Sonic
Aran "Sonic" Groesbeek is a professional Counter-Strike 2 player from South Africa, aged 27, playing for NRG as a Lurker / AWPer. He holds an HLTV rating of 1.08 over 1,554 maps, with 79.4 ADR.
Profile
- Nationality: South Africa
- Age: 27 (born 1998-12-02)
- Current team: NRG
- Role: Lurker / AWPer
- Status: Active
Career statistics
- HLTV rating: 1.08
- K/D ratio: 1.12
- Kills per round: 0.73
- Deaths per round: 0.65
- ADR: 79.4
- KAST: 72.5%
- Headshot %: 49.1%
- Maps played: 1,554
Honours
- Majors attended: 4
- Career prize money: $170,360
Team history
Bravado → Denial → ATK → Envy → ATK → Cloud9 → ex-Cloud9 → Extra Salt → Nixuh → Bad News Bears → Wildcard → NRG
Gear and settings
VAXEE OUTSET AX
400DPI2.5Sens1000eDPI1000Hz
- ZOWIE XL2546 · 240 Hz monitor
- 1280x960 · stretched resolution
- VAXEE OUTSET AX mouse
- Drop ALT keyboard
- Sennheiser GSP 600 headset
- SteelSeries QcK+ mousepad
Guess players like Sonic
- Guess the Player — A daily Counter-Strike 2 wordle: name the mystery pro from clues that light up green as you get closer.
- Blur — A pixelated photo of a Counter-Strike 2 pro sharpens with every wrong guess. Name them before the picture gives it away.
- Higher or Lower — Two Counter-Strike 2 pros, one hidden stat. Call higher or lower and build the longest streak you can.
- Bingo — A grid of Counter-Strike categories — countries, teams, trophies, roles. Fill each cell with a real pro, and no player twice.
- Team Path — Follow a Counter-Strike pro’s career through the teams they played for, and work out who it is.
- Major Draft — Draft five Counter-Strike 2 pros by role, then coach them live through a full Major — Swiss stage, playoffs, round by round.
- Pro Career — Create a Counter-Strike 2 pro at 16, sign with a real club, and play out a full career of seasons, transfers and choices.
- CS2 Wordle — The Wordle you know, played on the Counter-Strike dictionary: guess the daily word letter by letter, six tries.
- Ace — A ranked list of Counter-Strike pros for each difficulty, every day. Name everyone on it and it’s an ace.
- Fan Favourites — Vote for the Counter-Strike 2 pros you actually like — no account, no sign-up. The ranking below is the crowd's, updated the moment you click.
- CS2 Transfers — Every roster move HLTV has published, dated to the day, back to March 2023.
- Pro Manager — Run a real Counter-Strike 2 club on the real circuit — sign pros and retired legends, call the veto and every round, and climb Valve's ranking season after season.
- Multiplayer rooms — Press Find a match for a 1v1 against another player, or create a private room, send the code, and race your friends through the same rounds of Guess, Blur, Team Path, Higher-Lower, Wordle, Bingo, Ace or Major Draft — or pick Mixed and get a different game every round.
- CS2 tier lists — Rank Counter-Strike players, coaches, clubs or maps the way you see them, send the board to whoever you want with one link, and compare it with where everyone else put them.
- Crossfire — A 3×3 grid of Counter-Strike categories every day. Name a pro who fits both the row and the column of each square, with nine guesses for the whole grid.
NRG roster
nitr0 · oSee · Grim · hallzerk · Jeorge
Other CS2 players from South Africa
Sonic on social media
X · Instagram · Twitch · FACEIT · Steam