GuardiaN to play in DH playoffs

14-4-2016 12:47

As Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovács' condition has gotten better and he was cleared to play by his doctor, he will travel to Malmö to play in the DreamHack Masters playoffs.

Only two days prior to DreamHack Masters Malmö Natus Vincere have learned that Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács wouldn't be able to play in the tournament due to his hand's condition getting worse.

However, his status has changed in the last couple of days, as doctors have cleared him to start playing again. The organizers revealed that the Slovakian will receive the last round of treatment for joint and muscle inflammation on Friday, just before travelling to Sweden.

GuardiaN cleared to play again

DreamHack have allowed for him to step back into the team for the DreamHack Masters playoffs despite Natus Vincere playing the group stage with coach Sergey "⁠starix⁠" Ischuk, who put in a solid performance during the first two days of competition.

The Swedish organizer quoted a few rules to explain why GuardiaN was allowed to play:

Teams are allowed to change players after receiving invites or qualifying
GuardiaN was on the player list attending Malmö
starix was on the list attending Malmö, replacing GuardiaN
If a player during a tournament would turn ill or for another reason can't participate the team can find a substitute
Players already participating in the tournament can not play for another team as stand-in

Natus Vincere's full roster for the playoffs is thus following:

Ioann "⁠Edward⁠" Sukhariev
Danylo "⁠Zeus⁠" Teslenko
Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin
Egor "⁠flamie⁠" Vasilyev
Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács

Sergey "⁠starix⁠" Ischuk (coach)

The team has advanced to quarter-finals from first place in group B, which means they will face one of the second-placed teams from the other groups on Saturday, April 16th.

navi saved ^^

2016-04-14 12:48

2016-04-14 12:47

yay

wow

1st

2 replies

Nt tho

2016-04-14 13:17

2016-04-14 17:18

cool

treatment for joint ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

2016-04-14 12:50

rofl

wut

n1ce

nice

YESSS

awesome

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

cUMBACK

rip, starix was better

PogChamp

WHAT! nip cant switch for pyth but they can switch to guardian? BS!! BS!!!!!!!

19 replies

this is not major

11 replies

so? 250k is still a big tournament.

2016-04-14 12:49

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big tournament =/= major

MLG =/= DH different organizers, different rules now it's clear?

2016-04-14 12:57

And the rules to majors probably come from Valve.

2016-04-14 13:19

You mean Valve =/= DH

2016-04-14 13:43

That's not the point. DreamHack can have their own rules while on Major rules are set by Valve. That rule for pyth not being able to play was stupid. NiP did not play with "real" stand-in, they played with their coach. Same here with Na'Vi. It's a core member of the team, they don't change their lineup. In fact, I think 6 man CS teams should become a norm so that players could take time off.

2016-04-14 12:58

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True

2016-04-14 13:23

Dreamhack =/= MLG/Valve. Rules can change, not like NiP would have done any better with pyth.

2016-04-14 12:59

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Not like threat is a fucking podbot. I hold him in higher standards than pyth

2016-04-14 14:55

In 1.6 but not in GO

2016-04-14 15:09

Pyth is god m8

2016-04-15 09:32

this isn't a major dude, calm your tits

Different organizers, different rules, different conditions

Valve vs Dreamhack

2016-04-14 12:51

+1 this is ridicolus they win the final,then they need a bo7 Nuke game vs fnatic to get the money ahahh

2016-04-14 12:55

different org, different rules

2016-04-14 13:26

Well this is DH so aren't they different organizers, hence, different rules? To be honest, I agree with you, but ..

2016-04-14 13:40

malmo organizers normal people columbus organizers braindead murican valve employees

2016-04-14 14:20

RIP LUMINOSITY

Dignitas to win anyway xD

2016-04-14 12:53

Not Needed

ez navi now

wtf lmao

lol ez na'vi

is this legal?

no guardian

Wat

starix can win this lan

starix >

dreamhack best tournament i suppose :p

yes GuardiaN AWP GOD

Good rules imo

lol

COOL

Sick!

He will fail so hard, with starix they had chance :)

completely agree, GuardiaN couldnt heal his wrist for such a small amount of time and probably didnt put many hours during his treatment period. And he even said he wont push himself to the limits. Ridiculuos decision by NaVi

2016-04-14 15:15

Yeeeeey

WTF? PYTH COULDNT PLAY IN PLAYOFFS CUZ THREAT PLAYED 1 MATCH, SO THEY WHERE NOT ABLE TO CHANGE?

24 replies

its dreamhack and its not valve sponsored. they set up their own rules :p

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fuck america!

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nah fuck valve rather

4 replies

Technically valve is american but its true you can't generalize to all of america

2016-04-14 12:52

i have never seen a company work the same way valve does. they have some sort of god complex and it's pissing everyone off

Blizzard has started doing it in recent years.

2016-04-14 13:48

my mistake, fuck valve!

Let's keep the fingers off caps lock :)

2016-04-14 12:54

actually I just wrote, didnt notice i had caps on :D

2016-04-14 12:56

7 replies

you type staring at your keyboard? nt

2016-04-14 13:02

i type staring at your naked mom

2016-04-14 13:03

why you always lying?

