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Hey I'd like to thank you for the lead on this! I've tried confirming the claim posted here, but am having a lot of trouble validating it. I first started off looking at RD (RealDespair) and PIT's website on the Way Back Machine http://www.pitrd.com/. If he was the author of the map surely it would have been listed on the site right? Me and a few other digital sleuths found the oldest release of scoutzknivez dated 06/27/2002. RD's site is logged past this date and seems to have been updated until 2005. I would assume he'd list the map on the site as it turned into a major success in 2003. I also can't find any post here on MapCore by RD alluding to authorship. I might have missed something, but If RD created the level surely their would be post history here alluding to his creation of it. This thread on MapCore is the first and only mention of the map. Unless I am unaware of other older versions of scoutzknivez under different titles that RD created. Could this be the case? If you have any links to provide I would appreciate it!

Hi folks, I'm an archivist for Counter-Strike 1.6 and stumbled upon one of Counter-Strike's oldest mysteries: there's no author for scoutzknivez.bsp. Here's a refresher on the level, It's an asymmetrical map with low gravity. Players are equipped with a scout sniper rifle and a knife. Eliminate the enemy team to win. Very simple, but difficult to master. A YouTube video of scoutzknivez being played It took over Counter-Strike 1.6 in 2003 and exploded in popularity for years afterward. Unfortunately we don't know who created it. There's no name in the level. Generally the level was never downloaded in game or off of file hosting sites with a .txt file that mappers would include with their levels outlining information about the map either. There are some theories as to why this is the case. Perhaps our anonymous mapper handed the level over to a server host and never gave them a .txt file initially. It started to spread from there and the original creator never had a chance to include it. I've tried crawling through the .bsp, decompiling it, extracting textures from it, going to old websites, downloading any active link with the title of scoutzknivez.zip without any luck. I've also added old school scoutzknivez players and sent e-mails out to various other old school players for a solid clue. So far I've yielded nothing. I'm here to ask for help as mapcore is mentioned in many of these old level's .txt files. This organization has been around for a very long time facilitating discussions around levels and their creation. If you were around in 2002-2003 and know who to ask about scoutzknivez' creator I would appreciate it! Here's a TL;DR YouTube video I made on the subject: The Mystery of Scoutzknivez TL;DR: Scoutzknivez is a level for Counter-Strike 1.6 that has no author mentioned in the map. It became incredibly popular with tons of derivative work copying it. It became so famous Valve put the elements of the map into their CS:GO game mode, "The Flying Scoutsman". Does anyone know who the original author is?