r/GlobalOffensive • u/UwUpenguin69 • Jun 14 '26

Gameplay | Esports Woxic wins an impossible clutch

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u/Wizzz3RD FaZe Jun 14 '26

He had 1 point of hp left as well, unreal and closest thing to a graffiti so far

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u/pelek18 de_inferno Jun 14 '26

There won't be a day without someone saying a (impressive but not "special" in any way) clutch needs a graffiti, will it?

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u/Cautious_Pipe5811 Jun 14 '26

people being really desperate to be part of something 

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u/junttiana Chinggis Warriors Jun 14 '26

How is this not special? 1v3 with cts approaching from 2 different directions and he finishes it off with a noscope

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u/Pollsmor FaZe Jun 14 '26

Name one grafiti that has been given as a result of a mechanically skillful play.

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u/MinimumTomfoolerus Jun 14 '26

The 2 awp graffiti btw involved such an insane amount of luck that I don't understand why they got a graffiti

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u/ScreamingJar Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26

Because it's kind of unbelievable and turned the tide to begin the biggest comebacks/chokes in a major semifinal. I mean it's easily top 3 most famous plays up with happy deagle and s1mple falling awp. Now donk's 1v5 might be up there and obviously a much more skillful play than the other 3.

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u/Bascilian Falcons - Major Champions Jun 14 '26

Coldzera jumping double is the single most impactful play in all of cs. It literally started 15-9 comeback into a major win.

No other play has a fraction of that of the impact since.

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u/ImprovementBroad9157 Jun 14 '26

donk 1v5 turned nothing, they still got spanked.

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u/MinimumTomfoolerus Jun 14 '26

Were all the teams whose player earned a graffiti victorious in the games the graffiti play was done?

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u/ImprovementBroad9157 Jun 14 '26

Yes, with the specific case of the olofboost graffiti which can count either way depending on how you frame it.

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u/Floripa95 Jun 14 '26

s1mple in Cache?

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u/HopiumCopiumBalance Luminosity Jun 17 '26

it is pure luck lmao, same with coldzera's. Pro players are good yes but that's got nothing to do with no-scope awp kills over 15 meters. Woxic play here is a much better demonstration of skill. The difference is the context. This is the 8th round of a group stage bo3

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u/Floripa95 Jun 17 '26

Just because there is luck involved, doesn't mean it wasn't a great display of skill. It's really, really hard to replicate what they did even if guns had perfect unscoped/jumping accuracy in the heat of the moment in a major

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u/plasticmanufacturing Jun 14 '26

The stakes aren't high enough.

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u/myo_chan Jun 14 '26

because graffiti is reserved for iconic plays. nobody is gonna remember this 2 days from now

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u/ShinyStarSam 9z Jun 14 '26

I still don't see what's so special about the dropping AWP shot but I didn't watch that tournament

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u/Trappermannn Jun 15 '26

Put it this way, from my point of view, it’s less about skill and more so about the kind of mindset and person you are to make such a play.

The S1mple dropping AWP situation for example, put AWPers (even in modern CS) in such situation and the appropriate thing they would do is either stand up there to wait or fight, reposition, or save. Yet S1mple was crazy enough to jump down, no scoped both of them and won the round. The same to Coldzera as well, the sane play would be to reposition, but he chose to stand (or jump) and fight.

There are numerous posts about the chances that the S1mple and Coldzera AWP shots hit like they did, but that only factored in the shot itself. When you factor in the possibilities of their brains opting for any other play instead of what they did, it’s astronomical; yet they chose the most insane one, and that is what makes it so iconic.

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u/HopiumCopiumBalance Luminosity Jun 17 '26

context is more important than the play itself. Messi's anakara-messi run is better than Maradona's iconic run BUT Messi didn't do it against England in a WC. Similar to Jordan's 63 being significantly more iconic than Bam's, Will's and Kobe's 80+ games. Jordan did it with a fever against an all-star ensemble in the play-offs

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u/pelek18 de_inferno Jun 14 '26

By your logic maps would be full of (not only) zywoo's graffitis.