CS: Return to Youth from Cologne's Championship Night

2026 Cologne Major finals. NiKo finally lifted the trophy he had been chasing for eleven years. That night, he fell asleep holding the championship trophy. When he opened his eyes again, the trophy was gone. The phone stopped in 2016, and he turned into a nineteen-year-old boy in the mirror again. I am still surrounded by old teammates from mousesports, and this year's Cologne Major has just begun. There is no system, no tasks, and no so-called novice gift pack. All he has is a memory of ten years of peaks and troughs. He knows how the four championship points on Boston Inferno will disappear, knows that the three bullets on the third floor of Stockholm will not hit after all, and also knows that those who have fought side by side will leave one by one in the future. Again, he wasn't prepared to turn every game into a victory. Some legends still belong to others, and some failures are still unavoidable. But this time, he will learn to trust the command, protect his teammates, and bear everything he should bear. What he wants to rewrite has never been just a Major trophy. It's about all the people who have let him down during that tumultuous career, and the self who has never really learned to reconcile with failure. On the night of winning the championship in Cologne, I was nineteen again. This time, the boy will still go to the top of the mountain. It's just that the road to the top of the mountain will no longer be the only one left.