvk with the final kill g g and it's fiji all the way very games are your recall ems 1 champions sharks himself earned mvp at starladder star series 7 for an incredible performance and a 1.61 kd ratio and when the team needed it shocks was there right now he's taken down one can he find shocks 1v1 right now he needs the hat trick to keep his team in this shock steps away not gonna happen sharks takes his team into the finals and he's taken to the absolute top of this league that was absolutely incredible stuff from very games they are the winners of the raid call ems one 2013 full finals the search came at the right time with dreamhack winner 2013 the first cs go major a month away and though they came forth losing to nip again it looked like maybe french cs had established itself and go i can't see him god see him looks for the frenchman has a guess he's gonna try and bait him out with the defuse and pushes around the corner oh smith gets it the romance is over the french have gone through they will face nip tomorrow hltv named shocks the third best player of 2013 citing impressive personal stats and team impact as the roster moved to the titan organization they posted more important victories but also a disappointing group stage exit at the next major in ketovicha coming up huge pick up the killers to kill you get another one smith the last man standing in a one-on-three as doji is sitting inside a pit and titans have fallen the titans are getting knocked out of group a and are not advancing on we are going to see virtus pro and hellraisers and fans out of group a who the hell would have thought titans would have been here shock said he was unhappy with the difficulties that living in a team house put on his relationship and he left titan after a short stint with epsilon esports where sharks attended his third consecutive major the first french shuffle began the scene had contended with the world's best at the beginning of cs go but it was running out of steam and the results at esl one cologne proved it and it'll be existing get right at fryeburg and they're only one frag away from the final it's kaylee versus nip can he deliver no ninjas in pajamas charged into the grand final the obvious answer was to try some new player combinations while maintaining the region's close-knit relationships so shocks along with happy nbk kiyoshima and smiths formed ldlc's new roster in september of 2014. fans waited to see whether they could be better than the new titan or epsilon lineups and whether any of them could become the world's best they wouldn't have to wait long dreamhack winner 2014 the next major was only a few months away and in the late up ldlc looked hot but slowly but surely navi seems to be gaining some ground but kyoshima two huge kills and ldlc on the brink of winning star series 11 against navi it's just guardian that stands between them and victory and he will go down 16-6 on the final map and it's going to be a victory for ldlc they're going to go home with 13 000 but with the other two best french squads sidelined by vac bans it was on shocks and ldlc to bring home france's first cs go major given the round loss bonus but it's not cool i think that's the right choice close range here's shots gonna be at the first kill they almost line it up he's got the all part again he's just hiding in the smoke how is this man still alive and he's gonna try to scope he lives through the round you've got to be kidding me now it's down to midnight one on five sharks should not be living right now miss and kiyoshima opening up great double kill for mars in hand it's a triple he goes for more kiyoshima with four kills to clean up the incoming sea set push so good at it follow-up from happy he goes for it again he wants a second can he catch it as well stunning shot from happy there in an incredible fashion in the time on the last map against nip this is all on get right there might be the perfect man to have left here trying to walk in pacing himself he's going to spot nbk first he goes down at ldlc they pick it up oh look at that they can hardly believe it they're hugging each other and it must be an unreal sensation it was france's first cs go major and it came with a hard-fought overtime win over the perennial terrors ninjas and pajamas as shocks hoisted the trophy it seemed as if france had finally found the magic combination that could hold down the world's top spot and as the roster joined a new org team envious they kept on winning a top four placement at esl one katowice was disappointing only because the team failed to defend their major title but they won several big events around that time shocks began to experiment with in-game leading playing his way mostly by feel instead of micromanaging his team but their dominance waned and the french scene once again began a major shuffle the first one gave shocks a major but this time kenny s's envious roster reaped the benefits four players remain here for nfe and they're going to be pressing on to this site and it's an ideal situation for them but mbk removes zeus and it's not looking good on the second head shoulder flame gonna be gone there it of is and the second title ever for three of these players the first for penny and apache what a victory shocks rejoined titan and they weren't a bad team but they failed to break into the finals at big events by early 2016 racked by the financial followed their former player cali's vac ban the organization folded and g2 esports stepped into the void they left behind but rather than simply play as