kennyS’s prime as a player has transcended history and become legend at this point in time.
More than four and a half years into the past, the French then 19 year old French AWP prodigy displayed the highest skill ceiling and performance peak Counter-Strike: Global Offensive had ever witnessed. A seemingly impossible degree of excellence and consistency that spanned four offline tournaments and numerous online cups, leagues and qualifiers.
Infamously, this peak came with kennyS’ Titan team hamstrung and thus he was the first “best player in the world” the game had seen who lacked the help to win trophies. Yet he dominated individually nonetheless. Given all the resources, he made magic with them and defied all expectations and principles of role balance.
Nobody could play kennyS’ style to the effective level he manifested and nobody could play against kennyS at the time. The mighty pronax led FNATIC, now enshrined as one of the greatest teams ever and at the time the consensus best, took numerous losses as a result of outrageous kennyS performances.
Not until NiKo’s emergence in mousesports in 2016 did another player work with as little and yet stake a claim to being the best.
Not until s1mple’s prime in Na`Vi, three years later, was anyone able to hit a peak of skill and performance comparable or better.
This was a run of form that stretched the boundaries of what was possible from not just an AWPer but any player in any role on any team. A black hole of excellence that sucked all eyes in towards the singularity of one young man’s unquenchable fire to win no matter the odds. His flick shot was art. His movement poetic. His confidence unbreakable.
For an almost four month span the answer to the question “what does it take to be the best Counter-Strike player” was simply and solely “kennyS”. Nobody else stood a chance. To this day, the echoes of this 19 year old sniping maestro’s impact ripples through the passing years of history.
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