'Golden Five' weigh up ESC future

21-5-2013 20:13

Wiktor "TaZ" Wojtas' troops are weighing up the possibility of leaving ESC Gaming, HLTV.org has learned.

After establishing themselves as one of the greatest teams of all time in 1.6, the Polish giants endured a slow start to life in CS:GO, failing to go beyond the group stage at the ESWC finals and at DreamHack Winter.

It seemed that things were taking a turn for the better when ESC won SLTV StarSeries IV in December and followed it up with the gold in the CS:GO tournament at IEM Katowice, but the results over the last few months have been far from impressive.

The 'Golden Five' finished 13th-16th at Copenhagen Games before placing fourth at StarSeries V and at the ESEA Finals. The final straw came last weekend, when the Polish side suffered a 16-14 defeat at the hands of /10/ to lose the TECHLABS Minsk trophy to the German mix team.

'Golden Five' are owed four months salary

HLTV.org knows that ESC's players have been playing without salary for the last four months and that they are not tied to the Germany-based organisation. The team's contract with headsponsor QPAD expired in January.

This situation would certainly help to explain the drop in form in recent weeks as the players are likely to lack the motivation to follow an intensive practice schedule.

The Polish players are no strangers to this situation as their relationships with Meet Your Makers, WICKED, Vitriolic and Frag eXecutors all came to bitter ends.

It is understood that even though ESC are working hard to keep the team in their ranks, the players are willing to listen to offers from other organisations.

The three-time WCG champions have been invited to attend DreamHack Summer next month and are currently competing in Fnatic Frag Out Season 2, StarSeries VI, ESEA Invite and RaidCall EMS One.

News corrected at 21:16 : The Polish team were contracted to QPAD, not ESC.

2013-05-21 20:14

SK?? D:

2013-05-21 20:15

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2013-05-21 20:17

They would never take Poles in contract. Maybe mouz

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mouz already have a german team? Or Im mistaken?

2013-05-21 20:20

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you are mistaken

2013-05-21 20:25

i thought it at first

2013-05-21 20:56

If SK would want them they would have been under the SK banner a long time ago. If they could go back in time to change any of their contract they had against an contract with SK they would have done it every day a week.

2013-05-21 23:20

AGAIN :(

Get New Org!!!

sad news

2013-05-21 20:16

Bronze Noobs should pick them up

Time to retire

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i think the same :)

2013-05-21 21:07

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Time go to school

2013-05-21 21:32

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time to learn english

2013-05-21 21:51

Time to earn money in real life not in virtual life.

2013-05-21 21:55

Credibility = 0 Do you wish to take English lessons to improve your credibility ? Yes/No

2013-05-21 23:26

or you are retard :)

2013-05-22 15:29

no you retard schoolkid

2013-05-22 15:59

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20 years old noob :D younger than me... fcking lithuanian kid

2013-05-22 17:49

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you nick say all "Bitch"

2013-05-22 18:11

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tom drum that special nick :D and your english is excellent

2013-05-22 18:15

gtfo kid go play cs:go

2013-05-22 18:17

:D donty cry baby boy

2013-05-22 18:19

not good

again an AGAiN (?) They are very unlucky with orgas, go Fnatic ;D

they are going to retire :(

2013-05-21 21:19

Have a strict practice schedule or gtfo. That's the current CS:GO currency.

omfg why always they ?

Their contract expired so they aren't getting any salary. I think in case they would have done better and win some events then they would've got a new contract a lot faster. (Atleast that's what I think happened)

i say mouz will pick them.

2013-05-21 20:18

yeah, it seems logical if this is true.

2013-05-21 20:32

GeT_OrgA

2013-05-21 20:19

Mouz here is your chance to get a decent team that put work in!! I knew it would come. Their Starcraft players were complaining about it too and some left already I think. Mouz pick these guys!!

AGAiN

AGAiN :D

maybe they will join dragonborns

:( GL IN FUTURE ESC !!! WE <3 YOU

2013-05-21 20:21

MYM

omg I have always been supporting them!!

2013-05-21 20:22

GL, don't give up, we support you!

2013-05-21 20:23

The CS Scene is not Interesting without This team...

mouz.742 inc!

2013-05-21 20:30

mouz.levicom Neo :D - if I good remember his nickname :D

2013-05-21 21:49

wrong neo :(

2013-05-22 06:03

Would be kinda strange to eventually see them tagging SK , nontheless exiting and absolutly whorty combo if so I I I I I- - - - - > Legendary orga - Legendary lineup doubt this will happen thou, but who knows.

AGAIN :)

2013-05-21 20:33

probably explains why they seem to have not improved much over the months

2013-05-21 20:34

2013-05-21 20:35

no resultats - no team!

2013-05-21 20:39

results means 1st places.

2013-05-21 21:00

means at least 3rd

2013-05-21 21:04

they should probably just retire tbh

2013-05-21 20:42

taz needs new team.

2013-05-21 20:47

keep fightin!

2013-05-21 20:50

neo-dA-h1p$teR is done

2013-05-21 20:51

not very good at GO, but still very popular.

