Team Liquid enlists EliGE

23-3-2015 05:28

Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski, who previously played for eLevate, will join the Team Liquid roster, replacing Keith "NAF-FLY" Markovic who will take on a substitute role.

In the beginning of this year, eLevate added two new players to its roster: Daniel "⁠roca⁠" Gustaferri and Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski. The latter was a relatively unknown-till-then seventeen year old who soon impressed with a high level of fragging ability in numerous online North American tournaments.

It seems many were quietly paying attention to the North American wunderkind as it has now been announced that EliGE will join Team Liquid's active roster.

Stepping down from the active roster will be Keith "⁠NAF⁠" Markovic, who will fill the role as a substitute player for the squad.

nitr0 & co. add more firepower to their ranks

In an interview conducted with Team Liquid, EliGE had this to say about his background in gaming:

"I am a 17 year old CS:GO player from the United States. I primarily have a SC2 competitive background, but I played CS 1.6 prior for some of my CS experience. I always played games for the competition of them and will try my hardest to be internationally competitive as well."

The rest of the interview, and the original press release for the roster change, can be found here.

With this change, Liquid's roster is currently:

Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele
Eric "⁠adreN⁠" Hoag
Jacob "⁠FugLy⁠" Medina
Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella
Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski

Keith "⁠NAF⁠" Markovic (substitute)

Liquid did not manage to qualify for ESEA S18 finals and dropped out of the CEVO-P Season 6 finals due to time constraints; in the FACEIT League, Liquid are currently top of the North American division with a 4-0 record.

It is also expected they will attend the next offline qualifier for a major.

The move additionally leaves eLevate with only a four man lineup, which may result in future player transfers as eLevate recently won a consolation qualifier to the CEVO S6 finals (taking place April 13-15) in place of Cloud9 who dropped out.

nice

2015-03-23 05:29

-days +someone!

2015-03-23 05:30

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*daps

2015-03-23 14:44

-daps +anger

2015-03-24 05:06

Elige is insane, nice

RIP ELEVATE

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Nah. They're going to pick up Desi and he's better than ELiGE Plus they still got roca and RUSH

2015-03-23 05:31

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Desi is not better than EliGE. Desi is a pretty solid fragger and a meh IGL. Since eleVate don't need an IGL, EliGE was definitively better than Desi is for eleVate.

2015-03-23 14:13

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There won't be any difference, if he's not better he's just as good. Desi hasn't played in the pro scene for awhile so that's probably why people don't remember how nuts he was When he was on the original eLevate/Exertus he carried soooooo hard, 30+ bombing every match

2015-03-23 14:23

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I'm referring to how he played in iBuypower when DaZeD/steel got kicked, and, honestly, it wasn't anything special. Also, he was the IGL for them and he was without a doubt mediocre at that role. Maybe that impacted his fragging, I dunno.

2015-03-23 14:28

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Are you sure it wasn't AZK calling? Plus, he didn't really play much with iBP, he got replaced really fast.

2015-03-23 14:59

desi didnt call for iBP and hasnt called on any invite team. He called for Torqued @ clutchcon which was a huge pug get your facts straight

2015-03-23 16:31

You do realize how hard it is to "be special" on a team with literally the best players in NA?

2015-03-23 16:57

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"Nothing special" as in he didn't do well at all. Not just in comparison to his teammates, he overall did not have good games.

2015-03-23 17:09

LOL ur an idiot. they still got roca and rush LOL i mean, its debatable if desi might be better than elige (i arent think that but w/e), roca is good too, but rush is comparable to players like daps or irukandji. they are ezly amongst the worst players that ever had appearances in professional csgo.

2015-03-23 16:39

Yea rush isn't comparable to the really good players and those other guys but he is still good to be the 3rd fragger behind Desi and roca Just saying eLevate will be fine

2015-03-23 17:07

rush<<<<<<<storm, xp3 (who is actually quite a good awper)

2015-03-24 01:38

-daps next pls.

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Should have been taking daps instead of fly... Guess it's because of their role

2015-03-23 06:55

-daps -elige +hiko +skadoodle

Lol -IGL -entry +lurker +AWPer Pro teams are pro. And yes Daps is the IGL of TeamLiquid according to his twitter: twitter.com/LiquidDaps

2015-03-23 20:41

-daps & get a new IGL & this team is FIRE

2015-03-23 05:32

Liquid + Fire = Steam?

2015-03-23 05:58

Steam + Fire = No more csgo updates?

2015-03-23 06:57

Half life 3 confirmed

2015-03-23 08:04

unexpected

2015-03-23 05:36

-daps +ska

EliGE is pretty nutty Team could be insane if they master their strats.

