The Story of Olofmeister (Extended cut)

[Music] know where do the powers of good and evil and chant fans quite like they do in competition where the hero can morph into the villain and right back again in the blink of an eye it's in this arena that we watch our idols fall from grace right before our eyes and it's on them to climb back up the mountain and e-sports we need not look further than the Bruce Meister himself he sees them now they're straight head just they have no idea Smith's looking confused and dazed before and it's - pretty hard to hold on to divisive around the world we go over the diffuse the diffuses olofmeister has walked the lines of hero and villain his entire career from dazzling on the brightest stage and competing with one of the game's first truly dominant rosters kamilly tech champion top phonetic it's gonna be outside two facing widespread criticism over a competitive strat that pushed the games very boundaries to cementing himself as one of the greatest counter-strike players to ever play the game his is the quintessential counter-strike story the embodiment of a game loved by millions sure you may have heard pieces of historia passing but this this is the whole story of olofmeister Olaf Olaf Meister khyber was born in terasu Sweden on January 31st 1992 as a kid he found his competitive niche in soccer and showed a lot of promise as a young player well he was very talented at football I remember me my father going to watch most of his games custody which path of his life and I think he was quite good and it was about 4 to 15 years of age it was in the wake of a soccer injury that stunted his competitive growth that olofmeister really started to take counter-strike seriously and that one injury would spark what would become one of the most storied careers in the history of a game loved by millions when I got injured we went to a specialist in Stockholm and he told me that I couldn't play for you I think he was quite sad sad that he showed excellent home really mad and pissed off but I went actual atonement played a bit it and construction on that demon olofmeister started his professional counter-strike career as a member of team Quinta before serving as a stand-in for rage gaming in 2010 then came Counter Strike global Offensive where Olaf first joined forces with crimson Dennis on LGB eSports as the scene was first building its base and during those early days of csgo LGB quickly became known as one of the European scenes most prolific rosters flashing through is he actually gonna push through this yes he will this is full of poison definitely one of those crazy players on this LGBTQ man he gets to great shots in maybe torrential third one thousand two one four dollar poison against the triple killer makes something exactly all the corner Olaf built a name for himself on LGB and that success helped him secure a spot on fnatic alongside cribs in 2014 early on in his career Olaf was widely known for his ability to fill a multitude of different roles he could wield the mighty arm looks for the a mate Olaf gets one he's gonna look for the second he gets the second as well having a back up to the box at the back of check up against the third there's a fourth one coming in through the fall Oh Olaf he was a top right Fuller walk nice made him cover to cover the top there able to pick up aster has been just a great player for LGB and he could clutch with the best of them so much so that he will go down in csgo history immortalized on the walls of overpass around the world we go for the diffuse the diffuse is coming in we could do it all and that's what made him different he have grown into his role within the team and so I think he have always been capable of being the best player in the world and obviously that's why we picked him up it didn't matter who we played or what tournament it was it was always one in our team that played like the best player in the whole world in that first year together fnatic cemented themselves as one of the best csgo teams in the world they want a slew of small events and finished second to NI p at the year's first major ESL one cologne - on 5jw and flusher there is nothing they can do any longer ni p have won Gamescom 2014 ladies and gentlemen 1613 it finally happens but Olaf's rise was tied to the end of ni peas historic run through the early days of csgo and it didn't take long for fnatic to become the undisputed best team in counter-strike 1 the fans loved and loved to hate of any event in 2014 it was at Dreamhack winter where olofmeister showed the kind of player he would eventually become putting on a show only a superstar could scientist cloud9 is trying to see if they can get a little bit more damaged on all of my says there though pretty clean pickoff has two results of the cset for the third kill in a row here in these kind of lollies got one person down a long-tailed now is full of meister and he's just landing some really nice shots so not even any chance I mean the bomb actually fell down into CT spawn but just as olofmeister showed his greatness the counter-strike world turned its back on it more than anything they're gonna need to simply win this pistol and they are playing a pretty standard game of though do they have a weird first going