iGame.com release three players

iGame.com released three of its five players after the team put together in May was unable to mesh, with the future of Slaava "⁠Twista⁠" Räsänen and Saku "⁠SAGGERTON⁠" Jokinen still unknown.

iGame.com announced its new roster in May after several of its former players saw their way to other teams in what ended up being a Finnish roster shuffle that hurt iGame.com's standing in the Finnish scene.

After losing Sami "⁠xseveN⁠" Laasanen to ENCE and Eetu "⁠sAw⁠" Saha and Olli "⁠sLowi⁠" Pitkänen to HAVU, iGame.com ended up with former HAVU players Jesse "⁠KHRN⁠" Grandell and Mikko "⁠xartE⁠" Välimaa joining the team's former coach turned player, Twista, as well as SAGGERTON and Timo "⁠REFLEX⁠" Rintala, but the new team never managed to find its groove.

SAGGERTON's future is uncertain after the team disbanded

The team, full of experience but lacking in firepower, was unable to land good results, finishing 3rd at NESA 2018 behind HAVU and SJ, 25th in MDL, landing the team in the relegation playoff come September, and 9-16th at the CPH Games BYOC tournament.

iGame.com's statement:

"We are sad to announce the disbanding of our CSGO team, within few months we played together we realized our visions were different about the future also chemistry of the team was not what we were looking for. With this announcement, we will be releasing Mikko "⁠xartE⁠" Välimaa, Jesse "⁠KHRN⁠" Grandell & Timo "⁠REFLEX⁠" Rintala from our roster. Future of Saku "⁠SAGGERTON⁠" Jokinen and Slaava "⁠Twista⁠" Räsänen in the team is yet unknown.

"We are reviewing our options to sign a new team in near future so stay tuned with us.

"iGame.com wants to thank xartE, REFLEX, and KHRN for their time with us and we wish the best of luck to them, also thank you all for supporting us in these ups and downs."

With the three players released, iGame.com currently has:

