The Man Who Cracked Counter-Strike: The Story of gla1ve

I started to realize that I understood things better than most players and play with it wasn't like I had to be an ideal but I just knew I had really good game sense but not only tactically brawl so much the team blow it get leaders frakking like this guy Wow so implementing a really deep hockey style to the game [Applause] I'd say Cleve Hollis is probably the best team in the world right now that really informed and I think has a good idea of how they should play and how their system works yes I'm calling the best in-game leader on the planet I mean he's putting up superstar numbers so it was a it was another thing I don't know what happened in my career but I knew that I had to get back to the top what I knew that at some point I'm gonna get the chance to be like the best thing in the world [Music] Lucas egg home Ross endure was born on June 7th 1995 he grew up in the neuro section of Copenhagen Denmark the eclectic multicultural neighborhood was his childhood backdrop as he developed a passion for competitive soccer he played with several youngsters who would go on to become major professional players like ondrea's christensen but when he was around 13 years old clave began to experience symptoms of osgood-schlatters disease a form of severe knee pain that can happen to growing adolescents training and practice became very difficult by age 14 he'd been forced to find another competitive Avenue thankfully he had already found counter-strike and glaive made a seamless transition to that world instead my first trauma strike memory is definitely from when I I went to a club I'm not sure what it's called like it was in my spare time after school I went with my friends there and I remember everybody played counter-strike together it was like you could you could book one hour from to use the computer and then you could play with your friends and I think I did that like almost every day I played one hour and then I got my mom to buy the game for me talking with one of his friends who just happened to use the handle device Lucas asked for a cool alias he could use when we're device was 14 years old we were pretty good friends and yeah I thought that device had a really cool nickname and I asked him - don't you have like a really cool one for me and then he came up with clave and I'ma like there's a sake really yeah the name clave was born and he threw himself into CS playing and watching the game as much as possible ravenously trying to learn its intricacies by following and watching names like forest get right Karn and Sonic while Glee found a new competitive outlet it was also sometimes an emotional one his father Jacob the school teacher was diagnosed with cancer in 2010 when glaive was 15 and while he visited his father in the hospital as often as he could bear he sometimes felt like CS was a safe haven for him thankfully for glaive it was a project that his father supported he could see that it meant a lot to his teenage son and he believed in his potential and though he passed away in 2012 before glaives peak was even in sight Jakob Ross endure was proven right leaves early competitive experience was in CS source and it was a formative time in terms of his end game leading style he played on several rosters like reason gaming Epsilon eSports and TT dragons alongside fellow Dane Nicolai hundun Peterson an IG l who believe credits with much of his style the way he was thinking about the games I played with so the way they did things in the to devise their own way to approach in game leadership that emphasized map control and mid-round calls with solid defaults to fall back on picked up the second joke with a third sandwich buy a kill from eronel but they have a four versus one right now so we'll go fine reckful we know we won't find him in time and the screams are starting to get louder from the crowd everything was was good and the weirdly was mid back calling together with me was just like really really really nice to play around and it was it was fun to create this to go blade would also fall back on his fragging ability which he kept sharp throughout his career the posting plan but flame gets it for late back hold on darling complain Kevin's damage Awards that website if there were two versus two big round here so let's go pick some another one it's 1 vs. 1 and those skills allowed him to play well on other teams with different leaders while also learning from them usually they don't have the same impact the same frags I should say so yeah that's that's really tough so that's why I have always been focusing a lot about my aim and not only about the game says because if you want to reach the top you got a you gotta have their name but the release of csgo was about to shake things up not only for glaive but the entire danish scene i think we had some identities problems in the beginning of cisco like we had to gather the the two seats from one point six account of soy sauce it was like an I think it was really really hard to create the best things team out of it but after a year of bouncing around inside the Danish roster churn bleh found a team that was able to challenge some