The Snakes and Betrayals of Counter-Strike 

2018* MINOR SPEAKING MISTAKE WHOLE VIDEO RUINED NOOOOOOOOOO

PHY if you're reading this, i must say,, never stop making these kind of videos. covering the lore of cs players is your niche. whatever bizzare stories you may find about esport cs.

calyx being the only relevant guy out of that envy roster gives off XANTARES post-BIG vibes

I think what makes the Kjaerbye story differ from the other stories of "betrayal" is that he has personally admitted that he wasn't able to cope with the responsibilities and expectations that came with being a major MVP, so he moved to North in order to play at a lower profile

stavn's been involved with the Hunden cheating scandals in heroic, with swisher (goat) and stabbing teammates and orgs behind their back, what a guy.

stabbi duo are legendary snakes but mid players

you also have to remember nifty coming back and joining 4ormula in advanced. he wasn't going to awp over their awper but then snaked him and made the awper play anchor roles and then booted him off of the team when he was playing bad. he did all that just to lose to inward in playoffs and failed to even make an hltv match. then he decides he should leave the team and look for an ecl team after dropping shitty stats in advanced. that guy cant stop scumming ppl.

gotta say you've been killing it with these videos. Probably the most entertaining CS youtuber right now

babe wake up new phy video dropped

The things that hurt most abt the whole cadian incident was the fact that Cadian had a huge impact of the heroic players careers and where they are today. If it wasn't for cadian stavn especially wld be no where near where they are today. Ppl blaming cadian for heroic losing a bunch of finals never mention that Stavn who was the star player, never performed in finals

No Aleksib and ENCE mention Sadge

I have never watched a match of CS in my life, I only watch Rocket League esports, but you tell these stories so well that I can't help but watch, love your style, voice, and basically every editing choice, keep it up

heroic and astralis situation was probably the craziest shit i have ever seen in esports and sports drama in general, especialy after cadian move to astralis, and the entire context before, everything about it is fuckin crazy

I'm so glad to see your CS2 channel blowing up with all these new successful videos you've been making :D

Damn, I only knew him from both the Inferno game you brought up and the Cache wallbang clip, had no idea Nifty had such a colorful past, pretty fun video.

You're definitely my favorite cs youtuber, such high quality videos about such interesting topics that I as a new fan don't know anything about. Keep it up man :)

Wait wait wait, I just realized you only have 15.4K subs. WHAT! The production quality is inane and the depth of these videos is very good. Even though I barely play CS I always love these videos. 10/10 stuff man. I can definitely see you hitting 100k before you know it.

Love these. As a fringe CS fan, hearing the lore drops is just fascinating and makes me wish I was there for these moments.

great video, i was a bit confused with the story line tho haha, i thought it was going to be about nifty mostly.

Back in my day, CSGO was so peak that it had awp quick scopes and 10 bullets in a mag, I miss it

You fill the void in the market for high quality, zoomer type, video essay-esque coverage of the esports scene. Thank you very much for the amazing content. Launders is the other channel i can think of. This channel is comparable to penguin who makes cs documentaries on maps.

Yo man found your videos recently and just wanted to tell you your videos are great man so informational but also like reading a story at the same time. Keep it up👍

I remember when I started following cs and envy was envyus were actually good. I even bought a envyus jacket in the white and blue. I miss Nbk, KennyS, apex, Kio, happy. The French shuffle history deserves a video.

You genuinely have your own style of CS content, rn you’re my favorite CS creator. Please don’t stop and keep it up!

Have I played competitive CS? No. Have I watched CS as an esport? No. Will I sit my happy ass down and watch every single loredump on this channel? HELL yeah.

I love these videos so much Phy, genuinely some of the best CS content i've watched in years, keep it up dude. The quality, storytelling, and humor of your videos are unmatched by almost everyone else I've seen. You've been killing it lately, very excited to see what you put out next :)

I was in the arena for the Nifty Fifty i cannot express just how fucking hype it was, Mousesports became the villains of the entire event for winning the series

Best cs esports content creator right now, don’t stop man. Love the videos

Man your content is so good. Actually getting me reinvested into the pro scene again. Keep up the good work!!!

I seriously enjoy this content. Glad to find someone who can finally catch me up on all of the cs information i missed or i even catch live. Talking to you M80 vs FNC 😭

These kinds of videos are the ones I enjoy so much, been watching your whole videos on these lore cs videos. Keep up the work!!

These videos are incredible, don't stop making them.

these videos are so good man keep it up 🔥

Your content is so amazing! I got into valorant esports this past year and now I'm starting to enjoy the deep history of cs esports coming from you.

hearing that envyus had a brief NA phase back in 2018 was crazy i dont even remember anything like that, thanks for your amazing videos

Absolutely love your videos, please keep them coming!

My dumb brain made me laugh because when you made the note about Semphis their entire team dead by the side seems like the skull emote at the end of the phrase.

7:30 the fact that they are also replacing NAF with devilwalk

I get way too excited to watch your videos

love all the cs lore vids. keep up the good vids

So stoked to see you uploading consistently. Your content is incredible. I like your videos so much I turned on the bell icon thing without you having to tell me to

I have never been interested on CS but GOD your videos are so good, keep the incredible work

i love these videos where you're talking about cs history and taking us down memory lane, you do a really good job covering the important details! would def love to hear you talk about koosta cause i think his career is interesting and always thought his failure on TL wasnt his fault

phy you've been on a roll recently, this is really really good.

i love these videos. they're super informational and make me want to make stuff like this. looking forward to the next one!

