maLeK joins G2 as coach for ESL One New York

24-9-2018 18:23

G2 have announced that Damien "⁠maLeK⁠" Marcel will coach their team at ESL One New York.

The 32-year-old will be taking over from Jérôme "⁠NiaK⁠" Sudries, who is now described by G2 as being the team's manager after transitioning to a coaching role in March, when Edouard "⁠SmithZz⁠" Dubourdeaux stepped down from his position as coach to play competitively again.

maLeK is mostly known for his time with Envy, whom he most notably guided to a first-place finish at DreamHack Open Atlanta 2017 and to playoff appearances at the ESL Pro League Season 5 Finals and ELEAGUE Premier 2017.

maLeK will coach G2 in New York

After being released by the North American organisation, in May, he joined 3DMAX, helping the team to a 5th-6th place finish at the Europe Minor, where they beat LeftOut, a line-up featuring former Envy players.

According to G2, maLeK's appointment represents "an effort to improve" the team's performance before the organisation "begin exploring longer term commitments". The French team recently attended the FACEIT Major, going out in the New Legends Stage with a 2-3 record after losing to Complexity, MIBR and FaZe.

“I am glad to reunite with these boys and I am asking nothing but the best from them," he told G2's website. "We’ve spent a few days together already and I am looking forward to seeing them in action.

"There is a clear idea of where we are heading and the process behind it is all that matters. I trust them to start things here in NYC.”

G2 have been drawn in Group B of ESL One New York, along with FaZe, Liquid and NRG. In their first match, they will take on Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen's side, to whom they lost 2-0 in London.

The French team will attend ESL One New York, later this week, with:

Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon
Kenny "⁠kennyS⁠" Schrub
Alexandre "⁠bodyy⁠" Pianaro
Edouard "⁠SmithZz⁠" Dubourdeaux
Kévin "⁠Ex6TenZ⁠" Droolans

Damien "⁠maLeK⁠" Marcel (coach)

who?

2018-09-24 18:24

21 replies

+scream when?

2018-09-24 18:25

3 replies

Never actually

2018-09-24 22:25

2 replies

Go read kio's tweet about Scream in fnatic

2018-09-25 12:23

1 reply

Lol that was abviously an ironic tweet xD Why would you even consider it as a serious tweet? xD

2018-09-25 13:16

This is the end of "shox dream team" :D

Oof maybe he can whip them into shape? Give some order to the nonsense. G2 return to solid t2

Better tell that to c9

2018-09-24 19:02

It's Envys old coach

2018-09-24 18:26

he's a css veteran and former NV coach

2018-09-24 18:35

Actually an amazing coach, the only reason NV was relevant in 2017/18

2018-09-24 18:39

10 replies

NV wasn't relevant because of him*

2018-09-24 20:07

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NV wasn’t relevant because happy is literally the worst IGL to coach, malek probably turned up every day with a stratbook and happy was like “nah I think sending everyone A while I lurk B is better”

2018-09-24 20:27

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So he is a bad coach if he haven't autority ? Logic

2018-09-24 22:37

Maybe he have good strats but 1 : i don't think so 2 : he doesn't have autority

2018-09-24 22:38

How can he put strats out of happy refuses to listen to them? Authority means nothing when you can only talk during timeouts, happy ruined that envyus team with his shit attitude and play style

2018-09-24 22:48

Hahahah Happy 2 majors Niko Guardian 0 major Dont say happy is a bad igl

2018-09-25 10:44

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pronax has 3 majors, therefore him, jw and flusha are the de facto best players of all time. shut up you cretin, happy is an awful IGL and has been since early 2016.

2018-09-25 11:12

Happy has been the best French ever

2018-09-25 12:13

Happy is literally shit at everything now

2018-09-25 12:26

Happy has been a bad igl since 2016 and the results prove it >inb4 he had a bad lineup sure, sixer and xms isnt the best the french scene has to offer but if you have rpk and ScreaM and fail to make playoff pretty much every LAN and keep doing the same retarded calling time and time again, you have no excuse

2018-09-25 13:26

He was the coach for the old envyus. I heard he puts in a shit ton of work and watches a lot of demos. Should be a good pickup.

