Pour one out for the trees, f0rest has retired.

f0rest’s career spanned 20 years, 3 CS games, and 513 editions of TLDR. And after all that, he’s walked away with a cool 50+ event wins across CS games, and four HLTV top 20s to show for it. His career is nothing short of legendary.

And it’s even more insane if you put it into context.

f0rest was playing professional CS a full year before m0nesy was even born, and had won over 20 events by the time m0nesy started going to school. With that in mind, his longevity is incredible. In 2016, 13 years after he started playing, he won the MVP award at IEM Oakland. Oh, and he was 7th best player in the world that year! (According to HLTV)

We’re pretty sure that f0rest could still play on NIP if he wanted to, and he’d probably be their best player somehow. Maybe that’s not the highest bar…

It’s a testament to an amazing player that we’ve left out NIP’s 87-0 unbeaten run until this point, but honestly, that’s because it undersells the individual. That era has its caveats, and f0rest was much bigger than just that NIP team. In many ways, he rivals GeT_RiGhT not only as the face of the NIP organisation, but that era of CS.

Him, GeT_RiGhT, or Allu’s Red Bull.

But before we make it sound like he died (he’s alive, we think), we’ll leave you with his tweet and the love it got. Not a single hate comment in sight. Didn’t think that was possible.