Lucky

Lucky — Lucas Chastang

A documentary biography of the French rifler whose decade-long career connects the G2 contending years of 2018–2019 to the rebuilding and requalification of 3DMAX in 2024–2026 — built from HLTV profile data, tournament records and published reports.

1. Ranks, BeGenius and the French Mix Circuit of 2017

Lucas Chastang entered the HLTV database in March 2017 with Ranks, a French side operating at the domestic entry level. The spell lasted a single month, until April 2017. No trophy, no LAN placement and no Major appearance is listed for the period. He was nineteen, playing his first contracted Counter-Strike in a domestic scene that produced a continuous supply of small organisations — Ranks, BeGenius, meMyselfI, dizLown — each serving as a short-term sorting mechanism for young talent. The database preserves the sequence without interruption, and the uninterrupted sequence is itself the early biography: continuous employment in contracted teams from the age of nineteen onward.

From April to July 2017 he played for BeGenius, then from July to September 2017 for meMyselfI, then from September 2017 to May 2018 for dizLown — eight months, the longest tenure of the early phase. None of these spells produced a trophy in the record. What they produced was the standard French apprenticeship of the period: domestic cups, European open qualifiers, ESEA league fixtures, the weekly cycle of competition that determines which riflers receive attention from the country's larger organisations. Chastang survived eleven months of it across four tags without a break in employment, which indicates a player consistently selected even in the absence of results.

The profile records him as French, aged twenty-eight at the time of the dataset, with career prize money of 311,056 dollars — the second-highest total among the French cohort in this series after Rabier. The FACEIT history gives the measure of the volume behind the progression: 3,860 recorded matches with a 61.0 percent win rate, a 1.3 average kill-to-death ratio, 46.0 percent headshots and a longest winning streak of seventeen. The historic FPL placements include a fortieth-season campaign at position thirty-one and multiple CS2 Europe seasons in the top fifteen, including a ninth place. The 1.3 career FACEIT KDR is the joint-highest among the 3DMAX starters and the clearest statistical evidence of a mechanical base established early and maintained across a decade.

In May–June 2018 he played for NOBO, then from June to November 2018 for 3DMAX — his first spell with the organisation that would later define his late career. The five-month tenure produced no trophy in the record, but it placed him inside the flagship French tag for the first time at twenty years old. The spell ended in November 2018. What followed within weeks would change his competitive tier permanently.

2. G2 2018–2019 — The Contending Years and Three Deep Runs

Chastang's team history lists a spell with G2 around the turn of 2018–2019, and the achievements table preserves the competitive record in full. At the WESG 2018 World Finals, G2 finished third. At the ESL Pro League Season 9 Finals, the team finished second. At ESL One New York 2019, G2 finished third-to-fourth. The three placements, achieved within nine months, describe a team operating at the semifinal level of tier-one competition — consistently reaching the final weekend, never closing the title.

The Major record from the G2 phase supplies the parallel thread. At IEM Katowice 2019, G2 reached the Legends stage. At the StarLadder Major Berlin 2019, the team again reached the Legends stage. Both campaigns are listed in the achievements table under the G2 name. Neither reached the playoff bracket, and the profile's majors-won and majors-MVP fields both read zero. But back-to-back Legends finishes at twenty-one, in a team contesting finals elsewhere in the same season, established Chastang as a legitimate tier-one starter rather than a developmental passenger.

The surrounding context matters. G2 in 2018–2019 were a French-centred roster attempting to remain in title contention as the international field widened and as the domestic player base thinned. Chastang's role within that structure, documented in the attribute profile examined below, was supportive and structural — the trading and utility game behind the team's stars. The absence of MVP or EVP mentions from the G2 phase in the trophy detail is consistent with that assignment: contributing to semifinal teams without producing the statistical peaks that decide individual awards. The 2019–2020 transition would test whether that profile could sustain tier-one employment once the G2 spell ended.

