Toxic, Rookie, Champion: How Demon1 Came Out of Nowhere to Conquer Valorant

taking over towards the top side of things in human khaki I want to get a goat I want to be like you know just the best player in everyone's eyes cold-blooded shots better from DG oh my gosh what was that cracked looks for the next Target oh it's gorgeous even one this guy is something else demon one is the best valorant player in the world right now but just two short years ago he was barely playing the game one team took a chance on a toxic rookie and then he made history this position is it more than one but maybe [Music] [Applause] takes him down something's gone enough before my God Beyond even one on the other side Ethan's found mine freak is down to two this could be it another chance it's all over geez [Applause] the haters respect my name best player okay so before we get into it just a friendly reminder that we have a Facebook Clan I know this is a valoran video but there's a good chance that many of you fancy CS as well be sure to check out the link in the description below if you're in need of reliable face it teammates come CS2 all you have to do is join play climb the leaderboards and earn facing points easy okay so demon one if you watched Champions 2023 you know that this kid is absolutely filthy with it what's crazy is that he came out of nowhere and I don't mean that facetiously truly came out of nowhere before he was the terror we all know today demon 1 was an unknown 18 year old who for some indiscernible reason decided to grind Unreal Tournament 4 in the year of Our Lord 2021 for those who don't know ut4 is a difficult prestigious and altogether outdated Masterpiece first released in 2004. that means demon 1 was literally two when it came out so it should come as no surprise that there weren't a lot of people paying attention to this esport and yet for some reason demon one was insane don't get me wrong he dabbled in tax Shooters like CS go and valorant but his competitive Focus lay in Arena titles he was a wildly aggressive Fragger who dominated small Grassroots tournaments got right in his opponent's faces and showed zero respect it wasn't until very early in 2021 that he presumably wisened up thought why the hell am I trying to make it in an arena shooter and like every other up-and-coming North American FPS Savant doubled down on valorent thing is this was a big risk for a player like demon one since its Inception the consensus had been that in order to be great at valorent you needed to have substantial experience in CS go virtually all of the Esports earliest Stars had come up on some version of Counter-Strike demon one was amazing and unreal but there he was a big fish in a small pot now he'd be entering an ocean and the common wisdom was that non-cs kids like him shouldn't really stand the chance but this kid was something special oh my God oh my God the thing about Arena Shooters is that they're extremely aim Centric relying on his already absurd mechanics demon one worked tirelessly to bridge the gap in no time he hit radiant was putting up ungodly numbers in AIM lab and started trouncing the tier 3 scene like [Music] two more and two more towards B iceps but you take it before long demon one had built up a reputation for being very very good like unreasonably good I ran into the demon one the other day in Ran he's really good got good aim what but despite dipping his toes into matchmaking demon one almost never played ranked at least by Pro standards can you explain the rank drama you tweeted about I don't know why people keep calling me a ranked player I have the least hours and the ranks out of any pro I've dedicated my wife for seven months every single day for some reason people say it came from ranked go look at my VOR demon 1 was a gamer in the real sense he lived for competition and it showed nearly every time he entered a match it felt as if he's a Arena experience allowed him to play at a pace that kids who'd come up on tax Shooters just couldn't match because they're in between both sides of the team and Demon with Guardian going crazy there's the 3K oh my God the breach make no mistake demon one knew that he was good and liked to make sure everyone else knew it as well and while that often yielded excellent results sometimes it worked against him yeah just one shout out um yesterday we played sqn 2.0 just want to shout out demon one for uh typing in game to me the whole game it really fired me up to uh come back and win the tournament so appreciate you demon one could have done it without you demon one was the definition of a wild card an unknown quantity nobody had heard of him he'd come from an esport that was way off the beaten path and it wasn't clear that he'd be stable enough to compete at the highest level signing him was a Gamble and only one orc was willing to take it Evil Geniuses were a struggling North American hopeful they'd been ridiculed chastised and everything in between in desperate need of some Flair they held an open tryout the goal was to take a chance on a ranked star but what they found was demon one the EG tweet was open try out fine so I mean he literally just got there because he was insane and you can definitely tell but EG didn't need results eventually they needed results so much so that out of nowhere EG's storied yet oft scrutinized coach Potter made the rather controversial decision to bench bcj and thrust demon 1 into the main roster and over the course of those four months we've seen that demon one had just so much potential his skill ceiling was out of this world um so it was about the right time for us there were several reasons why we did it but the main one being is just we had to see we had to see what we would look like with demon one on the jet roll I won't rehash the entire Affair since we literally just did a video on it but it suffices to say that the decision put a ton of pressure onto Potter and by extension even won people had genuinely no idea whether this kid would be able to perform in tier one and then this happened yes you could be straight off but here's the hit on a 23 seconds what's the headshot from demon one of the song Looking for the flat down demon one it's up to crashes alone with a 4K into the round either way they sound fully gotten out onto the site com getting the opener 13 seconds left they've burned the clock down as demon one gets up high and gets a second oh David one with the third having cut his teeth on Arena Shooters demon one didn't share the same pension for slow methodical play as his contemporaries he'd been waiting for an opportunity to show off his talent and the second he got it he just in sent it right how one enemy he's not done man it's all a setup it's all a setup for the blades there it is [Applause] to say the demon one's rise was meteoric would be a gross understatement at his first ever International land VCT Masters Tokyo