Polly replaces ensa in LGB*

29-1-2015 15:32

LGB has announced that they are parting ways with Ensa. To replace him they are bringing in a former teammate, Polly.

It was a rather short stay for the norwegian talent Sebastian "⁠ensa⁠" Aas as he got replaced today by Pål "⁠Polly⁠" Kammen. LGB explains that he did not fit in to the team's playstyle and a change was needed.

"From today we officially announce the depature of Sebastian "Ensa" Aas from the team roster," a statement from LGB reads.

"Ensa did not fit into the teams playstyle, and with personal problems holding him back from the game, the team felt a replacement was necessary.

"We want to thank Ensa, for his short time in LGB eSports, and wish him goodluck in his future endeavours."

The Norwegian team have been in impressive form since their creation, and recently booked their place in FACEIT League 2015 after coming from the online qualifier.

Ruben "⁠RUBINO⁠" Villarroel's side are also through to the semi-finals of the online qualifier for IOS Pantamera and are due to tackle AGENT on February 2.

* RUBINO has now commented on the roster change.

So we decided to change a player after 2 months trying with this lineup , the reason for its basically that we didnt feel it worked as it should with sebastian "ensa" aas, nothing against his individual performances but more of the communication while and some internal problems within the team, i really hope he gets another good team because he is a talent and can be good with just some more pracctice and routine. And we are bringing in Pål "Polly" Kammen who is previously a former teammate of rain & me, i know what he can bring for us to the table, and i trust and know this is the right choise for us both socialy and ingame. And also with this change i hope that we can improve our game and use polly on a better way than we did previously in LC , where he was an IGL and couldnt just focus on awp, which is not the case anymore, because zeves is now the caller.

"So we decided to change a player after 2 months trying with this lineup , the reason for its basically that we didnt feel it worked as it should with sebastian "ensa" aas, nothing against his individual performances but more of the communication while and some internal problems within the team, i really hope he gets another good team because he is a talent and can be good with just some more pracctice and routine."

"We are bringing in Pål "Polly" Kammen who is previously a former teammate of rain & me, i know what he can bring for us to the table, and i trust and know this is the right choise for us both socialy and ingame. And also with this change i hope that we can improve our game and use polly on a better way than we did previously in LC, where he was an IGL and couldnt just focus on awp, which is not the case anymore, because zeves is now the caller."

LGB eSports now have:

Ruben "⁠RUBINO⁠" Villarroel
Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard
Joakim "⁠jkaem⁠" Myrbostad
Morten "⁠zEVES⁠" Vollan Christensen
Pål "⁠Polly⁠" Kammen

totally not expected, gl!

2015-01-29 15:33

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not expected? ;D

2015-01-29 16:03

It was expected by me idk about you

2015-01-30 14:36

expected polly nice player

OMG polly is shait

kappa

2015-01-29 15:34

he was shit in the latter days of lc, but in the beginning he was the carry, especially @ gfinity. kennys called him out as the up and comer back then, but then he fell flat :p lately he has been back to old form, so hopefully he keeps it up and quits his job to play 24/7 x)

2015-01-29 16:02

cool

nice

nice 1

This is going to be a strong team, Polly is really good.

needs more maak

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Maak is inconsistent as fuck

2015-01-29 15:41

9 replies

as if you've been around the scene long enough to know anything? LOL 550k

2015-01-29 15:42

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Ah yea. Someone couldnt possibly have been following CSGO in the past without a HLTV account.

2015-01-29 15:47

hltv logic yknow son

2015-01-29 15:57

Typical dumb americans.

2015-01-29 16:00

240k LOL jk no jk im serius

2015-01-29 16:13

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anything above 200k is "newschool". but take me 194k an i where on hltv like 1 year before making an acc. so like the guy above said. l could have been following cs without an hltv acc. comming from css i have an cadred acc before i made an hltv acc. but still followed 1.6 even tough i was a saucer:

2015-01-29 19:02

Yeah I've been playing since 2004 and probably made my account ~2008, but I mostly browsed fragbite before hltv so I can't say I was on hltv before I created my account.

2015-01-29 19:04

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i have like 150h of 1.6 an i played like 2 hours tops:). rest was following the 2008 danish MortalTeamWork:) first time a danish team rly was worldbeaters:) i enjoyed played css but enjoyed watching 1.6:D not many 1.6ers followed css. but cant blame em, was borring to wacth. ps. bit off topic i know.

2015-01-29 19:16

2015-01-30 14:38

expected

OP lineup

Polly was alright when LC first broke through but afterwards he was complete shit for quite some time. Don't know if it's a good move.

