Biography

Tarik “tarik” Celik (born February 18, 1996) is an inactive American professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player of Turkish descent.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Tarik started his career at an early age in middle school competing online in various leagues such as CAL. Growing up in a Turkish-American household in NYC, becoming a professional Counter-Strike player wasn’t an easy task.
In high school, he created a series of Counter-Strike deathmatch servers called the FragShack which became very popular, growing his recognition in the Counter-Strike community. Later on Tarik began streaming on Twitch under the alias ‘NoShirtTV’ which grew his notoriety in the CS community to be known as a sarcastic, humor-filled gamer with a very aggressive play-making gameplay.

His big break into professional esports was qualifying for the mlg 2015 LAN tournament with the “NetCodeGuides/mouseSpaz”, to be the original CLG CS:GO team, during which he streamed the qualifier final whilst eating cereal in a makeshift walk-in closet gaming room.

Since then Tarik has become a North American and global icon in the Counter-Strike community, competing in over four top tier teams and bringing NA its first Major Championship as IGL while being crowned tournament MVP.

CS:GO

CS:GO Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO for short) is a computer game from the genre of online tactical shooters. It was developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment and is the fourth part of the Counter-Strike series. The game was released on August 21, 2012 for Windows, Linux, macOS, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. A release for the PlayStation 3 in Europe failed to materialize for unknown reasons. Global Offensive achieved a Metascore of 83 points. Since September 14, 2017, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has also been available in China via the Perfect World client. In December 2018, the game was switched to a free-to-play model, which drew criticism.