French CS:GO stalwart Kenny “kennyS” Schrub, doubtlessly the best AWPer of all time, has formally hung up the mouse and keyboard, stepping away from lively CS:GO competitors after a prolonged profession.
Earlier than the beginning of the second semifinal of the BLAST Paris Major, the legendary participant took to the stage in entrance of a raucous crowd that was ready for Vitality to take the stage. In entrance of his countrymen, kennyS introduced that his greater than 12-year-long profession is over.
“Initially, I thanks from the underside of my coronary heart for all of the love you’ve given me,” kennyS instructed the gang. “The best way you guys look and communicate to me is the best pleasure I’ve had in my life as a result of I don’t know if I deserve it. To make it quick, I’m retiring from competitors. I like each single second.”
A thunderous spherical of applause and chants of “Kenny, Kenny, Kenny” interrupted the good AWPer earlier than he continued. Lastly, he thanked the gang once more in French earlier than one final monumental ovation roared from the Paris crowd.
A dynamic AWPer and a pillar of the French Counter-Strike scene, kennyS performed for nearly each important French roster at one level in his profession: LDLC, Titan, Envy (generally known as EnVyUs then), and G2. His biggest interval of success got here whereas with Envy and G2, most notably with Envy when he lifted the Main trophy and MVP trophy at DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015.
After a prolonged inactive interval following his removing from the lively G2 roster in March 2021, throughout which he centered extra on content material creation, kennyS returned to the server in late 2022 with the all-French Group Falcons roster. However that workforce fell simply wanting reaching the BLAST Paris Main by way of the RMR, shedding to OG and eventual Main grand finalists GamerLegion.
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