2015-01-29 15:35

Yep. Lately he has been back to old for from what I've seen though, even as a step-in for Ensa in qualifiers they're playing lately. Also a really smart guy IRL, could probably contribute something. Hope he settles in and can dedicate enough time over time! LGB is definitely supporting them better than LC ever did though. I mean, they have some of the same backing as NiP now because of same owners, so I think that should help him be more consistent.

2015-01-29 15:59

do you know polly irl?

2015-01-30 00:38

LGB to be top 10 EXPECTED!

Good luck guys, hopefully this is the last tweak in a long time

2015-01-29 15:36

needs more maak the fucking hawk

2015-01-29 15:37

Where is hoyland ? :(

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working

2015-01-29 15:39

2015-01-29 16:09

He didn't have a good pc (fps drops) etc, he recently got a new pc so maybe we will see more of him sooner or later. But ye i think he attends school/work so he got shieet to doooo

2015-01-29 16:18

NICE!

ensa>world

2015-01-29 15:38

world>enix

2015-01-29 15:48

-1

youtube.com/watch?v=THNWVVn9JO0

I love Polly candy

2015-01-29 17:31

youtube.com/watch?v=Qd3rpF9v-1o

2015-01-29 18:00

lmao

Nice, n3

2015-01-29 15:43

-jkaem +ensa/HoylaNd and finally norwey could have a top team

jkaem is better than ensa for sure

2015-01-29 15:58

u would think that with the last name "VILLAROEL" he would not call himself RUBINO :P

Really n1

-zEVES +ensa

idiot. zeves is the igl and ensa is toxic.

thanks

2015-01-29 17:39

don't bother with him. gl in the future.

2015-01-29 19:32

sry,i thought rubino is the igl

2015-01-29 19:49

Getting closer and closer to what their LC roster was before the split.

2015-01-29 15:56

polly very big awp

still crap

still better results in 2015 than all other swe teams except fnatic/nip.

sick accomplishment

What did everyone say when they were picked up earlier? That they should've picked up flipsid3 or some other swedish mix. Wouldn't have been much better as it turns out.

2015-01-29 16:14

rest in pice ensa u were the bestest

ensa>jkaem

Polly good player go for top5 LGB!!!

2015-01-29 16:07

If I had to pick one player to watch, I would say that Polly, London Conspiracy’s AWPer, seems be to really on point, and a sniper hitting his shots can make all the difference. - KennyS.

2015-01-29 16:08

They are now basically back to the LC lineup - a shitty team that didn't work out at all - only replacing skurk with jkaem and prb with zevez. Doesn't look promising at all tbh; always a bad sign seeing lineup changes so quickly, and I suppose there is a reason they dropped polly for ensa in the first case... They will most likely continue to fail in online qualifiers, record zero wins in faceit, and disassemble in a couple of months.

2015-01-29 16:17

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Lol. Clueless foreigner x) Problems with old LC lineup: No IGL and Skurk that didn't practice and Prb that didn't practice. How this lineup fixes that: Zeves as the IGL, the by far best we have, and Jkaem a big up and comer that everyone compares to rain. They are close to already have qualified for the Pantamera qualifier for next week together with only other tier 1 teams. Already qualified for Faceit in an insanely stacked league. So far this year I'd say they have better results than any other tier 2 team. Also having the support of the owners of NiP and Kevz doesn't exactly make your team worse.

2015-01-29 16:21

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I cthought they looked quite promising when i watched them a few days ago :) Would love to see them getting some nice results. I've always felt norway is misisng in the scandinavian CS GO ^^

2015-01-29 16:19

lol, do you think sponsors somehow can make mediocre players be good? I'll give them a chance, but atm they look even more unstable than the danish scene, and definitely not like a force to be reckoned with. Btw, please tell me why they dropped polly for ensa initially, if it wasn't because polly's inconsistency was holding them back?

2015-01-29 16:23

Because at the time Polly was unmotivated after a bad period for LC. Skurk and Prb never practised and LC didnt do any good to motivate them. LGB is alot better org that focuses only on CSGO (LC is more CoD, LOL etc.), LGB gives them a proffesional contract and the players are showing great potential and are playing good. I beileve Ensa has school to attend and he probably realised that he wouldnt have time to play all the tournaments that LGB will be attending etc. Polly was a great player, and when he wanted to and felt motivated he was really good. No doubt he will be motivated to play the Faceit league etc. And I think he is just as good, probably better, then Ensa in this team. And offcourse sponsorships can make them better. Sponsors means money and attention. And this results in greater motivation and performance.