of the new scenes frontrunners via Nexus roster that became Western wolves HP though but they're not gonna buy ok this is over Wow Western wolves six teams of two it's gonna be if the client does not clutch this oh and there it is Wow he well played ladies and gentlemen we are writing history here Dreamhack summer 2013 second team to ever beat and I be on land we'll go to Western wolves but why max Glade with 25 flags but as 2013 war on the Western wolves roster once ranked third in the world began to slip eventually glaive left citing school concerns but couldn't stay away from the game for long he played with a variety of Nordic rosters until he landed on Copenhagen wolves in mid 2014 though that talented squad looked like they had potential they couldn't break through and talk to your events and now Kerrigan is in a one on two that bomb is already down and retaking this is going to be damn near impossible mana Thomas world making sure he only has one entrance but he's gonna be charging through it he goes down suits with a kill and then he survived copenhagen wolves 1917 they make it to the playoffs in late 2014 the situation on copenhagen wolves came to a head at the gaming DK tournament won a personal situation between glaive and nikolai nico Jensen boiled over and played threatened to not play in the team's finals match blade was slapped with a six-month ban from GDK events and though these tournaments were mostly for up-and-coming nordic teams that was exactly the sort of event the roster needed to play between attempts to qualify for bigger tournaments it wasn't long before the copenhagen wolves kicked him but even as he was on his way out the team's press release called him a great player and probably one of the most interesting minds in counter-strike but after his rough end to 2014 Fink's can continued to get worse in 2015 Glade began to question if this was even the right path for him as teams like Dignitas TSM and a new Copenhagen wolves roster formed he was left out and so glaive toiled in near obscurity he played in a variety of smaller events at qualifiers during the first half of the year but basically dropped off the map after May but while he debated an escape a former teammate I always called him [Music] took his team again with him but in the meantime a new Danish Power had risen Team solomid was now clearly one of the top teams in the world managing a top 4 finish at a major and routinely winning matches against the Swedish powerhouse fnatic the boys gonna get blinded here in Kerrigan well done TSM their first victory and in this company what a way to do it so when belief returned to counter-strike in 2015 and joined copenhagen wolves again in early 2016 he had one ultimate goal to join the team that was now called Astros but there yeah back in 2015 my life wasn't the same as this now I wasn't playing it as rallies at one of the best teams I was playing for some kind of unknown teams so it was a it was another thing I don't know what happened in my career but and I knew that I had to get back to the top because I had been to the top before the took like three months break I fell a bit down I have to climb my way back up but he was determined to show that he could still compete even playing through a collapsed lung at assembly winter 2016 I had three collapsed lungs and like one year one and a half year and the third I had it was in February right before the semi-final at the event in Finland I had to get the operation down there I didn't in game leave back then because I didn't want to but I knew that at some point there's going to happen something then I'm gonna get the chance to be like the best engineer in the world though he may not have known it believes determination was about to pay off and his fragging may have been what gave him the opportunity oh okay that's awkward don't [ __ ] squat it out and okay they trade right off but freakazoid now two kills under his belt six each beat oh no get shut down and astralis needed a replacement for ESL one cologne 2016 because their newest edition key RB had played the qualifiers with a different team the results given the circumstances were good they not only integrated glaive into their system but they managed to finish top eight retaining their legend status and to all of that despite the fact that Dupree developed appendicitis partway through the tournament and astralis were forced to play with their coach sonic Carrigan's desperate to find one of the smoke instead it's MSL found by zipping sin the hero play thank lei will close it let's draw lists to status players to standing players keep their legendary status again what was Dignitas is best chance that is heartbreaking for Dignitas but my goddess trawl is societally if it has to be glaives profile had only risen since cologne but now he finally had his chance to forge a new legacy with the straw 'less at the top of his Regency the team wanted to move away from Kerrigan's looser style so graves fit well a more tactical approach with reliable default for razor sharp mid-round adaptations I can be a really good early round in-game leader where I tell them in the beginning of the round what are we going to do this