2016-04-14 13:04

add me on snap, i can take a picture if u want so see her :)

just ask your sister for my number

2016-04-14 13:05

i dont have any.. hmm, maybe u mean my dad? ok, i ask.. faggot

2016-04-14 13:14

That is what you came up with , daddy issues mattie ?

2016-04-14 16:52

admin warning for capslock but all the vicious, toxic, insulting posts in the forum are just kept. Made me laugh

Mods always try to keep news comments clean, but dont' care that much about forums

2016-04-14 13:41

Not an admin :P

2016-04-14 13:45

It's better later than never, hopefully some organizers take note.

This isnt a major

2016-04-14 13:18

Mad kid

2016-04-14 14:49

u mad cuz allu got kicked alcoholic fucktard

2016-04-14 14:50

You're so upset man. Why?

Sounds like no longer an easy road to the grand final for Astralis.

The same Astralis that got demolished by dignitas?

I'm pretty sure it would have been a different game if it was a play-off game.

Astralis is known for doing great in groups, and worse in playoffs though

Top Kek

NaVi DAVoI

hmm Dreamhack > MLG obviously.. Pyth wasnt allowed to play... sick

That is valves fault and not Mlg bro.

Behemoth incoming!

that's awesome now go win the event boys

So why

because dreamhack isnt mlg ? stupid question

RiP GOD starix

saved

Da king is back

Nice gg brazilian bananas end inc.

cool hope its right decision

the age of the coach-sub? start botting zonic

This age definitely would be welcomed. All tournaments should allow this kinda of roster changes during the tournament. After all, it never will help the team to change roster during the tournament, it will pretty much always be some sort of force majure issue.

I wonder if zonic has ever touched CS:GO..I think he has like 1k or 500hours in game.Thats clearly not enough

2016-04-14 13:01

YES

wow. they really want to win this. they dont want any troubles with starix stand-in.

Goood!

Navi Davi!!!! <3💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

Now go win this, you deserve it!

guardian = all the party = ez DH win

I wonder is this a good choice, as GuardiaN probably hasn't played at all in 2 weeks.

wooo

What the fuck? NiP couldnt change THREAT for pyth in mlg major. But Navi can? Gg valve. Gg. (Yes im a nip fanboy but anyways)

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dude, this is not a major. DH makes the rules this time, not valve.

Valve is not involved. DH Malmö is not a major.

Ik its not a major. But i thought that valve wasinvolved..

what give you a hint of that stickers, news on their site ? oh wait there was non of that

the only thing valve is involved in is majors,thats why only tournaments with valve involved is a MAJOR

2016-04-14 13:10

pyth couldn't attend Columbus because of visa problems, but GuardiaN said that he will attend Malmo but not as a player

Maybe read before rage

This is not organized by Valve, get over it fanboy.

Retard detected. mlg major (volvo) =/= dreamhack non-major (no-volvo). But what can you expect from NiP fanboy? to have a brain ? HaHaHaHaHaHa

2016-04-14 13:00

starix > GuardiaN

I'm glad he fixed his injury so fast. GL NA'VI P.S. God starix

rip starix he carried and now kovac takes it from him

ffs just let him rest, starix is doing a fine job

2016-04-14 15:16

The prince comeback home

Kek

ez dreamhack win for Na'Vi

Awesome news but then again I loved seeing starix play again and would have loved to see more. He did pretty great.

really unnecessary, just let him fully recover.

+1 this is risky, the injury cab get worse if it doesn't recovers completely

2016-04-14 13:12

Wtf nice

not fair..

cry more

2016-04-14 14:52

starix is better

YEEEES!!!!

ez for navi if gardian hand is ok

n1ce :)

Ez navi But I would let him fully recover instead

*********** I would have rest more.

VEEEERY NICE!

RIP LG

Stupid a tear injury dont heal that fast. Hope it get worse.

youtu.be/wcoFhJekfeE?t=44s Eng subs

Wtf how can u be that toxic

2016-04-14 13:20

Obviously fnatic fanboy

2016-04-14 13:37

Because people are stupid with these injuries if he tear it enough it will become chronic and can never be fixed again.

2016-04-16 13:46

Navi ez

sosi huy sin shlyuhi

Seriously? It healed in a little more than a week? 2 weeks ago he couldn't play without using 5 sens... We'll see, though!

rip navi :(

ez win

ez for guardian <3

God is back :3

rekt

Very nice for NaVi (even though he most likely didnt practice a lot), Valve should enforce the same rules for their tournaments

Great news for Na`VI and all Na`VI fans! ;)

eyy NaVi smart

Out of nowhere almighty Guardian appears, rip DH I guess. Show 'em what you got ivaN.

I wonder how they will divide the winnings between starix and Guardian

yes!!!!

ez rip guardian

starix>guardian.

Well done, to throw fake information to weaken opponents and to drag. Easily, the Brazilians are afraid.

GodiaN

2016-04-14 13:06

EASY TOURNAMENT FOR NAVI

2016-04-14 13:08

1.3 sens or 5.0 sens ?

