I don’t watch many Counter Strike Global Offensive professional games or tournaments or whatever, but even I think so Sergei “Ax1Le” Rychtorov‘s amazing one-shot kill during a recent CS:GO Tournament incredible. In fact, even if you’ve never played before CS:GO, it really is something to see… assuming you can see it at all! Ax1Le’s one-shot kill is so fast that most viewers missed just how cool he was when he first performed.
Valve’s hugely popular tactical shooter CS:GO has been around for a while and was first released in 2012. In the decade since then, the game has only grown as Valve updates it with new content year after year. And for most of this decade, Valve’s shooter has been one of the most popular esports games out there. While there are many CS:GO Tournaments, the most prestigious and popular are those sponsored by Valve Major Championships, also known as the Majors, which pay out millions of dollars in prize money and are hugely popular online. And during the last major event, Ax1Le pulled off his ferocious one-shot drop kill.
It happened yesterday during a fifth round match of the IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage on the Mirage map. CS:GO Pro and Cloud9 team member Ax1Le was sneaking around Bomb Site B as a terrorist. Suddenly, he spots two anti-terrorists and does what anyone else would do at that moment: Jump out of a window and perform an impressive one-shot kill in a split second with such a small aim error that on replay it almost looks like he’s shooting through the wall. OK, maybe not something everyone would you…
The moment goes by so quickly that at first the commentators didn’t really know what just happened. But after the round ended, a slow-motion replay helped to better show how incredible Ax1Le’s shot really was and got both commentators screaming “What!?” at the same time.
Sure, he died seconds after that cool shot, but his team won that round CS:GO, so everything evens out in the end. And regardless of whether Cloud9 makes it to the finals – the tournament is still ongoing – he can always point to that incredible, one-of-a-kind shot and say, “That was me.”
