The Fastest Losses in Esports History 

Linkus may indeed be effortlessly cool, but I miss punch and his CSGO lore, that guy's great Sadge

Linkus is so effortlessly cool

To give a bit of context: the SOAR vs ENVYUS game was trolled because Envy's solo laner at the time was having internet connection issues and kept getting kicked from the match in game 1. Hi-Rez claimed it wasn't a problem with their servers and forced them to continue playing. The tragic part is that I believe this was the only time their substitute solo laner got a chance to play in the pro league, and he was immediately fined along with the rest of the team for something he likely had no say in.

The Hbox one is on another level. He doesnt even pop off... he just sits there knowing he killed a man infront of thousands of people

Glad to see big stars like professional hitman horse runner Linkus giving our small creator a stage.

Atrioc explaining how Smash works to Linkus reminds me of some guy who has never dated in his life explaining his favorite video game to his new girlfriend

I would suggest looking into some of the legendary "longest" e-sports games. Not the ones that are truly the most time consuming but rather the ones that induced an inescapable rage in the opponent due to the length of time taken. I would recommend you take a look at most old school Fatslob games from Age of Empires 2. Truly memorable stuff.

The fastest loss in gaming history was anyone that faces The Ghost.

Love how linkus is featured but added nothing except helping big a win at chess

8:00 okay, at that time Bellona was absolutely fucking broken, that was after the scourge got nerfed too. She went through like 5 more nerfs after that. She was dumb fun to play if you somehow got her through bans in comp tho. Originally you just get scourge dive the t2 or 3 tower and had enough lifesteal to kill and survive.

SC2 has a little over 250k active players in 1v1 this season. Its two peaks since 2016 were ~321k. Those might just be ranked numbers. It's mostly old players, and new player introduction had steadily declined til recently, but it's on an up-curve now. Streamers like UThermal are bringing back a lot of interest. =)

contrary to lol, in dota its completely up to the discretion of the pro team whether they want to forfeit. they could forfeit immediately after the draft if they wanted to, but since the game has good comeback mechanics most people try to play games out as long as it makes even a glimpse of sense

I've gotta say the quality of content that Big A has been putting out lately is insane. Every video has been incredibly enjoyable to watch. Keep it up glizzy man

as a smite guy, soar v envy is infamous and to this day i'm shocked that soar's jungler, cyclonespin, still has a career today after this game

this gets a sub for how they made sure the viewer understood what was going on and why it was crazy. with the age of empires it was like storytelling when describing the importance of sheep.

That baskin play live was hilarious and unbelievable at the same time

I love Linkus so much, ever since I watched the "I Trained a Zelda Speedrunner to become a Hitman" I've enjoyed seeing him in videos 😁

Recently in Starcraft Broodwar there was a game in ASL that ended when player heared an attack from his opponent's unit dark templar. Instantly over. 1 hit.

Oh man, great video Big A. I remember having a friend send me the VOD of that Idra Noni game back in 2011. Somehow a top 3 all time funniest Starcraft games YET barely a top 5 funniest Idra ggs. Also don't know how I missed that HGod ROUT at MGC a few weeks ago. Absolutely crazy anytime he hits a rest on side-b. Nuts stuff

After the SC clip, I was hoping that for Melee Atrioc would have shown KoDoRiN vs Kurv. I personally find that one a lot funnier; KoDoRiN wins an entire best of 5 set in 3 seconds using only two moves. It's also especially funny if you know Kurv's history with Marth.

The dota explanation: It is a very snowbally game where some characters are good early and fall off later (Pudge) and exist more to prevent the other team's carry (person who gets good late) from really getting off the ground. By being down 3k gold minutes into the game now all of the enemy players are far ahead and because your odd comp is absolutely not meant to go late game the only way they would have won is if the other team absolutely threw

After seeing the chess one, I spent 30 minutes unsuccessfully trying to recreate the scenario until I realized that the strat is entirely dependent on white going knight to d2, trapping his own white king. The move is only possible because white shot himself in the foot, an apt comparison to the Smite and League ones where the team throws on a failed level 1 jungle invade

The way Atrioc explained Smash to Linkus was so awkward.

