oW^ joins Giants

15-5-2017 12:50

Giants Gaming have announced that they have secured the services of former Magistra player Oliver "oW^" Winther.

The announcements brings the player count on the team up to six, allowing them to mitigate the impact caused by the academic commitments of some of their members.

Oliver "⁠oW^⁠" Winther will reunite with Rubén "⁠TorPe⁠" Jesús Gómez Rodríguez after playing alongside the Spanish player for a brief period on TheTeamWithoutOrg, an international roster that also featured British veteran George "⁠hudzG⁠" Hoskins.

oW^ joins Spanish team Giants

With the Danish player's signing, Giants hope to overcome a poor run of form that has seen them get knocked out of the CEVO Main playoffs in the first Lower Bracket round and win just three of their first six matches in the ESL Masters, a €22,000 tournament featuring the best Spanish teams.

"I am very happy and excited to get this opportunity from the Giants family," Winther said in a statement.

"I have practised with the team already, and I believe we can do great things in the future.

"They are all very talented, both individually and as a team. I feel fortunate to have been invited to join this team, and I will give my best for them."

Giants currently have the following six-man roster:

Jonathan "⁠MusambaN1⁠" Torrent
Rubén "⁠TorPe⁠" Jesús Gómez Rodríguez
Raúl "⁠DeathZz⁠" Jordán Nieto
Javier "⁠Vasili⁠" Huélamo Gracia
Iván "⁠NaOw⁠" González
Oliver "⁠oW^⁠" Winther

Ovidio "OvaX" Gómez (coach)

2017-05-15 12:50

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is that this guy who seeks attention by screaming to everyone that he's gay?

2017-05-15 15:05

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yes thats oskah

2017-05-15 20:32

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oskah does not exist tho

2017-05-15 20:39

go to t1 now

2017-05-15 12:51

Wow

nsns

oW^ yeah

wait wtf 5 spaniards and a dane what the fuck is this

The beginning of a xxx-movie.

2017-05-15 14:53

Propably fluent in spanish, nothing special

2017-05-15 16:42

News that should be kept on Dust2.dk

2017-05-15 12:52

does he speak spanish? :D

he does, not fluently but enough for daily conversation

2017-05-15 13:12

No, he just signed a contract for a team where he doesn't understand anything.

2017-05-15 18:20

kennys was about to join navi, all he had to do was to learn calls in russian.. thats not that hard

2017-05-15 19:12

How they will comunicate? I dont see so much futur here, even with 5 spanish...we have a lot of problems with egos, the only way to have a chance is move to another country like mixwell or play with no spanish players like lowel

2017-05-15 12:53

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He can prob speak spanish tbh , wouldnt make sense otherwise.

2017-05-15 12:54

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No chance to be honest...

2017-05-15 12:55

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Why is that? Many scandinavian countries have the option to learn spanish in school.

2017-05-15 12:56

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Really? I didnt know, anyway the spanish is so dificult and of you talk fast...im sure you dont understand everything

2017-05-15 12:59

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Spanish is quite common to learn in denmark normally u can either choose between french,chinese and spanish

2017-05-15 13:01

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Oh, thats very nice, hope to meet denmark people and talk with them in the future ^^

2017-05-15 13:03

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In the interview dust2.dk did with him, he says that he Spears Spanish quite good :-)

2017-05-15 13:11

In Sweden, most learn Spanish as their C language (from year 6 to 9 in elementary school) partly because it's more widely used than German and French, but mostly because they're slackers and only plan on learning how to order a bucket of vodka ahead of their vacations to spain as they turn 16. The pragmatically oriented high performing students usually choose German because it's easier as it's more closely related to Swedish and because Germany, unlike spain, is relevant in academic fields. And then there's a few kids who learn French because god knows why. Some schools also offer D languages (year 8-9). Of students who continue learning their C and/or D languages, 25% percent take at least 1 further course in Spanish in the gymnasium (secondary upper school), and 14% and 11% for German and French respectively. A very limited amount of students also take Italian, Chinese, Japanese or Arabic.

2017-05-15 13:32

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ROFL let's keep it to the facts, dude. Unless you can back it up with facts that mostly "slackers" choose Spanish and "Pragmatically oriented high preforming students" choose German then I'd say it's not very fitting to state something like that. I'd believe many students choose Spanish because it's a more universal language than German which is not widely spoken outside Germany itself.

2017-05-15 14:34

mhm

2017-05-15 15:06

As a spanish I dare to say It is a language of poor people, even though it's more universal. But whatever

2017-05-15 15:42

Personally I picked spanish, because I'd already tried french and german, which didn't go too well.. Fresh start :D In my school we had English from 3rd grade (even earlier than that now), french or german from 5th grade, spanish optional from 7th grade and onwards. Physics and chemistry was from 3rd grade too, iirc.

2017-05-15 17:27

How many languages are you learning in dk? English + 2nd Language? And what are those? Is german only learned in border area? Would be logical

2017-05-15 17:02

Well its just English + german but when u graduate middelschool and go to college u have the opportunity to choose between the 3 languages french,chinese and spanish normally

2017-05-15 17:22

Clemenz0 isn't wrong, but he's not quite right either. It depends on what school you go to. The one I went to, taught english from 3rd grade (~8 years old), french or german (your pick) from 5th and spanish as an optional in 7th grade. I'm pretty sure they moved english to first or 2nd grade now, if not earlier than that. (I'm getting old) Some schools, including the one I went to, will sometimes offer courses like Italian and chinese, due to the fact that they have an international department (for expats, or danes returning home with kids, who haven't been living in Denmark until now). But yeah, some schools will only offer German as 3rd language. It depends on the geography, if you're in west/south-west part of Denmark, you're very likely to pick german anyway. Which is probably why they don't offer french classes.

2017-05-15 17:33

In Norway you've English, Norwegian and Nynorsk(2nd written language in Norway) courses at least the first 10 years of school. At year 8 you choose a third course(Advanced English aka retards, French, Spanish or German) which you will take for 3 years(8th-10th) after that depending on your choice you will have English, Norwegian and possibly 1 more foreign course during the next 3 years(11-13th) before university/college. At 16 years of age you should be fluent in Norwegian and English, basic knowledge/fluent in optional third language, Swedish, some Danish (at least written) and if you live up north there is a good possibility you also know Sami

2017-05-15 20:33

Man, Spanish is not that difficult to learn. Learning Spanish was easier than learning English for me. And as I was able to spend about 2 years in Madrid I would say it went quite well. There are way more challenging languages to learn, trust me.

2017-05-15 15:08

Spanish is the easiest out of the languages you can learn in Sweden. I think you underestimate Sweden or overestimate your languages difficulty.

2017-05-15 15:16

They taught Spanish at my old school in Adelaide,SA.

2017-05-15 16:02

Spanish is quite easy to learn once you get the basics and grammar down. Took 3 years of it in middle school, then I lived in Barcelona (after 5 years of no spanish before the move) and did more than fine with it. Even managed to learn some catalan in the process. We have it as an option between german, spanish and french. Then you can continue learning it in highschool if you so want to. The teachers arent the best, but had a substitute for a while that was from el salvador that was great learning it from.

Like more than half of the Swedish students study Spanish(I guess it is kind of the same in Denmark). Only a few remembers it when they grow older though. But ow surely is one that can speak Spanish at least some what good, for this to make sense.

Not even close tbh. We're also neighbors to Germany remember :D My guess, english excluded, 75% German, 15% french, 10% Spanish. Atleast until you leave primary school.

2017-05-15 17:39

Whaaat i was far off. In Sweden like it is like 75% Spanish 15% French and only 10% tops german lol

2017-05-15 17:44

Well, we have strong historical ties to Germany. Imagine Finland was the size of Germany (add the powerfactor). Pretty sure your schools would be teaching Finnish :D

2017-05-15 17:47

he speaks spanish, not fluently but enough for daily conversation.

2017-05-15 13:13

oW-dA-Pr0-Meister <3

wtf

6v5 easy games...

Yeah nice lineup LUL

2017-05-15 13:05

6 players?

2017-05-15 13:16

FPL GOD!

2017-05-15 13:18

KappaPride

2017-05-15 13:33

Is that the guy who used to go by the nickname GAYMEISTER in FPL?

2017-05-15 14:02

and this is thanks to FPL, right? ^^

2017-05-15 15:11

ow is so bad

2017-05-15 15:26

this is that guy from FPL? nice :D

2017-05-15 15:30

Worst nickname in CSGO.

2017-05-15 16:00

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2017-05-15 16:12

so ur linking minet but u didnt link his very teammate COLON? fyi colon is the english word for the internal organ that produces shit and squeezes it out thru the anus. and btw: ow is a terrible nickname. "OH MY GOD OH-DOUBLE-YOU ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!" try it out in ur head its awful.

2017-05-15 16:45

who gets the ace......kappa actually i knew about COLON(saw him in 1.6 and go) but "i didnt know this details" abot the translation.Ty 4 the lesson,bro.But u need to agree what even forest or gtr sounds funny a bit.

2017-05-15 16:52

In russian streams it will be 'Ou wee', like JW is 'Jay wee' XD

2017-05-15 19:48

in german it would be like "oh-weh" and thats what we say when something bad happens. like ur friend breaks his arm and on the phones hes like shit dude i broke my arm and u would say "oh weh" would be the dumbest shit ever in a cast

2017-05-16 00:09

Best of luck oW. I remember many years ago i played with Dima, and he had a very young cousin that wanted to play some cs. I think you where around 13? at that point. Anyways seems like you stuck to it and now it really pays off :)

2017-05-15 16:08