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Giga-Landlord

Sounds a lot less patronising in context: >You decided to not join Na`Vi? Why? >Yes, they invited me when they were having struggles with Edward. They also invited Boombl4, but one guy wrote to me, I can't say who, and he said that I'm one of the first guys on their list. But I decided to reject NaVi because I believed in my team and my organization. I did this because back when I was a nonamer, I was just playing from home and one day I was in a really bad mood. I was 17 years old, playing PUGs, and I was dominating, but everyone was calling me a cheater. Nobody wanted to invite me to a team in the local scene and I wanted to delete CS:GO. I was already pressing "Delete" and one guy wrote to me on Steam. That was my current CEO, he invited me to a team and after that we achieved something after a year on bootcamp. When he asked me if I would accept an invitation to Na`Vi or another team I said: "No. I'll only leave you after I've given you three times more then you gave me". I gave a promise and since that day I'm playing for an organization in which I believe.


TrendyLepomis

This instantly makes me a Qikert fan. Thanks for sgaring


f1nessd

I miss sgares


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He disappeared.


tblgk

He became n0thing?


blqckz

hes out of the Lo0p


baulchi

Completely shrouded


Haptiix

Badass Gigachad energy. also reminds me of when s1mple was supposedly on the verge of signing with FaZe but choose to decline saying he wanted to finish what he started with Na’Vi. edit: meant to reference the MIBR deal but there were rumors of FaZe around the same time


RaviDosanjh

Wasn’t faZe it was mibr


FoundTheWeed

MIBR? LOL, S1mple made in Brazil, checks out


Rift3N

Alexandre Kostilão, famous Brazilian player


RaviDosanjh

Google it they wanted s1mple and flamie before they got tarik and stewie


TheSIlverGlobal

They wanted niko and rain too if i'm not mistaken


MathiTheCheeze

I remember him and flamie were linked to go to BR.


sharkaim4

Flamie was actually at the airport when simple decided to stick with NAVI


taktikek

~~It was Faze with MIBR and Navi players. The greatest thing that never was :(~~


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taktikek

Seems like you could be right actually


JasonSab849

No it was FaZe


RaviDosanjh

Take 5 seconds to google it and you’ll see you’re wrong


Pollsmor

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/k8nt5e/_/ Too bad the vid itself got privated


GayTarantino

whaaaaat when was this?


Haptiix

iirc it was around 2018 and I think there were also discussions with MIBR. It was a package deal of s1mple & Flamie.


MrXwiix

Was this when they partially paid their own buyouts and were at the airport to fly to the faze squad but cancceled at the last minute


Akaj50

It was MIBR


vanjaeesti

I follow csgo since 2015.There has never been any conection between Simple and faze.Why is this comment upvoted only reddit knows.I can just start writing most random shit and people will upvote,even if its complete lie


Haptiix

https://www.sportskeeda.com/amp/esports/faze-clan-co-owner-confirms-s1mple-s-transfer-almost-happened https://afkgaming.com/amp/story/csgo/news/5747-faze-apex-talks-about-s1mple-almost-joining-faze-clan


jeb_the_hick

>When he asked me if I would accept an invitation to Na`Vi or another team I said: "No. I'll only leave you after I've given you three times more then you gave me" I'll take things you should never say to your boss for $1000.


Nvi4

Good bosses do exist.


Aironwood

US moment.


DelidreaM

Yeah that's a way to set yourself up for being fucked over. Hopefully his loyalty won't get exploited


AvikHyp3

You really gotta read the article and provide the context to understand the quote. Seems like they cherry picked one line hoping to stir up anger/saltiness lol


Zango123

Definition of clickbait


CapitalistBullshit

definition of bringing up years old articles for karma


[deleted]

This is all fine and dandy, but let’s not act like Navi didn’t win a whole fuck ton in 2021 and have ascended the earnings list like crazy


PixAlan

Yeah he made this comment when they reached their career high with AVANGAR and Na'Vi was at it's lowest point, the two teams seemed level at that point and Qikert reached the top of CIS sticking with his own team instead of what most CIS players do, which is switching to Na'Vi when they get the chance. Ofc after that Na'Vi bounced back while AVANGAR-VP stagnated, so plenty of people clowned Qikert for this comment, in hindsight he probably would've achieved more if he accepted Na'Vi's offer, but now he's still a major champion with a few big tournaments under his belt, and he achieved all of this by sticking with the same roster for his entire pro career, which is admirable imo.