Downgrade

2015-03-23 05:37

Oh thats not a bad idea NAF can be a substitute.

2015-03-23 05:41

aww i was just thinking elevate could be a really good team if they replace storm well gl to both teams and elige!

2015-03-23 05:42

definitely an upgrade, NAF has consistency and dedication issues, while young elige is dedicated and crazy good aimer, always top of the scoreboard for elevate excited

and he's barely legal

2015-03-23 07:03

-daps -fugly +hiko +ska

2015-03-23 05:57

I like your thinking.

2015-03-23 07:36

fugly and nitr0 are there two star players. fugly been playin really well

2015-03-23 09:22

-daps -adren -elige -fugly +hiko +ska +sgares +shroud

2015-03-23 11:20

top1 na right here^

2015-03-23 12:19

well deserved Elige!

2015-03-23 06:02

YAYYYYYY!!! <3333333

2015-03-23 06:06

-daps +Desi

2015-03-23 06:28

2015-03-23 12:10

please add scream

10 sens best sens

2015-03-23 06:29

daps FugLy <<<<<<<< NAF

2015-03-23 06:48

i will always see roca and elige as a pair for some reason....they were the gtr and f0rest of NA.

2015-03-23 06:54

Oh nice.

2015-03-23 07:08

-Daps +Skadoodle -FugLy +Hiko

2015-03-23 07:11

-daps pls...if Ska joins, adreN can be full iGL and TL would be SICK!

2015-03-23 07:15

Now -daps +ska or hiko, and just have adren be igl.

good luck elige! good luck team liquid!

2015-03-23 07:18

Elige to Liquid desi to eLevate Sounds like a win for both teams. Curious what will happen to Daps the anchor. No way he'll stay on the team for much longer.

2015-03-23 07:21

:DD now find a way to add desi or roca

2015-03-23 07:27

Again Polish guy?

2015-03-23 07:31

Polish and American aren't mutually exclusive m8

2015-03-23 07:43

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_American

2015-03-23 11:11

Young talent!

2015-03-23 07:41

good for elige, hes an excellent fragger

No Hiko/skadoodle no party

2015-03-23 08:11

They aren't even that good

2015-03-24 00:17

Party

2015-03-24 05:01

sens10^heaD$hot gl elige :O)

2015-03-23 08:55

-daps +roca

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2015-03-23 19:50

jablonowski ahahah n1 surname

2015-03-23 10:37

sad

bad move :/

2015-03-23 10:49

Really like his nickname

2015-03-23 11:06

EligE is really good player, i used to like roca together with him, now im sceptic a bit about eLevate ;/

2015-03-23 11:08

"plz guys, I swear it's not my fault we keep losing" says daps as everyone on his team gets replaced besides him.

2015-03-23 11:28

+1 lol

2015-03-23 17:10

"I have sc2 background" not asian gg

2015-03-23 11:29

aligulac.com/results/events/17353-WCS-20.. He was not bad for his age. In 15 almost Qualifier in WCS.

2015-03-23 13:45

i was just trolling, u know.. :D

2015-03-23 15:29

-daps -fugly +ska +hiko Top 1 NA

2015-03-23 12:14

I agree

2015-03-23 12:25

2015-03-23 12:33

bad choise... -daps -fugly +ska +hiko

2015-03-23 12:52

Can anyone find his fragmovie or smtgh? tried searching for it on youtube but came up short.

2015-03-23 12:57

Heard about this dude somewhere just can't remember where it was...

2015-03-23 13:41

maybe he hasnt the typical pro sens, his mouse is fast as fuck and he still manages to aim sick^^ thats how i heard of him... sick player tho, liked to watch elevate :)

2015-03-25 14:04

really nice move right here bois.

2015-03-23 13:50

Keith Markovic? Serb? :D

I'm just confused as to why they would bench Naf over another player. The roles are similar/the same, but both are solid rifles and could probably adapt to a new role if need be.

2015-03-23 14:14

eLevate > Liquid and EliGE moved to worse team NA logic gg rip another good team

2015-03-23 14:31

-daps +Hiko -Fugly +Skadoodle Skadoodle - awper Adren - IGL/2nd awper Hiko Elige nitr0

2015-03-23 14:49

Last time they made a stupid roster change they amended it within 2 weeks. hltv.org/n/13842-Denial-remove-Anger

2015-03-23 15:01

=^/

2015-03-23 15:02

hltv.org/n/13842 fixed link =)))))))

2015-03-23 15:03

too bad daps is garbage

2015-03-23 15:39

They will correct mistake less than 2 week =)))) NafLy (AWP) FUG-LEE adreN (IGL) Nitr0 Elige Just thinking of Elige's sensitivity gives me a headache.

2015-03-23 15:44