Official: HS signs for OpTic

30-8-2017 01:00

PENTA Sports player Kevin "HS" Tarn has joined OpTic Gaming on a permanent basis, the North American organisation has confirmed.

The announcement was made by Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas in the latest episode of OpTic's "Vision" documentary series, which covers the North American organisation's decision to build a European team following the departures of William "⁠RUSH⁠" Wierzba and Tarik "⁠tarik⁠" Celik to Cloud9.

Kevin "⁠HS⁠" Tarn, who will be joining Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli, Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif, Adam "⁠friberg⁠" Friberg and the aforementioned mixwell, will leave PENTA behind and will play ESL Pro League in North America with OpTic—a team with a perfect record so far with four matches played, albeit against two newcomers, Ghost and Rogue.

HS during the group stages of the PGL Major in Krakow earlier this summer

While HS has been seen as one of Estonia’s biggest talents, it wasn’t until he signed with PENTA and helped his team win the ESEA Season 24 MDL LAN, finish second at the European Minor and qualify for the Majorthat he started to turn heads as one of the engines in that team.

Now, HS will have a shot with OpTic, who will be putting their focus on competing online for the time being, after losing their invites to ELEAGUE Premier and DreamHack Masters Malmö.

With this move, OpTic close out their roster, and it is as follows:

Oscar "⁠mixwell⁠" Cañellas
Adam "⁠friberg⁠" Friberg
Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli
Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif
Kevin "⁠HS⁠" Tarn

Chet "ImAPet" Singh (coach)

xdd

2017-08-30 01:05

15 replies

ez for OpTic

2017-08-30 01:06

9 replies

ez 4 luxembourg

8 replies

RIP Krystal always the one being left alone. :(

2017-08-30 01:08

6 replies

Rip +lowel +denis

2017-08-30 01:13

1 reply

+Deniis +Spiidi

2017-08-30 13:16

ez 4 allu

that's what you get for being awful

2017-08-30 10:14

2017-08-30 10:38

its cuz krystal is bad

2017-08-30 16:22

yes very ezz

2017-08-30 12:53

Already fan of determent winners of dreamhack malmo??

hr lul

2017-08-30 01:10

We Will miss u NAF!

2017-08-30 01:46

now +zehn in hr pls

2017-08-30 02:04

x fucking D

2017-08-30 02:08

No way dude

2 replies

Finland , Finland , Finland The country where I want to be Pony trekking or camping or just watch T.V. Finland , Finland , Finland It's the country for me You're so near to Russia so far away from Japan Quite a long way from Cairo lots of miles from Vietnam

2017-08-30 09:03

saatana perkele

2017-08-30 10:05

Sick

I dont like the New lads tho :(

2017-08-30 01:36

Imh

finally

expected

2017-08-30 11:00

s1ck

Expected

Haha could have got a better player

5 replies

kio? LUL

2017-08-30 01:07

I ser kio in Penta. For me it wilk be a Good team krystal innocent zehn kio and denis.

2017-08-30 11:40

who?

2017-08-30 01:11

naf

2017-08-30 02:10

he doesnt want to

2017-08-30 02:13

nice

haha you are already fan of OpTic

2017-08-30 01:18

yeah since they picked up friberg+allu reminds me old nip but with a faze meta (international= :D

2017-08-30 01:23

4 replies

Pretty nice tbh, already excited to see them at LAN events

2017-08-30 01:35

3 replies

Might take a while to actually see them in one, since they have to start from the bottom. Might get invited to smaller lans tho.

2017-08-30 09:57

EPL finals should be likely for them, they should ez get on the top places of the NA league But besides that it may take a while, I agree

Oh yeah forgot they're actually going to play it from NA. Well, if they dont make it there, I think they're not too good to be excited about.. xD

2017-08-30 10:06

shit choice shouldve got naf

14 replies

Naf sucks

2017-08-30 01:29

No he doesn't

2017-08-30 01:42

yes he does, below average fragger, can't igl, brings nothing to the team, useless in old Optic. Should not be playing for a team that wants to be the best in NA or get out of groups in meaningful tournaments

2017-08-30 03:16

Can't IGL but he is a solid fragger

2017-08-30 04:09

naf is a great player, you just probably haven't watch him enough. I think he is by far the most under rated player in Na maybe the world. He is a play maker with a high skill ceiling and that guy he wins like 1v4s and brings your team single handily back into the game.