on currently yes my god I just think it wasn't fair well it's definitely not fair should have your move he sees them down there straight and just they have no idea without their did three it's just shameless of them they still I'm not sure Nexus getting fired I definitely can't just go unquestioned there it is rainy you're never gonna gather the boo stuff not opaque but also wind Z - hold on back in 2014 cheating was a problem in counter-strike young players and prodigies alike were looked at with harsh scepticism and it felt like most were seen as cheaters until proven innocent so to say this incident occurred at an inopportune time would be an understatement heading into the bracket stage their quarterfinal matchup was against ldl-c a French roster many considered to be the second best team in the world behind fnatic and they quickly fell behind so Happy's gonna be able to rotate very quickly and be right on the edge of that smoke so it's fnatic come through this kill is going to be crucial but it looks like olofmeister just barely stays alive q mind the meantime he's got the scar 20 surprise surprise yet still makes it three and this is it's about to be lights out for phonetic there isn't a whole lot of overall high storage an HP shocks you all have down and the first half of this mess of three but Olaf and fnatic bounced back on cash prices got this perfect you figured out very nice way here turn 16 to 8 and phonetic bring us on to a third map that's gonna be overpass what a quarterfinals this is exactly what we ordered exactly what we needed here until tragedy struck in map 3 where they found themselves down 12 3 on overpass it is really terrifying at the moment here pistol round means everything otherwise phonetic could end up crashing out of this quarterfinals essentially in the final map that would be a devastating result for them obviously home turf here there's gonna be a serious discussion going on right now on the phonetic side about how to approach this pistol round because it has to be one it was then that Olaf and the rest of fnatic deployed the single most iconic boost in counter-strike history prettiest and the game of oh do they have a width roost going on currently yes oh this is beautiful Drew's as well he sees them now they're straight headshot they have no idea Smith's looking confused and dazed and it's gonna be a they still have no show Nexus getting fired round after round the boost worked to perfection there it is it's rainy down death to Apollo I'm not gonna do too much damage but down is superb it's going down the pain continues it's again here they're trying to see if they could potentially get a cleaner shot look at this now happy getting boosted up but he gets spotted all eyes for sees it coming they have accounted for this but I think they're one step ahead the end is near it's five on three and fnatic have summoned an unbelievable comeback they pull up an ace up the sleeve and they do it for just every single round there on out flush against the double and it's down to Smiths no chance at all phonetic they make their way to the semies of another major tournament here 16:13 from the brink of failure fnatic unveiled a gamebreaking strat to get themselves back in it and it worked better than anyone could have thought or so it seemed until a series of rulings traded back and forth between the two teams Olaf spoofs was placed under review and the match was set to be replayed the next day after hours of demo review is they found that both Smith's and Olaf - boost took advantage or or were subject to this one texture bug that that could be applied to both of them and so they'd found their way to just say both of you are at fault actually and so we'll replay then in a decision that is still unclear to this day fnatic forfeited the match - ldl-c and overnight became the villains of csgo it's that hivemind right of the community everyone hopping on that bandwagon of disliking fnatic at the time was kind of the cool thing to be doing it was like such a low low point I mean I have had much hate through through the whole career pretty much as he's going but this this thing was just like it was so much at the same time and it was very very hard for for me as well as the others regardless of your thoughts on the Olaf boost fnatic entered 2015 as the best team in the world whether the fans liked it or not and heading into the year's first major they looked unstoppable everyone expected them to win ESL one Katowice and they didn't disappoint I'll go to the hands of JW get right going for the neck cut off Meister with a headshot picks him off and this is the moment pick games require big players does that pump goes down and then IP attempt yeah another retake Scooby free phonetic that getting these palm punches they just need one more round and they'll be able to do it all of my sty Kent hiding in the same spot up my graveyard and Crim's buddies in the side oh there it is now it's on exist 1 V 2 here financing they could be the second or the first teams win a second championship here on global Offensive and Oliver West's playing it so safely they know that they have it exist gets one and he's back on it he's got the kid he's holding it down I'm not sure there's enough time for an out ladies