2018-09-25 05:16

ez tier 3 coach

Hi Malek

BAITED

nice

+1 coach was the problem

Lmao

2018-09-24 19:10

LETS GO G2

ex6tenz should go

lol okey

Who?

who

Last place

i tgoughter another shuffle was due XD

smithz cant be coach anymore G2 is done

disband in 2 months

They disband after every small change so far

2018-09-24 18:27

Not sure about that move... G2 concerns me a lot

Hope we can do well at this tournament :/ #G2ARMY #G2WIN

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Lol absolutely not. Lose to FaZe then Liquid will win NRG and NRG has won versus that roster at ECS S5 Finals so it will be tough (even if they beat NRG they will face Liquid or FaZe again and we all know how it will ends).

2018-09-24 18:40

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.. idk man what if g2 will suprise us and beat FaZe liquid etc

2018-09-24 18:42

I have some hopes but i dont want to overrate the team, they still have some preparation to do as SmithZz said.

2018-09-24 18:43

No amount of preparation will make their weak players viable in the top tier. They can't really play with smithzz, ex6tenz and bodyy in the same team if they hope to be a top5 team. Keep ex6tenz IGL and change the other two, then we got something to talk about.

2018-09-24 22:55

Plus one

2018-09-25 00:19

Sorry for g2 but it's dead since dh malmo 2017

2018-09-24 20:08

malek is actually a good pick up.

I remember the match which malek played instead of tank because tank was sick. Time passes so fast.

YES, this is what G2 need, maLeK most underrated coach ever <3

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Most shit coach ever you don't know a shit about french cs he's juste a cocksucker he is gentle but that's it. they need a Guy like Krl or xtqzzz even oztriker

2018-09-24 20:09

He’s the FR equivalent of B1ad3

2018-09-24 20:39

LOL ozstr1ker hasn't been good since 2014 and even then he sucked in Warmaker with Maniac & Sixer I rather see Krl there or even some 1.6 bois coming back but yeah anything over Ozstr1ker

2018-09-24 20:41

But KRL has too many precedents with the G2 boys (esp. ex6), so I'm not so sure they'd listen to him.

2018-09-24 22:04

They'd listen him for suuuureeeee , except ex6 idk if he wants to be coached by KRL. But there is XTQZZZ (idk if u know him bug he is well known in french scene he is a caster and analyst , he can do like YNK)

2018-09-24 22:39

Yes I know all of them. I don't know, I'm not confident in the potential of this G2 lineup.

2018-09-25 13:54

Harts or iorek would be good

2018-09-24 22:41

No way they gonna succede with Smithz and Equf66cxtenz in the samne team

It can. Look at Na'Vi with Zeus and Edward. The only guy that has to go is bodyy. It's the most realistic scenario. Then they should get either ScreaM (preferred for his sheer firepower), or they get Kio (which I think is more likely to happen).

2018-09-25 00:08

Smithz is not even close to be a Tier1 player, Boddy is shit aswell, Ex6tenz shpuld stay bc he is igl and thats it

2018-09-25 08:04

Absolutly not what they need but they have to make G2 believe that they are going somewhere so they keep the money well done guys

2018-09-24 18:28

200 iq play

2018-09-24 18:30

sadly thats what they are doing, they just dont care anymore cuz most of them have won so much and pretty much everything, now they just wait for next paycheck just like xms said

2018-09-24 20:04

Xms really said that ? XD

2018-09-24 21:23

thats what he said : top French players are more hungry for money than to win tournaments

2018-09-24 21:58

Change coaches all you like. This team is a failure and a joke. Until smitthz realizes that hes been an inconsiderate shitty player that has been bottlenecking shoxies potential for years and leaves, the french scene will remain in its garbage state.

shox has been bottlenecking his potential himself by choosing to play with smithzz.

2018-09-24 19:06

Hi orban

2018-09-24 21:27

Hi Hungary

2018-09-25 08:05

he can't help smithzz and ex6stenz shoot on the head of the enemy

2018-09-24 18:31

-smithzz+apex make G2 great again

"There is a clear idea of where we are heading and the process behind it is all that matters. I trust them to start things here in NYC.” iview from 2025: "we arent ready yet but we are on the way"

2018-09-24 18:33

We changed our furniture in gamehouse. We trust it will make a BIG difference.

2018-09-24 21:19

you can bring zonic to coach this team and it will be useless if you have Smithzzzzzzz... and ex6tenzzzzzzzzzzz....