2017-08-30 18:47

Naf replacing Jayzwalkingz on Renegades

2017-08-30 01:43

Is jayz leaving?

2017-08-30 01:48

Only on trial and they are playing at malmö right? They could just drop him of there

2017-08-30 01:52

Cant they pick him up?

2017-08-30 01:54

If I were renegades I wouldnt want to. He has performed like shit, way worse than anyone else in the team.

2017-08-30 09:59

He is an awper doing the Support role

2017-08-30 10:53

Yes and I don't get why they decided to pick him up, because he plays another role usually

2017-08-30 14:39

He's on trial and so far been very disappointing, Renegades legit have beat teams like Immortals and Liquid 4v5

2017-08-30 01:56

Fuck I hope so.

2017-08-30 07:10

Lol

YEAAAAAAAAAAAA ezzzzz

2017-08-30 08:47

Sick roster, maybe friburger will step up his game due to motivation since its a new team and he's playing a new role.

lowel :'(

7 replies

lowel is joining dignitas, im spanish and i think hs has more potential than lowel

2017-08-30 01:09

When will it be announced?

don't know yet but it was a rumor since the last week and today he was scrimming with dignitas against mouz

2017-08-30 01:12

Well, good luck to him :/

2017-08-30 01:14

Who will he replace I'm dignitas

2017-08-30 01:59

Tenzki most likely

2017-08-30 03:13

Yep

2017-08-30 14:52

HS = HURENSOHN HS = HEADSHOT HSHS H E A D S H O T H U R E N S O H N

XDD

2017-08-30 07:35

Quite a bad pick : kio was a better option. GG OpTic @ destroying Penta ...

kio better option LUL Current OpTiC >> Penta/ w sunny, and HS

OpTic has to reach a Major to become better than Penta was. EDIT : this team (OpTic) has high potential but that's obvious when you're a pretty high budget FaZe

wtf? do you even know KIO? lmao. KIO is the top1 toxic player of all time LMAO> hope no team will get that shit Kioshitma. . Envy and Faze kicked him because of his attitude not even respecting other players. i also seen one of the example of his fucking attitude. that is why i really hate that fucking idiot.

2017-08-30 01:51

enlighten us. what happened?

2017-08-30 02:22

theres the allu video plus the envyus kicking him for attitude youtube.com/watch?v=BWFlrCjmy2Y

2017-08-30 03:43

takenote that is live. so what more behind the camera. how toxic he is.

2017-08-30 06:02

Wow didn't expect this at all!! Xdddddddd

Naf?? Where's he going

naf didnt want to move to europe.he will probably find a team fast,he`s a good player

For sure, just wasn't sure if his current whereabouts were known

some people were saying that maybe he will join the ex-ibp players,but idk

people were saying he was going to renegades but i doubt it

2017-08-30 01:16

That would be so cool actually. Nifty could go back to awping 100% and naf is already a half decent igl from memory.

2017-08-30 01:30

Naf has never IGL before but he will most likely replace Jayzwalkingz, He brings firepower

2017-08-30 01:44

I'm pretty sure he tried when the first kicked daps off optic/conquest. Regardless, I think renegades need an experienced igl more than anything. Don't get me wrong, nifty is doing a great job, but he isn't 2016 fallen who can be a god on awp and call sick strats at the same time. He should stick to awping and they should get an igl.

2017-08-30 01:49

Daps was only kicked off Optic/Conquest once you're thinking of Stan, Don't recall Naf ever IGL even for less than a month but I could be wrong and it obviously didn't work out right, Nifty has been super impressive to me, He is probably Renegades 2nd best fragger after Jks while he is IGL and main AWPing like what a player, I think Kassad is really helping him with IGL that's the main reason of his sucsess, If they wanted to bring in a IGL probably Pronax would be the person, Currently free agent and has previous success, Firepower wise they probably should get Naf or maybe Relyks

2017-08-30 02:01

Renegades replacing Jayzwalkingz

a team i will cheer for!!

rip-fly

:D Good luck HS!

