Neo: "We decided to take it slow"

28-7-2013 23:37

ESC Gaming star Filip "NEO" Kubski has published a statement regarding the team's future plans on his Facebook page with a short message to Mariusz "Loord" Cybulski.

Kubski has now published a long statement that explains his side will take their time and not rush a decision, as they plan to use European Championship 2013 as a chance to get to know other Polish players.

NEO issues a statement to update fans

He hasn't however ruled out the possibility of playing with foreign players such as Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovács, and cites the lack of important events as an advantage, as they have more time to decide.

Hello everyone!

It's been a while since my last post, so I decided I could enlighten those interested in our team with a little update. Not everything is set about our future at the very moment. We only know that we won't let go that easily!

We've been aware of the fact we needed major changes for quite some time now. Fresh blood in our lineup was surely one option to regain our motivation within the team. But only after Mariusz's message, we decided to take concrete steps towards that direction.

Thanks to the EC2013 Cup we're able to get to know the Polish top players a lot better, including their playstyles and characters. However, we are trying to look at every possibility - exploring our options outside from Poland, too. Right now there aren't many events scheduled, thus we decided to take it slow and just find the right solution for our situation.

Kubski also included a message for Cybulski, his former teammate of seven years, who helped Pentagram become the world's best team and won a total of six majors.

Also, I would like to express my gratitude to Mariusz for everything he has done for the success of the team during all these years. Mariusz, you have been an amazing person to work and be around with.

Your input into our team played an important part in our success. Without you we certainly wouldn't have got so far. It has been a real pleasure to have you on our team. I wish you all the best.

The future of ESC Gaming's Poles has been in question ever since Cybulski announced his retirement from Counter-Strike through his Facebook page on Thursday last week.

Nice ;) GL neo. Yupi! Its my first "first comment" in topics on hltv :D

2013-07-28 23:40

21 replies

2013-07-28 23:44

gz mate!

2013-07-28 23:45

welcome

2013-07-28 23:48

and you are doing well!!!!!!

2013-07-28 23:49

achievement unlocked

2013-07-29 00:24

3 replies

well, it's one of the hardest achievements on HLTV so far :P

2013-07-29 00:27

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Judging by all the no lifers hanging around true dat!

2013-07-29 02:03

1 reply

2013-07-29 05:52

Well done ! :)

Don't stop,one is not enough!

2013-07-29 00:29

legend, keep it up!

2013-07-29 01:16

*gives cookie*

2013-07-29 02:08

I too like to live dangerously...

2013-07-29 02:21

6 replies

Know your memes.

2013-07-29 07:27

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Is that as "I should know my memes better" or is it you know what I'm talking about?

2013-07-29 18:54

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Ah, sorry, now that I read that again I suppose you could take it both ways :) The first option is what I had in mind though, "I too like to live dangerously" seems a little misplaced to me :))

2013-07-29 19:20

gayest thing ive read in a week

2013-07-31 01:12

Cool. I guess you are not an avid reader then.

2013-07-31 09:40

I guess it's a bit of a stretch...

2013-08-01 17:18

-loord +blejdzik

2013-07-29 13:51

hehehe :D

2013-07-30 08:57

pretty fast news!

2013-07-28 23:38

dat irony :D

gr8

2013-07-28 23:39

gl guys.

That's the right way :) Good luck, never give up

old

2013-07-28 23:41

Makes me hope for the best :)

2013-07-28 23:42

gl !!!

2013-07-28 23:43

gl guys youll become better than ever before :-)

Take your time. If they team up with guardian and join VP I'll jizz in my pants and will become an even greater fan.

Me2 man

2013-07-28 23:53

D: ! Nothing against you being a greater fan tho.

2013-07-29 05:54

I wish UK teams would use their brains like Neo's ESC. Look forward to seeing how they move forward in the near future.

2013-07-28 23:46

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yep, hopefully toxic dont disband

2013-07-29 00:14

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hopefully toxic do disband, they're really bad atm, and it just means the good players are spread over more teams, let the good players join other good players in other teams ffs, 3 really good teams is better than 5 mediocre teams.

