Top 10 Finnish players of all time
Here's my top 10 Finnish CS players of all time:

If you wanna read my reasoning for why I picked each and ranked them in that position then you can in these artices:

http://www.fragbite.se/?blogID=9&postID=265 (#10-#6)
http://www.fragbite.se/?blogID=9&postID=268 (#5-#1)

1.ruuit
2.naSu
3.plastE
4.contE
5.lurppis
6.natu
7.coali
8.mysse
9.tico
10.zet0r

Who would make it into your top 10 and where would you rank them? Who would you add or remove?
(298 replies)
Created 2012-05-25 17:45 by: Thooorin
nice to see e.zet0r remembered once in a while :)

im far from being finnish, but i really liked bloodR playstile

mysse was also great back in the day

diGital was finnish also? i really don't remember if he was finnish or norwegian, one really tall guy, always had some crazy style in his hair haha

Post edited 2012-05-25 17:49:29
2012-05-25 17:48:32
diGi was finnish and he played with the best of and sweden. I think he's the only fin who ever played for fnatic (or the only foreigner for that matter, not at all sure)
2012-05-25 18:29:31
by: teco
#30
Yeah it's sad how everyone forgets bloodR since he was always carrying his team by himself and doing unbelievable performance. Too bad he didn't get a chance to play with better and more hard working teams.
2012-05-25 19:38:50
bloodReign <3
2012-05-26 01:28:36
indeed
2012-05-26 05:23:55
Would place lurppis higher, even though he's not nearly as good fragger as the 4 guys above him, he's still been leading the number 1 Finnish team for years. Would also replace some of those oldschool players with newer stars, for example aslak (and BASiC) should definitely be on the list. However, great job, it's nice to read about Finnish CS.
2012-05-25 17:52:52
i don't really know if he listed the guys from 1 to 10 regarding skill or just to make a list of 10.

lurppis IS one of the most important figures regarding finnish gaming scene, i mean, he has always been consistent, mature and evertytime he wrote some article, he managed to get most people owned.

apart from the fact that he has being carrying most of his teams, not by topfragging, but by adding experience, respect and for what i've been able to read in messagemode1 (say_team) in EG demos (i say EG demos cause i do understand english, but when he played for finnish teams i didn't understood a piece of word of what i could read haha), he always has a possitive attitude towards his teammates.

Post edited 2012-05-25 18:11:07
2012-05-25 18:10:07
Nice fake account lurppis...
2012-05-25 22:14:04
haha :D
2013-02-26 15:16:30
SpikeOne ?
2012-05-25 17:53:29
definitely not in top10
2012-05-25 18:10:04
I advise u to check his oldschool povs.
2012-05-25 18:20:31
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#15
i played with and against him before, during and after his prime - he was good, but he is not top10 of all time in finland by any means.
2012-05-25 18:33:18
YAY lurppis replied me
2012-05-25 18:34:25
:D
2012-05-25 18:36:35
lol
2012-05-25 23:35:04
LoLed, literally.
2012-05-28 09:20:57
HAHAHA made my day <.<
2012-05-29 01:05:26
what about tihop? should take a spot before tizo and zet0r atleast? :)
2012-05-25 19:31:40
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#27
tico and zet0r were really really good at some point, tihop was may be the third best player of bad finnish teams that never broke top8 abroad and then for a brief six month stint the worst player in roccat team that got good placings. i don't see anything in his resume that warrants a place anywhere near that list.
2012-05-25 19:36:10
Aight, finnish scene has been so strange, so many talented players and teams but only one at a time :p

One of my best friends, a finnish guy, hated it so much when you swapped the good names (D-sky, Wings etc) for Serious Gaming =D

Hohoho, good old times! :D
2012-05-25 19:49:31
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#37
cool team names don't pay for flights ^^
2012-05-25 19:57:57
of course not, we just teased him for it since he disliked it so much :p
2012-05-25 20:11:02
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#42
we actually tried to get bas (the owner of serious gaming) to agree to let us team be called serious.wings or something but no dice :P

Post edited 2012-05-25 20:15:13
2012-05-25 20:15:05
haha, sad story ;)
2012-05-25 21:32:24
what about CrackClan? :DD
2012-05-27 00:29:10
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#205
crack clan and power gaming were both names decided by investors behind both, we had nothing to do with either name
2012-05-27 00:40:11
whats with freon??? very good player
should be in top5 atleast
2012-05-26 23:35:40
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#200
nice troll, not buying it
2012-05-27 00:29:20
meh, too obvious eh :D
2012-05-27 00:39:17
Lurppis aren't you forgetting gameplay and power gaming?