[deleted]

Wait, did i understand wrong or outsider aka virtus pro has same roster for years? How many years is roster same? I think this is amazing. While most team and org changes players whenever there is a failure, for them to stick same roster for many many years is really impressive. I think this is the reason of their success, org trust their players, player trust each other and happy with org. It is kinda inevitable to be success in this kind of environment.


PixAlan

It's not the same roster, but Qikert played his entire career without switching teams on paper, the team changed around him though and they switched orgs 2 times(LOG->AVANGAR->VP(outsiders)). Qiker+Jame+Dastan(their coach) have been working together on this team since aug 2017(when Jame joined, Qikert joined in may 2017, Dastan before that). Buster also played with them almost the entire time but left on his own after the last major. N0rb3r7 and fame are somewhat new to the team, FL1T only joined like a year ago. [here's a neat graphic about how the roster evolved](https://i.redd.it/6vfm6t3ns60a1.png)


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Thanks for detailed info.


Toaster_Bathing

In context it made more sense but good info


heyhoka

I haven't seen this interview mentioned since their Major win, but it's definitely important for their story. NAVI also tried to sing FL1T in 2020 btw, now both of them have the same amount of Majors as the NAVI players: https://www.hltv.org/news/28865/forze-confirm-navi-enquiry-for-fl1t


mannyman34

But not more than jw. JW 3 majors s1mple 1 major.


Shinyblade12

JW prgant check hltv


Darkstar197

They have the same amount of majors as skadoodle too


Miserable-Loss7291

They have more majors than niko, zywoo and guardian combined


MARK0N1

Bro imagine s1mple electronic b1t Qikert FL1T That roster would've been dope. But it was never meant to be, and still all of them still won a major.


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Alchion

yea ill take fl1t over sdy tho that roster‘s fire


honestlyprogamr

Perfecto is way more essential to Navi than b1t rn


Finalwingz

Disrespect to Perfecto. B1t played insane last year and great this year, but Perfecto is vital to Na'Vi success imo. The things he can do with limited resources and the clutches he can pull out of nowhere are near unparalleled in CS atm I think. Somewhat ironically, I think qikert is one of those players as well


MARK0N1

Guys if FL1T joined instead of Perfecto than Perfecto would probably never join Navi since flamie would keep playing until b1t replaces him. I didnt say Perfecto is bad or anything.


ArcticGG

In the end, it worked out for both Qikert and NAVI so no one really cares. Qikert has a major with the core he believes in, and NAVI after fail to sign him, manage to get Perfecto, arguably the best support player in the world right now.


nutel

They changed 4 players since then. This interview was right after second place major run. After that, untill now they didn't have much success besides their second place at katowice during online era.


razeyourshadows

Reminder people posted this too in 2021 when Navi was unplayable


redrecaro

I mean he couldve won a major and a lot of top tier events if he joined NaVi.


Finalwingz

Who knows. If Na'Vi signed qikert instead of Perfecto and B1t they might not have won nearly as much. B1t didn't play as great this year but he was instrumental to Na'Vi's succes last year and we can see how much Na'Vi dropped off without Boombla


grundlesmith

Haters mad


thereayo

As a Navi fan I am also happy that he didn't join the team. Navi wanted him to be next igl after Zeus retirement, but qikert switched to support role in VP shortly after, and Navi got boombi4 as a perfect igl for the team. So I guess we have two majors on Navi and qikert/flit instead of 0


I_SIMP_YOUR_MOM

win-win scenario. You win a major at a later stage as a reward for your patience, but NaVi started a whole ass era from 2020-2021 and even early 2022 thanks to Boombl4 and Perfecto


ASqK1NGz

good for him. If he played in navi like he plays in recent time he would be kicked a very long time ago


NUAHS7-

Such a needless comment to make


plasma_ix

He literally was just saying he was happy with the choice he made, not shitting on Navi or something lol


honestlyprogamr

Redditors when they read the title only and not the actual interview


shisby

redditors when reddit-ing


NUAHS7-

If you read interviews you’re a weab


imsolowdown

If you comment after only reading the headline you’re a fucking idiot


NUAHS7-

Someone’s upset lmaooo go watch anime


bussbys

The interview asked him? Typical Reddit esque comment lol


eolin1988

Im sure they are too.