Ghost part ways with Pollo - Report

28-7-2018 11:00

Ghost have dispensed with the services of Matt "⁠Pollo⁠" Wilson, Dust2.us has reported.

The news follows Ghost's quarter-final exit in the StarSeries i-League Season 6 North America qualifier following a 1-2 defeat to Swole Patrol.

Ghost captain Joshua "⁠steel⁠" Nissan had made no secret that the team were facing "issues" with Pollo while at the ZOTAC Cup Masters Americas Finals but had stressed that he wanted to give the 21-year-old a chance.

In June, Pollo was one of the three players from Torqued to link up with Ghost, who, shortly afterwards, competed at ESL One Belo Horizonte, placing 7-8th. The team then flunked during the Americas Minors North America closed qualifier but bounced back by winning the ZOTAC event, securing a spot in Hong Kong.

Underlying issues puts Pollos' future in the air

Ghost are down to just four and will be on the lookout to replace the 21-year-old - with the team set to participate in MSI's MGA North America Playoffs, scheduled to start August 11.

With a busy schedule ahead, Ghost will travel to Hong Kong for the ZOTAC Cup Masters event, from August 24-26, after which they will fly to Sweden for DreamHack Masters Stockholm, running from August 29 to September 2.

With the reported changes, Ghost are down to:

Matthew "⁠WARDELL⁠" Yu
Yassine "⁠Subroza⁠" Taoufik
Joshua "⁠steel⁠" Nissan
Kenneth "⁠koosta⁠" Suen

James "⁠JamezIRL⁠" Macaulay (coach)

rip

2018-07-28 11:02

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2018-07-28 11:03

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and all that after a bad game against swole patrol , thats how fast NA teams disband. and this is why NA teams cant find a long enough win streak to be considered a t1 csgo region.

2018-07-28 11:30

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They sure had some teams that are considered t1, maybe not the whole region but atleast some teams

2018-07-28 11:33

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liquid if anything can be , but they always had EU or BR player to kinda help them with inconsistancy

2018-07-28 11:39

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Lol they are t1, cloud9 was aswell. Both with shroud and nothing and tarik and rush

2018-07-28 11:36

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thats the thing , they were in top4 but for a really short period of time . Now c9 is a joke again .

2018-07-28 11:40

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AZK to ghost 100% confirmed

2018-07-28 21:52

It's not like EY is all t1. And stuff like this happens in sports all the time. If you look at any sport every team is constantly changing. Changing may cause inconsistency but it is also the best way t ok create a super team.

2018-08-10 20:24

We have a player or two who can play the same role that taco plays

2018-07-28 16:35

Why do you think it was based off of 1 game?

2018-07-28 11:46

no fucking way steel kicked him cause of one game

2018-07-28 12:28

the fucking article says they have had underlying issues with Pollo since before signing for ghost. learn to read

2018-07-28 12:33

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well they can say anything obv , they had an amazing run together beating everyone on LAN and online , that loss against swole patrol was their fisrt defeat . I dont think they had any issues together before that , or nothing critical . anyway its wierd that they still teamed up in the new ORG with new ppl if they had any isuees.

2018-07-28 12:41

Alright i'm sorry if I came off as hostile first of all I was not aware that this was their first defeat, which is very surprising to be honest. I think this has to do with Pollos personality and they could probably go even further with a solid fifth

2018-07-28 12:52

knowing how steel might tilt in important games or games that they shouldnt have lost , i might predict that it was steels decision , so he kinda kicked him . i was really looking forward into that team but now i am not sure how to feel about them .

2018-07-28 12:56

That might be true - but I think everyone were on the same terms about this being steel's team of sorts. Not only is he the IGL but also the most experienced and definitely the most vocal of them.

2018-07-28 12:59

Read this article that's linked in the one above: dust2.us/News/1546-steel-i-think-koosta-.. Pollo hasn't improved since then and thus has been kicked.

2018-07-28 18:11

Thats just really stupid thing to say "i dont think they had any issues". Im pretty sure they know better than you.

2018-07-28 15:38

Steel had an interview where he said ages ago that pollo had a chance to fix his problems or he would be gone.

2018-07-28 18:30

dude you might have seen one official, not the countless praccs they played.

2018-07-28 13:29

"Ghost captain Joshua "steel" Nissan had made no secret that the team were facing "issues" with Pollo while at the ZOTAC Cup Masters Americas Finals but had stressed that he wanted to give the 21-year-old a chance." It was clearly not just that game.

2018-07-28 13:49

Steel talked about the problems with pollo at the lan that they won, they want to get better and realized after the qualifier they gotta do it.

2018-07-28 17:28

What? for once, this is an NA team that did the right thing. They literally exhausted their options with Pollo before they kicked him. You want to see fast kicks? Only 3 NA MDL teams kept their core from S27 to S28. They kick people every week. This was a reasonable kick.

2018-07-28 19:12

who?

2018-07-28 11:58

Why is hltv posting info on tier 20 teams? They are not even in a tier.

2018-07-28 11:59

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Tier 20? More like Tier 3, and if you need help figuring out what tiers are then here you go: T1: Those who can win tournaments (Astralis, NaVi, etc.) T2: Those who get invited and do alright in tournaments (Liquid, mousesports, fnatic, etc.) T3: Those who get shitted out of premier tournaments or those who qualify for said tournaments (ENCE, NiP, GHOST, etc.) If there even was a Tier 20, it would probably be a disbanded ESEA South African Open team.

2018-07-28 17:05

Why not koosta

He’s one of their best players you nonce

2018-07-28 11:07

Koosta has a much higher skill ceiling

2018-07-28 21:07

he is not awper for the team so, no he doesn't have

2018-07-28 23:10

Ouch

TENZ inc

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Tenz in dignitas

I hope so. He needs the opportunity to prove himself

2018-07-28 11:12

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he already proved in fpl that his cheats are working well.

