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Use code THORIN at http://gamersupps.gg/?afmc=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 Reflections here: https://youtu.be/UVeJZmhgVEs Bobby "sickness" Moyini, former leader and AWPer of riot squad, is the star of the 446th Episode of 'Reflections'. This is episode two of two about sickness's career. sickness was playing in the very earliest days of competitive CS, back at CPLs where it wasn't even an official tournament title yet! Playing alongside names like Chamleon and Rambo he played fifth-to-sixth at the Babbage's CPL in late 2000. The team sickness was the iconic leader of was riot squad and he finished fifth with them at the Speakeasy CPL in the spring of 2001. Later in the year he found himself teamless for the big CPL Winter 2001 often cited as the first CS major and would play as the sixth man of X3, NA's best team. In 2002 riot squad were one of the better NA teams, managing to finish second in the CAL Invite season famous for TSO going undefeated. At CPL Summer 2002 the team cracked top eight. At CPL Winter 2002 they would go one better and finish seventh, notably beating vesslan's esports united team in the lower bracket. sickness continued to play on and attend the occasional CPL but his interest and activity in the game had waned after that. In part two, sickness discusses the end of his time competing at the highest level, triGGa's high senstivity, who was better out of Ksharp and Rambo, the top European talents, the curse of the pre-CPL LAN tournament, studying opponents and keeping up with CS years later. This interview was recorded on the 31st of August, 2024. ► Time-line of topics discussed: 00:00 Elite european players 04:07 triGGa 06:07 Attending CPLs after his prime 07:42 Pre-CPL bootcamp tournament 10:50 Networking with europeans 12:40 No salary 13:46 Winning money from small LANs 16:45 Keeping up with CS 20:20 Thoughts about esports having so much more money now 22:57 Playing the great players early on 25:55 Hardware issues 27:47 Being young in esports 29:51 Rambo vs. Ksharp 32:22 BigDog 34:29 Under-rated 37:04 Studying opponents and demos 39:41 NA lagging on team concept 41:28 Europeans being jet-lagged 42:16 Not attending European events 43:45 AWPing on LAN 45:39 Dumbing down CS 47:25 Not liking CS early on 50:11 Map pool back then 52:44 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 ► This video was kindly supported by: Ahmed Hadjou Matt, Pugnatio, Rajcula Adam Tomlin Animosity Jensen Goh Tosh touken_ Special thanks go out to JerCkysMiNi0n. #sickness #BigDog #Thorin