Official: Splyce drop out of CS:GO

29-4-2018 00:44

Splyce have confirmed that they have decided to take a step back from CS:GO for an indefinite period.

In a video posted on Twitter, Splyce CEO Marty "Lazerchicken" Strenczewilk admitted that the team "were not sitting in a great competitive position" and explained that the decision will allow the organisation to invest more time and resources into their other divisions.

Splyce have been involved in CS:GO since late 2015, when the company underwent a rebrand after operating as a directory of live streams called Follow Esports.

DAVEY & co set to leave Splyce

The North American organisation is mostly known for their appearance at the MLG Columbus Major, for which they qualified after replacing TheMongolZ at the offline qualifier due to visa issues.

Since then, Splyce have struggled to remain competitive, with their team now set to travel to Leicester, where they will be taking part in the ESL Pro League relegation stage after finishing in a disappointing 11th place in the regular season.

"These decisions do not come lightly, they involve dozens of people and hours and days of discussion," the Splyce CEO said. "It is something that is the best for all of us.

"I have nothing but love for all the players that played for us. I hope to see them for many years, and I really hope that they are successful on other teams."

It remains unclear at this point whether the players will be released from their contracts or transferred to another organisation.

The North American team still do not know who their fifth player at the Pro League relegation stage will be. Former CLG member Ricardo "⁠Rickeh⁠" Mulholland was initially ruled out after being registered by the team past the transfer deadline, but, according to Dust2.us, the team have submitted a request to WESA for an emergency transfer, which, if granted, would allow them to field the Australian at the event, from May 9-10.

Splyce's roster looks as follows:

Taylor "⁠Drone⁠" Johnson
Stephen "⁠reltuC⁠" Cutler
David "⁠DAVEY⁠" Stafford
Kory "⁠SEMPHIS⁠" Friesen
Zack "⁠XotiC⁠" Elshani

Zachary "⁠Eley⁠" Stauffer (coach)

Splyce has decided to leave professional CS:GO. Co-founder and CEO @Lazerchickenzzz gives context and his reasoning for this decision. pic.twitter.com/e7TtQA5w60
— Splyce (@Splyce) April 28, 2018

2018-04-29 00:44

27 replies

RIP BUY STICKERS GUYS

2018-04-29 00:45

15 replies

Rip machinegun era

10 replies

You know that cs is dead when splyce leave csgo

2018-04-29 00:46

7 replies

Lol even I gave up on the game, only watch big lans now

2018-04-29 00:47

2 replies

Oh no...

2018-04-29 00:56

1 reply

Splyce drop expected after C9 beat them ez gg

2018-04-29 15:42

Next one will be Dignitas

3 replies

2018-04-29 08:13

Dont forget that fox said that he can go to 2 american teams and 1 european. Dignitas can be one of the american.

2018-04-29 10:17

Dig will be around for at least another year. I think they bought those players with the intention of flipping them later on. They show a lot of potential but they are young and lack experience.

2018-05-01 02:10

machinegun god

2018-04-29 01:01

machienguns were never good in cs

2018-04-29 18:27

At least they made a major

Why would we? Everyone already knew they would never have made it to a major again, hence the sticker price will never be higher than it currently is

2018-04-29 09:10

lie

2018-04-29 13:07

Lol bought 8 stickers they Ez gonna be €50 Cause of the color Damn time for a new drop-out!

2018-04-29 23:34

Expected

drone is shit good riddance

6 replies

plus one

plus one but RIP XotiC, he was at least decent and much better than the rest of the team

2018-04-29 07:19

Davey has always been solid too

2018-04-30 02:13

0/8

2018-04-29 11:40

you hamburger helpers hamburger helper?

2018-04-29 16:33

2018-04-29 13:09

True story. You got cut nuckas!

2018-04-29 13:14

Oh no, what a lost for csgo

2018-04-29 13:44

My CEO is called faking LAZERCHICKEN!!!!!!

2018-04-29 19:41

Wow

expected

Expected that someone comments expected

2018-04-29 06:43

5 replies

Expected someone comments on the comment 'comment'

2018-04-29 07:18

4 replies

Expect someone expects me to comment on the comment 'comment'

2018-04-29 07:58

2018-04-29 09:38

fuck you guys

2018-04-29 11:29

Name checks out

2018-04-29 11:41

RIP STICKERS

deserved

rip

orgs. are leaving cs slowly lmao. cs go dying confirmed

13 replies

yeah its a shame, cs needed a rival competitor fps to force valve into making changes

2018-04-29 01:12

9 replies

Like overwatch?

2018-04-29 01:24

Over what?

2018-04-29 01:35

overshit

2018-04-29 02:22

underwatch

2018-04-29 10:02

U mean reviewing demos of suspected cheaters?

