SpawN has returned

The legend is back

And he is showing that he still possesses his aim

When growing up there were no Twitch community with streams available 24/7. When it comes to following the Counter Strike scene, the way I used to follow games were by watching demos. 
To describe them in some way it was a file that you loaded in the game client. From there you could watch the game as a spectator. 

And some websites had the occasional video footage from the tournaments where they would walk around with a video camera. But there was no gameplay in those videos.
The people that was more into the CS scene definitely had other ways to follow the scene better though.

The scene was not as big and did not contain all the big sponsored events with all the money that is involved today. Sweden was early with having professional players though. Back then we had an advantage by having fast and stable Internet connections early on.
There is a swedish documentary actually where they follow NiP as like the first video gamers that could pay their way of life based on the salary from playing video games. So the world was way different that what it means to be a pro gamer today.

NiP and SK were two teams that were rivals. Basically like NiP and Fnatic are now I think. Honestly, I was not 100% into the Counter Strike scene which means I don't know everything about every team.

There are some players that are legends in my book though. One of them is definitely Spawn! 


He was playing in some of the most epic line-ups of Counter Strike history. When looking at his record he has been switching back and fourth between SK and NiP a lot. Which might seem strange since it was the two big teams and they should have been fierce rivals perhaps. 

That is a great statement though. The fact that these two giant teams wanted his services for so many years. For some reason he switched between the teams back and fourth.

Why am I going on about him all of a sudden?
He is streaming on Twitch nowadays. And it was really fun to finally see something from him again. http://www.twitch.tv/spawn4real is his channel.

Every now and then I wonder what happened to the old legends. HeatoN have been streaming some and even been on swedish television talking about gaming. But I had not heard about SpawN for a looong time.

Listening to him speak about his role he only played AWP in Inferno and Train back in the days. So he considered himself a AK/M4 player since other players were prio to get the AWP. There are some insane videos when he is spraying with M4. 
He is also considered to have a good pistol game.

He was a great player for the fans because of his style of play. He did not back down from a duel, he would try to out-aim the opponent. And often come out on top!

To me a lot of the memories from that time is when there were maps called CPL-Mill for example. They were supposed to be balanced to fit the pro scene at CPL. 

Anyway. So when it comes to these CPL, SpawN ended up winning four of those during his career.
When looking back at those days, I am missing the old look on the USP-pistol in particular. And I am just assuming that comes from watching a lot of SpawN since he was  playing great with that weapon. 

If the enemies survived his vicious spray with the M4, you could be certain that he would finish the job with his USP.

Here is a clip where he plays CS GO. 

Here is a video that someone put together from back in the days. It is called "SpawN Living Legend".

I belive it was back in 2008 at DreamHack in Sweden. There was a stand where you could make custom shirts. And for some reason, don't ask me why. That was 7 years ago! 
But I had a shirt made that said something like:

"SpawN - Where U at?". 

It was like a really tight T-shirt as well. So, yea. SpawN was one of the players I watched a lot back in the days - apparently enough to make that T-shirt. I knew he was at that event as well.