- 5th ESL Global Challenge, Los Angeles (Gameplay)
- 3rd ESL Global Challenge, Dubai (Gameplay)
- 5th WCG 2008, Cologne (Gameplay)


- 5th World Cyber Games 2009, Chengdu
(PowerGaming)
- 2nd World E-sport Masters 2009, Hangzhou (PowerGaming)
- 1st WCG National Qualifier 2010 Helsinki (PowerGaming)
- 3rd SEC 2010 Berlin (PowerGaming)
- 5th DSRack Copenhagen (PowerGaming)
- 7th World E-sport Masters 2010 Hangzhou (PowerGaming)
2012-05-27 00:04:29
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#203
like i said, for brief six months in 2008 he was the worst player in roccat/gameplay with good placings (example: http://www.hltv.org/?pageid=181&eventid=265)

after that they got one legit good placing (2nd at wem 09) but he wasn't one of the main players for that team. the best team they beat at wcg, sec, dsrack and wem 2010 combined was esahara or some other bad friends team at sec.
2012-05-27 00:35:01
Can you fix the link because it only shows empty page for me? :D
2012-05-27 01:14:21
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#209
just remove the bracket at the end of the link after clicking it
2012-05-27 01:15:02
Well he played pretty well there. He took some important rounds vs SK on train. (especially 1on2 awp clutch vs tentpole and robban on inner plant). He didn't get much ecofrags though. :)

Post edited 2012-05-27 01:23:16
2012-05-27 01:21:21
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#213
i'm sure he played ok, but he just had four teammates that were significantly better and more important to the team's success
2012-05-27 01:22:27
where do u see aslak in near future?
2012-05-28 06:59:16
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#244
school and army
2012-05-28 13:44:06
-.-
very sad for him
2012-05-28 15:28:19
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#247
he can postpone army if he wants to (he's set to start in january) but i doubt he will, he was already going to quit cs at the end of 2011 until he found out we were gonna start getting salary and he magically came back
2012-05-28 15:35:50
he can only postpone it but cant skip it right?

Post edited 2012-05-28 18:36:05
2012-05-28 18:35:31
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#259
yes
2012-05-28 19:24:47
Tomi come back to cs, don't let finnish CS die! Maybe there's a way to talk nasu and aslask into keep playing cs...It's so sad to watch such amazing and top players like you being inactive :( you're a great igl and I'm so sure your team'd have good chances to be top3!
2012-05-28 21:08:45
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#276
i'm sure aslak still wants to play if there was just a team good enough to compete with. i'm gonna be abroad until early july so cs is out of the question for the next five weeks at least, and after that unless something unexpected happens :P i might still play at gamegune though
2012-05-28 22:21:46
I hope to see you at gamegune :)
2012-05-29 09:26:08
-1000000000000
2012-05-26 01:31:24
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#125
yes, of course you know better from hltv than me from playing with/against him, never mind my comment!
2012-05-26 03:17:33
lurppis, u are not even top 20
2012-05-26 17:18:02
spikeone was better than you lurppis
2012-05-26 19:45:18
tbh more better ;) very underrated player
2012-05-26 19:58:17
why no kammyz in top10? tomi did you ever play with him?
2012-05-28 21:03:39
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#268
alkaa olee aika väsynyttä
2012-05-28 21:06:44
by: Jonathan E. - HLTV.org
#279
English only please. Thank you.
2012-05-28 23:42:41
lol >.>
2012-05-29 01:09:16
need tihop on that list =D
2012-05-25 18:11:37
+1
2012-05-25 18:30:00
A good list Thorin! My list would look a bit different but yours is great too, I'm actually surprised how much I can agree on that, since it's nearly impossible to rank top10 from over a 10-year-long period
2012-05-25 18:12:43
Imo bloodR was better than coali or mysse. mysse did achieve second place in CPL tho, but what comes to individual skill bloodR was veryvery good.

So: -coali, -mysse and +bloodR +digital would be my top 10
2012-05-25 18:18:34
by: teco
#28
Yeah bloodR was fcking awesome player back then. I paste my post here which I posted on lurppis' fb:

Weird that thorin didn't rank bloodR to top10. I mean, his teams didn't have huge success, but bloodR was always carrying his team by himself and doing some incredible performance. Also, he was a very clutch player. If bloodR would have got a chance to play for a better and more "hard working" team, he could have done much more damage to the most known players and therefore ranked a lot higher than people did. He's one of the most forgotten and underrated players in CS history imo.
2012-05-25 19:36:20
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#46
My response:

Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen: you're 110% wrong, bloodR is one of the most overrated players that ever played in Finland, mostly because of his movies. He was not the best player in astralis (Guardian was) and if he was even the second best, he would have been recruited into D-Sky when they took in tihOp & Guardian in 2004. there's a reason he always flunked with tihOp in astralis, while others succeeded. He NEVER carried astralis, not even close.
44 minutes ago · Like

Teemu Takamäki I don't decide how good a player is by watching his movie(s). I've watched every of his demos I've found on internet and I can say that in every fking demo he did the best job of his team and keeped them alive. For example CPL Winter 2004 Astralis vs Alternate in inferno he took 26 frags eventhought astralis lost 12 to 16. That's a good example of him carrying his team and how bad teammates he had.
38 minutes ago · Like

Tomi "lurppis" Kovanen It's funny you mention that demo, because it's sort of like a running joke among the older Finnish scene how bloodR got a vast majority of his frags in that demo: by saving his gun.