3. Heretics, DBL Poney and the Wilderness Stability of 2019–2023

After G2, the team history lists Heretics (July 2019–November 2020 in the overlapping date ranges), DBL Poney (February 2021–January 2022), HEET, Looking4Org (May–November 2023) and related spells — a four-year stretch in the French and European mid-tier that produced no trophy, no LAN placement and no Major appearance in the achievements table. The period is the longest unrecorded phase of his career in competitive terms, and it requires careful reading: continuous tier-two employment without interruption, but without a single result at the level of the G2 years.

The distinction between this phase and outright decline is factual and important. Chastang remained a starter throughout — the team history shows no gap longer than weeks between contracts — and the French scene's contraction during these years meant that tier-two employment itself constituted survival. Organisations folded, rosters disbanded, domestic competition thinned; a rifler who held continuous contracts from 2019 to 2023 without dropping to mix teams demonstrated the professional durability that would later make him attractive to a rebuilding 3DMAX. The FACEIT volume from the period, preserved in the historic placements, shows continuous high-level matchmaking alongside the team fixtures.

The Looking4Org spell from May to November 2023 is the direct predecessor of the late-career revival. The organisation served as the transitional vehicle for the French core — Chastang, Canda and the surrounding pieces — between the HEET period and the 3DMAX return. No trophy is listed. But the six-month tenure kept the group together as a unit, preserving teammate timing and protocol familiarity through the organisational gap. When 3DMAX signed the core in November 2023, the transfer acquired not a collection of individuals but a functioning five-man structure with months of shared play behind it.

4. The 3DMAX Return — November 2023 and the Rebuilding Project

The profile lists Chastang's second 3DMAX tenure from November 2023 to September 2026 — two years and ten months, the longest continuous spell of his career and the defining tenure of his late twenties. He was twenty-five on arrival, a veteran of G2 semifinals and four years of tier-two stability, joining an organisation attempting to re-establish itself as France's tier-one representative.

The first year produced no achievements-table entries, which is consistent with a team rebuilding its ranking, map pool and protocols from the mid-tier. The news record from 2024 shows the standard work of requalification: online leagues, qualifier campaigns, the gradual accumulation of ranking points. Chastang's position remained stable throughout — no benching, no role change documented — which indicates that the coaching staff regarded his structural game as part of the solution rather than as a piece requiring replacement.

The breakthrough arrived at the Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024, where 3DMAX reached the Legends stage — Chastang's first Major appearance since Berlin 2019, five years earlier, and his first with the new roster. The achievement row lists the campaign under the 3DMAX name. For a twenty-six-year-old who had spent the intervening years outside Major qualification entirely, the Legends finish closed a half-decade gap and confirmed that the rebuilding project had restored the team to the level he had last played at with G2. The profile's trophy detail contains no Major medal from the campaign; the qualification itself was the result.

5. Austin, Budapest and the Asia Final — The 2025 Peak

The achievements table lists two further Major campaigns in 2025, both ending one stage deeper than Shanghai. At the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025, 3DMAX reached Stage 3. At the StarLadder Budapest Major 2025, the team again reached Stage 3 — securing the final Stage 3 place with the documented win over NIP on 3 December before elimination by FaZe on 7 December. The pair establishes three consecutive Majors reaching at least the second week, a qualification record unmatched in Chastang's career and the team-level proof of the rebuild.

The sole LAN placement of the second 3DMAX tenure arrived at the CS Asia Championships 2025, where the team finished second — the highest team result of Chastang's career since the ESL Pro League Season 9 final six years earlier. The runner-up finish, achieved in China against an international field, is listed in the achievements table under the 3DMAX name. No MVP or EVP mention accompanies it in the trophy detail, indicating a distributed team performance rather than an individual peak.

The surrounding 2025–2026 results complete the picture of a mid-teens team at its ceiling. A 31 July 2026 Bounty semifinal qualifier against MOUZ ended in a close loss documented as a "scare" for the favourites. A 15 August 2026 EWC elimination by the team listed as magic ended the World Cup campaign. An April 2026 Bucharest semifinal over MIBR preceded elimination against Liquid and Falcons in Rio. A February 2026 Krakow campaign ended with defeat to Vitality with arena qualification at stake. Each result individually describes the boundary between the top ten and the top twenty; collectively they describe a team that had reached its level and was attempting, without success, to exceed it.

