adreN to Denial

15-12-2014 06:23

In tandem with the news of Shahzeb "⁠ShahZaM⁠" Khan's departure to Cloud9, Denial have added Eric "⁠adreN⁠" Hoag to their lineup.

Last seen representing iBUYPOWER as a standin for the ESEA S17 LAN Finals, and a previous player for organisations such as Curse and Team Dynamic, adreN will fill out Denial's lineup as their fifth member.

The news was confirmed by adreN himself via Tweet and could also be evinced in Denial's new roster on CEVO.

adreN returns to fulltime professional play

Denial player Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele had this to say about the addition:

"It is unfortunate that another one of our players has been taken by Cloud9 and iBP once we have some form of success or progression (with the first time being nitr0). However, I am confident that we will be just as good if not better with adreN on our team.

adreN will be taking the role of ShahZaM as our main awper, but he also gives our team a secondary caller for the first time since montE was on our roster at the start of ESEA last season. I have no hard feelings towards ShahZaM as pretty much everyone would take the offer that they gave him and I wish him and his team the best," said Steele.

With this respective change in mind, Denial's lineup now stands as follows:

Todd "⁠anger⁠" Williams

Keith "⁠NAF⁠" Markovic

Jacob "⁠FugLy⁠" Medina

Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele

Eric "⁠adreN⁠" Hoag

Since adreN stepped down from iBUYPOWER earlier this year due to the time commitment of professional play, this change may indicate adreN's ability to commit fully to the game once again.

what.

2014-12-15 06:24

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irrelevant news of a former washed up semi pro.

2014-12-15 06:32

16 replies

2014-12-15 06:41

who r u

2014-12-15 06:51

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haters~

2014-12-15 06:56

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基佬

2014-12-16 05:31

hes the guy who thought fnatic and nip werent invited to MLG

2014-12-15 07:19

Adren is still a very solid player you have no idea what youre talking about

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It's adreN Adren is from Kazakhstan

2014-12-15 07:50

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AdreN is from Kazakhstan*

2014-12-15 08:32

#rekt

2014-12-15 11:39

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who cares whos from kazahstan, i just like their anthem youtube.com/watch?v=Pv5jLsLoYcE

2014-12-15 15:49

+1 :D

2014-12-15 16:35

AdreN is complete shit xD

2014-12-16 15:44

still more relevant than you moron

2014-12-15 11:00

youtube.com/watch?v=Ula8oi_M4Ww

2014-12-15 11:15

+11111111111111111111111 NA scene is careless, specially when we talk about tier 2/3 teams

2014-12-15 15:18

well if you take it like this then allmost 70% of todays posts about current csgo players are irrelevant

2014-12-16 01:10

rly???

2014-12-15 06:46

They have a terrible way of breaking a story "as good if not better with adreN.." Basically dissed Shahzam. Learn 2 break news

2014-12-15 09:31

Not really. They didn't say something like "now we finally have a good awper." Shahzam may be a better awper than adreN, but adreN is a pretty sick awper and he has calling experience and he can fill rifling/lurking roles better when the team can't afford an awp.

2014-12-15 18:43

Nice!

denial top1

2014-12-15 06:25

New 2nd NA team

2014-12-15 06:26

No, he's not fully committing lol. If he wanted he could easily get on an actual pro team. Other than C9 and iBP the rest of the teams are just teams that play online seasons and hope to make LAN finals. iBP and C9 get invited to offshore LANs and such. He will just go to the Cevo LAN Finals if they make that, ESEA LAN Finals if they make that. If he wanted to he could have easily stayed on iBP and not quit his job, he wasn't underperforming. Actually adren in for Ska wouldn't be a bad move, but he still has his job and gf.

2014-12-15 06:27

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My guess is that he joined them to play the mlg qualifier, if they wont make it i doubt he will stick for a long time

2014-12-15 06:28

lol......

obviously his fulltime job will likely limit his ability to travel internationally, so I prefaced it with "may indicate," but I still view joining Denial as a step-up from playing for a mix like TST

2014-12-15 06:29

Wish you had used the following title for this article: adreN in Denial ... so catchy :)

2014-12-15 18:55

thanks for the update man!

2014-12-16 06:27

So cute and innocent... are you up for adoption?

2014-12-15 06:30

are you disguised Brad Pitt?