Being the best player on a team that never broke top4 and hardly ever placed top8 anywhere internationally means basically nothing, it means he was as good as foxj from k1ck who scored the occasional highlight.
2012-05-25 20:25:54
by: teco
#48
:D Yeah, I still don't eat my words. :)
2012-05-25 20:30:05
Wait for the portuguese people after mentioning fox.
2012-05-25 22:04:21
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#85
it wasn't really an insult though, fox isn't a bad player, just overrated
2012-05-25 22:06:56
They are gonna take that sooo wrong :P
2012-05-26 20:33:36
haha someone link portuguese people on that comment please, i want more lurppis vs portugal :D
2012-05-26 22:03:09
Hahahahahaha XD
2012-05-26 22:04:40
Ain't gonna happen :D
2012-05-28 16:01:00
i don't think he's overrated, i think that idea comes from all the comments in this website, but that's understandable imo, it's the best player in our country, so we tend to be a little bit "fan boys", since we pretty much suck at everything else.
2012-05-27 02:40:08
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#225
it's fine to say he's good and even exaggerate a little sometimes because everyone does it, but i've seen portuguese people saying stuff like he would be on sk if he was just swedish etc which is a little too far out there :D
2012-05-27 03:14:04
haha yea =)
2012-05-27 14:00:25
by: teco
#92
hahaha
2012-05-25 22:32:20
+1, teco dreaming
2012-05-26 01:59:42
"If bloodR would have got a chance to play for a better and more "hard working" team, he could have done much more damage to the most known players and therefore ranked a lot higher than people did."

My list is based on what actually happened, not speculations on what might have happened :)
2012-05-25 23:08:50
Seems like you took my speculation as an insult. No, it wasn't an insult.
2012-05-25 23:31:15
Not at all, I'm just making it known that I base my rankings on what actually occured. I don't take into account what could/should/would have happened if things had gone differently, because there's no way to know regardless.

It could be fun to make a "Top 10 players who could have been the great Finnish CS players of all time" list, but this isn't it :)
2012-05-25 23:54:40
More like "Top 10 Finnish CS players with highest individual skill"
2012-05-25 23:57:35
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#128
scoring exit frags does not require individual skill... and neither does making cs movies

Post edited 2012-05-26 04:18:00
2012-05-26 04:09:03
Editing requires individual skill ;)
2012-05-26 21:33:46
When I read your comments I immagine your voice reading it. Damn, I watched too many fresh pots.

Post edited 2012-05-26 18:09:55
2012-05-26 18:09:36
bloodR > aladdin > kontio
2012-05-29 12:30:45
jigetus?
2012-05-25 18:19:55
"of all time"

He's too young.
2012-05-26 18:12:29
what a fucking retarded
2012-05-26 20:27:25
he might be young but he's been in pro community for over 3 years kiddo thats enough time.
2012-05-26 20:29:01
funny how everyone says kiddo now when they are max 18 y/o
2012-05-28 21:28:10
hahahahaha
2012-05-28 18:41:35
?
2012-05-28 19:16:06
SPIKEONE #1
2012-05-25 18:25:22
1.naSu
2.ruuit
3.plastE
4.contE
5.lurppis
6.natu
7.tihOp
8.aslak
9.jigetus
10.diGi
2012-05-25 18:31:32
aslak? :-(
2012-05-25 18:38:12
No aslak means u were high on nostalgia while writing this LOL
2012-05-25 19:10:34
top 10 player of all the time, not of the last year
2012-05-25 19:22:15
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#43
he's really good but his active career while playing well lasted 8 motnhs, this is for 10 years. doesn't deserve a spot on an all-time list.
2012-05-25 20:21:59
give us your ten please :) and yes you may include yourselve ofcourse ;D
2012-05-26 18:27:24
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#161
copy/pasted from the bottom, again:

"i haven't been around long enough to make one but i assume this one is pretty good, although personally i'd switch a few players around in placings. i think the top6 is definitely made out of the correct players though, which is the most important part (i say top6 because i'm the most familiar with them, after that it's out of my expertise)."
2012-05-26 18:51:48
Sorry later on i found your post :p
2012-05-26 20:41:09
jigetus, aslak, basic?
2012-05-25 19:15:19
jigetus and aslak are monsters, tihop was also great :<
2012-05-25 19:18:10
natu
lurppis
naSu
ruuit
contE
plastE
2012-05-25 19:19:53
conte
ruuit
plaste
nasu
lurppis
tihOp
jigetus
aslak
basic
h^n
2012-05-25 19:27:53
Totally agree with Nasu 2nd and Ruuit 1st but I think Lurppis needs 3rd because he has being able to go USA to play this game and he is IGL in all finnish pro teams. I think this list was made mostly because invidual skill?

I think people think old generation too much so they forgot the new players, Aslak should be somewhere in the list.
2012-05-25 19:36:24
KuviCk, GuA, dooberi, myssE, diGitaL

EDIT: barrack and kuppi too :0)

"If you wanna read my reasoning for why I picked each and ranked them in that position then look no further then lurppis:"

Post edited 2012-05-25 19:52:48
2012-05-25 19:41:17
aslak/allu/basic better then lurppis any time.
2012-05-25 19:51:26
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#45
+1 digifest solaris proved how amazing the trio was before winfakt</troll>

Post edited 2012-05-25 20:23:38
2012-05-25 20:22:54
by: teco
#50
xD
2012-05-25 20:30:58
Oh my god... That that stupid Martin's event.. OMG yes it was so good right? They owned ... Probably you were best against Estonians. Wannabe troll?
2012-05-25 20:34:52
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#55
http://www.hltv.org/?pageid=188&matchid=6329&a..
http://www.hltv.org/?pageid=188&matchid=6326&a..

