Europe Minor Open Qualifier 1 - IEM Katowice 2019

pronax and ottoNd to stand in for Imperial in EU Minor qualifier

21-10-2018 14:32

Markus "⁠pronax⁠" Wallsten and Otto "⁠ottoNd⁠" Sihvo are set to stand in for Imperial's in the first Europe Minor open qualifier, which begins on Monday, coach Neil "⁠NeiL_M⁠" Murphy has announced.

The coach did not specify who the Swede and the Finn will be replacing, but HLTV.org knows that the pair will fill in for Lithuanian duo Žygimantas "⁠nukkye⁠" Chmieliauskas and Eimantas "⁠pounh⁠" Lazickas.

That suggests changes could be on the horizon for Imperial, who have recently exited StarSeries i-League Season 6 in the group stage and missed out on a spot at IEM Chicago after losing to ENCE in the quarter-finals of the GG.BET Shuffle qualifier.

pronax will stand in for Imperial on Monday

HLTV.org knows that Imperial will soon make an announcement regarding the future of their team.

pronax is currently a free agent after being let go by Chaos on Friday alongside Mikail "⁠Maikelele⁠" Bill, while ottoNd is a long-time member of HAVU.

Imperial will be competing in the qualifier with:

Nemanja "⁠nexa⁠" Isaković
Ali "⁠hAdji⁠" Haïnouss
Rokas "⁠EspiranTo⁠" Milasauskas
Markus "⁠pronax⁠" Wallsten (stand-in)
Otto "⁠ottoNd⁠" Sihvo (stand-in)

it doesnt sound good

2018-10-21 14:34

18 replies

lul

2018-10-21 14:33

3 replies

Pronax will shine again; It is a major with a decent lineup

2018-10-21 14:42

2 replies

pronax 3 major ez

2018-10-21 14:49

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rip maikeleleleleleleelele

2018-10-21 15:57

Unexpecto

-1 sounds good

2018-10-21 14:37

There is no way Otto is better than nukkye and maybe not even pounh Id be alright with having pronax trialed on the lineup since they literally are a pug team after kicking krystal, but this is really really stupid

2018-10-21 15:35

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+1 pronax move kind of makes sense, ottond doesn't

2018-10-21 15:40

-ottond +Maikelelelelele

2018-10-22 20:14

Wat. Pounh is a joke. And imo Ottos has a higher ceiling than Nukkye.

2018-10-21 15:44

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pounh >> hadji

2018-10-21 15:46

Otto has been crushing it on havu and might be better than nukkye, but he is not the problem on this team But if they really do want to replace nukkye, they shouldn't try to get a more aggressive awper. I guess at the lower level this will win them games, but if they want to make the jump to T1 they need to get their shit together Pronax alone can't wrangle these conceited little fuck faces into being team players, and replacing a solid, known quantity with a more aggressive player is a poor choice imo

2018-10-21 15:54

I agree Nukkye wasn't the problem. But I think we all, including the org, knows what the problem is. It's Espi. Yeah he's talented, but he's still miles away mentally, from being on tier 2 teams. And I think bringing in Pronax might be a last ditch effort for bringing him around.

2018-10-21 16:06

Nukkye and pounh have both removed imperial from their profiles so expect changes

2018-10-21 18:05

I beat nukkye in Faceit so he's just bad and need to delete cya

2018-10-21 20:16

otto is a very promising player, not the worst choice imo

2018-10-21 16:11

Sounds good, but the roles locks like messy

2018-10-21 17:48

ottoNd best awper alive , kinda.. lack of experience , but he's definitely good and can do damage.

2018-10-21 21:32

RiP

Another major without them i guess

lol

Nice

WHY?!?!?

7 replies

LOOOL

2018-10-21 14:39

be happy finally u got finnish blood in roster now you can win

2018-10-21 14:50

from top 30 to top 100 incoming with finnish noob

2018-10-21 15:04

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ottoNd is a beast

2018-10-21 15:13

FinishArmy let's go!

2018-10-21 15:24

Nt retard plastic shit

2018-10-21 18:02

Expected

ez4winland

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2018-10-21 16:41

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ez major for imperial

Who?

