![neo cs 1.6 neo cs 1.6](https://images2.minutemediacdn.com/image/upload/c_fill,w_912,h_516,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto/shape/cover/sport/583c9b5450cbeb26e3000006.jpeg)
Thinking about NEO, whose ever-improving FX team had barely missed out on a finals spot at the IEM V European Championship, and f0rest, who was now in SK colours and tearing up Group B, the realisation came to me that both of those players had now been top five players in the world consistently, year on year, for the last five years straight. In the first week of March 2011 I was at the IEM V World Championship and during a lull in the tournament I was chatting over a messenger program about the players and teams in attendance. Great players had done amazing things, that much was undeniable, but they were great in their own unique respects and not to the kind of breadth and depth that Potti had managed, that is until March of 2011. The problem was that the complete package wasn't there in terms of exceeding Potti's greatness across the board. Sure NEO had racked up an epic trophy haul of major titles and f0rest had led his teams to a seemingly impossible amount of top three finishes. Sure elemeNt had played in four consecutive American CPL finals and led the most statistically dominant team ever.
![neo cs 1.6 neo cs 1.6](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AntiqueSparseBoaconstrictor-max-1mb.gif)
Sure whiMp took five lineups to five ESWC/WCG/IEM finals. The moment you realised nothing would ever be the same againĪs I outlined at great length in the first part, Potti was for me the greatest player ever and to an extent, and in so many respects, that I imagined nobody could ever equal him. For my part I'll cast my lot here, once and for all, and tell who you Counter-Strike's greatest ever player is, no punches pulled. f0rest is not just the marque match-up of the last decade, it's the argument forums have repeated hundreds of times over. In this final part of my search for the greatest Counter-Strike player of all time I'll decide between the two magnificent ones of CS: NEO and f0rest.įor the last six and a half years they've done battle on CS' biggest and most high pressure stages for the most important titles, perhaps it is a fitting storyline that the greatest of all time should come down to a comparison of the two, their impact on the game and their accomplishments. Despite seemingly being cast in stone as the only one who would ever hold that title, eventually others arrived who could exceed even his mark.
![neo cs 1.6 neo cs 1.6](https://genk.mediacdn.vn/k:thumb_w/690/2015/1-1426202862-5561-1438290613459/nhung-huyen-thoai-cs-16-dang-thanh-danh-tren-dau-truong-csgo-phan-2.jpeg)
In part one, released last week, I explained why Potti was the first to hold the title of greatest CS player of all time, and over a span of almost half a decade at that.