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Use code THORIN at https://gamersupps.gg/THORIN for 10% off an order of GamerSupps' delicious energy formula. ► Join the Scrilluminati to get exclusive perks and support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/Thooorin ► Check out a previous CS interview here: https://youtu.be/yBAgtnaKCcg Lars "Naikon" Olaisen, former eoLithic and NoA player, is the star of the 487th Episode of 'Reflections'. This is parttwo of two about Naikon's career. Naikon is a prime example of a player who let his game speak for him, famously media shy but a top competitor for a number of years in the 2000s. He won a CPL, a CPL Europe, WEG S1 and made the final of another big CPL. Naikon was in Norway's first top team, helping Massive Attack and Quake legend DarK place top four at CPL Winter 2001, hailed as CS' first ever major event. After that he played in bsl's Team Spacebar where results were not as good, but he got to compete internationally again. The formation of eoLithic came at the perfect time as they blew through CPL Oslo 2002 on home soil. Winning the CPL qualifier the core was expected to become world champions but shockingly fell down to an eighth place finish in the US. This spurred them making the Norwegian super-team and they would famously defeat HeatoN and Potti's SK Gaming only to have to disband months later due to financial concerns. During that time beating SK, eoLithic was able to finish runners-up at the now notoriously poorly run Clikarena in the spring of 2003. After XeqtR and elemeNt went to big name Swedish sides Naikon was left to wander the wilderness of playing for teams below his level to attend events. Late in 2003 he would become part of the experimental NoA project, which married Norwegian players with two NA stars. Despite entering CPL Winter 2003 with low expectations they shocked the world and made the final. Getting elemeNt into the line-up for 2004 seemed like the move to make NoA number one but they bombed the big events. Only when XeqtR joined their ranks, reforming the eoLithic core, did success on the biggest scale come and the team won CPL Winter 2004, the first team to ever win from the lower bracket, and the first season of the World Esports Games in early 2005. elemeNt decided to leave the team and NoA came unravelled shortly after. Naikon would go and play with bsl again in his Catch-Gamer project. They would find some success, but not on NoA's level. Naikon's activity levels dropped and he made a brief short comeback in MYM in 2006 before fully retiring. In part two Naikon discusses the CPL win in NoA, how WEG killed the team, his time in Catch-Gamer, doing a brief comeback in MYM and playing Source drunk at a WCG. This interview was recorded on the 25th of March, 2025. ► Time-line of topics discussed: 00:00 NoA mixing NA players with Norwegians 02:23 elemeNt line-up 03:51 Coping with failure 04:48 shaGuar 07:37 XeqtR joining 09:21 CPL Winter 2004Upper bracket final 11:07 final 12:27 Expectations before event 14:28 World Esports Games S1 19:38 elemeNt leaving 22:04 Did he get his prize money? 23:54 Catch-Gamer 26:10 Juzam and Juven9le 27:48 Everquest and WoW killing careers 29:37 CPL Chile 32:14 REAL and Oops 35:46 WEG Masters 38:22 Beating SK Gaming 39:52 Could they have won the event? 41:00 Did wNv cheat? 42:50 Asians levelling up 44:20 End phase of his career 45:27 MYM comeback 47:01 prb 47:37 MYM approach 48:53 Sentiment when he retired 49:55 Playing now 51:34 Following esports now 53:52 WCG 2005 in Source 55:18 Legacy 56:13 Most under-rated team-mate 58:10 Success from Norway 59:26 Reflecting on his peak level 1:00:09 Final words Subscribe this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfeeUuW7edMxF3M_cyxGT8Q/join ► Check out bite-sized Thorin on my new clips channel: https://www.youtube.com/thorinclips ► Follow me on social media: https://twitter.com/Thorin https://facebook.com/Thooorin https://www.instagram.com/thooorinofficial/ ► My written content: https://iamesports.substack.com/ ► My stream: https://www.twitch.tv/Thorin ► You can discuss this content at my Discord server: https://discord.gg/rDKxKfM ► Want esports predictions? I have my own server to post them and share tips: https://discord.gg/T9bgaAQN4D ► This video was kindly supported by: THE c0ncept Matt, Pugnatio, Rajcula touken_ Jensen Goh Tosh Jasun Banediesel Animosity Special thanks go out to JerCkysMiNi0n. #Naikon #shaGuar #Thorin