Video: How a Bottom-Fragging IGL became the GigaChad of CS:GO

In Counter-Strike, being a captain on a top team is very difficult. As an IGL, you spend so much time thinking about the other side that your own fragging can take a back seat. But when you don’t put up the stats or don’t deliver enough kills as your fans expect, they can get vicious.

Every team in CS:GO wants a captain who can frag, but there are only so many seasoned veterans with brilliant minds and stellar aim to go around, so some teams have had to get creative.

Enter Rasmus “HooXi” Nielsen, a Dane who by all accounts, is not the mythical fragging in-game leader. In fact, the 27-year-old Dane spent several important games on G2 at the bottom of the server.