maxaki joins ACE Gaming

17-5-2015 23:45

ACE Gaming have confirmed the addition of Andreas "maxaki" Andersson to their CS:GO squad.

The Swedish player had been expected to join ACE after playing for the Canadian team as a substitute in CEVO Professional and in the ESL ESEA Pro League.

A former member of LGB eSports and Orbit, Andreas "⁠Maxaki⁠" Andersson had recently made headlines when he put together an international roster called Sententia Mortis together with three other Nordic players and British veteran George "⁠hudzG⁠" Hoskins.

montE's ACE Gaming sign a Swedish player

Such a team will apparently never see the light of day, however, as Maxaki will move to Canada next week to reinforce ACE, who are eager to beef up their strategies to cement their place in the top tier of the North American scene.

"Going across the world to play a game I love is going to be lots of fun and a once in a lifetime experience," Andersson said in a statement.

"My goal is to try to bring some fresh EU air into the NA scene by supporting this team with everything I know about CS.

"It's initially going to be an uphill battle implementing a new playstyle, but I'm sure it will benefit us in the long run."

Maxaki has become the second Swedish player to move to North America to play Counter-Strike competitively in just one month following Luminosity Gaming's signing of Jacob "⁠pyth⁠" Mourujärvi, who curiously played alongside Maxaki in Orbit.

Also flying from Sweden to Canada will be renowned tournament admin and former LGB manager Robert "LillRobbaN" Jonasson, who caught ACE's eye when he wrote an open letter to CLG, who are accepting applications for the last position on their team, suggesting Maxaki, Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač and Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller as potential recruits.

"For me it’s a great honor having been asked to take part in this project," Jonasson said.

"On a personal level I see this as an amazing challenge and opportunity, while I’m also very grateful to Ace Gaming for allowing me the chance to bring along Maxaki, a player I respect and have enjoyed working with in previous teams.

"As I will be taking on a combined coaching and management role I will also get full access to help shape this team from the inside, bringing a European way of thinking to the NA scene. "

ACE Gaming have a lot of work to do to turn their season around as they currently sit at the foot of the table in both CEVO Professional and in the ESL ESEA Pro League, without a single victory from 11 matches.

The team's lineup is the following:

Stephan "⁠vEz⁠" Vezina
Neil "⁠montE⁠" Montgomery
Phillipe-Olivier "⁠PEX⁠" Crepin
Mike "⁠decipLe⁠" Baker
Andreas "⁠Maxaki⁠" Andersson

Robert "LillRobbaN" Jonasson (coach/manager)

gl dude

2015-05-17 23:46

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nice, moving to canada for a pug team wp

2015-05-18 00:20

12 replies

i couldn't have said it better myself

2015-05-18 03:12

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2015-05-18 06:38

Or try to bring structure and experience to the team. They already have montE, it's a good start.

2015-05-18 06:42

6 replies

monte is leaving when dazed and steel are unbanned

2015-05-18 07:02

5 replies

They won't be unbanned

2015-05-18 07:08

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yes they will, and im pretty sure they know they will cause for the 1st few weeks of being unbanned they were all depressed now they are often streaming and playing and making content maintaining their skill. its obvious swag will be unbanned

2015-05-18 07:34

And thats 90% surely not until January 2016

2015-05-18 07:50

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Well.. the esea ban etc was only for 1 year. So ofc they will get unbanned

2015-05-18 12:11

doesnt matter the valve ban was indefinite so theres no way of knowing when they can attend valve sponsored majors and the majors are what bring in all the sticker money

2015-05-18 18:40

you mean for 2.5k$/month?

2015-05-19 16:32

he isn't earning that amount at all... that organization can barely keep a website running definitely not getting paid with such money...

2015-05-19 17:39

"tier 1", bro, "tier 1"...

2015-05-18 22:25

expected

top 1 EU

2015-05-17 23:47

rip senetia mortis

Everyone should have atleast 1 swede :)

nice

good luck

LillRobbaN "coach". As if this guy has any clue about CS:GO. lmao

Dont mess with him i heard he was dmg

lol

2015-05-17 23:48

Isn't he that 15 year old kid?

2015-05-17 23:49

He is 22 or something if I remember it right just really short.

2015-05-17 23:50

He just lookes like 15

2015-05-18 00:23

Hltv slowest

LillRobbaN

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA retarded move.

+1 this guy is so shit

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Nah hes ok eu so pretty good NA, clg will prob pick him up so he can help with strats and setups etc. wich they need

2015-05-17 23:53

is he that long haired nutty awper kid? or is he maxie

2015-05-18 00:34

thats maxie m8

2015-05-18 01:32

Pfffff...latvia pls...nice teams

2015-05-18 14:54

how will they afford the rent and all living expenses? surely these players can't get a decent salary ? anyways, maxaki already showed that he's best in the team playing with 120+ pings ayy

deciple's been throwin it down

2015-05-17 23:51

ie?

Hope this fails. Lillrobban is the reason why I hope this. Didn't forget the Kappa.

lilrobban the eu version of bibby

gl bro

Old news.

lilrobban, and an esea banned cheater on his team top fucking lel this shit is a joke

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whos banned? vEz is unbanned and has already proven himself offline. It would be cruel to send back to prison a criminal who just came out of it, no?

2015-05-17 23:54

It says something when even the C2 guys no longer trust or want to play with you. They're basically the entire French scene.

2015-05-18 00:09

Lol french scene are the most notorious cheaters in all of north america. Theyre also french which is even worse than being a cheater.