2018-04-29 01:36

Yes, large competitive scene

2018-04-29 04:34

Who?

2018-04-29 08:14

Riot is making a competitive FPS of their own

2018-04-29 16:19

Riot games gave up on the FPS game. Your talking about something that was mentioned back in 2016. The CS:Go map designer doesn't even work there anymore.

2018-04-29 18:16

her exit was not for valve reasons but for team failure

2018-04-29 03:21

Yes, but its the third big org that's left in fast time. They clearly don't see csgo as an essential esport anymore

2018-04-29 20:11

>Splyce >Important Pick one.

2018-04-29 13:10

sad

2018-04-29 00:49

Remember when Machinegun, CRUC1AL and AcilioN played together for Splyce?

2018-04-29 00:51

i remember,when Splyce qualified for the major in 2016 ( jasonR arya abE Professor_Chaos DAVEY) :c

2018-04-29 01:07

Please nobody sponsor this team, they're sooooo terrible

2018-04-29 00:53

How many orgs so far have pulled out of CS:GO? A lot,CS:GO is slowly dying and Valve won't do shit about it.

2018-04-29 00:58

expect cs:go 2 coming up with extra as hat skins(harder to HS) and t-shirts for Camouflage.

2018-04-29 01:11

True

2018-04-29 15:40

Splyce was always shit and this org was popular in cs community only bcs of summit burning himself on train

2018-04-29 01:52

+1, Only teams leaving are shit teams. Misfits, Splyce. I mean i can't really name anymore then that, and 100 Thieves doesn't count, they had a team for like a month and never played.

2018-04-29 05:25

And mans not hot

2018-04-29 07:20

Splyce: Semi-pros, not capable of making tourneys. Misfits: Only org that was good and pulled out, but hey, they kept exiting groups. Ofc they will disband. 100Thieves: Toxicity, happens with kNg. Mans not hot: Meh. Semi-pros too imo. Yeah, I mean such a hard hit amirite. With that logic, CS 1.6 was dying already in 05/06. True to It’s name, 1.6 first died in 2012.

Clg

2018-04-30 00:23

Aight then two good orgs.

2018-04-30 11:17

Part of Valve not giving a shit is the fact that Dota2 makes loads more money

2018-04-29 18:11

ffs i was going to buy some of these foil stickers for my ak, now its stupidly priced. Im a bit confused why though, its not like they would have got stickers if they stayed anyway

sorry for ignorance, but what does ffs mean? Thanks

2018-04-29 01:37

for fk sake

2018-04-29 02:03

Use Google my friend

2018-04-29 09:11

NA cs... rip csgo go play r6 so much better..

yea r6 is boomin rn

2018-04-29 04:59

2018-04-29 11:43

Fortnite will take over

2018-04-29 21:55

OMEGA L U L

rip the best team in the world featuring the worlds most talented and intelligent players by the name of semphis and davey

2018-04-29 01:00

mkay =P

excepted

2018-04-29 01:02

Rip

-Insert bs-bs-bs-cs is dying-bs Seriously though, seems like a nice guy but CS:GO is dying slowly and it's time to drop out for most of the orgs. As i LoL follower i hope they get the LCS stop tho

"were not sitting in a great competitive position" lol sure mate. You only have like 2 good teams in your region.

2018-04-29 01:10

You have none

2018-04-29 09:27

8 replies

So there are no good eu teams?

2018-04-29 11:32

NA is literally 2 countries, that too mostly only the USA EU is much more than that. In your region, ie Germany and Holland, No good teams. Cry now

2018-04-29 12:08

mousesports is a German org

FaZe is an American org

2018-04-29 18:28

So is SK. Where the org is based is irrelevant in terms of what nationality/nationalities the team is considered to represent.

2018-04-29 20:16

ok then

2018-04-30 08:12

and think about how big the population of the us & canada is

2018-04-29 18:26

Different countries have different methods of CS. Population isn't that important

rip cs go

Time to buy stickers

oh noooooooooo legendary NA organization Splyce drop CS:GO!! end of the world

Maybe EnVyUs replace splyce

2018-04-29 01:13

:c sad

2018-04-29 01:18

Loosers OK don't Want to play go for shit games no one cares

2018-04-29 01:19

tier 4 team... expected

2018-04-29 01:20

"Mostly known for their appearance at the MGL Colombus major"

1g in the chat bois

2018-04-29 01:41

i tought they arent exist anymore years ago

Sad :((

2018-04-29 01:21

Smart move. They were embarrassing the org.

2018-04-29 01:27

Cry for Cutler

2018-04-29 01:31

I'm amazed by Semphis still playing wtf.

2018-04-29 01:34

as much as he whines and bitches while constantly under performing worse than a LEM player, so am I.

