steel replaces dapr on GX roster

12-1-2018 21:00

GX have replaced Michael "dapr" Gulino with Joshua "steel" Nissan, the 19-year-old has revealed on Twitter.

The decision follows GX's disappointing performances in New York last week as they went out of the ESEA MDL Global Challenge and of the ESL Pro League Relegation Stage without winning a single map.

In a Twitlonger post, Michael "⁠dapr⁠" Gulino wrote that he believes the other GX members suspect that he "threw" the match against Rogue in the relegation stage, in which he averaged a 0.63 rating.

dapr is out of GX's roster

The 19-year-old admitted to being nervous at event, which was his first non-local LAN, adding that his lack of experience played a role in his poor displays in the two tournaments. He also claims that the other team members did not talk to him about this situation and have ignored him since the event.

"I honestly wish I was kidding," dapr wrote. "While I feel I am being scapegoated for a whole team breakdown at this event, I want to go into my side of the story and pretty much defend myself from this accusation.

"I will start off by saying I obviously didn't play well this bo3, which could be attributed to things such as changing IGLs mid-LAN (witmer decided to not AWP/IGL after practicing for a month before the LAN with him as IGL and give that task over to AZK while witmer is the entry fragger) and, honestly, nerves. This was, in fact, the biggest LAN and only non-local LAN I've been to and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous.

"Well to no surprise we got demolished 16-6 and 16-9. Right after this match ended, I decided to go to my room and unwind and chill before the next match, the next morning.

"Something happened this night that made the team completely believe that I was playing for the other team since the next match, against Rise Nation, we played the most embarrassing braindead Counter-Strike I have ever been a part of.

"I cannot go into specifics since the only reason I even know my team thinks this is because right after I left the venue to go home (I live locally), my friends on other MDL teams let me know that my team was telling everybody I threw our matches.

"They never spoke to me about it or anything, in person or online, completely ignored to this day which led to me making this post in the first place.

"As of now, my future is uncertain, but I will try to take this situation and make it as positive as I can and play on another team and chase my dream."

On GX, Joshua "⁠steel⁠" Nissan will reunite with Keven "⁠AZK⁠" Lariviere and Braxton "⁠swag⁠" Pierce after playing alongside the duo on the iBUYPOWER roster that attended the ESL One Cologne 2014 Major. The 28-year-old spent the last season playing for Torqued, who finished in 11th place in ESEA Premier, with an 8-8 record.

GX will take part in the next ESEA Premier season with the following roster:

Braxton "⁠swag⁠" Pierce
Keven "⁠AZK⁠" Lariviere
Shawn "⁠witmer⁠" Taylor
Matt "⁠Pollo⁠" Wilson
Joshua "⁠steel⁠" Nissan

GX decided to replace me with steel for the next season of MDL, the reason stems from a horrible team (cont) https://t.co/HJqpWV0kom
— Mike (@daprcs) January 12, 2018

LOL

2018-01-12 21:01

39 replies

Replacing witmer would have been a better decision tbh

2018-01-12 21:02

20 replies

tier7 team who cares

2018-01-12 21:03

16 replies

still witmer wud be logical. dapr not that bad.

2018-01-12 21:17

11 replies

They won't have awper then so dapr non-expirience is not bad decision..

2018-01-12 21:23

6 replies

-dazed+steel ironic

2018-01-12 21:50

5 replies

>he threw, better replace him with steel all of my what

2018-01-12 22:24

- pollo +dazed

2018-01-12 22:28

3 replies

Dazed is retired feelsbadman

2018-01-12 22:49

still a chance

2018-01-13 00:37

1 reply

and then -witmer +ska when he gets kicked from c9 HAHAH ibp reunion

2018-01-13 06:17

Yeah, witmer is an awper apparently, so I guess he fills that role

2018-01-12 21:24

swag is tier1 awp material

2018-01-12 22:33

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that would just end his career

2018-01-13 02:04

LUL

2018-01-13 15:27

Swags tier one buddy

2018-01-12 21:19

2018-01-12 21:30

2018-01-12 22:11

it is tier 7, but it is swag's and azk's team

2018-01-12 21:57

Except apparently they're sure enough that dapr threw. Even if he didn't you can't get over that lack of trust. Better to have witmer for MDL then get a new guy if they move up to Pro League.

How? Oh we think Dapr is throwing so lets kick witmer. Did you even read the tweet?

2018-01-12 21:27

Lol

2018-01-13 00:50

hltv.org/forums/threads/1657774/swag-two..

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO STEEL YOU DA MAN OLD IBP IS BACK BBY Edit: just realized witmer is still in. wrong fucking move. dapr is a machine whereas witmer is a meme. anyway, happy for steel to be united with his old mates again. dazed who? :^)

2018-01-12 21:28

No it's not.

