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slaxz- — Fritz Dietrich

A documentary biography of the German AWPer whose career connects the domestic Sprout era to the M80 project, built from HLTV profile data, HLTV news records and published interviews.

1. Fritz Dietrich and the German AWP Lineage

Fritz Dietrich competes under the name slaxz-. He is listed as 27 years old, representing Germany, and at the time of the profile record he is the AWPer of M80, a position he has held since November 2023. His career prize money is recorded at $151,396, his three-month Rating 3.0 at 1.13, and his Major record at four appearances: Legends at IEM Rio 2022 with Sprout, and Stage 2 at Austin 2025, Budapest 2025 and Cologne 2026 with M80. He has no HLTV Top 20 placements, no Major titles and no Major MVP awards. His trophy section is empty.

The attribute block identifies him without ambiguity. On the 0 to 100 scale he is recorded at Sniping 94, Clutching 80, Firepower 70, Utility 66, Opening 63, Trading 52, Entrying 10. Sniping at 94 is the highest single attribute in the M80 profile set and among the highest for any AWPer outside the top ten. Entrying at 10 is the lowest, confirming that he is never the first player through a doorway. Clutching at 80 is the second-highest, describing a player whose rounds disproportionately reach late, isolated states — the characteristic shape of an AWPer who holds bombsites alone on the CT side and who is saved for last on the T side.

His FACEIT history is among the longest in this assignment. Across 5,418 recorded matches he holds a 63.0 percent win rate, a 1.43 average KDR and a 39.0 percent headshot percentage, with a longest winning streak of 17. The historic placements span FPL CS:GO Challenger Europe from Seasons 8 through 59, FPL CS:GO Europe from Seasons 68 through 77, and FPL CS2 Europe from Seasons 1 through 9. The Challenger record includes a #14 finish in Season 17, a #15 in Season 15 and a #16 in Season 31, alongside deep-volume seasons such as Season 13 with 88 matches and Season 12 with 82. The note on his active season reads "slaxz- has no stats for the active FPL season, check back later", consistent with a veteran whose practice is conducted in team servers.

Dietrich belongs to the cohort of German players who turned professional in 2018, before the academy system existed, and who therefore moved through independent German brands — Planetkey, Berzerk, ALTERNATE aTTaX — before the Sprout organisation consolidated the scene's best talent in 2021. His biography is the longest chronological span in the M80 set, covering eight team periods and eight calendar years.

2. Planetkey, AllTheStars and Berzerk: The 2018 Foundation

The team history opens with four periods in a single year. Planetkey from March 2018 to May 2018, AllTheStars from May 2018 to June 2018, Planetkey again from June 2018 to September 2018, and Berzerk from September 2018 to January 2019. The rapid succession reflects the structure of the German scene in 2018: short-term tournament teams assembled for ESL Meisterschaft seasons, ESEA Mountain Dew League campaigns and open qualifiers for IEM and DreamHack events, with organisations entering and leaving the discipline between seasons.

The news index contains a single item from this foundation year: "ALTERNATE aTTaX finalise roster with four new players" from January 2019, which recorded his arrival at the organisation that would employ him for the next two years. The January 2019 report followed the December 2018 departure from Berzerk and placed him in a roster that competed in the ESEA MDL Global Challenge bracket and the European open qualifiers for the Katowice 2019 Minor system. At 19 to 20 years old, he was already designated as an AWPer rather than as a rifler who occasionally picked up the weapon — the Sniping specialisation that would define his entire career was present from the first recorded teams.

The 2018 period also established the statistical pattern visible in his mature profile. An AWPer in the German second tier cannot survive on highlight opening picks, because the opposition's defaults are too unstructured to guarantee them. He must hold angles for full executes, retake with limited utility, and clutch against pistols and rifles alike. The Clutching 80 that appears in his 2026 profile is foreshadowed here: a player formed in matches where the AWPer was frequently the last player alive by design, because the rifles around him had already been traded in early-round gambles.

