ZywOo

Mathieu "Zywoo" Herbaut (born 9 November 2000)https://twitter.com/rpktankk/status/1325791509099253762 is a French professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who currently AWPs for Team Vitality. He has twice been voted player of the year by HLTV, in 2019 and 2020, and has therefore often been considered one of the greatest players to touch the game.
==Early life==
ZywOo was born on the 9 November 2000. He began by watching his brother play Counter Strike when he was around 7, and later began playing on a shared PC with his brother Thomas, with whom he played 23 LANS until ZywOo began playing with nevermind in 2016.
==Career==
===2017===
Zywoo won his first LAN against well-known opponents in 2017 at the age of 16, beating out players such as Scream and DEVIL for a $9000 prize pool at Pasino Gaming Days..
In March, Zywoo joined Wysix, where he was noticed by journalists in eSports media.
At Gamers Assembly 2017, Zywoo turned heads with a K/D of 159/47, including that of maLeK, then the EnVyUs coach, who offered ZywOo a place on the team.. However, Zywoo's studies of electrical engineering got in the way and he turned down the offer to finish his education. 
===2018===
In 2018, Zywoo stepped down from aAa (who had bought out Wysix) once his studies had been completed, moving to Team Vitality to join renowned French players RpK_(gamer)|RpK, Happy_(gamer)|Happy, apEX and NBK-. He would go on to win his first A-Tier tournament in November of 2018, beating luminosity_gaming|Luminosity to win Dreamhack|Dreamhack Atlanta.
===2019===
In 2019, Zywoo came into his own on the Tier 1 Stage. Aside from a win at CS_Summit 4 in May and ECS Season 7 in June, Vitality had mediocre showings in the two Counter-Strike:_Global_Offensive_Major_Championships|Majors during the year, Zywoo put up outstanding numbers consistently (a 1.32 HLTV rating) and took away 4 tournament MVPs. Vitality found success in the final event of the year, EPICENTER, beating mousesports in the grand final. Once again, ZywOo won MVP for the tournament and earned HLTV's #1 place for that year, surpassing household names such as S1mple and dev1ce in his first year of Tier 1 play. 
===2020===
After a sequence of lost grand finals in 2020, ZywOo and Team Vitality found their groove and won two Tier 1 events at the end of the year: IEM Beijing-Haidian in November and the Blast Premier finals in December. ZywOo earned MVP in both of these events, as well as 4 more MVPs in the events that Vitality came second in. The spurt of good results at the end of the year led to ZywOo signing a four year contract with the organisation, an event that was broadcast across major buildings in Paris.https://twitter.com/TeamVitality/status/1340751477724352513 For the second time in a row, ZywOo was crowned #1 player by HLTV, becoming the third person to do so after coldzera and GeT_RiGhT
== Individual awards ==
HLTV Rankings
*2019: #1 
*2020: #1 
*CS_Summit 4 2018
*ECS Season 7 Finals 2018
*ESL One Cologne 2019
*Dreamhack Masters Malmo 2019
*EPICENTER 2019
*Blast Premier Spring Europe Finals 2020
*CS_Summit 6 2020
*ESL One Cologne Europe 2020
*Dreamhack Open Fall 2020
*IEM Beijing-Haidian Europe 2020
*Blast Premier Fall Finals 2020
Category:2000 births
Category:Team Vitality players
Category:French esports players
Category:Counter-Strike players