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Counter-Strike: The Best: Matches of All Time [5-1]

By: Trevor Schmidt - Published June 30, 2006 at 2:22 AM EDT - Writer Archive
Midway's "The Best" series continues with an examination of Trevor's top 15 Counter-Strike matches of all time. This piece highlights matches 5-1.


So far we have seen a mixture of European, Asian and American winners. The question is, who what is the top match of all time? I bet a lot of people have a good guess but what about 2-5? They may surprise you. As we close in on the top five, let’s quickly take a look back at the matches we have already gone through. Here’s a list of the the 15th to 6th top matches of all time:

15. DoP vs X3 – (13-11) - CAL Season 3 – February 7th, 2002
14. Team9 over 3D – (16-13) - CPL Summer 2003 – August 1st – 4th, 2003 - Dust2
13. NiP over RDW – (13-10) – CPL Summer 2001 – December 4th – 9th, 2001
12. 3D over mibr – (13-11)(13-9) - WCG 2003 – October 12th - 18th, 2003
11. Maven over SK.swe – (16-13)(4-13)(13-5) – WCG 2004 – October 15th – 19th, 2004
10. Sweden Team9 over Norway eoL – (13-11) (17-20 in 2OT) (13-7) – Clikarena – April 20th-21st, 2003
9. Russia Virtus.Pro over Sweden SK.swe – (13-9) - ESWC 2004 – July 6th-11th, 2004
8. Sweden SoA.swe (MAFIA) over Sweden All* – (0-1 in OT) (12-7) – CPL Holland – May 10th-13th, 2001
7. NoA over Sweden EYE – (16-14) (16-5) - CPL Winter 2004 – December 15th-19th, 2004
6. United States 3D over Sweden SK.swe – (8-13) (13-8) (13-7) - WCG 2004 – October 7th-11th, 2004

Five of the matches feature European winners with six being composed of mostly Europeans. SK.swe is a loser in three of the matches, while the #2 team of all time grabbed a few wins in the top 15, let’s find out.
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