caminito champion phonetic fnatic didn't drop a single map until the finals of Katowice and olofmeister was named the tournament's MVP despite the fact that the hard feelings from the community still remained post Olaf boost Olaf himself seemed to revel in the eyes of his critics he only got more accurate became a better leader and filled every role fnatic needed him to quite simply he'd reached a divine status in game and he wasn't about to let anyone take that away from him what followed for Olaf and fnatic will go down in counter-strike history leading up to the year's second major fnatic seemed unstoppable and looked primed to be the first team ever to win back-to-back majors as ESL one cologne s group stage got underway fnatic and Olaf looked as good as ever all of my C's already somehow snuck all the way up through connector into all jungle gets the kill gets the four max let's see if you can get more he does manage to get more flushes also taken down groovy and now two men remain here for e battle this is a perfect position for all of Isis analysis that there's the wall man taken down low it's now all unfurl and sixteen rounds to two an easy day at the office really for fnatic trying to make the rotation crews Pro X all pushing in on site as seized single has people up they add eagle a dream it will be believe me single tap down and that is it ladies and gentlemen it was all too easy for fanatic 16 to as they absolutely decimate the opposition in their groups but it was in the semi-finals that fanatic were met with their fiercest competition virtus Pro Ward's like JW down cribs all Antonio to do what seems impossible just be 110 seconds the bomb is a priority he's gonna be punching the digit sitting now with the dowdy to play for pronax saves the day with two and oh my god is this an intense semifinals max he's waiting if Olaf jumps off here he is a dead man walking let's see what he does patience may be a virtue flash comes out here we go is an absolute mastermind is to appoint one make two flashes as he knows that three he's mostly point the ball and just keep bragging that he gets thrown acts but cribs at all are alive and now snacks and neo have to do everything to keep virtus pro chances at the grand final alive it's all on me oh look at this place one three to thirty seconds crusher phonetic seaside in a hard-fought match fnatic would once again show the world why they were the best but whether it was because of their dominance or some residual hate from the Olaf boost the team received as much hate as they did love from the community that was stressful it was emotional to watch what was it like to play come on there's only great games say we don't have food any sports no Goonies boss Olaf talk to me what was it like to play in that match it was a great thing to watch hardly mentally to clean up camera come on guys it was a great match she has to cheer for both teams in great matches like that told me through what was it like to play was hard to mentally to play that game but guys please respect for the finest second fine that his piece respect them and after that win their Finals matchup against envyus wasn't in doubt she think about going for the challenge here and all up not in his lifetime Kenny s just smokes you off but flushes not having anybody's gonna push off through he's gonna come down Kenny and Kier Shiva now all alive into the crosshairs of all of my stuff just lines up the shot gets the supporter flusher and this will be fantastic taking map walk on us to 1950 this little bit of speed coming into it here grenade on through and envy the speeding up kW missing a couple of shots and they catch two and return pronax on the back lines and they're gonna get a refresh here very low in health is happy and they just keep on training it's true they can't stop now all off with a kill as well it's gonna be Kenny with refract reneedar in Happy's on six health and ladies and gentlemen it's gonna require a miracle and nothing less for happy to make it out I don't think there's any chance flusher looking to end this it's gonna be a third major championship in global Offensive to this day fanatics run in 2015 is one of the more impressive feats in the history of eSports that year the team brought home a whopping 10 international titles and became the first team in counter-strike to win back-to-back valve sponsored majors they were an absolute juggernaut and at the head of the ship was olofmeister with the 2016 season underway many expected much of the same dominance from fnatic and Olaf and the season certainly started off that way 3 us is for right now this is looking great for fnatic JW taking that kill us while falling and cold Sarah it is a 2-1 for right now but can they possibly retain this it seems almost impossible they're gonna try and take that time fall and goes down in there phonetic right Intel Extreme Masters season 10 winners [Music] ten years of history that said their strong start didn't last CS goes competitive scene was exploding around this time and teams like luminosity looked primed to dethrone fnatic at 2016 s first major MLG columbus fnatic placed second in their group but this time things felt different throughout the event Olaf was plagued with an arm injury and fnatic were