Vitality star shox wants to \u201cbreak\u201d CS:GO\u2019s age limit Jo\u00e3o Ferreira\/DexertoFrench star Richard \u2018shox\u2019 Papillon, who is playing his 16th CS:GO Major, told Dexerto that there is no retirement in sight for him and that he still feels young on the server. Shox is the definition of Counter-Strike veteran, with a career that began in the mid-2000s and that has spanned three iterations of the franchise: CS:Source, CS 1.6, and CS:GO. The 29-year-old is also part of a select club of just five players who have attended all 16 CS:GO Majors. His sole title at an event of this stature came in 2014, when his LDLC team beat NIP in the grand final of DreamHack Winter 2014. Most Counter-Strike players begin to show signs of decline when they are about to enter their 30s, but age has not yet wearied shox. He has averaged a respectable 1.02 HLTV rating in 2021 \u2013 the third-highest in Vitality \u2013 with his experience and wisdom playing a crucial role in a team that features two newcomers in Jayson \u2018Kyojin\u2019 Nguyen Van and K\u00e9vin \u2018misutaaa\u2019 Rabier. Still passionate about the game Earlier in 2021, shox witnessed the departure of 32-year-old teammate C\u00e9dric \u2018RpK\u2019 Guipouy, who retired from competing. Questioned about his future and what he still hopes to accomplish in his career, shox stressed that he has no plans to retire and that he wants to continue playing beyond esports\u2019 unwritten age barrier. \u201cI\u2019m pretty happy with what I\u2019ve done in my career, but I prefer to look at the future rather than the past,\u201d he told Dexerto ahead of the Major. \u201cWhen I enter the server I feel like I\u2019m 20. I don\u2019t really care about my age. I definitely feel that I have all the abilities to still perform at the highest level, which is the most important thing. \u201cMy personal goal is to break the age limit because we\u2019re living in a world where people think that when you\u2019re 30 the end will soon come.\u201d Shox added that he will hang up his mouse and keyboard when he thinks he doesn\u2019t have the level to compete anymore, but he insisted \u201cthat is not what I\u2019m feeling right now\u201d. \u201cI\u2019m still passionate about CS, I still want to compete. I want to break the age limit and prove to the world that you can be 30, 33 or 35 and still compete on a tier-one level.\u201d Shox, who is now the oldest player left at PGL Major, will take to the server on November 5 as Vitality will face the red-hot NAVI for a spot in the PGL Major Stockholm semi-finals. DJ Esports odds: Vitality are priced at 4.053 to beat NAVI Odds correct at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vitality star shox wants to \u201cbreak\u201d CS:GO\u2019s age limit Jo\u00e3o Ferreira\/DexertoFrench star Richard \u2018shox\u2019 Papillon, who is playing his 16th CS:GO Major, told Dexerto that there is no retirement in sight for him and that he still feels young on the server. Shox is the definition of Counter-Strike veteran, with a career that began in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}