The Story of The AWP
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- It’s the most iconic gun in Counter-Strike and the only specific weapon in all of esports to have a position named after it.
The AWP isn’t just a sniper rifle. It’s a living, breathing art form. A brush that gamers have been using to paint beautiful, bloody portraits for nearly two decades.
And it's due to this tumultuous history that the AWP remains one of the most infamous and influential instruments of digital death ever created.
This is its story.
Written By: Dimitri Pascaluta (@DPascaluta)
Edited By: Daniel Cole (@RandomTens)
Narrated By: Colin McNeil (@McNeilColin)
Graphics Support: Diego Bernal
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Music used under license from Associated Production Music LLC (”APM”).
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Hey Everyone, at 0:26 we messed up and accidentally showed some footage of a Scout instead of an AWP. Thanks @Vickey for keeping us accountable and as always thanks for watching!
K nice
i think you forgot to tag chief. he told @Vickey that this ain’t it.
@@nathanb4424 That definition of skill floor is a complete misconception that's been floating around for a few years now. It doesn't even make sense. If you think of a bar graph, and the skill floor as a flat line across the graph, that means your skill level must break the skill floor threshold to be effective with it.
Thats what i about to Comment
And Bizon?
Drop AWP bro please bro please I’m really good bro please
"I'm kennys"
Lmaoooooo
I'll rush b bro
No, no, it's.....
*clutch complete, Team-mate; "pick awep, pick awep!" *Me; drop M4 & pick up AWP
*next buy round, Team-mate; "drop awep"
Me; "buy me M4?"
Team-mate; "No"
Most used sentence in cs ? Save my awp
Watch this - join game - buy awp - pick mid - get deagled
rip same
Technically, you died with mini-AWP. So, no need to worry. Keep peeking.
Just aim for the chest. Instant delete
just happend to me rn
CS's awp is the easiest sniper compared to other fps or shooter in general. Maybe you need more time in it
There’s two types of AWPers: One is good with the awp, the other can only get kills with the awps
And the second person thinks they are KennyS
LazyRazy not really, I mean i grew up just using the awp and not using any rifles so its kind of a curse and a blessing
@@tobysy9624 lol
@@pannnella As an Awper I mostly pick it up to hold mid or sth, but if we have more than 1 Awp, I'm using a normal rifle, it's important to use "secondary" weapons like ak or m4 when you want to be a good awp player
Yeah, I'm the second lol. I use the awp most of the time. Suck at close range. When too many people use the awp, I use the MP7 or MP9. I don't fuck the rest of the weapons.
my team awper : aight we won 14 rounds in a row.
*Goes agro , eats flashbangs , feeds the awp to a mac 10 rusher*
*game lost 14-16*
Ohman. The dreaded 14-16
My team: only one more person with auto sniper and we won 15 round lets kill him with knife
*game tie from 15-7 to 15-15*
I'm my team's AWPer. If I give my AWP this way, I buy mac-10 next round and take their AWP same way.
jordan lee That happened to me in Competitve valor ant and my friend was so mad
There were 129 awp shot noises in this video...
That one job u dont hav to do but u just do it
But its actually cool
I did something similar when replaying .hack//GU
By the end of the 2nd volume haseo yells Ovan 95 times iirc
Were you just bored and wrote this?
You are wrong there are only 126 shots..😋
125 shots
The key to be a good awper has been leaked by kennyS - mastuerbate 3:50
Killed me
(Also if that was true i would be playing vs astralis tomorrow... how lonely have i got)
i now cannot unhear that XD
Oh boi
How come im bad then
Omg lol
"anybody can awp" - is literally bad with awp and rifle
AWPing is actually kinda easier than rifling cos I don't need to care about spray pattern lol
@@kayoom9613 But missing a shot is incredibly punishing if you are playing against good players
@@Flamuski "if you are playing vs good players"
@@sirfargy Then I can pwn some silvers myself
@@Flamuski yes probably if you're better than them
4:40 Smooya is just tilted that he is in the opposite side of most AWP montages
@@josh9592 y
The story of the “5000$ decoy”.
inut reference?
