Will Falcons S1mple Work?

what happened to the game I love device missing the last three Majors Nico is not even the best player on his team anymore zy wash got eliminated from kavit in last place there's no Canadians at the first CS2 major simple is rifling on vertigo and our new goat is 90 lb of pure steel to understand all of this and whether or not simple will work on Falcons with a rifle we have to know our history and as Hegel famously once said we learn from history that we do not learn from history so let's strap in and go back to where it all [Music] began that's right I tricked you into watching an entire retrospective on simple's entire career because I wanted to take a break from hate week and start love posting about the goat of csgo now that that book is closed and we can no longer go back and rewrite history this will enforce all the correct opinions about what we know about the goat simple okay and it will lead back to Falcons in the end so why don't we start here because the conversation about riflings coming right up so when we talk about simple we talk about the best player in csgo history right get that out of the way for me the main argument besides the fact that he was contending for number one for 5 years and got it three 2018 simple had the goat year okay when we talk about how good zyu was and for those who watching the last few years you've seen simple slowly taper off you've seen zyu reach his Peak extremely fast and stay there and sort of fervently be consistent at the top level in terms of stats now if you took stats away entirely and you just watched the games and you had an experienced eye and you saw simple playing 2018 to now and watch zyu join the fry in 2019 you would see that zyu had the numbers for sure and he also had some big moments but you can't say he had the same takeover the game quality that simple had and when you talk about 2018 the reason that this is a year that Z's never had is because he does that with simple elect RC by his side and then that's it they do this in 2018 when Asus have the most dominant year in history of any team right as are the best team in history in a modern part of the game and are the most dominant in that period they put on the land map streaks they have five players in top 20 for the only time in history they have the best Danish Shopper of all time and they are running through events wow I love glazing simple but I I love glazing simple especially in my boxer movement Club merchandise if you're a fan of KZ you love moving whether it's in real life whether it's in Counter Strike and you've been around since the movie Days hit up your boy on Boxer movement. Club it's time to shower up get some fresh boxer movement Club merchandise oh and lers 10 for 10% off the best CS2 headphones in the market a Zone baby get in the zone so not only does simple have unbelievable dominance in this year he does it literally side by side the same year that the best team of all time exists and are winning every single thing even though those are circumstances that he did not Foster or create the fact that he overcame that is what makes sort of no year that zyu has had comparable I'll say that part is in my opinion what the main argument is for why simple is number one if you take the numbers away or want to say what's beyond numbers and in 2018 he's doing this of course as an oper he's doing this as an oper and he's dominating he's the best oper in the world and he's the best player in the world at the same time but he's rifling too right we all know simple has always sort of rifled somewhat right basically all elite players except ni they can both op and rifle that is quite special to say we can say device simple zyu can all rifle just as well but they op mainly because they're the best oper on the team now we move forward one year to 2019 SAU has his debut year and he is oping and rifling in fact when NAA joins the team he actually drops the op on maps like Inferno he starts playing B with an MP9 on most rounds like he really expresses that he want to be a rifle and so zy would simple have this in common they're not talking out of their asses is when we talk about these players we talk about device device started picking up the op because he was a better oper than fetish who was calling for his team way back in the day he Ops because he's the best player on the team and that's typically what happens you give the best player on your team the strongest gun seems natural right well that's actually exactly what happened to all three of the players that we're talking about today which is simple device and zyu Nico's kind of funny cuz he tried oping and he wasn't good at it still the best rifler of all time all right he just very much special he just put a lot of stat points into that I'm just going to put that out there he is sort of an anomaly for that reason so we have device picking up the op because he's the best player on the team and it's the strongest gun then we have Z doing the same thing and then we have SIMPLE doing the same thing but he's getting frustrated about losing we go into uh 2019 he's got a new mortal enemy in Z who's coming out and about to have the best debut year of all time right getting number one in 2019 now in the middle of this year what some people forgot or maybe weren't around to watch was that Guardian had joined na'vi and when guardian had joined na'vi after Zeus left simple expressed in an interview that he wanted to be a rifler and always has been and he cited the fact that you as a rifler have more freedom you can play around and inside smokes you can use all of your utility and you're more mobile all these things are obviously true if you've ever used a rifle you know that you can kind of change your decision a lot more easily if you're an opera you don't put yourself in closeup combat op situations on purpose unless you're a fool right so the problem for simple when he was playing on na'vi he didn't feel like they could win as much because he was oping he didn't feel like he could take enough control over the rounds the funny part is that we'll find out afterwards he could take more control of the round and he could have more influence on the