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Rain (gamer)
Håvard Nygaard (born 27 August 1994), better known as Rain (stylized in all lowercase), is a Norwegian professional ''Counter-Strike 2'' player for FaZe Clan. He is the longest lasting member of any Counter-Strike lineup, having played since the team first formed under the Team Kinguin banner in 2015. He is widely considered to be one of the best entry fraggers in Counter-Strike history. Career After entering the pro scene following several stints in the semi-professional level, rain moved between several Norwegian teams, from partyastronauts to LGB. Whilst these teams gained little success internationally, they were consistently the best team nationally and rain was consistently the best player on these teams. In May 2015 he was then poached by Team Kinguin who were one of the first organizations to experiment with international rosters. This team peaked with a quarterfinal placement at the major tournament ESL One Cologne 2015 where they went out with a loss to Team SoloMi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
HLTV
HLTV, formerly an initialism of Half-Life Television, is a news website and forum which covers professional ''Counter-Strike 2'' esports news, tournaments and statistics. It is one of the leading websites within the ''Counter-Strike'' community with over 4 million unique visitors each month. In February 2020, the site was acquired by the sports betting group Better Collective. History HLTV was founded in 2002 by Martin "Martin" Rosenbæk and Per "Nomad" Lambæk. It was initially created to host recordings of ''Counter-Strike (video game), Counter-Strike 1.6'' matches, although it grew to include ''Counter-Strike'' and ''Half-Life (series), Half-Life'' news. HLTV started storing GOTV demos for ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' when they were introduced in 2012. It has since evolved to include news, statistics, and analysis for the professional esports scene of ''Global Offensive''. Since late 2015, HLTV ranks the teams based on their own rating system. HLTV have awarded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