Nice! Fejtz to SK and i am happy!

Humm i like it

Penta back to shit... FeelsBadMan

Is Friberg the igl? Also, if he is, does he has some experience?

Yes he is IGL No he doesn't have experience

Gracias :)

Actually he has a small amount of experience

2017-08-30 13:20

Yes, FINALLY HS gets some recognition. Only took him like two years. So happy for him, good luck.

gL, good player!

1.12 1.02 1.10 1.12 1.12 EZ 4 OpTic No.1 Rating Team

Faze must be higher?

2017-08-30 10:04

Nope only Niko with 1.24

2017-08-30 16:11

hs ez insane

ez 4 clg -cutler +naf

Naf replacing Jayzwalkingz on Renegades would be better

Na team with eu roaster lul

org not team, and it's roster not roaster what about FaZe? EnVyUs? what about german org with br lineup? russian org with pl lineup?

2017-08-30 01:19

Mixwell, Magisk and HS. UUUU so much firepower here

lol wtf is your name, cromen > fox

2017-08-30 13:24

my PENTA :/

Yep. HS even liked My tweet when i tweeted "dont leave krystal again plz" after they qualified for the Major.

2017-08-30 02:14

So, zehN must stay or spot in qualifier is open, but innocent said 2-3 weeks ago on stream that zehN is out too, I hope that something has changed.

2017-08-30 11:17

wtf? i liked so much the new squad. Hopefully innocent and krystal can find good teammates

2017-08-30 11:18

intereting lineup want to see them

I hope they paid some good money otherwise we are screwed

ofc OpTic payed good money

2017-08-30 01:26

RIP [*] ZAMKNIJ PIZDE ;(

2017-08-30 01:17

Whos IGL ?

Friberg maybe?

2017-08-30 01:20

thought it would be lowel... but yeah, hs is better

Rip penta rip naf P.s. penta +denis

I hope not denis

2017-08-30 11:20

You can hope but 80% it will happen

2017-08-30 11:54

2017-08-30 01:21

info leak expected, but thanks for info HLTV I love u so much.

2017-08-30 01:22

Good choice. I think this squad has loads of potential to do some serious damage if they can get set their roles properly, find chemistry and go from there. They've got some firepower in that team and if friberg can rediscover some of his old form back, they will be very good.

I give friberg 3-4 months max.

2017-08-30 01:33

Faze academy

2017-08-30 01:24

interesting that they still have american coach. first time like this!

GL HS

NAF > HS

They are like the same imo

2017-08-30 01:34

nice. looking forward to see what this roster can bring to the table.

i dont get how this team is allowed to compete in NA EPL

2017-08-30 01:31

According to rules a team's placement is decided on their players' location, not nationality. As they all move to NA its all good

2017-08-30 14:02

-1/10 IN ONE MAJOR KAPPA

Good luck to Optic :)

rip penta

2017-08-30 01:40

gl naf :'(

2017-08-30 01:53

gl HS

Given the remnants of the EU/NA shuffle, this is probably one of the best lineups (role wise as well) OpTic could put together. A lot of what-if's about their ceiling, but they should be far more consistent than all post-Stanislaw rosters they've had.

