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Sonic CS2 Settings, Config, Crosshair & Gear

Aran Groesbeek·South Africa· Born (age 27)

DPI
400
Sens
2.5
eDPI
1000
Hz
1000
Res
1280x960
Mouse
Lamzu Maya X Purple Shadow
Monitor
ZOWIE XL2566X+

Aran "Sonic" Groesbeek is a 27-year-old South African rifler for NRG. He has played four CS2 Majors, reaching the Elimination Stage of the Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 with Wildcard.

Sonic CS2 crosshair code

CSk2wNUsNfv99Gr4Br4m28roQdHChEJiQVB5sG6kTHZoaa
Team
NRG
Role
Rifler / Lurker
Earnings
$170,360
Majors won
0
Premier LAN titles
0
Rating 3.0
1.11last 12 months, 181 maps

Sonic Mouse Settings & Sensitivity

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Sonic plays CS2 at 400 DPI and 2.5 in-game sensitivity, with an eDPI of 1000, a 1000 Hz polling rate and 1 zoom sensitivity. That is 41.56 cm for a full 360° turn.

DPI
400
Sensitivity
2.5
eDPI
1000
cm / 360°
41.56 cm
Zoom Sensitivity
1
Polling Rate
1000 Hz
Windows Sensitivity
6

CS2 sensitivity calculator

Match Sonic's 1000 eDPI to your own mouse DPI.

Your sensitivity

2.5

Formula

eDPI ÷ DPI

sensitivity 2.5

Sonic's reference: 400 DPI × 2.5 sensitivity = 1000 eDPI

Sonic Crosshair Code

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Sonic uses a green static cross crosshair with size 3, gap 3, thickness 1 and no centre dot. Copy the share code below and import it in CS2 under Settings → Game → Crosshair → Share or Import.

Sonic crosshair share code

CSk2wNUsNfv99Gr4Br4m28roQdHChEJiQVB5sG6kTHZoaa

Interactive CS2 crosshair preview: see Sonic's exact crosshair on every active-duty map — Dust II, Mirage, Inferno, Nuke, Anubis, Ancient. Switch maps to preview the same reticle over each layout.

Dust II
CS2 Dust II map cover with Sonic's crosshair
Dust II · Sonic's CS2 crosshair

Color: RGB 0, 255, 74 (#00FF4A) · Size: 3 · Thickness: 1 · Gap: 3 · Dot: 0 · Outline: 1

Dust II map guide →
Sonic's CS2 crosshair preview on the Dust II map. Share code: CSk2wNUsNfv99Gr4Br4m28roQdHChEJiQVB5sG6kTHZoaa.

Crosshair geometry

Red
0
Green
255
Blue
74
Style
Static Cross
Dot
No
Length (px)
3
Thickness (px)
1
Gap (px)
3
Outline
Yes
Sniper Width
0
Follow Recoil
No
Split Distance
3
Split Size Ratio
1
Inner Split Alpha
0
Outer Split Alpha
1
T Style
No
Scope Dot Scale
1
Use Crosshair Color for Scope Dot
No
Screen Height
960
Spread Limit
227
Outline Opacity
255
Outline Red
0
Outline Green
0
Outline Blue
0
Opacity
255

Sonic CS2 Video Settings

Sonic plays CS2 at 1280x960 (4:3 stretched) in fullscreen.

Resolution
1280x960
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Display Mode
Fullscreen
Scaling Mode
Stretched
Refresh Rate
400 Hz

Sonic Viewmodel Settings

Sonic's CS2 viewmodel uses FOV 68 and offsets X 2.5, Y 0, Z -1.5.

FOV
68
Offset X
2.5
Offset Y
0
Offset Z
-1.5
Viewmodel Bob
False
Bob Cycle
0.98
Bob Amount Lateral
0.1
Bob Amount Vertical
0.1
Bob Lower Amount
5
viewmodel_fov 68; viewmodel_offset_x 2.5; viewmodel_offset_y 0; viewmodel_offset_z -1.5;

Sonic HUD & Radar Settings

Sonic's CS2 HUD and radar settings: HUD Color Purple, HUD Scale 0.95, Radar HUD Size 1 and Radar Map Zoom 0.5.

HUD Color
Purple
HUD Scale
0.95
Radar HUD Size
1
Radar Map Zoom
0.5
Radar Is Rotating
Yes
Radar Centers Player
Yes
Toggle Shape with Scoreboard
No

Sonic Monitor Settings

Sonic's monitor settings: DyAc Premium, Black Equalizer 10, Color Vibrance 15 and Low Blue Light 0.

DyAc
Premium
Black Equalizer
10
Color Vibrance
15
Low Blue Light
0
Picture Mode
FPS 1
Gamma
Gamma 3
AMA
Premium
Brightness
90
Contrast
75
Sharpness
7
Color Temperature
Normal

Sonic Gaming Gear

Sonic currently uses the ZOWIE XL2566X+ monitor, Lamzu Maya X Purple Shadow mouse, SteelSeries QcK+ mousepad, Wooting 80HE Black keyboard and SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro headset.

