What began life as one of Counter-Strike’s many meme mix teams has now become a bona fide Cinderella story as German CS creator ohnePixel’s DRILLAS squad magicked its way to the Asia RMR of the upcoming Shanghai Major, with over 75,000 fans following their decider game live along the way.

Hastily established just a few weeks ago, ohnePixel set himself up as the coach of this rag-tag squad, which admittedly did feature some notable talent. Former Monte captain Volodymyr “⁠Woro2k⁠” Veletniuk and his in-game leading talents were the initial highlight of his squad, as he was joined by fellow Ukrainian Vladyslav “Kvem” Korol from IKLA’s bench alongside ex-LDLC player Ali “⁠hAdji⁠” Haïnouss and Tal “⁠meztal⁠” Hahiashvili and Meytar “⁠AMSALEM⁠” Amsalem, both hailing from Israel.