the team's superstar shocks wanted to continue to igl over the previous nine years he had spent time under great french in-game leaders like existence and happy and had learned early in his career from krl and maybe even before existence left the team there were signs that sharks wanted to be the player his teammates could rely on and for those watching his career since the beginning it was a familiar sight i think sharks like me as an engagement because i always try to give him a lot of love and confidence you know i was before the game i said i look at him in his eyes it sucks you're the best man yeah there is no one better better than you here so let's [ __ ] them let's [ __ ] them together okay if you give him confidence you give him good words he will he will be the best this 2016 version of g2 was a scrappy and surprising roster a well-established synergy between shocks and scream let them steal away rounds that seemed lost he tries to go hunting once more shocks he might get caught in the opening no they look the wrong way apex expects to rap they've been stacking that long so much and sharks has sprayed down three he's got four the round goes to g2 now shot splashed he has to back off the angle smith's two it's allowed cloud9 out but well to their own death so far screams poor shroud off shocks a little pinned in here but allowed to operate and that's worrying cloud9 have to deal with them and now they turn around there's too late shocks the absolute railgun comes in again with the meat in this real battle here scream as well finds two and now nothing's a little like the party and about to be pushed creeping his way back in its scream that punishes it two gamers is back indeed screaming shots the only ones that are chiming in there take these duels and it's just luminosity systematically shutting him down triple kill for fallen who has been carrying his team he is the captain here and he has been top fragging for a very long time here on dust2 it's on shot [ __ ] at 103 to try and keep it alive otherwise we'll go to a fifth map in the grand finals shots tabs out one that's a deadly kill goes for the second and he's moving closer looking for the quad clutch here fnx the last man alive he's going to tap the bomb once you've got to be kidding he takes the quad kill they didn't place well at the majors in columbus or cologne but they made some finals appearances elsewhere and even won the inaugural ecs finals to the tune of 250 000 it's gonna be so hard this setup is so strong the defense seems immovable at the moment luminosity must break it with just two check knives and they're forced to go in and they are being slaughtered it is just taco now 19 health with that second nine and there's too much to do and too little to do with 16-5 g2 are your easiest season one champions still the second half of the year showed that regardless of shark's view on leadership the team needed more firepower a group stage exit at the major in atlanta was the last straw 15 rounds for the danish team one more kill and it's gonna be 16 they'll move on here in the group stage they're not through yet and that's it config with the final kill 16-9 as they knock g2 out of this major tournament semmler i cannot wait for this french shuffle i want someone to come and shave save shoxy here he he definitely needs it throughout his career shocks his played with almost every great player in the french scene but there was one notable exception and when the third french shuffle began the inevitable became reality shocks and kenny s were now teammates on paper at least this was a true french super team and the fact that the fabled kenny shocks combination would finally see the stage was even more exciting but the field in cs was more competitive than it had ever been the danish scene which had experienced shuffles of their own had a serious dream team in astralis and other contenders like north and there were plenty of other top tier organizations too the team got off to a great start victories at dreamhack open tours 2017 the esl pro league season 5 finals and dreamhack masters malmo 2017 showed the team's potential as a top squad but the wins were outnumbered by disappointing tournament exits but in the end what lacked throughout the year was you know consistency whether it is for attitude work ethic or just purely in-game to do things when they were working the exact same way tournament of the tournament while shocks had still attended every major to date he was beginning to get very used to only playing the group stage then in early 2018 he made it to the quarterfinals of the boston major only to be defeated by the eventual winners cloud9 he almost went down himself there's body picking it up and now it's a one versus one stewie versus kenny the smell of gunfire and freedom in the air and stewie picking up that kill and cloud9 are in the semi-finals oh my god what a story they shut down g2 almost flawlessly still shocks was statistically g2's best player in both phases of the tournament but g2 weren't winning and tensions in the team were becoming apparent we had a lot of uh big personalities uh into the team which means a lot of people need space in the game and um and so now i want to put the team in a position where as a group we're gonna have the same goal same motivation same view of the game and uh and then just [ __ ] go for it like it is time to just you know stop thinking about extra things that don't really matter because we're not at the level where we're winning right now so shocks admitted that he