Watching every video you recently dropped. Such good content!

I don't even watch CS but this channel is extremely entertaining at telling these stories Keep it up!

Broo, love these lore dives of CS

Glad you talked about nifty, I dont think he gets talked about enough. He was always pretty mediocre on renegades besides one IEM sydney map so it's no surprise that they became a team making deep runs as soon as they kicked him and made azr IGL, even though gratisfaction was a pretty average awper. I think that guy had an ego through the roof.

I have to say - I really enjoy your new content Shroud! Never was a big fan, but this stuff is straight up gold!

Just watched one of your yugioh vids yesterday and then got recommended this. Based, cs2 is sick.

PHY your humours on point and the vids are fire keep em coming

Nifty, My take on this is that he's simply too inexperienced at the time, if you go to HLTV and check out his performance, (selfless, renegades, Envy) you can see that he simply was attempting to rebuild teams on all 3, and when he has to step up for the 3rd time in a row, he took it too far and decided that moneyball was the new method for envy and was overall burnt out after failing, explains why the constant shuffles and the constant IGL + AWP Pressure was a nightmare. also I feel that yes his decisions are still kinda in the grey zone and his feud with TL was just unjust, He is still flamed now even to this day for mistakes that kept doubling down! I'm glad he took a break, hopped back on the server 2 years later and retired in march, #niftyfifty

Please keep doing what you're doing. Such entertaining videos!

Thanks for the effort put into this video. Knew all about the Stabbi n Stabn story but had no idea the EnvyUs Nifty shitshow went so deep.

Watched 3 of your videos today after they popped up on recommended. I know a little of CS, "anti-eco" is where my knowledge stops. Hooked. You tell the stories very well. Makes me want to watch the next major

Awesome videos man. Keep em up

right in time I just finished all the other videos lmao

You have a serious talent for this. Keep at this great content, it’s awesome to watch!!

Damn I haven't played cs in years but i love these types of videos wether it's rocket league cs or even games i never played i still enjoy them so yes plz make more !

Starts off with the renegades Sydney run, love to see it

Thanks dawg i dont even play this game you just make banger vids

How could you title a video "The Snakes and Betrayals of Counter-Strike" and not mention Astralis-kjaerbye, Envy-kioShiMa, NiKo-karrigan, allu-Aleksib and NaVi/Gambit-Zeus?

amazing video as always

Bro the come up for you has been crazy. I swear just last week i clicked on your worst match ever vid and it had like 10k views. keep killing it

Loving the videos soooo much! Keep it up!

Crazy vid, keep it going 👌

Watching all these videos and randomly finding the (*other game*) superstars in is kinda fun ngl

you literally sound like hypio tech to me for some reason, cool video man

very well done thank you for cs history

LOVE THE CONTENT GREAT PACING

stanislaw deserves a shoutout for this one too

Subscribed sfter your worst CS match video and have been hooked ever since - love what you're content keep it up ❤

Damn man nice video you deserve the sub

5:05 "no"

where was niftys wallbang on cache :D? great video as always

I feel like the organisation should be the main blame takers in the stabbi situation. Heroic in the end chose to kick cadian. Astralis pursued the players without communication to heroic afaik. I feel like its quite realistic they weren't happy in the team and wanted a new outlook. And i dont blame employees to choose another employer that pays higher salary and has staff members they prefer. Heroic got out of it quite well with the buy out and still doing ok in the top team list.

Bad Fallen was the biggest Heel in WWE history

bro im glad we finally covering nifty cus i feel like it fell under the radar so hard

big fan of the videos, keep it up bud

We need more CS historians making videos. Kino content

Could have mentioned the FNATIC split up to Godsent and FNATIC!

you are slowly becoming my favorite cs youtuber. Please don't touch kids

Man this rules, you make great content. Almost good enough to get me to play cs again.

Is it bad that I immediately thought of Astralis as I finished reading the title

Not talking about stavn stealing swisher's girl and Malbs getting a runback for his boy at cologne was a big miss

Great Videos!

Your content is awesome dude :)

Really nice video my friend

um why have i only just come across phy

The biggest snake is valve itself and Gabe should be forced to play 24/7 his owm atrocity.

its 2017 in Sydney? jesus, these timezones seem so far apart

Something I don’t really get about the whole Cadian situation is, how come after being booted from Heroic, then they boot Stabbi, why did they not just take Cadian back? Was there apprehension from his side?

Maybe make a vid of the most loyal players, Chrisj mouz Niko mouz Krimz fnatic Etc players who stayed on the same org but with wildy different rosters

i will never get more satisfaction from a team losing than astralis with stavn and jabbi, actualy fucking snakes at play right here they deserve nothing but loss after loss after loss

new phy video!!

You gotta cover North 🙌 Please I beg

Wanna talk about Allu, AleksiB, and 2019 ENCE?

To be fair, fnx wasn't getting invested in the team as much as the others

You saying cadian is tom brady makes me think youve never watched american football one day in your life lol