![]() That weekend we watched the Major, and when it was time for the grand final you could really feel the hype. After yet another game we finished second to last in our group and our run in the tournament came to an abrupt end. ![]() 1-16 was the final score and our dream was crushed. However, that feeling wouldn’t last for long as that was the only round we won in that game. I hid inside the kitchen and managed to remain unseen until the lone counter-terrorist had passed by me.Ī second later I had drawn my knife, secured the round and humiliated him at the same time. My teammates racked up a few quick kills and we found ourselves in a 5-versus-1 situation. We took control over mid and then pressured their defenses from two sides. In the first round we decided to go for a B-split. This time the game was going to be played on Mirage, our strongest map at the time. We were going to face a British team that had travelled all the way to Sweden for this event. I went to his Steam profile and noticed that he averaged just under ten hours (!) per day.įast forward to the next game. After a couple of weeks I noticed that John had started to hit his shots, and that he understood the basics of teamplay and positioning. A nice guy, but he just couldn’t play the game. After a few nights I must admit that I was ready to give up. We had just learned that the bring your own computer tournament was going to serve as a qualifier for a main event that happened to be the first-ever CS:GO Major. If my memory serves me right it was about four months until the event when we started to practice. I had never been to a LAN of that size before so I accepted and we put together a team consisting of friends from the 1.6 days, as well as a friend named John that had never played CS before. After a few months of complaining about the details that separated CS:GO from 1.6 (why would they have firebombs in a Counter-Strike game, I cried) a friend of mine suggested that we attend the upcoming Dreamhack Winter event in Jönköping, Sweden.
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