Nice downgrade no matter whoever is replaced (maybe even if one of them is pounh)

Espiranto is the problem dude, he might be the best in terms of aim but he’s toxic as fuck

2018-10-21 17:56

Rip major

who are they standing in for?

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no one knows but the best bet would be rip pounh and hadji or hadji and espiranto (the latter cuz he doesn't like structured play).

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ok, ty

2018-10-21 14:40

Otto is actually not bad at all

2018-10-21 14:47

ok?

2018-10-21 14:48

Otto actually os better than imperial current awp

if -hadji and -pounh that it's a good change

It's almost confirmed -nexa and -nukkye now. twitter.com/NeiL_Mcs/status/105398142179.. no tweets about nukkye, but he removed @imperialgg from his bio.

2018-10-21 15:14

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lol, why would they remove their two best players?

2018-10-21 15:16

don't ask me maybe they left?

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This change would make me sad. I hope that Neil was just joking about nexa Nukkye removing bio could really be a sign... Where could they go?

2018-10-21 15:17

nexa has lately been standing in a lot for Valiance, it's kind of an automatic fit for him

2018-10-21 15:20

a downgrade for nexa :/

2018-10-21 15:21

It was only a brief time in one map and replacing Hunter, who's arguably the best player of the team. Think it'll be very hard and that Neil was just joking.

2018-10-21 16:15

yeah but should he get removed from Imperial, there's zero reason for him not to go to Valiance

2018-10-21 16:45

Nah, he's going to be free to focus on his individual rather than the team, so he'll add some fragging power

2018-10-21 20:17

RIP NEXA

Nexa is the best player in Imperial

espiranto is better but nexa is definitely important. i think neil is just trolling or nexa joining valiance maybe idk. makes no sense to remove him tho

I hope that Neil was joking too imo nexa & nukkye > Espi

2018-10-21 15:22

One is hadji for sure

Yeah i thought about hAdji and pounh but maybe it's hAdji and nexa (because pronax is the typical IGL/support/trashBOT that would replace nexa) Sad for hAdji :(

nexa hates being igl, I don't think it's him. Much more likely pounh and hadji or hadji and espiranto (he started crying again and this time Imperial benched him).

No firepower without espi, no chance

They get more firepower by getting a better awper, and Nexa not needing to igl. No maybe not as much as Espi, but I'd much rather have more stability and tactical value, than some child with good aim.

2018-10-21 15:56

probably their awper and hadji?

2018-10-21 14:44

2018-10-21 15:15

It's a joke, he's not leaving. If it was serious, I highly doubt Neil would tweet this and nexa answer like that

2018-10-21 16:17

Hmm

terrible downgrade

-1

-1 wtf

2018-10-21 18:12

2018-10-21 20:11

ottond deserves a better team than HAVU is, and as ENCE has full lineup and allu awp, ottond should start looking for int. team by now.

2018-10-21 14:35

Zehn too

nah zehn overrated toxic shit

2018-10-21 14:51

says who? allu lul

2018-10-21 14:52

not just allu lol, i think that i've followed a bit more finnish cs scene than you

doesnt make zehn less of a good player

2018-10-21 15:38

it actually does if you can't come up with other players

2018-10-21 15:47

twitter.com/zehncsgo/status/104713537255..

2018-10-21 15:48

EZ 4TH MAJOR FOR GOD PRONAX. PURE YOY

ez for 3x major winner

bye nexa and hadji (

More like rip nukkye instead of hadji because ottond is an awper. Awper for awper would make sense

Nukkye is decent with rifles

True, imo it would be a dumb loss

2018-10-21 14:43

What is "funny" is that no one knows (except the team) 100%, some people in the comment say "nukkye and nexa", some say "hadji and pounh", etc. Things are not super clear cut (even though most of the team is lithuanian, those changes are not to replace one or 2 players with other lithuanian) but hAdji was disappointing in the previous LAN and pounh is overall in LAN underwhelming (versus his online stats)

-nexa is pretty much confirmed by Neil on twitter

Yeah i saw the message (or maybe neil posted multiple messages, at least i saw one) but so many guys in esport make some jokes/b8 about these roster changes so i don't know if it's confirmed.

Specially Neil. He is always joking

2018-10-21 15:07

Message got posted twice.

