Credit: ESL | Carlton Beener

Video: How an Ex-Tesla employee used science to win a Major

This is the story of how a tech-obsessed genius left one of the world’s most prestigious companies to become a CS:GO coach.

2021-07-26 | @anespleygg

What you may not know is that it wasn’t just tarik, RUSH, Skadoodle, automatic, and the Smoke Criminal who took home the ELEAGUE Major 2018 title.

It was also their coach, Soham “valens” Chowdhury, a Stanford-educated, tech-obsessed tactical genius who left one of the world’s most prestigious companies in Tesla to not only compete in and coach professional CS:GO, but make it a little more calculated.

To help North-American Counter-Strike from becoming less of a meme and more of a science.

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