round but I think what I'm best at and what I have always been best at is that if something we doesn't expect happens then I'm really fast at winning game at what are we going to do now with only three months until the next major the team put in work astralis had not yet earned a major championship could glaive be the missing piece of the puzzle and could the high power to stralla be the team glaive needed to cement his place in CS history almost immediately it seemed like the answer was yes after a shaky group stage Astralis were crowned major champions at the elite major atlanta with bracket wins over na'vi and fnatic and a nail-biting series against virtus Pro he goes down with the max and he can make it happen finally Pasha coming in with a reef right but he's down the bomb has been picked up by Dupree cranial takes one in times of that and estrada that we the first major championship 16 Oh [Music] kids s-tronic [Applause] a new look astrologers Iliad throughout 2017 a top-floor finish at pgl major Krakow and various other events that year made them solidly one of the world's best teams but while 2017 started hi 2018 started with a wake-up call with the Vice returning from medical leave the team suffered a devastating group stage exit at the Boston major both of them with eyes on a grand Amancio they spotted him they definitely knew one there's the kills 16-6 Estrada's center people cloud9 who continue into the tournament they're gonna play later date unfortunately enters for astrologer your danes they're eliminated that ends the playoff streak of a couple big players and it ends no Danish teams into the playoffs in Boston not this time even worse was key Arby's departure in February for new Danish organization the north move they forced a strong's to scramble for a new fifth when I got the news one RBI was still on vacation I was obviously shocked I didn't know what to say right we I thought that I feel still feel like we're good friends but in all honesty I we would just have appreciated a conversation about it because also still at the moment we really don't know why it's just yeah it's just sad to feel betrayed in some way but just as glaives addition was both urgent and incredibly effective Astralis added magic and well the rest is history megistias one more weapon in glades Arsenal giving astralis yet another explosive talent that could take over games but astralis under glaives leadership did much more they took over the entire game their second major in London hey yo he's quite a fountain gotta stay alive now thoughts another fountain the twist going for the whole glaive says no holding it now and there is it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the million dollar Intel Grand Slam on the retake that's absolutely massive the DTS as well and is played getting it done he's an astrologer so close to this point security can you believe it and that's why they consider the world's best right now a third major in katowice their second in a row Bri that's gonna claim the first kill on this matchup they've all tied with two one tops and that's the bomb going down with it easily have to pick up the third and walk in the smoke flavor he'll only punish one but it's just aerial fine [Applause] majors back-to-back on straw again [Applause] and a fourth in Berlin three in a row an unthinkable achievement flame through the smoke finding a trend in a bond was born [Applause] they have just reestablished dominance big and for glaive specifically an NVP nod at IEM beijing 2019 is first-ever and a rare honor for an i GL and all lofts gonna pursue with confidence into the next kill but clave has the rifle and is ready to free you can see many has Aston head right fine and but through the dories tank Dupree go on believe weakens he knows as well that it's likely he'll go towards the knows that he's done damn meeting with him in mid 2020 glaive announced he would be taking a three-month break from the game to deal with burnout unlike his previous break this one will be to ensure he could stay at the top and unlike assembly winter 2016 he's not just going to play through it glaive didn't build the astrologer but his unique approach and individual ability have honed it into what is undeniably the greatest counter-strike team ever and he's kept them there he stands apart from all other IG ELLs in the game's history and though he did all this he spent much of his career a long way from the spotlight but like others along the way he believed in his own ability and he too was proven right no people said that we could win on home soil and I think all of the team knew that it wasn't true and I figured all of the Danish fans in the crowd they knew that it wasn't true they knew that we could do it they believed in us all the way but the crowd helped us a lot thank you very much [Music] thanks for watching if you want more content like this hit the sub button and ring that notification bell for unique bite-sized videos you will find anywhere else hit up our Instagram Twitter and Facebook pages [Music]

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Length: 19min 1sec (1141 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 06 2020