Pulling that idra nony clip out of the void is some top tier research. I watched that go down live and still forgot about it.

i like how nobody noticed the guest struggling with the mic boom arm covering his face, he even moved it out of the way and atrioc moves it back lol

The algorithm HATES this video, it only appeared once for me and never again, but I'm rlly pumped since I just rewatched the longest esports games video.

i love linkus and atrioc combo!! also the fact big A giving dota some time in his video FeelsStrongMan Clap thanks G.H.

that hbox win is almost as cool as the time he passed out from popping off too hard

The funny thing about the Smite one is in normal games you're not even allowed to surrender before the 10 minute mark in normal circumstances. You can only do that if a teammate never loaded in (at the 5 minute mark) or in a custom game. So you couldn't even beat this time in a ranked game.

One of the funniest things you could do in HoN back in the day with 5 man was level 1 kongor/roshan before first creep wave and then everyone going straight mid and push until win

Okay, the HBox one was so damn cool, I'm glad to be alive in this very moment!

This acct was made in 2006, before Atrioc had a YT account obviously. But lately I've becoming more and more of a fan. I know he's gonna continue to blow. I wanna smoke a blunt with him.

Big A thanks for getting my cat down from the tree but can you return him soon I am starting to miss him.

I can’t believe this friendship started with them getting paired into a two player minecraft speedrun

Great content, just discovered you. Where did you get your Enron hat? I need one!

Hey Big A nice upload man. I 100% had no involvement in a vehicular manslaughter that took place in western Minnesota in 1986. Keep it up man!

Hungrybox: "You're a bed now and I'm going to rest on you."

That last one in Melee was just the textbook definition of cyberbullying

yooooo we need more of this

That looked like box was just like... playing around with an ai.... terrifying

SC2 is very much still alive. It's very much a niche scene of dedicated fans, not the mass market of games like League of Legends, but it is still there and doing fine. You could argue that Heart of the Swarm basically is SC3 as it brought a similar level of change to things like available units as the change from SC1 to SC2. SC2 basically just went games as a service model and got regular updates rather than getting a new installment in the series.

the dota 2 game if I am not mistaken its the one where they tried a 5 man mid push and it failed. it took 6 mins cos they tried to salvage their lanes after but just like the smite game and the league game. they lost all their lanes.

my favorite professional Age of Empires game instant loss was when one guy built walls around his opponents base and trapped him inside

The smash clips is me whenever I play against my friends 😂 Dying instantly everytime 😭

I’m behind on my college application process, haven’t showered in awhile, look like shit, been eating like shit, but I still feel good when Atrioc posts.

i love seeing atrioc gushing about how hype the melee set is LOL

these losses are so spooky thanks for the Halloween video atrioc

First of your videos I've come across, really enjoyed that!

Atrioc should cover the FGC sometimes in the future, that's some FUN content to be had.

in csgo, dying to awp is better than dying to smg. so the Ts just dived to kill themselves at a cost efficient round.

take a shot every time Big A says "it's my understanding"

16:35 Hbox's thumbs up is legendary after that round

Seeing that Smite comp and map is insane 😭 I remember those days

My favorite part of the HBox clip is the casual thumbs up after the match.

EG in this year's Dota 2 The International went 6-0 on the qualifiers day only to lose immediately in the elimination stage, which wasn't the fastest loss in Dota history but it was certainly embarrassing.

I miss Punch

I kinda wish you had the Axe vs silentwolf evo game included in this list just because it is so hype. The hbox one is cool but that wasn't even a major while the axe one was just a major but EVO!