2018-10-21 14:46

why tho?

2018-10-21 14:36

pronax 4 major

HAHAHJAHAHHAHAHAHHA 0.79 PORNAX

lobanjica had 0.79 while playing MP9s and dropping AK-47s to espiranto. #freeloba

2018-10-21 19:44

-nexa -nukye

um... what.

2018-10-21 14:38

Now please save zehn from havu

get krystal back ffs

Dont need bots

When there are already 5 Xd

btw since when is simple a major champion (from which?)

Lol +1

2018-10-21 17:08

JUST GET FUCKING HS ALREADY TEMPO STORM IS DEAD AND SEND INNOCENT TO KINGUIN

hs lmao worst player

Nice name you have

this 100% true dno why is he even a "pro"

2018-10-21 14:53

-Nexa +Pronax -Hadji +ottoNd Not saying it's a good move, but definitely the most likely move. (Also Nexa is currently standing in for Valiance so that sparks my interest).

Pronax_4_major incoming

RIP nubkkye and nexaxaxa

+bottond +pronaxaxaxaxa

2018-10-21 14:41

Pronax lol

Nexa and pounh out i guess

2018-10-21 14:45

vpesports.com/csgo/pronax-and-ottond-to-..

2018-10-21 15:43

Thanks, bad for ur country cs if the changes are permanent after the stand in

2018-10-21 19:53

yeah, true. Prob both of them will go back to shitty lithuanian mixes just to destroy their careers and to waste potential there

2018-10-21 20:08

pronax back to Major :D

RIP NEXA he's with Valiance now lul

the mr 3 times himself

pronax in 2k18 lul

lul botnax

pronax should stop his pro career, he is destroying his stats even more everyday

How is Neil_M a coach? He has never even played this game LMAO.

2018-10-21 14:54

how many players you see wanting to become a coach? if someone like peacemaker can go to 7(?) orgs to coach then you can clearly see there's a lack of them.

ez MANSNOTHOT

kng destroying his teams outside the game pronax destroying his team ingame

2018-10-21 14:55

so if you put kng and pronax in same team how the team gets destroyed? the only more difficult question I can think of is like putting maikelele, pronax, fox, krystal, kioshima in one team and asking MSL who gets kicked first.

2018-10-21 15:34

pronax lul rip imperial

2018-10-21 14:56

who is not playing? nexa and?

2018-10-21 15:01

RIP Imperial

are havu gonna play without otto then?

2018-10-21 15:02

rip

4th major Inc for pronax

rip lt flag

pronax_3_major_s1mple_0_major

hadji lul

2018-10-21 15:10

pronax_3_major_niko_0_major

2018-10-21 15:11

EspiranTo joins FaZe and hAdji left team cuz he thinks he will form better team with kioShima for upcoming Minor quals

2018-10-21 15:12

pronax in 2k18.. rip imperial

It's almost confirmed -nexa and -nukkye now. twitter.com/NeiL_Mcs/status/105398142179.. no tweets about nukkye, but he removed @imperialgg from his bio. gg

probably just bait. i could see nukkye leaving

2018-10-21 15:26

ItS. -pounhh.not.nexa

called pronax to imperial before, ottond unexpected

Pronax 4 majors inc

2018-10-21 15:18

pure yoy

-pounh -hAdji or -hAdji -EspiranTo

2018-10-21 15:23

it'll be -pounh -nukkye. vpesports.com/csgo/pronax-and-ottond-to-..

No espiranto no cheats

2018-10-21 15:28

-hadji useless onliner and terrorist

2018-10-21 15:32

pronax as a stand-in????

Normally you can see the logic to a move, even when you dont think it will work out. This is just pure madness.

pronax 3 major s1mple and NiKo 0 majors

2018-10-21 15:42

GG imperial

KoksSkirtumas

2018-10-21 19:42

nice downgrade

PRONAX IS BACK Pog

nice

Whaat? -fan

Would be better if join two lt players and all team be only lithuanians

2018-10-21 15:51

lol, there was full lt team before mansnothot and it was shit. there's no IGLs or really smart players in lithuanian scene. the only good option is maybe kalinka and he's already playing with starix in CIS minors.