and that was with our team that consisted of five players past their prime, four of them after 6-12 months out of cs for army and me after a few months break :D

Post edited 2012-05-25 20:41:18
2012-05-25 20:36:48
But yet you ain't better then them... allu seriously stepped up his game after joining WinFakt and it can be seen very well... aslak has his good/bad times but you don't :D:D naSu might be your brother and shit, might have learned a lot from you .. from your experience, but yet you ain't better! :D
2012-05-25 20:53:56
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#59
if you're going to compare me way past the prime of my career, you should probably compare me to them past the prime of their career too (which lasted about 3 months for allu, 8 months for aslak). enough said i think ))

this is a ranking of all time, not the past 3 months, in case you missed it
2012-05-25 20:59:02
Na I am talking about since WinFakt only :) I have never heard of you before WinFakt, same with them, you're a cool russian))
You'll be able to farm twice as much.
2012-05-25 21:43:43
EG lurppis bro..means you don't know shit about 1.6 teams'n'players
2012-05-25 21:51:47
Yeah I know that he played there... I didn't watch CS competitively when he was there.
2012-05-25 21:59:28
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#82
even since winfakt i've had better tournament performances than allu, although my motivation went to shit after eswc and since the i played really average.

aslak was destined to be the best player in our team no matter what because of the role he was given, if we gave nasu his roles (not exact since aslak is an awper) he would have been the best player in our team.

i guess the way you compare players then is steve yzerman in his last season vs sidney crosby in his prime? :D makes sense

))))
2012-05-25 22:02:37
na
2012-05-27 02:03:30
You conveniently forgot this one : http://www.hltv.org/?pageid=188&matchid=6149&a..
2012-05-25 22:25:42
that was online
2012-05-25 22:43:59
different awper in a different map ;)
2012-05-26 04:05:08
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#131
more importantly, online > lan. hi aslak, finally found your new fake account :D
2012-05-26 04:20:34
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#130
oh i definitely should have focused on the meaningless online match! my bad!
2012-05-26 04:18:47
conte, spikeone
2012-05-25 19:52:21
tihop was beast..
2012-05-25 19:52:29
so much nostalgia that i had to watch this again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9-pikLfdsI&fea.. !! even though none of them made Thorin's list
2012-05-25 19:58:33
TIHOP SHOULD BE TOP 4...
2012-05-25 20:13:08
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#44
based on what? :D
2012-05-25 20:22:14
no offence mate but you disagree of all user`s opinions.You are a great player , you deserve the spot on that list , but can you tell usyour objective top 10 finnish players of all time?
2012-05-25 20:35:46
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#56
c/p:d from the bottom:

i haven't been around long enough to make one but i assume this one is pretty good, although personally i'd switch a few players around in placings. i think the top6 is definitely made out of the correct players though, which is the most important part (i say top6 because i'm the most familiar with them, after that it's out of my expertise).
2012-05-25 20:38:48
SpikeOne #1
2012-05-25 20:14:47
tihop???? he was insane?!
2012-05-25 20:27:55
wait... were is aslak and BASiC?

2012-05-25 20:30:23
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#63
both of them have a career that's about 8 months long at the top, nowhere near enough to be considered for an all time list
2012-05-25 21:19:58
Who's your top 10 lurppis?
2012-05-25 20:31:01
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#52
i haven't been around long enough to make one but i assume this one is pretty good, although personally i'd switch a few players around in placings. i think the top6 is definitely made out of the correct players though, which is the most important part (i say top6 because i'm the most familiar with them, after that it's out of my expertise).
2012-05-25 20:33:03
what about Shiri! -- i remember him owning those walls on d2 vs NoA? and vs Nip on train, back in 2006
or barrack?!

Post edited 2012-05-25 20:47:36
2012-05-25 20:44:36
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#64
shiri was good, but not all time top10 good. barrack would have been closer and could have made the list for sure, if he didn't quit for wow only to come back in bad form.
2012-05-25 21:20:42
barrack definitely was a talented player, too bad he didn't play longer
2012-05-25 21:30:35
Shiri wasn't even the best player in his family, yet you want him in the top 10 Finnish players of all time? =]
2012-05-25 23:22:28
Who was his talented brother ?
2012-05-26 18:17:07
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#254
barrack
2012-05-28 18:25:23
try and make a realistic swedish top10 that would be difficult :P
2012-05-25 21:10:19
Umm...I think Finnish much harder to make
2012-05-25 21:18:07
disagree in finlad you have 15-20 pro players that only the 10-12 made a pro career and achieved something in sweden you have players from 2001- today that keep on winning everything! who would you include? i can thing of at least 25 top10 players ahahha
2012-05-25 21:27:11
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#71
by default you can't list 25 top10 players because there are only 10 :P but you do have a point, making a list for sweden would be tough but i think thorin plans on doing it anyways, looking forward to the reasoning behind it.
2012-05-25 21:31:51
you know how i said it :P 25 players that could be in top10..anyways i have my swedish list and i think it is balanced but i had to be unjust with some swedish guys :P
2012-05-25 21:55:51
swedish would be impossible :D
2012-05-25 21:31:16
by: teco
#84
1. SpawN
2. f0rest
3. Potti
4. zet
5. GeT_RiGht
6. HeatoN
7. Tentpole
8. walle
9. fisker
10. ahl
2012-05-25 22:05:15
No cArn and SpawN over f0rest :D? Nah..
2012-05-25 23:22:58
Why would I place cArn there? His teams succeed well, but cArn was always the worst player in his teams when it comes to individual skill, at least in fnatic it was so. My list is about achievements and individual skills combined.

