"I also wanted to become a Dota 2 pro player". Windigo Gaming about their CS careers
@WindigoGG
pNshr (Twitter)
I've started playing at school with my friends in a local i-net club, it was just for fun and around 2009. Then i decided to play any tournament with my friends. Some of the CS1.6 tournaments I watched did help me a lot in terms of developing my career.
bubble (Twitter)
I’ve been playing competitively for over 9 years! I was trying to become a real pro gamer in CS 1.6, but, as far as you know, at the end of 2012, CS 1.6 died. Then I said to myself I would not play CS:GO and would try to become a pro player in Dota 2, 1 year later I realized that was not my game, so I went back to CS.
This is how I started with CS:GO at the end of 2013 with team HSBG. My professional career began with team Gplay.bg (3 of the players in HSBG were in the Gplay lineup such as me, spyleader, and v1c7oR), we added nkl and dream3r to our full roster in Gplay.bg. Our 1st tournament as a team was in 2014, it was ESWC with all teams in top20! That was the beginning of my CS:GO career.
v1c7oR (Twitter)
I started playing since the early versions of the game, 1.3 then switched to 1.5 and lately 1.6. I became a better player once CS:GO went out on the market. I played it a lot at the beginning, and played with friends for fun. Never could I expect that I’d become a professional player, but it’s how it is :). Since 2013 I joined HSBG at first, then we formed Gplay, switched organizations a bit with the same line-up. And now I'm here under the wings of WindigoGG :)
SPELLAN (Twitter)
I started playing CS when I was 8 or 9 years old. It was with my friends in some computer clubs just for fun and I was really enjoying the game and would never stop playing it. I saw that the CS:GO stage was huge and I started playing professionally in 2015 with teams like Bpro, Outlaws etc.
SHiPZ (Twitter)
I started playing CS:GO 2-3 years ago just for fun, but then I saw some big tournaments and decided to try and make some team with friends. At the beginning of 2017, I signed my first contract with BPro Gaming and later got asked to join ex-Outlaws (now part of team Windigo Gaming).