This Team Of Pro ‘Counter Strike’ Players Are Aged 60 And Above! How Cool Is That?

For a major chunk of this particular generation, Counter Strike was the like a first love. Newer video games came and went, but CS was CS, right?

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We spent hours and hours playing it—alone, with our siblings and cousins, with friends! All this, while our parents and grandparents would pass silent (sometimes loud) judgement about us for playing such a violent game, where you basically killed people.

Raise your hands if you’ve ever been reprimanded by your parents and grandparents for playing too much Counter Strike! No wait, don’t raise your hands, just continue reading this because you’re going to love it!

There’s team of very…umm… young players who have joined forces together for a killer goal: to play Counter Strike! And when I say young, I mean young at heart because believe me when I say this, they’re all above 60 years of age!

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Meet the Silver Snipers, a cleverly named team of professional CS: GO players, with the youngest player being 62 and the oldest, 81 years of age! And the best part? They’ve never played CS before! Mind = blown!

But don’t you go by those numbers. Wait till you see what cool gamer names and badass mottos these guys have adopted!

1. Oh shoot!

2. His motto is quite ‘killer’ no?

3. His superpower is the calm before the storm!

4. The youngest and the warrior!

Like wow, right?

Their coach is former Counter Strike pro Tommy “Potti” Ingemarsson, who after retirement, has been mentoring new players.

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As their coach, his mission was to equip the newbie Silver Snipers with enough skills and practice within three weeks to compete in a pro-level Counter Strike: Global Offensive tournament at the Dreamhack digital festival in Sweden against experienced players! And this meant starting with the bare basics.

So wait, did they win the tournament? Well, nope. They did manage to win a round but lost both games in the tournament. But rather than being discouraged, they’re filled with renewed enthusiasm to conquer more frontiers!

The idea behind assembling a team of seniors was to challenge the very notion that only the young are interested in video games or capable of playing it on a pro-level. And now that they’ve done that, they want to expand their horizons.

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A game like CS: GO is a little less complicated than many others and turned out to be the perfect starter for anyone who wants to venture into competitive e-sports. And that’s what it is, open for all! The team’s successful collaboration has generated increased interest in many other seniors, who wish to join the team and shoot some game!

As for the Silver Snipers, they’ve still got a lot of firepower left and a whole lot of ground to cover!

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