Kenny Schrab ( May 19, 1995 ; France ) is a French professional cybersportsman , also known under the pseudonym kennyS . One of the best snipers in the world in the history of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive . Currently stands for the G2 eSports team.
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| Date of Birth | June 19, 1995 (24 years old) |
| Place of Birth | France, Provence - Alps - French Riviera |
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| Aliases | kennyS |
| Career | 2009 - p.t. |
| Games | Counter strike |
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At the moment, Kenny Schrab is considered one of the best snipers in the world, which has been repeatedly shown at a number of prestigious tournaments. In 2013, he took 12th place in the top 20 players of the year according to the portal HLTV.org [1] , 6th place in 2014 [2] and 2015 [3] . In 2016, his results deteriorated somewhat, and he took only 13th place out of 20. [4] 1 time was the world champion in 2015 at the " DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015" tournament
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Career
Career start
Kenny Schrab met Counter-Strike in 2009 at the age of 13, it was Counter-Strike: Source version. He showed good results and in 2011 decided to go to a tournament where famous French players participated, but suddenly Kenny Shrab after several matches was banned due to suspicion of cheating, but Kenny stood up for “ Happy ” Servoni, who did not see any cheating and Kenny continued to play further in this championship. Everyone started talking about him and he became more popular. In December 2011, the VeryGames team manager invited him for a trial period, but could not pass due to inexperience. Also, a player under the nickname nokon contributed to his development of the skill with AWP .
2012—2013
In January 2012 he was invited to the eXtensive team - this was the first professional team for Kenny Shrab, but he was not there for long and in April of that year he was taken back to VeryGames, in September 2012 the team switched to the new version of CS - Counter-Strike : Global Offensive [5] . The first opportunity to prove themselves in the new version was the Dreamhack Valencia tournament. They took 2nd place, losing to Ninjas in Pajamas [6] , while NiP never lost a single match, also at the ESWC VeryGames tournament they lose NiP in the grand final and take 2nd place [7] , at the Dreamhack Winter tournament they again lose in the grand final against NiP with a crushing score [8] . If at the end of 2012 Kenny Schrab showed an excellent game, often becoming the best player, then over time problems started with the game, his statistics began to fall. In 2013, they took 4th place at Copenhagen Games [9] , 1st place at Mad Catz Birmingham [10] , 1st place at the Mad Catz Invitational in Cologne [11] and 3rd place at Mad Catz Vienna [12] . At the beginning of May of the same year, Schrab left the VeryGames team, instead of him they took Richard “ shox ” Papillon [13] . Kenny Schrab joins the LDLC team [14] and after 3 days they beat VeryGames with a score of 16-13. Since the end of August 2013, kennyS has consistently played for the teams WARMAKER, WE GOT GAME, Recursive eSports, Nameless, having spent no more than two months in each.
2014—2017
In February 2014, kennyS joined the Clan-Mystik team. [15] At this time, Kenny began a black streak, he won almost nothing in the Clan-Mystik team, but took part in the EMS One: Katowice 2014 major tournament [16] . In April 2014, ex-Verygames took Kenny into the squad, which now plays under the banner of the Titan organization. They take 3rd place on Starladder StarSeries IX [17] , FaceIT Spring League [18] , Starladder XI [19] , 2nd place on Gfinity G3 [20] , 1st place on DreamHack 2014 Invitational I [21] and DreamHack 2014 Invitational II [ 22] , however, they were not able to leave the group at ESL One Cologne 2014 [23] and took 5-8th place at ESWC [24] . In November 2014, Howick “ KQLY ” Tovmasyan was kicked out of the team due to VAC blocking for using cheats , and the team itself was disqualified from the Dreamhack Winter 2014 tournament, Cedric “ RpK ” Guipo comes in his place. In 2015, Kenny Schrab won many titles. In July 2015, the teams of Titan and Team Envyus exchange several players and kennyS moves to a new team. [25]
In February 2017, Team EnVyUs and G2 Esports exchange players, and as a result, Kenny Schrab also changes the team. [26]
Links
Kenny "kennyS" Shrab's performance results
KennyS CS: GO settings 2017 / mouse / cfg / videosettings / hardware /
Notes
- ↑ Top 20 players of 2013: kennyS (12) (English) , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ Top 20 players of 2014: kennyS (6) (English) , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ Top 20 players of 2015: kennyS (6) (English) , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ Top 20 players of 2016: kennyS (13) (English) , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ VeryGames switch to CS: GO (English) , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ DreamHack Valencia 2012 , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ ESWC 2012 (English) , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ DreamHack Winter 2012 - Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki . wiki.teamliquid.net. Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ Copenhagen Games 2013 (English) , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ Mad Catz Birmingham , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ Mad Catz Invitational (English) , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ Mad Catz Vienna ( HLTV.org) . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ kennyS out; shoxie joins VeryGames , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ kennyS joins LDLC.com (English) , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ Clan-Mystik add kennyS, GMX (English) , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ EMS One Katowice 2014 (English) , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ StarLadder StarSeries IX - Finals - Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki . wiki.teamliquid.net. Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ FACEIT Spring League 2014 (English) , Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ StarLadder StarSeries XI - Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki . wiki.teamliquid.net. Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ Gfinity G3 (Eng.) , Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ DreamHack 2014 Invitational I - Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki . wiki.teamliquid.net. Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ DreamHack 2014 Invitational II - Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki . wiki.teamliquid.net. Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ ESL One Cologne 2014 (English) , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ ESWC 2014 (English) , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ Titan, EnVyUs swap players (English) , HLTV.org . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
- ↑ G2 announce new lineup ( HLTV.org) . Date of treatment November 16, 2017.
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