2013-05-21 20:53

The end of ESC. They play with no team tag vs logiX...(they always play with 'esc' in team tag and ICY BOX in nick)

2013-05-21 21:01

it will be shame if they retire, but i think it's not possible. yet

get a job go is fail

2013-05-21 21:02

"far for impressive" EDIT NVM

2013-05-21 21:06

you idiots. The reason why this news in on HLTV is that ESC doesn't pay golden5 money, not that they should have better results.

2013-05-21 21:08

that's sad :( maybe that's why they didn't have good form. GO G5! I LOVE U

2013-05-21 21:11

huehue/wnw

2013-05-21 21:12

Again :))

2013-05-21 21:14

Anexis kick rattleslugs no hopers and sign these up.

Anexis is no where near top team material atm (as far as current result), but u think these are better than rattleslugs bunch ? i doubt it !

2013-05-21 22:27

These old men are going to retire

2013-05-21 21:16

They should change their name from Again to Yet-Again.

2013-05-21 21:17

SK for sure

2013-05-21 21:24

AGAiN~

2013-05-21 21:34

Are you people serious with SK? If this was 2010 and game is cs 1.6 then SK maaaybe But this team isnt top10 in csgo and I seriously doubt SK wants that Trust me on this one: Anexis gonna pick them up

2013-05-21 21:41

Pls explain how they're not even considered a top10 rank in CS: GO What are your criterias for such statement ((?) explain, just a little bit deeper. Or shallow knowledge remains as trollopinion.

2013-05-22 00:11

Are you trying to be funny?WHAT but tell me WHAT has ESC won since .... the release of the game LMAO Its been a year now and they are nothing but kicking can for the big dogs , Im sorry but its true.

2013-05-22 00:31

My intention asking you this is not for fun, but you must be trolling or something mb a mad hater ? Nope, this far they didnt win any international CS: GO tournament, at least not any with some serious prestigue. Im just little curious, now, how does your top10 rank (since birth of the scene) for CS: GO looks like then(?) and i will analyze it, and we see.

2013-05-22 00:59

I dont whos the best atm but heres 10 and more teams better than esc atm: nip,vp,vg,fnatic,cphwolves,western,/10/,navi,ldlc,navi,epsilon,aL... and many more cus esc just doesnt show any progress unlike these new upcoming teams. Wow ,come to think about it now , esc soon wont even be a top 20 team

2013-05-22 13:50

GL G5! For everyone shouting to retire, honestly I wouldn't be surprised if they do so. They're around 25(?) years old and if you're not NiP, competitive CS:GO is funny money. It's ok if you're 20-23,but later on? Cmon! You cannot decently live from it. It's probably great adventure and a lot of travel (which is also fun for some time), but long term it's dead end anyway...

2013-05-21 21:46

Agree with you. But would but be sad to see these guys retiring and wouldn't be good for the scene at all.

2013-05-22 05:22

It would be bad for the scene that's for sure :-( Of course I would like them to stick around and win couple more major tournaments, but I'm not sure if this will happen. Anyways cheering for them!

2013-05-22 07:51

navi or fnatic would never play 4 months without salary in silent they would make news in first day and cry like little girls. i'm proud of golden five, that they are not pussy

csgo.99damage.de/de/news/9417-esc-gaming..

2013-05-21 21:47

what does it say?

2013-05-21 21:59

ESC manager revises the statements published by HLTV.org, additionally 99damage will publish an interview with the ESC manager tomorrow.

2013-05-21 22:12

2013-05-21 22:23

Ugly to see :D

2013-05-22 10:48

Loord looks like an old version of Redeye.

2013-05-21 22:25

I knew this was going to happen sooner or later, the only way this could have been avoided is if they won something major. No pracc = no skill = no win = no money = asia leave's neo = back to masturbation

2013-05-21 22:35

they are not practicing and they will lose organization.....

2013-05-21 23:32

No pracc = no skill = no win = no money = no sponsors = no salary. esc basicly needs sponsors to pay the salary as every org needs them. if u send a team to every offline event and dont win $$ sponsors wont pay anymore. they should sit on their asses pracc more and get some skill and become motivated again or retire. its not esc fault. a contract got 2 parties as usual.

2013-05-22 00:06

If EG have players like incontrol idra etc who have no results, but attracts wievers streams and fans , i think Golden five could do the same, many fans even if results lacking recently. what matter most is publicity for the orga, and golden five provide strong credential for anyone looking for spectator numbers and brand association good luck

2013-05-22 00:33

I wonder why the fuss here is only about which orga is picking them soon, rather than discuss what's wrong with this lineup. Neo is inconsistent and far away from his level at 1.6 and Loord is the weakest link of the team. Seeing they are polish, I can't see these guys playing for any other solo polish team, so it's very unlikely they'll split. Wouldn't like to see TaZ retire. He's a beast on CS:GO...

2013-05-22 05:21

Plenty of hours at DM + Dedication + Motivation = The Golden touch is back. They really need to step it up in their individual play, which ain't gonna happen unless they enjoy playing this game.

2013-05-22 07:42

well, they arent the only ones whom has had problems with CSGO, just look at VG, who was the best team ever in CS:S, fnatic, NaVi and so on, i mean, those are the teams who was the top 5 in the world withing 1.6 and CS:S. TaZ and monsterpasha will get on track. All they need it motivation, and MORE PRACC. It's a new game, and you can't live on old achievements... But i do really hope to see Taz and zeh boys furthur on, dont give uP:)

2013-05-22 09:30