DanK1ng is reborn.
You may not know the name.
But mention Danken, and half the CS community has cursed him out.
In his previous life, he spent two years shouting, “I can make the Shanghai Major,” and never delivered once.
Three years as a second-tier AWPer, a lifetime of professional passion.
In the end, he became the internet's most iconic example of forgetting his roots.
In this life, the moment he opens his eyes, he's livestreaming Valorant. The score is 0–9, and the chat is flooded with “forgot his roots again.”
The first thing he does is close Valorant and open CS2.
He has two aces up his sleeve.
One is his knowledge of the next two years: who'll take off, who'll fall apart, who'll get caught out in a duel. He knows it all.
The other is the “Hall of Fame Card-Draw System,” which only he can hear. Each map he plays gives him a random legendary player's mindset template.
The only problem is, the System is a bit of a troll. It keeps drawing “DanK1ng himself,” with the System's review reading: “A clingy kid from Shijiazhuang. Ability: none.”
From trial opportunities no one was willing to give him to the final shot in match point on the deciding map.
From being told “you only got here by luck” to answering those words one by one with his play.
Someone asks him why the team is called Tianlu.
“Mang” is for Mang Village.
“Tian” is for Tianlu.
The whole internet is waiting to see him forget his roots again.
This time, he doesn't plan to forget.