6. Technical Profile — Utility, Trading and the Support Specialist

HLTV's attributes for Chastang read: Utility 76, Trading 69, Clutching 59, Firepower 55, Opening 27, Entrying 24, Sniping 0. The distribution is the most support-oriented among the 3DMAX starters and describes a classical French support rifler with unusual precision.

Utility at 76, the highest score on the page, indicates a heavy grenade burden — the player executing smokes, flashes and molotovs for teammates' benefit at one of the highest volumes on the team. Trading at 69 confirms the second-man assignment: positioned behind the entry, refragging the duel, preserving the advantage. Clutching at 59 is notably high for a support player and suggests genuine late-round competence when protocols break down. Firepower at 55 is moderate — sufficient duel conversion to justify the trading position without star-level peaks. Opening at 27 and Entrying at 24 confirm he almost never takes first contact. Sniping at 0 is literal.

The three-month rating of 1.05 sits above even and leads the French cohort's support players — eight points above Canda's 1.09? No: below Canda, above Brankovic and Gast inrole-adjusted terms. Read properly, the 1.05 is the strongest rating among the team's pure support pieces, achieved without entry assignment or opening volume. The 46.0 percent FACEIT headshot share and the 1.3 career FACEIT KDR confirm the mechanical foundation beneath the structural role. Chastang's game is the complement to Brankovic's entry and Gast's opening: the player who makes their first contact meaningful by converting the trade and executing the protocol behind it.

7. The Envy Transfer and the Salary Dispute Context

On 29 September 2026, HLTV reported that Envy would return to Counter-Strike with the ex-3DMAX roster — moving Chastang with the intact five from the French organisation to the new tag. The profile lists his Envy tenure from September 2026 to the present. The transfer preserved the lineup, protocols and roles while changing the administration — the now-familiar structure of the French exodus documented across this series.

The move followed the most difficult institutional period of the 3DMAX tenure. On 28 August 2026, reporting documented statements from team members on unpaid salaries — a matter of public record in the news sample. On 24 September 2026, the team won the Logitech G Play Connect title and shot up the rankings amid the Envy links, a final trophy-equivalent result under the old tag before the transfer. The sequence — salary dispute, tournament victory, acquisition — describes an organisation in financial distress and a roster whose competitive level remained intact through it.

Chastang's September 2026 match log shows continuity across the change: the 1win Private Club Season 1 fixtures, including the 2–1 loss to GamerLegion on 27 September, were played without interruption in selection. The October entries continue under Envy. At twenty-eight, with a decade of contracted play behind him, he is the roster's senior figure alongside Canda — the player for whom organisational instability is a known quantity rather than a novel disruption.

The September 2026 match log supplies the fixture-level texture of the tenure's final weeks under the 3DMAX tag. On 18 September, the team 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 title and shot the team up the rankings amid the Envy links. The five-day arc from opening defeat to championship is the most successful single week of Chastang's second 3DMAX tenure. The subsequent 1win Private Club Season 1 fixtures, played across the organisational 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, at twenty-eight, through a title run and an acquisition, is a matter of record. The April–May sequence supplies the season's earlier context: the 9 April semifinal over MIBR at PGL Bucharest, the 13 April defeat to Falcons in Rio after a slow start from the opponent, the 14 April elimination of Liquid in Rio, and the 21 May CAC elimination alongside NRG. The 16 April EVPs and All-Stars coverage for Bucharest included the team's run without an individual mention for Chastang — the support player's standard documentary footprint: present in every semifinal, named in none of the awards. The 18 July Stake Ranked elimination and the June Ex3rcice benching with Gast's arrival complete the administrative picture of a roster adjusting its rifling pieces while retaining the veteran support structure throughout.

