There were amateurs who were always at the foot of the canyon, others who only believed sometimes and some who had already lost faith. For all of them the classification of Movistar Riders The next major of Stockholm was a surprise. Unique milestone in the history of the Spanish Counter-Strike that will hardly find good comparisons in other disciplines of electronic sports. A fact in itself that already has an unprecedented magnitude, but that becomes a unique history internationally if we serve the details.
The party in Thailand of the Counter-Strike Spanish
Any metaphor established with respect to unlikely events that take place in the sports field leads irremediably to comparison with the Leicester City Premier League 2015-2016 Champion. However, the focus on that story of Matagigantes usually forget how the achievement of the title began. A favorite team but for the descent created based on discarded players who did not find space in the Great Clubs, and who changed a coach during the preseason due to a sexual and racist scandal starring the staff during a getaway to Thailand.
Written by Ilie OleArt, the book Dilly-Ding, Dilly-dong! In which all the events that gave rise to the triumph of the team begins, precisely, with that party in Thailand that led to several dismissals and the definitive cessation of the coach who had saved them the previous year. This thus started a succession of facts that seemed to condemn the team and led to the most unlikely triumph of the history of modern football. In summary, one of those narratives that seemed to exist only in the fiction in which the eternal said there is no evil that does not come .
In the case of Movistar Riders is not too complicated to identify metaphors. The Spanish scene of Counter-Strike arrived with a significant wear due to the massive departure of clubs and players. Disposad after the retirement of personalities such as mixwell and lowel , the blue team was the only one of the great national ones that continued betting on the title of Valve while the rest sought more green meadows.
Sets such as ravens , souldazz or x6tence They took the relay with somewhat less ambitious projects in terms of immediate results. A context that prevented a quintet from the category of Iberian Family to find an organization to represent. Team Herteits was one of the possible alternatives, but with his offer the ghosts of the past emerged. Between that if you did not want to play with the other and the other preferred not to compete without the one forged a neuro failure very felt by the fans of a scene that no longer passed for its best.
Movistar Riders and the art of making sense of tragedy
Pedro Gómez , Caster de ESL Spain better known as x9nium , started as an amateur of the Counter-Strike 2001 and tells us as the first contact of it with the professional scene was a heaton clip with background music . A lot has rained since the era of Frag Movies and fortunately, the incessant search of Gotvs has finished to have a professional counter-strike to take us to the mouth. A time when he spent the afternoons in the cyber and flipped with the irruption of that legendary Golden X6tence.
Professional of the narration for more than five years, were these two last few of the toughest in relation to the game . There is no need to misinterpret it, Pedro keeps in love with CS: Go. However, he has confessed to us that he had accumulated anger. A personal frustration at the time of seeing the direction that Counter-Strike took. The problem was simple: he reminded him a lot about how the endowed endowed him ended up going to the fret in Spain totally overshadowed by a riot Games much more attentive to the details.
The rage of him transcended in a sensational narrative in which all these emotions exploded that he had been accumulating time. The game change of some of the national referents and the turning in the direction of content creators did not augur a great future for the game. However, Movistar Riders has made sense of a desert journey and confirmed an axiom that from the privileged position we occupy who we are in press did not know how to do: the counter-strike always manages to be back.
It is the X9nium itself who has given us one of the keys to understanding the paradigm shift associated with the Spanish Counter-Strike crisis. You still have to take many steps for a full recovery, but Movistar Riders has achieved that the prospect ceases to be hanging on the CS: GO National and become international success. Of course, local leagues are needed to develop talent, but the goal of large should always be transcended at borders.
In this sense it has also positioned Pitu Herranz . Reference as an independent professional with its tireless monitoring of the national and international scene that has indicated the Europeanization process of the Spanish Counter-Strike as something positive. Also in love with the shooter during the era of the cybercafés and the use of Hamachi to create servers, he has not wanted to be so sharp and somewhat more distressed with some losses. Despite this, he assumes without wanting to everything that maybe the CS: Go did needed that succession of catastrophic events.
The magic of how and when
The most striking of the achievement of Movistar Riders is not only the outcome of the particular equivalent to the party in Thailand of the Leicester City. The organization was not going through its best time in terms of results and decided to make changes that were felt as a step back . Shokz, Steel and SMOOYA left the quintet after having contributed a few joys to the team in the form of classifications to important events to make way for the arrival of three national players who would complete a template in which they only formed Alex and MOPOZ .
It was precisely Pitu who came time betting on the changes. Not so much for a matter of mere performance if not to recognize the latent talent in the Spanish scene, I wanted to see a Movistar Riders that it would be worth as Statistically seems a reality of the Tactical Shooter of Valve: the sets that share a native language work best . Not in vain, No team has won a major until the date without fulfilling this condition .
The absence of clubs has a logical consequence. As the Pitu himself told us in our talk, Spain has never been scarce of talent. However, the difficulties for centralize all that skill in a single organization gave rise to great problems when it comes to competing outside the country. Maybe it was the best to develop a powerful national scene, but together with the patriotic conformism that X9nium told us we have a cocktail that made it very difficult to think about major levels.
This context, together with the heretics failure to perform the signings, is the one that allows the inseparable couple formed by Alex and Mopoz to join players like Deathzz , DAV1G and SUNPAYUS . Talented Spanish players who promised both a very interesting bet one year as a somewhat less glamorous present, but they ended up getting the foundational promise of Movistar Riders: to qualify for a major CS: Go.
Assuming the fact that getting to the Eim Fall was already a success, it was not until the riders passed from the group stage with three adjusted victories and an infarrant tiebreaker when Pitu really contemplated the possibility of reaching the Major. There were three opportunities to get a victory and riders and almost get it against NIP, before which Movistar Riders lost because of some avoidable mistakes being able to leave a bittersweet feeling. He had almost earned one of the five best teams in the world and he is almost never enough, but it seemed that there was material to achieve the great goal.
It was against Copenhaguen Flames that the classification could be closed . Particularly highlighting the team s performance at an Ancient who has become a fetish map for Spanish fans. It is true that facing Roej was truly deseperating, but the truth is that the Danes had no half opportunity on the decisive scenario. Nor was it too worrying about them, since they could take advantage of the third chance by condemning Team Fiend to be the only one without a prize.
a decisive opportunity
If with past failures we talked about penultimate trains, this time we were facing a definitive opportunity. It s not like I did not get it out to suppose a new apocalypse. However, the fact of achieving it gives a reason to all Spaniard amateurs to electronic sports to place Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on its radar. Forces us to talk about him and let us abandon pessimism .
Electronic sports are not just a hobby and have relevant meanings for amateurs . A basic premise that affects any competition in which I enter into play the sense of belonging and that many have forgotten when analyzing certain situations. Unforgivable failure of whom we say loving the ESPORTS and we have suffered in our meats the hardness of the constant stumble.
The community of CS: Go in Spain has a new reference to the height that has returned the illusion and compensated for the effort of all those who decided to maintain passion for the game. A joy that was the evident point of consensus between Pitu and Peter, but that in this case we can not attribute them: it was hundreds and thousands who persevered. Be from the Mediavida forums, the twitter accounts of little followers or the amenimato of the twitch chat; This victory is also yours .
Fortunately there is no fallen tree from which we can make firewood. Movistar Riders has given meaning something that did not have it, repaired a historical injustice and converted the error into a new path. Rinetes with the subcategory Explorers who now have ahead of the difficult task of converting the idyll into marriage and banish the eternal concern that generates success. It is time to excite and enjoy the major, but also to think about that a day will come when simply being not enough .
Many thanks to Pitu Herranz and X9nium for collaborating in the preparation of the article.
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