The Story of The AWP
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- 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?
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
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
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
@@crispyadoboflakes 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
"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
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
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
*"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?*
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.
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
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 😂
4:40 Smooya is just tilted that he is in the opposite side of most AWP montages
@@josh9592 y
theScore: _shows a clip from the CS:GO trailer of someone getting a kill with the Scout_
THE MOST ICONIC GUN
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
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.
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
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
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
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 UA-cam video titled like that
SilverS are blind
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
I still remember when it was called Magnum.
That's the reason some games call it AWM and not AWP
"God created men, Awp made them all equal" hahaha... i just remembered an old saying of Colt....
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
Not gonna lie that intro was hype as hell
"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 transition from device to simple was just brutal 💀
"The reason for this is S1mple" 3:16
It's s2mple, not s1mple
Ngl but Devve adapted to the new AWP the best
@@whteoutxd stwomple
Simplol
That one guy who pronounced s1mple as "sONEmple"
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.
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.
“The awp is like like the boogie man”
- top ten anime quotes
It is the one u send to kill the fookin boogie man 😝
"Anybody can play awp"
Rain: Looks around nervously
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.
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 think this is the time for "The story of AUG".
25 min documentary on a gun in a video game... I fucking love this channel.
the three guys in the shed must be proud that their weapon got famous.
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
You know when a weapon has reached icon status when there are 3 maps with a portrait of it
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
its more balanced now that its mag got nerfed to 5 bullets
Valve: no more aggressive awping
simple: hold my awp
@Faruq Abiyyi s1mple
Ah the awp,
Every cs player's wet dream
Lol
4:56 "spastic movement" 😂😂
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
"think of a good word to describe the AWP"
"cerebral"
Kenny just came back and now the Awp gets changed again😂
3:16 "my wife took the kids with her"
I saw that and went straight to the comments.
XD
wait what??
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.
22:57 the awp disappeared lmao
it diseappered as the player switched to a pistol,same thing happening in game
Gmc **POP**
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.
If you clutch with the AWP, guarantee your team will be screaming in the mic, best feeling in the world 💯
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...
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
You know it's a good gun when Valorant straight up keeps the name
10 minute of a 20 minute video is just telling how awesome it is without a story.
The story of KennyS v2
The man who has an Awp as a 3rd Arm
*A* - Aim
*W* - Wreck
*P* - Pwn
Nothing comes close to how the "AWP" sounds like in 1.6
Yep, it made me download the game again.
If you thought markeloff was a good awp, you never saw walle or sekundeN
they keep basically saying 1 hit 1 kill but here I am busy shooting 4 guys in a row in the leg then instantly getting destroyed
AWP, the gun with the highest skill cap and the lowest skill requirement.
Higher than the Deagle? :)
NOBODY:
theScore esports: THIS IS THE STORY OF THE AWP!!!!!
Kennys is pretty much dead but he still remain the sniper magician .
MM is always like: "Let's go! *hear awp* okay, nevermind then."
fast forward to 2023...awp has 5 bullets only....
2:35
"The trade-off that it's slow to AWPerate"
I remember the noice of this legendary gun since 1.6
You finally made a video on my fav weapon.
Be ready to make a vid on ENCE's underdog story tho
You should have started 20 years ago when legshots killed and you didn't have to stand still to shoot straight. THAT is history.
That gunfire sound is enough too send shivers down the spine...
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
NEXT THE STORY OF ENCE PLZ!
PS. TORILLA TAVATAAN!
Pyry Reinikainen ei
Ence as in the org or the R6S team?
aged like milk
@@DUxMORTEM Look at the story of serral
Imagine a story about awp without Ska... Smh
Finish your sentence
Skaddady
The awp fears no weapon but that $200 piece of metal that goes *wuhpsssh* scares it.
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.
Kenny would be the best AWPer if he improved his daily routine to 100 AWP kills, 100 AK kills, 100 M4 kills and then a 10km bunny hop every single day.
part of his routine is atleast 200 awp kills a day lol
He was Making a one punch man reference. (100 push up , 100 sit ups , 100 squats and 10km run whice made one punch man the stronget character in the world)
@@gdta1738 Ohh. Sorry I don't watch anime.
"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 video shows quite a bit of recency bias. The legacy and utilization of the AWP was written far before Markeloff was well known. Markeloff was certainly incredible, but I doubt he'd have been what he was had it not been for many other players that came before such as; Cogu, fr0d, ksharp, walle, vesslan, johnnyR, ShaGuar, Hyb, Swift, and many others.
Other than that though, great video!
This channel is always like that mate....
Another player from my era. Naming the people I aspired to be like.. watching frag or die trying to be the best..
Yeah. Sadly, that's normal. People aren;t usually interested in the past so much as the recent events. Markeloff is surely the face of 1.6 AWPing, that's why they mentioned him, but they probably knew putting in extra work and a few more minutes to showcase more old school players would be a waste because most current players don't even know who they are and wouldn't enjoy such content, at the same time making it less profitable for the channel. Sad, but that's how it works.
Thank you for saying this! I thought the same thing.
Those names, those legends... Damn!
Awp is textbook definition of a pure skill weapon
this is the kind of thing that should play between e-sports matches
SAVE AVP BLYAT!!!
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.
0:25 I saw the scout but when I went to comment it isn't an AWP I saw theScore esports already said it.
Supreme video quality man.
Boy I sure do love listening to an introduction repeating the same basics for 10 minutes straight.
first 10 minutes: gun shoot kill lol 1 hit
People forgot that 1.6 AWP was actually a nerfed & slower version too. The quick switching and draw and fire were quicker in cs beta to v1.5. In 1.6, they slowed it down significantly and probably affected & nerfed the top AWPer from pre-competitive 1.6 era. So does in CSGO, the top awper at the time like Kenny, Nico, Smithzz, Pasha, JW and Maikelele were affected so bad after the nerfed in mid 2015 patched. So in case, I'd say 1.6 and GO(post 2015) were kinda in familiar situation
KennyS is the best awper in Csgo of all time.
I remember 2 of my teammates bought AWPs and every single round they held a point a where the enemies moved through 98% of the time. And well the got a lot of kills.
It's also amazing how much better you are with it with a simple sharpie marker dot on your screen.
The awportunities you can get by using this gun
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.
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
thoroughly enjoyed that.great homage to KennyS
9:30 you forgot the best "s1mple the king"
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.
0:04 is just something about the sound. *old awp sound. Thanks for remembering me how good the old awp sound was unlike this shitty fart sound we have now.
wdym? Don't they sound the same?
@@leferraille7207 no they don't. It's like regular headphones versus beats - it sounds like pure bass and that sounds like trash tbh. the old awp was more like a thunder and the new one essentially is like a football being kicked lmao
@@NapOfNaps ohhh. Sry. haven't played 1.6 in a while.
@@leferraille7207 It's the old CS:GO sound. They changed it late 2016
I really want the old awp sound back. Don't see why they changed it because it is just as loud as the new one and is just a much nicer sound. Tbh same with most of the updated sounds in CS:GO