Player gla1ve (Lukas Egholm Rossander) in CS:GO

Lucas Rossander is a Danish professional esports player and one of the best captains in eSports history. Throughout his career, he played only in one discipline – Counter-Strike. At the moment, he is a member of the Astralis team.

Name	Lucas Rossander
Date of birth	06.06.1995
Country	Denmark
Teams	Copenhagen Wolves, Team X, Heroic, Astralis
Role	Captain
Current team	Astralis
Disciplines	CS:GO

Lucas’ Brief biography

The future pro player was born in 1995 in Denmark. For gla1ve, CS:GO has become a lifelong hobby – at the age of 15, he began to seriously get involved in first-person shooters. One of the first such games for Lucas was CS 1.6, and a little later, he moved to Source. The young man showed excellent results in several local tournaments, and thanks to this, Rossander was accepted into the amateur team Reason Gaming under the nickname gla1ve. A little later, he moved to Epsilon, then changed several more teams.

In 2012, Lucas managed to get into the professional e-sports organization TT Dragons, acting in the CS:GO discipline. It worked under the auspices of the computer peripheral manufacturer TTeSports. Unfortunately, the team did not last long and ceased operations in the same year. During this time, Rossander was noticed in other organizations and was invited to Anexis, which became his first truly, top team. Together with him, the player took second place at the Copenhagen Games 2013 tournament.

Until 2016, Lucas changed organizations often but played well everywhere: his teams won prizes at significant esports championships. But everything changed when the young Danish team Astralis decided to change the line-up altogether. One of the invited players was gla1ve – he was familiar to Astralis from his previous successes. The cooperation turned out to be fruitful: the player stayed in the team for a long time, and in 2017 he became its captain and remained so to this day.

gla1ve’s CS:GO config: detailed review

Lucas launches CS:GO using the following peripherals:

Mouse ZOWIE EC1-A.
Mouse pad Logitech G640.
monitor ZOWIE XL2546.
Keyboard Logitech G PRO.

gla1ve’s basic launch parameters for CS:GO

Rossander launches CS:GO with the following additional parameters:

-freq 240;
-high;
-tickrate 128;
-console;
-novid.

gla1ve’s CS:GO crosshair settings

gla1ve’s CS:GO crosshair is quite simple. It is a regular crosshair without a dot in the middle. The error during movement and shooting is disabled. The cross is fixed and always has the same appearance. The colour of the sight is white. The player practically does not use other shades. It is not difficult to configure the marker in this way yourself, but if you want one hundred % coincidence with the gla1ve parameters, you can download the CFG file (it is in the public domain).

gla1ve’s CS:GO settings

Like many other esports players, Lucas plays at low graphics settings. All advanced options except FXAA anti-aliasing and 4x MSAA filtering are disabled. The player’s screen resolution is 1280 x 960. All this provides the best frame rate and allows you to react to the enemy in time. The mouse sensitivity is average, and it is 6. Lucas uses a static map of a square shape, a typical type of radar for e-sports.

Lucas’ tactics

Rossander’s tactics can be described as aggressive. He never camped, never hid behind cover. Even playing for defense, he behaves very actively: he presses the enemy on the way to the site and does not hold the point statically.

How many hours did the esportsman play overall?

This information is not publicly available. Although for gla1ve CS:GO is a profession, Lucas does not have a personal account on Steam under his nickname, so you cannot see the time he spent in CS. The player himself does not extend about this. But, according to rough estimates, he spent several thousand hours in CS: GO.

Rossander’s training process

For gla1ve, CS:GO is work, so he devotes a lot of time to training. They consist of several stages:

Death match warm up.
1-2 matches 1 x 1 with colleagues from Astralis.
Participation in standard matchmaking with 1-2 teammates.
Aim training on the aim bots map.
Learning important grenade throws and exits.

Pro player’s transfers

Reason Gaming;
Epsilon;
Tt Dragons;
3DMAX;
Team X;
Heroic;
Astralis.

gla1ve’s salary

Astralis pays roughly $ 1 million a year for gla1ve. For example, during 2019, he earned $ 740,000. But from 2022, the player’s income will increase: in August 2021, he achieved more favourable terms of cooperation with Astralis.

Player’s personal life

The player is married to Danish streamer WoW Sinterbell. The real name of the girl is not publicly available. However, it is known that in 2021 the couple had a son, Milas.