SmithZz

VeryGames stalwart who won DreamHack Winter 2014 with Team LDLC.

SmithZz (Edouard Dubourdeaux) is a French former professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Counter-Strike: Source player who won the DreamHack Winter 2014 Major with Team LDLC.com. He first joined VeryGames in 2008 and was voted the 17th-best CS:GO player of 2013 by HLTV.

Quick Facts

Nationality: French
Games: Counter-Strike: Source, Counter-Strike: Global; Offensive
Coach start: 2017
Coach end: 2018
Highlights: CS:GO Major champion (Jönköping 2014); HLTV Top 20 Player of the Year (2013)

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Background

Dubourdeaux had great success in Counter-Strike: Source with VeryGames across several spells, returning for good in August 2012 to replace apEX and complete the lineup that switched to CS:GO about a month later. That team placed third to fourth at the 2013 DreamHack CS:GO Championship, and he moved on through Titan, Team LDLC.com, where he won the Major in November 2014, and Team EnVyUs, with whom he finished third at ESL One Katowice 2015.

He later joined G2.Kinguin, which became G2 Esports, and was moved into a coaching role in the 2017 French shuffle. The 2018 shuffle put him back in a playing role for HIFK Esports as part of shox's project, before G2 announced Lucky and JaCkz as replacements for SmithZz and Ex6TenZ on 26 November 2018.

He announced his retirement as a player on 3 February 2020 and turned to streaming. His Major results also include top-12 finishes with Titan at Katowice 2014 and Cologne 2014, and with G2 at MLG Columbus and the ELEAGUE Major 2017.