EDIT: And whats wrong at ranking SpawN over f0rest?

Post edited 2012-05-25 23:36:18
2012-05-25 23:33:20
f0rest is by far the best Swedish player of all time and he has played on the highest level longer than SpawN did I think - not going to check it right now, but I am sure most people would rank him top 2 of all time.

With regards to cArn, he has been an amazing leader for a very long time and achieved more than most, skill in CS isn't just about fragging - leading people is a skill aswell.

Post edited 2012-05-26 02:01:22
2012-05-26 01:58:27
i would put heaton no1 and potti no2..i think those two players shouldnt be taken off first two spots in every's ,above average iq, man list on earth :)...first of all i think potti is still the player with most titles and also he and heaton taught how cs should be played at every player on this planet :D
2012-05-26 02:57:31
They're certeinly pioneers, but not the best of all time.
2012-05-26 18:47:05
i didnt say that heaton and potti are more skilled than gtr and forest but if it wasnt for them cs wouldnt be like we know it today
2012-05-26 19:42:42
That's what you call a pioneer.
2012-05-26 19:47:49
creating something out of nothing is harder than talking something that exists and improving it.

so oldskool over newskool every fucking dayyyyyy
2012-05-28 21:25:36
I disagree, the level of play Neo (the other guy I would put in top2 of all time) and f0rest have displayed over the years far exceeds what other people have done in the game in my opinion.

Post edited 2012-05-29 01:35:28
2012-05-29 01:33:54
I think you started watching CS in 2009? (carn comments)
2012-05-26 18:40:49
I started following top cs scene in late 2005. :)
2012-05-27 00:17:30
so you just forgot how carn played in 2006,2006, and 2008? or did you not spectate fnatic too much during those years? he was without a doubt a class fragger in addition to doing great midround decision making. I agree fnatics tactics were a tad basic for a team winning so much medals but still, he is one of the greatest swedish players of all time, if you do not just look at aiming skills. he was extremely smart and clutch, and yes, he got less good near the end of his career, but same happened to guys like element, heaton spawn and walle, still you have to count them among the legends of swe CS
2012-05-27 12:43:20
nvm shit post just disappered

Post edited 2012-05-26 00:34:34
2012-05-26 00:29:11
vilden, hyper or gux would have as much chance to make top10 as ahl for me, but I would seriously include snajdan in the top10, so they all go just outside. probably forgot a few aswell
otherwise I think I would have the same 9, though in different order

oh wait: carn should be in there too somewhere :o

Post edited 2012-05-26 18:40:15
2012-05-26 18:39:42
I would never include snajdan in top10, never.

When I made the list I predicted that there will be some ppl whining at me for not including cArn in top10. But this is my list, my opinions, my views, my chooses. So deal with it.

Post edited 2012-05-27 00:21:10
2012-05-27 00:20:16
snajdan was also igl of some insanely good teams, while rarely ever being bottom fragger, in star studded line-ups. he should never have made a comeback after so long, as he wasn't anything remotely close to his old level (logically, after so long without playing actively)
ah well, it is indeed hard to make a top10 swe, as theres basically about 30 players who deserve such a nomination or a mention
2012-05-27 12:45:08
I will be doing one for every significant CS nation.
2012-05-25 23:23:00
i'll wait for your list to compare it with mine :)) ofc i wont post it here
2012-05-26 02:54:35
Will you include France ?

























Just kidding.
2012-05-26 18:47:48
sixer
msx



hmmm

tough indeed xD
2012-05-27 12:45:51
Actually a French website did the "top 10 of the decade" at the end of 2010.
2012-05-28 02:56:17
Can you show that ? for me its interesting
2012-05-28 10:22:01
yeah but in the meantime ofcourse it looks different :P
2012-05-28 19:29:51
ASLAAAK?
2012-05-25 21:14:23
ruuit fragvideos anyone? or good povs??
2012-05-25 21:24:49
http://www.sk-gaming.com/video/302315-Max_ruuit_As..

That's the only proper frag movie I'm aware of for ruuit, it's pretty bad though.
2012-05-25 23:24:15
How come player on that level he played didn't find a proper movie maker? I mean, the frags are world class but the edit is worse than average....
2012-05-25 23:39:52
ruuit wasn't involved in the making of that movie. A guy (a Russian I think) just downloaded the demos and made it himself.