2015-01-29 17:24

har du skoleoppgave å skrive essays hver gang noen nevner et norsk lag på HLTV eller? XD

2015-01-30 00:40

haha

2015-01-30 01:17

what about mystic ?

2015-01-30 07:18

I love how they are "Basically" Back to LC .. although still 2 different players. Theres a good reason behind it, but that up to Ensa if he ever wants to share that.

Now I got curious, is ensa really toxic?

2015-01-29 16:24

Not from what iv'e experienced no, Hes a great guy and a great player.

2015-01-29 16:32

I've read too much of firstaidkit's posts, got me confused. Thanks! And good luck ensa btw.

2015-01-30 01:19

I think it makes quite a difference being 2 from LC + 3 new guys vs. 3 LC vs. 2 new guys. In the first case you basically build a new team, while in the second case you make an (admittedly major) change to an existing team. And seeing how LC clearly were dysfunctional, I think the first option would have been the best. Also, I think they looked much sharper with ensa than theyd did with polly in the most recent qualifier, but this observation is of course based on a very limited sample.

2015-01-29 16:30

Does some1 know where hoyland is? Stopped playing or something?

2015-01-29 16:10

recently got a new pc i heard, so probably playing?

2015-01-29 16:20

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firstaidkit - The defender of LGB. Relax dude

+1, every second comment made by him lol

2015-01-29 16:58

it's fucking insane how much he replies to anything about norwegians lol, and no one of us in the scene knows who he is, yet he (thinks) he knows everything, about everyone. It's creepy.

2015-01-30 00:41

"...yet he (thinks) he knows everything, about everyone" The classic hltv-user.

2015-01-30 01:06

Takk gud for at du sa det, har holdt det samme inne en god stund

2015-01-30 02:48

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Haha, harru recently fått deg data og starta playing again eller?

2015-01-30 11:17

nobody likes u, u should just have kept ur mouth shut Tbh.

2015-01-30 15:28

u mad m8

2015-01-30 16:08

Tbh i was kinda mad on sigurd an u came to his defence so i kinda snapped:D My bad. i apoligize m8. Gl in the future.ur a solid playerr 4 sho. an no edit allowed in that comment:)

2015-01-30 16:14

0o. Thanks, i guess.

2015-01-30 16:53

U dont have a scene lol. ye with shitty players like hoyland lol. now crawl back into fjaeldet.

2015-01-30 15:30

great, i'v always liked polly!

2015-01-29 16:11

Good luck LGB :D Polly > ensa (AWP&Rifle)

sad for ensa, he is a great awper..

2015-01-29 16:15

Polly seems inconsistent, but when he plays good he goes huge! :D *flashback ace's vs Virtus pro on Gfinity LAN*

He looked pretty good playing versus webSPELL, despite LGB losing. Looking forward to some stellar results from these guys!

-someone +centryz and we will be having a norwegian super team

2015-01-29 16:28

Centryz is probably even worse than skurk. Would be detrimental if they somehow were to add him.

2015-01-29 16:34

have you seen centryz in orbit lately, m8? he's been stepping up bigtime. but he has beef with zeves, apparently. this team already has good riflers, though.

2015-01-29 16:51

+proper awp

2015-01-29 16:29

Nice!

2015-01-29 16:31

polly onliner

Nice to see lgb shaping up. And yes getting sponsors help alot, both with confidence and gear/money that takes some of the day to day worries away

2015-01-29 16:33

Expected, doh they shouldve picked up Hyper, best up and comming player in Norway, allmost as big biceps as pasha

2015-01-29 16:35

ensa was a beast doe

2015-01-29 16:40

correct me if I am wrong ensa was their entry fragger right?

Awp

2015-01-29 16:47

nice rain+polly :)

2015-01-29 16:41

ensa >

2015-01-29 16:48

ma nigga 420

2015-01-29 16:50

Hehe, whats up with you lately, got any proper plans for the future?

2015-01-29 17:28

going pro world of warcraft

2015-01-29 18:25

Nice, plz show us more G.. ROFL

2015-01-30 15:31

ayyy lmao

2015-01-30 15:57

thx for info op

pollyimov stronk

2015-01-29 16:55

needs more PRB or hoyland. And whatever happened to cENTRYz ??

2015-01-29 16:56

Strong team

Nice to see you paying attention to the Norwegian scene!

2015-01-29 17:29

Why do you think that is nice?

