Video: Can pros name all the Major champions?

23/12/2022 - 12:58

HLTV challenged players to name the lineups that won the first 18 CS:GO Majors.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has so far experienced 18 Major tournaments in the ten years since its release, with 60 different players earning the honor of lifting the most prestigious trophy in the professional calendar.

We challenged the pros attending Red Bull Flick 2vs2 Copenhagen Invitational 2022 to name the Major winning teams all the way to the earliest Valve-sponsored event at DreamHack Winter 2013. Participants earned a point for each correct answer and an extra one for listing all five players, but were eliminated after their first incorrect response.

Check out the video above to see how Boris "⁠magixx⁠" Vorobiev, Igor "⁠w0nderful⁠" Zhdanov, Shahar "⁠flameZ⁠" Shushan, Maciej "⁠F1KU⁠" Miklas, Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov, Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage, Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller, René "⁠TeSeS⁠" Madsen, Rasmus "⁠raalz⁠" Steensborg, Johannes "⁠b0RUP⁠" Borup, Patrick "⁠es3tag⁠" Hansen and Jonas "⁠calc⁠" Gundersen fared in the quiz.

You can see more of HLTV.org's video content, interviews, the HLTV Confirmed podcast episodes, latest news, the Counter-Quiz and more on our YouTube channel.

2022-12-23 12:58

they cant

except no lifers, no one's gonna remember washed up players

2022-12-23 13:00

22 replies

Don't try justify your ignorance with such a lame excuse.

2022-12-23 13:01

7 replies

I'm sorry if the truth has upset you.

2022-12-23 13:05

2 replies

Your opinion isn't the "truth", friend. It's just an opinion.

2022-12-23 15:31

1 reply

mate i haven't been active on this site for years and you're still around lol

2022-12-25 04:45

+1000 Newfzg spotted

2022-12-23 13:44

This is expected from a generation that brags off being ignorant with pride.

2022-12-23 14:34

ignorance is not a bad thing if it's ignorance of stupid trivia like this

2022-12-23 14:50

kkkkk

2022-12-23 15:17

Not that difficult to remember if you watched them.

2022-12-23 13:57

10 replies

read again

2022-12-23 13:59

9 replies

I read it the first time. Why instantly assume "no life" on those with a good memory? Or am I missing something?

2022-12-23 14:01

8 replies

looks like I hurt your feelings. Go watch the video Even pros(teamed up) failed to answer everything correctly because no one's gonna remember all the old players. And hence the answer to your question, yes, people with no life outside of cs are the only ones who are gonna answer everything correctly. afaik, you don't have a job and spend whole day here right, so you can probably relate.

2022-12-23 14:05

name checks out

2022-12-23 14:33

Average hltv forum user when they post a video about a harmless trivia game

2022-12-23 15:18

All that conjecture from a harmless question? That explains a lot.

Imagine the sheer amount of insecurity you had to possess to write something so puerile.

2022-12-23 20:57

bruh get help, better than celebrating on your own

2022-12-23 20:59

You cant preach about others having no life when you are commenting on HLTV threads

2022-12-23 22:26

Also if CS is your life.

2022-12-24 16:16

+100 if even pros can't remember all the early CSGO players who retired in 2014, I wouldn't take so much pride in being able to remember each and every single one of them

2022-12-23 14:51

jks and cadian did just fine, others can't remember them because they started playing later lmao

2022-12-23 18:27

Just bcs someone remembers a few names doesnt mean they are a no lifers, its just called memorization. They also make u memorize old things in school so I guess everybody is a no lifer Xd

2022-12-23 15:38

who is calc

NIP's COO

2022-12-23 13:02

ex 1.6 pro and current NiP COO

2022-12-23 20:06

>I remember that was the guy with kinda the same name as mou >AdreN >Yes! xD

2022-12-23 13:08

He meant 'flag' but said 'name' haha it was weird

2022-12-23 20:05

lmao

2022-12-23 13:11

U gotta respect my boyz cadian an jks. Also some of these players were less than 10 y.o. when major in 2013 happend, kinda crazy :)

2022-12-23 13:20

memory hole in Krakow

2022-12-23 13:28

F1ku carrying flamez and CadiaN is carrying Teses

2022-12-23 13:30

even in this we go 3rd place

2022-12-23 13:32

:,( sad

2022-12-23 21:07

nice video

2022-12-23 13:33

one of the only videos i watched, cool.

12:06 - flameZ "wait wait wait kurwa" - Respect brother. Fluent kurwa!

2022-12-23 13:35

he caught it from f1ku

2022-12-23 21:56

or mantuu

2022-12-23 22:03

HLTV Major when?

2022-12-23 13:55

i love cadian

2022-12-23 14:00

Nip guys look like they started playing 2 years ago

2022-12-23 14:02

monesy: "ah it's cloud 9, NiKo lost yeah?" haha

2022-12-23 14:03

BASED M0NESY

2022-12-23 16:15

niko will kick m0nesy soon

2022-12-23 17:07

CadiaN and jks on average 20yo bois

2022-12-23 14:06

I kinda missed the HLTV quizzes, W

2022-12-23 14:11

reakllly ewlalwdqa

Naf would.

2022-12-23 14:14

I thought x6tenz won with LDLC bruh

For a 17 yo good job by m0nesy i must say. For me it was easy af ofc since other than first one i watched all of them (not every game but still)

2022-12-23 14:16

Ahah: "I wasn't born yet"

2022-12-23 14:39

cool video please more like this

2022-12-23 14:58

cadian was well known for his huge brain, no wonder he did well here, but m0nesy... this kid is something...

2022-12-23 15:09

The LDLC lineup and the Gambit lineup are the hardest to remember.

2022-12-23 15:11

Gambit is really easy, the fluke, easy to remember I didn't even remember Znajder existed, lol.

2022-12-23 16:12

es3tag :'0

Nice "kurwa" from FlameZ

it was super hard to remember french rosters

2022-12-23 15:43

+1 Those were the hardest for sure. I would've got all teams correct and all players except the French teams

2022-12-23 23:52

hltv smh trying to get us addicted to this site

2022-12-23 15:57

I would have thrown KRIMZ in the first fnatic roster. Didn't remember Znajder

2022-12-23 16:11

Krimz & olof joined at the same time, I was blanking on Devilwalk but remembered him in the end

2022-12-23 23:53

Jks and cadian smashed it

2022-12-23 16:54

Thats ez though Edit Actually scratch that i didnt know who was on outsiders

2022-12-23 17:10

Based

2022-12-23 17:23

Really cool vid

2022-12-23 18:18

Apparently I'm not the only one who has trouble remembering French lineups.

2022-12-23 18:36

Kennys Happy and others!

2022-12-23 18:41

I CAN

2022-12-23 19:31

Well you aren't 'pro'.

6/12 players they asked are danish. HLTV’s danish bias is disgusting

2022-12-23 19:56

Really surprising how low knowledge they have about their own thing, their own world. I only messed with the French lineups tbh, all others I knew. HUGE props to m0nesy being a kid and knowing way more about the history of CS than 28 yo players that were on the scene since since almost 10 years ago.

2022-12-23 20:04

G2 and Heroic went crazy

2022-12-23 20:39

Lol this was so easy, surprised the pros couldnt 100% this.

2022-12-23 21:11

es3tag was high during this 100%

2022-12-23 21:57

It is very hard

2022-12-24 16:27

2022-12-25 08:48

monesy so cute

2022-12-26 00:32

Naming the 2 french lineups very tough, but can remember - Shox + Smithzz always together on lineups, No belgian (x6/scream) has won a major, or even made playoffs.

2022-12-26 04:30