Rookies in Counter-Strike 

ps. i recorded this video before the major started a day before the nivera return to cs announcement, just had a production delay. congrats to b1t top rookie for another major!!

b1t - favorite rookie. humble workhorse, disciplined, everything by the book, just a very reliable piece since day 1 pretty much. also winning 2 majors adds up to it.

Jimmy is a different type of rookie. He doesn't feel like a rookie with his playstyle, he is incredibly smart and plays like he was years and years of experience in tier 1.

god those early NA 10 mans and rank S streams was literally the best content CS ever got

the best rookie is MAJ3R, amazing run at the major for such a young talent, he's only 33 and was the highest rated player for EF during playoffs!

no matter what happens to these rookies im just glad we're past the recycling phase. shoutout ence and mouz

i hate to admit it but its nice to not be a hater for once

babe wake tf up, Lau just dropped a 20min banger

fame has to be my favorite rookie, straight from being a pugstar to being one of Jame's soldiers is an underrated turnaround

dupreeh at preasy is my favourite rookie, he is so young and showed a great amount of skill. Hopefully his move to falcons will get him his first major early in his career

For me b1t is THE R.O.A.T. I remember example on Edward position, on short Mirage. Valerchik knew perfect by pixel spot where he can hide behind pillar to not be seen from 3 positions at once. He even was preferencing m4a4, because m4a1S is long af and enemy can see it from distance. It was an example on down site Nuke with Hunter on this major. He was spotted because of m4a1S long barrel and this costs G2 a round. For past 2-3 years b1t and ropz are my favorite players because of they raw mechanic skills and big brain management, and I hope to see more maps from b1t like this final inferno. If ropz and b1t win more majors, I hope they will get an MVP🤞🤞

monesy is probably my fave rookie. bro got on the team and was straight rawdogging people, man is cracked out of his mind

Donk greatest rookie to ever touch cs.

Launders casually having the best cs content run on RU-vid right now

I still remember m0nesy's iconic Katowice debut on the stage. People couldnt believe their minds seeing this 16 y.o. destroy VP and Navi. I still rewatch those matches sometimes

sergej 2018-19 was magical

Niko on mouz was my favorite rookie...and the first player I watched every game of I could.

Don't you dare to speak ill of my boy jimbo!

Broky is def my favorite rookie because of how quickly and impressively he found top tier form and from such a young age FaZe really found a gem in Latvia

NA rookies/talents back in the day getting called "onliners" in rank S was peak counter strike

one thing, that a lot of rookies comes from ru-speaking teams. it shows how incredibly strong this region is and probably, there is a lot more to come

academy league has been enjoyable to watch. the teams, the strats they used, the kind unconventional playstyle and last but not least, the production was so wyld, the cinematics alone would make weplay a potential major TO and they would slap it. imagine the talent behind WPAL with valve funds

Laundry looks like he is about to cook me the most overpriced burger ever

Monesy is my favorite rookie due to his personality

the dan m clip. what a classic. crisp clean lock

Such a banger vid. I think nertz is like broky in that he felt like a guy who we stopped calling a rookie in months and at the end of the year people literally forgot he was a rookie with all his great performances

My favorite is Donk just for the fact that he kept screaming on lan and people had to tell him to settle down.

broky is for sure my favorite rookie. he went from a supportive rifler to a superstar AWPer on FaZe in a year. Also, he's the only rookie to ever actually play long-term for FaZe, THE super team org. In a team full of veterans, he's never been less reliable in any way. As you said, you didn't really count him as a rookie after a few months.

frozen was god of our cz/sk csgo scene at 13years but he couldnt play lan bcs of age gap

The amount of "how to cs" video's are everywhere and the game is less underground as it was, i think the young minds benefit from this. This shows how great our favorite game really is. Next generations Will hopefully keep it alive for me to watch it in a retirementhome

only one rookie had science community name a law after him: Bogdan. i rest my case

got me at "The Kjaerbye" 😭😭

oh man i miss the Dan M brainrot videos

He hasnt tweeted anything since announcing it in March, but Nivera did say hes coming back to CS as a free agent so I guess hes just looking for a home.

Nertz the 35 year old rookie goat

Love the clip introducing Ocean “They flashed A”.

0:29 you are speaking about fifflaren and you have picture of heaton😁

NA 10 mans were peak CS content from me. ShahZam's laugh, DaZeD yelling GLOCKS, MANNyGER, COACH

Cant believe Based Launders didnt talk about the first iteration of Mouz NXT

that Zywoo baby is pure nightmare fuel

the best CS youtuber and you’re the reason why I wanna study journalism and start talking CS!!

I always have a soft spot for 26 year old rookie oskar on hellraisers and mouz

I love these essays Launders.

1:54 ocean's most impactful clip of all time

Amazing video, Was really interesting. My rookie of the year will go to Donk if he wins a couple more silverware and has those insane stats continuing.