@@canYouRepeatThatInC S1mple
@@sahil5217 wrong its actually 4750
They already did it
@@gragasapmidlane6761 No, it's the OVER9000$ Decoy. It's a DLore.
*"Everyone can use it"*
Meanwhile My team in deathmatch: 0/3/16
How do you have a team in a deathmatch?
@@thesnackbandit LMAO
Depends on their ping-
*wait what. You have team on deathmatch?*
They missed the opportunity to call people who use awp as "awperators"
Nice original comment only 1 year late
Ay man valorant took your idea bro just saying
@@nighfirst2968 bruhhh
@@nighfirst2968 they should hire me 😳😳
Ans you missed the chane to say awportunity
when they change the game because of you :D:D
tycoon *sad Schumacher noises*
Wow this aged perfectly
They call me KennyS… I am not KennyS I was kidding guys
wtf do you mean about that. you can say that about like half the guns in the game.
@@Asdf-wf6en what? That valve changed half the guns in the game because of KennyS, lmao 😂
theScore: _shows a clip from the CS:GO trailer of someone getting a kill with the Scout_
THE MOST ICONIC GUN
Everyone can awp but not everyone can master it
Good position, timing, reaction, aim, tactical are hard to master
Tell this silvers
position is hard no scoping is ez (aimbot on)
aim?
Other shooting game's sniper is a lot harder though.
Learning and becoming a master of AWPing is why I’m so obsessed with CSGO.
I still remember when it was called Magnum.
That's the reason some games call it AWM and not AWP
The awp is skill in it's purest form.
Click on the enemy to kill, no bullshit, no rng.
I love that stuff.
yeah except its a one shot and the other person has to put in way more effort to kill YOU than you do to kill THEM
wait du spielst cs? btw bin langer fan von dir
@@moneyhoarder123 except if u miss u r dead... High risk.. High price.. High reward.... Its not a coincidence that d best players of the world r mostly awpers..
@@arijitrox123 Have you ever heard of covering??
Yo lass mal csgo spielen
The sound also includes three year olds swearing and calling you a hacker.
omg he aims and shoots HACKER!
Three year old lol??
Omg he moved HACKER!
When you are 13 year old and you make fun of 3 year olds
@@micker7666 oof nice one XD
Bruh I feel like they use that coldzera clip every chance they get. That crap gives me PTSD. I watched that live.
Me too man, ngl, it was cool af
DarkSunStudios1 not if you were a liquid fan 😭😭
@@playboicarkeys9038 hahahahahahaahaha fax
Everyday in silver :
Teammates can't use any rifle in CS
After they buy an awp :
*So Anyway I started being kennys*
Am i the only one here that rarely uses the AWP?
@@RolandBon i suck at sniper rifles lmao
This is me
Not calling the AWPers AWPerators breaks my damn heart.
Holy shit fam, u right
**Makes steam group called AWPerators**
damn, missed AWPortunity
happypotato42 But at least you AWPed to try your joke out here
Peekers? AWP MAIN!
So we back in the grinds....
drop avp men
men?
no e wen for yu
europeans... ^^ "double u" is such a long letter
theres a TH-cam video titled like that
SilverS are blind
"God created men, Awp made them all equal" hahaha... i just remembered an old saying of Colt....
The transition from device to simple was just brutal 💀
ㅤ
who dies... all the time
@@hierarchlaurence not really :)
*peek
@@allbrosdjay not this shit to me mate you very well know we wanted to say 'peek' you say i'm peeking mid not 'i will go get a pick on mid' so piss off
@@sotiris6656 no getting a pick just means to get a kill it's definitely CS slang
Fun fact: the AWP shoots the same bullets as the Negev
Valve make Negev insta kill plz
Edit: Turns out the specific Negev in CSGO doesn't, the SSG 08 does though
*Valve make SSG insta kill plz*
The Negev in CSGO is the Negev SF, not Negev NG-7 SF so it actually shoots 5.56.
naimina but the negev still deals damage like a 9 mil lmao
CS had never been a realistic weapon stats. In real life a suppressed gun is more powerful than a non suppressed, ok, it is just a little bit more powerful but it is, since the barrel is longer, making the bullet faster.
