Considered by many to be the best CS:GO player of all time, Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev was a guest on Duncan "Thorin" Shields' Reflections, where he confirmed that he will be returning to CS esports and plans to once again be the best player on the planet.
S1mple, who marked CS:GO's counter era alongside Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut, took an unexpected hiatus from professional gaming in October, when he stepped down from the Na'Vi first team he had played for for six years.
He has spoken publicly about his dislike of CS2, after which he decided to take a break and rest before deciding what to do next with his career. As time goes on it seems that s1mple is getting closer to leaving the AWP position that was dominant in CS:GO and switching to playing with guns, which is why during the interview the topic of particular interest was what he had to say about Nikola "NiKo". To Kovač, the best CS:GO rifler of the counter era.
Thorin himself commented on the fact that many felt that the AWP was simply the strongest weapon in CS:GO, which is why the two best players in the world were snipers, so he followed up by asking s1mple if perhaps NiKo would be the "Goat" (Greatest Of All Time) in CS:GO if it wasn't like that.
S1mple said that NiKo is an extremely talented player, but that he feels that he would be better than him when playing with guns, due to the fact that he has a better knowledge of the game itself.
When asked if he will be number one again - s1mple commented briefly and clearly in his style that he definitely will be, implying that no matter what weapons he decides on in the end, no one will be able to match him.
