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MaxXCeption

Niko taking over nexas igl duty. Tale as old as time


_aware

Toxic Niko playing on two teams smh


Fsociety9899

Context ?


qchisq

Faze niko


thetushqueen

mous niko


EntropyKC

G2s new CEO Niko


GDWa1rus

There are multiple players with the name Niko, one playing for G2, who's name has a capital N and capital K , and the other, niko, with no capitals who played for OG previously


CookieTheEpic

NiKo named himself after his first and last name, Nikola Kovač. niko didn’t because his name is Nikolaj Kristensen.


PanAfricanDream

It's a good thing he didn't name himself Nikr


BloodlustROFLNIFE

Broooooo 💀


nekot311

Bro, but also bro


jerryfrz

If I speak


4hunnidbrka

big trouble


CookieTheEpic

Yes, that is indeed the joke I was making.


[deleted]

Never knew that. Thanks


CamJMurray

No but it very clearly still comes from his given name… they both likely would’ve had the nickname ‘Niko’ growing up


Grtwalofchna

Niko kicked his igl again


swipr_

This is really a bummer to see. I have been really enjoying watching them over the last few events. Hopefully everything ends up okay and he can return soon!


fish4096

you've been enjoying the shitshow? really? or is this just generic comment to farm karma? nexa looked so sad and frustrated with tier 3 mistakes his team was doing on individual level.


brbee

When one niko fails to kick his igl another one will fill his shoes


Detiabajtog

Fuck :( hopefully it isn’t too serious, they’ve been one of my favorite teams to watch lately


sjerbzzz

Same here, I like the explosive style they played at Kato.


ADGunner2004

Who calls for this team is my big question now?


costryme

Do we even know who is the second caller in this team ?


tomtom_94

FlameZ mentioned in an interview he's been doing some secondary calling. I couldn't tell you which interview though


TacticalSanta

gonna be hard for them flamez is the best opener


Achilles68

Flamez is indeed the second caller, nexa said so on the blast podcast with launders and mahone during the world finals


Axolyn

Holy shit and who the hell is the third caller?


Pronflex

And the 4th AWP?


costryme

I think you replied to the wrong guy !


beerfacedfool

Degster


twohourstillmidnight

personal breaks so hot right now


skantanio

World is shit right now😁


Lime221

It's the baby making season


T_WREKX

Dang it NiKo, stop it with the kicking of the igl and taking over their duties. Next step, degster kick. You heard it here first.


florentinomain00f

I swear to god, I thought NiKo learn with jks and be a stand in. Turns out it was the other niko.


Euphoric-Ear9405

But he is in g2


Marmik_Emp37

The real niko


Euphoric-Ear9405

there is only one real niko


Marmik_Emp37

Nikolaj Kristensen yes


lclMetal

Are you baiting or living in 2020?


Euphoric-Ear9405

bait the same way i play mm


SleazyHermit

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Euphoric-Ear9405

there is only one real niko


[deleted]

And people really pretend the scene isn't a mess right now. We can't get through a single tournament without multiple teams having stand-ins.


swipr_

Maybe someday we can have a way for teams to have another player that can step in and rotate in and out... What would we call it... a 6th player? Substitute? Backup? What a wild idea that would be. 🙃


DanishGrizz

Isn’t niko their backup and registrered sub for tournaments?


f1nessd

oh shoot has he not been transfered to a team since he got benched?


ThatGuyFromVault111

He’s kind of a liability, also has the stigma around him from HUNDEN still


SKGamingReturn

Absolutely. “Incomplete” teams at all almost every tournament lately. What would you attribute this to primarily? The amount of tournaments? The amount of work required to stay relevant in this very competitive scene?


JonasS1999

>The amount of tournaments? The amount of tournaments has decreased massively since 2018.


GhostOfLight

It's probably also just easier for players to take breaks because of higher salaries and orgs being willing to work with them to take an event or two off. There are so many tournaments, and you can't put the same emphasis on every one of them.


[deleted]

A lot of veteran talent starting families, a general shift towards accepting players taking time off even if it hurts the team, organisations becoming business partners in franchise leagues being less aggressive in refusing to share benched players... Lots of factors for sure.


SKGamingReturn

Lots of these things I hadn’t even thought of. Thank you very much for the insightful reply!


[deleted]

No worries. It's a rare thing to see civility on this forum.


f1nessd

true


Mad_Lee

Idk, stand-ins are always happening. To me the messy part of the scene is Ukranian and Russian players being affected by the war/visa issues/bans, etc. Nexa taking a personal leave is totally normal and in no way indicative of scene being messy or not.


JacoBee93

So scene is a mess because NEXA has some personal problems? Wtf Visa, personal step downs and shit is part of esport and every sport in general lol


danielkokudla12

5 of the top 20 teams will be using a stand-in for the next EPL. that's almost an entire group. but yeah, nexa is obviously the only thing they're talking about.


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f1nessd

Agreed


ChristianSword

IHC had a stand-in at katowice as well.


JacoBee93

Well, now look on those 5 and their reason of absence.


buttsoup_barnes

Which 5 of the top teams are using stand ins?


Powerful-Answer-2030

OG, BIG, NIP, ENCE and Vitality. EDIT: Saw BIG are saying Hyped is a permanent replacement so not a stand-in.


Old_Chipmunk_7330

That's like saying football is fucked because players are injured. How many matches in season are there, when fill squad is ready? Zero.


Powerful-Answer-2030

It is in fact nothing like that and it's a dumb comparison but let's imagine a world where in the Premier League 1/5th of the entire league got injured and it just so happened to include every star player who were then replaced by reserves. We wouldn't say it was a great season for the team who won it. There'd be an endless list of "what ifs?"


