Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut was born November 9, 2000, on the same day as the original Counter-Strike game was released. He is one of the youngest CSGO talents that took the professional scene, competing on the highest level already at the age of 18. Herbaut was born in France and he currently plays for the French Team Vitality.

His career started in 2014, when he was competing at dizLown. He’s been playing in 5 other teams since 2015, including nevermind, E-Corp Bumpers, WySix Team, against All authority and eventually, Team Vitality.

Mathieu "ZywOo" Herbaut had 2 consecutive best player of the year award wins from 2019 to 2020 by HLTV.org. Next year, in 2021 he took the second place of that nomination. ZywOo had 12 MVP awards in various tournaments, starting from cs_summit 4 up to IEM Winter 2021. At the same time he is the most MVP awards earner in his first professional CSGO year (4). Another impressive record, from most recent times, was his performance at PGL Major Antwerp 2022, where he had 0 deaths in one map at a LAN event against a top 30 team.