He Wasn't Supposed to Win the Major

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Jame wasn’t supposed to win the Rio CS:GO Major.
His team, Outsiders, used to be one of the best teams in the world - now they were boring, robotic, overrated.
The playstyle that made Jame a star just wasn’t working anymore.
But just when it seemed like it was all over, something finally clicked - and Jame led his team of forgotten misfits to do the impossible.
Written by: Devin Coull (@Fake_DevinCoull)
Edited by: Andrew Faigal (@Brrrning)
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[@theScoreesports]

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[@Lasarius]

yeah but still runs on Chromium

[@ryuzaki7263]

Video 8h ago, comment 2d ago? Ayo wtf?

[@TheYoutubeUser69]

@@Lasarius yeah chromium browsers are so shit ngl. i use firefox and use opera for homeoffice only. might need to switch as soon as manifestr v3 hits the fan

[@yosefm170]

@KZbin User wtf are you talking about? Chrome is one the best browsers out there, its not a big difference between Firefox and Chrome in RAM usage and in latest versions chrome even use less ram

[@Lasarius]

@@yosefm170 chrome runs on chromium and chromium is about to get mainfest v3 which will make adblockers useless that is why it’s inferior to Firefox

[@singular9]

Jame saved so much for so many years that the one tournament where he stopped no one knew what to do.

[@mushovers3006]

Saving strats for decades

[@ithrowstuffinavideogame]

Imagine if he had actually planned this the whole time just so he could throw everyone off for this one major. That would be some huge brain planning

[@anthonyblack6859]

@@ithrowstuffinavideogame yeah right like “hmm I feel like winning this one time to unleash this strat.”

[@singular9]

@@ithrowstuffinavideogame 6 years. 500k in winnings from one tournament. Easy

[@riley2216]

Playing the long game

[@dylanvo]

Still can’t believe how Brazil made a giant statue of Jame in Rio de Janeiro. They love him so much ❤

[@combatseawolf]

Jame = Russian Jesus

[@mohitrahaman]

peak humor

[@jorik170]

lmfao

[@pold111]

the savior himself

[@Jigen311]

It's crazy that everybody laughed at how jame had a tendency to save weaponry, and now currently it is fairly common to save a 4v5 if the bomb is already planted, or even 5 man save kevlar if the retake is impossible. Jame was and is smart as fuck, he literally shaped the current economy meta

[@KillerInstinct1]

thats what it is called. Tactical Shooter

[@Myst1x_cs]

@@KillerInstinct1for real though

[@icehawk3442]

The meta is changing not so much because Jame popularised it, but because once the Astralis era came hurling in all teams were scrambling to make perfect 5-man set pieces at exact seconds of the round to rain a dozen utility at one spot. They used to always try to do that but not nearly to the effort they do in the past 3 years, and the increasingly successful hard work done to literally read the minds of all the superstar players is huge just so that they can now make effective counters. It's made the best individual players get completely stomped--it's not that we don't have Kenny, Guardian, Fallen, Cold etc with us, but recent cs meta has made superstars a lot less OP. Perfecting the teamwork has changed the way rounds are played. I don't like this new thing because it's boring to watch, but it is unfortunately the objectively better way to play a pro league.

[@andreascristea3960]

@@icehawk3442 just like football

[@zemudikat]

@@icehawk3442 every single word you said was true lmao. jesus, it couldnt have been said any better than that.

[@PillsNotHere]

I love the part when he says "It's Jamein' time!" And proceeds to 9k ace even killing his team

[@pold111]

that made me remember the kennys 6k

[@santiagoacostapereira7778]

That made me Jame all over the place

[@SonekR]

@@pold111 bruh

[@mb5970]

I had this theory about Outsiders always being consistent. That gives them good wins and good matches but not a lot of touney wins. I would then extrapolate that into the Rio major where the sheer vibe of the place just sucked the life out of everyone, except for Outsiders because these guys were just grinding with laserfocus like always. But then I also know that's a bunch of bs and Outsiders abolutely nailed it in Rio, with JAME at the helm

[@lukesawardbeats9629]

And then they fell right tf off like the bots they are. Couldn't even qualify for Paris, what a joke of a team.

[@mb5970]

Jame will be back

[@lukesawardbeats9629]

@MB no he won't. He's not even part of a complete team. Moreover, he fell off just over a month after winning the major. He got slapped on Outsiders' own map pick of Mirage 1-16.

[@mb5970]

@@lukesawardbeats9629 I mean in future tense, as in, he is not there right now, but in the future, he might be back. Also I cannot look into the future so it's really just a hopeful comment. Nothing more.