2013-07-29 01:43

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UK Got good players i kid,.i kid

2013-07-29 08:11

I think the UK have good players and always have. They just suck ass at teamwork and the egos are always huge :P

2013-07-29 08:20

Ofc you have good players, I was trolling :P

2013-07-29 11:09

There have never been any good UK cs team. NEVER.

2013-07-30 08:16

Oh you...

2013-07-29 10:24

BTW that first sentence was supposed to have a questionmark, now it looks like I think the UK really doesn't have good players :o

2013-07-29 11:10

i already miss loord :(

2013-07-28 23:58

Same :/

2013-07-30 13:56

Hope they will pick peet

2013-07-29 00:01

+11111111111

2013-07-29 00:17

"uszy > peet for ESC

2013-07-29 06:43

what's up with pasha though=?

2013-07-29 00:11

Just a guess... Neo/Taz are obvious ESC leaders, so they want to evaluate as many players as possible. They will pick two best on top of: Neo, Taz, pasha.

2013-07-29 09:54

+Kuben, we do not want another G5 member retiring, got it?

2013-07-30 13:57

I'm with you, but I've heard that kuben has wife and he's basically real grown up with commitments so pro gaming is starting to get challenging for him.

2013-07-30 19:23

Don't see how they could make it work with a player outside of poland unless pasha doesn't play as he doesn't speak any English?

2013-07-29 00:15

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-"pasha, kill them", they said -"ok" yeah, it requires lots of English skillz :D

2013-07-29 00:16

Think slovak and polish people understand eachother

2013-07-29 00:23

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yeah, ukrainian, czech/slovak is the closest to polish

Not that well, it's probably easier than Russian to Czech though. When I was listening to ESC talking in Polish I had a general idea, but had quite a problem understanding certain words. CS-wise, I'd say it would work after some pracctice.

2013-07-29 00:43

its not that u understand all but quite much and if u dont understand something u have in mind what can it be. For sure sloviakian and czech are much closer to polish then russian

2013-07-29 12:06

Yeah, that is true. I'd say it might be a little similar to what cArn said in the 11th podcast about their team and Friis in the beginning, they got used to Danish after 5 training days.

2013-07-29 13:18

I'm from Scandinavia(Denmark) so I can completely see your point there. Even though Danish, swedish and norse are even more similar

2013-07-29 17:32

A little bit, but it's sooo not enough.

2013-07-29 09:55

polish/slovakian/russian/czech languages are very similar.

2013-07-29 09:59

russian? No. more like ukrainian

2013-07-29 11:33

russian srly? There are similiar words but i doubt you will understand even one sentance. Czech and Slovakian similar but Russia its quite hard to understand.

2013-07-29 12:02

They're all from the same family, although Russian is like a half-brother to Czech+Slovakian/Polish in terms of understanding each other. I was having a hard time understanding Russian teams in Prague back in December (only caught a few basic words), but with ESC I at least knew what they were talking about.

2013-07-29 13:22

2013-07-29 14:14

"We decided to take it slow" That's what she said..

2013-07-29 00:20

tryhard

haha

aggressive :s

2013-07-30 10:08

2013-07-29 00:21

They will rise!

bring in peet!

2013-07-29 00:26

yea...there is surely one slot booked for peet in my opinion

2013-07-29 00:33

i think he has a contract in gf-gaming, not sure about that tho.

2013-07-29 11:35

gl starix

2013-07-29 00:30

+GuardiaN please!

2013-07-29 00:41

Noe

Neo

2013-07-29 01:03

who?

2013-07-29 04:09

the chosen one

2013-07-29 12:12

Luis Figo?

2013-07-30 20:45

NEO and Luis Figo <3

2013-07-30 23:48

gl neo & crew

2013-07-29 00:52

wow, this will put immense pressure on the polish players. gl though

2013-07-29 01:24

Getting guardian/peet will make them better,but i dont know if they will be a top team with nip,vg,astana,maybe they should pickup both of them.