2018-07-28 11:55

-steel +oBo +tenz

2018-07-28 11:57

2018-07-28 14:17

steel is actually good

2018-07-28 14:46

Well, he certainly has shit the bed throughout his entire Premier/MDL tenure. At least in EU when FPL pugstars transition over to actual league/LAN play (Zwyoo, the Imperial boys, etc.) they are still forces that carry their teams. In NA, guys like s0m and Tenz haven't done (and mostly struggled) or accomplished shit.

2018-07-28 14:30

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They havent had the opportunity yet though

2018-07-28 14:43

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??? They've been on MDL teams are were both mediocre lol How are you gonna say that either of them are ready for a chance at pro if they struggle against MDL teams

2018-07-28 14:50

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Well thats basically like playing pugs imo .. pretty irrelevant You can't compare random 5 guys team without roles with a teams such as NRG / Liquid for example. They have some random IGL that can't even use the players properly.

2018-07-28 22:50

If you think MDL teams are just "playing pugs" then you've clearly never watched it. A majority of those teams practice and scrim for like 10 hours a day, its not the open division lmao And if you've watched any of the teams, almost all of them have defined roles. These teams are vying for Pro league spots, it would make 0 sense for them to just play it as a pug.

2018-07-29 14:15

Well i watched couple of them and all i see is silly mistakes , overpeek , stupid decisions. Not even close to the top20 teams nor EU CS.

2018-07-29 22:43

S0m has barely played any MDL, and the same thing with Tenz. Comparing them to the imperial lineup is silly since Imperial had veterans on that roster to guide the players, such as Tenzki and KRYSTAL, and most of the young talent on that roster already had some experience such as Nexa and espiranto.

2018-07-28 23:06

S0m and Tenz havent had till this day a real and consistent opportunity bro. Playing a couple of games with a mediocre team is like the others said playing a PUG more than having a real team where they can trully demostrate something. They're really young. They have time.

2018-07-29 13:09

#121

2018-07-29 14:16

Again, playing as stand-ins for just some random games against MDL teams is not the same as playing in a regular basis in a MDL team grinding out the whole season. But ok whatever. S0m and Tenz like the rest of these kids have all the time in the world to prove ppl like you wrong.

2018-07-29 16:34

Im not talking about standing in. Both s0m and tenz have played full seasons of MDL on actual teams.

2018-07-29 22:30

expecto patrono

2018-07-28 11:04

rip pollo hermanos

2018-07-28 11:05

Sad

I'm curious who are they going to get now!

2018-07-28 11:06

Wow

+food

2018-07-28 11:08

n1 joke

2018-07-28 11:10

+drink

2018-07-28 11:51

FINALLY Now: +gMd

2018-07-28 11:35

It's gonna happen probably. Gmd seems to be close with everyone from the former Torqued and he just left the team with swag and azk.

2018-07-28 12:39

+Docc

2018-07-28 11:11

Soon s0m will be announced

that would be damn awesome! :D s0m is sick!

s0m is trash, no thanks.

2018-07-28 18:33

with who?

AZK INC

2018-07-28 11:15

doubt

2018-07-28 12:16

maybe

2018-07-28 15:29

Hong Kon

2018-07-28 11:17

Who cares?

2018-07-28 11:18

stupid chicken

2018-07-28 11:22

+fns heard it here first

2018-07-28 11:23

More reports on Indian CS please. It matters more than american

2018-07-28 11:24

American CS > Indian CS > French CS Ukraine CS > all

2018-07-28 12:18

Man im gonna have to get my binoculars cause I can't find french CS anywhere

2018-07-29 00:05

hong kon

2018-07-28 11:29

+support player -koosta +star player

Why minus koosta?

2018-07-28 19:04

+shroud

-Polo 1.2 TSI +Passat 1.6 TDI

boltz new member hltv confirmed

Disco Polo?

2018-07-28 12:34

Jdm to ghost.

2018-07-28 12:44

3 main AWPers? Are you serious lol?

2018-07-28 14:22

they were practicing with kaboose yesterday

that would be a sick pick up. or floppy. huge upgrade either way

2018-07-28 16:28

Jonji inc

2018-07-28 13:35

" I don't think the scoreline really shows what was actually happening in the game. Yes we got dumpstered by both FaZe and SK, but we had a lot of situations, 5vs3s, 5vs2s that we just didn't convert. It was a big help because we were able to go and download those demos and actually review what happened, and now we have a lot of protocols in place that prevent those sort of situations from happening again." - Steel Fancy words from a delusional idiot

2018-07-28 13:39

wheres hong kon lmao

Expected. Don't think Pollo was a player you could ever expect to make consistently good decisions. ... Has that North American 'just randomly peek and hope you win the gun battle' gene in him.

2018-07-28 14:26

finally been waiting for them to cut his skin tone chicken bone leave me alone head ass

2018-07-28 14:33

🐓🐓🐓🐓🐔🐔🐔🐔 rip

2018-07-28 14:55

With a busy schedule ahead, Ghost will travel to "Hong Kon" for the ZOTAC Cup Masters event, pls HLTV correct

2018-07-28 15:21

good. there are 100 young talents all with better aims and game senses than pollo.... this lineup has a ton of potential

2018-07-28 16:30

gg lmao +who???

2018-07-28 16:56

+gmd/tenz probably

2018-07-28 19:17

tenz is good up and comming player

2018-07-28 21:01

finally got rid of this shit player. he has alway been the worst player on the team (gx, torqued, and ghost) and a good amount of times couldnt even play his support roll well and really couldnt do much of anything else consistently. hope ghost get a great replacement.