The Story of cadiaN: The Man Who Never Gave Up

Casper kadian Muller had everything working against him he could have quit when the pandemic destroyed his team Trump just won't be paying the cinnamon though let's be real he could have given up when his peers accused him of cheating we don't want our names to be framed for the rest of our lives instead Katie and taught everyone else a lesson you're never done if you don't give up he tries to snap over gets hit by device who runs out and dies 1v3 from Canadian also they're rapping him far faster than he's ready for who's now he's gonna finish the job oh Canadian and twists wants to rip them from their fingertips down in with the up and now rubs his death foreign [Applause] [Music] Global Offensive Canadian should have been in the right place at the right time he cut his teeth on CS Source in Denmark one of the game's most competitive and dominant regions but Canadian's bad luck began when he started to realize that his unique combination of both in-game leading and opting could be difficult to fit into every roster for two of the first teams that I played on it definitely also compromised a lot with like um my role right I I was always the igl and the awp and in these two teams like at Mouse cliche was oppa and an SK freest was the override despite qualifying for three out of the first four CS go majors kadian and his teammates weren't able to do any real damage at the events themselves it is absolutely nervous he's gotten tagged up by Kucha then but oh my God he did find a trend but Kucha swiftly shut down that threat and we will be seeing Hellraisers going on Canadian spent much of 2015 with SK gaming and the first half half of 2016 with Team preparation but neither team qualified for much or helped develop his resume during this stretch he did get some opportunities on the analyst desk at events and he was actually pretty good at it but kadian didn't want to talk about Champions his dream was still the Hoist trophies so he did something drastic he went to North America he stood in for twists on TSM who was ineligible to appear on Ely due to his age and played alongside sick automatic FNS and sent this and while no one gave TSM much of a chance many Saw kadian as a positive addition how will the timing work out here as he goes for the peak he can't get his census is gonna secure the frag and in doing so the 1611 map 2 goes to TSM an unlikely result then his own roster was picked up by Rogue in August and retooled to include Bulgarian players bubble and Victor in October just under three months later Rogue cracked the hltv top 30 with a win at esea season 23 over ldlc it was Mountain Dew League sure but this team had improved and kadian was forced to balance the leadership demands of some very different players well it had a small culture class back then because the bulgarians were used to spy leaders so they were like why are you not yelling at me like they were like and and then they had two Danes in the team they wanted to get yelled at and we didn't want it you know like okay explain it to me call me please don't yell at me so like I was like this complete complete culture Clash after the Rogue roster wound down from player departures they kept him in mind when a twist of fate gave him an opening Cadian pounced even though it meant playing in N A there was some what else though I don't know if you remembered he said probably he signed from Ghost to that's right I remember this and then like 20 hours before the deadline he was like nah not anyways and then he went back to ghost or something so they needed one and they called me and I told myself I'll go there for three months make some uh make some money make some money yeah make them survive in the pro league because they were like at the relegations but they were like dead last or second last and I got there and we just developed a really good project quickly kadian spent a lot more than three months in North America in fact it was a full year and Roe gave him valuable experience leading a developing Squad that truly bought into his system and his work ethic most importantly the team finally brought him back to the major Vice coming in there is a timer to this and there is the backstab Android's gone now Shazam has to look into two places and he can't 16 to 11 Rogue have done it and you can see how much it means to kadian and though he won a series against space soldiers kadian's run was again stopped short in part by Danes coming in from bonano Scott's effects to play against can he win the battle no not quite zip X finishes him up through the wall now down to Cadian that's a stunning shot there from Kaden onto device but that's all he's able to do an astralis grind it out but making it to the major was enough for some teams to take notice of cadian's continued grind in the usual chaos of the postmate major Shuffle so he finally got another chance his hard work paid off he finally went home Denmark could seize their second major win seemingly putting astralis on track to continue an era of unparalleled dominance but kadian was still working on a win now with North one of the country's top teams kadian was able to both op and Lead which helped his team rise as high as 7th ranked on hltv during his eight-month tenure but land results were elusive kadian later told hltv in an interview that he saw the Spirit of mutual sacrifice he expected from his roster fate and he knew that his days were numbered if one guy doesn't want to sacrifice because he sees this team potentially as um a stepping stone for the next bigger team or whatever you see him he doesn't want to run in okay well hell no I'm not gonna run