![]() ![]() This change was disastrous, to say the least, and the team quickly decided to bring Kuben back into the team in early 2009, kicking Pionas. Strangely, rather than taking back his old place, he replaced Kuben, with Filip “Pionas” Pionka taking his place. However, interestingly, he rejoined the team just three days later. A breaking point was reached and on November 14th of 2008, LUq left the team. This domination earned them their famous and often misused moniker, “The Golden Five.” They eventually left Team Pentagram for Meet Your Makers in December 2007.Īt MyM, the team started to make a slight decline in results and a change was needed. This team would go on as a five-man unit for four years, winning such prestigious titles as the first-ever IEM, WCG 20, ESWC 20, and many more events, both large and small. There were earlier polish teams, most notably I debated between starting with this or on SpecSter in 2003, but much more information exists from Team Pentagram onwards. In 1.6, I would say that the real start of Polish CS as we know it today was on Team Pentagram in 2006, when the five-man squad of Jakub “Kuben” Gurczynski, Mariusz “Loord” Cybulski, Filip “NEO” Kubski, Wiktor “TaZ” Wojtas, and Lukas “LUq” Wnek was assembled. But that isn’t what this arti cle is about, lets go back in time now and take a look at the origins of Poland as a region in Counter-Strike, and how Polish CS really started to define itself. On February 6th of 2018, Virtus.pro benched Wiktor “TaZ” Wojtas and brought in Michał “Michu” Müller, putting an end to a roster that defied logic. ![]() This, along with a win at DreamHack Masters Las Vegas 2017 and a second-place finish at Epicenter 2017 would be the last flashes of brilliance from this storied roster. They almost did it again three years later at Eleague Atlanta 2017, with the score of the final map being at one point 13-7 in favor of the Poles before a miraculous comeback from Astralis. This still stands as the highest average age on any roster to ever win a major championship in CSGO. When they won their legendary major championship in Poland at EMS One Katowice 2014, the average age of the roster was 24.4 years old. For the 5 years that they played together, they seemed to defy age. If you ask many veteran fans and players of counter-strike what their favorite ever five-man unit of a CS team is, there’s a good chance that they name the classic Virtus.pro roster. In this article, I will be recapitulating the history of the Polish scene, as well as highlighting some players that I believe to be next up from Poland. From the flowering of the scene in 1.6 all the way up to now, Poles have been somewhere near the forefront of the scene. Poland as a region in Counter-Strike is home to some of the most passionate, interesting, and down-right legendary players in the history of the series. ![]()
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