I agree it's a shame though, when you consider how many bad CS movies people have made of them and their friends it's a tragedy to consider there are no good full length frag movies of REAL, ruuit, naSu, Tentpole, gore etc.
2012-05-25 23:59:42
Oh okay. :) Yeah and that's probably one big reason for that why naSu is so underrated as he is. There are a lot of those cs fanboy kids who decide how good player is just by watching their cs movies (JAEGARN is a good example for that). I bet that a well-edited and quite a lengthy cs movie about naSu could have made him more known and honored, at least among the "fanboys".
2012-05-26 00:09:44
To be honest, i don't really mind if the videos have bad edit, because clearly it's nice to see the frags through the overediting.
2012-05-27 00:05:47
Yeah I hate over editing too and I didn't say that they should be over edited. Just good and clean edit. But there is 0 movies about him so the edit doesn't matter. :)
2012-05-27 00:12:07
lurppis pls back the game witch conte,plaste and ruuit :P
2012-05-25 21:25:26
too much trolls in this thread
2012-05-25 21:25:30
I think the top10 was pretty correct for me, but I would just pick in bloodR because of his nickname lol.
2012-05-25 21:44:37
by: teco
#79
If you made a top10 list from Finnish players just by individual skill level, would you place bloodR in top10 then? In my opinion, he should be placed in top5 with ruuit, plaste, conte and nasu.
2012-05-25 21:56:52
nasu
conte
plaste
ruuit
lurppis
aslak
digital
jigitus
natu
kuvick/tico/zetor

no particular order :)
2012-05-25 21:50:09
1. lurppis
2. aslak
2012-05-25 21:52:09
Always liked the old astralis lineup with Bloodr, Kuvick, Digital, and Tihop.

But i would say Lurppis and Natu have been the leaders of Finnish CS, so cant forget them.

Aslak has also surprised everybody. Dont remember anyone really being known for their AMAZING awping (except Tihop, but he really couldnt keep up with the top awpers..).
2012-05-25 22:18:51
I forgot Guardian from the Astralis lineup. :)
2012-05-26 18:19:24
WTF :s:s:? JIGETUS Y SPIKEONE?
2012-05-25 22:22:37
plastE was great to watch a few years ago, glad he's up there! Spikeone was maybe a bit of a hit and miss concerning a list like this, I think he was great, and it's fair to say he'd make a top 15 list, at least in my own opinion.

I thought lurppis would've made it to the top3 also.

How about a top ten UK list? :o
2012-05-25 22:25:17
Sure, it's on my list of countries to do :)
2012-05-25 23:25:08
top10 UK would be very interesting!
2012-05-25 23:34:33
Can you tell me some good UK players? I only know Mangiacapra and Harriman. :D
2012-05-25 23:41:43
Let's wait for Thorin's list :p
2012-05-26 01:18:10
akuji (spelling) was great!
2012-05-26 20:55:37
Ah yeah 4K akuji! How did I forget him. :D
2012-05-26 23:27:18
natu:/
2012-05-25 23:38:26
For All Time Top 10 swedish Counter-Strike

1.f0rest
2.GeT_RiGhT
3.walle
4.Spawn
5.HeatoN
6.cArn
7.Potti
8.tentpole
9.zet
10.ahl

For Honorable mentions - just look here http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjas_in_Pyjamas
and add MODDII, Xizt, Gux, Delpan, Snajdan to that page and it pretty much sums it up. Ofc some ive for sure forgot to mention, there are always one and another that "slips through"...-so darn many of those skilled top-players in Sweden playing past these years in history of Counter-Strike, loLi.
2012-05-26 01:20:08
fisker >>> tentpole..
2012-05-26 04:27:46
cArn, why the fuck?
2012-05-26 13:40:06
I think fisker is just outside the list, in a top 15 he definatly would take place along with Robban, face, DSN and so on

If u put lurppis in Finland top 10 and HeatoN in swedish top 10 then cArn also definatly fits there.
Ofc it would look a bit "cooler" if i put Medion, Scream or someone else of the NIP oldschool legends but it doesnt makes so much fair sense in alltime top10 if the intention of that list is also about career and maintained succes not only individual "madfragging rawskill" of that certain relatively short amount of time.
The very bests of the first CS-pioneers arent always selfwritten in a top 10 list like this just bcuz of the nostalgia-factor.
You have to take care of all the parameters.

I OFC also forgot to mention DSN in "Honorable mentions", i knew there was an obvious name missing, DSN top 15 imo for sure. Mb i missed more players (?)..lol.
2012-05-26 15:54:38
too right!
2012-05-26 18:45:39
I'd put naSu > ruuit :)
Anyways you have a nice blog there ;)
2012-05-26 01:27:20
spikeone
tihop
kuvick
driim
lurppis
jigetus
natu
plaste
bloodr
dooberi

Post edited 2012-05-26 01:33:34
2012-05-26 01:32:52
finish cs have names you'll never remember....... long/lat as a name? c'mon. less is more, and keep the sarcasm away. if i wanna mention a team cuz of a good performance they had one tourney, but have to google and rack my brain just to remember their name... i will most likely give up, and there goes your exposure and future popularity. serious.wings? .......................

less is more.

Post edited 2012-05-26 01:39:23
2012-05-26 01:37:14
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#127
wings is a long name?

serious gaming was not a finnish organization.

roccat was not a finnish organization, nor was 69n-28e (which was their marketing campaign).

then again, if you can't remember any of those names, maybe the problem lies elsewhere than within the team names.
2012-05-26 04:08:11
thank you
2012-05-26 04:13:56
plastE really deserves the top 3 places. One of the best players at some point.

