TaZ

Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas (born June 6, 1986) is a retired Polish professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Counter-Strike player. He was part of the very successful Polish Golden Five lineup in 1.6, winning WCG three times, ESWC twice, and IEM World Championship twice. In CS:GO, TaZ was a member of the longest-standing roster in its history and has managed big wins such as EMS Katowice 2014, ELEAGUE S1, and DH Las Vegas 2017. He announced his retirement as a player on March 31, 2023. ^[1]

Achievements[edit]

Date	Placement	Tier	Type		Result	Prize
2017-02-19	1st	S-Tier	Offline	DreamHack Masters Las Vegas 2017	2 : 1	$200,000
2017-01-29	2nd	S-Tier	Offline	ELEAGUE Major Atlanta 2017	1 : 2	$150,000
2017-01-15	3rd	S-Tier	Offline	World Electronic Sports Games 2016	2 : 0	$200,000
2016-07-30	1st	S-Tier	Offline	ELEAGUE Season 1	2 : 0	$400,000
2015-09-12	1st	S-Tier	Offline	ESL ESEA Pro League Invitational	3 : 2	$100,000
2015-04-19	1st	S-Tier	Offline	ESEA Season 18: Global Invite Division	2 : 1	$70,000
2014-03-16	1st	S-Tier	Offline	ESL Major Series One Katowice 2014	2 : 0	$100,000
2012-03-10	1st	S-Tier	Offline	Intel Extreme Masters VI	2 : 0	$50,000
2007-03-18	1st	S-Tier	Offline	Intel Extreme Masters I	2 : 0	$53,227
2006-10-22	1st	S-Tier	Offline	World Cyber Games 2006	2 : 1	$60,000
About achievementsComplete Results in any Tournament

TaZ is one of the few players to win three WCG series. The others being his then-teammates in the original Golden Five: NEO, kuben, and Loord.
At 4 years, 5 months and 1 day, TaZ, NEO, pashaBiceps, Snax and byali is the longest-lasting lineup in the history of CS:GO. They played their first game on September 5th, 2013 under ESC Gaming's banner and continued to stay together until February 6th, 2018 when TaZ was benched from Virtus.pro to make way for MICHU.
TaZ and NEO formed the longest partnership across all versions of Counter-Strike which spans over 6100 days in total. Their first period of alliance lasted 5052 days, from April 8th, 2004 when they joined forces in Team Pentagram to February 6th, 2018 when TaZ was benched from Virtus.pro. Later on, the duo played together for 38 more days, started when NEO stepped in for ARCY on December 7th, 2019 until ARCY officially disbanded on January 14th, 2020. The duo then extended their partnership further when they reunited in HONORIS on May 18th, 2020. Their last period of partnership ended when HONORIS ceased operations and TaZ retired as a player on March 31st, 2023.