games on the op just cuz it's the best weapon and there's no real way around it the best player on your team ends up having to op so guardians oping but guardian's way into the second half of his career you know Z simple hasn't experienced this he's just starting to Peak right so he starts rifling and the crazy part about this period is that it's remembered as a period where na'vi won nothing I mean they got last place at Star series they got third place at blast Copenhagen 2019 they got third fourth at pro league finals they got fifth six at epicenter and then that was the end of the season right after epicenter it was December and na'vi made a roster move and they decided to bring bomit in and that's when simple took the op back and now we're into 2020 so in this period I mean you can look at the numbers that'll that'll tell one half of the story there was no blip here like in 2019 simple as the second best player in the world he ends rifling which might be why he gives up the best player in the world to zyu but if we look at his average statistics from these last four events he farmed he played some of his best CS ever and you could see he was just as good at playing with a rifle whether it came to clutching you could see he was way more mobile and using that fact his decision- making only sped up because he could make more he wasn't weighed down by an op in the back hoping that his teammates up front could go ahead and find an entry no instead he was the one who was taking advantage of really high tension moments to make the fastest decisions possible show that he could hit a spray show that he could get a clutch very easily and was really taking to the rifle but the only problem is the team wasn't winning more Guardian was not pulling his weight Guardian was on his way out so here's a period of success for simple where he shows he's literally Elite I mean if you ask Pros today simple would be top five rifle or not in fact a lot of people believe that he would still be able to score top five I don't think anybody is sure that he could be number one that actually sort of lines up with the gun itself right the gun is the most expensive gun in the game it's supposed to be the best gun in the game if it wasn't it would be too expensive so it actually lines up that as CS got harder and we learned that the cost of each weapon was actually pretty legitimate we learned that the best players in the world picking up the up resulted in the best stats over a year it's a One-Shot kill weapon to the body as simple says and actually there's a comment here from 5 years ago where simple says that the op is the easiest gun in the game well it's the easiest when you're the best and I'm I'm piggybacking off of Thor's comments here he used to say this and I thought he was crazy for it but he would say well if the op is so easy then why isn't everyone good with it and I'm like look at all the opers in top 20 but if you look at the elite opers and the ones that have ended up number one you're talking about basically the same players who most people agree would be the best oper not all the opers in history that we think about you know like the jdms or even like the shirros who op most of the time we're not clear if they would be elite with a rifle but again for me if you've watched these videos you know that for me simple zy Nico are on a completely different plane of existence to everyone else those three guys are able to see things that no one else can see execute on them consistently and throughout a year average a rating that most people don't get in a single match in their entire life when we hit 2021 CS in 2020 blew up so there's a lot of people who are watching from 2020 onwards some people who are doing good research and looking back and trying to put the puzzle pieces together as to what the true stories were the people who are around obviously have a more clearer understanding cuz there's so much CS you can't really catch up on all of it but a lot of people want to believe that pgl Stockholm and simple 2021 was the best year of Cs that he ever played but it doesn't outshine 2018 even though he won the major in 2021 2021 was half online half offline it was a major that AP part from na'vi being as dominant as they were was relatively uncontested So Not only was he was on the best team compared to 2018 where he was contending against the best team in the same tournaments to get the best stats and still coming out number one at Stockholm had the best roster he ever had with bit bit was like right behind him in Stockholm in terms of stats so he had a lot more help between him and electronic in 2021 yeah really just felt like half a year when we zoomed out when the year was going on we got to the major we called it the na'vi era I could call it a period at this point you know it was definitely denoted by the fact that na'vi were so dominant but it wasn't long enough it wasn't strong enough and it wasn't against a thick enough field in my opinion to sort of have the same title as era and you want an era to be indisputable all the while by the way Asis are the number one team into 2020 as well and in 2020 I have simple on my list as number one hltv got him is number two but I remember thinking like if you look at the pure numbers yeah you could give it to zou maybe bu a hair if you watched every game would you really feel is I as good as simple yet I didn't think so so I had simple number one 2021 he gets that number one so yeah 21 22 23 we're talking about 3 years where simple is unbelievable with an op and it's long forgotten that he ever even tried to rifle on na'vi back in 2019 it's not even a question of whether he should or not because there's no other oper on the team and he said if there was an op on my team that was better than me I would give it up to them a true oper right again it was established if you're the best player on your team you probably want to be oping that being said the interesting thing about that is that in CS2 people are not sure that an opper is going to be the number one player in the world so 2022 this year is amazing in and of itself and I just want to bring this up because it's truly remarkable the fact that simple could