2018-01-12 21:21

Did you read the tweet They think dapr threw

2018-01-13 00:42

suspects him of throwing - gets another thrower kapper

Dapr deserves better anyway

+1 basically a bunch of throwers accusing another guy for throwing lmfao

2018-01-12 21:05

Yeah I know, i read the tweetlonger before the hltv news. It's sad but NA Premier what did you expect

2018-01-12 21:06

gx should be dapr/pollo snakes swag steel azk

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Leave snakeS in Soar, they are the future

2018-01-12 21:07

7 replies

he already left soar, that's why he can guess

2018-01-12 21:15

Source? They just qualified for EPL

2018-01-12 21:18

4 replies

He's not old enough for EPL... or MDL next season. He's like 15.

2018-01-12 21:20

I thought age restrictions were only for fucking MDL. Well this sucks even more than I thought. fuck off esl

Usually has to do with labor laws of countries they operate in, or have LANs in. I think.

2018-01-12 21:22

Age-restrictions are for both leagues, that's why we didn't see wrath play for Rogue at the start of EPL.

2018-01-13 04:05

i would leave snakes in soar, but esl dont eksde

2018-01-12 21:36

we knew this would happen already, we saw the video of AZK saying josh instead of michael/dapr

Rip dazed

"which was his first non-local LAN" "I left the venue to go home (I live locally)"

2018-01-13 01:57

Exactly what i was thinking

2018-01-13 02:57

“Local LAN” is used in the sense of dapr only ever attending LANs where there would be a small amount of prize money, if any, up for grabs and the field would be entirely American, nothing like a MDL Global Finals even if it’s in the city he lives in

2018-01-13 11:54

okay thanks

2018-01-13 12:18

LOL WITMER HAHAHA

Lul ez tier 14

nice

Now where is dazed

He leave from cybersport

Wheres dazed lul

Who is dazed lul

this tbh

OH NO.

Rip dapr :(

back to the business 8)

2018-01-12 21:32

expected

lol expected

NA cs. Accuse someone of throwing and replace him with someone who got caught match fixing. Actual fucking memes.

not gonna like i kinda like it, so funny

LMFAO

2018-01-12 23:52

Called it when he said he was looking for team LMAO

hahahaha

Great move

lets go baby

IBP inc?

MADDDDDD

lmfao inb4 throw

I think a br Steel vac

LOOOOOOOL WAT

swag, steel => to the moon as XRP

even if it wasn't dapr's fault, steel is a direct upgrade anyway so...

Expected via stream

So sad.

-Witmer + DaZed -Pollo +Skadoodle

+1000

2018-01-12 22:15

Maybe top 20 at most

2018-01-13 03:03

Top 1 at throwing tho

2018-01-13 21:59

"Swag TwoFaced Throwledo"

this

2018-01-13 14:02

Don't act surprised, boys... We all knew it...

What a backstab

WHAT

ex-iBP HYPE BABY! DaZeD will never play on GX since now and to the moment when steel leaves GX sadly :(

2018-01-12 21:04

I'm so excited for this

LOOOOL

swag steel azk are back

why not become torqued?

"horrible team", lol gud timming to cut it twitter

lul thrower kicking a guy by accusing him of throwing 4HEAD

they kick their arguably best player xDDDD

Dapr fucking savage on his explanation

LUL kick out their best player LUL

oh the irony LMAO anyways gl dapr, maybe soar, ghost ( one or another ), or even rise can take you up.

SKA COME BACK HOME

gl zinc

lmaooo

steel accusing someone for throwing

now this team will get better dazed completly defeated and shamed steel real man with honor and pride. criminals unite #FREEBRAX #freesteel

+1337

I saw jamezirl stream with steel practicing with them lul

*kick thrower* *Add another thrower to team* *?????* *Profit?*

thats why NA will never be close to EU fucking dramafags

NA is already close to EU

2018-01-12 23:03

They probably didn't literally think he was throwing, just that he played like trash and possibly wasn't communicating well.

8/8 hltv bait

AZK is back?! Since when?? Damn I've been away from the scene for too long.

About 6 months ago

2018-01-12 21:11

Irony to the max

-suspects him of throwing -replace him with steel ???? Have a nice day! -VeryNiceGuy

2018-01-12 21:10

-witmer -pollo +dazed +skadoodle

fucking throwers LUL

Amazing now add dazed and n0thing??? :)

good

ex-iBP trio reunited! That's good for the scene

GL STEEL

LUL IBP

LMAO XDDDJ

2018-01-12 21:08

IBP hype

So they remove Dapr for throwing then replace him with Steel :P

LOL RIP LIQUID

-witmer +nothing :)

2018-01-12 21:09

LMFAOOOOOOO kick their best player

he was throwing?????????? he did better than wit and azk while "throwing" lul

+adreN +anger ?!

-witmer +adreN AZK and adreN reunited /orgasm

not bad choise for adreN. but adreN awp then? steel igl

2018-01-12 21:25

yes!

From liquid to GX kappa

daps retarded Keepo

2018-01-12 21:16

finally that shitty is gone

2018-01-12 21:12

now add dazed and add n0thing, new iBP

2018-01-12 21:14

gg for GX, dapr is hundred times better than steel

NACS Never change.

