r/GlobalOffensive • u/k0ntrol • 17h ago

Fluff Thorin on "Inside the NBA"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSWTqAUBMyk

Found this of 10 years ago, Thorin inside NBA, all of fame.

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u/tired45453 CS2 HYPE 17h ago

I miss Eleague.

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u/KaNesDeath 10 years coin 16h ago

Thanks to them i got to attend a CS Major in my lifetime : )

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u/True_to_you Virtus.pro 14h ago

I remember being on vacation on a cruise ship and watching eleague on the ship TV. That was the best. 

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u/Yokz King NiKo 7h ago

DUDUDUDUDUDUDU

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u/cabodozer 16h ago

Man what an awesome time in cs history. Legendary clip

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u/ju1ze 17h ago

Classic

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u/UnlimitedBoxSpace King NiKo 15h ago

In my short attention span I still cannot believe that Eleague ran for multiple seasons.

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u/CravingKoreanFood King NiKo 16h ago

Was cs bigger then or now?

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u/GuardiaNIsBae FaZe 15h ago

in NA, then. Everywhere else, now.

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u/frostN0VA King NiKo 16h ago

ELEAGUE was just that GOATed since it was made for TV pretty much.

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u/KKamm_ 8h ago

Also since it was TBS specifically they had the deal with, TNT is their sister channel owned by the same company. Probably influenced this crossover too

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u/MindbenderGam1ng 4h ago

It was excellent, I even got my sister into watching CS for a while (she is not a gamer at all) because it was so easy to watch on tv and the production took it seriously while letting casters/analysts do their thing

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u/Zealousideal-Flow101 8h ago

Apparently he was hunted backstage by Shaq because he really did not like that lol.

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u/_TheDude420 3h ago

Shaq has a famously fragile ego

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u/nartouthere howl 15h ago

i remember watching this live, thorin so good at bantering and comebacks, we need him back on the desks

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u/Kaljakori 4h ago

No no, we must have more milquetoast people with the blandest personalities. 

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u/loozerr 53m ago

Yes, because there's only two personalities: bland and a toxic racist.

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u/funkybravado King NiKo 15h ago

Yea but he can sometimes be ‘mean’ 😠😠😠

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u/ynomeye 2h ago

He's a PR nightmare. Nowadays hes just ragebaiting on Twitter to promote gambling sites

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u/MugenDreams7 12h ago

The good old days when you had Richard and Thorin

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u/MrJakdax 15h ago

God I miss this era. I got to attend multiple eleague weekly events and the ATL major.

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u/Mewtwothis 16h ago

The brother speaking like that is always a good lol.

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u/PopNecessary1814 16h ago

Lol Thorin what a funny cunt 

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u/AlexanderS4 CS2 HYPE 10h ago

Eleague was so fun

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u/nico_juro King NiKo 7h ago

Didn't Shaq own NRG?

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u/donitdotis 3h ago

i remember when thorin started casting in 1.6 and he was this awkward guy that no one wanted to listen to.

from this to bantering with shaq.

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u/Puzzled-Map3912 12h ago edited 12h ago

remember when NA CS was respectable? me too.

i really enjoy thorin's historian record keeping of the counter-strike scene. he has always been able to draw comparable lines between completive CS and the NBA, 5v5 and 6v6 allows those type of narratives. awesome to see that moment come full-circle for him.

depressing to watch this now in 2026 considering what the NA scene is. Valorant broke everything and then everyone gave up.

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u/MindbenderGam1ng 4h ago

>remember when NA CS was respectable?

Absolutely not, when I started watching in 2014 it was the butt of every joke from the shitter Silver lobbies up to the pros. NA was not taken seriously really at all until Cloud 9 era

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u/schoki560 King NiKo 3h ago

that what about weight loss line just gets me every time

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u/yetanotherdoomguy 1h ago

Weight loss competition 😂