Official: RUBINO replaces es3tag in Heroic squad

14-2-2018 15:08

Ruben "RUBINO" Villarroel will replace Patrick "es3tag" Hansen in Heroic's starting lineup, the Danish team have confirmed.

The Norwegian player had previously been announced as a substitute for ESL Pro League despite reports linking him with a starting berth after cs_summit 2.

At the North American event, Patrick "⁠es3tag⁠" Hansen averaged a 0.98 rating, HEROIC's second highest, in the team's deep playoff run, which came to an end in the Lower Bracket final following a 0-2 defeat to eventual champions Liquid.

RUBINO is Heroic's new fifth player

But that did not keep the team from putting him on the chopping block, with coach Luis "⁠peacemaker⁠" Tadeu stating that the squad "need other qualities" and that Ruben "⁠RUBINO⁠" Villarroel "can bring more" of those things to the team.

RUBINO had been a free agent since January, when he was released by dignitas after a ten-month association.

The 23-year-old will be hoping the achieve the same level of success with Heroic that he had during his first stint with dignitas, when he helped the Danish team led by Mathias "⁠MSL⁠" Lauridsen to win EPICENTER 2016.

"The team has already taken some major steps towards the ambition of becoming a top team, and I will work hard to contribute to that development," RUBINO told Heroic's website.

"It will take some getting to know each other and a lot of work, but already today they’re able beat some of the best teams.

"We want to become one of those teams that others hope to beat, and with patience and hard word – plus a lot of firepower – we will get there!"

RUBINO will make his debut for HEROIC at 17:00 , against Space Soldiers, in the ESL Pro League. He will not have to wait long to make his first offline appearance for the team, who will travel to Kiev later this week to compete at the $300,000 StarSeries i-League Season 4.

With these changes, HEROIC now have:

Andreas "⁠MODDII⁠" Fridh
Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer
Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen
Jakob "⁠JUGi⁠" Hansen
Ruben "⁠RUBINO⁠" Villarroel

Luis "⁠peacemaker⁠" Tadeu (coach)

Patrick "⁠es3tag⁠" Hansen (backup)

nice

2018-02-14 15:08

13 replies

peacemaker's stuff

2018-02-14 15:09

7 replies

Omg omg

5 replies

es3tag is better

2018-02-14 15:10

4 replies

He did very well at summit

2018-02-14 15:48

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cs_summit is one of the few tournaments he has preformed good at tbh and Rubino has a better mind for the game, more experience and is more consistent. We got to see that when he and Astralis had succes with him as a stand in

2018-02-14 16:35

ye the one tournament when fake niko dropping -20s

2018-02-14 16:43

2018-02-14 16:02

i see no brazilians in the roster yet

2018-02-14 15:12

Why...

JUGi deserves better teams.

2018-02-14 16:07

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OpTic should have picked JUGi instead of ShahZaM

2018-02-14 17:16

Should’ve been: Snappi, CajunB, K0nfig, JUGi and Niko/Pimp

2018-02-15 07:28

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Definitely Niko. This team looks good af on the paper. I guess if they don't find success with this roster, MODDI and RUBINO are definitely out (unless there is some bad blood between K+C And Heroic players or if MODDI is has-to-be player for Snappi).

2018-02-15 08:01

Finally, good luck at EPL bois

expected

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LIAR (FLAIR CHECKS OUT)

2018-02-14 15:18

ye he obv know nothing about scene typical kid which says 'expexted' EDIT: its my last comment bcuz i will be banned :'(

2018-02-14 17:08

+1 deserved

2018-02-16 15:30

fucking bitch copied my nickname. suck big dicks from squad of niggas

2018-02-14 16:45

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Signed up 2016-09-18 LUL

2018-02-14 16:46

Stop talking to yourself

2018-02-14 16:55

xDDDD

2018-02-14 17:01

lol what then? you can change your nickname every 30 days so, you could change it about 15 times anyway you cant prove me otherwise

2018-02-14 17:04

k, but why u dont use nickname w/o underscore while u register? maybe cuz this nickname was used?

blya pasha zaebal nice perevodchik ueban ya to eto vse solo pisal a ty s nizhnim podcherkivaniem spalilsya mudila tupaya

2018-02-14 17:17

cool

Nice

ez katka

saw it coming

7th

I liked es3tag :(

yay ez for RUBINO

Yaaay

yala

Xizt?

lol

HEROIC EASY TIER 1 NOW

Yeah they actually look good now. Just need to replace Moddi and ez major class team

2018-02-14 15:56

Weird considering roles tbh

agree

2018-02-14 15:22

wasnt esetag their entry killer or second in?rubino is aswell (at least in old dignitas team with msl)

2018-02-14 15:37

No, he is a support player. He was only entry on pre-set executes in old dignitas.

