Mousesports CSGO's ChrisJ Pulls Off Sick 1v5 Ace Against Team Liquid

ESL One New York took place over the weekend and eight top tier Counter Strike: Global Offensive teams descended on the Big Apple. The competition was fierce, with Mousesports and Team Liquid progressing through to the Grand Final. With everything to play for, Mousesports were 14-8 up on Dust II when Mousesports were left in a 2v5 scenario, but with their players being split up, it was down to ChrisJ to come up big. Nobody expected him to be able to do it with just an AWP in hand but boy did he do it. Check out the clip below courtesy of ESL.

.@chrisJcsgo absolutely OBLITERATES with the AWP and gets series point with an ACE #ESLOne https://t.co/Z8HYtb0bPL pic.twitter.com/dCZdA1mXsY

— ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) September 30, 2018

At the A bomb site, Chris “ChrisJ” de Jong swiftly picked off one player down the tiniest of gaps. He then turns to the left, looks down the street and under the bridge for the second. He knows there’s another player on the other side of the crate with the bomb, but he looks past him to pick off the third who’s strafing in the background. The player with the bomb challenges but he scopes in and picks him off in a split-second, before looking back down the street and under the bridge for the fifth player. In a matter of seconds, Team Liquid went from a 5v2 advantage to losing the round.

Scott “SirScoots” Smith, esports and gaming industry veteran, said on Twitter that he’s seen “many a crazy round of CS” in his life, “that one though… holy sh*t.” His tweet was in response to Robin “ropz” Kool, CSGO player for Mousesports saying that he was “calling Chris is fighting A now” but before he knew it, the round was over.

I have seen many a crazy round of CS in my life, that one though...holy shit.

— Scott Smith (@SirScoots) October 1, 2018

It was a phenomenal display of skill from the Dutch CSGO player, one that his teammates will be forever grateful for as Mousesports went on to win the event, beating Team Liquid 3-2 in the process. Who knows, if ChrisJ hadn’t have clutched up there, could Mousesports have lost momentum and gone on to lose the entire match? We’ll never know.

Header image courtesy of Dreamhack.