Talking about speed, as a 7.62 is heavier than a 5.56, its reduces speed, so a 5.56 have more penetration.
And do we need talking about how the fuck a 57 get a 1 hs kill in close range and a M4 not?
@@ivanbertoni7622 quit tripping, if suppressed guns were better, every army would equip them on the majority of their men, and they don't, for good reason. A suppressor doesn't extend the length of the barrel, because it's not another simple tube for the round to go through, it's a series of holes/pores and whatnot for gasses to be trapped, in order to reduce sound in the other end, I would think most suppressors don't have rifling, either. A longer barrel doesn't make a bullet faster, more propellant makes a bullet faster, a long barrel spins the round longer = helps it stay more accurate at range.
7.62 will penetrate more then a 5.56 round in real life, mostly because it is larger, and because a 5.56 isn't a faster round just because it's smaller. Depending on round and gun, any weapon can have a higher muzzle velocity. it will also do more damage post-penetration, only because of it's sheer size.
Yeah five-seven is quite funny, but it's worse then M4 in more ways then it's better.
Lolfungreg I was just gonna say the same thing about the bullets Ivan Bertoni was talking about lol
"Dev1ce is the best awper in the world and one of the best ever"
-S1mple has entered the server
KennnyS re-entered the server after new cache hahaha
@@dennisluts4860 FUUUCK YEAAAAAHHH
Skadoodle: Am i a joke to you?
@@khytron06 really? Ska......
GuardiaN ,kennyS have entered the chat
The ignorance and irony coming off the smooya interview is palpable
How come?
@@lukelu5138 cuz he cant use an awp to save his life
"u can literally not looking at them, move your arm and click, boom u killed 2 guys" uh...????
Jack Fernandez yeah these guys definitely don’t watch counter strike. Smooyas performances on chaos with the awp were insane
Haha a silver telling a pro what's real? He is right, anyone can use the AWP. But it is difficult to master it.
"The reason for this is S1mple" 3:16
It's s2mple, not s1mple
Ngl but Devve adapted to the new AWP the best
@@LilacFPS stwomple
Simplol
That one guy who pronounced s1mple as "sONEmple"
Not gonna lie that intro was hype as hell
Valve in rare flash of reason nerfs overpowered weapon and 4 years later people still crying about it. Lmao.
Cyphi and they didn’t even change much rofl
@Soda King tf2 had a weapon nerfed just because a one person was too good with it as well.
20:02 is a great transition to the next segment. I love this, keep it up!
Coolmark didn’t think I would see you here cool
Hey fool wat are u doing here? Go play ur bot game
9:33 it's Ladislav Cyka Kovacs, not Guardian, cmon.
Good S1mple reference xD
The man with "Lad" "Slav" and "VAC" in his name.
He is from Slovakia... He ain't russian
@@matej1083 He is referencing what S1mple said on stream once.
@@matej1083 s1mple said that in the stream
7:07 weren't noscopes they were actually quick scopes
One of them was a no scope, but it missed
@@shido1264 the funny thing is he talked about no scope but the only no scope didn't even land
a quickscope is when you press the right button nearly at the same time like the left button but what he did were afterscopes. oh and he did not miss any shot 4 shots 4 kills just look at the body on top of that wall it´s laying on the ground at the end of the round.
@@shido1264 No. Those were all quickscopes.
@@shido1264 guy on top right ledge/balcony is dead after that no scope. Albert, Neil, ulric, josh. 4 shots 4 kills
Ah the awp,
Every cs player's wet dream
Lol
This was amazing. Finally a documentary that I want to watch. Keep it up.