2018-02-14 15:43

PogChamp

Es3tag played well in cs_summit2 LOL rubino has experience tho

heroic looking good af

the Norwegian back in Denmark

cu soon, eZtag

2018-02-14 15:11

lol unfair after summit

Holy moly

soon top X

Heroic from teir 4 to teir 3

thi team is actually much better on paper than north

2018-02-14 16:03

MSL > Snappi Valde > niko Kjaerbye > moddii Mertz < JUGi Aizy < RUBINO

2018-02-14 16:49

hltv.org/matches/2319206/north-vs-heroic..

2018-02-14 16:52

Great to see him getting a chance again.. imo fairly underrated.

2018-02-14 15:13

Old news

Es3tag played so good at Summit and gets replaced...

2018-02-14 15:14

He was probably already "on the chopping block" before that event ..

2018-02-15 15:55

I know he was, but maybe it wasn't the right change skillwise speaking, maybe something outgame.. who knows

2018-02-15 22:06

-peacemaker +es3tag

youtube.com/watch?v=FzD8zP1-anI

now heroic>north

2018-02-14 15:15

OMG

2018-02-14 15:17

nice englando

Best danish team

such huge surprise

2018-02-14 15:19

one of these flags is not like the other...

2018-02-14 15:20

great move for Heroic

2018-02-14 15:21

downgrade

this will push Heroic a few more ranks up. Rubino is a GODtier support player. FeelsBadMan for Es3tag. He was smurfing on Tricked with HUNDEN and Jugi and Niko, and when Niko and Jugi got poached they still kept playing well, but when es3tag got poached his stats went down severely. Maybe he just didnt work well in Snappi's system.

2018-02-14 15:25

+1 kicked by peacemaker

2018-02-14 15:26

GREAT TRANSFER! HOPE RUBINO STRIKES!!! HE DESERVED THIS CHANCE!!!

once again RUBINO in a team that is too low for his level he could make a terrific duo with JUGi tho

2018-02-14 15:31

+1 he should have gone to Ast

2018-02-14 15:40

his performance on Astralis was pretty good, I don't get why they picked Magisk instead

2018-02-14 17:19

exactly, i guess they wanted more firepower and they were hit sideways with the whole kaerbye thing

2018-02-14 17:23

I tHouHt hE wIll OnLeY stAnD iN??

2018-02-14 15:32

Good luck Ruben! :D <3

2018-02-14 15:41

Good move

lol i tought he will replace device, was hyped for that :DDD shit

2018-02-14 15:51

device got 45-29 against faze yesterday,r u mad

2018-02-14 16:41

Finally trashtag is gone

2018-02-14 16:05

God Jugi

I'm almost definitely somewhat certain that it absolutely may have been a good move.

-Schnappy +Exist

2018-02-14 16:09

es3tag to optic?

2018-02-14 16:30

es3tag didn't even seem to be that bad for the team. oh well

eZtag didnt deserve to get kicked, he is decent player.

2018-02-14 17:07

-snappi +es3tag

2018-02-14 17:09

lmao how are moddii and snappi still avoiding the boot

2018-02-14 17:22

why not -MODDII instead

2018-02-14 17:27

LoL bot rubino why

Nice move 16-1 match But you just lost it

2018-02-14 17:42

since north kicked rubino, they were on downfall, just saying

2018-02-14 17:45

Nah, they were good, twice ended the Major as Legends what they havent done before.

2018-02-14 18:17

much wow for team with resources like north yes, they were on downfall since rubino kick I mean that they didn't play as good as with rubino, he's player they missed a lot. You could see this in some games and from long term results, they would achieve way more with rubino.

2018-02-14 18:26