I don’t watch many Counter-Strike: International Offensive skilled matches or tournaments or no matter, however even I discover Sergey “Ax1Le” Rykhtorov’s wonderful one-shot kill throughout a current CS:GO tourney unimaginable. Actually, even in case you’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 folk watching missed simply how cool it was when it first occurred.
Valve’s wildly widespread tactical shooter CS:GO has been round for some time now first launched all the best way again in 2012. Within the decade since, the sport has solely grown as Valve continues to replace it 12 months after 12 months with new content material. And for many of that decade, Valve’s shooter has been one of the crucial widespread esport video games round. Whereas there exist many CS:GO tournaments, probably the most prestigious and widespread are the Valve-sponsored Main Championships, aka the Majors, which pay out tens of millions in prize cash and are extraordinarily widespread 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 crew member Ax1Le was stalking round bombsite B as a terrorist. All of the sudden, 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 nearly seems he’s taking pictures 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 exhibit simply how unimaginable Ax1Le’s shot actually was, and had each the commentators screaming “What!?” on the identical time.
Positive, he died seconds after making that cool shot, however his crew ended up profitable that spherical of CS:GO, so all of it form of balances out ultimately. And no matter whether or not Cloud9 could make it to the finals—the match remains to be ongoing—he can all the time level to that unimaginable, one-of-a-kind shot and go, “That was me.”