stunned by an upstart team from Denmark as a three-pronged assault from Australis and there we go crimps gets taken down and stay doubly left it's match point for Australia a double he needs to clutch we've seen it before we need to see it again he needs to play out of his skin for his people survive it but there's too many angles too many Estrada's players zero into two fnatic oh astronomy but I don't know I watched a week or two weeks before I started feeling something was wrong in my race and I got super like I was like I kept playing for what like one day and like something is wrong like I need to take some days off and didn't get better and like so basically we had no practice before going to the made it and if it was a normal tournament I was just saying I'm not playing like I need a break but I couldn't like because you can't change in the players I couldn't leave so I had to play and I I'm I self a little bit shortly after the event fnatic dropped out of the upcoming Dreamhack Malmo [ __ ] off Meister took an extended break from pro play two nurses injury olaf would then return to the fnatic lineup in order to compete at the year's second major but the magic just wasn't there causing problems he's gonna win an important tool but he's heavy tank as well everyone's tied for the t's now can they get up on down as a player sighted Mitro he's putting in words hunted all across the remaining that don't say near everyone status just one of my select versus two he's got up to on the bond but he's got 30 seconds to do it to a cave smoke said JW isolated fighting around the focus area rims is the last man to keep fanatic witness he has so many players to take down two of which are very low there's the first one he gets immediately tagged in the face this is so terrible right now / Crim's there is a fanatic just weren't the team they once were and neither was olaf something needed to change in a massive roster swap during the back half of 2016 fnatic sent JW flusher and Crim's to godsend in exchange for twist and lek row at a glance the move looked like an attempt to rebuild the team around Olaf to make another push at becoming one of the best teams in the game once again it didn't work hitting him on the other side but now conflicts coming from the same angle that's Reuben with a shot and electrons to come over the bomb and that's it Dignitas they're gonna be in the semi finals here at epicenter Moscow verses 2 to 5 which is on the workout mix wall full health versus jumping hey Kate versus a que no kid on jumpy continuing to run will you charge straight through the door he will off tick perceived fnatic eliminated 16 to 11 almost as quickly as the move happened at the orgs decided to switch their players back to their original teams unfortunately that reunion led to more middling results placing inside the top three only once before an early round of eight exit from 2017 second major at pgl Krakow gambit playing is so small they understand the timing as well they understand exactly how JW might move around the map as we can see a trend making his way towards teammates dude are we going put it all back and there you go make it work 16:14 give us very cool isn't it however hope is still holding down the position grammar so takes down over disco for sure though too weak to HP and now he's dead on the bomb site then in one of the biggest roster moves in the history of Counter Strike Olaf left fnatic we tried everything in fact I could write so many different lineups and I was just I felt it was a good timing and also face at that time we're a lot better team that we were than I was just I needed something you need a new motivation and I felt like I got it from a yarn face in addition to acquiring Olaf faze clan also signed a star offer Guardian to pair with the likes of Nico rain and Kerrigan this iteration of faze clan were immediately thrusted into the limelight and heralded as quite possibly the greatest super team in counter-strike history olofmeister was once again at the center of the csgo zeitgeist but playing on a team of superstars represent a new challenge for the first time in his career he wasn't his team star player instead he would have to operate as a secondary Fragger behind Nico and rely on his strong fundamentals to make an impact this move would be a testament to Olaf's legacy as a player because if he could make this work then there wasn't anything he couldn't do this information though now phase are gonna pounce they know that they can push on to this site that there were two players there for us draws the flashes in it's good olofmeister takes out debris now they know where the remaining players are coming from it is over six out of five HP and it's not gonna be enough 67 when phase has done it they are your elite champions names ray Harrison ultra where the firebox and hope of a kill all in one position and Guardian makes it back to the time the flash and Nico fittingly gets the last killer's face dominate New York in 2017 the Barclays Center all the way through this tournament course it's sunny but rain there's no winner took for him they can't trade either brain of course for versus to doing more damage leaving Oscar for UMP it's gonna pick up a rifle surely go positive next area this is