Jame^s parts ways with Liquid

23-4-2016 21:38

Team Liquid and their coach, James "Jame^s" O'Connor, have parted ways, the organization has just announced via Facebook.

The departure of coach James "⁠Jame^s⁠" O'Connor comes only two days after Oleksandr "⁠s1mple⁠" Kostyliev was removed from Liquid's starting roster, as he is seeking out a new European team to play with.

According to the announcement and the coach's statement, both parties agreed on the move as they "couldn't align their visions on how to accomplish success".

Liquid lose two members right after DreamHack Masters Malmö

It was not revealed whether Liquid will be seeking out a new coach after fielding Jame^s since September 2015, but it's not likely they will find a suitable replacement soon as other North American teams have failed to do so in recent months.

However, the American organization assured their fans that they believe they "will be able to continue their upward trajectory into the upcoming majors".

Contacted by HLTV.org, Jame^s gave us the following statement about his departure:

As of today I will no longer be coaching Team Liquid. I'm happy to have had the opportunity to coach such great players and see our hard work turn into great results. The organization took a chance on me as a coach and I take great pride knowing we went from a team missing ESEA playoffs before I arrived to finishing 3rd/4th at the first million dollar Major during my stay. I think we can all be proud of those results.

Unfortunately there is also a business side to counter strike. While both Team Liquid and I want the team to be successful, we couldn’t align our visions on how best to accomplish this. I want to thank Team Liquid, its players, and fans for the support while we became the best in N.A.

I'm looking forward to continuing to coach for a new team. You can contact me at @GBJamescsgo

"As of today I will no longer be coaching Team Liquid. I'm happy to have had the opportunity to coach such great players and see our hard work turn into great results. The organization took a chance on me as a coach and I take great pride knowing we went from a team missing ESEA playoffs before I arrived to finishing 3rd/4th at the first million dollar Major during my stay. I think we can all be proud of those results." O'Connor told HLTV.org.

"Unfortunately there is also a business side to Counter-Strike. While both Team Liquid and I want the team to be successful, we couldn't align our visions on how best to accomplish this. I want to thank Team Liquid, its players, and fans for the support while we became the best in N.A.

I look forward to coaching another top team in the near future.

- @GBJamesCSGO"

GL HF Jame^s

2016-04-23 21:38

22 replies

I sell this spot for commercial use only. Please offer me

14 replies

RIP

8 replies

who?

2016-04-23 21:39

S1MPLE AND COACH HAD NICE FRIENDSHIP. THEY GONNA FORM A TEAM TOGETHER XD

2016-04-23 21:50

6 replies

You forgot the kappa

2016-04-23 22:44

they can take a single room

2016-04-23 23:00

4 replies

But without jokes, James was really good. Big loss for liquid

2016-04-23 23:01

3 replies

u forgot the kappa

2016-04-23 23:42

2 replies

n o

2016-04-24 00:10

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"Just make a play that gets your d**k hard" - Top coach, brought in sooo many good tactical aspects. Oh wait, he didn't

2016-04-24 01:31

EZ FOR ENCE

give you some cases and you advertise my trade offer link

2016-04-23 22:00

How many?

2016-04-23 22:40

I bet Hiko is breaking up the whole team once again..

2016-04-23 22:11

i offer 1 awp assimov if you change it to: "Buy more condoms because your FUGLY" SINCERLY DUREX

2016-04-23 22:22

rip

Hes gonna coach c9

2016-04-23 21:46

They're bad already, they don't need him to destroy the team completely haha.

2016-04-23 23:11

I watched his interview by Thorin and RLewis and he gave me the impression that he had no fucking clue what he was actually doing with the team. After the clusterfuck with the adreN/s1mple/koosta trio and how it was handled I was certain that not only he was useless, but dangerously useless seeing how the team imploded...

2016-04-23 23:10

Dude I couldn't agree more. He seemed like a decent person but in terms of his CS knowledge and coaching ability he looked like a completely lost muppet and thorin was destroying him

2016-04-24 06:34

Not expected.

MAKE A PLAY THAT GETS YOUR DICK HARD

2016-04-24 10:15

LOOOOOOOOL

Loool, espescially to this: "will be able to continue their upward trajectory into the upcoming majors" No chance

2016-04-23 23:07

actually... they can go pretty easily from 3-4 to 12-16 #NAmath

2016-04-24 22:18

Haha :D +1

2016-04-24 22:29

hmm

best

GOOD READ

DISBAND INC YAY

123

who

no way!?!?

expected

wtf

121

hahaha

rIP

thanks for the info

lol why you need this info

2016-04-23 22:04

fail

finally

Who?

okay then

ripperoni

RIP TL

IT'S FALLING APART

Nicccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccce

cya, bye-bye :)

why so emo :D ?

Lol ok

lol that guy gave me the creeps, always touching the younger guys.

lol

2016-04-23 21:43

good, he was fucking useless

not n1

Liquid is dead now.

That's fine

Oh Dear.

1st5

"I look forward to coaching another top team in the near future." lmfao gl with that..

2016-04-23 21:40

he coached? lolz

he was a useless cunt lol. He did nothing

2016-04-24 02:23

not sure what significance he had. I'd think close to nil.

2016-04-23 21:41

+1 who is this guy? he's not an ex pro player, right? i couldn't figure out why anyone would use him as a coach to begin with.