Gaurdian is a great awper,I think u didn't mention him enough when you talk about AWP
Pranav Mapari exactly, he is the most consistent awper of csgo. KennyS was the best awper in his prime though. But you are right he didn't get the attention he deserved
Guardian didn't really influence the AWP meta (he's still extremely good with it though don't get me wrong)
@@TheHadrian54 He did in some way in navi since navi tactic back then was to run down the time till the last second usually utilizing guardian as the awper to find peeks and openings, he's not mention enough cuz he's not having such flashy playstyle.
Guardian has been in the top 20 of hltv since the beginning! By far the most consistent despite all the teams he's been through
@@TheHadrian54 he did tho.
He played way more agressive than simple for ex...
Re watch and learn.
22:57 the awp disappeared lmao
it diseappered as the player switched to a pistol,same thing happening in game
Gmc **POP**
I think this is the time for "The story of AUG".
Valve: no more aggressive awping
simple: hold my awp
@Faruq Abiyyi s1mple
3:16 "my wife took the kids with her"
I saw that and went straight to the comments.
XD
wait what??
You guys are pumping out CONTENT lately these videos are so good
The fact skadoodle is never mention from anyone that he’s one of the best is crazy
On his day,he could compete with the best but he was streaky and inconsistent as well so yeah.
"Anybody can play awp"
Rain: Looks around nervously
“The awp is like like the boogie man”
- top ten anime quotes
It is the one u send to kill the fookin boogie man 😝
Am an awper, feels like heaven with fast movements on the face shots.. and when the opponents don't come to the position I am playing
Nothing comes close to how the "AWP" sounds like in 1.6
Yep, it made me download the game again.
I like how the editors pay attention and cuts out the reward because he said "high risk high reward" in 2:27
The story of KennyS v2
The man who has an Awp as a 3rd Arm
Put this on the fricking halftime of MIBR v. Astralis for me to watch it,,, smh haha
Me tho :v
So true
if u are for mibr it wasnt worth watching it a hunt at the end
RIP
"think of a good word to describe the AWP"
"cerebral"
0:25 I saw the scout but when I went to comment it isn't an AWP I saw theScore esports already said it.
The sound of AWP in cs 1.6 sounds more BEAST !!! Feeling nostalgic?
Wanna know something?
In the Philippines the land of Cringe and Toxic People, kids there including me still plays CS 1.6 and we enjoy it and we even still play GTA SA lots of kids there plays CS 1.6 but problem is they are very noob when I party with them in CS:GO they are literal shit but yeah we still play CS 1.6 here.
So does old CSGO AWP sounds... It's a shame they changed and nerfed it...
4:56 "spastic movement" 😂😂
Your videos are so good! The CS content is just amazing. Please keep it up
2:35
"The trade-off that it's slow to AWPerate"
You know when a weapon has reached icon status when there are 3 maps with a portrait of it
In my opinion you shouldn't have included smooyas clips, because the things he said are bullshit and if the awp in his opinion is so easy to play why did he miss so many shots
The awp is very easy to use but extremely difficult to master just like it's said in the video. I shouldn't have to explain this but obviously smooya is playing against the very best players in the world who are doing everything possible to counter him, so no shit it isn't easy to awp against the best players in the world but it is pretty easy to hold an angle and have someone run into it so you can click and they're dead.
the awp is literally the easiest weapon in the game to play. I personally think I'm garbage with it to the point where I'd rather use a glock but when I pick up an awp and use it I still somehow get 3-4k's consistently I guess that tells you a whole lot about the awp.
pARAN0iD Colin more like it tells you about the people you play against
I disagree with smooya 99.9% of the time. I really hope his views don't even affect CS:GO's updates because his views are entirely self-centered and if he had any control he would make the game revolve around his own playstyle.
@@ross1068 yea thats right but he deems it overpowered and unbalanced which is just not true
I love the awp. The operator just doesnt have the same feel, the same macho as the awp. I mean, i guess its hard to outdo the most iconic gun in gaming
I remember the noice of this legendary gun since 1.6
I have to ask about this:
Can we get the Story of Totalbiscuit? I know he is not a streamer, but he has done so much for the community!
