Kyle Miller

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Kyle "Ksharp" Miller (born 1984) is an electronic sports player who plays Counter-Strike. His success has allowed him to defer attending college while earning a living as a gamer. Miller currently plays for Team 3D.

1 Career
2 Techniques
3 Tournament Victories
4 League Victories
5 References and footnotes
6 External links

[edit] Career

Miller started his professional career at the age of 14. Miller broke into the American Counter Strike (CS) players scene with the teams "CK3" and "NHG", but he made a name for himself with the team "X3". His precise play in the CS map de_dust2 against iwa (Issues with Authority) led to the back of the B bomb site being designated the "Ksharp spot" by players around the world.

Miller, along with clanmates Ronald "Rambo" Kim and Sean "Bullseye" Morgan, left X3 and formed Team 3D (Desire, Discipline, and Dedication). He has won two Cyberathlete Professional League tournaments with X3 and one with Team 3D. He also has several CAL-Invite championships under his belt, as well as two World Cyber Games championships.

While Miller prefers using the automatic rifles the M4 and AK-47 in CS, he is best known for his sniping skills with the AWM (mistakenly referred to as the AWP in beta versions of Counter-Strike).

Near the end of March 2006, Miller became an inactive member of Team 3D, but according to Craig "Torbull" Levine, the manager of Team 3D, Miller remains a part of the team until he returns (if he chooses to do so).^[1] Miller continues to work with ESEA and Team 3D.^[2]

[edit] Techniques

Miller pioneered the "quickswitch" technique. In this technique, the sniper switches to another item such as his pistol or grenades and then back to his sniper rifle. This allowed a sniper to defend himself more capably with a secondary weapon, rather than watch the reload animation of the rifle. It is a common misconception that quickswitching allowed for a player to increase the rate of fire of a sniper rifle, however, this claim has since been disproved through side-by-side video comparison^[3]. However, as of Counter-Strike version 1.6 this technique no longer works as Valve, the company that owns the rights to Counter-Strike, added a new delay when switching weapons to the AWM. After switching to it, the player has to wait a specific amount of time before they are able shoot it.

In addition to the "quickswitch" technique, Miller and other professional Counter-Strike snipers have all used the "quickscope" technique. The quickscope technique is one that a sniper clicks the scope button and almost instantly hits the fire button. The bullet that is fired is a 100% accurate "no scope". The reason this works is because the +attack2 button (scope function) tells the server that the sniper is scoped already even though the scope has not yet appeared on the screen. This technique is very difficult to master because the sniper has to visualize where the aiming reticule (crosshair) is at all times as it does not appear on any sniper rifle in the game. However, in versions Beta 7.1 and older, the unscoped sniper rifles did have a crosshair, and the quickscope technique was much easier to use.