As someone not a fan of j9, glad to see he got heat from the pro's. Damn your ad for acezone just showed me how cheap it is for the price tag they give it.

h0bbit joining gambit in 2016 after he'd been bought from Tengri. the guy was playing in Ekibastuz of all places. A small town in Kazakhstan and he went on to win the 2017 majror inkrakow. I can't say that he was in his teens, but he definitely was a rookie.

need that hasbullah pic with the deagle blaze ASAP!!!!!!

seeing as you’re loveposting today i’ll chime in and say GREAT EDITING VIVID 💕

this launders guy is great. no one makes cs2 content as good as my goat laundy

Your content is so good, I started playing CS in July last year I can’t believe I missed out on so much

watching NA 10 mans back in 14/15 and 16 to some extent was fun. These matches produced some of the absolute CLASSICS of CSGO such as "FGB whats your name" or "HE'S A MANAGERR" with the likes of "glawwwwks". Very vintage and refined CS moments tbh

Oh man, youre killing it with this content! You should do a video about amazing players and their fall from Grace, maybe Even throw some shade to those who moved to valorant. Would be Nice!

The real Lisan Al Gaib ahahaahh man I love u launders never change

bro nivera is coming back !

i lol'd at action bronson pic for flusha

Who remembers when Launders made demo videos? Miss those days...

b1t was my favorite rookie story of all time. that run was/is so unbelievable

lau the rookie pog

The way you called out wonderful like that at the start got me dying 😭

Favourite rookie has to be fame. He just fit into the major run so well.

The production value is off the charts.

I was getting HOT when the video kept progressing and b1t wasn't even mentioned yet lmao. Yes, Na'Vi it's in my heart (and on my skin actually), and he made me fall in love with the game even more, my Argentinian countrymen were the first ones to have that effect on me back in 2016 (IESF), then Na'Vi with s1mple, then B1t becoming such an unstoppable force so quickly. Also seeing him as the last piece of Na'Vi from the last Major and knowing how much of a sweet soul he is, it felt very endearing to see him reach that glory spot again, and which such a statement perfomance in the Final, he quickly tapped into his ultra instinct rookie form and made everyone take a knee.

Need more videos like this please

nivera is coming back can't wait to see him play

seeing Dan B’s face triggers some sort of dormant PTSD I didn’t know was possible

b1t is my favourite rookie. Love what donk and monesy are doing right now. Also I love that wonderful got the chance to shine as well. I saw great potential in him back when he was on Team Spirit.

Nivera said last month that he is hopping to come back to CS2. I agree with you, he was a huge loss, hopefully he comes back and joins another super rookie Espiranto and make a rookie team to win rookie tournaments

Such a good video

Personally Launders, I think JBa on Wildcard is the voice from the outer world, and he will lead us to paradise.

For me as a casual viewer starting to pick up cs2 it has to be donk, specially now after getting beaten out by FaZe Clan and sort of gettin figured out a bit. I Wonder how hes gonna bounce back if he does it, how he is gonna grow as a player if he does and how that Will turn up to be. 2nd will be monesy. Great video man!

launders, your youtube game is strong as hell lately!

I love how when you were naming legends off the dome you just named the NiP roster😂

I just recently got into cs but the rookies that I’ve seen that were really impressive I think are monesy ofc but also jimmphat he just is a stone cold killer

B1T was such a good rookie because of Booml4!

0:30, that's HeatoN though.

Reminder that Ocean is the most culturally significant rank S / faceit player of all time. You can go check but he literally played in every single CS:GO PUG that was streamed on twitch.

Nivera is back to CS

Sergej has to be my favorite rookie, 17 years old in a major final and 13th best player in the world in his first year on the top. Sadly we won't see him compete anymore.

Yachty a cold Sunday instrumental I see you

jimpphat is probably my favorite

i spent 20 minutes quality time with laundry today. today is a good day

Siuhy is my hipster pick. With all the spotlight on mechanically gifted and extremely high game aware individuals, I think it's easy to miss that he's been having success as a rookie IGL. And I don't really have anyone else in mind that really did that so fast in modern times.

Nivera

9:38 thats not NBK 💀

I loved Nivera too 😢😢😢

Honda best rookie ever. Started his career with a pistol ace against g2 Got a deag ace in the middlenof his career (7 rounds later) And ended his career washed out (2 maps later)

When HeatoN randomly pops up instead of Fifflaren

I think not mentioning Brollan is criminal, the fact that he's been playing for so long yet he's only 21 is insane. I know he has always been pretty inconsistent (even though it seems like he's getting more consistent now with mouz) but I think he deserves to be mentioned still

My 2 favourite Rookies are m0nesy and Donk. Im a full m0nesy Fan, got him as my Steam profile ouc since early 2022 but Donk is also just insanely craazy. He is also feeling the Game like its his real reality if you know what i mean. Niko is just living a normal life and gets a little bit out of cs but Donk is just playing all day and feeling it

everyone forgot about Hades when he hold ence as a stadin. He had a lot of presure and he delivered hard. But yeah zywoo and m0nesy takes the cake

Lau talking about Zywoo without mentioning s1mple challenge (impossible)

It‘s either spirit donk or mouz frozen.

B1t as number 1 rookie ever extremely based

If you gave oSee to karrigan he would save oSee -Launders 2024

I know this video is old, but wasn't Coldzera a rookie as well when he joined LG? If he was, then he is my pick. But I'm not sure if he played before that

monesy hands down the most exciting rookie of all time.

Mouz Scouting is impressiv

I think m0nesy is the best prototype of rookie superstar, the kid is the flashiest among all of this rookies.

I wouldn't call monesy being a future number 1 a "bold call"😂