2015-05-18 18:36

That's kinda the point I'm making. :)

2015-05-18 18:58

no please

2015-05-17 23:52

AAAHAHAHA

somehow maxaki always end up playing with cheaters.. Emilio (!) Henkezot (!) and now... vEz!

also he played with vac banned tekken at a local swedish lan. GG MaxAki.

also played with schneider in 1.6

meh there is a lot of cheating in low tier leauges

2015-05-18 00:04

henkez0t is cheater? x)

2015-05-18 01:25

was

2015-05-18 10:38

top 100 NA.

maxaki just fucking love cheaters

2015-05-17 23:55

late

Swedish mercenaries going over the Atlantic for the $.

Maxaki isn't even that good and he's on a shit team lol This team won't win anything.

wow good luck

2015-05-17 23:57

GL!!

2015-05-18 00:02

Robban guy seems good, he was the sh*t in 1.6

2015-05-18 00:05

lol this ain't RobbaN from SK.

2015-05-18 00:12

This isnt the same person. 1.6 RobbaN have been streaming alot lately tho.

2015-05-18 00:15

You guys just walked right into to my hunting trap, fresh rabbits :)

2015-05-18 00:42

ironic that you've named yourself erudite lmfao

2015-05-18 00:44

gl mate

GL over "there" Maxaki!

2015-05-18 00:13

lillrobban :) and gl maxaki!

2015-05-18 00:17

is maxaki an IGL ?

2015-05-18 00:21

yes he is

Hope this won't be a huge failure. Maxaki wasn't very impressive in his last team.

2015-05-18 00:33

top 10 NA top 150 world

2015-05-18 00:36

who is maxaki

2015-05-18 00:39

ex LGB, Orbit/UnWanted and Lemondogs hltv.org/news/10755-maxaki-cut-from-lemo.. hltv.org/news/11373-dennis-replaces-maxa.. hltv.org/forum/646582-new-swedish-clan-p..

2015-05-18 10:46

Dennis :(

2015-05-18 17:39

hltv using ie now

2015-05-18 00:40

LillRobbaN lmfao

2015-05-18 00:41

He is not even good -_-

2015-05-18 00:48

good enough for a team like ace

2015-05-18 01:10

well when u say it like that, It makes sense :P

2015-05-18 02:09

lol just lol what a waste of time there is other teams tho

2015-05-18 00:49

gl maxaki )

2015-05-18 00:59

worst team na

2015-05-18 01:33

ACE Gaming is a pug team lmao, they have new players every match

2015-05-18 01:38

You move TO CANADA, to play for a PUG team.....with a cheater? vEz has been banned for cheating on both ESEA and CEVO, albeit CEVO client isn't the best, but still. Who gets banned for CHEATING on both.

2015-05-18 02:11

he got caught on lan, ets 2014

2015-05-18 04:45

Wait, he was cheating on LAN? LOL.

2015-05-18 21:30

if you only knew how many of the swedish players have cheated in the past, you would be suprised the names i could give you :)

2015-05-18 21:07

they lost every game in esea open hahahah bad team but maxaki is bad so its ok

who pays for this

2015-05-18 02:33

the problem with this team is that 3 of the 5 players are simply not good enough.

This is a sound strategy for Tier 3 EU players. They can obviously never win in EU (and hence never get great sponsorship). So, instead they move to NA, which has shit players but tons of rich sponsors.

2015-05-18 04:09

good luck & have fun

2015-05-18 04:44

nice?

2015-05-18 05:28

this is so cringe

2015-05-18 06:37

The only that have conditions to play in high level in this team is vez, the others including maxaki sucks

2015-05-18 07:14

Maxaki doesn't suck, he is the IGL, so it's not supposed to be fragging a lot anyway. About the others... Monte is a pretty good player, but other than him (and maybe vez, as you said) the rest is a little bit shitty.

2015-05-18 08:17

LOL

2015-05-18 11:06

sorry, lol. In fact I don't know too much about you, I'm just telling what I saw.

2015-05-18 17:43

lol who would fly in LilRobban?

2015-05-18 07:38

GLGL :P

2015-05-18 08:12

A decent team to be honest, i have no idea why LilrobbaN keeps jumping from team to team.

Inb4 top NA team is pyth, maxaki, fiffi +2 more Swedes.

2015-05-18 09:05

EU start to rescue NA?

2015-05-18 09:09

Gl maxaki :)

2015-05-18 09:16

2015-05-18 10:48

RIP mOE

2015-05-18 11:28

who?

2015-05-18 12:13

gl dude, you will back to EU fast

2015-05-18 12:15

top 400 world

2015-05-18 12:24

inb4 Hunden joins cloud9

2015-05-18 14:56

retarded move

2015-05-18 17:20

Nice to see RobbaN back in the scene, tbh, it doesn't matter what the players are in NA, they think like silvers. RobbaN teaches these kids how to play and they'll destroy the rest of NA.

2015-05-18 17:30

Robban and lilrobban arent the same.

sry gotta go ♪~ ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

2015-05-18 20:02

Go back to last year and see how iBuyPower did before the idiots threw their match. The ONLY team dominating them was Fnatic. They had winning records against every other team in the top 6. Well, except VP. Against VP they were 6 wins and 7 losses. All the others in the top 7 or 8? Winning records. That's the silvers you're talking about. One team. Now, there's 7 or 8 teams with roughly the same skill. Outside Sweden and France, how many nations can dump their best team (as iBuyPower did), and have that many teams in the top 30 in the world? None. Go count..

2015-05-18 23:48

... and when I say "Now there's 7 or 8 teams with roughly the same skill" I mean between them, not the same level as iBuyPower. Obviously, none are as good as iBP.

2015-05-18 23:49