"[Ex6TenZ's] Playbook Was So Deep You Can’t Imagine!" - Reflections with shox 2/3 - CSGO

Use code THORIN at http://gamersupps.gg/?afmc=THORIN for 10% off an order of GamerSupps' delicious energy formula. ► Join the Scrilluminati to get exclusive perks and support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/Thooorin ► Check out a previous CS Reflections here: https://youtu.be/zwnlDvdoNOo Richard "shox" Papillon, former star of VeryGames/Titan and G2 Esports, is the star of the 322nd Episode of 'Reflections'. This episode is part two of three about shox's career. shox is one of the best players to ever grace any title in the Counter-Strike franchise. Considered by some to the greatest Source player of all-time he quickly became a dominant LAN force who had to be considered for the best teams of his day, most famously VeryGames, no matter the difficulties that could come along with housing the star. As well as helping VeryGames dominate the latter years of Source, shox had a long and successful CS:GO career and may yet play CS2. Early in CS:GO he was not in VeryGames, due to past issues, but showed himself to be very good none-the-less in teams like Imaginary, while VeryGames famously could not get over-the-hump and beat rivals NiP. With shox, VeryGames began beating NiP routinely, won LAN tournaments and became the number one team in the world by the arrival of the first ever CS:GO major. A semi-final finish there, losing tragically to NiP, set shox and VeryGames back and when the team, rebranded to Titan, lost in the group stage of EMS One Katowice, the following major, he would depart from the line-up and gaming house. Carrying Epsilon, shox met kioShiMa and when the infamous 'French shuffle' began later he would bring him along to form what became the LDLC line-up which would win Dreamhack Winter 2014, the last major of the year. Playing as an entry, shox was not the usual star figure he had been in past French line-ups but the team was consistently elite, at one point pulling off a streak of 14 straight top four finishes offline. Internal conflicts with Happy, the leader, saw shox and SmithZz kicked and replaced by kennyS and apEX in the next French shuffle, this one taking place in the summer of 2015. He had won many trophies with LDLC/EnVyUs but now he returned to Titan to play with some of his former team-mates from Source. shox again reignited his individual level and in 2016, with the team now in G2, became arguably the best player in the world. Under his leadership G2 would finish runners-up to Luminosity at ESL ProLeague S3 Finals and defeat them to win ECS S1. G2 drew the group of death at the Cologne 2016 major and failed to progress. The following year, G2 formed the line-up many dubbed 'The French Super-Team', teaming up with NBK, kennyS and apEX. The team would win two tournaments of note, ESL ProLeague S5 and Dreamhack Masters Malmo, but major success evaded them. After attempting to revisit the glory days of source by bringing SmithZz and Ex6TenZ back, shox and G2 had to recruit newer French names and 2019 was a year where the team struggled to produce elite results. A rare exception being a finals run at ESL ProLeague S9 finals on home soil. With Vitality becoming the new French powerhouse, starring new super-star ZywOo, shox moved over to join them and would win Dreamhack Masters Malmo 2019, EPICENTER 2019 and a number of online tournaments. By the online era had ended, shox was in Team Liquid and results were never too promising. shox gave another international line-up a try by playing in Apeks but the experiment did not last long. Since then, shox attempted to make his own team, Nakama Esports, but the project was eventually finished by shox himself. In part two, shox talks about the in-depth approach Ex6TenZ took in the gaming house before EMS One Katowice, what SmithZz brought to teams, why he mutinied against Happy in nV and got kicked and his infamous reputation of being a partier. This interview was recorded on the 29th of November, 2023. ► Time-line of topics discussed: 00:00 Ex6TenZ issues 10:44 Helping VeryGames/Titan overcome NiP 14:29 Dreamhack Winter 2013 semi vs. NiP 18:41 SmithZz 23:25 LDLC, Happy and IGLing 27:25 Happy as IGL and the eventual mutiny 41:42 Partying Part one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g1HXReGb9U Part three: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ajN2XWW1sc ► Check out bite-sized Thorin on my new clips channel: https://www.youtube.com/thorinclips ► Follow me on social media: https://twitter.com/Thorin https://facebook.com/Thooorin https://www.instagram.com/thooorinofficial/ ► You can discuss this content at my Discord server: https://discord.gg/rDKxKfM ► This video was kindly supported by: Matt, Pugnatio, Rajcula Frisky Ahmed Hadjou touken_ Tobias Bernasconi Animosity Tosh Jensen Goh Special thanks go out to JerCkysMiNi0n. #shox #Ex6TenZ #Thorin