Three years ago on Tuesday, perhaps one of the most legendary, infamous, and iconic moments of CS:GO's competitive history took place. DreamHack Winter 2014 was the stage, and Overpass was the map as Team LDLC.com took on Fnatic in the third quarterfinal series. LDLC took a quick lead after a 16-10 victory on the first map, Dust2, before Fnatic fired right back with a victory on Cache. Heading into Overpass it was anyone's series, and LDLC immediately ran the score up 12-3 in the first half. Switching over to CT side, Fnatic knew that something had to be done if they wanted to win the series, and they had their secret weapon ready: Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer, a Scout, and a pixel-walk boost.
Fnatic would go on to use a highly controversial tactic, which involved boosting Olof to a location that gave him a direct line of site on LDLC as they worked their way towards the bombsite. However, the boost was in what was supposed to be an unreachable area and actually resulted in Olof being invisible.
LDLC had no clue where he was, and Fnatic used this tactic to come all the way back from 12-3 to win 16-13. Nobody was happy. LDLC were furious (even though they also used a rather controversial boost tactic in the same game), the community was livid, and history had been made.
.@LDLC It was clear you guys played like the better team. Impressive showing from the guys and you can keep your heads up high.
— Ram Djemal (@brokenshard) November 28, 2014
What made people even angrier was the fact that Fnatic had allegedly known about the boosts for months prior, and at one point even asked a YouTuber to take down a video showing how to do it. They knew how unfair it was, and they wanted to keep it from the public so they could use it in an emergency situation like this. As it turns out, the extreme community backlash would result in DreamHack investigating the match.
The teams were offered to replay from 0-0 and then offered again to replay from LDLC's lead of 12-3. Shockingly enough, LDLC declined this offer and instead decided to forfeit the tournament. Overcome with guilt from the ever-growing community backlash, Fnatic took it upon themselves to forfeit instead. This would allow LDLC to move on to the semifinals where they would then beat Natus Vincere 2-0, before defeating Ninjas in Pyjamas 2-1 in the Grand Final to become Major champions.
This was an absolutely wild ride for the entire CS:GO community, and it will continue to be considered one of the defining moments of professional Counter-Strike.
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