For a bit of context, this is a reference to a 2014 Counter Strike major tournament where the team Fnatic used an unknown boost to get an unfair advantage over the other team. From their spawn point, they were able to use 3 different players to get a view over half of the map, allowing the pro player Olofmeister to snipe them unawares. They were 13 points down and about to be knocked out of the tournament, but the boost allowed them to win the game and (theoretically) move onto the semi finals. The other team had been using less powerful boost positions against them earlier in the game, and there weren’t hard rules against using such strategies, so they felt comfortable using it.

However, the outcry from across the esports world was enough for them to forfeit the match, allowing the other team, LDLC, to progress and eventually win the tournament. It has thus become an iconic moment in esports that shaped both professional standards and Counter Strike map design going forward.

  • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 hours ago

    amazing, but if the other team were using boosts too, I don’t see why they should have forfeited - it feels less like cheating and more like creatively exploiting the map to me 🤔

    but I’m not an esports person, and I really enjoyed learning how to glitch and exploit maps like this in various games - so my perspective might be biased 😅

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      1 hour ago

      Boosts are normal. This specific boost was noteworthy because it had a one-way texture so Olof could see the other team but they couldn’t see him.

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      Their boost really was that much more powerful, plus they used it every round, even buying one of the most maligned and disrespectful weapons in the game, the auto sniper, which really rubbed people the wrong way. A position like that never should’ve made it into a professional tournament, and Valve’s standards for such silliness in maps drastically changed in the following years. Now you can rarely have so much fun 😔