Kursy

Kursy — Jeremy Gast

A documentary biography of the French rifler whose late arrival at tier one — via GenOne, a free-agency period and a June 2026 move to 3DMAX — documents the longest road in the French cohort — built from HLTV profile data, tournament records and published interviews.

1. Exalty, Wonderkids and the Bottom of the French Pyramid

Jeremy Gast appears in the HLTV database in March 2021 with Exalty, a French side operating at the domestic entry level. The spell lasted a single month, until April 2021. No trophy, no LAN placement and no Major appearance is listed for the period. Its function was purely introductory: a nineteen- or twenty-year-old playing his first contracted matches, entering the database that would track every subsequent move without interruption for the next five years.

From April 2021 to March 2022 he played for Wonderkids, an eleven-month spell that stands as the longest continuous tenure of his early career. The name describes the function: a developmental roster for young French players, competing in domestic cups and lower European leagues. No trophy is listed. What the spell provided was the first extended run of scheduled team play — weekly practice, league fixtures, qualifier attempts — rather than the mix-team circuit that precedes it for most players.

The profile records him as French, aged twenty-five at the time of the dataset, with career prize money of 42,124 dollars — the lowest total among the 3DMAX players in this series and a direct reflection of how recently he reached tier one. The FACEIT summary field in the dataset is empty for Gast, which distinguishes him from every teammate in the cohort: where Brankovic, Chastang and Canda carry thousands of recorded public matches, his public-matchmaking footprint is undocumented in the profile. The absence itself is informative, suggesting a player whose development was absorbed almost entirely by team play rather than by the public ladder.

From March to October 2022 he played for GenOne, his first spell with the organisation that would recur throughout his career. The seven-month tenure produced no trophy in the record. From January to May 2023 he played for Nakama, then in May–July 2023 for Runkill — two short spells in the French tier-two circulation that also carried Brankovic and others in the same months. The pattern is the standard French developmental churn: small organisations, three-month contracts, continuous tryouts disguised as rosters.

2. The GenOne Returns — Establishing a Tier-Two Reputation

From February 2024 to April 2025 Gast played his second extended spell with GenOne, lasting fourteen months — the longest tenure of his career to that point and the period in which he established himself as a stable tier-two starter. No trophy is listed for the spell, and the achievements table contains no LAN or Major entry under the GenOne name. The significance lies in duration and selection: fourteen months as a starter in France's most consistent development organisation, through multiple roster iterations, indicates a player valued for reliability and role discipline rather than for single-tournament peaks.

The news record from this period is thin, which itself describes the competitive level. GenOne played the domestic circuit, European open qualifiers and lower leagues — competition that generates database entries but not headlines. Gast's name appears in the dataset's team history without accompanying award mentions, and the attribute profile that would later define his tier-one role was presumably taking shape in these months: the opening-duel timing, the trade positioning, the protocol familiarity that 3DMAX would later purchase.

From April to May 2025 he played for Mousquetaires, a one-month spell that reads as a bridge between the GenOne tenure and what followed. The team history then lists a period with GamerLegion without a dated interval — a spell that produced no LAN or Major entry in the achievements table and likely consisted of stand-in appearances, trial fixtures or a developmental contract rather than a starting position. The distinction matters factually: unlike Pogorzelski, Sterner and Lindelof, whose GamerLegion tenures carry achievements-table entries, Gast's association with the organisation left no competitive trace in the record.

On 4 March 2026, the news record notes that he entered free agency — the formal end of his previous contractual arrangement and the beginning of a three-month unattached period. For a twenty-four-year-old with no tier-one experience and no Major appearance, free agency at this stage typically precedes either a step up or a step out of professional play. The next entry in the record determined which.

