S1mple

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s1mple
Oleksandr s1mple Kostyliev.jpg
s1mple at IEM Katowice Major 2019
Current team
Team Natus Vincere
RoleAWPer
Game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Personal information
NameОлександр Костилєв
(Oleksandr Kostyliev)
Born (1997-10-02) 2 October 1997 (age 26)
Nationality Ukrainian
Career information
Playing career2013–present
RoleSniper, Rifler
Team history
2014–2015Hellraisers
2015 Flipsid3 Tactics
2016 Team Liquid
2016–present Natus Vincere
2024Team Falcons (loan)
Career highlights and awards

Oleksandr Olehovych Kostyliev [lower-alpha 1] (born 2 October 1997), better known as s1mple, is a Ukrainian professional Counter-Strike 2 player for Natus Vincere. [2] He is considered to be one of the best players in Counter-Strike history. [1] [3] [4]

Contents

Early life

Kostyliev was born on 2 October 1997. [5] He started playing Counter-Strike at four years old at the recommendation of his older brother. S1mple picked up Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on its release in 2012, joining his first professional team a year later. [6]

Career

2014

S1mple's first team was a team called LAN DODGERS, but he was soon signed by Courage Gaming. Around September 2014, s1mple was signed by a large organisation known as Hellraisers. [7] There, he joined ANGE1, Dosia, Kucher, and Markeloff, who s1mple considers his idol. [8]

2015

In January 2015, s1mple was soon removed from Hellraisers due to his inflammatory comments about Germans, and an ESL wire ban for cheating. [9] S1mple himself says that the ban was from cheating in Counter-Strike 1.6. [10] However, records from ESL show that it was an in-game ban from when S1mple played CS:GO. [11] This ban was also extended to 2016 due to ban evasion. [12] S1mple was soon after signed by Flipsid3 Tactics, but his time in the team would cut short due to the team's semi-final exit at ESWC 2015. At this period in his career, s1mple was known for being quite "toxic", or rude to his teammates. [13] [14]

2016

After a short stint studying Chinese at a university, [6] s1mple moved to Los Angeles, United States in early 2016 and joined Team Liquid. A Team Liquid player, Spencer "Hiko" Martin, was standing in for Flipsid3 at ESWC 2015, and he developed a friendly relationship with s1mple there. [15] Team Liquid surprised at the first major, and reached the semifinals of MLG Major Championship: Columbus, before falling to the eventual champions, Luminosity Gaming. Despite this result at the game's biggest tournament, it wouldn't be long before s1mple would leave Team Liquid, citing homesickness. The next major of the year was approaching, and s1mple once again played for Team Liquid. [16] During the semifinals at ESL One Cologne 2016, Valve Corporation added a graffiti on Cache commemorating s1mple's falling AWP play against fnatic. [17] Thus, Team Liquid became the first North American team to reach a major final. They were stopped in the finals by the same Brazilian lineup of SK (formerly Luminosity Gaming). [18] After leaving Team Liquid, he replaced Danylo "Zeus" Teslenko on Natus Vincere. [19] With Na'Vi, s1mple won ESL One: New York 2016, and he was awarded the #4 placement in the HLTV top 20. [20]

2017

During the first major of the year, ELEAGUE Major 2017, Na'Vi lost to Astralis during the quarterfinals. After a group stage exit at PGL 2017 Krakow Major Championship, Na'Vi benched Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovacs and Denis "seized" Kostin while bringing in former member Danylo "Zeus" Teslenko. [21] [22] GuardiaN had been the AWPer for Na'Vi, so s1mple was forced to take up the sniper rifle after his departure. Despite these changes, Na'Vi continued their drought of results, and found a replacement for seized in the form Denis "electronic" Sharipov. [23] s1mple didn't find much success in 2017, but he still kept up his individual form from the previous year. S1mple was awarded the #8 placement in the HLTV top 20 this year, down from #4 in 2016 due to a lack of results in the team. [24]

