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We’re trying something new with some fun segments on drier weeks to try and make the newsletter a little more fun to read, so we’re stealing something from our first magazine we made a while back.

Welcome to First Game/Last Game. Today’s episode is on n0thing, whose career - at least according to HLTV records - spanned 17 years.

So far.

n0thing’s first game was about as impressive as it can be in a loss. His team United5, with four other players you’ve probably never heard of, lost 10-20 on Nuke to MIBR (back when that meant something). n0thing topfragged for his team, but didn’t have enough to stop gAuLeS, BIT and fnx on MIBR.

Yes, that gAuLeS, that fnx and not that BIT but the other one.

The Brazilian one.

The topfragger for MIBR was a guy called ton, who only played for a few years, and Lance was the fifth member of that team - he only played a handful of games before moving on. Who knows how many potentially great players we lost to time.

It didn’t happen during this game, but if we’re talking about n0thing on Nuke, we feel like we have to mention his crazy wallbang clip. And, just for good measure, if we’re talking about great n0thing clips, we can’t not mention this one from Cologne 2017.

We’ll never miss an opportunity to bring up that clip.

n0thing’s career also finished (in inverted commas - he could still play again) with a loss too, though not against quite the same calibre of competition. His team ‘Vibe’ with Skadoodle and swag went out with a 2-13 6-13 loss to Akimbo, a Mongolian team with two North Americans playing in CCT NA.

A shame, really. n0thing was one of the trailblazers for North American Counter-Strike, and is now playing the fiddle as Mongolia takes over NA’s throne as the main challengers to Europe.