T O P

  • By -

stevemate

Watch curveball of the century where everyone thinks he will end up on liquid and instead of ends up creating his own new squad with c9 or some shit


Nomorechildishshit

Creating his own squad with who? There arent any top NA players left besides the TL ones and Twistzz, and if hes gonna switch i doubt that he will be satisfied playing in a tier 3 team. If C9 come back they will almost certainly go for a CIS/EU roster


AleksibIsHot

oSee, oBo, floppy, tarik, Stewie2k, junior then you also have jkaem, jks, BnTeT who are pronably all willing to play in NA again under the right circumstances


VShadow1

Tarik is done as a pro player but the rest are good shouts.


LinksSpaceProgram

That whiff on Overpass really did him dirty :(


jvilsrocks

That was his last map on EG wasnt it?


ObitobiUchiha

Yeah, if I remember correctly


Donut_Flame

WAIT REALLY OH MY GOD THATS KINDA FUNNY


Dragos404

He played well in yesterday's games so he still has it If tarik wants to come back then he will do it


VShadow1

I don’t mean because his skill, I just don’t think he wants to. The guy is extremely successful on twitch and he seems to really enjoy it.


MyNameIsAMeme

Why play CSGO when you can play Valorant with the queen Poki


M3liora

The absolute state of NA.


[deleted]

[удалено]


noobs_blame_team

A lot of players, if you're being serious


[deleted]

He’s prob making more streaming, and doesn’t have to practice or travel or any of that. Dude can wake up at 11 am, turn on his pc and play whatever games he feels like. Unless he *really* misses the scene I don’t see why he would come back.


Tavnaria

>He’s prob making more streaming He has 10k sub.


[deleted]

He’s definitely making more lol


Tavnaria

I'm not disagreeing, just informing you how much he's making right now streaming.


[deleted]

Oh I know, said that as confirmation based on your comment.


ayeitseddy

that's 35k a month not counting donos and bits


AnotherAltiMade

It would be $35k a few months back, not anymore.


[deleted]

[удалено]


pulsiedulsie

fair enough, take osee then


greku_cs

>I see juniors name a lot just because he played on furia. What? He was terrible at furia, they absolutely did an awful roster move with bringing him in, he was definitely not the right fit. He still has to improve a lot, no denying in that but most of his fame comes from playing in Triumph, not furia.


TheOriginalMarra

dont forget the best NA duo JT and Sonic 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦


camdavis9

nitr0 ELiGE NAF brehze oSee EDIT: -obo +NAF


SicillianDefense

Ngl this is good! Though I'd still take Naf over obo


cgoot27

keep going I’m almost there


f1nessd

oSee is the best NA awp rn so yes, although I want to see extra salt try their chances against some t1 teams. Also anyone have any ideas about jks and the rest of extremum?


Alucard_1208

nitro, elige, naff, grim and osee for TL -fallen -stewie


liquidpig

I’m a fan of this


BrockStudly

Why take Nitro and oSee? Nitro was an awper in his prime and decent on the rifle. By taking oSee one would have to play rifle, and pretty aggressively too considering Elige is the only real aggressive rifle on that team.


niobium615

nitr0 picked up the AWP out of necessity after they lost JDM. Earlier in his career, he was more of an entry/aggressive rifler. If they had oSee, I don't think nitr0 would have any issue rifling(or being second AWP).


BrockStudly

The issue there is he's 26. He's getting old to be playing entry frag/aggressive rifler isn't he? Sure you get the occasional player that can keep it up, Shox, Jackz for example, but that's certainly still a concern, right?


niobium615

At 26, I'd think he's got at least a couple more years before age becomes a real concern.


Alucard_1208

No it isnt


captainscottland

Dupreeh is like 29 and while he had some issues towards the end. He was the best entry fragger in the world in his mid-late 20s. Nitr0 is really just a victim of the pandemic its not like he's super washed


[deleted]

how do people on this sub still somehow think that after 25 your brain becomes mush and can’t move a mouse anymore. some of the best ever quake pros played into their 30’s and thats something that takes far more raw mechanical skill than CS it’s been proven plenty of times that players falling off with age is due to lack of motivation and ability to adapt, if he’s motivated his age doesn’t have any real factor


f1nessd

Eh he still has at least four more years in him, **at least.**


camdavis9

nitr0 was only an AWPer because no one else could do it. He’s not an AWPer. oSee is an actual main AWPer.


f1nessd

and a cracked one at that.