2018-04-29 01:56

The guy is legit a bot. Impressive he still makes money from this game. I.M.P.R.E.S.S.I.V.E ..

2018-04-29 22:41

Aderal helps him to perform

2018-04-29 08:00

Drone and Xotic have bright future in Na cs go scene i believe. But about Semphis and Davey they should die instantly or retire. I really really hope no other organization pickup these 2 silver fucks.

I actually liked the roster, sucks to see em go.

2018-04-29 01:39

All im sayin is they beat c9 online. Kinda sad. Legendary org. Thanks for one of the greatest csgo moments of all time. Wish they won* against clg. Fugly would of retired.

Funny how all of these orgs dropping out always have so many washed up players, that somehow get worse each month they play. You can save maybe one of each lineup/org, two being optimistic. They should really try to learn how the scene works before putting 5 players together. It's not that hard, any casual viewer can do it... Next = VP? kek

2018-04-29 01:46

about damn time.

wasn't it already official days ago?

2018-04-29 01:55

Sad for org :'(

2018-04-29 01:57

why post about this twice? not that big of news lol

2018-04-29 02:26

rip :(

2018-04-29 02:47

one more org :(

2018-04-29 03:19

SHITTY TEAM DESERVED

2018-04-29 04:00

semphis needs to stream again :(

2018-04-29 04:33

"CSGO is dying because Splyce left the game" #FanLogic

2018-04-29 04:38

Thoorin?

2018-04-29 05:01

my man <3

2018-04-29 05:23

xotic and drone were good players

2018-04-29 05:03

good decision, there are way too many irrelevant teams and "pro" players who just waste sponsor's money and show no results neither any improvements or motivation

2018-04-29 05:32

2018-04-29 05:41

bye noob semphis

2018-04-29 05:56

BUY THE STICKERS, FOOLS

2018-04-29 07:07

- YOU... SHALL NOT... PASS! - GANDAAALF! - GET THE STICKERS, YOU FOOLS! *drops into the abyss*

2018-04-29 08:18

Buy stickers! R.I.P Splyce :(

2018-04-29 07:09

2018-04-29 07:24

should save them around 50k dollar per month in not having to pay salaries to shit players that are god damn awful at the game. When you can't even be a top10 in the weakest region, you know its time to let go.

he really talked for 5 minutes on his reason to shut down csgo division.. he couldve just said the game blows lol

2018-04-29 10:25

to all those ppl saying "cs:go is dying, look at all those orgs dropping out". i'd like to remind you about the whole WESA-PEA situation: PEA, the professional esports association, was a power move by the NA league of legends teamowners that also had cs:go teams. they wanted to create the cs:go equivalent of the LCS, an exclusive, franchised league. WESA wants to do the exact same thing btw. so PEA went to WESA and said: "were gonna take over the NA EPL and we want 50% from the finals too". then esl went to the players and said: "there won't be any joined finals. it's either EPL or PEA-league" and the players revolted against the teamowners. AFTER THE PEA PROJECT FAILED ALL THOSE LCS TEAMOWNERS DECIDED TO LEAVE CS:GO. if they can't run their own treehouse club, they can't pitch that to investors, especially since you'd have to outbid C9 and liquid for the best NA talent, which makes it doubly not worth it. they have no desire to actually compete in an open circuit where you have to actually win tournaments, they were in it for the money all along, sorry.

2018-04-29 11:25

Nice summary there, it's actually true with some other ramifications. Well said.

2018-04-29 12:43

100 Thieves to sign ex-Splyce ?

2018-04-29 11:27

Lmao what

2018-04-29 18:25

"MGL Columbus Major" almost

2018-04-29 11:30

maybe try picking up teams that arent shit

2018-04-29 12:40

2018-04-29 13:56

Orgs going out of the scene instead of picking up real talent.. Ppl say that csgo is dying, I say this orgs have no idea of what they are doing

2018-04-29 14:02

It is dying

2018-04-29 22:24

Yes, but that's not the reason as to why this orgs are leaving. Notice that only the ones that have achieved nothing and have little to no fan base are leaving..

2018-04-30 01:06

fair point

2018-04-30 02:32

I would also pull out from CSGO this or next year and rather invest fully in games where devs actually care about whats going on :)

2018-04-29 14:10

Expected after top1 team Cloud9 beat them gg

2018-04-29 15:34

The memories... Summit1ged

2018-04-29 17:18

+hs fox team

2018-04-29 18:19

Mmmmm, not good

2018-04-29 19:57

Pretty clear where this game is going

they are a shit team that never wins anything and never will....that is the reasoning for pulling out of csgo...bc they are basically throwing money into a fire with their teams

2018-04-30 01:03