coL removes swag from roster
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news.esea.netPosted Mar 24, 2014, 12:28 AM UTC
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Cadian to coL, swag to nip, xizt to HR, markeloff to ibp, ibp to League of Legends.
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Heard it here first....
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iBP to baseball. They all quit gaming to try baseball.
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Sounds like a nice family movie.
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I think this is the most likely outcome.
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Xizt isn't leaving nip right?
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Well I know f0rest is in jail
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He's in Jail!?!?
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Why? If he is, how did he play at Katowice?
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anger is leaving iBP too
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Leaving IBP, not leaving NA.
He'll go to another team, probably with swag, and they will place really high against a Swedish team at an international tournament and we'll forget this whole thing ever happened.
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Nevermind, misread the post.
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fallen to iBP?
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Anger.. Swag... Maybe KingRonnie also? Someone give me two more!!
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I'd watch the shit out of that
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they're just leaving, none of them have said they're quitting CS.
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:I
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S A D B O Y S
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What happened to cadiaN :~(
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replaced by nooky.
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And anger.
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Freakazoid already added as a replacement.
Seems crazy since Swag was so good in Katowice.
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I am 99% sure this is not performance related. If it's a problem with swag then it is more likely that he is too difficult to work with (flakey, immature, diva). To be clear I'm not saying that's what happened it just makes no sense that it would be performance related.
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Didn't hear anything out of line listening to coL's PoV, whereas IPB had someone who was acting up, couldn't take criticism and generally didn't sound that easy to deal with.
edit: Gonna watch the POV again to be sure that I didn't just imagine it, anyone interested can check it out here begins at 2h6min mark.
e2: Its Skadoodle 2:28, he communicates very little compared to the rest of them and when called on it he doesn't really handle it well here.
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who was it?
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I'd say if I knew, but couldn't figure out who is who because I'm not that into US scene.
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i'm 99% sure that you are making far too many assumptions for something you know so little about.
Let's... you know, wait to see what happens.
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Of course wait to see what happens, always wait to see but I never claimed that as anything other than a prediction
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I know. It's just that this is very likely to be a sensitive issue for these guys. They are probably very close, and a lot of them probably read this subreddit.
When something tough potentially causes a rift between your teammates and possibly crushes the life of people you care about, the last thing you want is for a stranger on the internet to say things like flakey or immature or hard to work with.
These are regular guys who are obviously dealing with something pretty huge. 99% guesses aren't really necessary.
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It's probably an Issue with his schooling, probably taking time out for exams or something
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Someone on HLTV posted that Swag's parents wanted him to focus more on School and weren't going to allow travel to EU.
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Fuck school! But actually focusing on school is probably the right chose
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the right chose
I know someone who needs some focus in school.
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I'm conflicted. It's definitely the better and more mature option, but seriously, this is essentially an unique opportunity and school will be there afterwards. MURICA!
Plus, who would be motivated to go to school and work hard if you just saw your dreams crushed.
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Eh, in 4-5 years he will be back.
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F U MOM!
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He's currently just a stand-in.
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He really was. I distinctly remember watching the coL matches and going "Jesus christ swag is on fire!"
Well, best of luck to him. I just hope this doesn't hurt coL in the long run -- they'd been doing so well and are my favorite team by far, I'd hate to see them regress because of this.
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Wut. That was unexpected, coL have been doing well recently so I guess we assume that this is personal conflict or obligations on swag's part. Probably the latter.
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coL might be moving into a team house but swag would need permission from his parents due to his age and the may of said no
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You think swag would join my CEVO open team? We're 1-1...
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Without a doubt
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I didn't realize he was so young! How common is it for players that young to be in the pro scene?
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Really common, a lot of European pro players are 16-19
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also league of legends LCS in NA and EU are mostly comprised of kids under 25
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i can see this
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Probably due to him not having Internet for 10 days, though I'm not sure.
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I really doubt that, unless he is without Internet for the foreseeable future then coL would get a stand in, not completely remove an extremely capable player
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Freakazoid is apparently an extremely good player, from what I've read around here. It seems like coL think he's better as well.