2015-01-29 17:46

polly beast, go lgb!

rip lgb

2015-01-29 16:59

expected my friends

lgb top 10 incoming

yeah! some people might consider that crazy but it's really thin towards the lower end of the top 10 rankings. very possible :)

2015-01-29 17:01

Top 5: LDLC, fnatic, NiP, VP, ex-dignitas 6-7: NaVi, Titan 8-10: HR, mouse, new dignitas 11 - 22: Epsilon, dat, Penta, ESC, c9, CW (Hunden & co), Liquid, kabum, ex-flipside, x6, 3dmax, k1ck 23 - : LGB, ... I agree that the gap between top 8 and top 20 is reatively small, but currently it is questionable whether LGB is even top 20. They showed potential in the faceit qualifier, but in the EMS qualifier they failed miserably (with polly). And seeing how they have not yet any LAN-results to show for, I think it's highly premature to consider them a contender for top10.

2015-01-29 19:06

top30 max

2015-01-29 17:26

already top 20xDD

2015-01-29 17:41

LGB!!! GOOD LUCK!!!

2015-01-29 17:06

eating this for your right now 2.bp.blogspot.com/-5TOzX9tPtE8/Uz_YROPf9..

2015-01-29 17:07

2015-01-29 17:12

They need to bring back hoyland

2015-01-29 17:18

2015-01-29 17:25

Watch LGB reunite the entire old LC team. Polly sucks, should of stuck with ensa. I hope they do better, but I see this as a total downgrade.

2015-01-29 17:27

Apparently there was a real reason why they couldn't stick with Ensa. They didn't replace him for fun or to become worse, that's for sure. I've been really disappointed in his performances in 2015 personally from the little I've seen Also the rest of what you write here is very unrealistic, they've made it clear they don't want to replace anyone and will try to stick with this roster for a long time. Don't confuse old LC orga and management with what they have now :)

2015-01-29 17:45

gl ply

ensa was better than the polly we saw the last 6 months for sure.

2015-01-29 17:32

not in 2015 so far

Did you read the statement? The decision wasnt skillbased. Read the god damn article before rolling on everything else.

2015-01-30 00:35

ensa > Polly

2015-01-29 17:35

gl polly!

2015-01-29 17:42

From now op stop the changes. You don't have the individual skill, so you need to focus on the team. Either way, I don't disagree with the choice of player, but still.

2015-01-29 17:44

Those are exactly their thoughts ;)

I'd imagine so. I just really want this team to work :D

2015-01-29 17:48

Same here. They only did this because they had to for whatever reason, and from social media of other players it's clear they agree with you on the rest so =)

2015-01-29 17:50

+ prb or hoyland

downgrade

2015-01-29 17:55

lol slowly getting back to the LC roster

2015-01-29 18:01

Bad move from LGB

2015-01-29 18:46

strong lu

cant belive so many ppl calling this out as a bad move its 100% an ugrade. either its becuse ppl somehow hate polly or are ignorant IMO. but hes a rly good awp. an is also a desent with ak/colt

Polly was amazing in the h2k days

2015-01-29 20:02

Please take back Skurk

2015-01-29 19:08

-jkeam+Centrys -zeves + prb = best lineup norway could come up with IMO

So many other players in norway that are way better then most of these guys. They just don't care to play serious. Kinda sad.

2015-01-29 19:46

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Its prolly cuz we here in scandinavia make to much muney so unless u are Fnatic NIP or TSM an maybe DIG it dosent make sense to try an go pro. cuz we make so much in a normal job compared to CIS countries an poor countries. Ps esp norway are rish atm cuz of the oil that some drunk danish statsminister decided to give away over a bottle of scotch... SIGH :D

The country itself is richer bcus of oil, the people are not.. Stuck with the highest prices and shitty jobs (for young ppl). Only place I can see us showing off cash (not including adults) is products that doesnt change between regions.

2015-01-29 21:40

we should just be one big nation. an bild a big dome around scandinavia;D an let us be hahahaha on a serious note. big problem in the multi culturel sociaty is they kill our wellfare. in the long term we will have more blacks then white up here;((im not a racist its simple math they get 3-4 times more children then us) just a sad fact. BTW taxes are so ridic, both work an taxes on all the nice stuf, hell even food is sickening expensive

2015-01-29 21:57

"I'm not a racist" - every racist, ever.

2015-01-30 14:35

stfu. god i hate idiots like u.

2015-01-30 15:17

would love to smack u soo bad, u are everything thats wrong with our society today. cant say anything about racism, then ur a racist. fucking retard..

2015-01-30 15:24