2018-10-21 16:00

Are there any good lt players not on imperial?

2018-10-21 18:55

I dont know, actually i know only these three lt players :D

2018-10-21 19:08

no real igls or super experienced players. espiranto > kalinka/nukkye > pounh/kvik > carcass/butters > haflex, aikas, lukjje and some lower players + puggers in fplc

2018-10-21 20:02

Ottond <3

2018-10-21 16:01

Ez 4 madfragger ottond

-pounh -nukkye +ottond +zehN nexa iGL

2018-10-21 16:21

Pronax - makes sense, they've got no IGL OttoNd - ??????????????

2018-10-21 16:19

Ence literally destroyed imperial

2018-10-21 16:20

They start to realise that it was a bad idea to kick kRYSTAL :D

2018-10-21 16:22

sry but krystal is a bot

2018-10-21 16:42

Did you even see krystal playing? His b holds on inferno is a joke.

2018-10-22 03:06

What happend to my Lithuanian brothers

2018-10-21 16:29

Lt bots xDDD

2018-10-21 17:42

lol wtf

0 iq imperial literally so stupid

2018-10-21 16:54

2018-10-21 20:14

wtf????

2018-10-21 17:02

pzdc. pronax is reallyyyyy not good, idk men. ottoNd is nice but I would still keep nukkye. I agree that imperial needs better IGL than nexa but pronax? men wtf

2018-10-21 17:10

2018-10-21 17:11

Pronax is not gonna last long under despacito

2018-10-21 17:24

zaebis na samom dele

2018-10-21 17:32

Nukkye was actually pretty good

2018-10-21 17:49

-nexa +nukkye

2018-10-21 17:50

why -nukkye

This is like budget faze

pronax ottond hs espiranto nexa - on paper this could be sick

2018-10-21 18:38

yes, AIDs level sick

2018-10-21 19:32

Calm down lithuanian rejects

2018-10-21 19:34

why not innocent then? zero use of HS when you already have espiranto and nexa

2018-10-21 19:35

HS is a pure entry, espiranto can come second. Nexa can lurk agressively somewhere, ottond will awp the fuck out the opponents and pronax will finally gets his shits together and lead them to victory! innocent deserves to be in the best polish team. He's wasting his talent in all these international lineups.

2018-10-21 21:35

he's wasting time in international lineups because he has players like HS. if rumours are true that tempo are getting rubino and cromen maybe soon they will be decent team. also espiranto has higher pecentage of entry frags with higher success rate against better teams. they don't need more entries...

2018-10-21 21:43

Pronax is EspiranTo’s dad

2018-10-21 18:39

Unexpected

2018-10-21 18:47

Ottond is actually good

2018-10-21 18:54

Rip Imperial LUL

2018-10-21 18:56

Imperial was actually a really interesting team and now it will be a dead team?? gg..

2018-10-21 20:15

He has scary stats even for a igl

2018-10-21 19:18

He has same stats as loba who was dropping espi AKs and playing MP9 only LOL

2018-10-21 19:41

dat downgrade xd

Espiranto toxic fuck. Soon everyone will be kicked by him.

2018-10-21 20:00

Ottond god next stop ence

2018-10-21 21:08

god pronax is back

2018-10-21 21:13

I think nukeeye was ok. But whatever

2018-10-21 21:27

They said they wanted an IGL so someone was about to get kicked. Although I don't understand them picking up hadji when he was available instead of an IGL. I think pounh & nukkye are too good to get thrown to the bin. hAdji is good but in this team he can't really find his place.

2018-10-21 21:38

Lol yeah like espiranto is gonna listen to pronax who has been washed up for a few years now

2018-10-22 00:04

espiranto is a pub compared to pronax

2018-10-22 04:54

Yeah achievements wise but imperial is literally his team and it's been proven time and time again with the removals and additions to the team. Espiranto being a "pub" has literally nothing to do with what I said. Hes known to have an ego and theres no way hes gonna respect pronaxs leadership unless he has a serious improvement in his attitude.

2018-10-22 04:57

I'd imagine pronax's leadership will be a lot more loose compared to krystal's. And I think he will give him his chances but if they fail to reach closed qualifier then he might get krystal treatment.

2018-10-23 23:30