A player had great luck in Counter-Strike and drew a rare knife live in front of thousands of spectators.
Why is the audience going wild? In recent weeks, IEM Cologne 2024 took place. This is a major tournament in the e-sport of Counter-Strike 2, held at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne. A total of 24 teams participated. The winner, Team Vitality, was rewarded with a prize pool of 400,000 US dollars.
In the round of 16, the teams from FaZe Clan and SAW faced off. During the match, a spectator in the stands decided to open a few cases on his laptop – and got lucky.
The player held his laptop up and was captured by the camera. Now over 60,000 viewers could watch live on Twitch as well as everyone in the Lanxess Arena on a large screen, how the lucky guy drew a knife.
The player’s luck caused great cheers in the arena, the audience went wild. Here you can see a clip of the situation from the Twitch stream on x.com (formerly Twitter):
This time no fake: CS2 host confirms the player’s luck
Did the knife really get drawn live? Yes, the CS2 host and interviewer James Banks approached the player who drew the knife live and showed it in his Steam inventory (via x.com).
A photo of the laptop with the open Steam inventory also shows that the player can sell the knife no earlier than August 24, 2024. This corresponds to the Steam trading and market restrictions, which state that an item can be sold no earlier than after 7 days.
The player drew the knife on August 16.
What kind of knife is it? The drawn knife is a so-called Ursus Doppler in factory new condition.
A factory new Ursus Doppler is currently traded on the Steam marketplace for 500 to 600 euros. While it is far from the most expensive knives in Counter-Strike, it still requires a good amount of luck to draw such a knife – especially live, in the middle of a tournament audience.
Imagine if he had drawn a “Blue Gem” at that place, at that moment in Counter-Strike 2. The rare Karambit is so valuable that a player once declined 1.2 million dollars for it: Counter-Strike: Player offers 1.2 million dollars for a knife, but the owner finds that too little