Hell na u aint bringin zonic anywhere

2018-09-25 05:07

maLeK good but not best. ( Malek"Malekcsgo"suédois ) best

2018-09-24 18:38

-smithz -ex6 -bodyy -kennyS -Shox + zywoo +zywoo +zywoo +zywoo +zywoo -> u don’t need strat when u can cheat Have a noob day -VeryNoobGuy

5-22 never forget hltv.org/matches/2318558/quantum-bellato..

He is coach if u can see. No need to frag lol. Did u saw hardstyle playing? They are playing against PRO's ffs. Not like U nova4 playing againt dmg. We talking about ppl with talent playing 8h per day every day for years

2018-09-25 02:05

since ex6tenz and smithZz are in , i guess its the best coach for psychological help about defeat and got lot of xp from Envy

2018-09-24 18:44

I don't know

2018-09-24 21:28

true

2018-09-24 21:53

lets go maluko!

2018-09-24 18:48

> have 3 individually bad players in the team > replace coach

Nice, I love this guys work ethic and what he brings to teams. Very excited to see how much this helps the team

2018-09-24 19:03

Now -Bodyy + ScreaM

2018-09-24 19:05

Wont help shit :) they need to -body and hire a psychologist cuz once kenny tilts he plays like shit....

2018-09-24 19:13

Ez win in New York

2018-09-24 19:16

wont help

2018-09-24 19:17

fake maleK

2018-09-24 19:22

Real malek

2018-09-24 19:54

Nice.. gl malek

2018-09-24 19:26

MaleK ? Seriously ? No.....

2018-09-24 19:28

-2000 iq pick

2018-09-24 19:29

no one can rescue g2

2018-09-24 19:30

very cool

2018-09-24 19:36

Like it's gonna change anything lol.

2018-09-24 19:46

Another dude decided to get some free $$$

2018-09-24 19:52

Shox : Ok guys who wants to be our coach? We need to do something to proove we are at least trying xD

2018-09-24 21:17

legendary envy coach

G2 is gonna be better than vitality now

2018-09-24 20:05

Legends never die

Not like it s gonna change anything about This tier3 lineup Bad coach for bad lineup seems fair

2018-09-24 20:28

Friends will play togehter again, dont care about trohpies, better play with friends :D

Hahaha xD

2018-09-24 21:16

SOLEK

still 2-0 for faze xxaxaxaxa

2018-09-24 20:43

nothing can fix this lineup.

2018-09-24 20:52

He retired

2018-09-24 20:57

got em

2018-09-24 22:02

KRL would have been wayyyyyy better, maleK may be a good guy he does not have a right personality to coach. And stop blame SmithZz, a few days ago ScreaM said that he is an amazing teammate to play with. -bodyy +ScreaM and KRL as coach would have been a way better option.

+11111111

2018-09-25 00:13

no ynk no party

shox is so pathetic, he does not want to admit he was wrong - with SmithZz, with Ex6TenZ, and now he still tries to prove that he was right and they just lacked a coach, fucking LOL fuck, admit your fault, move on and finally decide - do you wanna win titles or you wanna play with a friend, obviously you can't do both, you don't call anymore and you don't have ScreaM madcarrying like in 2016 (and even that was enough only for a single event, which means it wasn't enough at all, but now they don't even have that), you should get rid of Ex6TenZ (a successful caller will become a failure one day - pronax, Neo, but a failure will never become successful) and SmithZz (God he's bad) if you wanna have a chance to win anything, forget that bullshit you had with NBK and gather your successful team, you gave a chance to a guy that had been a failure for 4 years, but you gave no chance to a guy that you always came to to gather a difference making team (LDLC, G2), and if it's only about having fun then stop bullshitting kennyS because the guy deserves to win and he believes in your bullshit for a reason I can't get

Well said but shoxie is French and he is affected to Botzzzz. They love each other.

