swag, AZK assemble new team

28-5-2018 12:18

Braxton "⁠swag⁠" Pierce and Keven "⁠AZK⁠" Lariviere have formed a new team under FYB to compete in ESEA MDL Season 28, Dust2.us reports.

The two North American players have linked up with 20-year-old Edgar "⁠MarKE⁠" Maldonado, mostly known for his time with NRG, ex-Atmosphere member Joshua "⁠Hunter⁠" Madore and former Splyce AWPer Zack "⁠XotiC⁠" Elshani.

The news comes shortly after the departures of AZK and swag left Torqued with just three members, who have been linked with a move to Pro League side Ghost.

swag assembles new MDL team with AZK

The newly-assembled roster under the FYB banner already played in last night’s MDL match against Fam143, securing a 16-9 win, with MarKE leading the team with a 108.3 ADR. In that match, FYB fielded 29-year-old coach James "⁠JamezIRL⁠" Macaulay, who is also reportedly close to joining Ghost, instead of XotiC.

FYB's full line-up looks as follows:

Keven "⁠AZK⁠" Lariviere
Braxton "⁠swag⁠" Pierce
Joshua "⁠Hunter⁠" Madore
Zack "⁠XotiC⁠" Elshani
Edgar "⁠MarKE⁠" Maldonado

nice men

2018-05-28 12:18

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4 replies

LUL tier 50

2018-05-28 12:19

2 replies

LUL expected

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expected

Ez tier 4

Expected

Let's GO MarKE, you can do it.

2018-05-28 17:02

WHAT

wait what happened to Splyce? why XotiC is free agent interesting roster but weird after swag's words now it seems like they think they deserved more

2018-05-28 13:14

Thet left csgo e-sport

2018-05-28 13:39

unexpected

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whos Hunter?

2018-05-28 19:15

he played in atmosphere in mdl before, hes a fucking god

2018-05-28 19:29

MDL and god lmao what kind of joke is this

2018-05-29 02:40

Wooow

w0w

nice retirement

Lol

LOOOOOOOOL expected, they just didn't want to be with steel anymore since he's toxic (and bad at the game)

steel was top fragging games

ahhahahahha F.U.N.N.Y

lol

Wo?

Cant wait for this team to play at a major!

You may can't but you'll have to wait ! He-he-he

2018-05-28 15:40

They cant play at a major, they are still banned by Valve. AZK and Swag that is.

2018-05-28 19:27

you just got jebaited

2018-05-29 00:47

Marke cant stream snipe at a major, so they wont go.

2018-05-29 12:10

straight outta pug

2018-05-28 12:20

tier 4

lan invitations is gone

The lan invites would be with steel pollo koosta if all 3 join ghost.

2018-05-28 12:24

ah yeah i forgot

2018-05-28 12:36

10 years late lol

nice gl

Gj leave mdl team to make another mdl team

Yeah “overwhelmed” XDDD either way isn’t like Torqued is any better, but if they sign for Ghost, then Ghost>>>This.

2018-05-28 15:44

ez for streamsniper marke

imagine leaving torqued just to create this tier 15 team...

>Implying that Torqued themselves weren't just as bad They literally got steam rolled by Complexity with Professor Chaos as a stand in, and then completely railed by Swole Patrol.

2018-05-28 21:48

RIP Swag career.

More like RIP XotiC's career.

2018-05-28 12:23

unexpected omegaLUL

2018-05-28 12:21

just w8ing 4 disband

Swag- Only player that destroyed his career two times.

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What about KNG?

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2018-05-28 12:25

kng is back bro, wait your team qualified to minor americas

2018-05-28 12:35

will not get visa and will remain rotting in br lol

2018-05-28 12:49

they are going to EU, KNG have a visa for USA, 100thieves problem is hen1 and lucas1

2018-05-28 13:18

2018-05-28 17:08

so they left torqued to play with these shitters. expected something better from their part

They left Torqued because steel wouldn't get rid of Pollo and koosta.

why

2018-05-28 12:22

XotiC wow

And remember kids, stay off drugs. Seriously though, Swag needs to get his head out of his ass

Look good

how to kick azk without kick

NA(!!!) tier3

shity team

yeah

who will igl?

Marke the stream sniper / cheater. Awesome how NA has absolutely no standards at all. Cheaters, match fixers, scammers are just accepted by the community as all that behavior is very normal.

2018-05-28 12:27

if i were to make a personal judgement id put cheaters on a different scale. cheating is just so much worse than the others if you ask me

2018-05-28 19:32

PUGTEAMS

2018-05-28 12:28

Nice

2018-05-28 12:29

not worth leaving old torqued

+1 this team is gonna be even worse

2018-05-28 12:31

azk he is the north american player but the titan he is the french stars.

2018-05-28 12:30

Miss this meme :( Good old times

2018-05-28 12:58

Good old times :")

2018-05-28 13:12

Time to hang up the mouse if you need to get unknown players AND players from fucking Italie. HAHAHA swag.. why not quit when you still were a god ? Instead of destroying your reputation like entire VP now.