Finland Saku "⁠SAGGERTON⁠" Jokinen
Finland Slaava "⁠Twista⁠" Räsänen

Finland Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen
Sami 'xseveN' Laasanen
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.02
Maps played:
615
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.68
Finland Mikko 'xartE' Välimaa
Mikko 'xartE' Välimaa
Age:
26
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.93
Maps played:
676
KPR:
0.62
DPR:
0.66
Finland Timo 'REFLEX' Rintala
Timo 'REFLEX' Rintala
Age:
27
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.00
Maps played:
297
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.67
Finland Olli 'sLowi' Pitkänen
Olli 'sLowi' Pitkänen
Age:
22
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.07
Maps played:
122
KPR:
0.73
DPR:
0.66
Finland Saku 'SAGGERTON' Jokinen
Saku 'SAGGERTON' Jokinen
Age:
22
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.99
Maps played:
540
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.71
Finland Jesse 'KHRN' Grandell
Jesse 'KHRN' Grandell
Age:
28
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.98
Maps played:
483
KPR:
0.66
DPR:
0.66
Finland Slaava 'Twista' Räsänen
Slaava 'Twista' Räsänen
Age:
31
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.85
Maps played:
380
KPR:
0.59
DPR:
0.70
Finland Eetu 'sAw' Saha
Eetu 'sAw' Saha
Age:
26
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.98
Maps played:
594
KPR:
0.67
DPR:
0.67
zehn top 1 player in the world
2018-08-08 00:37
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10 replies
zehn good but not bestest snatchie bestest
2018-08-08 00:39
0
6 replies
Bro,fix your eng ffs
2018-08-08 02:23
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4 replies
His engrish is fane men. Wury nut hal be fene.
2018-08-08 04:55
0
ah, its besterest, right?
2018-08-08 08:42
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2 replies
#67
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Poland momtr
Man he is joking...
2018-08-08 08:57
0
1 reply
He cant be a jockey on HLTV, thats just odd!
2018-08-08 08:58
0
Zehn is love zehn is life
2018-08-08 09:44
0
#20
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Russia Extr0m
Jere "sergej" Salo EZ4ENCE
2018-08-08 00:43
0
#24
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Poland Unluko
lol,
2018-08-08 00:46
0
yes brother <3
2018-08-08 01:19
0
Wadafak
2018-08-08 00:37
0
#6
jks | 
Australia CaZeR01
Ok
2018-08-08 00:38
0
Twista will join ENCE :)
2018-08-08 00:38
0
9 replies
#22
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Lebanon RobloxPorn
Twista is a shitta
2018-08-08 00:44
0
Twista joins ence and they never win a game again lmao
2018-08-08 00:47
0
AS A COACH IDJOTS
2018-08-08 01:35
0
6 replies
#50
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United States Rakitic
Nikla might be right on this one xD Age checks out, well seasoned veteran too iirc so it could happen. Not sure how quickly Twista is going to give up playing CSGO competitively.
2018-08-08 02:26
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4 replies
Twista should've quit playing a few years ago already lol Now it's the time to be a coach in ENCE (y)
2018-08-08 02:28
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3 replies
#54
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United States Rakitic
BIG vs ENCE Major finals both beating Astralis and Faze. I know a lot of people gonna be like "hell nah" but a guy can dream you know? Edit: Nvm Ence isnt on this major iirc. Some other one perhaps xD
2018-08-08 02:42
0
2 replies
NT BUT UNLUKO next minor better luck i are think
2018-08-08 03:36
0
1 reply
#59
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United States Rakitic
Hell yeah dude! :-D
2018-08-08 03:55
0
IDJITS! btw. don't let him mess ENCE. they doing good damn job in short time.
2018-08-08 17:41
0
expected
2018-08-08 00:38
0
#12
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Netherlands Slashable
F
2018-08-08 00:38
0
#13
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United States Httrdc
RIP their Major spot
2018-08-08 00:39
0
1 reply
+1
2018-08-08 00:39
0
#16
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Finland Vkims
Xarte to stand in for Cloud9 in major
2018-08-08 00:39
0
2 replies
#55
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United States burzeus
he could actually play better than all of c9 players ( only if he wants)
2018-08-08 03:34
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1 reply
#80
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Europe KappaKaako
He was the one who actually carried ence to their only major
2018-08-08 12:18
0
#18
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Finland Smoonah
rip
2018-08-08 00:41
0
direct message from the owners of the team: toggel hard/buy private or gtfo
2018-08-08 00:44
0
natu inc
2018-08-08 00:47
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good ideea . saggetron was only good player + 4 old bots
2018-08-08 00:55
0
2 replies
#56
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United States burzeus
? xarte was their only good player see stats
2018-08-08 03:34
0
#78
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Finland Abksmurffi
ROFL saggerton is such a whiffer. Twista is even worse. KRHN and reflex are washed up and mediocre af. Xarte 0-16
2018-08-08 11:59
0
#28
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
United States JuriTakahashi
gl with twista aka bot_difficulty 0
2018-08-08 00:58
0
#29
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Finland eMBeJaana
and twista stays?? lmao
2018-08-08 01:01
0
#30
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Finland gaazer
Rip leftovers
2018-08-08 01:04
0
its quite likely for Twista to join ence as a fulltime coach
2018-08-08 01:06
0
1 reply
No shit
2018-08-08 08:39
0
finnish cs lul
2018-08-08 01:08
0
this team still existed???
2018-08-08 01:11
0
1 reply
ikr I thought they disbanded months ago
2018-08-08 01:31
0
can a finnish CS expert clue me in on the coming shuffle?
2018-08-08 01:13
0
7 replies
#43
Zeus | 
Finland Olter
Havu Will probably kick saw for Reflex. Xarte will coach ence maybe and khrn retires or goes to Lidl team
