23-year-old wins $50,000 in Counter-Strike 2 tournament – minutes later telling everyone how stupid CS2 is

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The 23-year-old e-athlete Russel “Twistzz” Van Dulken won a major tournament in Counter-Strike 2 (Steam) with his team FaZe. But Valve won’t have liked the way he celebrated. Because he talked about the weaknesses of the new shooter: The ping is a real problem and makes a lot of things random.

Who is Twistzz in CS:GO?

  • The 23-year-old Twistzz has been active in Counter-Strike since 2015 and has been playing rifler for FaZe Clan since 2021.
  • The Canadian is an e-sports millionaire (via esportearnings): He has earned a total of $1.63 million in prize money in 129 tournaments. He earned the most money at the age of 19 in 2019. Among other things, he was able to win the Intel Grand Slam Season 2 for $200,000.
  • This time he won the “Thunderpick World Championship 2023” with FaZe. The tournament was for a total of $500,000 – the Rifler ended up winning $50,000.

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    Player doesn’t leave CS 2 well after the tournament

    This is what the player said: One might now expect the player to celebrate his victory and the windfall with exuberance, but he first took to Twitter and wrote shortly after the tournament victory:

    Now that the event is over, I would like to share my current feelings about CS2.

    He then complained about:

  • the high ping, which is between 40 and 50, but sometimes jumps up to 60 to 80
  • that this makes the game feel totally inconsistent in terms of movement and how he sprays enemies with ammunition

    • You can see in the clip that he didn’t catch the opponent in time, but still got a kill even though he didn’t even see the opponent. It all just doesn’t make any sense.

    Now that the event has concluded, I want to air out my current feelings on CS2.

    After playing majority of the event with 40 – 50 ping, even sometimes 60 – 80 if I was unlucky, the game felt incredibly inconsistent, from movement to spraying/hitting opponents. This clip is spectator… pic.twitter.com/X80gfftlQ9

    — Russell van Dulken (@Twistzz) November 5, 2023

    Everything felt better in CS:GO. In CS2, the ping now feels incredibly important and he has to base his entire game on it, especially in order to catch opponents.

    He then gives a variety of examples of other problems in the game, such as randomly occurring problems with the height in the game or with clipping.

    Random clipping issue in house on Ancient. Experienced this a couple of times during practices, it happens to be at the exact angle you would run if you were trying to back away from a duel. If it’s hard to tell what’s happening, there is a few milliseconds where I get blocked and… pic.twitter.com/V02H6LQIKF

    — Russell van Dulken (@Twistzz) November 5, 2023

    This is what lies behind it: Valve obviously still has a lot to do here before the e-athletes feel that they have truly earned their high prize money in CS2. The problems appear to violate the sporting integrity of the game.

    Even when it was released, there were complaints about Counter-Strike 2 from qualified sources:

    “I think this game is dying” – Well-known Twitch streamer and shooter expert shroud predicts the end of Counter-Strike with CS2



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