2016-04-23 21:45

He got beverages for them. Hence the name GBJames

2016-04-23 21:47

THANK GOD FINALLY

Maikelelell

2016-04-23 21:42

Success parts ways with Liquid

RIP hard dicks

so sad

2016-04-23 21:44

RIP Liqiud

Since when is liquid a top team xD

The context was very clearly NA...

2016-04-23 21:55

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Luminosity?

2016-04-23 22:07

Are. U. Retarded? Top fucking teamS not top team

2016-04-23 22:30

> I want to thank Team Liquid, its players, and fans for the support while we became the best in N.A. "the best" And don't even start with Luminosity not being NA. They live in NA, practice in NA and play NA leagues.

2016-04-23 22:41

LG aren't NA, they are in NA. The key mistake and difference said being "in NA".

2016-04-23 23:02

The flag in game shows the nationality of the players (BR) thus LG are only located in NA. They are not NA.

2016-04-24 08:58

Good thing he didn't do jack shit He was getting paid to stand behind the guys

Did a show with Thorin and RLewis, gets sacked xD

s1mple coach confirmed

RIP HIKO,will never win anything

Thank fucking goodness. When your team coach is trudging back and forth looking every bit as dour and disheartened as the players they're supposed to be keeping in the game, then something is terribly wrong with the coaching effort being made. Jame^s, get into individual player coaching and demo reviewing. You smash at those things. You always have. Team coaching wasn't for you, however.

"dour" intruding on my verbose demesne, you are

2016-04-23 22:57

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English was around a long time before you cottoned onto it, dude.

2016-04-23 22:58

mate do you ever lighten up?

2016-04-23 22:59

No. Kappa

hehe

Hey, I'm the primogenitor of the "stich has a thesaurus" joke. Also, topkek at dour being "verbose." What you're looking for is lexiphanic; even then, dour isn't exactly recherché. Not much of the comment was thaaat ambagious. I've said it before, but the magniloquence is completely supererogatory on an international counter-strike website :P

2016-04-24 00:05

I know some of these words

2016-04-24 00:33

nt billy mays but im not buying that burger

2016-04-24 01:42

s1mple coach

FeelsBadMan. It's time for the mastermind that is Jokasteve to brush the dust off his mouse and put on his coaching glasses. #InJokaWeTrust

now they can progress

get ryu as fast as possible plsss

-koosta -adreN +Skadoodle +Shroud +Stunna (Best manager NA)

After failure at the major they'll just release the team xD

2016-04-23 21:48

this actually lasted longer than expected and as all delusional people he thinks hes gonna coach a good team again.

2016-04-23 21:49

He doesnt look as a smart guy.

gl the coach that did nothing and knew nothing about cs now get a real coach with ingame knowledge

Expected... GBJames confirmed as new host of "By The Numbers:CSGO".

GB JAMES JOINING BY THE NUMBERS CSGO GET HYPE BOYS

Liquid have gone to shit, lol.

"However, the American organization assured their fans that they believe they "will be able to continue their upward trajectory into the upcoming majors"." lol wat

2016-04-23 21:56

How to become top100 from top10 in 2 days: 1. Lose best player 2. Lose coach 3. Keep Koosta 4. ??? 5. profit

2016-04-23 21:57

i remember that south park episode haha :D

2016-04-23 21:58

NA being NA. Releasing everyone after a top4 major finish.

nice

2016-04-23 21:59

but who will touch elige now? rip na, gbjames na last home

"Become the best in NA" EleGiggle

2016-04-23 22:03

"while we became the best in N.A." this guy must be delusional

best american team for 1 weekend = true best in na = ayyyyyyyyyyyyy lmao

2016-04-23 22:06

lg ts SA c9 better then liquid? arent think that they are equal with clg though, except clg has players who arent fucking retarded/bots in some games

2016-04-23 22:15

IN na IN na IN na IN na not FROM na dumbfuck

2016-04-23 22:16

liquid is falling apart lel

2016-04-23 22:12

The CSGO community right now: youtube.com/watch?v=lMF0gIy-8xI

2016-04-23 22:17

Here we go again with Hiko's delusion. Team is going to fall apart, coz of Hiko, again.

2016-04-23 22:20

FINALLY !

-koosta keep adreN +anyone besides koosta

2016-04-23 22:24

My dick got hard

thank mr. thooorin thank mr. rlewis

2016-04-23 22:31

i didn't even know he existed

2016-04-23 22:34

same

2016-05-25 19:32

2016-05-25 20:13

Who are you and why are you on a month old thread?

2016-05-25 20:19

im uggabugga

2016-05-25 20:20

2016-05-25 20:21

you are scaring me

2016-05-25 20:22

2016-05-25 20:18

RIP Liquid?

2016-04-23 22:36

thank god, guys a moron

2016-04-23 22:38

feelsbad for Hiko :(

2016-04-23 23:04

you know you failed as a coach when you are a former ex marine and no one really respects you.

2016-04-23 23:22

made me flaccid

2016-04-23 23:36

this year is going to be really tough for TL... stadistically adren will most likely not perform consitently.. , koosta is far from beign good.. and even nitr0 wasnt really playing that good , and now this.. good luck i guess..

2016-04-23 23:47