I was like... like everyone.
When I went to school, I liked to play football.
When I was 11 years old, I broke my leg.
So I spent much time in front of a computer,
because I've had individual lessons because I couldn't move.
After that, I think, I improved a lot in CS.
It was CS 1.6, but at that time I only knew the basics of CS.
I started watching tournaments when the guys like NEO and kuben were playing.
In 2012, I started playing a bit better CS:GO.
I got the key from the giveaway from Facebook.
And in 2014 I participated in my first LAN.
It was like a LAN with my school friends - we went there and we didn't advance from the group stage.
It was really funny.
After that, I started showing up in online tournaments with my lower-tier teams in Poland.
It was like a ladder, which I started climbing in Poland. Team after team, I was a better player.
Some players have started looking out for me.
I met KubiK, who is an analyst in Virtus.pro now.
So we met each other in 2015.
We played in ALSEN team - a Polish team with young players, and KubiK was the oldest of us.
After that we participated in ESL S - a Polish championship.
We got like top-4 out of like, I don't know, 100 teams overall.
So it was quite a good result. Of course, there wasn't Virtus.pro in there, so you can't call it a good tournament,
but they were the best Polish teams and we got the top-4. After that, I still was climbing the ladder of the Polish teams.
You can name yourself a professional when you have a salary from playing.
I'm 20 right now, but the first salary I got I was like 19.
I played CS 1.6 for fun.
I just played on FFA servers, and I liked bh_ and aim_ maps.
But I liked CS:GO from the first touch of the game. It was good for me.
Remember when it was 2012, it was still beta of CS:GO, and I met NEO on the server,
he was playing deathmatch and I wanted to beat him - it was really fun.
He didn't know about me, but for me, he was a legend, so it was cool to play with him.
First, when I heard about CS it was, like, 2009.
I saw a fragmovie of NEO in Pentagram G-Shock,
where he was like moving on Train and killing everybody.
It was the first time [I saw the game] and I think that the person who was my idol in CS overall was NEO.
IEM Katowice in 2014 was the main key for this [game].
The sponsors and people in Poland alike started to take an interest: "A Polish team just won a championship in a computer game!".
It was like... wow.
Many sponsors started to invest in CS:GO in Poland, there was so much young blood.
Before the IEM Katowice, the main game in Poland was, I think, the League of Legends.
Many children were playing League of Legends, but after IEM Katowice it was the boom for CS:GO.
The streamers, YouTubers, players - everything grew up
and it's, I think, in a stable position right now.
I think that in these last 6 months Valve also started taking more interest in CS:GO.
You can see it on their Twitter account - they post there much more than before.
I think that the changes are going in a right direction, but I think that the pistols are OP in this game.
If you were to win the pistol round, it didn't matter - you got 3 free rounds, as it was in CS 1.6.
But you have to win against the force round your opponents are playing now, so it's hard because they have pistols, and sometimes, CZ75 is stronger than AK47, and it's not...
balanced, I think.
When I was joining Virtus.pro, I knew I would be the AWPer.
because if the things would go any other way - "okay, snatchie, you would be the rifler, or a lurker, or a support", I wouldn't have joined.
because I think that I feel the most comfortable when AWPing.
So when I had a message saying that I can still be an AWPer, like in AGO, that was okay for me.
I think I don't feel that pressure I would have felt if I had to change my role.
I really appreciated that pasha can switch from AWPer.
I think that he's as good as AWPer as he's at his role right now.
I think he's a flexible player.
Most valuable training for AWPer is to...
I don't know, play Deathmatch without sounds in-game.
You have to launch music and just try to kill opponents which are on the screen.
So it's making your muscle memory and your reflexes better. I think it's a good way to improve.
As an AWPer, I've always liked FalleN's playstyle,
because he can be aggressive and he can also be passive, and I think that's the best way to help your team,
because if your team needs aggression - "okay I will do it", but if your team doesn't need you to do aggressive plays, you can play passively. It's very cool.
I think that he's one of the best AWPers overall.
But right now I think the best AWPer is dev1ce.
I don't like his style so much, because I think he's more passive than aggressive.
But I think he's the best right now, as an AWPer.
I played against morelz and MICHU many times - I always won against them!
But I wouldn't have any relations [with them]. But now, in Virtus.pro, I think I have a good relationship with both of them.
I'm really impressed by how good they are because they're really good.
I think if we'll train more and we'll get more time for us to prepare to tournaments and do bootcamps, I think we'll do really good.
Bootcamps are much needed in this meta in CS:GO. Every team needs bootcamps to be good.
I think that we also need to do more bootcamps in the future.
We're always trying to communicate with each other, like KubiK or kuben may say:
"snatchie, why did you peek like that? Could you play more passive?".
But it's not like "why did you play like that? Play more passive!", but like "Could you do...".
It's good, because we don't feel more pressure, and we can talk, like:
"I played so aggressively because I knew I had a better position and knew I could eliminate that guy", yeah.
So it's really cool that we're always talking, trying to solve our problems and improve in the game.
Sometimes, I'm too aggressive, but... Aggression is like 50/50 in CS:GO - you can kill, or you can die.
The routine of the player, I think, is the best thing that you can have.
If you lock in your head that you're playing good when
you wake up at 8, eat breakfast, go to the gym, take a shower, then you play Deathmatch, then you play on Official or training with the team,
I think it's the best thing that you can do for yourself.
For me, the best daily routine is when I wake up after 7 hours of sleep.
I'm going to eat a breakfast, I'm going to the gym;
it's not about that you have to do something extreme in the gym,
you can just walk or run with a small tempo for 20 minutes - I think that makes you better in your mind.
After that, I always take a shower and try to play CS:GO.
The last times weren't good for Virtus.pro - it was like dark times.
But I think with the new line-up, with the dedication, the hard work we will come back to be one of the best teams in the world.
I thank you for still cheering for us. Thank you for everything!
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