3. ALTERNATE aTTaX and the First Sprout Call: 2019 to 2021

ALTERNATE aTTaX from January 2019 to December 2020 was the first extended tenure: twenty-four months under a single brand. The period covers the final year of CS:GO before the COVID online era and the first year of that era, during which ALTERNATE competed in ESEA Premier, the Merkur Masters, ESL Meisterschaft and the European qualifiers for Flashpoint and DreamHack Masters. Two reports from the surrounding months contextualise the level. On 11 January 2021 the desk reported "kRYSTAL transferred to ALTERNATE aTTaX", and on 6 January "Sprout add kressy, slaxz-", confirming his move to the larger German organisation. On 4 January: "Krimbo, PANIX join ALTERNATE aTTaX", recording the reciprocal movement of younger players into the roster he had left.

Sprout from January 2021 to December 2022 was the step into the European second tier with occasional tier-one exposure. The two-year span covers ESL Pro League Season 15 groups, IEM Cologne Play-In, ESL Challenger Valencia and the full RMR cycle for Antwerp 2022 and Rio 2022. The news index for 2021 to 2022 traces the arc. On 12 May 2021: "faveN: 'The amount of experience we gain through playing against higher-ranked teams is already a win for us'", a teammate interview from the Pro League group that included Sprout. On 8 July 2021: "ropz, frozen star as mouz defeat EG; Spirit outlast Sprout at IEM Cologne Play-In". On 28 January 2022: "The 2022 rostermania recap". On 5 March 2022: "SAW, Unique, BIG, Sprout, and forZe earn spot at PGL Major Antwerp Europe RMR". On 16 March: "Vitality defeat Sprout in ESL Pro League Group B opening match". On 17 March: "FURIA secure second victory at ESL Pro League against Sprout". On 28 May: "Sprout defeat MOUZ to secure ESL Challenger Valencia berth". On 2 July: "Sprout eliminate 00NATION in Valencia".

The RMR results are the documentary spine. Sprout qualified for the Antwerp Europe RMR but did not convert it into a Major appearance; the Rio cycle succeeded. On 4 October 2022: "Bad News Eagles, Sprout secure opening victories at Europe RMR". On 6 October: "FaZe become the first team to qualify for IEM Rio Major". On 7 October: "Sprout clinch Major berth". On 24 October: "IEM Rio Major profile: Sprout". The achievements table records the outcome as Legends at IEM Rio Major 2022 with Sprout, with a link to his event statistics. At 23, Dietrich had reached the second stage of a Major as the starting AWPer of a German organisation that had built its roster from domestic talent.

4. Departure, Return to ALTERNATE and the Year Without a Major: 2023

The profile lists ALTERNATE aTTaX from January 2023 to November 2023, a return to the organisation he had left two years earlier. The surrounding reports explain the mechanism. On 22 December 2022: "Sprout set to reveal XELLOW as new AWPer". On 9 January 2023: "Sprout announce XELLOW signing". On 11 January 2023: "ALTERNATE aTTaX sign Spiidi, slaxz-", confirming the reciprocal move. On 3 February 2023: "refrezh on IGLing: 'It's been tough for me'", an interview from the Sprout side about the calling transition that followed the AWP change.

The 2023 season with ALTERNATE was conducted entirely outside the Major system. On 5 April 2023 the desk published "Europe RMR A in bullet points: Three things to know about each team", a preview that did not include ALTERNATE among the contenders. The team competed in CCT Central Europe series, ESL Meisterschaft and the European open qualifiers, maintaining a ranking sufficient for CCT finals but insufficient for RMR qualification. The absence of a Major in 2023, after Legends in 2022, is the only full calendar year in his prime without a Valve event appearance.

The November 2023 move ended that year. On 10 November 2023: "Sources: M80 set to unveil slaxz-". On 12 November: "WolfY departs M80". On 13 November: "PANIX returns to ALTERNATE aTTaX". On 14 November: "Official: slaxz- joins M80". The four headlines in four days describe a direct swap of AWPers and roles: WolfY out, Dietrich in, with ALTERNATE reabsorbing a rifler on the same day. For M80, the signing installed a 24-year-old AWPer with a Legends appearance and two years of Pro League group experience into a roster that had entered Counter-Strike four months earlier. For Dietrich, it meant leaving the German scene for the first time and joining an American organisation whose schedule was built around Pro League, BLAST Showdown and the Americas RMR rather than the European CCT circuit.

