The Day s1mple's Falling AWP took an NA team to their first Major Championship Grand Final - Video

Footage Courtesy: ESL/Turtle Entertainment GmbH, Valve

On July 9, 2016 s1mple landed his now infamous falling AWP, cementing himself in CS:GO history with a play that would defy the odds.

At 2016’s ESL One Cologne, s1mple would once again take north america’s Team Liquid to the bracket stage of a major event and after a hard fought series against Na`Vi, the s1mple lead Liquid would face a motivated Fnatic in the semifinals.

On cache, the swedes would get off to a hot start, taking the opening pistol and subsequent anti-ecos. Team Liquid responded immediately on the gun round, shutting down the Fnatic offense with early aggression into A-main.

With the first gun round under their belt, the Liquid defense began to catch fire.

Liquid’s suffocating CT-side would repeatedly stump the Fnatic offense and it would force the Swedes into a crippling economic disadvantage.

In the 14th round, equipped with just a couple of pistols and two AK-47s, Fnatic finally made some headway with a play towards mid. In the 2v2, dennis managed to land the headshot on Hiko and Fnatic made their way towards the B-bombsite.

In what was an absolutely absurd split second decision, s1mple decided to take the fight straight to the Swedes — falling on top of dennis and landing a no scope, then re-adjusting to land a no scope on Krimz as well.

Team Liquid would pull off the upset over Fnatic and advance to the grand finals but would fall short of SK Gaming, who would win their second Major title.

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