ZOWIE XL2566X+ monitor used by Sonic in CS2
Monitor · ZOWIE by BenQActive

ZOWIE XL2566X+

size: 24" · g sync: No · freesync: No · panel tech: TN · resolution: 1920x1080 · aspect ratio: 16:9 · refresh rate: 400

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Mouse · LamzuActive

Lamzu Maya X Purple Shadow

dpi: 100-30000, in steps of 50 · shape: Ambidextrous · width: 5.7cm · height: 4.0cm · length: 12.4cm · sensor: PAW3950 · weight: 47g · connection: Wireless · button force: 65.3g · polling rate: 500, 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000 · button switches: Optical Switches

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Mousepad · SteelSeriesActive

SteelSeries QcK+

height: 40cm · length: 45cm · material: Cloth · thickness: 2mm · overall glide: Control-Oriented · stitched edges: Yes

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Wooting 80HE Black keyboard used by Sonic in CS2
Keyboard · WootingActive

Wooting 80HE Black

pcb: Hotswappable · rgb: Yes · width: 34.6cm · height: 2.84cm · length: 14.2cm · weight: 790g · switches: Lekker Linear 45 v2, Lekker Linear 60 v2, Lekker Tikken Light, Lekker Tikken Medium, Geon Raw HE, Wooting x TTC KOM · form factor: TKL

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Sonic PC Specs

Sonic's PC runs the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 GPU.

Sonic CS2 Stats

Sonic's rating is 1.11 (Rating 3.0, last 12 months, 181 maps), with 80.8 ADR and 72.6% KAST over the same window. Sonic has 1,570 maps in total.

Playstyle radar

Opening: 82 / 100Sniping: 0 / 100Trading: 70 / 100Utility: 81 / 100Entrying: 55 / 100Clutching: 50 / 100Firepower: 87 / 100Opening82Sniping0Trading70Utility81Entrying55Clutching50Firepower87
last 12 months · 181 maps
Rating 3.0
1.11
last 12 months · 181 maps
Sonic stats for the last 3 months, last 12 months and all-time
WindowMapsRatingDPRKASTADRKPR
last 3 months481.04Rating 3.00.6971.4%77.20.66
last 12 months1811.11Rating 3.00.6972.6%80.80.71
all-time1,5701.08Rating 1.00.6572.5%79.30.73

all-time uses HLTV Rating 1.0, as HLTV publishes it; it is not directly comparable with the Rating 3.0 windows.

Stats fetched

Career rating per calendar year
SeasonCareer ratingMaps
20261.01155
20251.05166
20241.07214
20231.0572
20221.2823
20211.05241
20200.98165
20191.07193
20181.14225
20171.3053
20161.2550
20151.4113

Per-year career rating (not Rating 3.0).

Weapon kills · 27,596 (all-time)

Sonic Biography & Career Story

The full story of Sonic's career, in 7 chapters.

Aran "Sonic" Groesbeek is a South African Counter-Strike 2 rifler who has played for NRG since 4 September 2025. Born on 2 December 1998 and now 27, he has competed since 2014 and has appeared at four Majors, all in the CS2 era.

Sonic began at home. His first team was eNergy eSports, from 2014 until 30 June 2015, when he moved to Bravado Gaming. He stayed until 28 January 2019, the longest spell of his career.

With Bravado he reached international events. The team qualified for ESWC 2016 and played the WESG 2016 Middle East & Africa Finals. News in January 2018 reported that the roster would relocate to the United States; four days later Bravado won WESG South Africa.

The relocation, profiled in November 2018 as "Project Destiny", brought results that winter. At DreamHack Open Winter 2018 Bravado upset OpTic in the opening matches, then beat x6tence Galaxy to reach the final. Later that December they won the DreamHack Invitational Mumbai.

Sonic framed that run as a national milestone, saying the team had put South African Counter-Strike on the map.

2019 brought four team changes between January and September. Sonic joined Denial eSports in January, ATK in April and Team Envy in June, after reports that Envy were eyeing him as a replacement for jdm64. That September he went back to ATK in a rebuild that was reported to include oSee and floppy.

That ATK side made the ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals in Odense in December 2019, beating North and G2 before mousesports knocked them out short of the quarter-finals. Sonic said afterwards that the team had not felt like underdogs going in.

Cloud9 signed him in January 2020, and the new lineup beat MIBR that month to qualify for IEM Katowice 2020. In October 2020 Cloud9 terminated the contracts of JT, motm, Sonic and T.c. He played on under the ex-Cloud9 banner until December.