be the number one player in this year because we're talking about simple a Ukrainian his country gets invaded he's removed from his home simple's mom's stuck in Ukraine he says at one point yesterday was my mom's birthday of course she spent it with the lights off I I always say this as a caster and as a personality talking about games everyone's got something going on and not everybody talks about it right but I do also feel as though when we know what's going on and especially when we can compare the magnitude or like how could you just ignore this it's pretty insane that first of all that happens but then also that you know simple who has every excuse in the world to like call a day a day at this point you know give up could somehow you know manage to not be the number one player in the world but he still does he still does and so in some way that is the most incredible thing that we've seen in this game but it's at this point where I'm starting to hear things like simple's not practicing as much sometimes cuz he's not able to you know he's demotivated he's not looking like himself that's not something I I wanted necessar neily get into here but you know we starting to lose I think his Hollywood love for the game that he had and uh I think he's done so much at this point that it's understandable and I mean how long is your Peak going to be at this point I mean he's got competition in zyu but he's already got the chip that he was looking for he's got the multiple number ones now he's got other stuff going on in his life I mean it's our world to deliver narratives and to talk about what's going on but it's also these are people who can quit whenever they want maybe your goal is to literally win a local land like I did once that was my goal as a player right maybe simple's goal was to get the major it wasn't to get all the number one it's hard to sometimes we want to Overlay our goals onto other people's I mean who knows so anyways he has every excuse in the world to to fall off here but he gets the number one in 2022 in 2023 he ends up playing on an international team it's pretty clear he's unhappy I'm just going to put that flat out okay they don't get into the stadium the last major of all time and this is a situation where I'm I was actually insanely disappointed to be honest and simple for not doing this interview you know I was really hard on blame F or device or whoever didn't want to do it for allowing stare to do an exit interview for the first CS2 major and first major inside of Copenhagen in history for awless like their most important major ever and you don't get those guys to do it well that's how I felt when simple did the exit interview at Paris I was like come on man I know like you've got your own [ __ ] this is tough loss like but that's the point people want to hear from you you know as a leader as a veteran as a guy on na'vi carrying the flag for this like legendary organization and I felt like that was cowardly and then later on in the year you know he leaves na'vi and he says he kind of has mixed messaging here it might be out of place for me to postulate as to like what he might be telling the truth about but what it felt like which I guess here's the statement from him that you know he's got other stuff going on and then he wants to take a break from the game also I'll just say that like what I'm about to say could also be true with this I'm looking at this team like I don't know if this is going to work I'm going to be honest that's how I felt okay so I'm guessing or I feel like or I'm projecting that simple also felt similar to that and didn't want to play out the year I personally think that zou was just going at 100 mph on a team that's working simple like CS2 is not looking right for me like he doesn't end up going to Sydney because of some Visa problems then mysteriously leaves the team then says he's open to play on other offers in the future then just comes back to play on the Falcons okay it lines up really well whatever he makes a decision I just wish people would own their decisions if it was going to be the case that he left for a specific reason or he could be honest about it but I understand it could be hard to say like let's say for example he doesn't like the team he thinks they're bad thinks they won't work obviously that's tough so I get it but again I would like the exit interview I would like the honesty I think we all would right and I would like to think that even me who's just drenched in haterade 24/7 literally not showering watching Counterstrike just to tweet hate just to like ruin a player's day at their lowest moment I would like to think that I would be able to make a video like this and show some respect for that kind of honesty and I I really do feel like a lot of us would and I want to encourage that from you know players in general to to always be honest anyways 2024 Falcon simple rolls around and what are falcons well Falcons are a team that was built around Nico actually so I heard that n asked for a million dollars and business class flights to everywhere okay I don't know what is 100% true but this is what I heard listen it's Falcons it's Nico there are players in Esports that are getting paid that much in other Esports a question of too much comes down to how much you got and the super orgs the teams like Falcons who have so much money teams like liquid who have so much money teams like Cloud9 these are super Orcs this is how they referred to they can afford different levels like completely different categories of salaries that others can so I heard he asked for an extreme amount I'm sure it was a combination of the fact that it's Falcons knowing he could ask for a lot and then also the fact that he's Nico and would literally provide the value that that's worth I think it ended up not working out and then what happens is you've got this Chasm on Falcons right you have Snappy who's a tier one igl who almost certainly will be successful he's a perfect guy to grab to build a roster around zic which is an incredible signing zic and snappy is such a fantastic place to build your roster from like I love this from Falcon starting here makes perfect sense but it does gut ends and