Time to hang up the mouse if you need to get unknown players AND players from fucking Italie.

2018-05-28 12:34

Tier 1000 incoming

May 23rd, 2018: "I know I am capable of way more and I just need to keep grinding. For now, I will start streaming and playing FPL/Rank S to try and reach my potential May 25th, 2018: "I will still be playing CS:GO actively and I'll be working every day on trying to improve as a player. May 28th, 2018: Braxton "swag" Pierce and Keven "AZK" Lariviere have formed a new team ahahahahahahah fcking tards...:DDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2018-05-28 12:32

poggers

2018-05-28 12:33

xDE

They will never be successful, why even bother trying?

To have some fun

2018-05-28 12:37

Yeah sure, but Swag is a true definition of a pugger. He will never work in a team. They will disband on months or even weeks.

2018-05-28 12:38

yeah it's over for him

2018-05-28 12:39

a smoke weed everydayer a stream sniper an overwatch player lets go

fake hunter

Steel toxic

who is xotic?

2018-05-28 12:44

Awper, played in splyce One of 'those' na upcoming pugstars

2018-05-28 12:45

lul

2018-05-28 12:47

Played decent tbh, bad because semphis is leading em

2018-05-28 13:06

Seriously? Marke is an a idiot. He don't signed a contract to Misfits to play in EPL and 5 months later he make a mix team for play MDL OMEGALUL

2018-05-28 12:46

tier4 in NA = tier20 in EU

free swag?

2018-05-28 12:51

,,!,, steel from swag.

2018-05-28 12:56

Well we sure know they'll be able to beat Mythic, Marke 4Head

That's a solid team for MDL

2018-05-28 13:04

Fucking traitors

2018-05-28 13:10

This is actually pretty decent, Not sure about Hunter but others are good, Not sure who would IGL tho

Xotic used to call for a few months i guess

2018-05-28 15:32

Still better than that gay ass temp storm lineup

2018-05-28 13:22

trash anyways

2018-05-28 13:25

tier20 ~ 30 ez.

2018-05-28 13:30

..boi

2018-05-28 13:46

2018-05-28 13:49

Just let the poor kid go to Europe.

2018-05-28 13:55

3 FAMOUS CHEATERS + 2 MATCHFIXERS NICE TEAM, GL IN THE FUTURE

its just a worse team all around' I dont get it

2018-05-28 14:20

azk he is the north american player but the titan he is the french stars

2018-05-28 14:35

I guess steel was too toxic to handle... bit steel has a good mind, reads and seem to be top fragging a lot vs non too pro teams but still.... as an igl that was cool to see

2018-05-28 14:41

nice premade. but no team no pracc/scrims. better than fpl mixed I guess.

2018-05-28 14:47

maybe can throw one more time before retired?

2018-05-28 14:50

interesting

2018-05-28 14:57

MarkE has specatator skills

2018-05-28 14:59

somehow this team could play major or not?

2018-05-28 15:17

Nice team kappa

2018-05-28 15:54

2018-05-28 16:04

hes so fucking bad team

2018-05-28 16:12

pugstars

2018-05-28 16:45

still NA tier3

2018-05-28 17:00

b.a.d

Unexpected

2018-05-28 17:10

this is so pathetic

2018-05-28 17:57

t4 team

2018-05-28 18:08

It was never mentioned that XotiC was going to join Ghost. Xotic is on ex-Torqued and is not going to / never was going to Ghost according to ya. Just a bit confused because of your wording ~

2018-05-28 18:36

goood luck boys you deserve! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

2018-05-28 19:13

Brazil Smart? Friendly? Loyal maybe... like a dog lul

2018-05-30 06:57

2018-05-28 19:20

WTF

2018-05-28 19:25

2018-05-28 19:35

They fucked up.....

2018-05-28 19:44

Isnt xotic and marke kind of joked about in epl matches? And doesnt xotic suck?

2018-05-28 19:49

marke is joked about as a stream sniper but to my knowledge it's just that, jokes. This team is honestly way better then Torqued. It's never going to matter until Valve un-bans them though. And they should. Like we essentially know Fnatic players at this point straight out cheated and nothing ever happened to them but we need to throw the book at an 18 year old who was playing for an "org" that was making money off his labor for free? I mean that for the lot of them to. It's stupid. Everyone in the NA scene knows it. Euros will laugh and I don't blame them.

2018-05-28 21:30

"we essentially know Fnatic players at this point straight out cheated" If they did, they never got caught, big difference. (I agree though that the famous flusha clips are horribly suspicious) But i agree that cheating is way way worse than throwing for skins. They should definitely be unbanned.

2018-05-29 12:35

Rumour has it that they did get caught but valve just didnt care and they really didnt. All they care about is money atleast im glad to see a small turn around from Valve now with the updates and what not

2018-05-30 06:54

How can you say that there are more then 3 clips with flatout proof marke was sniping in ESEA so it is not a joke it is hard fact. And no im not going to search the clips for you

2018-05-30 06:55