[@lukesawardbeats9629]

@@mb5970 with how high level Cs is now, he won't win another event, let alone another major

[@nosetalgia5450]

So Adren has quietly been apart of the two biggest major winning underdog stories in CS:GO? What a guy

[@brzk_]

how so? i was trying to find who coached them back in rio. that was dastan, as it is now. in wich way was Adren involved?

[@theteacher3163]

@@brzk_ he used to be a part of Avangar which went on to be in the finals of Berlin Major. I would say Adren helped Qikert and Jame by sharing his experience.

[@Qwenter123]

1.99M subs, well deserved, can't wait for 2M

[@combatseawolf]

Jame time is not always a bad time then

[@suburbanburrito210]

I will make a new account and subscribe it to y’all every day until you guys hit 2 mil subs

[@inbyking4038]

Jame гений. Не палил страты, заставил всех думать, что он всегда сейвит, вследствие чего никто не ждал, что он будет клачить. 4000 IQ

[@Andrewlol]

Apparently he wasn't supposed to win this one either....

[@kassuyt]

A very unfortunate disconnect but in all fairness VP didnt look good on the decider map

[@_MrVillain_]

He absolutely deserved to win the major

[@quemzzy7397]

No he didn’t. 😂 all the good teams flopped.

[@pettson4317]

@@quemzzy7397 which means he deserved it.

[@ATOM1C-]

@@quemzzy7397 stay mad

[@_MrVillain_]

@@quemzzy7397 not all the good teams flopped

[@caroo367]

@Quemzzy that doesn't mean he didn't deserve the win 💀 wtf lol

[@Yuuuky]

Legend says Jame had enough saved Awps to trade in for the trophy. (Jokes aside congrats to outsiders for the win)

[@CaesarSalad19]

They were on both sides of 2 of the most convincing major grand finals in history

[@killjoyer]

this Major win is so deserving for Jame, he worked extra time with the strats, mid-rounds, all while filming banger vlogs too. I hope he loves the statue they made for him in Rio lol

[@lukesawardbeats9629]

This aged very badly.

[@X1erra]

I LOVE these stories. They are the kind of people that give us hope against impossible odds.

[@TheEsotericProgrammer]

The issue is, this shit happens every major in CS. So much of it is who's 'feeling it' as they say. Think Renegades, Ence, etc.

[@chucklesdeclown8819]

i think when fane said "fuck it, screw my teams leader im going in" was when jame realized he wasnt using any of his teams potential including his own. either that or jame was holding back and being like "these teams will least expect us to come back, lets show them what we've been hiding" cause there is no way a pro team can actually suck for so long then do a 180 GOTCHA that fast. just saying something was planned.

[@vamp3340]

I love all these CSGO eSports videos you've been putting out lately!!

[@oneverest]

Was happy to see Jame win it... but was glas to see both Jame and Cadian in the finals... both deserved it...

[@Fuzzzy-Wuzzzy]

Now this video makes more sense after VP got eliminated from Copenhagen major

[@joaopfgomes]

We we're too busy making jokes of him that we didn't saw Jame was playing the most correct CS of the Major, when you face such good teams, you have to capitalize every error and make every round expensive for the enemy team

[@brandons4324]

Jame actually sandbagged in Berlin Major finals to save strats for Rio Major

[@chAyd55]

You could tell that the Rio crowd was shocked as hell

[@F1stzz]

To the point they evaporated, lol

[@vic7006]

Brazil crowd gave him the confidence he needs

[@MattPula]

8:46 - you should have said "... But now, well, Jame looked kinda Lame" it was RIGHT. THERE.

[@dimitrakisladasi5496]

Jame mechanically speaking he is one of the best of all times...he is so accurate and so talented in clutches.but he rarely can show his talent

[@lukesawardbeats9629]

Nope. With one major and no other trophies, he is not the GOAT.

[@chAyd55]

@@lukesawardbeats9629bro does not wanna look at what time it is💀

[@lipaalbanka]

Just imagine the fact that simple, norbert and quikert have same amount of majors😂

[@aviationaddict2363]

15:26 dude "Arguably a better team?" its the best of all time xD

[@Sipunak]

He is talking about Avangar, not Astralis

[@brenc302]

They have been good for so long, but had a few roadblocks and they finally figure it out with fame and y’all are still in denial that he deserves this major. Out of my top 3 people I wanted to see win a major it was karrigan, simple, and jame. All 3 had majors elude them until each of them won and it was beautiful

[@westoncroye643]

The finals itself was amazing to watch. But the crowd soiled it for me

[@jamrah8713]

Expected, Brazilians / Portuguese only cheer for their people. It’s the same in any sport, it’s natural

[@sixredfish6115]

Rio is just like Krakow where the misfits with Zeus is like Jame.