it creates some crazy offseason obviously and some people are mad about that but in terms of like how you would build this team that is the right place to start the coach and the igl and they're both Elite then you get Magis that's also an unbelievable pickup that makes perfect sense like you're building the perfect team around a star rifler right then you have Sun Pas who comes in as the best Spanish player the oper top six player 2023 Sorry by the way I didn't have him near top six I didn't think he was that I think he had a bad major I think he had some choke events that he has to get over I got him on fraudwatch actually him and nerz he's not simple level I don't have him there yet okay they'll get there eventually they weren't there in 2023 you ask me that's what I'm saying all right anyways and now you have simple coming in because boros was the guy that they used to replace Nico when you think about the roles on this team it it perfectly lines up right you have Mages who's a star ancher who can absolutely get insane like critical rifle kills then you have this other rif part of the rifle Corps which is Madden who you would call a support player But Ken pop off like super good quality knows exactly what Snappy needs from him then you have sunp who's meant to be this Elite Opera then you have their igl of Snappy himself now you need Nico like literally would fit perfectly to round this team out entirely right so you have boros instead and boros he's not an elite Superstar player he had a great major actually up until they got into playoffs had sort of one big choke and then they ended up losing when they they were playing on um Monty anti up and so you've seen that he can be good but he's not really rounding out a team like this like boros has the most insane backup behind him but he also has to be the best player on the team you know he's not going to be better than sunp he's not better than Mages like he doesn't know enough he hasn't done enough like this is kind of like if you put Tweety Bird on the monstar you know what I'm saying and expect the Tweety Bird to carry it's not going to happen it's not going to happen so the inconsistency he stands out they end up cutting him and simple actually is not it's not a joke right getting simple to join Falcons is something that actually fits perfectly he's rifled before he's the best player of csgo History he hasn't really dipped his toes into his CS2 so he could be fully motivated he's putting a lot of his reputation on the line by continuing to play when he could sort of get out before even trying CS go and leave it all to question so he's coming in both as somebody who could reliably be expected to still have a great comeback so right now he's on loan which is kind of funny because Falcons had to pay na'vi for simple for a month probably so they could get some practice games into that's something I didn't say when I made this joke you know I just wanted to tell you guys about how I don't think math is real and then they played one best of three versus metasport and lost so great now we've got simple rifling on a team getting eliminated online and a one best of three from the blast Showdown not having a major to play not sure if the contract will be renewed because now there's no officials to watch him in who knows what Falcons are going to do next and to back to the question of what has happened to the game I love and uh well I think that if this year played out and Falcons kept simple he should be good enough to lead this team to victory in fact besides Nico I might even argue that simple would be the best rifler that you could possibly get to round this team out well you've got someone who was number one a year ago who's still top 10 if he tries who hasn't really tried CS2 like he could just bring it home bro I think he could I think that Falcons will work I just don't know what they're going to play next they're going to miss one major this year like just in terms of his top 20 placings like he's just got such a slow start now but in terms of it test do we think that he would work I mean yeah he would work but this would also be a super team that was in Jeopardy of not being able to meet expectations for the team that he has are they going to meet expectations [ __ ] no right they're not going to just win every tournament in a row I mean I just got fresh off of watching his ass lose to the Swedish Viking gods on metasport so I have no reason to end this on a high high note but I am able to zoom out a little bit put the jokes aside and remember that it all doesn't come to one online best of three okay I'm willing to say that right stop laughing all right and we're all here to laugh at Super teams haha you spent all your money and lost and that's actually fun and I do enjoy that and I might come back to hating one day but for now I'll say Falcon simple has my approval but it will not be a just Hal at the end of the day we are well into the second half of simple's career his stats have tapered off whether he's playing CS2 CS or whatever Plus now he's playing on another International lineup where we don't know exactly how much damage he's going to be able to do half of it comes down to his motivation half of it does come down to his skill and ability and he believes he can do it which is the only way that you ever could but I don't think he's going to pop back up into number one for three more years and it being also unclear whether or not it is truly going to be the rifle that will be number one in CS2 we don't know what's going to happen with the game and if things will level out and if opers will get better so there are way too many questions for me to assume that simple will ever get back to top one I will say never I wouldn't even bet on top five but a lot of that comes down to how well his team is going to be able to play as well but what do you guys think Falcon simple will it work will the rifle work were you watching in 2019 what do you think about how competitive things are right now and uh are you cheering for them or not and do you think that Falcons will be a gal or will be just a disaster

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Published: Tue Mar 12 2024