the end of the line for mousesports face off the hidden passage best of three shut down the dreams desires of passports and take the championship they came into it as the favourites and finally they prevail phase were firing on all cylinders come the Boston major and looked unstoppable in the new legend stage going as fast as he can all of my sagessa sound cues and he's gonna have the angle even if there was time which I don't think there is my some debris fire there and though there is a time to watch because unfortunately 16 to 8 is the score line and that was pretty much all faze clan otherwise he'll lose by time of course he can't plant it so he has to somehow close the distance to the bottom they go for a plan and so hot key dominant absolutely crushing showing from fence just cancelling all of that I think you got flashes well actually from the other side so time is running out Jarrod's been 1612 phase made their way to the playoffs yet again in a major tournament they then made quick work of no sports in the quarterfinals and it's just ROPS young Estonians first time in the playoffs he's certainly impressed but it's not been enough the mouse is bit the cheese the trap is closed to nothing for phase they'll move through to the semi-final and our favorites move on before reminding simple and natus Vincere why they were the scenes most feared team from zeus to hold off as well because he knew CT put in them so the vet was next light but less likely I should say what a shelf of Guardian words out of my mouth as he nails it through the box he is tagged up smoke on the ball immediately he's got the kick that's no like to hold on and there they sat one of the most decorated teams of superstars in cs:go history staring eye to eye with cloud 9 the scrappy underdogs who clawed their way to the finals this is the final boss this is the phase roster just look at this Talent it is so status because if you look at meetings this yet when they played each other you can see cloud 9 have certainly not had the best of it phase clients seem to be their kryptonite I think the problem here is the fact that you know phase not only won the last three encounters in the best of three - I know it's in such a dominant fashion as you guys can see only double digits two times while I explained super well but [Applause] to play like that after splitting the first two maps cloud9 in phase found themselves in a winner-take-all showdown on inferno well they left open coordinate may have been a mystery because in the codes cloud line but all spice has something to say three kills that's a great defense from him and Guardian starts to get in on the action as well but tarik the only man the last line of defense for the B side sir be stopped by all of Meister and is a cave this distilled a good Olympic alpine nothing else is going on he's got to go back Stewie's on doodle repositioning after the first frag it's both now from quad river face can can't like close it skadoodle gets one skadoodle card get the third it sneak over 12 is there time Oh is there time I'm not sure if they're it's gonna be a close one I need my net so from this position before you cannot miss a single shot Guardian waits patiently as crowd my scepter push up [Applause] a major champion while celebrated as one of the scenes greatest underdog stories the major ended in heartbreaking fashion for the European super team and as the Sun set on Boston it was back to the drawing board for phase their heartbreaking loss aside the phase Olaf experiment was by no means seen as a failure they had a great showing at the major and were still counterstrikes darlings in the minds of many but what would transpire in the coming months would not bode well for them phase chained their second place finish with yet another runner-up spot at IEM katowice they were then dispatched in the quarterfinals of 2018 second major where they watched astralis become the dynasty team they'd hoped to be [Music] [Applause] in the wake of the London major phase and Olaf had fallen from a consensus contender to a team with a lot of question marks in December the team decided to bench a longtime in-game leader Kerrigan after Nikko took over the IGF responsibilities no matter what happens with phase and olofmeister in 2019 one thing is certain he will retire as one of the single greatest players in the game's history no one will ever forget olaf on fire the infamous olaf boost the major titles and his ability to transcend controversy and never back down from competition but there's another story to be told if faze can flip the script in 2019 if olaf is able to rebound and challenge astralis on the major stage of god of counter-strike will rise again and that's what makes Olaf's career just so amazing with every blow he finds a way to bounce back with even more ferocity olofmeister has redefined what it means to be great because even when the crowd roared for him to fail he was merely fueled by the adversity and in 2019 olaf is the underdog once again [Music] thanks for watching if you want more great content just like this be sure to hit the subscribe button [Music]

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Length: 31min 1sec (1861 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 26 2019