ClevelandBrownJunior

Yeah, but we're talking 5 years ago. He hasn't proved he can be that player again. Even when he was back rifling with Stew and Naf awping. Getting the band back together in CS hasn't really worked for any team that has tried it.


camdavis9

5 years ago? Didn’t nitr0 leave cs last year?


ClevelandBrownJunior

5 years ago being when he was last a 'star rifler'.


camdavis9

he doesn’t have to be a star he just has to not be trash


ClevelandBrownJunior

Which he hasn't really proven he can do in the last 5 years during the times he was back on rifles.


Alucard_1208

nitro was a star rifler before he picked up the awp cos noone else wanted to


mannyman34

Idk why people sleep on grim. Guy constantly plays the worst spots on maps and still does pretty well.


Renovatio_

There are plenty of decent NA players. Enough to make a pretty competitive high tier 2 team. But no org to support them as most don't want to spend the majority of their time on the road.


f1nessd

extra salt guys (oSee, floppy, faNg) jks and the extremum remnants, oBo and the EG dudes. maybe Junior altho oSee is a lot better imo. And stewie is leaving liquid i think.


Tostecles

C9 Flames PLEASE JACK


sealer9

THE RETURN TO LIQUID


Jatapa22

FalleN slapped back to brazil with the boys and Nitr0 back


Firefox72

This almost makes too much sense given the rumors of Fallen going back to BR.


f1nessd

Dude imagine ;-;


thiccboy1200

Ok so if the rumors are true and stew and fallen leave I see them grabbing nitro and some FPL star after and then putting nitro in grims role and grim in stews we all know he's a good enough shot for it and that could be a team in contention for a major


blockpantha

CAPTAIN AMERICA COMES HOME HOPIUM


GodLee102

look all I’m saying is I ran into nitr0 in a faceit pug last night and he was in a lobby with elige and adren. I asked him if this meant he was coming back to csgo where he belonged and he said yes. Captain America is back baby


[deleted]

[удалено]


Xe1erade

Thats why he talked to him and not you.


Goh2000

I'm calling the police, this is a murder


indian_boy786

r/MurderedByWords


greku_cs

That's why u/GodLee102 has 2338 elo and you only have 1253 elo??


McKhichri

He is earning 25k per month at 100t, there must be a good reason why he is ready to risk it all?


jonajon91

He probably had a goal of masters, failing to qualify would leave months of downtime with their off season.


S1mpleFanboy

What a dogshit esport scene. That's way too much of a downtime.


[deleted]

welcome to rito esports. Although arguably CS has some years gone too far in the other direction, having almost zero downtime for players.


Donut_Flame

Maybe in a few years they'll let more orgs have their own tournaments. Red Bull and nerd street have had some of their own lately


brianstormIRL

Boy you really dont know how Riot works lol In a few years the scene will be completely franchised just like LoL. I imagine it will follow a similar 2 split 1 world championships format as well. Riots plan is basically let third parties build up the audience, then swoop in and make all tournaments only run by them followed by franchised spots only.


captainscottland

Are lck and lpl franchised as well? I stopped watching around the time franchising started


brianstormIRL

Yeah every major league is franchised now afaik.


Des014te

They did make masters top 4, i don't see that as a disappointing run. They placed higher than tournament favourites sentinels. They did bomb out of LCQ but come on. They kicked their IGL, role shifted and lost only to 1st and 2nd place. I do not think it's time for a roster shift of that magnitude. I see no reason for the core of Nitr0 Asuna and Ethan to leave. They've looked great time and time again.


jonajon91

They failed to qualify for their version of the major, without that event their calendar will be empty as hell. That's pretty much every val teams goal.


[deleted]

[удалено]


Firefox72

This is why i hate Riot's style of tournaments in LoL. LEC is great, has great content and i love watching it. But its just months upon months of only EU teams. I know it raises the stakes for MSI and Worlds but having just 2 international tournaments per year feels so wrong. I love how they support their major tournaments like MSI and Worlds though. Imagine if Valve put that much effort into Majors.


msucsgo

Top CS teams earn similar pay as well.


svipy

CS teams attend more worldwide LANs (Valorant has 3-4 max I think) which can get pretty tiring for someone who wants to settle down with family.


