Ryu steps down from Renegades

25-9-2018 00:58

Steve "⁠Ryu⁠" Rattacasa is no longer the coach of Renegades, the North American has announced on Social Media.

In a Twitlonger post, the 32-year-old did not wish to disclose the reason for his departure, stating that he wants Renegades to dictate the terms of the announcements about the future of the team.

Formerly of Selfless and CLG, Ryu joined Renegades in June as a trial replacement for Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović and attended three events with the team, including the FACEIT Major.

Ryu departs Renegades

The Australian side cut a frustrating figure in London and were eliminated in the fourth round of the New Challengers Stage by Asian rival TYLOO after barely beating a Space Soldiers side with coach Canpolat "⁠hardstyle⁠" Yıldıran acting as a stand-in.

"I want to say thank you to the boys for allowing me to come in and coach them over the past few months," Ryu wrote. "It was a fun, challenging adventure and I wish you all nothing but the best.

"To the fans, I wish we could have delivered better results, and know that the boys were and are capable of great things, individually and together. Keep showing them the love.

"As for my future, I am undecided as to what my pursuits will be—I have a few things in mind and a few are already in the works, but nothing that’s official at this time. "

Renegades are yet to make an announcement on the future of their team, who will return to action on October 2 in their opening match in ESL Pro League Season 8, against eUnited.

Renegades are now:

Aaron "⁠AZR⁠" Ward
Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage
Karlo "⁠USTILO⁠" Pivac
Noah "⁠Nifty⁠" Francis
Joakim "⁠jkaem⁠" Myrbostad

OOF

2018-09-25 00:59

11 replies

2018-09-25 01:00

9 replies

Agreed

2018-09-25 01:01

8 replies

What happened to Norway CS? End of 2016 Rubino, Jkaem, and Rain were all on top 5 teams in the world. Sure Rain is still on a top team, but Rubino is who knows where, and Jkaem is stuck in this shitty Australian team that will never amount to anything :/

2018-09-25 01:50

7 replies

Rain has really regressed from his 2017 level tbh

Cromen broke out this year though. And nordavind has some good showings.

2018-09-25 01:59

5 replies

No-one has picked cromen up yet, I dont know why. He did well in FaZe

2018-09-25 08:36

4 replies

We got a few other talents coming up, most notably hallzerk. this is hallzerk: youtube.com/watch?v=2HG77BV-cac now with a 122 matches winstreak: faceit.com/en/players/hallzerk/stats/csg..

2018-09-25 09:00

3 replies

122? Wth I can't even get to 10

2018-09-25 14:32

2 replies

aye bro 122 and still going

2018-09-25 15:22

1 reply

Tf, I didn't quit renegades lies

2018-09-25 21:40

Akuma or guile will be the next coach

2018-09-25 01:35

"Ryu was holding nifty back from fully igling, now that he has no competition it's an eZ win for renegades"

LUL so that's how they got so bad so fast..

Wont be missed -Ryu

Lol why not -Ustilo

Wat doink ?

Feelsrenegadesman

whole team needs to disband

Just like Faze

2018-09-25 01:24

<7-1 <0-16 alright MIBR

2018-09-25 01:26

2018-09-25 01:39

2018-09-25 12:04

did nothing for the team A COACH A MANAAGEEEERRRRR -Ryu

2018-09-25 01:02

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WIN???

2018-09-25 01:06

its a maneegerrr maaan

2018-09-25 03:36

they shouldnt fire kassad, dumb idiots

2018-09-25 01:05

maybe he left idk

2018-09-25 01:14

He left to go to Valiance. I don't know the details or anything, I suppose his contract expired and he preferred to coach a Serbian team or just wanted to take on a new project. He hinted towards that when he left and shortly after he signed with Valiance.

2018-09-25 01:32

A MANAGER!

2018-09-25 01:08

Uncoachable shit team

2018-09-25 01:09

2018-09-25 01:17

expected

2018-09-25 01:19

Ryu is one of the big reasons for why the NA scene is what it is RNG is falling apart with or without him

2018-09-25 01:22

The only notable thing I remember him doing was building a team around koosta back in NME and Selfless (who then left and did shit without a team built around him).

Guile will be the next coach

who

2018-09-25 01:34

Rng is literally dead anyway

2018-09-25 01:41

One of the worst coaches from NA

Feels bad for Nifty.