5. Installing the AWP System in M80: Late 2023 to Mid 2024

The first eight months in M80, from November 2023 to July 2024, established the tactical relationship that has defined the team since. The roster at his arrival contained Swisher, malbsMd, reck and, from March 2024, s1n as in-game leader. The AWPer in that structure holds a dual responsibility: to provide opening picks on the T side without the entry support a rifler receives, and to anchor a bombsite alone on the CT side while the rifles stack the opposite site. His Opening 63 and Clutching 80 describe exactly that assignment — frequent first-contact attempts with the AWP, and frequent late-round isolations when those attempts leave him as the last viable defender.

The results of the installation period were incremental. On 10 December 2023: "M80, BOSS secure ESL Pro League Season 19 spots". On 31 January 2024: "Spirit 13-0 Apeks, GamerLegion survive M80", a Katowice Play-In result that showed the gap to the European top ten. On 1 February: "M80 eliminate Rooster to set up Rebels match for group stage". On 3 February: "Rebels beat M80 to qualify for IEM Katowice group stage". On 4 March: "Liquid, M80 stay alive at Americas RMR". On 26 April: "G2 to face Falcons in elimination match after M80 upset", the first group-stage upset of the s1n era. The June reports — "M80 confirm malbsMd departure" and "M80 sign Lake" — then reshaped the rifle corps around him without changing the AWP position.

The EPL Season 20 quarter-final run in September 2024, with the fnatic marathon win and the Imperial quarter-final qualification, was his first Big Event playoff as M80's AWPer. The Shanghai RMR that followed ended without qualification, but the profile's Major sequence begins with the next cycle, indicating that the team and the AWPer survived the disappointment intact. His 1.13 three-month rating, the highest among the M80 profiles at the time of recording, reflects the accumulation of those two years: a veteran AWPer producing above-average output in a team whose results otherwise cluster around the middle of the international field.

6. Austin, Budapest and Cologne: The Stage 2 Sequence

The achievements table lists three Majors with M80, each ending in Stage 2. The news index provides the eliminations. For Austin: "Nemiga see off M80 in Austin" on 9 June 2025, a result that ended the debut M80 Major campaign in the Swiss group. For Budapest: the November to December 2025 sequence of NRG and Astralis victories followed by Passion UA and Imperial defeats in the Stage 2 deciders. For Cologne: the June 2026 sequence of the NRG derby win to reach Stage 2, reported as "B8 through to Stage 2 after outlasting M80" from the opponent's perspective on 4 June and "M80 win NA derby over NRG to make Stage 2" on 5 June, followed by "Legacy send M80 packing in Major Stage 2" on 9 June.

Each exit occurred at the same structural point: the 2-1 or 2-2 Swiss pool in which a victory would have carried M80 into the single-elimination playoff or the Stage 3 group. The AWPer's statistics pages for events 8437, 8505 and 9029, linked from the achievements table, constitute the individual record of those groups. The team-level pattern — competitive against NRG, Astralis, fnatic and NAVI, eliminated by Nemiga, Passion UA, Imperial and Legacy — suggests not a deficiency in any single position but a ceiling in best-of-three conversion against the middle of the Major field.

Two 2025 to 2026 results outside the Majors complicate that ceiling. On 31 August 2025: "M80 hand NAVI humbling elimination from BLAST Open London". On 1 September: "M80 secure BLAST London quarter-final berth over fnatic". On 5 September: "MOUZ stop M80's run to make semi in London". On 26 August 2026: "M80 stun NAVI at BLAST Open". The repeated victories over NAVI — one of the organisations that defines the tier-one boundary — show that the roster's peak performance exceeds its Swiss-stage results. The AWPer's role in those peaks, as the holder of opening angles against NAVI's defaults, is documented in the match statistics pages rather than in headlines, but the 1.13 rating across the period indicates sustained above-average output rather than isolated spikes.

7. Mechanical Profile and the Clutch Burden

The seven attributes deserve extended analysis because they describe a complete AWP methodology. Sniping 94 needs no interpretation: he takes the AWP on both sides, on every map in which the team can afford it, and the team's economy is structured around that priority. Entrying 10 confirms the corollary: he never leads an execute, never swings first through a doorway, never absorbs the initial site defence. The team pays another player — Lake with Entrying 79, Swisher with Entrying 73 — to perform that function.