2017-08-30 01:58

Cool.

rip optic tomi BibleThump

dog shit team xD

2017-08-30 02:05

cool

They really promise, I hope to see a good matches against them... We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

2017-08-30 02:07

Rip penta

2017-08-30 02:17

naf is better

2017-08-30 02:19

Naf to RNG

2017-08-30 02:23

gl to HS, deserves to play w/ them :)

2017-08-30 02:32

Will the Estonian force MMMM

2017-08-30 03:01

GL HF

2017-08-30 02:53

NAF & N0THING TO EX IBP HEARD IT HERE FIRST

2017-08-30 02:58

2017-08-30 03:10

Wish they got a good Igl But this roaster is better than old

2017-08-30 03:11

opkek

2017-08-30 03:14

he was playing at my school lan last year and now he is in optic, GLHF

2017-08-30 03:25

-friberg +NAF tyvm

2017-08-30 03:27

NAF name not even in the article, kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

2017-08-30 03:31

I wish they kept NAF :(

2017-08-30 03:32

wtf bro, NAF >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> HS

2017-08-30 03:47

Fucking silvers everywhere. Naf didn't want to play in Europe. That's why Optic took HS.

2017-08-30 03:57

Finally, now RNG better get NAF

This can actually happen. OHMAIGOD. I didn't put faith in this team, but this can be a tier 1 team really fast.

2017-08-30 04:12

unexpected

2017-08-30 04:22

all these people who want renegades to get naf lul i bet naf can do way better

2017-08-30 04:29

I don't think so C9 won't make changes. Liquid might... Call me deluded but now that OpTic is gone I'd put RNG at third and they are looking for a 5th so this option is most likely. Misfits probably won't but they might. There's also CLG but I don't think they will make changes either. Prolly between Renegades, Misfits or Liquid TBH. If liquid decide to get naf then 100% he will join them but if not then I think RNG is the best option for both him and the team.

2017-08-30 05:30

RNG< Splyce

RNG>SK

Splyce>RNG>SK EZ

2017-08-30 10:00

Good pickup this guy is way better than Naf, Naf is terrible.

2017-08-30 04:35

what?

2017-08-30 05:01

Kevin rename Penta to pro player training academy.

2017-08-30 05:06

rip NA pro league teams lel

2017-08-30 05:29

gl. interesting to see what level they'll achieve.

2017-08-30 05:49

kick hs pls

2017-08-30 05:52

krakow was his last major

2017-08-30 06:27

Honestly feel like they should have picked up Slemmy

2017-08-30 06:41

Slemmy > karrigan

2017-08-30 07:08

Slemmy is happy with complexity

2017-08-30 16:14

rip naf

2017-08-30 06:48

2017-08-30 07:27

Definitely not an improvement but ok

2017-08-30 07:29

Long Live the King! lulz youtube.com/watch?v=-T-msGHkZow

2017-08-30 07:57

downgrade,hs is shit,naf was great

2017-08-30 08:19

ez4optic

2017-08-30 09:12

Omg

2017-08-30 09:54

wowowowo wouldve never guessed xd

2017-08-30 09:56

Ez for Optic top 1 NA team.

2017-08-30 10:02

OpTic = FaZe Academy

2017-08-30 10:11

And who the fuck is their strat caller???

I wonder the same :D

2017-08-30 11:12

friberg

2017-08-30 11:33

Very NICE

2017-08-30 11:04

wow OpTic go coming

2017-08-30 11:11

They need a hella good coach. Dont see a leader in that lineup. Solid top10 team. GL allu! <3

2017-08-30 11:28

Nice move toothpaste flag

2017-08-30 11:31

+syrsoN +vladir0x in penta

2017-08-30 11:34

Naf is as good as hf imo when he is not igl

2017-08-30 11:38

ez money

gratz ,really happy for him

2017-08-30 12:05

Penta summer sale?

2017-08-30 12:08

they always sell thier best players

2017-08-30 13:21

nice 4 OpTiC

2017-08-30 12:36

Yesss

2017-08-30 12:38

Great now theres not a single american player in this NA team

2017-08-30 12:49

max tier4 team

2017-08-30 13:12

If allu plays in optic like he played in nip this lineup has potential to be in major final, also if HS plays like in Penta with pistols WOWOOOHOHOOHOH

2017-08-30 13:51

On paper Optic made a great.deal by.signing these players. They only paid a transfer fee for HS and they signed the rest of them on a free transfer. They combine insane "young" skill in hs, magisk and mixwell and experience in friberg and allu. I see them as a top4 in NA and top15 in the world after 6 months (they need chemistry)

2017-08-30 14:14