2013-07-29 01:32

From what LeX said in his RU exclusive interview to his own Virtus.pro organization is that he spoke with GuardiaN and LeX told him that he wants to keep GuardiaN in VP's roster, so so far GuardiaN remains a VP official player and in a few days the new VP line-up should be revealed as per LeX in which GuardiaN still has his deserved spot, but ya, anything could happen and if Polska boiz have organization for their new line up maybe GuardiaN will be moved over, but I doubt it as Polska dont really have their sponsors/home being stable while in VP GuardiaN has guranteed himself a set in stone spot, so, I doubt the possibility of him leaving VP....so.... ;) Original RU interview youtube.com/watch?v=c6YIFhcZwfg with LeX talking VP disband...

2013-07-29 03:13

Don't be so sure..

2013-07-29 05:08

I never said i was sure :O

2013-07-29 05:26

Virtus.Pro GuardiaN NEo TaZ kuben pasha

2013-07-29 05:44

didn't he say 'how to say'?

2013-07-29 07:18

a couple of times, yet there was no need for it since was talking RU :) ahaha

2013-07-29 08:24

LUq making a comeback, nice!

2013-07-29 03:17

Luq is nearly 30 bro.. ;d he'll never come back ;p

2013-07-29 10:01

never happens

2013-07-30 00:37

+ GuardiaN = gg

2013-07-29 03:36

-kuben, +GuardiaN & peet

2013-07-29 03:58

- kuben, +Guardian & Dark

2013-07-29 04:15

Would be nice

2013-07-29 04:18

Good luck :-)

Neo go with teammates to the Virtus.pro. plz) Regards, you fan <3

2013-07-29 07:37

"Without you we certainly wouldn't have got so far." Damn straight. WCG 2009 was practically won by Loord.

2013-07-29 07:59

Using EC as trials, good effort :D

2013-07-29 08:22

I can see UK doing a similar thing... Ragecake, wilzoo, release, wez, reality to become the new 4k after EC.

2013-07-29 09:07

they dont haethat much time to think and notdoing anyrhing imo

lol news should be made 3 days ago

2013-07-29 09:18

this

2013-07-29 09:57

+hyper +uszy gg

2013-07-29 09:52

Trust me guys, new lineup is this: fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-a..

hahahahaha TaZ

2013-07-29 10:48

winfakt

Go Go Neo!

2013-07-29 12:26

valve killed g5

2013-07-29 12:33

2013-07-29 13:30

haha true

2013-07-29 14:56

++++ ESC guardian

2013-07-29 12:58

Neo Taz pasha uszy snax PLEASE!

Neo Taz Guardian peet snax

2013-07-29 13:29

why you guys put peet in this lineup ? there is already one great sniper...

2013-07-29 15:51

there can be 2 snipers like in Vp (guardian and fox)

2013-07-29 16:10

no pasha?are you stupid?

2013-07-29 17:09

So GuardiaN retires :(

2013-07-29 13:47

Neo Taz GuardiaN and two more xD

2013-07-29 13:48

mix with overdrive or gg

2013-07-29 13:49

if you wanna take it slow , or just wanna take me home , baby say hey hey hey . hahahahahah

2013-07-29 14:05

gl g5

2013-07-29 14:24

+ peet and hf |B

2013-07-29 14:39

+ peet and polish giants will be again in TOP3))

2013-07-29 16:01

1 new player won't make them better, will be worse. Loord is really good player and changing 1 for 1 won't solve anything. (sadly)

2013-07-29 16:02

part from one ace can someone show me when peet play better than others ?

2013-07-29 16:29

u probably forgot that 90% of cs community is simply stupid. same story with insider @ 1.6. they gonna force him in every single topic.

2013-07-29 23:37

what a legend :) good choice imo guys

2013-07-29 18:16

just kidding

2013-07-29 20:28

neo, taz, peet, uszy, guardian

2013-07-29 23:33

uszy lol

2013-07-31 11:12

guy plays 24/7 & tops their mix 10's

2013-07-31 17:41

Neo god of Counter Strike, the greatest legend of the game, after spawN and so on

2013-07-29 23:50

sad :( gl Loord gl Golden4 in future

2013-07-30 01:06

2013-07-31 17:45

Neo: "We decided to take it slow"

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