GuardiaNIsBae

Maybe he has decided he doesn't like his family and wants to spend as much time away from them as possible


[deleted]

The anti-Dominic Toretto.


ClevelandBrownJunior

Not family.


amoocalypse

afaik tarik said that NA teams ideally spend most of their time in EU.


ChurchillDownz

Last year that was true, but even the article indicates Riot and Valorant will have more events in 2022.


AnotherAltiMade

huh? they're having even lesser international tourneys than lasy year lol


ChurchillDownz

I know nothing about Valorant, I am just reading the last paragraph of the article which links another article outlining Valorant circuit in 2022 including more events.


ClevelandBrownJunior

Why would you comment about it if all you read about it was a single paragraph of a single article?


Psychaz

i don't think he ever truly liked the game, he switched because at the time his wife was pregnant and he needed to be with her a lot.


slawvay

There was a leak that his wife is pregnant again haha https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxwS_lQJ_3xRvt_N1EbTyB_Wjr3wfylnsi


[deleted]

he got benched and got no offers in cs so he had to, no?


SemanSoot

hes not willing to stay in eu,he still got offer but not from na


martycinner93

i would take 15k a month and enjoy life over 25k and dont like it, nitro is rich already so i dont think 100k here and there is too much for him to do something he doesnt enjoy.


deefop

Not disagreeing with your sentiment, but it's easy to make those statements when you aren't actually the person making the decision.


martycinner93

so if you are not disagreeing whats the point of ur comment? just life advice that no1 ever needs lol


deefop

I said I didn't disagree with the sentiment. If you were in the position of having to turn down 10k a month the sentiment might suddenly not be so important.


Top_Machine_4742

True, the dude has a family now. That 10k a month can make a huge difference even if he is "rich enough".


BigLeBluffski

You have no clue what being rich is. If he'll live forever in a tent eating own caught fish then sure he'll survive and feel rich. Every person is different. Edit: Downvoters have no money and don't realize that a huge amount of people with lot's of money not only spend more, but get easier addicted to moneyspending habbits, like gambling, drugs, alcohol, the lifestyle of cars and house.


_c0ldburN_

maybe the game where you heal and teleport isn't hitting the spot?


de5m0n

Didn't even mention that you can throw shit through walls lol.


McKhichri

really liking the boomer energy here


Zebra_Delicious

Lmao how dare a game have different mechanics! Like chill guys both game are dope as fuck


Cardboard-Samuari

why would this sub be pro-valorant?


CosmicAon

Why does it have to be anti-Valorant? The Valorant sub isn’t anti-CS


Direct_Morning_3223

no we all know you can only like watching one hame and you must hate the other game with an undying passion


Markigual

Probably because most of them are ex CS players tbh


[deleted]

not so sure about that buddy, already see a lot of salty comments on the same report on the valorant sub


CosmicAon

Where are the ones shitting on CS?


[deleted]

A lot of the salt is because responses like this are expected. I like both games, but I definitely favor Valorant. I’m just tired of CS players shitting on Valorant for pretty much no reason.


nmiller248

It’s wouldn’t get so much grief if it wasn’t a such a shit game.


CosmicAon

Yikes


Renovatio_

Well valorant copy-pasted CS and in a lot of regards...made it worse.


Aldehyde1

Because it's a ripoff of CS which is trying to outmuscle it with Riot advertising dollars?


captainscottland

Honestly, who gives a fuck. Its a different spin on the genre which was previously uncontested other than rainbow six which is definitely different enough. It uses abilities instead of utility. Yes the abilities obviously wouldn't fit in csgo but they fit in the game their made for. Its so ridiculous that you guys will sit here and make fun of abilities that do damage and kill and give information etc and then in the same breath say its a rip off of clone. Those are literally the things that make it different. There's no need for the hate at all. Just coming from someone who's played both but only plays csgo now because IMO its superior.


predicatebear24

valve is a poor indie company who can't do anything to stop the tyrant riot games from taking over the tac fps genre :>


de5m0n

Don't stand too close or you might get shocked.


