Mine has got to be the OG Titan from the 2013-2015 days. I found this video out there: https://youtu.be/LnnxUbJjBAc?si=Lkx7tehGC-f_B0F5 (shoutout to the person who made it), and it brought back a bunch of nostalgia. I really miss those times; I was 110% involved in the scene, cozy vibes.
What would be the best squad for you personally?
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2016-17 Fnatic, they weren’t tactical but they were so individually skilled they were incredible to watch
Probably new mouz tbh. Everything about the vibe, their performance, even the coach is great. I hope they stay together and grow for a long time.
Current navi
-18 Mousesports with Styko, Sunny, Oskar, Ropz, and ChrisJ. Not best per results but god I loved to cheer them! Sunny and Styko both seem great people too.
-20 GODSENT with Styko, Zehn, krystal, maden and farlig. Zehn and Styko my all time favourites in same team was amazing times!
My god what I would have given for Allu, Zehn, Styko, Sunny, Maden team back then.
of course the astralis in the era.
also 2016 fnatic was a godlike team.
Dennis era fnatic were my first favorite team, loved them.
BIG with xantares and Smooya
Almost any Flipside roster, but probably the electronic one towards the end, way better than the sum of their parts. Should have never unflaired.
2021 Major winning NaVi. I’ve always been a CIS CS enjoyer so teams like Gambit, NaVi, were always among my faves. Really been enjoying Spirit for some years too.
2019 major final ENCE is also a good contender. I’m Finnish so it was always going to be one of my favourite teams to cheer for.
Any Karrigan roster.
The Kato/Colo/World Finals winning G2 team. Their t-sides were so much fun to watch, especially Inferno.
Legendary NIP
G2: smithzz, body, scream, shox, rpk
2014 NIP
Polish Virtus.pro with NEO, TaZ, Pasha, Snax and byali. They were never very consistent, especially online, but almost always solid on LANs. Great guys, sometimes truly unstoppable in their plow mode, I really miss their matches (and to be honest I miss 2013-2017 CS in general, so many iconic teams).
Astralis with Kjaerbye was a fun team to watch
2019 mouz with woxic, ropz, frozen, chrisj and karrigan
Virtus.plow of course.
2021 NaVi is still the best team i’ve ever seen. go back and watch that shit, it’s still mind blowing
Virtus plow, peak astralis, peak fnatic, 2021 navi, 2019 liquid, faze 2023
2021-2022 NaVi and 2023 G2.
NaVi- Watching Navi felt like everyone in the team contributed fully and s1mple was doing just s1mple things. They were unstoppable. They just dominated Katowice. 1-4 vs Liquid(watching them also was fun back then) s1mple found some crazy shots with awp was so iconic. As much as i wanted NiKo to get his first major, NaVi deserved it more as they were complete team.
G2- at first i was uncertain about signing HooXi but signing JKS was really solid move and they proved them by winning both Katowice and Cologne. They had so much potential as a team but lasted not very long. But I can see new G2 can surpass their last squad.
Luminosity Gaming and SK later. Oh how I miss that time.
2019 grandslam run liquid right ut to the player break for 65 days they were a joy to watch just straight up aim duels all over the map
Major winning Faze roster with rain, karrigan, ropz, twistzz and broky. And robban as the coach ofc. All around great vibes and every single one on the team would clutch if they had to.
Gambit roster during online and 2021. 5 kids roster with nafany igl, it was fun to watch and quite likeable (and relatable as 25 yo myself), you could see the potential on all if them, shame that roster didn’t work out. They had axile and Shiro in top 4, with a steady interz and reliant hobbit.
Other than that the legendary NIP, I was a literal kid with 0 gamesense and stolen phone time to watch forest and gtr. It is a weird thing but I used to remember Forest absolutely killing everyone in pistols but I checked his pistol stats last year and they weren’t great or as great as I remembered.
Liquid with fallen and stew, no reason other than I liked the players and the team, g2 in the jks roster, faze with the super team (except niko igl faze and that early exit), heroic that cadian team with and without refrezh.
Astana Dragons
The squad with the most “vibes” ever that got me into watching Pro CS was the 2015 i think? squad of C9:
shroud
nothing
seang@res
skadoodle
freakazoid
They didn’t win much, but they sure did have a lot of fun playing and streaming with each other. In an era of VP, NiP and fnatic where every player seemed really stone cold when playing, you had the C9 squad bantering in the middle of the game..
PENTA before the Mouz incident
Afterwards Mouz with Chrisj, Spiidi, nex, denis and niko
Original NiP core without question. They just had an aura to them that was unique. I mean “NiP magic” is a term for a reason.
Maybe it is nostalgia, maybe it is the less competitive scene but from 2012-2015 NiP has been dominating or at least be a constant contender for finals while also being easy to sympathise with. Just a core of nice characters playing the game and being legends.
Damn I miss those times but every now and then I drop by fribergs, f0rest and GeT_RiGhTs stream and get send back for a short period.
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2nd Place is the 2022 Heroic Squad. Just fun to watch on and off the server and also easily the most consistent team even though they barely won any trophies. I hope wee see a cadiaN clutch again soon
2015 Envyus, ESL One Cologne so memorable
Purely a nostalgic choice – C9 with shroud, n0thing, freak, Seangares, and ska
Fnatic 2014-2015 (Pronax, flusha, JW, KRIMZ, olofm)
That Renegades roster with Gratisfaction, AZR, jks, jkaem and Liazz was the last time I thought an AU team might win something
NA C9 pre-Stewie leaving. Just felt right when C9, Liquid, CLG, etc were representing NA
Prime Astralis and current Mongolz roster.
2017-2018 peak Tyloo era
Renegades with Nifty
OG Mongolz roster paved the future of Mongolian CS
FaZe 2022-23 with karrigan, ropz, broky, rain, and Twistzz. soooo many good games were made. loved their loose-but-still-coordinated playstyle, loved how they could pull comebacks out of their asses, loved the comms videos on karri’s channel
Old old school Heaton, Hyper, ahl, potti, SpawN
2007 mtw.dk with zonic, ave, mje, sunde and hpx.
Boston faze, 2015 fnatic, Boston mouz, epl s10 mouz
If I have to pick one, epl s10 mouz for the ceiling of that team was too damn high
That one VP roster is the most iconic one.
Pronax Era Fnatic
I’m still rocking a JW branded Fnatic mousepad to this day lol.
Polish vp
Liquid S1mple major