RIP Sum Cookie
This. So much this.
I agree even outside CSGO he was a driving factor in the gaming community in general.
@@DUxMORTEM he played CS?
@@wither3621 not sure but i know he talked about it occasionally.
*A* - Aim
*W* - Wreck
*P* - Pwn
It feels good to hear a friend asking you if you want the enemy awp or you want them to buy one if you are a good awper.
AWP, the gun with the highest skill cap and the lowest skill requirement.
Higher than the Deagle? :)
Imagine a story about awp without Ska... Smh
Finish your sentence
Skaddady
Kennys is pretty much dead but he still remain the sniper magician .
Very well made video! Keep up the good work!
It's also amazing how much better you are with it with a simple sharpie marker dot on your screen.
the three guys in the shed must be proud that their weapon got famous.
You finally made a video on my fav weapon.
Be ready to make a vid on ENCE's underdog story tho
That gunfire sound is enough too send shivers down the spine...
amazing graphics and edit for this video! keep it up
6:35 this clip really shows off the awp with the p250 kills
P250 is a damn deal at $300. It's basically a Deagle if you hit the head.
KennyS is the best awper in Csgo of all time.
Kenny just came back and now the Awp gets changed again😂
10 minute of a 20 minute video is just telling how awesome it is without a story.
SAVE AVP BLYAT!!!
07:01
*Only half of the scoped frame appear and for 1 frame as well...*
25 min documentary on a gun in a video game... I fucking love this channel.
I really love your videos and wanted to say thank you that you are spending so much time to search the informations do the videos and and and good job😄💪🖒
The AWP and the MW2 Intervention are the two most legendary video game snipers ever.
mmm i beg to differ.. the awp and halo sniper was before mw2. an scoping in halo was more fun the sniping in cod 4 or mw2 to be honest.
@@idrizzyt7524 Fair enough
GetDrizzed On that doesnt make it more legendary, that just means that YOU like it more
Do the Story of ENCE after they win this major.
#EZ4ENCE
Allu better
Ez for navi
@@gregthemtbrider9172 was it xd i think ur wrong
@@uksupuksu wait did navi lose
@@gregthemtbrider9172 yes
Man...good job editing this video Daniel Cole! Super impressed...btw anyone reading this or watching this video, if any of you know how to create a highlight video of CSGO frags, please lemme know ASAP.
Supreme video quality man.
"the sound"
Well that's changed
thoroughly enjoyed that.great homage to KennyS
When KennyS said to try something a bit different, he showed us in the major during OT on D2, on CT side with 10 seconds left, he peeks into the opponent who barely has time to plant, dies, thus forcing his teammate to play an unfavorable 1v1. Its so different that it doesn't work most of the time.
this is amazingly edited.
"The Story of the P90" next plz
man i miss the old times where i was actually good at cs and played scout for fun most on the time in pugs and just headshot everyone, while getting banned sometimes cuz they thought i was cheating.
I loved the legendary Fnatic all AWP round start on dust2. That was so obvious in hindsight but nobody had done it before them.
Love these videos they are great.
I think we need the story of the revolver
"Noob Cannon" is the nickname for AWP back in 1.6, real skilled user is Scout which you will need to
go John Wick and aim for the head.
@toprowsky123 it requires way more skill than the other spray and pray weapons in the game lmao
Lol I actually think the scout is more dangerous cz it feels so lite and flicks are god like
this is the kind of thing that should play between e-sports matches
Markeloff was the one player that convinced me to play fps. I was in awe everytime he enters a site. Gkad to see he is goated by the community.
"Needless to say, they were wrong" as s1mple looks into the camera hahaha
Can You Not I'm watching The Major
I just uploaded the highlights the game was insane :D!
@@christianandersen1705 I really hope ence beats astralis I'm so sick of them winning
Oi, im danish so i always like to see astralis win, but your probably right, we need the old days where all had a chance to win, right now astralis is dominating to hard
Beautiful bloody portraits nice!
Excellent documentary