[@adriananthonydeguia736]

Jame evolved at the right moment to prove himself. worthy of a major

[@GamesSPIL]

ITS JAME TIME!!! BRASIL LOVES HIM ❤️🇧🇷

[@vision7208]

Bro saved so much that when he came charging in, the teams had no anti strat to counter them

[@Tostky]

Everybody gangsta till Jame doesn't save.

[@adamstahlecker6254]

“In reality I have a smoke lineup on my other monitor” he’s just like me for real

[@ShidNoh]

best part for me is jame not knowing he got called to recive mvp of the major

[@SylvieTheCuteSylveon]

This is what happens when Jame says "Fuck Jame time" XD

[@CameTurner]

Clearly the first right hand man left for the ultimate fame/Jame combo. Just rolls off the tongue

[@CR0WYT]

Jame went from meme to Major Champion.

[@NoSleepCSGO]

Jame is simple too good, better than all others, Jame is God.

[@rownoid9668]

simply*

[@reshzy3807]

hes literally Jesus

[@Quizmaps]

6:29 dude looks like blonde Boombl4

[@matthewovens4029]

The flick on overpass was outstanding, you can't deny he is goat with the awp Kenny s level

[@user-oj5uu1dh7v]

Accept Jame as your sole lord and saviour.

[@frailty7280]

jame is the awp rasputin bro absolutely mystical w it

[@fertolinio9555]

sucks to not catch this right after it released but I had a stream to watch (siege gaming was fun), beyond that I'm very happy that outsiders won since it proves that boring cs is just solid and that flashyness should sometimes be kept for the special moments

[@ThrowingINC]

cant wait for them to get their shit rocked next major

[@Carlos-do2vh]

ah yes, when the silent guy in the room brings the AK moments. Just run cadian, run...

[@theredsheeplevrai]

Then after that win, they disapeared even faster than my dad

[@TitusM7]

Opera owned by big china so hard pass

[@yaz004]

Wait til you realise most of your favourite games are also owned by china

[@moshiadnfusionfallfa]

Nobody cares

[@alpheus_land]

What ab most of ur pc parts?

[@nottucks]

@@alpheus_land hardware don’t mean they get constant control over my data in software

[@alpheus_land]

@@nottucks oh, I thought like chips can be put in them or something

[@wasdrankings1518]

jame was a famous meme and very good player way before yekindar joined the team by the way

[@zettour.]

Of course, he made it to the Berlin major grand finals.

[@lukesawardbeats9629]

@@zettour. when? Ten years ago?

[@zettour.]

@@lukesawardbeats9629 StarLadder Berlin was in 2019. Jame was in AVANGAR and go to grand finals by beating Vitality and Renegades. I know COVID happened, but it was not that long ago.

[@Epik.2005]

8:44 missed opportunity to say “Jame was looking kind of lame”

[@derpthegr8689]

Announcer: "These guys were just hard at work and that's why they're major winners." Jame: "Not today I wasn't. ;)"

[@jjee3210]

He literally went super saiyan 2 and the long con together

[@Lybrel]

Huge respect to Liquidpedia for correctly calling them Virtus Pro. The CIS legacy of Dosia, Angel, Fox, Guardian, and Kutcher live on. Speaking of Liquidpedia, congrats to YEKINDAR for paying to leave to Liquid. 👍👍👍

[@gghhoosstt1233]

Who are we to even judge if some one was or was not suppose to win major and shit in the 1st place? Thats the problem people underestimate everything, everyone was so shocked that it didn't went the way THEY thought bruh. If you were so shocked about that then that just means you neglected to even believe that tier 1 teams could lose and not make it out to finals, people need a reality check and need to wake the fuck up and see the other side of possibilties too.

[@settrigh8310]

Dimitrisaid it before jame is boring but when he decides to go aggro he pops off

[@Kyan-l6e]

I Kno I'm a year late but I have a question are they the first orgless team to win a major? Because as far as I know they didn't played under virtus pro due to the war at the time of the rio major.