I remember watching that Smite loss live. I was rooting for Envy to win that matchup. It hurt so bad bro

They lost faster than I did with Wall Street Bets

Little bit of extra lore on the smite match, this game led to a new rule where players would not be allowed to surrender.

with the smite game, the first game in the match the losing teams solo laner dc'd and the smite crew made them play it out. They made them play with a sub for game two, so with a sub in game 2 and losing game 1 to a dc, they just trolled and surrendered when it didnt work. Also, bellona (Baskin's god) has an ability where she swings around a hammer, then slams it down in front of her. The more people it hits on the swing around, the more the slam does. So she nuked them all with it lol

Warowl commentating at 1:17 is fucking amazing

RIP Life. I Have so many fond memories of Life's reverse 3-0s and killing blue flame hellions with lings. The game would be different if he was still around. Reynor's ling usage is the only thing that comes close to filling that void in SC2 for me.

You’re the best, always making me feel good when down

coolest thing clutchbox has ever done imo

That sheep heist best play i ever seen haha.

6:05 should be a common way to treat those effin hackers

Envy Dust at 7:00 was the sub lol. I played against him in TFT a few weeks ago.

Idra also rage surrendered to an army that was mostly hallucinations IIRC.

Linkus reminds me of a well adapted Chibi (the guy from the tomba speedrun live video)

Happy to see Atrioc comply with Bring Your Son To Work Day by having Linkus over!

first time seeing most of these. great concept

Surprised theres none of Idra just exiting ,angry opponent choose a race he didnt like that day.

although technically it wasn't faster than hbox's game, axe vs silent wolf at evo is insane and if you haven't seen you should check it out.

Korea: "You cheat in a video game: straight to jail"

as a casual pink puffball main, that Smash Melee match was beautiful

there was a m2k hungrybox smash melee game where it ended very very quickly, i think as quick as this one if not quicker, but I think m2k was trolling

QuacK saying "so theres this guy called ken" at 17:24 has to be Twitch Chat of the Year.

As soon as you said StarCraft, I knew it would be about Greg Fields (IdrA) without even knowing which specific game.

I wise that Atrioc would show us a video of him playing smite during the twitch rivals event, when he was playing as loki

I saw that Smite game live. It's singlehandedly the reason why f6 isn't a thing in Smite Pro League anymore lol

I love that its not "the quickest wins in esports" gotta keep that pessimistic mindset to keep up with Sir Glizzard

This looks like when you have to pretend to be interested in what your boss is saying.

linkus is dressed like hes about to "hack into the mainframe"

10 months later and Linkus is still effortlessly cool 😎

Big A sure loves his MOBA’s

You should've put the 2 move loss by Schlatt in the Chess game category as a bonus. For those who don't know, there is no way to lose faster in chess than this. What Schlatt did was open up his frontline so that his opponent on her second turn just hade to move out her queen to a position where she can hit the king in the next round who at this point could only move one step closer the queen and no other unit on the board could've intercepted this. And the look of "oh shit" on his face makes me believe this mistake was genuine, like he didn't purposefully lose as fast as he did, I think he actually didn't realize how bad this move was.

How did I know that the StarCraft II match was going to involve Idra? Haha.

look forward to the vids, great work. Have you watched the anime movie Bubble?

How does this not have "DOWN GOES VENRUKI" as one of the segments?

Shoutout to the guy who commented live, “I don’t care” while Big A talked about StarCraft fixing

for starcraft 1 there are games that lasted for just a few seconds during the kespa era for pausing the game and not typing exactly 'ppp' (in proleague)

For DOTA in particular, it's only in pro matches that you can surrender, which is why in DOTA you always just play it out; you usually have to.

StarCraft 2 was genuinely so Damn good to my young mind I’d play it all the time with friends and brothers it’s such a good time even now

As a smite enjoyer I’m pleased to see big A, and smite in the same video

Wait is Atrioc growing alot again!? Let's goooo

Why am I not surprised the fastest SC match involved IdrA 😂Absolute madlad

1:50 crazy chat

Neat to see smite represented. I dont play anymore but I put over 1600 hours into it and I was actively watching around the time that match happened.

Another great game for this is Street Fighter 2: Super Turbo. Alex Valle (Sagat) vs Kuni (Zangief) from Evo 2009. First match is like 10 seconds long. Next one is almost as fast.