It’s scary to think, but very soon seven years will come when the first major in CS: GO – DreamHack Winter 2013 has passed. The tournament is so old that we don’t even have its report! Became a champion Fnatic, and not all of her players are now continuing their career in Counter-Strike. Cybersport.ru tells what the members of that roster are doing.
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What is remarkable about the tournament?
At the dawn of Valve’s CS: GO, it was important to draw the attention of the audience to the shooter. The fact is that many e-sportsmen did not like the game mechanics of Global Offensive, and they reluctantly moved to a new discipline. Two key decisions of the company have changed the situation: the first is to add skins and cases to the shooter, the second is to financially support tournament operators.
The fact is that in the early years of CS: GO, the prize pools of the championships usually did not exceed $ 40 thousand, but at DreamHack Winter 2013 the teams played six times as much – huge at that time $ 250 thousand. appeared on the winter DreamHack.
The tournament also had a rather slurred format. The championship took only three days, and some teams had to play the decisive matches of the group stage, and then immediately start the fight in the playoffs.
The composition of the participants at the tournament was very impressive. Here and not yet banned iBUYPOWER Esports and KQLY, and SK Gaming with Delpan, and Natus vincere with kibaken, and not yet signed Virtus.pro Poles from Universal Soldiers, and the notorious Astana Dragons. The best among all was Fnatic.
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That same Fnatic; Photo: Rikard Söderberg / DreamHack
Jesper JW Bills and Robin Flusha Ronkvest:
Usually third to JW and flusha are credited KRiMZhowever, in 2013, the latter still favored LGB eSports together with dennis and olofmeister. The duo of JW and flusha played a key role in the success of that Fnatic.
As admitted after the tournament pronax and devilwalk, the team from strength had one or two strategies on each map: the team played very simply, but efficiently. The lion’s share of the success of that line-up is the merit of JW (as a result of which he received the MVP medal) and flusha, who played well throughout the tournament. And I must say that since then, little has changed.
Both esportsmen eventually became three-time champions of majors and now continue to perform at the highest level. The duo still represents Fnatic (although for a short while went into Godsent), which holds the second place in the ranking of HLTV.org. Esportsmen do not like to give out interviews and prefer to stay in the shadow of the media, but they do not become less legendary from this. It is likely that in a couple of years these two will become the same role models as in their time GeT_RiGhT and f0rest.
Andreas Znajder Lindbergh
Despite the merits of JW and flusha, it would be unfair to say nothing about znajder, because he performed at DreamHack Winter 2013 no worse (and in some matches better) teammates. However, as time has shown, znajder did not become for JW and flusha what KRiMZ eventually became.
The e-sports story of znajder is quite tragic. Six months after winning DreamHack Winter, the Fnatic team reshuffled. Olofmeister and KRiMZ joined the team, devilwalk moved to the slot of the coach, and znajder was out of work – he simply could not find a place in the team. And this hit the player psychologically, since then he has not reached the heights of CS.
Here is how the player himself recalls the kick from Fnatic:
“I am very surprised and disappointed. But disappointed not in the sense you might think. The thought, which does not give me peace for a minute, is not about being kicked and my playing career is most likely over, but rather about how it all happened. ”
They excluded znajder from Fnatic not very beautifully: flusha and pronax did not even say goodbye to him. The Swede was also confronted with the personal problems of the Swede: a girl broke up with him, whom he had met for 2.5 years, and then he got addicted to drugs. After this, the esportsman’s career went downhill.
But now, it seems, everything is getting better with znajder! He no longer dreams of a successful career in Counter-Strike, but the Swede took up himself, seriously pumped up, and even began to work as a model:
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And Lindbergh was very fascinated by the Rocket League, from which he actively shares in the social networks. Who knows, maybe we will see the first transit of a pro player from CS: GO not to Valorant, but to racing football from Psyonix.
Jonathan Devilwalk Lundberg
To be honest: devilwalk has always been a fairly average player, but he managed to make an extremely successful career in CS: GO.
After winning DreamHack Winter 2013, the player was very excited: in an interview Tomy lurppis covanenu He stated that this was his first major success in his gaming career. And as it turned out, the latter.
Six months after the championship, Fnatic changed the composition, and devilwalk moved to the position of coach of the team. What is noteworthy, the Swede is the only cybersportsman in the world who won the major both as a player and as a coach.
After leaving Fnatic, Lundberg decided to play again, but to no avail: he changed many teams, but did not achieve any significant success. Devilwalk is training now Godsentrun by the last Fnatic member to be discussed.
Marcus pronax Walsten
At one time, pronax was, if not the best, then definitely the most successful captain in CS: GO. It was he who led Fnatic to three major championships. And although it is generally accepted that the team did a lot thanks to the individual skill, after leaving pronax the Fnatic majors no longer won.
At the end of 2015, the backbone of Fnatic decided that pronax was no longer needed by the team, and Walsten decided to create his own team, now known as GODSENT. Until 2019, pronax unsuccessfully continued his gaming career, but in the end decided to focus on management. And I must admit, while he is doing pretty well.
In 2019, GODSENT merged with another Swedish organization – The final tribe, and the club’s affairs gradually began to improve. Now GODSENT, although it occupies only 31st place in the HLTV.org rating, the club’s composition is very promising: if the team finds a new, more powerful captain than kRYSTAL, then, it is likely to be able to fight for the highest places in tournaments. Well, pronax seems to take great pleasure in his new job in eSports.
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