You mean Jks

2018-09-25 04:43

Mby too but Nifty is the real deal

2018-09-25 09:42

Jks and Jkaem > Nifty

2018-09-25 09:43

Its so fking hard being a renegades supporter ;-;

2018-09-25 01:52

Ryu low tier

2018-09-25 02:18

A COACH, A MANAGER

2018-09-25 02:35

-taco +nifty

2018-09-25 03:31

6 replies

Nifty is awper

2018-09-25 06:55

Perfect. Liquid have no awper.

2018-09-25 07:53

Nitr0 ???

2018-09-26 06:24

hes not an awper, he just picks it up when he has to. his rifling is significantly better.

2018-09-26 17:22

I believe that nitr0 is fine so in any case taco should not change. sorry for my english

2018-09-27 02:15

he whiffs too much and doesnt have the same impact he did with rifle

2018-09-27 06:56

More changes need to be made, Kick Ustilo for Liazz, Ez 3 man Australian core and get Inmi as coach, If after then they aren’t top 10 or at least fighting for it I would get someone else to igl other than Nifty

2018-09-25 04:45

Just rec bntet and xcc... ez minor ez new challenger major lol

2018-09-25 05:30

wasn't aware they even had a coach.

2018-09-25 05:44

Roster shuffle inc boiz. Hopefully fixes their recent form :(

2018-09-25 06:11

disband

2018-09-25 06:18

Ryu was the best midlaner what happened then

2018-09-25 07:10

probably should just disband.. they could do roster changes but all other AU players are tier 40000 so wouldn't improve at all

2018-09-25 07:22

Liazz 3rd highest rated player on HLTV

2018-09-25 09:37

vs tier 50000 teams

Yes his stats are padded a lot because of bad opponents but he’s still very good and should replace Ustilo, The very few times he’s played on LAN against good international teams he’s done well hltv.org/matches/2322414/order-vs-cloud9..

2018-09-25 09:46

i don't even know what to say, these NN teams always outperform what they're expected, especially at a LAN on their home turf. being in the t1 scene is completely different thing and guarantee his rating would plummet and be the worst player on renegades

2018-09-25 09:50

they'll never disband they make so much money from going through the Asia minors since it's so easy. I just want nifty to leave to a better team and not be igl

2018-09-26 00:48

+1 nifty and jkaem deserve better

2018-09-26 07:57

This team.. Wau... Team owner jonas jerebko has to cut his losses and move on.. cut them and start over..

2018-09-25 08:08

The problem is bro these guys would be at the lower end of the pay scale. For what Renegades are paying these guys there is no other team they can get that will get them to Major's/stickers like the AU players can because of the easy Asian Minor qualifier.

2018-09-25 08:41

Still a good enough wage to game in NA.. im sure they would easily be on 80-100k a year + sponsor gear and other perks..

2018-09-25 10:03

I guess he figured out that he couldnt sell the players :)

2018-09-25 09:01

2018-09-25 09:10

why the coach ? lol , azr , ustilo are so bad.

2018-09-25 09:20

AZR has been better than Nifty since IEM Sydney

2018-09-25 09:38

Maybe , but u can replace anyone with AZR , but not with Nifty atm.

2018-09-25 10:10

I think the only one who should be replaced is Ustilo for Liazz, If there is still problems after that then add an IGL for AZR

2018-09-25 10:45

need to disband tbh

2018-09-25 09:44

They really need to drop ustilo.. somethings coming as ryu said.. they need some fresh talent to bring in new ideas, change structure etc.. Couldnt pay a tier1 player enough to join them.. they are lucky jkaem stayed.. I see the rng core as : nifty, jkaem, jks.. They will import a au player again.. drop azr/ustilo

2018-09-25 10:08

I think AZR is okay, But I think he would need to be entrying T side and filling in the gaps on CT, Honestly just add fucking Liazz for Ustilo, That’s some insane firepower and if there is still a problem then okay maybe replace AZR for a structured IGL, But I think just swapping Ustilo for Liazz could see massive improvements

2018-09-25 10:48

Need fresh ideas n tactics in the team.. once they get a new coach and swap out ustilo with liazz, hopefully they make progress..

2018-09-25 10:54

2018-09-25 11:16

Ryu is out of his depth these days. Maybe he can go be a scout of upcoming talent. He was ok on the ESL NA league though. But that is ages ago now in CSGO time.

2018-09-25 10:18

who?

2018-09-25 10:57

WHO??????????????????

2018-09-25 11:17

ugh.

2018-09-25 11:43

renegades are done, pushing squares through circles at this point. Hopefully Nifty/ryu stay together and go to a different team. Ryu seems like he would be a good coach.

2018-09-25 13:05