Watch donk Smash s1mple in CS2 Showmatch

Team Spirit's young star player, Danil "⁠donk⁠" Kryshkovets, needs no introduction. He is one of the best Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) players in the world right now, up there with the likes of ZywOo and Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač. But how does he compare to the GOAT of Counter-Strike, Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyljev, who is currently taking an extended break?

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Well, if a recent showmatch is anything to go by, Danil "⁠donk⁠" Kryshkovets can dunk on anyone, including the great s1mple. The showmatch teams were captained by Alexey "⁠OverDrive⁠" Birukov and Vadim "⁠Evelone192⁠" Kozakov, with s1mple on the side of OverDrive and donk on the side of Evelone192. Check out the full stream below!

Keep in mind that these results shouldn't be taken as an "oh, donk is better than s1mple" data set. Instead, it's just fun to see these two players match up, and donk's performance definitely seems on the serious side, with 40 kills to 6 deaths being absolutely bonkers. As HLTV's Danish Allana puts it: "This is NOT normally."

40-6 in 18 rounds

This is NOT normally pic.twitter.com/YJl9IiYDIn

— Danish Allana (@Nohte) September 9, 2024

Vadim "⁠Evelone192⁠" Kozakov's team, with donk, won the showmatch 2-1, but it wasn't all in favor of donk compared to s1mple. In fact, in two of the three maps, s1mple did score more kills than donk!

On Mirage, s1mple scored 22 kills / 10 deaths while donk had 18 kills / 17 deaths. On Dust2, s1mple got crushed with 13 kills / 16 deaths compared to donk's 40 kills / 6 deaths. However, on Nuke, despite donk's team winning, s1mple scored 27 kills / 17 deaths while donk had 26 kills / 14 deaths.

Not bad, s1mple, not bad!

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