he went absolutely ballistic leading Evil Geniuses all the way to the Grand finals let's keep shooting bro it's giving you free kills he's gonna get it down for now closing the Gap though you've got to respect this man a danger through team one is in the server that corner Ethan's gonna trade out Leo it ain't over yet but maybe Chronicle Maybe not maybe it's Stephen won he's got the knives out the 2v2 out for a Chronicle to try and get fnatic across the line oh my God he's trying to save them but it's Alpha up against demon now oh my God oh my God is out of this world despite falling short to fnatic demon one proved that he was the unlikeliest Superstar valorant had ever seen it will definitely be for me individually disappointed if he didn't like improve on top of like the second place and if he didn't win the next event heading into Champions the biggest valorant event of the Year demon one was determined to win it all to show everyone that despite his bristly attitude zany Origins and the fact that it was his rookie year he was the best player alive how long I'm gonna go I want to be like you know just the best player in everyone's eyes that's like my goal by the time every time EG entered champs as the first American Seed topped their group and bested EDG in the first round of the upper bracket they weren't just an underdog they were a Hail Mary a scrappy upstart whose walk had somehow become just as loud and abrasive as their talk he's gonna be getting the call now spotted it this position is it more than one for maybe it's even one it is and with Ethan's HP being lower it's not impossible okay demon one okay the Crowder calling he's got five HP team might be answering one more demon one prowling spotted he's gonna lose one they're letting him do it damn assistant call from the crowd the native Tower showstopper drawn out but they do not suspect it whatsoever but they'll find bustio shutdown is there did demon one with two drops the smoke the spike now stranded in arcade oh look again coming down but he spots the Rays before the bloom swings in the corner and he's on for the ace zest lingering a Bobby spotted that he's got it and then came the reality check and now it's all a demon one but even though he's right at home it feels like he does not have a hope in Hell the first shot across something taken out the operator on the floor but everybody else from paper Rex encroaching on his position swarming him getting in behind the flash across might freak about to swing the corner he does so and he puts him down after losing an excruciate a close Series against PRX in the upper bracket finals EG found themselves on the chopping block for the first time since their Cinderella Story took shape to have a shot at the title EG would need to beat the very roster that bested them back home and almost squashed their hopes to begin with the one team that no one thought they could beat the defending Champions loud but in order for that to happen demon 1 would need to put on the performance of a lifetime so he did literally like Ethan is even one want to fight this oh my God what a shot to open they finally have taken control of Heaven let's just cleared this one out but again time working against him you can start to hear it take it to white face no way David won do asperson Collins even recover a situation like this the first one great maybe two players in a name is the dash upgrade received got a cover note the fire all the way through here back towards Jenny and yeah demon one what is that over the course of loud and EG's full five match barn burner demon one dropped 101 kills the most any player has ever put up in the history of a VCT best of five the backing away round it's crumbling up to two years won't be two two years a 1v1 he gets out he has the Molly to try and lock off Ethan as he would go for this but the Molly's not being invested what a meteoric rise this has been for EG ypt to go from a team that no one expected anything on to making two back-to-back Grand finals appearances heading into their second consecutive Grand Final it felt as if this had to be EG's moment as if the title of best in the world was finally within demon one's grasp towards the top side of things to four oh come on this guy is literally inhuman I don't know what this man is made of you're creeping closer there's nowhere safe in this mind freak with a huge pickup towards Ethan Diva one still standing it's the 1v1 who is it EG ypt pushing ahead now Diva one on the other side Ethan's found mine freak is down to two this could be it another chance for G it's all over [Applause] in just three months demon one went from an open tryout find to a world champion a shit-talking semi-professional up-and-comer to the MVP of the biggest valorent event on the calendar he had put his money where his mouth was and he even said as much was that your motivation the whole time like the moment you got on this team you just want to prove everyone wrong oh yeah the haters respect my name best player like without demon one EG was not gonna be able to do what they did right he was like a diamond in the rough and he came in and he just slaughtered everybody right and while the disheartening news surrounding Evil Geniuses roster situation has certainly put a dampener on all of this it sort of doesn't matter what happens the demon one or where he ends up he didn't the thing that so many players dream of and so few actually achieve from Zero to Hero across this year Lauren what a story for these guys demon one told us from the get-go that his goal was to become the goat and in doing so reminded us all that stardom rarely originates the way you think it will there was a time when we thought we knew who the next world champions of this game were going to be little did we know the world champions We would actually get weren't even competing in Valor yet Superstars can come out of nowhere in fact they often do if one's triumphant rise has taught us anything it's to watch out for the underdogs The Misfits the ones whose claims to Greatness go unnoticed or worse yet aren't taken seriously because more often than not those are the ones who end up changing everything with stars at least the RICO what you might be the best player in the world I do not think people realize how cracked you actually have to be to compete in Arena Shooters playing CS well is hard playing Quake well in other worldly those players don't get the recognition they deserve anyone who knows like real ones see a kid like this come out of out of unreal and it's like not surprising

Channel: theScore esports

Views: 315,229

Keywords: esports, gaming, theScoreesports, thescore, valorant, EG, boostio, demon1, demon1 highlights, potter, potter demon1, Evil Geniuses, demon1 championship, demon1 champions, champions

Id: 6NxJ7-D2NRw

Length: 16min 22sec (982 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 01 2023