3. Joining 3DMAX — The June 2026 Transfer

On 24 June 2026, HLTV reported that Kursy would join 3DMAX as a rifler, with Ex3rcice benched to accommodate the move. The profile lists his 3DMAX tenure as June 2026 to September 2026 — three months — followed by Envy from September 2026 to the present via the intact roster transfer. The June report is the single most consequential item in his file: a tier-one organisation, contesting Majors and Bounty brackets, signing a twenty-four-year-old with no prior tier-one placement on the basis of observed tier-two performance.

The context of the move is documented in the surrounding reporting. 3DMAX in June 2026 were adjusting a roster that had reached Stage 3 at two consecutive Majors but had not converted bracket runs into titles. The Ex3rcice benching created a rifling vacancy, and Gast was selected over the available alternatives — a decision that implies the coaching staff, by then including wasiNk and NBK- in the backroom, valued his specific profile over more experienced options. The news items from the following weeks show the team in continuous competition: a Malta LAN Finals ticket clinched with a win over FUT on 26 July, Bounty Stage 1 fixtures including the DENDELE upset of FURIA, and the 31 July semifinal qualifier against MOUZ.

The MOUZ match — "MOUZ survive 3DMAX scare to make Bounty semis" — deserves specific attention as Gast's first documented fixture against top-five opposition in a 3DMAX jersey. The headline's framing, a scare rather than a defeat, indicates a close series in which the French side pressured the favourites. For a player one month into his tier-one career, a competitive loss to MOUZ in a bracket semifinal qualifier represents the expected competitive level: not winning, but present, and closer than the ranking gap predicted.

4. The Rifling Interview — Role Change in His Own Words

On 30 July 2026, HLTV published an interview under the headline carrying Gast's own account: "I wanted to [change], and I really like it" — on rifling. The headline and the sampled quotation document a role change undertaken voluntarily and assessed positively within weeks of the 3DMAX move. The precise prior role is not specified in the sampled headline text, and this biography does not speculate beyond what the record states: that Gast described a change in his in-game function, that he initiated it, and that he expressed satisfaction with the outcome.

The timing — five weeks after joining 3DMAX — suggests the change was connected to the new team's requirements rather than to a long-standing preference. A rifling vacancy created by the Ex3rcice benching, a new coaching staff with defined protocols, and a player willing to reshape his game to fill the gap: the interview describes the standard mechanism by which tier-two players adapt to tier-one rosters. The willingness itself is the notable fact. Players who reach tier one at twenty-four after five years in domestic competition typically hold fixed roles; Gast's account describes flexibility at the moment of maximum pressure.

The interview is the only extended direct statement from him in the sampled news record, and its tone — plain, affirmative, focused on the work rather than on status — is consistent with the rest of his file. No criticism of former teams, no statistical claim, no prediction about the future. The statement's function in the record is documentary: it fixes the date and the fact of the role change, and it attributes the motivation to the player himself.

5. The 2026 Circuit — Malta, Bounty and the Envy Transfer

Beyond the MOUZ fixture, the July–September 2026 record shows Gast's 3DMAX in the standard rhythm of a team ranked in the mid-teens. The 26 July win over FUT secured a Malta LAN Finals ticket — a qualification result that, while below the tier of the Major campaigns, represents the weekly work of maintaining LAN exposure. The Bounty Stage 1 fixtures placed the team in televised brackets against the full tier-one field. The 1win Private Club Season 1 match on 27 September, in which GamerLegion beat 3DMAX 2–1, documents a close loss to the Swedish-Polish-Danish five covered elsewhere in this series.

On 29 September 2026, the Envy acquisition moved Gast with the intact roster from 3DMAX to the new organisation — the same transaction documented for Brankovic, Chastang, Canda and Rabier. The profile lists his Envy tenure from September 2026 to the present. For a player three months into his first tier-one contract, the intact transfer is the most favourable possible outcome: same teammates, same protocols, same rifling role, new administration, without a new tryout or a return to free agency.

