Justifying CS: GO's strangest superstar: Andrey ‘Blad3’ Gorodensky
CS: GO's top sides have regressed back to the mean. On the spectrum where one stylistic extreme is pure "pugginess" and the other is pure "tactics, " far more of the current top teams are moving closer to the middle. Throughout the early history of CS: GO there were constant oscillations between these two extremes as the meta shifted to favor the hard-counter. In today's landscape, however , we see great IGL's like FalleN, Karrigan, MSL, Gla1ve, and zeus give differing degrees of individual freedom to their stars under a defined system. Leaders aim to provide the best of both world or at least a 60-40, 70-30 split.
The modern-day, universally agreed upon superstars of CS: GO share common qualities in this sense. Whether it be Niko, felps, coldzera, or device, the key to earning the superstar namesake lies in earning and displaying key characteristics with high consistency.
These identifiable ‘superstar characteristics’ often look at whether a player imposes game-changing impact and if he can create impact from unfavourable or even pressure environments. What’s more, this impact has to be directed with thought behind it. Simply finding an entry means nothing if you can’t snowball a round from it. There has to be the tactical system or perhaps structure of teamwork around a superstar’s effect to convert their skillset into rounds.
Andrey ‘Blad3’ Gorodensky, within this sense, is both the last of a dying breed and an unusual case study in what constitutes a superstar. At 30 years old, and boasting a legendary mind for leading his team both tactically in-game and emotionally outside of it, Blad3 is the epitome of what we consider an IGL. He’s a master puppeteer, perfectly pulling strings to make each his team and the enemy conform to their philosophy of the game. Blad3’s outlook on the game has been the driving factor that has seen his sides qualify for the last seven majors despite staggering odds and no form to build from.
In 2016 alone, Flipsid3 had to score big Bo3 and Bo1 wins over the in-form, top-10 ranked, Brazilian side of Tempo Storm/Immortals at both the MLG Columbus and ESL One Cologne 2016 qualifiers. Here, Blad3 was able to make each element of his team seamlessly blend together with his philosophy for approaching the game. There was never a consistent ‘top fragging’ star for Flipsid3, for Flipsid3 had no amazing star talent outside of Blad3 himself. Vlаdуslаv "bondik" Nеchуроrchuk, Georgi "WorldEdit" Yaskin, Jan "wayLander" Rahkonen, hell, even Oleksandr "Shara" Hordieiev, all had their brief moments associated with brilliance in Flipsid3. But brief moments of brilliance from an eclectic group of average to above-average players doesn't account for seven major qualifications in a row.
Blad3 delivers game-changing impact via his calling style and boasts a two-year stretch of high-level consistent success relative to the parts he’s had around him. Remembering that ‘success’ is relative. For a core that consists of a fundamentally sound veteran, above-average AWPer from Russia, and strangely strict Ukrainian IGL, their Major qualifications are large accomplishments.
In this sense, if we’re to look at our traditional model, Blad3 boasts both the influence and consistency to be called a superstar, albeit, from a strange angle.
But is that enough in order to call him any superstar? Can you really call the lowest mechanically skilled player on a borderline tier two or three European side a movie star? What about the gaps between Major qualifiers, the periods regarding utter disappointment where nothing is achieved? If he is such a celebrity, why can’t he pull his group out of their sunken place in the world-ranking?
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The modern-day, universally agreed upon superstars of CS: GO share common qualities in this sense. Whether it be Niko, felps, coldzera, or device, the key to earning the superstar namesake lies in earning and displaying key characteristics with high consistency.
These identifiable ‘superstar characteristics’ often look at whether a player imposes game-changing impact and if he can create impact from unfavourable or even pressure environments. What’s more, this impact has to be directed with thought behind it. Simply finding an entry means nothing if you can’t snowball a round from it. There has to be the tactical system or perhaps structure of teamwork around a superstar’s effect to convert their skillset into rounds.
Andrey ‘Blad3’ Gorodensky, within this sense, is both the last of a dying breed and an unusual case study in what constitutes a superstar. At 30 years old, and boasting a legendary mind for leading his team both tactically in-game and emotionally outside of it, Blad3 is the epitome of what we consider an IGL. He’s a master puppeteer, perfectly pulling strings to make each his team and the enemy conform to their philosophy of the game. Blad3’s outlook on the game has been the driving factor that has seen his sides qualify for the last seven majors despite staggering odds and no form to build from.
In 2016 alone, Flipsid3 had to score big Bo3 and Bo1 wins over the in-form, top-10 ranked, Brazilian side of Tempo Storm/Immortals at both the MLG Columbus and ESL One Cologne 2016 qualifiers. Here, Blad3 was able to make each element of his team seamlessly blend together with his philosophy for approaching the game. There was never a consistent ‘top fragging’ star for Flipsid3, for Flipsid3 had no amazing star talent outside of Blad3 himself. Vlаdуslаv "bondik" Nеchуроrchuk, Georgi "WorldEdit" Yaskin, Jan "wayLander" Rahkonen, hell, even Oleksandr "Shara" Hordieiev, all had their brief moments associated with brilliance in Flipsid3. But brief moments of brilliance from an eclectic group of average to above-average players doesn't account for seven major qualifications in a row.
Blad3 delivers game-changing impact via his calling style and boasts a two-year stretch of high-level consistent success relative to the parts he’s had around him. Remembering that ‘success’ is relative. For a core that consists of a fundamentally sound veteran, above-average AWPer from Russia, and strangely strict Ukrainian IGL, their Major qualifications are large accomplishments.
In this sense, if we’re to look at our traditional model, Blad3 boasts both the influence and consistency to be called a superstar, albeit, from a strange angle.
But is that enough in order to call him any superstar? Can you really call the lowest mechanically skilled player on a borderline tier two or three European side a movie star? What about the gaps between Major qualifiers, the periods regarding utter disappointment where nothing is achieved? If he is such a celebrity, why can’t he pull his group out of their sunken place in the world-ranking?
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