![]() ![]() He will sacrifice himself, taking on a death with no hesitation in order to juke or fake rush a bomb site.ĭespite the fact that summit1g was thrust into the event, his fearlessness in playing in one of the biggest tournaments of the year with little training time, is a showcase of his warrior mentality. Summit1g takes on a humble approach, doing exactly what is asked of him by the in-game captain. If you look at the landscape of professional team sports today, you consistently see roster shuffles and moves. In fact, summit1g is much more than his numbers. We can all agree that summit1g played poorly in terms of his statistics, as his overall 32-65 K/D (kill/death ratio) was no doubt poor, but is that metric the only view in evaluating player performance? No. He'll be great at whatever he dedicates himself to fully." James O'Connor, former Team Liquid coach and observer of the fateful match, echoed the same sentiment, "If he's a true pro - which I believe him to be - he'll understand that everyone makes mistakes, but the top players have short memories. If competitive Counter-Strike is something he wants to put time into, I guarantee he can and will succeed." "You can tell he wants nothing more than to win, which showed in game with the non-stop selfless plays that put us in round-winning positions. He was great to play with - both in game and out of game," he said. If you listened to his coach and teammate, arya, it's clear the loss didn't stand on the shoulders of one player. Would summit1g become the Bill Buckner or the Kaelin Clay of the CS:GO world? Not according to his Splyce teammates and other professional CS:GO players and coaches. People always ask me what the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me was. I've already been getting sh-t about it like crazy." ![]() "I knew it was going to be bad for the next couple of months. "I was going to take crap over the internet - through reddit, through all these news places," he said. Everything he does is amplified and scrutinized. One of the problems for summit1g is that he is one of the most popular Twitch streamers in the world with over 1.3 million followers and 8,000 subscribers. I didn't play very well and it was my fault we lost the match." Summit1g, in obvious distress, would blame himself solely for the loss, "I am not looking to make any excuses. Splyce would drop the next map 10-16, and be eliminated from the tournament. CLG would win the first map 19-16 in this best of three series. The round wasn't close, as Counter Logic Gaming dominated and sent the game to overtime. Both teams would go all in with rifles, except Arya "arya" Heckmat, who would use a shotgun. With just a couple of pistols and a tec-9 against an AK-47 lineup, Splyce fought hard, but eventually lost the round. It would then go into an eco-round at 15-13. Splyce, having just completed a buyout round, had to change to pistols at 15-12, and lost the round. Sol Neelman for ESPN.Īfter what some would call the biggest mistake in CS:GO tournament history, Splyce would still have four rounds to take the map. Spectators erupt during action in the CS:GO tournament. Unfortunately, it had spread all the way to the left side of the lane and I ran over it and died."Īll this in front of an over-capacity crowd at the Austin Convention Center and over 100,000 Twitch viewers. All I was doing was holding 'w' to go down the lane and I just completely forgot that I had previously thrown the incendiary. I took my eyes off the screen to go up and defuse the bomb. "I had just thrown an incendiary previous to killing the guy and I was in the middle of the two lanes where you move up. "I knew as soon as I heard the audio cue of me taking damage from fire that I was dead," summit1g said. ![]() Coming back to his screen, he looked down and saw his player model face down, burning in the incendiary grenade he had just thrown. As summit1g took a moment to celebrate, he looked to give his teammates some well-deserved high-fives. Up 15-10 after winning an epic one versus one battle, Jaryd "summit1g" Lazar was just a bomb defuse away from winning the game, showing the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive world that he and Splyce Gaming were for real. ![]()
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