Counter-Strike Pro Pulls Off Unbelievable One-Shot Kill In Tourney - Kotaku

I don’t ticker galore Counter-Strike: Global Offensive nonrecreational matches oregon tournaments oregon whatever, but adjacent I find Sergey “Ax1Le” Rykhtorov’s astonishing one-shot termination during a caller CS:GO tourney incredible. In fact, adjacent if you’ve ne'er played CS:GO, it’s truly thing to see…assuming you tin adjacent spot it! Ax1Le’s one-shot termination is truthful accelerated astir folks watching missed conscionable however chill it was erstwhile it archetypal occurred.

Valve’s wildly fashionable tactical shooter CS:GO has been astir for a portion present archetypal released each the mode backmost successful 2012. In the decennary since, the crippled has lone grown arsenic Valve continues to update it twelvemonth aft twelvemonth with caller content. And for astir of that decade, Valve’s shooter has been 1 of the astir fashionable esport games around. While determination beryllium galore CS:GO tournaments, the astir prestigious and fashionable are the Valve-sponsored Major Championships, aka the Majors, which wage retired millions successful prize wealth and are highly fashionable online. And it was during the astir caller Major lawsuit that Ax1Le pulled disconnected his chaotic one-shot driblet kill.

It went down yesterday, during a round-five lucifer of the IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage connected the Mirage map. CS:GO pro and Cloud9 squad subordinate Ax1Le was stalking astir bombsite B arsenic a terrorist. Suddenly, helium spots 2 counter-terrorists and did what anyone other successful that infinitesimal would do: leap retired of a model and propulsion disconnected an impressive, split-second one-shot kill with specified a tiny borderline of purpose mistake that upon replay, it astir appears he’s shooting done the wall. Okay, possibly not thing anyone would do…

The infinitesimal goes by truthful accelerated that initially the commentators weren’t truly definite what conscionable happened. But aft the circular ended, a slow-motion replay helped amended amusement disconnected conscionable however unthinkable Ax1Le’s changeable truly was, and had some the commentators screaming “What!?” astatine the aforesaid time.

Sure, helium died seconds aft making that chill shot, but his squad ended up winning that circular of CS:GO, truthful it each benignant of balances retired successful the end. And careless of whether Cloud9 tin marque it to the finals—the tourney is inactive ongoing—he tin ever constituent to that incredible, one-of-a-kind changeable and go, “That was me.”