2018

Na'Vi started 2018 with a semi-final finish at ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018. At the start of 2018, Brazilian organisation MIBR attempted to sign s1mple and flamie. The deal was reportedly very close to being finished, but Na'Vi asked for too high of a buyout, and the deal eventually fell through. [25] After two 2nd-place finishes at Starladder & i-League StarSeries Season 4 and Dreamhack Masters Marseille, Na'Vi won their first event of the year at StarSeries & i-League Season 5; they would follow it up with wins at CAC 2018, and ESL One Cologne 2018. S1mple won MVPs at StarSeries and Dreamhack Marseille, despite his team not winning the events. [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] In the semifinals at Cologne, they beat the best team at the time, Astralis. [31] Na'Vi would lose to Astralis at the second major of the year, FACEIT Major: London 2018. Na'Vi won their final event of the year, BLAST Pro Series: Copenhagen 2018, and s1mple would once again claim the MVP award. [32] Due to s1mple's personal performance, [33] he would be nominated for the #1 spot at the HLTV top 20 players of 2018. [34] According to the statistics from HLTV, s1mple in 2018 achieved the highest individual rating out of all of previous top 20 players. In retrospect, 2018 s1mple is considered by many fans and pundits alike as the best player to ever touch CS:GO. [35] [36] [37] [38]

2019

Na'Vi came 3rd to 4th in the first major of the year. S1mple would keep up his form from 2018, [39] and receive an MVP at StarSeries Season 7. After this, Na'Vi would eventually hit a slump and replace s1mple's long time teammate Ioann "Edward" Sukhariev with Kirill "Boombl4" Mikhailov who was in September 2019 made the team's leader (or IGL). [40]

2021

Na'Vi went into the PGL Major as the heavy favourites after placing first in their regional ranking tournament by reverse sweeping Gambit in the finals. [41] After going undefeated in the Legends stage of the Stockholm Major, Na'Vi proceeded to the playoffs, defeating home favorites NiP in the process. [42] Na'Vi retained their form and won the Major, making history by winning every single map played throughout the tournament. [43] S1mple's individual performance through the Major, including a 2.26 HLTV rating in one of the two maps against Gambit in the semifinals, earned him tournament MVP. [44] [45] At the end of the year, s1mple was named Best Esports Player at The Game Awards. [46]

2023–present: Counter-Strike 2

On 26 October 2023, s1mple announced that he would be stepping away from professional Counter-Strike competition temporarily. He would be replaced by w0nderful on 31 October. [47] [48] Upon the release of Counter-Strike 2 , which replaced CS:GO shortly before he stepped away, s1mple was critical of the game, saying that it was a "shit game". [49] The break would ultimately mean he would be on the bench for NaVi during PGL Copenhagen 2024, as they ended up winning their second Major. [50]

s1mple would return to professional Counter-Strike competition on 19 February 2024, signing on a one-month loan with the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund-backed Team Falcons, which saw him compete at the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown online event. This loan spell would only last 1 match, as Team Falcons lost to Metizport in the first round. [51] [52]

