What happened to the Turkish superstar AWPer?
We have taken a look at the downfall of woxic and how he has gone from a superstar to an outlaw.
He was once one of the brightest stars on the CS:GO scene with an entire community looking at him with its admiring eyes. The name is Özgür "woxic" Eker.
A fierce and powerful AWPer who throughout his career has been equivalent to this very rare, stylish and flashy type of play, which he has represented at some of the biggest teams in the world.
But he is nowhere to be seen and no longer at the top - So what has happened with the Turkish superstar?
Özgür "woxic" Eker
Born: Sep 2, 1998 (age 22)
Country: Turkey
Role: AWPer
Team history: Dark Passage (2016–2017) - HellRaisers (2017–2019) - mousesports (2019-2020) - Cloud9 (Sep 2020 – Jan 2021)
After having put Turkish CS on CS:GO landmark with his impressive showing with Dark Passage in 2016-17, woxic joined the profiled team HellRaisers. On the Ukrainian team, woxic quickly developed into a profile by presenting one stellar performance after another. Alongside the likes of ISSAA and Hobbit, the AWPer had a phenomenal 2018 season, as woxic concluded the year with a staggering average rating of 1.25.
After that year it was completely unthinkable that woxic shouldn’t represent a tier-1 organization. And three months into 2019, the prophecy became a reality, as the iconic mousesports org decided to sign the uncharacteristic but talented sniper.
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It was also at mousesports, woxic had his best time both regarding trophies and individual accolades. Because, through his immense talents and extremely high mouse sensitivity, he managed to cement his name on the top of CS:GO.
He could out-play some of the best players, batter the strongest AWPer player in 1v1 duels, and also help his team to impressive victories. And it was not small victories. woxic and company grabbed huge trophies at for instance ESL Pro League Season 10 and at Asia Championships 2019.
The good times at mousesports did not last forever, as their levels increased drastically, especially woxic’s individual performance. Something, that eventually ended up being his downfall and exit at the German org.
However, his time at the highest-stage of Counter-Strike wasn’t over.
A fresh and reshaped Cloud9 organization had sat their sight on woxic for their new “Colossus” lineup, with AWPer being given a central and key role on the roster. The deal between mousesports and Cloud9 mounted up to $300.000 worth of transfer money, with the actual contract deal valued at $1.65 Million.
Money, that quickly proved to be more or less wasted.
Because, the match between woxic and Cloud9 was not a so-called “match made in heaven”, even though woxic stated “I’M GOING TO BRING BACK THE REAL WOXIC”, right after the signing.
And after 3 months, 11 official matches and millions of dollars spent, woxic were once again without a team, and with a rather bleak future.
