Think I Smoked Myself Stupid!? First 2,000 CS:GO Hours in KZ! - Reflections with launders 1/2 - CS2

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Mohan "launders" Govindasamy, famed CS colour commentator, is the star of the 488th Episode of 'Reflections'. This is part one of two about launders's career.

launders was grinding the CS:GO commentary circuit in NA as far back as the 2015s and would gradually make inroads towards the bigger event. During the online era of 2020 he became one of the faces of BLAST's broadcast and has rarely looked back since.

Despite not being invited to work a major until PGL Anterp of 2022 he has worked the last five in a row. Well known as part of his iconic duo with scrawny, launders flexes a mixture of personality and fan culture in his commentary and content creation style. The latter is frequently to be found on his popular youtube channel.

In part one launders discusses his youth and how it informed who he became in his early esports endeavours, how he came to commentate with scrawny and why they stuck it out as a duo for so long.

This interview was recorded on the 19th of April, 2025.

The ESL profile referenced:
   • CS2 Profile - Launders  

► Time-line of topics discussed:
00:00 Canada
01:42 LAN scene
05:55 Drive
08:08 Love of Counter-Strike
11:06 Alternative route in life
12:54 Bigger brother
15:35 Why did he do esports?
18:15 Movement issues in CS2?
25:16 KZ
26:39 Early years as a commentator
32:31 Personality
35:32 NA glass ceiling?
38:09 Scrawny
50:23 Reaction style
55:51 Did messing up the BLAST call get to scrawny?
59:49 Sticking out the duo

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