I need to read the other side of the story, this sounds too ridiculous lol

The other side, from Pollo: twitlonger.com/show/n_1sqd70s

2018-01-16 12:51

O SHIIIIIIIIIT

WITMER BOT STILL IN XDD

Should be glad, that team has no future.

what

+dazed plz plz plz

they wanted dazed to leave so steel could join, conspiracy theory haha

First non-local lan. 1 paragraph later. I live locally. Wut

non local teams attending

2018-01-12 21:38

Dazed XDDDD

IBPower

matchfixers complaining about throwing lul

damn felt bad for the kid no way he can prove..

Im so happy for Steel <3

AHAHAHAAHA nice team Dazed xddddd

OMG it's happening

ooooo

lul kick dapr and keeping witmer hahaha

dapr is a good player. They kicked the wrong guy.

I like steel, so I'm fine with this, fuck dazed

there is only one steel and he is black

a team with 2 ex-throwers acuses teammate of throwing -na cs 2018 EDIT: and replaces him with another ex-thrower OMEGALUL

two confirmed throwers kick a legit player for "throwing" and replace him with another confirmed thrower. NA CS is a fucking joke re-ban IBP

LMAO. SO TRUE

2018-01-13 09:51

Now its getting interesting? Lez go! :))

just na things

FINALLY.. NOW WILL THEY DO SUCCES WITH STEEL, he is a realy smart guy in CS.. so this will work so much better an with dazed

Two confirmed throwers suspect him of throwing and replace him with another thrower... LUL

2018-01-12 21:26

NA CS EleGiggle nevertheless i kinda hope they finally get their shit together. im still convinced that steel, azk and especially swag have soemthing to give beyond crappy mdl bullshit. however their games at MDL (at least the last ones that i actually got to watch) were so fucking god awful that im not sure whether i should have much hope or not. in any case, steel should remedy some of that since he is a capable IGL.

YUNG DAP NOOOO

i really lost respect for swag being a convicted thrower and having the chance to actually play in big events and after that he goes trash talking his teammate and saying he threw the match? maybe he forgot about what he did with ibp lmao

Gj kicking best player in the team

2018-01-12 21:29

Expected, should’ve been -witmer though.

Solution is to add the biggest thrower to the team ? rofl

Now watch them actually be half decent... ty Dazed

give this team ska and dazed back ... just wanna see that!! =D

2018-01-12 21:40

NA CS in a nutshell.

2018-01-12 21:46

Good luck. Steel is a good IGL / Game Planner. AZK will only get better. Should be back near the top of MDL. Will missed torqued though. A2Z might be an interesting 6th to sub-in just in case.

2018-01-12 21:47

They should kick witmer and put A2Z instead !! A2Z is really good !!

steel will lead them well. they will make it to pro league for sure

2018-01-12 22:13

swag under steel's guidance. oof. I like where this could go.

2018-01-12 22:18

lost all respect for this team

When Ska steps down from C9 over the summer, who reckons that DaZeD would consider joining GX again with him?

2018-01-12 22:21

now pick up hiko????? would me a lot of sense to me because of his friendship with azk/swag.

I've lost all the respect I had for these idiots.

2018-01-12 22:34

this was the best thing possible that could happen to this GX team. GL Steel ;)

still trash why bother ROFL

2018-01-12 22:37

What a scumbag team

2018-01-12 22:38

ma man steel gl

2018-01-12 22:42

-Witmer +Dazed -Pollo +Skadaddy

2018-01-12 22:55

poor dapr, hope he finds a new team. people thought that these ex throwers "changed" lul

2018-01-12 22:58

NA CS XD

2018-01-12 23:53

replacing possible thrower with the biggest thrower in history of cs lmao

2018-01-13 00:36

VP are biggest throwers

2018-01-13 03:12

ez Immortals steel

2018-01-13 01:20

Steel <3 glad to see him with Swag and azk again !

2018-01-13 01:27

IBUYPOWER

2018-01-13 02:43

What the actual fuck

Why dapr????????

2018-01-13 03:11

the jews are making a comeback

2018-01-13 03:13

W I T M E R M O V E M E N T

2018-01-13 03:28

GOD STEEL YES

2018-01-13 03:31

ex-iBP reunited

2018-01-13 06:14

steel+AZK+swag... is real

2018-01-13 06:21

Just based on how swift and secretive they were about this move and doing it behind dapr's back you can kind of tell GX already had this roster change planned (to bring steel in for him) and were probably just waiting for any sort of small mistake to use as an excuse to get rid of him. I highly doubt this has anything whatsoever to do with his performance at the actual event and this was probably in the works well ahead of time.

2018-01-13 06:22

what are u aiming at?!?!?!??!

2018-01-13 10:03

This could be what GX needs, and i mean steel is a great addition i personally think but the way GX treat this issue was appalling and should really talk to dapr and release a professional statement on it, as they are an organisation.

2018-01-13 10:55