Former FaZe ace AWP-er GuardiaN officially announce retirement..

American Counter Strike 2 (CS2) e-sports team FaZe's former Slovak ace AWP-er GuardiaN, suddenly announced on his personal official Twitter on Wednesday that he would retire immediately.

In order to make this announcement, GuardiaN also specifically accepted an exclusive interview with his current team BC.Game, and even uploaded the interview clip to the team's official YouTube channel.

In the interview, GuardiaN explained that because of his age, although he still loves Counter Strike 2 (CS2), he has lost the motivation to continue to participate in professional tournaments because he is willing but unable, hence he eventually chose to retire.

He also revealed that after retirement, he may turn to being a streamer or analyst, and focus on finding some business collaboration opportunities.

Looking back on his 19-year professional career, GuardiaN admitted that there were two games that are his most memorable and his favourite.

The first one was when he played for FaZe in the 2018 Intel Extreme Masters Katowice Finals, where he single-handedly defeated Fnatic against five opponents and helped the team get a point back 6-3.

The other one was when he played for NAVI against Cloud9 (C9) in ESL One Cologne 2017, where he delivered a performance that was rated as the second best in the entire tournament despite being at a disadvantage.

As for his favourite moment, GuardiaN chose when he played for NAVI.

He said that because he had tried to win before, but always failed, he couldn't help crying when he and NAVI finally tasted winning the first place in 2014.

If he had to choose a favourite teammate, he would choose FaZe's ace Rifler Rain, and described Rain as a kind, unique, and good roommate who could fight side by side.

Finally, GuardiaN also took this opportunity to express his sincere gratitude to all his teammates, especially those from NAVI and FaZe. He was also very grateful to BC.Game for giving him the opportunity to try to be a coach.

At the same time, he was also very grateful to the fans for their warm support and to those who hated him for their harsh criticism, because it was through everyone's humble criticism that he could learn from his mistakes and become better.

He also hoped that all the younger fans and players could take him as an example and not feel embarrassed because of their humble background, because as long as they were willing to work hard, a young man from Slovakia like him could also become famous and become one of the CS2 professional e-sports players loved by everyone in the world.

About GuardiaN

GuardiaN, 33 years old, whose real name is Ladislav Kovacs, was born on July 9, 1991 in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. He has been a professional Counter Strike player since 2006.

In mid-2012, GuardiaN officially became a professional CS:GO e-sports player. He had played for myDGB.net, ePz, TCM-Gaming and 3DMAX, and officially joined Virtus.pro (VP) the following year.

In December 2013, GuardiaN moved to the Eastern European e-sports powerhouse NAVI.

During his time at NAVI, after winning the 2014 ESL One Katowice closed qualifiers with the team, GuardiaN later won several B-level and offline tournaments with the team.

In August 2017, GuardiaN joined FaZe, and his ace quality as a AWP-er also began to show from this time.

During his two-year spell he played for FaZe, GuardiaN won several S-level tournaments with the team, including the 2017 ESL One New York and the 2019 BLAST Pro Series Miami.

From September 2019 to February 2021, after returning to NAVI, GuardiaN also played for Trident, BEZ ZP, Singularity and Sampi successively after that.

In June 2024, GuardiaN joined BC.Game as a coach. During this spekk, he played for the team as a player from November of the same year to January 2025, but was later benched.

Throughout GuardiaN's 19-year professional career, he was shortlisted for HLTV's Player of the Year TOP20 for 6 consecutive years from 2013 to 2018, won the TOP2 honour in 2015, and won 8 tournament MVP awards. Unfortunately, the player has participated in 14 Major events and reached the finals 3 times, but has not won a Major.