in for this guy then if he's not ever gonna do it for me why would I run for him and those kind of mentality just really fits us in that team I think after six months on the bench with North his shot finally came heroics blame F departed for complexity and Cadian slid onto the roster but not as igl Snappy assumed leadership duties while kadian played primary op he took to the role with gusto putting up some solid performances no smoke on the coffins lots of damage inflicted and they're gonna be walking in to a bit of a truck that's the talk with the Famas from the side is spraying them down from CT Tavern has been caught leaving Dennis alone they know where he is and Canadian will not miss out on his chance three kills goes to the offer and for five months heroic picked up steam is left just on to stierson and faving to try and hold on and faven he's actually managed to catch him with the awp in Middle switching over to the right we're trying to clear the pit but he fails it's left onto season to try and save them in the Grand Final and he's not gonna do it it will be heroic with the victory style you'll be right through the Facebook um well he's had some very nice performances today this might be just too much ribs down ready and waiting for an aggressive up close and burstful in his face ump comes out but it's gonna do absolutely nothing heroic are your GG bet winter Cup winners 2020 and they do it in style without dropping a single map across any series heroic was firing on all cylinders and fun Plus Phoenix bought the roster out in time for season one a Flashpoint but at the last second the deal fell through we as fpx heroic call us whatever name you want we'll not be finishing the first group stage of flashband probably just won't be playing the cinnamon though let's be real cadian's desperation his raw emotions were entirely understandable his Road had been long enough he had experienced plenty of bad luck but this was different still there was only one thing to do chart a new course and work twice as hard to get back to the top heroic hired long-time Danish igl hundon as their coach adding a wealth of information on potential opponents as well as helping to build a structural frame for cadian's looser igl style so that's how we started the team and I was like this is not going to do well we're not going to be a top five team if we don't have some kind of a structure so we try to create some kind of a structured freedom-ish thing on the T side so people could do whatever they wanted to do but in a controlled way where everyone knew how how they were going to react heroic wanted to make their Mark and at cologne they showed exactly how far they had come now you can be very quick behind them they're going up hey and Katie if that smoker rise I think they're gonna disrespect it he's got a good chance at another here Canadian's on for four maybe even the A's gone Cadian he takes over the game next is in this one Nico with a double he's got to line him up again oh the reload and now the 1v1 he needs the ace to keep this safe he does it Nico the timing could not be better for him again oh no the Lion's Den quad kill for Grand Final point for the trophy [Music] and they're the last team standing unbelievable with a 150 000 grand prize and a win over Vitality Katie and proved that he had what it took to bring his style of IG yelling and opting to the very top of the Counter-Strike world but the celebration was cut short just a few days later when hundon was implicated in a wide-reaching cheating scandal involving the use of a spectator buff I've got this game loaded up it's heroic versus astralis it's the match where hundin for the first 10 Rounds had a coach camera or had a camera and free cam on banana almost immediately the accusations came how could Cadian not have known the news cast out on all of heroic but especially their leader but kadian was undeterred he told everyone that he hadn't cheated and that the team's number one rank was the result of hard work so basically we have 96 uh apps played in the past three months yeah we participate dissipated in literally everything that we possibly could then they took dreamhack open fall without their now banned coach reaffirming their status as one of the best teams in the world five vs 3 for Heroic to close this tournament to win yet another online event to cement themselves at the top of Counter-Strike shocks trying his damnedest Apex with only 14 HP 1v3 and get ready for Acadian pop-off cause he's stunning he closes and leads his team to yet another win the end of the year was less kind to heroic though and changes had to be made he's looking around Jesus mine but no Cheryl takes the fight takes the win 16-3 heroic full Nico and borup were benched in February and the team brought in refresh and shush exciting players with sky-high potential but kadian didn't talk about their one Taps he talked about their determination and drive they're working very hard and there's no complaining if you ask them to do something they'll do it straight away and that's part of the profile with them that's why we chose them as well they have undeniable Talent we know that but Talon can only drive you so far you need to be willing to put in the hours and these two will so yeah picking those two you can already feel at this point was the right decision the new squad's first Big Challenge ESL Pro League season 13 where the best teams in the world waited to see how much damage this new look heroic could do that's the op and kills the guy CT I yeah ah yeah oh oh my God he's knifed him and he's gotten away with the orb I'm starting to get nervous there's no way there's no way Katie