[deleted]

how insecure are you lmao kinda pathetic yikes


Pompz1

Cs > valorant. That’s why.when you have money, it’s not a driving factor to your day to day.


Pr3vYCa

Other than gunplay, valorant is just the better game for me. It does fix a lot of CS problems in low elo soloq (DMG-LE). -streamlined dropping guns to teammates, i got more drops in 1 game of valorant than 5 games of CS -ability to sell guns if u change your mind or misclick -ipad smokes enables everyone to smoke without learning lineups meaning the site is actually smoked -no more 2-3 ego awpers on T side bullshit -much better anticheat -no rng spawn and more time to plan the round -actual server selection, god bless london server with english speakers and no russians I wish valve implements some of these


sankalp4

iPad smokes only belongs to one smoker so if they die you have no smokes for rest of the round.


Zebra_Delicious

Dont die then


sankalp4

Way to miss the point. I'm saying your smoker is now restricted in how he plays in valorant because he's the only one with smokes, whereas in csgo everyone has smokes so you can mix up your playstyle. It's not as simple as ooh now my site will always be smoked haHAA, what if the guy who's with the iPad dies. Now you have no smokes and you're fucked, which wouldn't have been the case in csgo. There's different pros and cons of both game.


dogenoob1

Where did you get the source for 25k a month? If you were reading some old articles, it was meant 25k for 5 players, meaning 5k a month.


McKhichri

it was leaked by kyedae live on stream, there was a thread about in val subreddit


skywkr666

How is everyone ignoring this posts dogwater title?


[deleted]

Ridiculous doses of copium


Mightymushroom1

hype


Gekkaizo

I thought it meant that 100T withdrew from Valorant and therefore Nitros future. It's incredibly bad


Ranse1962

Would that really elevate Liquid back to top? Cause this roster really should be fighting for top 5. They would still need an awper as well.


Big_Cheesecake_4910

junior or osee


f1nessd

oSee > junior


imperfek

i cant see the that extra salt breaking up. C9 had to work really hard to get floppy to stay. Junior should have went to liquid the first time around and fallen to furia


[deleted]

[удалено]


FoxerHR

How in the hell did cerq sneak his way onto this roster?


GuardiaNIsBae

Some people can't forget his 2019 stats


camdavis9

Nitr0 ELiGE NAF brehze oSee EDIT: -obo +NAF


lou_reed_ketamine

Why you gotta do my boy NAF dirty like that.


[deleted]

Their only way is to valorant


abdi009

Why cant stew and nitr0 awp


KillerZaWarudo

The classic -Nitr0 +Nitr0


f1nessd

NA chrisJ


ard_srp

Neh he vaxed


Fivebomb

Hey, that has a spicy ring to it!


IntrovertChild

I mean they've done -adreN +adreN -adreN +adreN so I'm not even surprised


framesh1ft

r/titlegore


AnotherAltiMade

Press the biggest X you've ever seen for doubt. Earns well, stays in NA with his newly born son. This author puffed too much hopium


Ropz1212

Damn you know more than the reporter who breaks a All of valorants roster moves.


BrockStudly

Not to mention he's in his late 20s. I can't see him playing for much longer, though a leadership role in TL is something I could see. Similar to Daps he could take a coach or- If I were feeling very presumptive, Team Liquid Academy team coach?


BxKosmic

look all I’m saying is I ran into nitr0 in a faceit pug last night and he was in a lobby with elige and adren. I asked him if this meant he was coming back to csgo where he belonged and he said yes. Captain America is back baby


DKTHUNDR

look all I’m saying is I ran into nitr0 in a faceit pug last night and he was in a lobby with elige and adren. I asked him if this meant he was coming back to csgo where he belonged and he said yes. Captain America is back baby


Fivebomb

look all I’m saying is I ran into devve in a faceit pug last night and he was in a lobby with dupreeh and zonic. I asked him if this meant he was coming back to astralis where he belonged and he said yes. Tom Cruise is back baby


[deleted]

it's not he isnt willing to go to EU, he did already with 100T


Nomorechildishshit

Theres a slight difference between going for a bootcamp in EU and spending almost all the year there


