One of many best surprises final 12 months in CS:GO was Outsiders profitable the $1.25 million IEM Rio Main in November. The CIS crew had misplaced its former star YEKINDAR in Might and noticed the brand new gun Petr “fame” Bolyshev turn out to be the co-protagonist alongside Jame of their championship run in Rio de Janeiro.
Fame joined Outsiders from K23 on Might 31 with little to no expertise in opposition to the perfect CS:GO groups on the earth and performed his first huge LAN match in July 2022 at IEM Cologne. Outsiders weren’t thought-about a lot of a menace at IEM Rio Main, however they had been extremely constant within the competitors, having dropped solely three of the 17 maps they performed.
Not solely was Outsiders’ tactical recreation on level, however in addition they acquired to depend on fame’s firepower to win rounds. The 19-year-old completed the Challengers Stage with a 1.15 ranking after 5 maps, in line with HLTV, and averaged even higher numbers within the Legends Stage and Champions Stage of IEM Rio Main.
Fame had a 1.24 ranking in these two levels, in line with HLTV, which is barely under what Jame and FL1T got (1.30 and 1.25, respectively). For that, Jame has described fame as top-of-the-line CS:GO gamers of the second.
“He’s a generational participant,” Jame mentioned about fame in an interview with Pley. “I’ve by no means met somebody like him. He’s a quick learner, he’s very disciplined, he at all times provides himself totally and as a human being, he’s actually an honest one. Only a easy type of man.”
Each fame and Outsiders’ problem for 2023 is to duplicate what they displayed at IEM Rio Main. The CIS crew struggled at BLAST Premier World Remaining in December, the final S-tier CS:GO match of the 12 months, and didn’t even attain the playoffs of the match.
