Antonio Daniloski

Antonio Daniloski
Antonio Daniloski (2008)
Player information
Full name	Antonio Daniloski
Nickname	cyx
Date of birth	July 10, 1990
place of birth	Ludenscheid, Germany
date of death	July 28, 2010
Place of death	Ludenscheid
country code
game	Counter-Strike
Former teams	neXus Gaming endeffect 360eSports mousesports

Antonio "cyx" Daniloski (* July 10, 1990 ; † July 28, 2010 in Lüdenscheid ) was a German Counter-Strike player. He stood since July 2007, when the e-sports - Clan mousesports under contract. Together with his team, he won the ESL Pro Series five times in a row and achieved several top placings in international championships. He was also an integral part of the German national team. In 2008 he received the eSports Award in the Newcomer / Breakthrough of the Year category. He was considered one of the best Counter-Strike players in the world.

On July 28, 2010, at the age of 20, Daniloski was killed as a passenger in a car accident. On the way back from Frankfurt am Main Airport , his vehicle came off the road due to a puncture and slipped under the outer guardrail . He died from his injuries in the hospital. A few hours earlier, Daniloski and his team were supposed to fly to Shanghai to take part in a Global Challenge of the ESL Intel Extreme Masters . He missed the flight and was due to return the following morning.

Teams

• neXus Gaming (February 2006 - June 2006)
• endeffect (July 2006 - December 2006)
• Geelife / 360eSports (January 2007 - June 2007)
• mousesports (July 2007 - July 2010)

Successes (excerpt)

• Five-time German champion of the ESL Pro Series (Seasons 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16)
• ESL Intel Extreme Masters II: 1st place
• ESWC Masters of Paris 2008: 3rd place
• GameGune 2008: 2nd place
• ESL Intel Extreme Masters III GC Dubai: 1st place
• World e-Sports Masters 2008: 2nd place
• ESWC Masters of Cheonan 2009: 3rd place
• ESL Intel Extreme Masters IV European Championship: 1st place

Web links

• Announcement of the death by mousesports ( memento from March 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
• DerWesten.de: eSport mourns world-famous professional players

Individual evidence

1. ↑ esports-award.org: Nominees & Winners 2008 ( Memento from July 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Remembering cyx, the gifted player who helped revitalize German CS. Retrieved December 19, 2019 . 
3. ↑ cyx killed in car accident. hltv.org, July 29, 2010, accessed February 12, 2015 . 
4. ↑ presseportal.de: POL-DO: Traffic accident with fatally injured person ( Memento from December 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )