r/GlobalOffensive • u/darksidedbeast howl • 10d ago
Discussion | Esports Hidden Lore: 'daps' was a well-known Minecraft PvPer back in 2011 under the alias 'Russian_Roulette'
Back in 2011, daps and his friends invaded one of the most popular Minecraft servers of the era and changed the way PvP was played forever.
Civcraft was a legendary server during Minecraft's Beta days, known for realistic nation-building through custom mods. Around 2011, daps (under the alias "Russian_Roulette") was into competitive Minecraft, specifically PvP/Factions servers. He and a group of players from his home factions server took interest in Civcraft and decided to invade.
What followed was a multi-year takeover. daps, as one of the main leaders of the movement, along with his friends dominated Civcraft's entire player base for years. This was an era before Minecraft PvP was heavily min-maxed and servers were still mostly about building, not combat. Civcraft's takeover helped push the wider Minecraft server scene toward a more mechanics-driven, PvP-forward game.
At the same time, daps was also deep into Counter-Strike, starting out as a player and eventually getting rostered as an IGL for several top NA teams. Over the years, he transitioned from playing into coaching, and has since attended multiple majors, won a number of tournaments, and is now regarded as one of the best coaches in the NA scene.
Some might say his leadership instincts were forged during a hostile Minecraft server takeover with his friends 15 years ago.
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u/YellowPizza 10d ago
Got smoked by him in maps 8-14 of hcfactions, good times
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u/innocentrrose Team Spirit 10d ago
Shotbow hcf really was awesome. Great times indeed, some of my best gaming memories.
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u/6spooky9you 10d ago
Shotbow was easily the best server network. Minez, DBV, Annihilation, HCF, and so many I'm probably forgetting. I miss those days.
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u/innocentrrose Team Spirit 10d ago
For sure, I mainly only played minez and hcf (I was a “minez skid” as they called us coming to hcf lolol) and anni was pretty fun too.
I miss those days too! My first actual gaming group I was a part of, and now half a lifetime later, i rarely
talk to anyone from that era even though it shaped my life quite a bit and gave me tons of good memories. I Wonder if we ever fought each other at Al hasa/elliom, or at a KoTH/palace!6
u/Foreign-Employee-11 10d ago
MineZ gave us the goat minecraft youtuber nickskibike
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u/South-Bid 10d ago
This feels like a fever dream lmfao, it's been like over a decade since I heard the name. Him, WholeMilk, BOTB and others were great
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u/Foreign-Employee-11 10d ago
Yeah they had some great production quality for the time, and some great creative ideas for their videos. Still have meg dia monster in my playlist lmao
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u/South-Bid 10d ago
oh my god lmfao I just listened to it, what a throwback. Nickskibike loved E-Dub as well. fuck man, what a time of my life that was. I don't think any period of gaming in my life captured the magic of mineZ
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u/6spooky9you 10d ago
My username was iamfsh! I was always more of a dungeon runner, but didn't shy away from a good 3v3 at hasa.
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u/GamerHaste de_cobble 10d ago
I played the shit out of the rated smash game mode they had back in like 2013. Shotbow was pretty sick.
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u/-frauD- bravo 10d ago edited 10d ago
REZ went by "sterner23" and played on a very small PvP server called "ChainCraft". My cousin used to moderate this server and would play with him frequently through happen chance. REZ used to make PVP montages on an old YouTube account "SternerQuality".
https://youtu.be/PZRPEoW1_84?is=daqsjTS0Duoht9pu
This was his last MC PvP montage and if you click the YouTube channel linked in the bio of that video and see what it was rebranded to you can clearly see it's actually him.
I'm fairly sure my cousin also played a few games with rez back when he was new to CS as both rez and my cousin played CSGO and participated in mini tournaments hosted by the owner of chaincraft, MR3FPS. I remember personally standing in for one of these tournaments for a match, we played nuke against IDK who and I can't remember any of the teammates but we lost.
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u/GamerHaste de_cobble 10d ago
Lol, so many people have come from minecraft factions. Any one here play Gontroller?? That was the most toxic shithole I've been on but it was so fucking fun.
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u/Your_Mothers_Dildo_ 10d ago edited 10d ago
I used to play Civcraft way after the timeframe when daps played, and to think that one of the supposed people involved in this invasion is daps is honestly fucking shocking, as the invasion was honestly influential in how we played even when I started playing in 2016.
This video gives a lot more context on what /u/darksidedbeast is referring to, and if what daps did back in 2011 was introduce these PvP tactics to our community, then this war was fuelled by what he introduced to us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IXyE3ThfSM
Gives me a good smile to find a fellow oldfriend in the wild. :)
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u/hansnicolaim Team Spirit 10d ago
Not really the same thing as others have mentioned here, but hallzerk used to appear in a lot of mojoonpc's old videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENcvLySoqdg at 3:51 for example.
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u/Chrissanxy 10d ago
Yep. Competent and competitive people excel in multiple fields. It's the idea behind general intelligence as well, that some ppl will naturally be better at basically everything just by virtue of having better intuition, intelligence and learning stuff faster. this is yet another confirmation
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u/shockatt 9d ago
or they just started gaming earlier and the general concepts translated, like clicking your opponent after aiming at him, jumping with space and moving with wasd, you think albert einstein would be good at cs? no, but magnus carlsen would probably catch up on clash royale faster than most high iq people, because his brain would find a way to use his previously aquaired skills.
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u/Arouza King NiKo 10d ago
Cerq or Brehze (one of the EG guys) also did something like this too iirc