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Freakazoid is insane, but he is the most one dimensional player in the world. He can run at you and he will outshoot you 99.9999% of the time, but if you are ready for it you can just trade him and move on.
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It was mentioned an ice storm took out his internet
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I went to the future and got this:
Evil Geniuses return to Counter Strike and pick up Swag.
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hnnnnngg. EG pls return. And I really want to see swag continue to play. He's so young :(
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I don't. EG has been known lately to be where progamers go to retire.
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I wasn't necessarily agreeing swag should play for EG. But EG.DotA is playing well. Not like we're gonna see Jaedong, Suppy, or Xeno retire anytime soon. But EG is an old-school CS organization and it'd be really cool to see them get back in the scene. We could potentially have a 3rd premier-level NA team. RG and Denial kinda fill that spot right now, but those orgs aren't quite a coL or iBP.
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Who would EG get though? Pick up an already formed team? Or look at taking the remnants of old teams and making an all star one a la Astana.
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gotta say i disagree. Definetly true for Starcraft but EG Dota has been looking really well with Arteezy and Zai being 17 and 16 respectively
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100% correct for SC2. They do have a few pros they pick up though.
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Nah, it's way more true for Liquid than it is EG. Check out this hilarious satire article that was all over r/starcraft when it was posted.
EG have some real good active SC2 pros in Jaedong, Suppy, Xenocider, and HuK. Shame they dropped Revival and Oz considering they did well last year. But fact is that they're not really a team of retired players even in SC2.
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why don't you want EG to return, it'd probably help the NA scene for CSGO. And more people are gonna learn about csgo from EG's popularity in general.
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maybe if they hire a whole new team to be in charge of eg.cs but honestly for SC2 they don't seem very strict of an organization (besides PR and marketing)
They just kinda let the players do what they want as long as they stream their required amount, show up the events and don't do anything really stupid to hurt the brand.
either way i'd LOVE for them to come back to CS, i just posted a week ago on r/starcraft saying I hope they pick up a CS team... but sirscoots said it's unlikely on his stream and I really think it's because of how they run their team and what the shape of NA looks like. If anything maybe they'd pick up an EU team.
dunno why the downvotes. NA is a weak scene in CS and it would take a lot for an organization like EG to justify it. When they went to LoL they didn't get an NA team, they picked up CLG-EU. It's not like it's a crazy idea that doesn't make sense lol
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Thats because they got a lot of money for an esports organisation. They only picked up known and proven players for awhile wich backfired a bit but helped their popularity, especially in the sc2 scene, a lot.
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Team 3D too!?
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And who else?
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Next up, new coL player;
coL yolo
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rounding out their new training squad:
coL.420 coL.blazeit coL.hashtag
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NEVER FORGET http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN0-Zm5KVuc
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What the earthly tits is that crosshair.
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He was so good on that map.
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I'm really new the CS:Go, what's the purpose of the gun in the left hand?
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Some human beings are left handed.
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Source?
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No, GO.
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Some people say it helps peeking around corners, but it's just a preference thing, in my opinion.
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it's for whatever dominant eye you are.
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Yes, and I think that whole theory is malarky.
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Left handed is better for some spots while right handed is better for others if you REALLY care about that. I hope it doesn't help you peek corners or something is really wrong...
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visibility.
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I think originally CS had left hand models only. Could be wrong.
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Yup, you are correct. Pre 1.6 had left handed.. Or was it 1.5..
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No this is incorrect. You had the option for left handed or right handed models all the way back to beta 6.0. I believe beta 5.8 had left-only models. I started CS at beta 6.0 and I've been playing with right-handed models since.
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swag, adren, anger all join the new EG CS:GO team... meanwhile, i acquire an eternal boner
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What use Adren be for such a team, not being able to travel?
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iBP didn't pay salary, so that was assuming EG would be paying a salary comparable to his new job
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Doubt that, but one can dream I guess :D
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Yes.......yes...it's all making sense now.
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Yes EG is known to make a splash by buying players who obviously wouldn't work out.
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How can a rather weak team give you such a boner?
