kakafu joins BIG as coach

20-2-2017 16:00

BIG have announced that they have secured the services of Alexander "kakafu" Szymanczyk as the team's coach.

Alexander "⁠kakafu⁠" Szymanczyk had been seeking a new challenge since parting ways with PENTA Sports, with whom he had spent over a year as a coach and occasionally as a substitute player as well.

In a statement, BIG revealed that kakafu has been working with the team for several weeks now and that the players are "highly satisfied with his excellent work."

kakafu takes over as BIG's coach after leaving PENTA

The news comes as a considerable boost to BIG, a player-owned organisation created in January by former NRG trio Fatih "⁠gob b⁠" Dayik, Nikola "⁠LEGIJA⁠" Ninić and Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz.

"I am pleased to have the chance to coach a German team," he said in a statement. "During my time with PENTA I gained a lot of experienced and attended some events with the team.

"When I was asked whether I would be interested in coaching the team around gob b, I was fascinated with the line-up.

"During the bootcamp I got to know all the players and got a first glimpse at how the team works.

"It will take me some time to be fully integrated in the team, but I will do my best for us to reach our goals."

BIG have been drawn in Group B of the SL i-League Season 3 qualifier, along with Tengri, Team123 and iGame.com. The team's roster currently consists of:

Fatih "⁠gob b⁠" Dayik
Nikola "⁠LEGIJA⁠" Ninić
Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz
Johannes "⁠nex⁠" Maget
Kevin "⁠keev⁠" Bartholomäus

Alexander "⁠kakafu⁠" Szymanczyk (coach)

2017-02-20 16:07

3 replies

UNEXPECTED also rip guy dat had #1

2017-02-20 16:08

2 replies

i was #1.. omgwtf

2017-02-20 16:10

1 reply

FeelsBadMan

2017-02-20 16:17

Nice ! That improves the team alot !

inb4 Disband.......gg

2017-02-21 21:07

nice

kakafu polish surname confirmed

24 replies

I guess he has the austrian citizenship and by the way in OpTic 4 out of 5 do not have an american/canadian surname :)

2017-02-20 16:09

22 replies

Yeah I knew about OpTiC, and some other teams. Hiko has the only Americanish surname. NAF is balkan region surname, Rush - polish, mixwell is Spanish and tarik is Turkish.

20 replies

all those eximmigrants are saving america for "NA CS", without them they would not have any proper csgo team.

2017-02-20 16:12

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Yeah lol, btw Cloud9 :D Stewie = Chinese origins Autimatic = Vietnamese I think it was Shroud = Polish n0thing = NA Skadoodle = NA Liquid EliGe = Polish Stanislaw = Polish jdm64 = Not sure but Marzano sounds bit Italian to me nitr0 = Canella sounds Italian aswel/Mixwell = Cañellas Pimp = Danish :D

2017-02-20 16:16

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:D u drunk ? Shroud polish ?

2017-02-20 16:39

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Well his dad is Polish and perfectly speaks Polish so yes. Has the polish origins hltv.org/player/8349-shroud

2017-02-20 16:45

Few words from Shroud's father to his Polish fans youtube.com/watch?v=nzi-93VEAmQ

2017-02-20 19:03

It is because of his surname ''Grzesiek''

2017-02-20 16:44

shroud is indeed polish and speaks it a little

Just cause of his surname

2017-02-20 16:55

He was speaking with TaZ in Polish once at lan event in US. His accent was close to Perfect.

2017-02-20 17:06

Jdm and nitr0 nave italian surnames

2017-02-21 10:59

I assume you meant to write "have" If so then tnx for confirmation.

2017-02-21 14:28

Yeah sorry, autocorrection corrected it in italian

2017-02-21 15:09

Almost all Americans are immigrants...

2017-02-20 17:11

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Yeah that's true, but the difference is between living in the US since 2-4 generations and living there since one gen.

2017-02-20 17:16

Not that big. If you're born, raised, educated, in a country and then continue to live there as an adult you're clearly that country's nationality.