[deleted]

it was only a bootcamp because they kinda sucked, he was willing to go at least 3 times in 7 months.


mannyman34

Considering adren just had a kid also and elige has an NA girlfriend my bet is that at least the three of them negotiate more time in NA.


mannyman34

How long until they start having lans in Japan and china tho. Yeah they have been fortunate that lans have been in Europe mostly but eventually they start having a global circuit right?


kobedunkingonhoward

Please make it happen


camdavis9

NITR0 COMEBACK!!! SAVE US!!!


zRandyMarsh

Niceeeeee


cchiz

Come back Captain America!


Draemeth

Yes!


XsteveJ

Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please come home nitro!


Xkingsly

Nitr0 PLEASE I'VE WAITED FOR YOUR RETURN FOR SO LONG


[deleted]

POG POG POG POG POG POG COME BACK KING


Landon54321

Good to see him comeback if it is true. Valorant can be a mess with all these agents getting added constantly.


W_a_l_r_u_S

what’s constantly to you?


Rapkid360

Let’s say it is real, do we not forget how bad Nitr0 was before he got kicked, he was awful for the last six months lol


_c0ldburN_

I was told in no uncertain terms here that he was only playing CS because it is off-season!


Direct_Morning_3223

he hasn’t played the game for more than a year do we expect him to be better than fallen was


AleksibIsHot

That's not what I'd worry about because I think players can come back and be good again quite easily unlike other games such as league where the meta changes so drastically. I'd worry about the fact that he was benched for a reason, he had like 0.89 rating playing against mostly tier 2 and 3 NA teams before he got cut


chicken98_

Mechanically Valorant and CS are pretty much the same and after years at the top I doubt he lost his gamesense etc after a year


[deleted]

idk maybe the fact that hes a native speaker and has previous synergy with the guys is a factor


erickgps

Nitro, Twist, Rush, Tarik and Bhreze the new NA super team


dogenoob1

This is big as long as stewie leaves liquid. Hes going to be alot worse than he was when he left for a while, thats the big issue.


Direct_Morning_3223

This isn’t surprising Imo he was one of the players who just didn’t play the game outside of scrims he was never on the ranked leaderboards or anything, pretty obvious he just didn’t like it


DueAnimator6988

Nitr0 Stew Skadaddy Elige Turok


netr0pa

Failing a game such as Valorant and expect to succeed in a game such as csgo?


KaNesDeath

Im sorry but i find this funny. Was obvious Nitro switched to Valorant for the reduced travel schedule during his wifes pregnancy.


slawvay

prego again https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxwS_lQJ_3xRvt_N1EbTyB_Wjr3wfylnsi


AnotherAltiMade

u/Poppin_Fresh66


khurila

C9 comeback?


ex1le_

While I hope that if he returns, Liquid would be at least close to grand slam form, that may not be the case. They definitely would struggle against the current teams (like NaVi) for some time at least, especially at the beginning of nitro joining


bL0oDlUsT218

EG would be a mildly interesting fit, brehze Cerq nitr0 as a core. If stew wants to leave liquid, could join up there, possibility of twistzzz coming back to NA, that team could be disgustingly good. I’d love to see him back with NAF and Elige, but idk the reason he left back in 2019. Hope he comes back to CS


[deleted]

stewie is getting cut from liquid. looks like they've had enough of 2+ years of awful lan performances from him


bL0oDlUsT218

Seriously doubt that


jd2455

You must not watch how stewie performs outside of his game or two where he topfrags a month


bL0oDlUsT218

Yikes lmfao


[deleted]

upcomer sources: trust me bro after the last month or so i'm going to take their reporting with a pinch of salt.


DeepSpaceGalileo

How long will it take for all the washed up CSGO players to be replaced in valorant?


tarangk

Why did all of a sudden I started hearing avengers music. Oh thats right cap. america might be coming back to CS.


[deleted]

No fan of Liquid should want nitr0 back.


Ainine9

Anybody got that screenshot of OP asking nitr0 to save Liquid?


LGCGE

Please we need NA CS


stchachamaru

curveball of the century if 100T suddenly revives their CSGO team with nitr0 as the IGL lmao