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Judging by Sean Gares tweet - You could suspect he has taken a better offer from somewhere else? Or maybe I am confusing the metaphor...
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That is a much more accusatory metaphor than i think you realize.
It's a Jay-Z lyric and means something along the lines of: when adversity is encountered, you learn who not to trust, or the true intentions of those you once trusted.
Very strong words. Interesting...
edit: the whole lyric--
When the grass is cut, the snakes will show
I gotta thank the little homie Nas for that though
Saving me the hassle of speaking to half of these assholes
And I'mma let karma catch up to Jaz-O, whoa
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how sure are we that it is not a reference to his penis
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that's what OP is saying. Sean didn't get released - Swag did. Sean could be referring to Swag in his tweet
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When the grass is cut, the snakes will show
That's... exactly what I needed to hear right now, oddly enough.
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Well if it is as Sean says, either Swag decided to abandon them of his own volition, or his team turned against him.
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what does that even mean ?
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from a jayz song
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Freak fits in swags spot tbh. Still would have rather seen swag stay though.
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Freak isn't permanent "[ESEA Premium Member] FREAKAZOID just to clarify, jordan asked to help them out until they find a 5th"
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Isn't permanent, yet. From what I've heard, he's a damn fine rifler and would make a great pointman like swag did.
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The past month reminds me of this. I swear there are like ten NA players and they all get passed back and forth over and over forever and ever.
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Welcome to the past 5 years of NA CS.
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Exactly the same in the UK at the moment :(
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Except, we're not getting teams to the big lan finals :(
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Not the majors no, however fm eSports are attending Copenhagen Games so should be interesting to see how they do.
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At least now its different faces now! Seeing mehler get passed from place to place was depressing.
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I personally don't get the decision quite frankly. To leave a team which is the best in NA and has the ability of actually competing against EUs finest, to join (we are lead to believe) a team that hasn't done anything on the international stage is an absurd decision and could bite him in the ass. They only just lost to NiP at Katowice, it was Fifflaren who pulled NiP out of that quarter final.
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SirScoots just tweeted this: https://twitter.com/SirScoots/status/447928459998666752
According to @seangares it was all @coL_swag making the decision to leave coL. So he was contractually "released" by coL, but not cut.
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swag and n0thing to ibp
freak +1 to CoL
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Really?
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Surely not.
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Maybe swag's parents had a need to curb their son's "internet gaming addiction", hence the internet outage.
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I mean, I'm not his parents, but if you've been sponsored to go do something internationally twice, no matter what that thing is, I don't think anyone's parents are going to try to ruin that for him.
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As of now, it's not a very viable career plan.. Just saying.
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Maybe not, but he's 17. It doesn't have to be a very viable career plan. If it doesn't work out, he can go to college and pursue something else. If it does, that's great. He doesn't have to necessarily make that decision while still in high school.
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Exactly, he's still young and has time to do whatever he wants. Hell, if I was in his position i'd drop high school and play. If it doesn't work out then finish your high school and go to college, if it does well then it does.
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Knowing the average age of this sub, I'm chalking your comment up to youth.
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Well you know there isn't only bright people on the planet, and stupid people can reproduce.
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The lack of internet is due to an ice storm, it's affected his entire neighbourhood. This is from ESEA.
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Internet outage was because of an icestorm, or so I read.
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Due to the recent ice storm here in the hometown of swag and myself, I don't think his parents had a say in the internet outage. Lol
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Swag was clutch as hell. Wtf.
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swag has been without an internet connection for a while, not sure if it has to do with this yet
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wait what
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awww. bummer, swag is a dope dude.
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There will be more information released soon.
Could we know where/when it will be released?
My guess was drama. Swag played way too fucking good at katowice to be kicked off a few weeks later.
EDIT : He got traded to iBP for Anger!!
How do you know he was kicked off?
"col removes swag" implies so. other way around they would write "swag leaves col".
He has had no internet in like 2 weeks from an ice storm.
You seriously think a professional team would kick one of their top players off due to two weeks of no available internet access?
I call a huge amount of bs on that.
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wat
that's an asshole remark...
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You're a fucking weirdo.
lol gj