2017-02-20 17:20

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Ok, yes. That should count too. We were firstly only talking about the roots but in the end you shouldn't care about something such unimportant like this. CS is CS and noone should care where the players are from... JUST ENJOY THE GAME !!!

2017-02-20 17:49

True words. Peace

2017-02-21 18:29

2017-02-21 19:36

That's not what Donald Trump says

2017-02-20 17:51

This guy is a cunt with asshair on his head

2017-02-21 20:29

His Name means kakerlakenfurz (cockroachfart) He told it in his stream No joke

2017-02-21 11:35

i read from him on reddit that he speaks farsi iirc

2017-02-20 19:35

another polish guy in german team xD

yes... always these austrian polaks in german CS teams..tsts

2017-02-20 16:21

wrong

2017-02-20 16:27

he is from austria ?

2017-02-22 16:39

SURPRISE motherfucker ! just kiddin'

PENTA seriously went to shit.

R.I.P Penta; R.I.P plan-B

went with this guy to technic school in vienna ROFL . now im poor hes gonna become rich from coaching csgo i did something wrong

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He will not become rich coaching t3 team lol. He should be happy if he has salary.

2017-02-20 16:26

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dude its their own created orga with many guys investing into them :o he will make for sure 3-4k monthly with this and if they win events even more

2017-02-20 16:34

BIG is literally owned by the same guy who owns mousesports...

2017-02-20 17:45

It's not. don't spread bs

2017-02-21 17:03

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maybe he isnt mouz owner anymore, but BIG and mouz were founded by the same person

2017-02-21 18:25

Mouz is owned by a guy called Cengiz while BIG is owned and was founded by the players. The ex-mousesports manager, called Lenz, works now for BIG. i think you've mixed that up

2017-02-23 01:55

No I haven't, cengiz is just mouz CEO, founder of mouz is Yilmaz Ozan who also founded BIG. And how could anyone think Lenz is owner lol

2017-02-23 21:56

where do you have that from? that yilmaz founded BIG. can you link me the source? because i'm quite sure that he has nothing to do with big. it wouldn't make much sense either because he would have bought nex out of his own contract

2017-02-24 01:35

servas Hurn

2017-02-20 18:52

feelsbadman

2017-02-20 17:05

Technical School in Vienna -> TGM? :-D

2017-02-21 18:54

jupz haha

2017-02-21 19:10

kinda obvious - graduated there 2005 ;-) makes me feel old right know haha

2017-02-21 19:38

Szymanczyk? hmmm...

2017-02-20 16:30

eaz

Okay Penta is completely dead now

Nice.

2017-02-20 17:10

Only austrian news in the next 10 years...since 1.6

2017-02-21 18:58

RIP.. Even tho pre 1.6 was even better... RIP ]I[ RIP aut CS

2017-02-21 19:05

Haha infernum - epic :-D

2017-02-21 19:41

Big > SK

2017-02-20 18:12

Szymanczyk - EZ FOR POLISH COACH LOL

2017-02-20 18:38

GL BIG! make something big happen! GOD kakafu

2017-02-20 18:51

2 days team..

2017-02-20 20:29

i think this is the first time, austria is in the news

2017-02-20 20:48

It really is. Austria literally has no scene whatsoever. On march 5th im gonna play the frühlingscup with my team but i dont expect any good teams there :/

2017-02-21 00:56

austrian scene = dukiii that means that literally the whole austrian "pro"-scene is cheating

2017-02-21 17:05

It isn't, not too long ago vlad1rox was in the news, also with austria flag

2017-02-21 18:28

kakafu, really nice nick

2017-02-20 21:44

good choice i mean he improve penta sooooo much kkkkk

2017-02-20 22:25

devilwalk wasn't available :(

2017-02-21 01:00

rekt those planb guys 10yrs ago in q3a

2017-02-21 00:28

then lose to team123 in a bo3

2017-02-21 10:24

Team123 is a lot better than most people on here think, and mertz went absolutely insane in the second half of Nuke (had 6 kills at half time and finished on 41 after double-OT)

2017-02-21 12:34