Pretty sure no one is forcing KennyS to stay

2018-09-25 00:15

I didn't tell anything about force, shox convinced kennyS of Ex6TenZ ability to succeed (somehow......) and NBK's no ability to succeed, yeah kennyS should've been smarter but shox should understand that his decision-making is wrong in 99% of cases - yes he was right to kick Ex6TenZ from G2, but he was wrong to think he could lead a titles-winning team, he admitted that and was right, but he fucked up NBK that in the end started to show signs of a good team, ok it was online at ECS but G2 online lost to Windigo after having had the same amount of time for pracc and preparation, their only good match in those 4 months was on dust2 against Astralis, yeah they all suddenly hit too may shots and Astralis had problems, but it was just 1 map and they lost it anyway, and then they lost to fucking Windigo, they lost to coL, Cloud9 almost defeated them (Cloud9!!!), they lost dust2 to FaZe that has no idea how to play the map. The only reason Ocelote didn't give NBK the major is that mixwell came out and said that somebody didn't really wanna play, by the look of things it was kennyS that supported shox' "project" from the beginning, and Ocelote benched NBK although they looked good in their last matches and at least he could've let NBK play the ECS. What's now? ESL NY will be another event they won't even get to the playoffs (unless FaZe falls apart) at, while NBK is gathering a team that will not win any big title - yes, Astralis is almost immortal, but they will be stronger than that shitty G2 lineup, mark my words. G2 even has no way to improve, unless shox gives up SmithZz and picks kioShiMa and then replaces Ex6TenZ with ScreaM (kio can call, shox will help him, they have kio & bodyy to support and kennyS & ScreaM to attack, a loose style that has more chances to work than Ex6's "style" that now is not even tactical, it's chaotic with people playing like they didn't play with each other at all).

2018-09-25 07:40

Agreeing to almost everything you said but Kio as an IGL with shox's help. Really do you think that's gonna work out? The biggest problem in French CS scene is they don't have a good leader. Let's say Ex6TenZ is very good with bringing the team together and solves any issues within the team and builds the team chemistry but what about starts. There is no denying of the fact that he can't call his starts don't work now. The same issue was not there when Happy was IGLing the NV line up, we all saw them at cologne 2015 but that somewhat lost now. This is more of a blame game now and the teams failure is imposed on individuals (the only reason Scream had to compromise his career because he wanted things within team should work out and ended up playing in a support role which he never even dreamt of). So IMO there is nothing left in French scene at least for a year to come unless newer players like zywoo come up and do wonders. And as far as kenny is concerned, man this guy deserves to win. He has already done everything and just bought whatever shit they sold him and it feels bad to see him like this at this place.

2018-09-25 09:51

You love saying shit dont you ? Nbk failed because he is shit igl, and mixwell and others didnt want to play anymore with apex. Ask mixwell he doesnt want to play with fr in the future. The team was already dead after one month. And not kennys fault he was the best on this period even if he didnt agree with this roster he is professional.

2018-09-25 11:10

> mixwell and others didnt want to play anymore with apex How have you figured that? Any proof that even mentions apEX? > Ask mixwell he doesnt want to play with fr in the future It's not like he was the only option left. > The team was already dead after one month Yeah a dead team that qualified for ECS lan and was not given any chance to prove itself. Ex6TenZ still has chance to prove himself after all that shit, why did NBK not?

2018-09-25 12:14

G2 to make a Gay Power House

2018-09-24 21:29

coach was the problem omegalul

2018-09-24 22:13

good

2018-09-24 23:35

lets go

2018-09-24 23:59

-shithzz -nobodyy +RpK +Apex

2018-09-25 00:01

wow

2018-09-25 00:46

This team won't go far with 3 bots who can't win duel aims. KennyS and Shox carrying this noobs. Just add zywoo and bring back apex and nbk now thats a superteam! Shox might not like nbk but thats his big chance of winning a major not this 3 shits.

2018-09-25 05:12

Tbh - Smithzz - bodyyy + nbk + apex Nbks ogling sucked and we definetly don't want shox to igl again

2018-09-25 07:32

bad coach really

2018-09-25 08:41

wtf another early exit from the tournament confirmed

2018-09-25 09:34

+zywoo +apex -smitzz -exi

2018-09-25 09:58

French CS is a joke

2018-09-25 11:11

not gonna work

2018-09-25 15:17

THIS team is dead already

2018-09-25 22:03

Lot of comments on swapping buddy , but he's really playing a better cs than smitthz .. I'd rather say either you remove boddy and smitthz and bring in kio and scream or you remove Smithhz and bring in scream. Look at the improvement from boddy

2018-09-27 06:30