2018-08-08 01:47
0
3 replies
ty for good summary :) p.s. I c u, baj forsen1
2018-08-08 02:04
0
1 reply
that was full of shit btw
2018-08-08 07:54
0
#57
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United States burzeus
why would the ex-3dmax core split up?
2018-08-08 03:35
0
KHRN, xarte and reflex are now playing Finnish Esports League with uli and pietola. Uli is a past Findictus and Havu player and pietola was most recently in Nyyrikki. There are rumors that twista would join ENCE as a coach but that's not certain. Even though the Nyyrikki lineup just parted with the org, I don't think there'll be a real shuffle since FEL season 5 just started and the lineups were announced. Ex-Nyyrikki is the same as it was in Assembly last week, Conquer aquired the PUR$i$EURA lineup, ex-conquer players (snobi, vilksu, dreamer) are playing with chronos and some Vemberi, HAVU and superjymy are the same as before of course, ENCE doesn't play the league and they're not going to change any players and nothing else really matters. I'm not really an expert and I don't have any inside information. I just try to follow the scene closely. Edit: I just saw Olter's response and I had no idea about those things. Reflex in Havu would be pretty interesting since reflex is a good player (better than saw) and experienced as an igl. The problem with that is that the team would have 3 players who are known to be a little toxic/unlikable (juho, reflex and zehn). I don't really see xarte as a coach or an analyst but it would be a cool experiment.
2018-08-08 02:41
0
2 replies
Thank you for the detailed writeup :) I guess there's not really a shuffle incoming then, just finnish tier2 splitting up cores and okay-ish players going inactive/coach. It would be nice to see HAVU a bit stronger on the fragging front, so I guess that was my pipe dream when fantasizing about a potential shuffle.
2018-08-08 11:54
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#92
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Finland k6s
didnt know people in hltv can write things so long
2018-08-09 11:32
0
oh no
2018-08-08 01:31
0
#40
Zeus | 
Finland Olter
Xarte new coach for ence ez
2018-08-08 01:38
0
2 replies
Twista
2018-08-08 08:40
0
Xarte to cloud9
2018-08-08 10:40
0
who does what? ez 4 ence
2018-08-08 01:41
0
#45
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
steel | 
Belarus Ruble
bot twista
2018-08-08 02:09
0
#48
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
 | 
Spain jonathanosE
Yeah this tells a lot about our society. Legends like Xarte must go but bots like twista stay. I will smh my head for xarte tonight. Rest in piece always respect
2018-08-08 02:13
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1 reply
shake my head my head
2018-08-08 15:41
0
this team was doomed to fail.. besides that all those guys are old as fuck. Why they keep still playing? They will never be more than tier 7 players.¨ just retire & give up
2018-08-08 07:55
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#66
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Malaysia byaIi
RiP ENCE best rival
2018-08-08 08:55
0
lmao finnish teams more volatile than uk teams
2018-08-08 09:47
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#71
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Finland saunamdma
RIP xartE, the hope of Finnish cs.
2018-08-08 09:54
0
6 replies
he is legit one of the worst players. 20k hours and still sucks monkey dick
2018-08-08 10:49
0
4 replies
#74
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Finland PerusPk
Xarte is still one of the best players in Finland. During his time in HAVU they managed to win like 10 titles in Finland eventho they changed their roster twice.
2018-08-08 11:02
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#81
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Europe KappaKaako
Yet he carried ENCE to their only major xdd
2018-08-08 12:24
0
you realize his comment was pure sarcasm...?
2018-08-08 18:01
0
1 reply
i did realize yes i mean, who'd rly think xarte is a good player? lol just roasted him
2018-08-08 18:09
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#79
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Mongolia FoxOutOfGlocks
twitter.com/xarteCSGO/status/10268081040.. Don't worry bro, xarte never dies unless they offer him salad
2018-08-08 12:18
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#75
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Finland PerusPk
What now then? iGame going to play ESEA MDL relegations games with saggerton and twista. 2v5 everygame? LUL NOT GOOING TO HAPPENer
2018-08-08 11:37
0
shit is happens, just stay strong
2018-08-08 11:56
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They were perhaps the oldest team, average age-wise.. Which team is the oldest? Any Ideas?
2018-08-08 13:18
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1 reply
hard to say, Kinguin and VP gotta be up there, just cause any team with people around 30 years old are gonna have a higher average. Id prob guess VP is oldest average age, there might be some older but I am talking about tier 1-3 teams we actually know the names of not some random ones
2018-08-08 18:00
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#83
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Belgium boeyah
They never find there groove but always a paycheck
2018-08-08 13:25
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1 reply
yup...igame has never been good...i mean they have been good for tier 3-4 years ago, and since then only got worse. last time they were any good Twista could frag hard...been a long time they might as well just give up and disband for good
2018-08-08 17:59
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#87
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Russia gsm7
I think, this is good new's
2018-08-08 17:41
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who will they get
2018-08-10 18:31
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#94
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Nepal Avhy
But why?
2018-08-26 11:20
0
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