Post edited 2012-05-26 04:24:45
2012-05-26 04:21:16
WHERES TIHOP? @_@
2012-05-26 04:26:31
by: GoMeZ - HLTV.org
#136
I see all these mentions of Spikeone, Tih0p, BloodR and jiga. But the real question is where is Postman on this list.

Post edited 2012-05-26 04:28:47
2012-05-26 04:28:36
Why should he be? :D He's very average...

Post edited 2012-05-26 13:39:05
2012-05-26 13:38:59
postman :DDDDD seriously what have you done? i haven't seen him in any good finnish team
2012-05-26 17:01:23
Clearly a joke made by GoMeZ :D, if we could consider this list by their fragmovies Postman would be number 1 with all the frags against the lower finnish players
2012-05-27 00:04:03
n1
2012-05-27 02:43:52
Postman is currently playing online gathers.
2012-05-28 07:43:11
1. JOSE "POSTMAN"
2012-05-26 04:41:17
rofl...
2012-05-26 13:38:26
diGitaL was the best player ever in Finland, lurppis should be 2nd, imo ruuit don't deserve top1
2012-05-26 05:30:55
aslak need to be on it.. he's a beast!
2012-05-26 05:59:24
Some idiots cant understand that the list is based on 10 years not last year
2012-05-26 16:20:47
hm i mean.. even for past 10 years.. he must be on it.
2012-05-29 00:30:09
JiGETUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUS
2012-05-26 08:32:51
1. bloodR
2012-05-26 17:56:10
1. Walle
2. SpawN
3. HeatoN
4. Kabal
5. Luq
6. Sunde
7. Tentpole
8. Jigetus
9. Rambo
10. Cheese
2012-05-26 18:55:12
+1 walle da king
2012-05-28 16:52:10
this is my finnish top10 of all time:

1.naSu (so fckin sick player with unbelieveble moment, favourite player to watch live)
2.ruuit (good aimer, smart player, well deserved top2)
3.lurrpis (cause for me, cpt is a half of a team, all best fin players always stick around Tommi, where is allu and aslak now? tt, also lurrpis support USA cs, now it is already dead)
---------------------------
4.tihop
5.natu
6.plaste
7.bloodR
8.kuviCk
9.contE
10.jigetus
2012-05-26 19:23:44
for me

ruuit
nasu
natu
plaste
bloodr
lurppis
coali
tico
digital
zetor
2012-05-26 19:46:04
conte or maybe plaste other don't impressed me at all
2012-05-26 19:56:31
i started to follow finnish scene since last year, so... all-time-rankings are pointless for me :(
2012-05-26 22:07:47
1-RUUIT
2-NASU
3-LURPPIS
4-PLASTE
5-CONTE
6-ASLAK
7-NATU
8-BASIC
9-TIHOP
10-JIGETUS

cause I dont know zetor, digital, tico, coali and bloodR

Post edited 2012-05-26 22:08:16
2012-05-26 22:07:52
1.plastE
2.the rest
2012-05-26 22:28:07
bloodR, TihOp, Kuppi, & diGitaL are missing from the list I think. :/ mby even barrack/shiri

Post edited 2012-05-26 22:51:40
2012-05-26 22:51:10
+1 bloodR
2012-05-26 23:56:03
looks ncie but zet0r is dfntly not 10 he is seriously one of best individual players of the world all time and where the fuck is Noose? back in Coercere days he was top 3 in world aimer ask HeatoN
2012-05-26 23:10:28
wtf?? what have I missed since I have never heard of Coercere, or just cant remember.
2012-05-27 00:05:24
Oldschool Finnish team back in 2002-2003.
2012-05-27 00:08:10
yeah I played back then but still cant remember othr top teams besides ewok/ocrana cascades clan z balance genocide
2012-05-27 00:20:45
Well natu played in Coercere so it's a bit weird that you can't remember that. :D
2012-05-27 00:22:24
can u remember what was the tag?
2012-05-27 00:34:40
Just Coercere or Coerceren I think.
2012-05-27 01:11:27
dude then you missed alot of the scene ;) real oldschool peopel will remember them, specially Noose was insane ak player
2012-05-27 00:20:42
I remember Noose no doubt about that.
2012-05-27 00:34:12
Do you remember Darn, Sheep, kuukie or biggs? :D

Post edited 2012-05-27 01:12:22
2012-05-27 01:11:52
played with biggs and darn atleast.. kuukie and sheep sounds familiar, also remember players like D.A.S., Selleri, Sepig etc.
2012-05-27 01:16:10
Haha nice to know but actually I replied to Mordukain because I wanted to know if he knows more about Finnish cs scene. :D
2012-05-27 01:18:57
ofc biggs was super sprayer :d nice friendly guy mixed with him few times but Noose was insane :)
2012-05-27 02:58:32
im playing since 2001 and I always follwed much of internation scene so I remember most talented people :d good memory
2012-05-28 03:33:53
why no LEbari in the list ?:(
2012-05-26 23:40:26
Same as asking why not JAEGARN in top10 Sweden...
2012-05-27 01:22:41
exactly.
2012-05-27 02:04:20
And why is JAEGARN not in top10 Sweden?









xD
2012-05-28 16:51:35
WHERE IS ?
-Shiri
-tonnpa
-DIGITAL (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????????)
-skikeone
-jigetus

Where is !
-lurppis (at 5th place? nice joke)
2012-05-27 01:59:32
lurppis might just deserve even higher position than just #5. he's probably the biggest pioneer of finnish counter-strike ever.
2012-05-27 02:05:03
This:D
2012-05-27 02:06:25
so tonppa was good player in your opinion? just curious because didn't really follow professional cs when he used to play =D
2012-05-28 15:33:54
He used very slow sens and therefore he had very slow and awkward movement. I personally didn't really enjoy watching him play.
2012-05-28 18:16:18
ok thanks for info =D. he's my cousin and just wanted to know someones opinion about his playing.