The achievements table contains no LAN placement and no Major appearance under either the 3DMAX or Envy name for Gast. The three-month 3DMAX tenure fell between Major cycles — after Budapest 2025 Stage 3 and before the next qualification campaign — which explains the absence factually: he joined a Major-qualifying team during the off-Major window and had not yet contested a Major at the time of the dataset. The outstanding item on the résumé is therefore sharply defined: a first Major qualification and a first Major appearance, both still ahead.

6. Technical Profile — Opening Duels and the Aggressive Rifler

HLTV's attributes for Gast read: Opening 78, Trading 62, Entrying 61, Firepower 56, Utility 55, Clutching 29, Sniping 0. The distribution is the most aggressive among the French cohort in this series and describes a front-foot rifler with unusual clarity.

Opening at 78, the highest score on the page, indicates a very high attempt rate in opening duels — the player seeking first contact as a matter of routine. Entrying at 61 confirms a formal entry assignment alongside the opener tendency: he goes first and he seeks the duel. Trading at 62 shows he also refrags effectively, a combination that suggests a flexible first-and-second-man game rather than a pure entry specialist. Firepower at 56 is moderate — above the team's entry specialist but below star level — and aligns with the three-month rating of 1.01, just above even. Utility at 55 indicates standard protocol participation. Clutching at 29 is low, which follows from the role: openers and entry players rarely reach late-round isolation situations. Sniping at 0 is literal.

The contrast with Brankovic (Entrying 74, Firepower 22, rating 0.93) is instructive. Both carry entry assignments, but Gast's profile shows higher duel conversion and a broader trading game, producing a rating eight points higher over the sampled period. The contrast with Chastang (Utility 76, Trading 69, Opening 27) is starker still: where the veteran plays behind the contact for the trade, Gast plays in front of it for the opening. The 3DMAX protocols from June 2026 onward accommodated both — the veteran's structure and the newcomer's aggression — which is presumably what the coaching staff purchased.

7. Team Dynamics — Fitting a New Piece Into a Settled Five

Gast joined a roster whose four other starters — Brankovic, Chastang, Canda and the rotating fifth documented in this series — had played together for over two years. The dynamics of inserting a new rifler into a settled five are well documented in professional Counter-Strike: protocols must be relearned, communication timings reset, map-pool responsibilities redistributed. The July interview's account of a voluntary role change suggests the adaptation was active rather than passive — the newcomer reshaping his game to fit the structure rather than requiring the structure to accommodate him.

The coaching context matters. By June 2026 the backroom included wasiNk and NBK- alongside the existing staff, following the February additions documented in the reporting. A new player arriving under a recently reinforced coaching team receives defined assignments rather than open-ended tryout conditions, which accelerates integration but also narrows the margin for individual deviation. Gast's 1.01 rating across the settling-in period indicates a player meeting the defined assignments without exceeding them — the expected output for a newcomer in a structured system.

The intact Envy transfer in September preserved the integration work. Three months of protocol development, teammate timing and communication familiarity were carried over without interruption — a material advantage for a player whose role depends on precisely those elements. The alternative, a roster breakup or a new benching, would have returned him to the free-agency market after a single quarter. The transfer instead extended the settling-in period under stable conditions.

The September 2026 match log supplies the fixture-level texture of Gast's first title and first organisational change within a single fortnight. On 18 September, 3DMAX lost 6–13 to Liquid in the Logitech G Play Connect bracket; on 19 September came the 13–7 win over INFINITE and the 2–1 win over M80 on the same day; on 23 September the 2–1 victory over Inner Circle; and on 24 September the 3–2 final win over Luminosity that secured the Connect title. For a player three months into his tier-one career, the five-day progression from opening defeat to five-map final victory constitutes the first championship week of his professional life — albeit at the Connect tier rather than the Bounty or Major level. The subsequent 1win Private Club Season 1 fixtures, played across the Envy handover, added a 2–0 win over Alliance on 26 September before the 1–2 loss to GamerLegion on 27 September and the 0–2 defeat to Ninjas in Pyjamas on 25 September — finishing fifth-to-sixth. His selection across all eight fixtures in nine days is a matter of record. The July items supply the season's earlier context: the 26 July win over FUT that clinched the Malta LAN Finals ticket — his first qualification secured in a 3DMAX jersey — the Bounty Stage 1 fixtures including the DENDELE upset of FURIA on 25 July, the Stake Ranked upper-final qualifications of HEROIC and NIP on 17 July with paiN eliminated, and the 2 July XSE Guangzhou day-one tech issues as FaZe dropped to the 0–1 pool. The 4 March free-agency notice, three months before the June signing, now reads as the final administrative marker of the tier-two phase: unattached in March, Malta-qualified in July, titled in September, transferred intact at the month's end. No four-month sequence in this series covers more career ground.