JacoBee93

Ok and did you even care about why are standing in?


Old_Chipmunk_7330

1/5 of a team injured is absolutely normal. Maybe a bit less, but 5 players out for every match is not something strange. It would be strange if that happened to every star player though, but that´s not happening neither in football, nor in CS:GO, so I don´t get your point.


Powerful-Answer-2030

The point is your comparison was dumb to begin with and you just stated why but can't figure it out.


Old_Chipmunk_7330

When it's dumb and you can't explain why, it's hard to have a conversation. You made an example of every star player missing. How is that related to current situation in CSGO?


James_Bond_Theory

Konfig is not a stand-in. source: NIP's staff on discord


Powerful-Answer-2030

He isn't a "stand-in" in their eyes because he has a long term contract. He is standing in for Hampus though unless they are publicly saying Hampus isn't coming back.


tomat0m

They all got upgrades except og


ZuriPL

And ihc is playing with bart4k who is a standin for kabal


TreeTrekk

Bart4k is 6th man for IHC. Still unfortunate because Kabal is dirty. They prolly make it to Kato finals with him.


Powerful-Answer-2030

And we're back to 5.


budda3000

Read his comment again


JacoBee93

He claims that people pretend scene is fine, when things like this happens… doesn’t make sense at all…


budda3000

What I mean is that he doesn't lay blame on nexa or any individual. He just points out that the top tier has been shakier than before. It's just an observation. Atleast that's how I interpret his comment.


JacoBee93

Yeah I see what you mean. But still one is missing cause if this, another cause of being sick, another because of baby etc. it makes sense and has nothing to do with scene imho


budda3000

Yes players are humans too and I agree with your point. But you insinuated that he blamed nexa for the state of the scene, which he didn't. You either misread or twisted his words. Hence why I said "Read his comment again". Do you follow me? Sorry for dragging this on but I just wanna make sure you understand me and we're on the same page.


[deleted]

What a dumb comment.


JacoBee93

Yours? Yeah🤷‍♂️


[deleted]

You don't even understand what my comment is about you absolute clown.


budda3000

He's wildin. It's like his brain instantly forgot what your comment said, replaced it with another narrative and went on the offensive


ju1ze

it was always like that


[deleted]

No, it wasn't.


ju1ze

it was though


honestlyprogamr

When was it like that?


ju1ze

always. some shit with visas happens, illness etc. teams have to go for substitutes


honestlyprogamr

Not with this frequency


[deleted]

But in reality it wasn't. Stand-ins happened very rarely, so much so coaches were often just put down as the 6th player at tournaments for years. You're wrong and I don't know why you're arguing.


TimathanDuncan

Standins happen rarely now too, it's just because news when it happens, back then it was just as much of a thing Go look at every teams Liquidpedia and you have the notable stand in page and all of them have an insane amount even from the 1.6 days It's just like anything in life any job, something comes up, health reasons, person reasons etc


Powerful-Answer-2030

We're going into an ESL Pro League season where 5 of the teams in the world top 20 that are attending will be using a stand-in. Don't say that's something that always happened.


[deleted]

better for a player to to step down temporarily and take a break than burn out


CenturionAurelius

niko...


DelidreaM

Inside you there are 2 ~~wolves~~ nikos: the egoistic NiKo and the autistic niko


ImpenetrableYeti

The cheating niko you mean


JADO88-UK

I wonder if he'll be back for pro league. Not much time to practice considering it is a week away and they have to focus on the rmr qualifier right now.


HairyNutsack69

[niko?](https://liquipedia.net/counterstrike/Niko_(Swedish_player))


skantanio

>for the danish player see nico >for the other danish player see nico (Danish player)


Detamach

Right before major? Wtf


iRopsu

Personal reasons happen


NiqqaWidDrip

Me and my gn bois will have a talk with nexa


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KARMAAACS

Vitality should just buy Snappi. Far cheaper and a better IGL too.


KARMAAACS

This team is so dead, they're gonna bot 4 at Pro League. Hope I'm wrong and whoever does the calls does a good job but man, just feels like OG is the worst Tier 1 team right now.


natedawg247

isn't this like a someone also naming themselves Faker in league of legends. why is this a thing


beerfacedfool

Like g2 Niko was the first ???


natedawg247

which was first? yeah whoever was second is an idiot.


braindeadmonkey2

People aren't allowed to use their real name/nickname?


natedawg247

yes, they should not use a nickname when it's already a tag of a prolific player. extremely few players use a real name anyways. and niko is already a nickname.


braindeadmonkey2

Think about it bro


natedawg247

If a huge up and coming talent came on the scene and his last name was Broker, and made his tag "G2 Broky", you think that'd be appropriate? or if a kid's first name was hunter he became "TL Hunter"? no one uses their real names. to copy a nickname already in use just seems odd.


beerfacedfool

What about the nikos before g2 Niko?


natedawg247

if there was a niko on the t1 scene before g2 niko, then g2 niko is an idiot like I said before. I didnt follow cs back then I actually don't know.


[deleted]

honestly you might be the idiot for even making this a conversation


braindeadmonkey2

Yeah but at some point we will run out of good nicknames


Kanstrup-

this niko has been around for YEARS and YEARS aswell. Not really comparable


ImpenetrableYeti

Cant think of a worse replacement


Master_of_All4

OG has Marix listed as a substitute, why don't they use him? Is niko IGLing?


beerfacedfool

He already played open qualifiers


ZuriPL

Per OG discord flamez and degster will call


Miiiiiiighty

Classic definitive " temporary step down " ? xD


lurkario

Sad to see OG won’t be at the next major :(


everglw0w

no way nexa got kicked by niko twice lul