2016-04-14 13:09

1.337

2016-04-14 13:21

Now this is fair. wp to DH :)

shoutout to starix who has shown he still got it

2016-04-14 13:11

2016-04-14 13:13

Ne}|{dan4ik :D

Congrats to guardian

doctors have cleared him to start playing again topkek

i hope he will perform as he always does

idiots. NiP playing all time with standin. and now Navi can playing with guardian. retard orgs

rip starian

2016-04-14 13:15

DreamHack have allowed for him to step back into the team for the DreamHack Masters playoffs despite Natus Vincere playing the group stage with coach Sergey "starix" Ischuk, who put in a solid performance during the first two days of competition. watch and learn VOLVO

NICE

2016-04-14 13:16

Fucking unfair. Now envyus's chance r low. Dreamhack are just fucking anti- sweden and french. NiP pyth cant but guardian can LOL. Fuck gaben's wife, Fuck Valve

cheat got updated. undetectable again. gz.

0.01/10 b8

Look at his flag, they know about cheats everything , trust him

2016-04-14 21:07

Look at his name. He wouldn't admit to cheating, would he?

2016-04-17 11:46

gg navi lost

2016-04-14 13:22

Easy for Tyloo

Nice! We can't let the chinese win like this!

twitter.com/FoxgloveCSGO/status/71962039.. seized was right, look at his comment

Sosi hui, sin blyadi

2016-04-14 13:49

Seems like Guardians hand didn't get injury while playing CSGO :D

2016-04-14 13:55

RiP Starix :(

2016-04-14 13:27

if only MLG admins let this happen with NiP :(

eeeee haha nice nice nice!!! love this team! <3 but Starix... :((((

2016-04-14 13:29

starix is the best coach, starix is the best igl, starix is the best awper, starix is jesus starix are past, starix are present and starix will future starix bestest

2016-04-14 13:32

2016-04-14 13:34

ayyy NaVi gonna be champions here for sure. LG so bad

I will be there cheering!

GG Na'Vi, LG too stupid.

DH > MLG's rules

Starix EleGiggle was EleGiggle the EleGiggle problem EleGiggle

Wanted to see starix play

2016-04-14 13:47

+1 and hear an interview from someone else but Guardian.

2016-04-14 13:50

Yeah the reason they attribute Navi success to him is because he's the only who speaks English on the team. Navi really needs some basic English lessons.

2016-04-14 13:53

he is not speak english ingame :D watch ts povs.

2016-04-14 14:56

bad idea. Let Guardian rest properly, there will be plenty of tournaments. I'd prefer him healthy to fight with LG on equal terms, not like last 2 times..

Doctors said all is good now

starix was performing dope, I doubt that GuardiaN perform at his level?

2016-04-14 13:51

now Luminosity can prove they are better than a fully able NaVi

2016-04-14 13:52

nt amigo

2016-04-14 14:19

should of worded that better, now they have the opportunity to prove they are better. Personally i don't think they are.

only after they prove they are better than t3 China. Maybe next Malmo...

2016-04-14 14:23

LOL tru

Good luck Guardian!

2016-04-14 13:58

Pretty stupid. I get that he wants to play and all, i would've too. But just wait it out..

2016-04-14 14:06

5 sens inc

2016-04-14 14:09

Yeeeah, GuaaaaaaardiaN <3 Hope he has recovered 100%!

2016-04-14 14:11

starix >>> guardian

2016-04-14 14:29

Very nice. Ty GODSTARIX:)

2016-04-14 14:34

Miss event due to hand injury. Can play now, cleared by doctor. What is it ? UFC ?

2016-04-14 14:37

Fallen is out, Guardian is back, expected 16-2 never forget lmao

saying 16-2 never forget after getting rekt by tier 5 team in a BO3 lmaoooo

+1 :D comeback isnotrael

2016-04-14 15:43

Gl hf guardian, nice to have you back so quick!

2016-04-14 14:53

Must have been a real serious injury if he's healed in less than a week LOL. Telling me he couldn't take a week off before the major to seek treatment rather than losing and using it as an excuse? LOL these players are such whiny bitches.

2016-04-14 15:06

yep seems like navi have no idea whet they are doing

2016-04-14 15:19

i liked starix better

2016-04-14 15:20

guardian playing with fire here... i hope his doctor knows what he's doing.

2016-04-14 15:25

+1 !

2016-04-14 15:54

How come nobody can properly think in this thread...Even if mlg allowed player switching, pyth wouldn't have made in columbus because of his visa being delayed, most of the people don't fucking mind thinking before typing on hltv...

2016-04-14 15:47

noooo(

2016-04-14 16:01

GodiaN is back :>

2016-04-14 16:47

he is good awper but still worse than markeloff in 1.6

2016-04-14 16:48

RIP Starix

2016-04-14 20:59

YES GUARDIAN <3

2016-04-14 21:10

seriously... i like guardian and for me he is the absolute number 1 if it comes to awping... but starix did such a nice job he really deserved to play this tournament till the end...

2016-04-15 00:16