Post edited 2012-05-28 23:14:38
2012-05-28 23:13:41
Ok haha :D
2012-05-28 23:19:38
Its always hard to make a top10 list of all times, considering that the game has changed a lot since the beginning.

I would put aslak there. I don't think his career started when he joined WinFakt, and, besides that, the level he has showed is high enough to be there, even without a very long career.

About the rest, well, I think its a good mixture of past/modern players.
2012-05-27 02:29:32
+1
The level of CS now is far more higher than it was back then you have to put a lot of work to become one of worlds best sniper and be on the same level as markeloff delpan friis etc.
2012-05-27 03:19:04
ruuit ???
2012-05-27 04:29:00
is at #1, where he rightfully belongs
2012-05-27 12:46:51
Hey Thorin, If you are reading this, I just wanna tell you something: You absolutely suck.
2012-05-28 05:05:12
For me plastE is the best player in finnish history, when i first started i remember watching his movement on maps like train and nuke and i would try for hours to try and copy him but it was impossible, easily one of the greatest movement players of all time.
2012-05-28 08:07:12
+1 but NASU is good movement player too. plastE/nasu = top1 FI by skill.
2012-05-28 16:53:50
For me he's the best train inner holder and nuke ramp holder in history of cs!:)
2012-05-28 18:08:48
bloodR for sure in this list , he was madfrager in that time ;)

Post edited 2012-05-28 08:58:28
2012-05-28 08:58:17
What is the story behind the finnish player called Skai? I have no clue about the times when he played. Did he manage to play on somewhat high level or is he known only for his fragmovies?
2012-05-28 10:44:09
baaad
2012-05-28 22:16:51
kookas, Twista, toNNpa. They were good back in the day.
2012-05-28 19:39:11
no one talks bout jigetus :D
2012-05-28 19:50:50
Hey Lurppis do you agree with me that ruuit is on the top of the food chain ?
2012-05-28 20:00:37
zet0r? tico?
2012-05-28 20:48:29
n1
2012-05-28 20:49:12
why no kammyz?
2012-05-28 21:05:02
ruuit was very good.
contE should be #2
2012-05-28 21:07:50
for me diGital was the best Finnish player of all time
2012-05-28 21:53:20
ruuit, naSu, plastE, contE and lurppis are so much in their own league that makes no sense even talking about ather guys. For me lurppis is propably the number one finnish player of all times. That's because I really respect the tactical aspect of cs. Without lurppis there wouldn't have been any finnish team in world top 10.
2012-05-28 22:18:18
1-contE
2012-05-29 00:04:44
There's no place for inet stars like jewgetus
2012-05-29 00:56:55
1.ruuit(!)
2.contE
3.nasu
4.plastE
5.lurppis
6.natu
7.GuA
8.toNNpa
9.Barack
10.Twista(!)
2012-05-29 01:36:53
nasu
conte
plaste
ruuit
lurppis
aslak
tih0p
natu
basic
jigetus
2012-05-29 09:59:24
I would rate conte and plaste higher than nasu
2012-05-29 10:16:28
Sheep #1 in my heart
2012-05-29 10:37:16
Awesome aimer.
2012-05-29 11:31:57
vilden was finnish as well or no?
2012-05-29 10:39:57
swedish
2012-05-29 11:31:42
I would name ruuit, conte, nasu and maybe plaste (at some point was in the same category).
2012-05-29 11:03:24
In a traditional troll way : -lurppis +Chuck Norris
2012-05-29 11:17:39
aslak? spikeone?
2012-05-29 11:27:25
Wow so glad you are back writing somewhere!
2012-05-29 11:34:16
ruuit
2012-05-29 11:39:14
1. plastE !!!
2. contE !!!
2012-05-29 11:43:30
1.ruuit(!)
lurppis/beside igl, also very strong fragger(back in the days)
plastE/naSu
contE/diGital
2012-05-29 12:04:44
1. mysse
2. natu
3. digital
4. lurp
5. ruuit

there u go, hf
2012-05-31 20:08:40
Missing the allmighty luhtapuro a.k.a toNNpa
2013-02-26 15:06:58
i would rank contE much higher, could win games all by himself ...
2013-02-26 15:23:08
TOP8 Swedish alltimers list, juust *IMO*

f0rest
potti
GeT_RiGhT
walle
SpawN
HeatoN
cArn
DSN

in my opinion rest is a bit harder to rank, it generally depends what you put into consideration.

tentpole/fisker/Zet/ahl/ins/gux/face/Robban/MODDII/Xizt/Vesslan/Snajdan/Delpan/vilden etcetcetrcetcetcetrferetcetc.......
2013-02-26 15:59:39

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