Happy

French CS:GO legend and two-time Major champion, now coaching in Valorant.

Vincent Cervoni Schopenhauer, known in gaming as Happy, currently coaches Valorant for Made in Brazil. He previously played Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as a lurker and rifler, primarily for Team LDLC. Acting as in-game leader for both LDLC and later Team Envy, Happy secured two CS:GO Major titles—DreamHack Winter 2014 and DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015—and placed second at ESL One Cologne 2015. This track record earned him a reputation as one of the game's top players. He is regarded as a standout in the French CS:GO scene and, alongside Ex6TenZ, one of the nation's finest in-game leaders. Before CS:GO, he competed in Counter-Strike: Source under the alias EMSTQD.

Quick Facts

Game

Valorant

Nationality

French

Team

MIBR

Role

Assistant coach

Career games

Counter-Strike: Source
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Valorant

Coach start

2023

Facts from the source article.

Background

Counter-Strike: Source Vincent Cervoni Schopenhauer began his Counter-Strike: Source (CSS) career in December 2007 under the name "EMSTQD" when he joined with Ex6TenZ's team GlobalTeam. Based on their results, they signed with Epsilon eSports in February 2008. They became one of the best teams in France after adding RpK and shokkk to the roster, and in July, they won The eXperience LAN in Denmark. Happy left the team to captain his own team, Creativ' in 2009.

In October 2009, Happy decided to re-join Ex6TenZ's team called redLine, who were later signed by VeryGames. Together, they managed to win EPS France VI, place 2nd in Dreamhack Winter and MaXlan later that year. In February 2010 Happy left VeryGames to focus on academics. Over the next couple of years he was in-game leader in several small teams, most notably for the 2011 3DMAX squad which also featured shox, ScreaM, and apEX, with whom he managed to finish third at the 2011 Copenhagen Games.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Early CS:GO career and Team LDLC After Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was released in August 2012, Vincent Cervoni Schopenhauer changed his nickname to "Happy" and formed a new team called PRIME in September 2012 with apEX and Maniac. The following month they were picked up by Team eXtensive! which became LDLC.com in January 2013. Due to poor results LDLC decided to disband their CS:GO team in August 2013. After this Happy formed another mixed team called WE GOT GAME with players such as fxy0 or GMX.

They later added kennyS, Maniac, and Uzzziii to the team. This squad was signed by Recursive eSports before the first CS:GO Major sponsored by Valve, DreamHack Winter 2013. At DreamHack, they beat Universal Soldiers and iBUYPOWER on their way to a 2nd-place finish in the group behind Ninjas in Pyjamas (NiP). In the quarter-finals they played Fnatic, who beat them 2-1 and went on to win the tournament.

Due to lack of financial resources, Recursive eSports parted ways with their CS:GO division on 20 January 2014; despite this, players stayed together and created team Nameless. After rumours that Nameless and Clan-Mystik planned to merge their teams, Happy, together with Uzzziii, Maniac, along with KQLY and apEX from Clan-Mystik, joined LDLC in February 2014.

Did You Know?

Happy was named tournament MVP at DreamHack Winter 2014 for his standout performance in the grand finals.
Happy achieved an all-kill of Team SoloMid using a Desert Eagle at DreamHack Open London 2015, described as one of the most impressive Counter-Strike plays.
Happy's streak of making the playoff bracket at every CS:GO Major was broken at MLG Major Championship: Columbus in 2016.