Notable achievements

PlacementTournamentLocationDate
With Team Liquid
Bronze medal icon.svg MLG Major Championship: Columbus Columbus, United States March 29, 2016 – April 3, 2016
Silver medal icon.svg ESL One Cologne 2016 Cologne, Germany July 5, 2016 – July 10, 2016
With Natus Vincere
Gold medal icon.svg ESL One: New York 2016 New York, United States September 30, 2016 – October 2, 2016
Bronze medal icon.svgStarSeries Season 3 Kyiv, Ukraine April 4, 2017 – April 9, 2017
Bronze medal icon.svgESL One Cologne 2017 Cologne, Germany July 7, 2017 – July 9, 2017
Bronze medal icon.svg ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018 Boston, United StatesJanuary 12, 2018 – January 28, 2018
Silver medal icon.svgDreamHack Masters Marseille 2018 Marseille, France April 18, 2018 – April 22, 2018
Gold medal icon.svgStarSeries Season 5Kyiv, UkraineMay 28, 2018 – June 6, 2018
Gold medal icon.svgCAC 2018 Shanghai, China June 14, 2018 – June 18, 2018
Gold medal icon.svg ESL One Cologne 2018 Cologne, Germany July 3, 2018 – July 8, 2018
Bronze medal icon.svg ELeague CS:GO Premier 2018 Atlanta, United States July 21, 2018 – July 29, 2018
Silver medal icon.svg FACEIT Major: London 2018 London, United Kingdom September 5, 2018 – September 23, 2018
Silver medal icon.svgEPICENTER 2018 Moscow, Russia October 23, 2018 – October 28, 2018
Silver medal icon.svgBLAST Pro Series: Lisbon 2018 Lisbon, Portugal December 14, 2018 – December 15, 2018
Bronze medal icon.svg IEM Katowice 2019 Katowice, Poland February 13, 2019 – March 3, 2019
Gold medal icon.svgStarSeries Season 7 Shanghai, China March 30, 2019 – April 7, 2019
Bronze medal icon.svgESL One Cologne 2019 Cologne, Germany July 2, 2019 - July 7, 2019
Bronze medal icon.svgDreamHack Masters Malmö 2019 Malmö, Sweden October 1, 2019 - October 6, 2019
Bronze medal icon.svgESL Pro League Season 10: Finals Odense, Denmark December 3, 2019 - December 8, 2019
Silver medal icon.svgICE Challenge 2020 London, United Kingdom February 1, 2020 - February 6, 2020
Gold medal icon.svgBLAST Premier: Spring 2020 Regular Season London, United Kingdom January 31, 2020 - February 16, 2020
Gold medal icon.svgIEM Katowice 2020 Katowice, Poland February 24, 2020 – March 1, 2020
Silver medal icon.svgESL Pro League Season 12: Europe Europe (Online)September 1, 2020 - October 4, 2020
Silver medal icon.svgIEM Beijing-Haidian 2020: Europe Europe (Online)November 6, 2020 - November 22, 2020
Bronze medal icon.svgIEM Global Challenge 2020 Europe (Online)December 15, 2020 - December 20, 2020
Gold medal icon.svgBLAST Premier: Global Final 2020 Europe (Online)January 19, 2021 – January 24, 2021
Gold medal icon.svgBLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2021 Europe (Online)February 4, 2021 - February 14, 2021
Gold medal icon.svgDreamHack Masters Spring 2021 Europe (Online)April 29, 2021 – May 9, 2021
Silver medal icon.svgBlast Premier: Spring Finals 2021 Europe (Online)June 15, 2021 - June 20, 2021
Gold medal icon.svgIEM Cologne 2021 Cologne, Germany July 6, 2021 - July 18, 2021
Gold medal icon.svg ESL Pro League Season 14 Europe (Online)August 16 - September 12, 2021
Gold medal icon.svg PGL Major Stockholm 2021 Stockholm, Sweden October 26, 2021 - November 7, 2021
Gold medal icon.svgBlast Premier: Fall Finals 2021 Copenhagen, Denmark November 24, 2021 - November 28, 2021
Gold medal icon.svgBlast Premier: World Final 2021 Copenhagen, Denmark December 14, 2021 - December 19, 2021
Silver medal icon.svg PGL Major Antwerp 2022 Antwerp, Belgium May 9, 2021 - May 22, 2021
Gold medal icon.svgBLAST Premier: Spring Finals 2022 Lisbon, Portugal June 15, 2021 - June 19, 2021
Silver medal icon.svgIEM Cologne 2022 Cologne, Germany July 7, 2022 - July 17, 2022
Bronze medal icon.svgIEM Katowice 2023Katowice, PolandFeb 4th - Feb 12th 2023

Individual awards and accolades

Rankings

MVP

EVP

Other awards

Notes

  1. ↑ Ukrainian: Олександр Олегович Костилєв [1]
    Russian:Александр Олегович Костылев, tr. Aleksandr Olegovich Kostylev

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