CSGO Team 1

*"Ivy to CT to B"* - Will Y

## History

CSGO Team 1 is one of the club's longest-standing, most active, and successful teams. The original roster was formed in the first few weeks of the club's operation, and the core of Will Y, Ram C, Patrick S, and Erdem B are still competing to this day. This core won six HSEL tournaments together and made it into playoffs in the majority of other seasons.

In the summer of Winter 2019-2020, the team got off to an explosive start with a 3rd place finish nationally in their first season with the main roster consisting of the core plus Daniel P, despite them running into a blatant wallhacker called "joe\_\_land1" in one of their matches (Casey H made a video about the incident).

Between this season and the next one, CSGO Team 2 was formed and Alex B and Chris H moved over from Team 1, leaving only Patrick C as a substitute.

Their next season, Spring 2020, would not be as successful. Due to the team missing a game, losing a match due to ping from playing on Oregon servers, and missing the makeup due to the previous game running too long, the team did not make it into playoffs.

The Fall 2020 season brought complications for the team. Daniel P would leave the team due to losing interest and his playstyle faltering, choosing to grind Valorant instead. Mid-season, the team made an emergency pick-up of a primarily Rainbow 6 player named Ilem L. At the end of the season, having made it into playoffs, CSGO Team 1 ran into a team that would ultimately become their nemesis of the year - the Cherry Creek District's team. Losing a close match on Nuke, largely due to a lack of coordination and Ilem's lack of experience with the team, and then losing the next map of Mirage, CSGO Team 1 was eliminated from the tournament, and Cherry Creek would go on to win the season.

In Winter 2020-2021, CSGO Team 1 won every match without losing a single map, in part because Cherry Creek would not participate this season, and partly with the team's growing familiarity of Ilem's role as both an AWPer and as support. In the finals, the other team was a group of five immortal Valorant players, who brought with them immense mechanical skill but a lack of team play that CSGO Team 1 exploited to win three close maps in a row and their first HSEL season.

Spring 2021 would be their most eventful season yet, with Cherry Creek back in the ring and looking as strong as ever. MHS and Cherry Creek would not meet until the finals, where the strongest iterations of both teams would face off in a nearly three-and-a-half hour match. The first map of Nuke would see MHS take a commanding 12-3 lead in the first half but falter on the T side due to a lack of experience throwing T side utility, ultimately losing the game in overtime, their first map loss in HSEL in over four months. The next three maps, Mirage, Dust II, and Vertigo were then won by MHS in incredibly close matches for a 3-1 victory over Cherry Creek.

Summer 2021 marked the first season without many of CSGO Team 1's former competitors. As many seniors graduated, the competition in this season had grown signficantly weaker, with many newer rosters replacing the senior rosters that once offered stiff competition. CSGO Team 1 won the season without losing a single map and with one of the most lopsided finals matches in MHS history.

Fall 2021 marked a continuation of CSGO Team 1 dominance, with an undefeated regular season and a dominant showing in the playoffs, culminating in a 2-1 victory against CSW Esports, with their only map loss of the season being an extremely one-sided affair on Overpass, due to the immense lack of experience on the map compared to CSW's ability to play the map.

After this season, a scare came up that Erdem B might not be able to play due to having moved schools earlier in the year, but it was ultimately agreed upon by HSEL and the school district that he could continue playing and would be eligible for his full scholarship prize despite no longer being within the district.

## Rosters

### Current

 Ram C | MaR
 Erdem B | Eru
 Patrick S | hurB
 Ilem L | eunos