For a guy with as exciting, varied, chaotic and downright fun career as k0nfig, his first and last game weren’t half depressing.

In his first game, a Closed Qualifier game for the RNG Pro Series, he got mogged hard by XANTARES (who in many ways, is the player people thought k0nfig was. Keep that quiet, though), who pushed past k0nfig’s Reason in a clean 16-9 win, with XANTARES dropping 25.

k0nfig wasn’t bad, finishing second behind JUGi, but did end up 16-19. It was an encouraging enough start for him personally, if not super exciting. It could be worse, though.

After a crazy middle part of his career, k0nfig decided to commit career seppuku and join Ninjas in Pyjamas. Honestly, we thought about just putting his last game before NIP as the last game, because joining them is retirement.

Tasked with carrying one of the worst teams ever constructed to compete at that level, k0nfig couldn’t stop alex from running it down and going - and we’re not yanking your chain here - 6-30 in a BO3.

k0nfig himself went 19-29 and 1:6 in opening duels, which is… whatever. This game was not his fault.

These bookends on his career are something of an allegory - somewhat encouraging signs at the start, clear potential, but it all ended exactly as it started; with a disappointing loss. And that’s enough about North.

Sorry, mate. We really liked you. When k0nfig was good, there was nobody better in the world to watch. Sadly, he was never good for long enough.

Enjoy retirement, boss.

Poll

k0nfig’s retirement has left many people saying that he is Counter-Strike’s biggest ‘What If?’ - but is that really the case?

Respond below or reply to this email to let us know your thoughts.

In the last edition, we asked you whether or not a losing player should ever win the MVP award.

Here’s what you thought:

🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜️ Yes (80%)
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ No (20%)