you can't win pro league like this you can't win pro league like this no way access left 40 seconds and the bombs on a take your time son you're about to make the play of your career guess the info he just has to hit this shot and he's done it for Heroic the leader calling well above his years clearing Oh no you're an animal heroic I've done it and I just can't believe it Cadian pulled off one of the greatest ever clutches in CS history locking in his reputation as one of the greatest igls not only in Denmark but the world heading into IEM cologne 2021 kadian wasn't just confident against astralis he felt like his team's recent results spoke for themselves astralis hasn't had any rivalry with any other team because they've always won and I'll be quite Frank but at this point we haven't lost to them for a very long time so if they beat us today I can accept the fact that we have a rivalry but if we don't I'll smash the hammer and say there's no nothing and the kings of Denmark sit happily on their Throne there it is they're after the playoffs astralis logged in clearly there was more to be done but while kadian was working on that more controversy racked the organization Hunden was reinstated in April 2021 and then released in July when heroic began legal proceedings against him where they alleged that he had shared sensitive strategic information with the competitor then in August Hunden claimed that the heroic players knew about his use of The Spectator bug that earned him his initial ban he followed that up in September with proof of a conversation between himself and Nico a former member of the team the Esports Integrity commission cleared everyone on a heroic except Nico and heroic shared their emotionally charged side of the story in September we want this story out we want the community to understand because I think as you have seen earlier in this video it's not been easy to be under this kind of pressure from co-players and co-co colleagues in in the industry so we don't want our names to be framed for the rest of our lives moving past hunting was critical because the team needed to be focused for their next goal the Stockholm major the first since Lan events returned triple kill for tessas he is going to try and play a close legendary angle here top of banana there's the first Kill from Katie and gets the second as well not gonna get the third though so close but he's done his job this round they might be in a lot of trouble G2 have the problem side on lockdown shush with a big double but hunter he's back for more and now he just has to stay alive still Katie and left and they get eradicated by Hunter it's 19 to 15 G2 make the grand finals of the major a narrow OT loss to G2 couldn't have felt good but this heroic roster had grown immensely since 2020. in 2022 heroic's identity continued to develop under Canadian as well as the team's new coach former pro player exist they weren't the most structured team but they worked hard had incredible clutch potential and they weren't afraid to get loud I'm still like yelling at my teammates right like even in practice you can put us in practice against the top 45 team in the world and we're making some stupid mistakes so we literally just talked about from reviewing one of our games at Dharma I'm gonna tell people when it's not good enough a top four finisher katowice was more valuable experience for the roster the results at the next major in Antwerp slipped slightly but each tournament gave the team new data and New Opportunities when they were forced to replace refresh with yabby halfway through the year there was an adjustment period but again when it was time for the real major heroic showed up 30 seconds on the clock not a whole lot of time if you want to transfer between the ball sites this is everything this engagement is huge from stout oh and yeah one on one it's just cyber left on the other side once again to try and save it nice Flash doesn't catch down and he's going to have a little love of brags in the round there they come three and four and it's all five with every passing second of that bomb The Outsiders prepare to start a new celebration and while winning the major is always the goal that doesn't mean you can't appreciate some of the other victories too especially when it's at home now acadian's the next one finds an initial they're rapping him far faster than he's ready for still he's gonna finish the job oh Canadian we get to walk back around the cat replacing the dead body of props looking for the impact but it's heroic into the kill feed with two rounds on a t side in the OT the pressure is so real the dreams are alive and twists wants to rip them from their fingertips down in with the up and now robs with his win at the event Canadian's roster ended the year at the very top of the hltv rankings but maybe more importantly kadian was where he belonged bye man he didn't give up during his major drought when he might have had the option to move to working on the desk at events he didn't give up when he played in North America or when his team collapsed around him he didn't give up when events went online and even the best players in the world struggled to give a hundred percent Cadian isn't a generation defining aimer he isn't a highlight machine but after a decade spent grinding his way to the top he showed us that natural Talent isn't everything and standing on that stage tearfully embracing his mom kadian taught all of us that hard work can always take you to the top thanks for watching if you want 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Length: 18min 7sec (1087 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 04 2023