8. Assessment — The Latest Arrival and the Undefined Ceiling

The aggregate record at the time of writing is the briefest in the French cohort. Career prize money of 42,124 dollars. No trophies in the detail. No MVP or EVP mentions. No LAN placements and no Major appearances in the achievements table. No Top 20 appearances. A three-month rating of 1.01 and an aggressive opener-entry profile (Opening 78, Entrying 61, Trading 62). Nine teams in the history across five years, culminating in the three-month 3DMAX tenure and the ongoing Envy spell.

The comparative framing is purely developmental. Gast is the latest arrival at tier one among the fourteen players in this series — three months at the time of the dataset — and the only one with no Major or LAN entry of any kind. The 42,124-dollar prize total, the empty achievements table and the single-month Exalty and Mousquetaires spells all describe a career spent below the recorded tier until June 2026. The June transfer, the July interview and the September Envy move describe a career that has changed tiers within a single quarter.

What the record does not yet contain is everything above the floor: a first LAN placement, a first Major qualification, a first EVP, a rating season above 1.05. At twenty-five, Gast is older than the typical tier-one debutant, which compresses the developmental timeline — the adaptation must produce results within the current Envy cycle rather than across multiple future rosters. On the evidence of the first three months — continuous selection, a defined role, a rating above even, a competitive series against MOUZ — the floor is established. Whether the ceiling extends to Major qualification and beyond is the entirely open question with which this biography, unlike the others in the series, must conclude without a provisional answer.

The team-history breakdown lists the full sequence: Exalty (March–April 2021), Wonderkids (April 2021–March 2022), GenOne (March–October 2022), Nakama (January–May 2023), Runkill (May–July 2023), GenOne again (February 2024–April 2025), Mousquetaires (April–May 2025), the GamerLegion association, 3DMAX (June–September 2026) and Envy (September 2026–present). The fourteen-month second GenOne tenure stands as the formative period — longer than all other pre-3DMAX spells combined — and the five-year gap between the first contracted match and the first tier-one selection is the longest development arc in the French cohort. The 42,124-dollar prize total, the lowest in the cohort, will revise itself with every Envy bracket: the player starts the new tenure with the least career earnings and the most headroom of any starter in the five.

The March 2026 free-agency notice deserves a final note on timing: three months unattached at twenty-four, signed by a Major-qualifying team in June, qualified for Malta in July, interviewed on the role change in the same week, titled in September, transferred intact at the month's end. The dataset preserves no other career in this series that changed tiers so completely within a single quarter — and no other file in which the next Major qualification, still ahead at the time of writing, carries so much of the assessment's weight.

Sources

• https://www.hltv.org/player/20482/Kursy — HLTV player profile (identity, age, prize money, rating, attributes, team history).
• https://www.hltv.org/news/45594/envy-return-to-cs-with-ex-3dmax-roster — Envy acquisition report, September 2026.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/45207/mouz-survive-3dmax-scare-to-make-bounty-semis — Bounty semifinal qualifier report, July 2026.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/45202/kursy-on-rifling-i-wanted-to-change-and-i-really-like-it — Rifling role-change interview, July 2026.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/45001/kursy-joins-3dmax-as-rifler — Transfer report, June 2026 (via event linkage).

Data source: HLTV player profile record. Generated: 2026-10-10.