8. Assessment — A Decade of Structure and the French Record

The aggregate record at the time of writing spans nearly a decade. Career prize money of 311,056 dollars. No trophies in the detail. No MVP or EVP mentions. Four LAN placements across two eras (third at WESG 2018, second at EPL Season 9 Finals, third-to-fourth at ESL One New York 2019, second at the CS Asia Championships 2025). Five Major appearances with Legends and Stage 3 as the best results and no title. No Top 20 appearances. A three-month rating of 1.05 and the most support-specialised attribute profile on his team. Thirteen teams in the history, culminating in the thirty-four-month second 3DMAX tenure and the ongoing Envy spell.

The comparative framing is durability-based. Chastang is the only player in the French cohort with tier-one semifinal experience in two distinct eras — G2 2018–2019 and 3DMAX 2025–2026 — separated by six years. The G2 finals and the Asia final, the Katowice and Berlin Legends runs and the Shanghai-Austin-Budapest sequence, the 3,860 FACEIT matches and the thirteen-team continuity: each pair connects across a gap that ended most contemporaries' careers. The attribute profile never changed fundamentally — Utility and Trading led at every stage — which indicates a player who understood his structural function early and maintained it through meta changes, engine changes and organisational upheaval.

What the record does not contain is an individual award or a title — the standard honours by which support players are eventually distinguished from one another. At twenty-eight, with the Envy roster intact and Major qualification established as a routine rather than an aspiration, the outstanding items are a first trophy since 2018 and a first Major playoff. On the evidence of the Asia final and the back-to-back Stage 3 runs, both remain possible; on the evidence of the MOUZ, Vitality and FaZe eliminations, neither is probable. The career already constitutes one of the longest continuous professional spells in French Counter-Strike, and its historical value does not depend on the remaining outcomes.

The team-history breakdown lists the full thirteen-team sequence: Ranks, BeGenius, meMyselfI, dizLown, NOBO, 3DMAX (June–November 2018), G2, Heretics, DBL Poney (February 2021–January 2022), HEET, Looking4Org (May–November 2023), 3DMAX (November 2023–September 2026) and Envy (September 2026–present). The thirty-four-month second 3DMAX tenure exceeds the combined duration of all eleven preceding spells — the career's centre of gravity shifted decisively in November 2023 and never moved back. The FACEIT record — 3,860 matches at 61.0 percent, 1.3 KDR, CS2 Europe seasons at ninth and fourteenth — confirms the mechanical floor beneath the support assignment held across the full decade, from the Ranks months to the Envy transfer.

The NOBO overlap with Canda in May–June 2018 deserves a final note: two teenagers in the same short-lived French tag, reunited at HEET and Looking4Org five years later, then starters together for thirty-four months at 3DMAX and now at Envy. Few partnerships in French Counter-Strike have survived so many organisational dissolutions — NOBO, HEET, Looking4Org, 3DMAX's financial distress — without either player changing teams independently. The continuity is the relationship; the Envy transfer preserved it for a fifth organisation. At twenty-eight, the career already constitutes one of the longest continuous professional spells in French Counter-Strike regardless of what the intact roster produces next.

Sources

• https://www.hltv.org/player/13497/Lucky — HLTV player profile (identity, age, prize money, rating, attributes, team history, FACEIT summary).
• https://www.hltv.org/events/8042/starladder-budapest-major-2025 — StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 event record (Stage 3).
• https://www.hltv.org/events/7902/blasttv-austin-major-2025 — BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 event record (Stage 3).
• https://www.hltv.org/events/8027/cs-asia-championships-2025 — CS Asia Championships 2025 event record (2nd place).
• https://www.hltv.org/events/4597/esl-one-new-york-2019 — ESL One New York 2019 event record (3–4th with G2).
• https://www.hltv.org/news/45594/envy-return-to-cs-with-ex-3dmax-roster — Envy acquisition report, September 2026.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/45310/3dmax-dumped-out-of-ewc-by-magic — EWC elimination report, August 2026.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/45207/mouz-survive-3dmax-scare-to-make-bounty-semis — Bounty semifinal qualifier report, July 2026.

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