had tried to remove and became apex and when that didn't work and nbk became the new igl shox decided not to play with the roster uh by replacing them i wanted existence as a team captain and smith coming back as a player as a main rifle and not an ev and [ __ ] a vp he will definitely let that to kenny the team didn't really want to make changes right and so uh he decided himself that he didn't want to you know try it with me as an incubator and uh so that's where that's why he's you know not a probably the roster in addition to riding the bench he needed surgery for a wrist injury nbk had the reins for the time being and shocks had to watch and wait but still like if i will have to get the surgery about my leg about my ass or whatever like i won't give a [ __ ] but since it's my wrist and if you just take away my wrist uh i don't know what i'm gonna do and chalks was also doubting his decision to be a leader okay i'm not supposed to be a captain like it's not in my personalities you know like i'm someone who is really shy in the in the real world i would say uh and who don't often i don't like to push people nbk had his chance as igl but the organization brought shocks back to the lineup in june adding existence as the new leader but the new lineup didn't work out further changes bringing young guns like lucky and jax didn't make things any better either after nearly four years shocks was out of the team in september of 2019 fans could be excused for feeling that the french csgo scene had tried 8 000 different combinations of the same players and created an even higher percentage of bad memories but this time instead of flipping the board over they found new pieces new young talent was on the rise and it was sorely needed i think the the problem we had the last year is we don't give a lot of uh a lot of trust to the young player you know it's very hard to say okay we're gonna take mizuta he's 17 and we're going to play a big event measure and things you know it's hard to he did a lot of land in france i i play with him online he's a little monster he's a little shocked but you never know he's going to be shocked he's going to a player like shocks it's gonna be like some someone who's you know who is just good or not good enough or you know or just so so it's really up to to trust young players and i think that was the main problem in france last year we were always like you like you said like we had 12 15 players who we mix each other and we didn't have we don't have a lot of good leaders so when sharks joined team vitality there was some understandable excitement france's greatest rifler was teaming up with zywoo an odd talent who might very well represent the future of french cs but jax was already 27 he had played over five years of source before go was even released the question was what could fans expect only has a defuse kit there's just no way surely there's no way just down to waksick now he's the only man standing vitality have done it they've broken the streak and they've taken moscow and the epicenter championship 2019. we've seen flashes of the young sharks but there are three players coming around the corner someone's going to hit the shot and they do response from shocks time is low he's got a second the models are burning and shocks is setting him alive four kills for shocks oh holy [ __ ] he might just do it this is so possible oh my god he has to run right now he's gonna be in there with a knife i don't think anyone's heard it he's on the phone oh my god he's done it right into the overtime and this is how it starts what a next level play and he recently overtook zip x as the player with the most secured clutches in cs go apex is now leading the team and young french talent masuda has joined the roster vitality has risen to be a top 10 team in the hltv rankings albeit at a time of uncertainty and predominantly online play but regardless of circumstance french cs is back shocks is once again positioned as a key part of france's greatest hope and maybe now without the burden of leadership he can get back to fragging out but sharks is patient at the moment poison oh my god he runs through his own molotov making the kill even easier a fade away frag and one back the other way he's just gonna be looking to play this post playing he needs headshots and he's gone [Music] keeping vitality in this shocks has been to every cs go major and won one for himself and for france his career is one that has inspired gasps kerrigan instead with a double and now sharks it's all on him he tries he cancels out a beautiful spray it's all on shocks he picks up one luminosity in overtime he's looking for the shot shark's gonna pick up one more triple for him oh he gets the quad kill are you kidding me and heartbreak now shocks and rpk again will be asked the same question flusher running the corner now he's got an opportunity and even without armor we can see dennis moves in he finds the final kill in a full save but that's that you can only summarize that round with closing in on 30 it would be easy to assume that his greatest achievements now lie in the past but it's always been a bad bet to doubt shocks when the odds are against him [Music] thanks for watching if you want more content like this hit the sub button and ring that notification bell for unique bite size videos you won't find anywhere else hit up our instagram twitter and facebook pages

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Length: 23min 21sec (1401 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 01 2020