I don’t watch many Counter-Strike: International Offensive skilled matches or tournaments or no matter, however even I discover Sergey “Ax1Le” Rykhtorov’s superb one-shot kill throughout a current CS:GO tourney unbelievable. In reality, even for those who’ve by no means performed CS:GO, it’s actually one thing to see…assuming you may even see it! Ax1Le’s one-shot kill is so quick most people watching missed simply how cool it was when it first occurred.
Valve’s wildly common tactical shooter CS:GO has been round for some time now first launched all the way in which again in 2012. Within the decade since, the sport has solely grown as Valve continues to replace it yr after yr with new content material. And for many of that decade, Valve’s shooter has been probably the most common esport video games round. Whereas there exist many CS:GO tournaments, essentially the most prestigious and common are the Valve-sponsored Main Championships, aka the Majors, which pay out thousands and thousands in prize cash and are extraordinarily common on-line. And it was throughout the latest Main occasion that Ax1Le pulled off his wild one-shot drop kill.
It went down yesterday, throughout a round-five match of the IEM Rio Main 2022 Challengers Stage on the Mirage map. CS:GO professional and Cloud9 group member Ax1Le was stalking round bombsite B as a terrorist. Instantly, he spots two counter-terrorists and did what anybody else in that second would do: leap out of a window and pull off an impressive, split-second one-shot kill with such a tiny margin of intention error that upon replay, it virtually seems he’s capturing by means of the wall. Okay, perhaps not one thing anybody would do…
The second goes by so quick that originally the commentators weren’t actually positive what simply occurred. However after the spherical ended, a slow-motion replay helped higher showcase simply how unbelievable Ax1Le’s shot actually was, and had each the commentators screaming “What!?” on the similar time.
Positive, he died seconds after making that cool shot, however his group ended up successful that spherical of CS:GO, so all of it type of balances out in the long run. And no matter whether or not Cloud9 could make it to the finals—the event continues to be ongoing—he can all the time level to that unbelievable, one-of-a-kind shot and go, “That was me.”