2014-12-15 07:12

nvm

2014-12-15 16:43

Haha, the fun part is that denial looks better than c9 now. Lets see how it goes

good luck, this squad is good

adren&anger :3

denial > cloud9

n1 denial goin places this season

AndreN Anger combo back again

NA TOP 5 1- IBP 2- Denial 3- Torqued 4- Mousespaz 5- Random team Over9000- C9

c9 not even top 9000

I smell retard

2014-12-15 10:49

lol

2014-12-15 06:31

Anger and adreN WOMBO COMBO back up for business :DDDDDDD

2014-12-15 06:35

didnt they play together in tst lately ?

yes. Also played together on Team Dynamic in source. Curse in GO. And iBP in GO

2014-12-15 06:44

Both of them are ex-iBP members

2014-12-15 07:10

Didn't anger underperform pretty badly? He also seemed like a bad teammate from what I could hear during their TST matches.

2014-12-15 10:38

Well, this was more of win in favor of Denial now lel.

2014-12-15 06:43

I think so nice choice. Good lucky denial! Regsrds,

adreN!!!

2014-12-15 06:45

Rip in peace TST

2014-12-15 06:47

2014-12-15 07:11

Rest in Pepperonis StreamTeam

2014-12-15 07:23

thats one strong team

2014-12-15 07:29

gl bud .

2014-12-15 07:30

+Hiko +Steel +mOE -naffly -fugly -daps top1 na

2014-12-15 07:34

why would you want to remove any of those players instead of anger? lol

2014-12-15 08:24

online form is very important for some people

2014-12-15 09:39

anger was top at esea lan yes

2014-12-15 10:15

Literally not even denial any more.

2014-12-15 14:42

So is this going to keep happening in America/Canada? One team is up and coming to actually be great then the bigger sponsors just cuts a player and steals yours? This is why you need better sponsors for teams over here so they can't just steal all the players from teams that can't afford to keep their good lineups.

money is important... cloud9 pays better

2014-12-15 11:12

We don't know how well Denial are selling themselves to sponsors. I mean, sure, part of it comes down to having the talent. But you have to be a good salesmen to convince sponsors to let you carry their banner.

2014-12-15 12:56

So Bad .... AdreN was carrying

2014-12-15 08:12

2014-12-15 08:34

God damn Adren, you are everywhere!

2014-12-15 08:40

great!

2014-12-15 09:06

RIP Denial

2014-12-15 09:12

Its a decent lineup now

2014-12-15 09:20

For me adreN is the biggest mind in NA, this can end up being a bigger win for denial than for C9 if he can practice enough (he stepped down because of his work)

2014-12-15 09:22

adreN is a good player for Denial, but C9 replacing Hiko with Shahzam seems like a weak decision.

2014-12-15 09:37

I wonder how hes gonna fit in, i mean 4 americans and 1 Kazach is gonna be a huge laungage barrier Kappa

2014-12-15 10:58

huehueheu br :D

2014-12-15 13:58

Expected

2014-12-15 12:12

Asian AdreN > Murica AdreN

2014-12-15 12:34

gl adreN

2014-12-15 12:57

Something positive out the the NAshuffle finally.

2014-12-15 13:21

adreN is coming in as a coach only. Not a starting player, confirmed by FugLy.

Ohh yeah ! nice!!!

2014-12-15 14:41

adreN + anger <3 forever!

dope ! gl adren

2014-12-15 15:30

adren is great player, like his streams

2014-12-15 16:23

hiko to ibp maybe?

2014-12-15 16:28

+hiko

2014-12-15 16:32

adreN <3

2014-12-15 16:33

anger adren hiko steel nitro = denial plz

im a fan!

2014-12-15 16:53

Actually TST were way better than this line-up

2014-12-15 17:29

2014-12-15 17:47

Hiko in Torqued? :D

2014-12-15 17:59

Lol @ iBP and C9 destroying every other NA roster

2014-12-15 18:40

And they're not even getting anywhere themselves in the process.

2014-12-15 19:55

This is definitely a plus for Denial. adreN has been flying under the radar most of the year since stepping down. He brings a lot of experience and positivity to the team. Oh yeah, and the guy has got the skills. He removed more accomplishments but adreN's resume is nothing to dismiss as a 9 time ESEA Invite LAN Champ. IMHO his TST was already a top 4/5 NA team even though slotted in ESEA Premier. Eric and Todd already have a chemistry that Denial will immediately benefit from. If he is really recommitting himself to topping the CSGO scene, it will only be a plus for Denial, as well as the entire NA CSGO scene. Gl hf to all and congrats again to the hoagsta!

2014-12-16 00:58