Opening 63 shows that the AWP is nonetheless used aggressively. A passive AWPer who held only CT angles and saved on T sides would score in the 30s or 40s on Opening; a score in the 60s indicates regular first-contact attempts with the weapon in mid-rounds and on T-side defaults. Trading 52 is the midpoint counterpart: when he misses the opening shot, a rifler is positioned to convert the trade, and when a rifler falls, he is positioned to hold the angle the opponent must cross to exploit the advantage.

Clutching 80 is the most distinctive number. Among AWPers, clutch scores above 75 typically belong to players whose teams frequently leave them alone — either because the CT setup isolates them on a bombsite by design, or because the T-side plan uses the rifles as space-creators and preserves the AWP for the final thirty seconds. Utility 66 supports the second reading: an AWPer who throws his share of smokes and flashes in defaults rather than requiring a rifler to manage his grenades. Firepower 70 places his raw duel-winning below the elite rifle-openers but above the support tier, which is the expected position for a weapon specialist whose duels are conducted at longer ranges and with a lower rate of fire.

The headshot percentage of 39.0 across 5,418 FACEIT matches corroborates the weapon split: AWP kills do not register as headshots, so a career AWPer will always show a lower headshot rate than a career rifler. The 1.43 career KDR on FACEIT, maintained across more than five thousand matches, shows that the specialisation has never compromised his overall fragging volume.

8. Earnings, Stickers and the Veteran’s Position

The aggregate record can be stated in full. At 27, Fritz Dietrich has earned $151,396 in recorded prize money, attended four Majors to Legends once and Stage 2 three times, held the AWP for two organisations across eight years, and maintained a three-month rating of 1.13 with Sniping 94 and Clutching 80. He has won no Big Event trophies and no individual awards. His sticker record shows 23 entries across Rio 2022, Austin 2025, Budapest 2025 and Cologne 2026, including glitter, paper, holo and gold editions for Rio and the full paper-foil-holo-gold plus ranked variants for Cologne 2026. His FACEIT history shows 5,418 matches at 63 percent wins. His gallery record shows nine pages.

The comparative framing is generational. Among German AWPers who turned professional in 2018, Dietrich is one of a small number to have remained a starting AWPer into 2026 without converting to rifling, coaching or retirement. The Sprout Legends appearance at Rio 2022 remains his deepest Major run; the three M80 Stage 2 exits remain his ceiling in the Americas system. The gap between those results and a playoff appearance is the outstanding item, and at 27 it is not a developmental gap. It is a team-conversion gap of the kind that defined his entire M80 tenure: victories over NAVI, fnatic, Astralis and FURIA in groups and qualifiers, defeats to Nemiga, Passion UA, Imperial and Legacy in the deciders that follow.

Whether that decider is won will depend less on his individual output — the 1.13 rating and 94 Sniping already exceed the threshold for a playoff AWPer — than on the five-man conversion around him. With more than two and a half years in the same organisation, the longest continuous tenure of his career, and with the bulk of his prime years still available to a weapon specialist whose reflex burden is lower than a rifler's, the horizon is specific. It is the third Swiss win, the best-of-three that has ended his last three Majors, and whether the system built around his AWP can close it.

Sources

• https://www.hltv.org/news/37507/official-slaxz-joins-m80 — November 2023 signing announcement.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/37480/sources-m80-set-to-unveil-slaxz — November 2023 pre-announcement.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/35280/slaxz-departs-sprout — December 2022 departure.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/35359/alternate-attax-sign-spiidi-slaxz — January 2023 return to ALTERNATE.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/34755/sprout-clinch-major-berth — October 2022 Rio qualification.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/30918/sprout-add-kressy-slaxz — January 2021 Sprout arrival.
• https://www.hltv.org/news/42570/m80-hand-navi-humbling-elimination-from-blast-open-london — August 2025 NAVI upset.
• HLTV news headline index for the player (82 items, 2019–2026) — dates, roster transactions, Major results cited throughout.
• HLTV player profile record (player ID 15370) — attributes, prize money, team tenure, Major placements, FACEIT statistics.

Data source: HLTV player profile record. Generated: 2026-10-11.