Counter-Strike 2 is nearing its full release, it’s time we say goodbye to CS:GO. So far, we’ve looked at the best teams, the best duos, and even had a brief look at the best players, but now it's time to go deeper with those players and celebrate the most exceptional players to have graced our screens for the past decade.
With that in mind, where else could we start than with dupreeh?
He may not be regarded as the greatest player in history, but no one has won as many Majors as he has, and given that he’s also the only player to appear at every CS:GO Major, no one can claim to have the longevity he has either.
So, let’s take a look through the years of dupreeh, at his stats and achievements, and celebrate the man who will always be one of the most consistent players ever to touch CS:GO.
dupreeh began his time in CS:GO on 3DMAX, but quickly found his way to Copenhagen Wolves. There, he first began his partnership with device, and by the end of the year, Xyp9x, and together they finished in the top-8 of the very first CS:GO Major, Dreamhack Winter 2013.
As the year ended, dupreeh saw himself named as the eighteenth-best player on HLTV’s inaugural CS:GO top twenty players list, a list he would feature on another six times in his career.
Highlighted for his 0.77 kills per round, the seventh best that year, he said to HLTV in an interview at the time that he believes that “2014 is going to bring us something big”, and it wouldn’t be long before that prediction came to fruition.
At EMS One: Katowice 2014, now with Dignitas, the trio of dupreeh, device, and Xyp9x went one step further than they had at the previous Major, finishing in the semi-finals following a 2-0 defeat at the hands of NIP.
But that wouldn’t deter them from soon winning their first S-tier tournament as a unit at Fragbite Masters Season 2, defeating LDLC, Virtus.pro, and Titan in the process.
At the remaining two Majors of the year, Dignitas would again finish in the semis at ESL One: Cologne, losing to fnatic, and in the top eight at Dreamhack Winter 2014, falling to NAVI.
Another strong year, dupreeh improved on his positioning in the HLTV top 20 players for that year, rising to 16th. The second highest-rated CT side player that year, he ended with a 1.39 CT side rating and an impressive 1.36 pistol round rating, making him the best player in the world on pistol rounds in that year.
As 2015 rolled around, device once again moved organisation as he, device, and Xyp9x all moved to TSM. Now lining up alongside karrigan and cajunb, it was in 2015 where dupreeh was to pick up his first win at a LAN event.
Claiming his first LAN win at the four-team PGL Championship Series Kick Off event, the team took down fnatic in a 3-1 BO5 victory. Just a week later, they also managed to take down NIP 2-1 in the final of the FACEIT League 2015 Stage 1 Finals, but they wouldn’t be their only LAN wins that year.
Later in the year, they also won Fragbite Masters Season 4 Finals and FACEIT League 2015 Stage 2 Finals before claiming their final LAN win of the year at the PGL CS:GO Championship Series Season 1.
2015 was also another consecutive year in which dupreeh would make every Major playoff available, finishing in the top eight at both ESL One: Katowice and Dreamhack Open: Cluj Napoca, as well as top-4 at ESL One: Cologne. As a result of that and the tournament victories, he also once again climbed the HLTV top 20 as he was ranked the 12th best player in the world that year.
As with every other year before it, 2016 brought about another organisational change for dupreeh. Having parted ways with TSM towards the end of 2015, alongside his former teammates, Astralis was formed.
A challenging year in which they failed to reach the LAN winning heights of the previous years, they still managed to finish in the top-8 of both MLG Columbus and ESL One: Cologne, but would fail to win a LAN event until the very last event of the year, ECS Season 2 Finals.
The only year in the first seven years of CS:GO in which dupreeh would fail to be named within HLTV’s top twenty players, he would soon find the eternal glory he had been waiting for at the turn of the new year.
Now playing with gla1ve and kjaerbye in place of karrigan and cajunb, dupreeh and Astralis started 2017 as brightly as possible, winning their first Major at the ELEAGUE Atlanta Major in January.
dupreeh may have been the lowest-rated player on Astralis with his 1.08 rating, but he told HLTV “To finally win a Major and to be the first Danish players to achieve it was something special."
