Denis “electronic” Sharipov is on a team with s1mple, so it’s easy to forget that he’s also one of the best CS:GO players out there. NAVI’s rowdy Russian rifler has endless highlights and DEXERTO have picked out the very best.
The 22-year-old Russian went from living in the shadow of one of the greatest players the game has ever seen to a superstar in his own right. To understand how he did it, we need to go back in time a little bit.
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It’s 2015, and this scrappy, stern-faced teenager is trying to make a name for himself in the mother of all Counter-Strike obsessed regions: Russia.
The problem is that it’s a lot more difficult than you might think. This is his story:
