iGame.com change two; bring in ottoNd and BASiC

15-8-2017 17:09

iGame.com has announced that Lasse "ZOREE" Uronen and Saku "SAGGERTON" Jokinen are to be replaced by Otto "ottoNd" Sihvo and Kimmo "BASiC" Fagerholm, as the team looks to make further strides in the competitive scene.

Unlike many teams in their tier, iGame.com has rarely made roster changes, with the core of the team holding together since 2015. At the end of 2016, the team switched Slaava "⁠Twista⁠" Räsänen from a playing to a coaching role and added Jesse "⁠zehN⁠" Linjala, who was replaced by Juho "⁠juho⁠" Lampinen after a brief tenure with the squad.

iGame.com have added BASiC to the fold

That five stuck together for six months, playing from a gaming house in Kerava, Finland, but couldn't break through to the upper echelons of CS:GO, finishing 7-8th at the European Minor and 16th in ESEA Premier Season 25.

In hopes of adding some new energy and getting a fresh start, iGame.com have said farewell to Lasse "⁠ZOREE⁠" Uronen and Saku "⁠SAGGERTON⁠" Jokinen, breaking up the long-standing core of the team. To replace them, Otto "⁠ottoNd⁠" Sihvo, a 19-year-old AWPer, and Kimmo "⁠BASiC⁠" Fagerholm, a CS 1.6 star, have been added to the fold.

This is what the team's coach Twista said about the change:

"It was obvious that we were missing something, and we have spent a lot of time figuring out what it was. We went through our ways of learning and proceeding as players and as a team, our ways of going through demos, strats and various in-game situations etc. After everything was said and done, it became more clear to us that on top of the ability to interpret demos and in-game situations, we were lacking two of the most important aspects outside the game: effort and willingness. Since we were struggling so much, it worsened our team chemistry to a level where there was no turning back unless we would miraculously start winning everything, and that wasn’t happening."

Read the whole announcement on iGame.com's website here.

iGame.com are now:

Juho "⁠juho⁠" Lampinen
Sami "⁠xseveN⁠" Laasanen
Eetu "⁠sAw⁠" Saha
Otto "⁠ottoNd⁠" Sihvo
Kimmo "⁠BASiC⁠" Fagerholm

Slaava "⁠Twista⁠" Räsänen (coach)

Why?

2017-08-15 17:09

12 replies

bc they've plateaued

2017-08-15 17:13

good question

2017-08-15 17:20

iGame were plateauing and needed some fresh blood on their team. SAGGERTON and ZOREE were the star players on iGame before they started to plateau as a team.

2017-08-15 17:49

3 replies

Allu, Saggerton, Zoree, good team can be formed.

2017-08-15 20:22

2 replies

Dont knoe if trolling but these guys aint on same wavelength

2017-08-15 20:49

Saggerton and zoree cant form a good team cuz they are not good enough

2017-08-16 09:14

>want to make igame better >bring in 2 nonamer bots LOL

2017-08-15 19:20

basic nonamer? :D well sure, in csgo maybe, but he was a big name in 1.6

2017-08-15 20:34

he was ok known name in 1.6. Not big lol. =D Maybe for the finns.

2017-08-16 03:30

Doesnt change the fact that he's gonna be dogshit like the rest of the 1.6 finnish pros

2017-08-16 11:00

wohoo! my 1.6 hero.. next please: tihOp, H^N, aslak..

2017-08-15 19:37

1 reply

Vfak...

2017-08-15 20:31

very cool

Why basic?

2017-08-15 17:10

cuz its hype bro

2017-08-15 17:15

yessssssssss

2017-08-15 17:50

No allu?

10 replies

allu wants better salary then max 1k euro per month

9 replies

on faze was 100k on week i guess

2017-08-15 17:18

7 replies

nah he got like 10-15k

6 replies

so bad LUL

5 replies

better than 1k per month

Bad salary? Faze pays biggest salary in eu atm

2017-08-15 17:31

no, g2 25k.

2017-08-15 18:14

It dependent on the player for example NiKo makes 40-45 k a months but a player like kio prolly makes 10-20k

2017-08-16 16:42

they all get the same.

2017-08-16 16:43

Most of faze got 100k/week, allu got 200k/week Extra kappa

2017-08-15 18:16

FINNISH CS MEGALUL

haHAA retarded

2017-08-15 17:37

DANES IN RALLYING LUL

2017-08-16 06:48

RALLYING =/= CSGO

+1 =)))

2017-08-16 11:10

rallying? what

2017-08-17 14:37

excuse me who?

Expected from someone who didnt watch 1.6

2017-08-15 22:40

true, true

1.6 =////////= CSGO

wtf?

basic what? gl tho

first

TRACE, BASIC. BEST DAY

trace? Sorry didn't see the headline xd

2017-08-15 19:51

Very good changes GL iGame

2017-08-15 17:11

then you need to kick saw too and take Arvid or sth

ENCE lineup- allu zoree saggerton zehn (he is getting kicked, right?) ?

2017-08-15 17:14

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2017-08-15 17:33

Solid move by ottond to go to a shittier team :D

2017-08-15 17:12

8 replies

yeah because VITALIS was going to places with players like bona and aune

Thanks for ur comment son. thats brave to comment here anonymous! =) whats the team ur playing in atm?

2017-08-15 21:49

Don't let them get to you, friend. You're a lovely player.

2017-08-15 22:12

haha, thats not going to happen. i enjoy these comments =D yeah sinppaz im very mad. Actually this ruined my whole day!!!

2017-08-15 22:52

Lul gets mad over a comment on hltv

2017-08-15 22:41

haha he wasn't expecting that :D

2017-08-15 23:13

Lord aune good aimer but god drinker. Ottond cant handle booze

2017-08-16 00:38

Playing full time vs half time, hard decision

2017-08-17 17:12

finally get again tier2 winland team?

And all of a sudden an allu finnish team is viable again

ottoNd has been looking superb with the awp for vitalis, great pickup.

who

newfag

2017-08-15 17:23

Id 825504 LOLOLol

2017-08-15 17:29

703k id is hot stuff too

2017-08-15 17:53

thats still 122k less than yours xd

2017-08-15 19:30

New account =\= new fag. You showed you new faggetness by not knowing who basic is.

2017-08-15 22:43

4 replies

u never heard about baiting on hltv?

2017-08-15 22:47

why should someone who is not from finland know some random 1.6 player from 15 years back? did he win a lot of tier1 tournaments? i arent think that i know him tho as he is good but not knowing basic if you are not from finland doesnt mean u are a newfag necessarily

2017-08-16 08:57

just means you didnt follow latter years of 1.6 properly, comparable to not knowing jugi at the moment.

2017-08-16 10:52

everybody who followed top cs scene 2010-2012 knows who BASiC is...

2017-08-17 17:11

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF BASICCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC LEGEND IS BACK

BaSiC?? :o

BaSiC was best fin 1.6 player in the end but also i dont think he can make anything happen in this game .

2017-08-15 17:24

He's actually over 3k elo on faceit, and has played a good bit of CSGO. So lookout he might surprise you ;)

because washed up 1.6ers treats faceit like it's a major. always 5stack pushing elo, atleast when it comes to the swedes. all aim no brain

2017-08-15 17:38

He was never washed up, and he's actually one of the smarter players to touch 1.6. He's gonna do well bro, you'll see. :)

2017-08-15 17:40

ive heard that one before hah

+1 why these old fags think they they can still play. Should just retire for good.

2017-08-15 18:26

Old fags ,then why dont this old fags like f0rest get right neo pasha taz zeus angel markeloff moddii retire ? Cuz new fags can only aim and that.s all ,and aim doesnt lasts forever

2017-08-16 11:35

Can you tell what kind of a player he is/was?:)

2017-08-17 17:15

Well, he was kind of an all arounder. He could awp, rifle, hold bombsites alone, etc. I just remember him being very methodical and clever in his plays, should be fun to watch how he improves.

2017-08-17 17:19

Thanks for an answer mate! Sounds like a naturally talented guy. If he's got the drive to win and improve, he could be exactly what this team needs.

2017-08-17 17:22

No worries dude and yeah he was very good, Finland had a very good pool of players back in CS 1.6 that could of been top level now. Just a shame very few of them transitioned over and now it's mainly younger players. Not that it's a bad thing of course, younger players deserve a chance to get better to and they probably will.

2017-08-17 17:25

ruuit > basic any time conte > basic any time plaste > basic any time tonppa > basic any time nasu > basic any time tihop > basic any time spikeone > basic any time bruh pls

2017-08-15 18:21

agree with the rest but, spikeone, tihop, tonppa < BASiC also lurppis, jigetus > BASiC

2017-08-17 17:09

finally they change line-up

Whos Basic and how does he got 1.16 rating?

2017-08-15 17:26

Where did jOELZ disappear to?

Cooking minced meat with his mom.

2017-08-15 18:22

When did he even appear?

2017-08-15 20:50

otton is gud player

2017-08-15 17:30

HOLY SHIT BASIC

2017-08-15 17:34

These changes are fairly basic.. Quite s1mple, some could say.

2017-08-15 17:42

hAhaa NA cringe puns

2017-08-15 18:13

great seing BASiC coming back to pro level. Let's see if he can keep up.

2017-08-15 17:43

allu ZOREE SAGGERTON ZehN jOELz Now there's a team

2017-08-15 17:47

EZ4ENCE

2017-08-16 12:41

after all seeing basic dming so much meant something :thinking:

SAGGERTON.............................. IM GONNA CRY :(

2017-08-15 17:51

XDDDDDDD BASIC XDDDDDDDDDD

2017-08-15 17:55

why no allu

2017-08-15 17:56

their best (saggerton) player and zoree why igame why!

2017-08-15 17:57

Wowowow basic, now add jigetus and top 1 Finland

2017-08-15 17:58

no allu no party

2017-08-15 18:01

wow, nice to see BASiC play again

2017-08-15 18:04

btw -juho -xseven -saw -otto +allu +aslak +dRiim +H^N

2017-08-15 18:08

2017-08-16 15:22

2017-08-16 16:21

allu next

2017-08-15 18:10

and still keeped bot sAw xD n1 igame

2017-08-15 18:11

Basic was sick!

2017-08-15 18:25

lets see now

theywasgood:(

2017-08-15 18:47

GO basse

2017-08-15 18:54

Oomggg basiccccc!!! Beeen awhileeee

2017-08-15 18:56

basic = insane

2017-08-15 19:06

basic is back :O

2017-08-15 19:17

Allu was like: Hey noobs, i'm a star bro. Where's the WCA at?

2017-08-15 19:23

gl basic

2017-08-15 19:50

gl shaker

2017-08-16 03:34

gl lukee

And Jigetus ?

GL BASIC !!! bro

2017-08-15 20:24

BASIC COMEBACK yay.

2017-08-15 20:25

wow BaSiC, really good 1.6 player. Let's see how he'll perform now

Very sad for zoree and sgt ;(

BASIC MY BOY HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE

2017-08-15 21:09

:OOOOO BASSSIICCCCCCCCCCCCCCC :OOOOO remember = beSICK lets fkn goooooo!

2017-08-15 22:36

basic 1.6 god, in cs go he is god also just look this video for evidence ;): youtu.be/QJLNBsbiA30?t=2m1s

2017-08-16 00:59

Basic! Great memories, when top 1 Finland always were a contender for tournaments.

2017-08-16 01:45

wow Basic is back! best finnish player of all time imo.

2017-08-16 15:28

No bro... plastE, nasu, ruuit, contE, lurppis and jigetus > BASiC.

2017-08-17 17:07

iGame.com change two; bring in ottoNd and BASiC

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