[@BOTJJ249]

this major they did him bad they were killing it

[@Sevo-]

i gotta say being someone who is a karrigan fan, i do want him to have an era, butthat being said i find era's to be rather boring, i find it more exciting to see real competition

[@fishko7026]

The only man with 2x Trophies from Rio. (DreamHack 2019 RIO, IEM RIO 2022 MAJOR)

[@myfavouritecolorisgreen]

hey everyone jame didn't change his playstyle idk what the video is about. he won with the same playstyle as before :) christ the redeemer fr

[@alessandrowang3754]

its crazy that they won hltv top 20 had only jame in their 2022 and he was damn last in the list. i think that it never happend that a major champion team looked like that on hltv ranking

[@Ridlay_]

Brother really said messing with Opera GX feels like min maxing a nuclear reactor. I mean it’s a good browser but what 💀

[@ArunKumar-bp5lo]

no he was suppose to everyone was talking about other teams everyone forgets how calm and good calls jame makes in an arena and they reached final in Astralis Dominant era.

[@vdre6741]

Honestly I watched a lot Avangar/VP till this major. I don't think they changed the way they play. First of all, Jame had a lot of early round aggresive picks in early rounds. I think he stopped to do it because he had rifler that was capable of. Second he said on interview he play the clutches if he has the infos of the enemy. They saved so many maps like this because they save 5000$ at 13-14. I think the Outsiders victory is more about reaching a peak at the good moment. It's common in CIS team. Plus it's about gaining confident in the way they don't play. It's not because you lose the round that the tactics was bad. It is always about small details.

[@nickdewaard4684]

Jesus a 2minute ad

[@get_obliterat8642]

Why didn't you mention his long time teammate Qikert... He was with him through the end...

[@guminjrng5610]

13:23 pikachu with big boba .

[@sourcejet8561]

his interview at the end was the best part

[@noahreid4046]

tl;dr: Jame got that dawg in him!!

[@Dlndn_]

They basically did an Classic OG Dota but instead of TI, they got a Major.

[@ladderenjoyer]

he took 6 years to finesse everyone with his playstyle

[@user-mc6vi8yd7l]

They had the easiest route of their life The one hardest match they had was the finals against heroic and heroic choked harder than I could ever dream of

[@d3tox476]

They made a video about that fing meme about me And i took it personaly - Jame, probably

[@Bearisamir88]

the same story OG win TI8 , what a story to tell.

[@paumartisa]

"he wasnt suposed to win" says the liquid fans who got the cursed entryfragger

[@frankmills1917]

Wow, sponsors get to even appear in the thumbnails now.

[@nisemonorei12]

Jame Time!

[@gabrielattano]

4:35 I laughed so hard

[@Prodigy70]

Slow and steady wins the race.

[@jakobfeldhege7724]

more of those videos

[@frxzzy_]

S Tier major before the semi-finals, D tier major after semi-finals

[@psych0CS2]

How? Both teams were in the top 10 lmfao

[@frxzzy_]

@@psych0CS2 doesn’t change the fact that this is the most boring final out of the top 4 (and arguably top 8 too) “lmfao” Who cares what ranking the teams are bruh they have to be interesting

[@psych0CS2]

@@frxzzy_ i find heroic to be a very exciting team to watch. I think the crowd is the reason the final wasn't appreciated. We have also been absolutely spoiled with Antwerp, Stockholm, Katowice and cologne finals all being insane.

[@runek100]

He just have ballz of ice cold steel. Never give up, never bend to anybody. There is a reason why he looks like jesus.

[@BRYCCEE]

Wasn't supposed to win the major? My diamond coin begs to differ.

[@heroicgg]

Agreed

[@fallennguyen4677]

Imagine navi have more fire power and still lose, this tell alot about how things going tho

[@malyze]

strangest major ever

[@YerBroBanjo]

No way Jame admitted to beating one out before a @&$?/‘& major!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@faei1897]

Me using MS Edge on Windows 11 because I've used it since Windows 10 launched: *Hmm yes Interesting- no*

[@marcolol1435]

I didn't know that Jesus won the Counter-strike Major

[@geraldpineda3277]

Jame "the one time trick" player. lol

[@Eidolon5150]

Oh yeah jame is a gigachad he knows baki is goated

[@boi7867]

guy looks like the son of rasputin and jared leto

[@badmant1ng]

Yekindar was overrated, especially by western scene. You don’t need Latvian guy to win a major 😉 Outsiders will have a chance to prove themselves in good CS environment on Blast. Btw nice trolling outsiders logo- crossed out sign in paws of honeybadger 😎

[@100authentik6]

Oddly enough, Heroic wasn't supposed to be in the finals either

[@GoLdEnSn1pEr24]

JAME TIME HATE IT OR LOVE IT NEW META IS MADE GIRLS

[@AcepointYak]

3:57 the what?

[@Cneakz]

I just got a rundown of an anime esports

[@wayleygg]

for the love of chrust dmitri, put TIMESTAMPS for your ads

[@nyenyi1730]

somehow similar to the story of OG at dota lmao