He continued his year strong and put in a 1.30 HLTV rating at Dreamhack Las Vegas, but Virtus.pro managed to overcome Astralis and get their revenge for their defeat in the Major final in the semi-finals.
Astralis responded well, bringing home the IEM Katowice trophy just a month later following a 3-1 victory over FaZe in which dupreeh hit this legendary clip.
It would be the final trophy Astralis won that year, although there were a couple of 2nd place finishes and a surprising loss to Gambit in the PGL Krakow Major semi-finals.
A decisive year all in all and an unprecedented one given the scale of the trophies they won. It was enough for dupreeh to be rated as the 10th best player in the world by HLTV that year.
While 2018 wouldn’t bring an organisational change, there would be a change within the team. Major MVP kaerbye departed, and Magisk arrived in his place. It was a move that not just suited dupreeh, but also allowed Astralis to become the greatest team of all time.
"Ever since Kjaerbye joined the team we've had somewhat of a roleclash, as we both wanted to play as the entry-fragger and the person to play aggressive to gain map control either as CT or T. We came to the conclusion to let Kjaerbye take that role, as I saw him being better at communicating and taking the necessary initiative, where I am a much more tunnel-visioned entry-fragger who works best alone, and working alone is very much what a lurker does.
Honestly I've never been super comfortable around lurking, I don't think it is my strength to play off timings, so I adapted and changed my lurking into a more aggressive solo player, always trying to keep two players at a position or at least one super-occupied, either getting the kill or making a lot of noise, making it easier for my teammates to get map control elsewhere." - dupreeh told HLTV.
For the remainder of 2018, there were only five tournaments Astralis attended with Magisk that they didn’t win, and together, the team won their second Major, FACEIT London 2018.
The first of 3 consecutive Major wins, it was a statement of intent for the team that was quickly becoming the most dominant of all time.
By the end of the year, they had also won the inaugural season of the Intel Grand Slam, and by the end of it, dupreeh was rated a career-best fifth in the world by HLTV thanks to his 1.17 HLTV rating across the year.
2019 was much of the same Astralis, not quite as dominant thanks to the Summer era of Liquid, but with wins at both IEM Katowice and StarLadder Berlin, they did claim both Majors of the year and with four Majors, the core of dupreeh, gla1ve, device, and Xyp9x had then won more Majors than any other player in CS:GO history.
In 2019 and 2020, dupreeh made his final two appearances in the HLTV top 20, finishing sixteenth and ninth.
However, as time persisted, the Astralis star faded, and at the end of 2021, dupreeh, Magisk, and coach zonic sought greener grass elsewhere.
2022 was a challenging year for dupreeh and his new squad, Vitality. With a 1.02 HLTV rating it will go down as the lowest-rated full year of his CS:GO career, and results weren’t exactly up to scratch for a team regarded as a French and Danish superteam.
Still, they persisted, and as the Summer break saw Vitality sign Spinx, things began to look up for the international squadron with a win at ESL Pro League Season 16, their only event win of the year and a promise of bigger and better things to come.
2023 was set to be a big year for the team, with a home Major at BLAST.tv Paris firmly in their sights. In the run-up to the event, they won IEM Rio, and dupreeh himself put in a star performance in the semi-finals against Cloud9, with a 39-24 statline securing an overtime win on Vertigo after being 12-3 down at the half.
In Paris, Vitality became the second team to win a Major without dropping a map and secured their goal of claiming ZywOo and apEX’s home Major, a victory that also meant that with five Majors, no player had ever won - or could ever win - as many Majors in CS:GO as dupreeh.
“I would never in my wildest imaginations have thought that I would go out and become the name that hopefully I will be remembered for," dupreeh said after the Major win.
The culmination of a strong two-month period in which dupreeh had a 1.12 HLTV rating at Rio and a 1.11 rating in Paris, it was the veteran’s best spell for the international team, although sadly, it was also his swansong. Soon to be replaced by flameZ, dupreeh now finds himself without a team, but with CS2 on the horizon, maybe we’ll see him lift another Major in his home country soon.
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