Extra Salt picked him up in December 2020, and 2021 became his most productive season by volume. He played 241 maps that year, every one of them online. In March 2021 Extra Salt swept paiN to win DreamHack Open March North America, then won the VENN Invitational to earn a place at the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown. April brought wins over BIG and forZe and a place in the grand final of the FunSpark ULTI 2020 Europe Final, the only event for which he holds an EVP.

On 21 October 2021 it was reported that Sonic would take a break from competition; Extra Salt signed floppy the same day. In April 2022 he retired from CS:GO.

The retirement did not last. Sonic joined Nixuh on 28 July 2022 and stayed until the end of that year. Mid-2023 saw him stand in for Complexity at IEM Dallas 2023 and the BLAST Premier Spring Final 2023, where Complexity eliminated Astralis; JT praised the numbers he put up on his return.

After a short stint with Bad News Bears in October 2023, he joined Wildcard in November 2023. Wildcard extended his contract in June 2024. The team beat Passion UA in December 2024 for the last Elimination Stage spot at the Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024, his first Major. A second followed at the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025, where losses to B8, BetBoom and Legacy ended Wildcard's run in Stage 1.

NRG signed Sonic on 4 September 2025 to replace nosraC. At the StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 the team exited in Stage 1, with nitr0 missing the event, and in November 2025 NRG claimed an ESL Pro League berth. The IEM Cologne Major 2026 also ended in Stage 1, his fourth Major appearance.

The roster around him has changed since. Around the turn of February and March 2026 Grim joined and Jeorge was moved to the bench. Jeorge returned in July 2026, when NRG also signed hallzerk to play alongside in-game leader nitr0. In September 2026 NRG finished 2nd in the PGL Masters Bucharest 2026 North America Closed Qualifier, losing their last series 2–3 to Liquid, and placed 5th–6th at both StarLadder StarSeries Fall 2026 and iBUYPOWER Masters FML 2026.

Sonic is listed as a rifler in NRG's lineup, and his roles are also given as lurker and AWPer. His all-time weapon data backs up both sides: the AK-47 leads with 10,341 kills and the AWP is second with 3,800.

Over the last three months he has a 1.04 Rating 3.0 across 48 maps, and his all-time figure is a 1.08 Rating 1.0 over 1,570 maps. His prize money, as of September 2026, is estimated at $170,360.

Sonic Team History

Sonic plays for NRG, after spells at Wildcard, Bad News Bears, Nixuh and ex-Cloud9.

  1. NRG

    Sep 2025 - Present

    • Entry FraggerSep 2025 - PresentSTARTER

  2. Wildcard

    Nov 2023 - Sep 2025

    • Roster spellNov 2023 - Sep 2025STARTER

  3. Bad News Bears

    Oct 2023 - Nov 2023

    • Roster spellOct 2023 - Nov 2023STARTER

  4. Nixuh

    Jul 2022 - Dec 2022

    • Roster spellJul 2022 - Dec 2022STARTER

  5. ex-Cloud9

    Oct 2020 - Dec 2020

    • Roster spellOct 2020 - Dec 2020STARTER

  6. Cloud9

    Jan 2020 - Oct 2020

    • Roster spellJan 2020 - Oct 2020STARTER

  7. ATK

    Apr 2019 - Jan 2020

    • Roster spellSep 2019 - Jan 2020STARTER
    • Roster spellApr 2019 - Jun 2019STARTER

  8. Envy

    Jun 2019 - Sep 2019

    • Roster spellJun 2019 - Sep 2019STARTER

  9. Denial

    Jan 2019 - Apr 2019

    • Roster spellJan 2019 - Apr 2019STARTER

  10. Bravado

    Jun 2015 - Jan 2019

    • Roster spellJun 2015 - Jan 2019STARTER

Sonic: settings, gear & career questions

Quick answers about Sonic's CS2 settings, gear, team and career.

What role does Sonic play for NRG?

Sonic is a rifler for NRG. His roles are also listed as lurker and AWPer; NRG's AWPer is hallzerk.

What team is Sonic on in CS2?

Sonic plays for NRG, who signed him on 4 September 2025 to replace nosraC. He came from Wildcard, where he had played since November 2023.

How old is Sonic and where is he from?

Aran "Sonic" Groesbeek is from South Africa and was born on 2 December 1998, which makes him 27.

How many Majors has Sonic played?

Four: the Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 and the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 with Wildcard, then the StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 and the IEM Cologne Major 2026 with NRG. His best run was reaching the Elimination Stage in Shanghai.

What are Sonic's biggest achievements in Counter-Strike?

He won the DreamHack Invitational Mumbai with Bravado Gaming in 2018 and DreamHack Open March North America with Extra Salt in 2021. He has one EVP, from the FunSpark ULTI 2020 Europe Final, and his prize money is estimated at $170,360.

Did Sonic retire from Counter-Strike?

Yes, briefly. He stepped away from Extra Salt in October 2021 and announced his retirement from CS:GO in April 2022, then returned with Nixuh in July 2022.

GamerStats Lab, CS2 writer at GamerStats

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