Nihilum officially sign SEMPHIS

28-4-2015 23:17

Nihilum Gaming have now confirmed the signing of former Cloud9 member Kory "SEMPHIS" Friesen to its starting lineup.

Following the appearance of former Cloud9 player Kory "⁠SEMPHIS⁠" Friesen on Nihilum's CEVO roster last night, it began to be widely expected that SEMPHIS would permanently move into the organisation's fold.

This belief was further cemented by a Tweet from departing player Kyle "⁠flowsicK⁠" Mendez. And yesterday, we saw the Canadian SEMPHIS in action against CLG in a much different role to his previous in-game role in Cloud9.

Nihilum have now officially announced the signing of SEMPHIS, reporting that they were able to smoothly acquire the player from Cloud9 without issue. Additionally, Nihilum revealed that the replaced flowsicK has been released from his contract and is now a free agent on the market.

SEMPHIS has found himself a secure place in the NA scene

In a statement to ESEA News, team captain Soham "⁠valens⁠" Chowdhury had this to say:

"We are thrilled to bring Kory on board to round out our roster. I’ve personally known Kory for many years, and beyond being the encyclopedia of CS, he’s a great personality out of the game. This change will stabilize our roles and bring much needed experience playing against international competition. Shoutout to flowsicK for being an impeccable teammate—he truly went above and beyond to ensure our team’s success," Chowdhury said.

Nihilum Gaming's roster is now officially:

Soham "⁠valens⁠" Chowdhury
Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta
Joshua "⁠sancz⁠" Ballenger
Andrew "⁠Professor_Chaos⁠" Heintz
Kory "⁠SEMPHIS⁠" Friesen

2015-04-28 23:17

6 replies

Who cares, the NA scene is a joke anyways.

2015-04-28 23:27

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ameen brother

2015-04-29 00:20

laughing stock of the community

2015-04-29 01:22

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Yeah and the sad part is that their (lack of) good teams isn't even the biggest reason for that..

2015-04-29 02:02

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Explain then. And don't use dazed's videos as your explaination. Dazed is just mad he threw a match and got banned and can't play anymore.

2015-04-29 02:35

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What are you talking about LOL

2015-04-29 03:28

cloud9 will looks strong

expected

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dude, you're so damn good

2015-04-28 23:21

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thanks bro, thanks

2015-04-28 23:22

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i love you man, i really do

2015-04-28 23:23

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i love you too :)

2015-04-28 23:24

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owwwww <3

2015-04-28 23:25

P much the saddest thing Ive seen in a while

2015-04-28 23:41

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Even more sad than UK cs

2015-04-29 00:50

Which is just as much a joke as NA cs*

2015-04-29 00:51

I can only smile at this comment :)

2015-04-29 01:10

+1, I cried a little for him, so sad :\

5th

great for semph. now hiko needs to go to SK!!

rofl

2015-04-28 23:18

gl!

will give them loads of experience

meh kinda good and bad at the same time

2015-04-28 23:19

gl man

Sorry Kory

professor_chaos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ahhaahh

idunno what you are on silver scrub but pc is actually a really strong awper and he prooved it at lan last time nilhum look like they are all jokes but they are actually pretty good tier 2-3 na teams

2015-04-29 02:49

Or maybe he just finds his nickname funny, probably because it's Butters' evil alter ego. But hey don't let that stop you from going full typical Brit.

2015-04-29 10:20

anybody here spoke about skill?

2015-04-30 23:18

fdp

2015-04-30 23:21

expected xD

2015-04-28 23:20

Did he play good with Nihilium ?

They looked great on cache taking the map to overtime, but they got rekt on overpass. He has the same type of gameplay as the rest as a more free roaming role than like the strict gameplay of c9. He'll fit in great and it was probably the best groupfor him.

2015-04-29 00:18

thanks :)

2015-04-29 00:24

I honestly don't think c9 is that "strict." They were more puggy than ibp at EU lans and more recently, their communication and executes were really poor.

2015-04-29 02:04

-valeNs +fLOKi

man gl Semphis... just a great player :/ would love to see him with Hiko

Best player NA. Ez game.

2015-04-28 23:26

He deserves better :(

2015-04-28 23:30

its a downgrade, flowsick is a lot better than semphis

2015-04-28 23:33

Flowsick bottomfrags with valens on almost all their matches, but valens is their IGL. So you could say it was their worst player, it's quite hard to think it was a downgrade.

2015-04-28 23:57

Good team for semphis to join, hopefully he can help guide these upcoming players

how many news and threads announcing that were posted today ?

2015-04-28 23:34

The news will keep on coming.

2015-04-28 23:36

does nihilium get salary?

2015-04-28 23:45

Yes. They get housing and 3 meals a day. Camping tent and bic macs

2015-04-28 23:47

3 meals? ! but just bread with water

2015-04-29 00:55

haha terrible decision lmao time to change my Reddit flair

reddit flair?

2015-04-29 00:28

They need Tony Abott with em

2015-04-28 23:56

Light a candle for Flowsick [*] :(

On paper this is a significant upgrade. We'll see how it works long term and we'll see if Nihilum can keep him from getting bought out.

2015-04-29 00:07

professor chaos cannot dissapoint.

2015-04-29 00:17

downgrade is real

2015-04-29 00:39

He played decently against CLG last night. Gogo Nih<3

2015-04-29 00:40

makes sense. hikos team is doomed cuz skadoodle sold himself to c9 so semphis took this offer. hiko cries on stream and clg and tl r even more messed up.

2015-04-29 00:53