Luminosity weigh up team future *

12-9-2019 20:20

Luminosity are considering the possibility of pulling the plug on their Counter-Strike team, according to a report from Mais Esports.

The news follows the team's shocking elimination in the Round of 16 of the North American open qualifier for DreamHack Masters Malmö at the hands of Stay Frosty, which was reportedly seen as the final straw by the North American organisation.

From Luminosity's starting line-up, only Ricardo "⁠boltz⁠" Prass, Lucas "⁠steel⁠" Lopes and Gabriel "⁠NEKIZ⁠" Schenato are tied down to permanent contracts. João "⁠felps⁠" Vasconcellos has been on loan from MIBR since June, while Felipe "⁠skullz⁠" Medeiros joined the team only two days ago, on a temporary deal from W7M.

felps & co. could soon be out of Luminosity

It is currently unclear whether Luminosity will release their players or work on transfers to other organisations. Last month, Luminosity benched Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles, who became a "restricted free agent".

NEKIZ is the longest standing member in Luminosity after being recruited in 2017, almost a year after the organisation had signed the entire WinOut.net squad. The team have undergone multiple roster changes in the last few years with hopes of solidifying their place in the upper echelons of the scene, but without success. This year, the Brazilians have placed 7th-8th at iBUYPOWER Masters 2019, 13th-16th at the ESL Pro League Season 9 Finals and 5th-6th at the Americas Minor leading to the StarLadder Major.

Contacted by HLTV.org, Luminosity declined to comment on the matter. The squad currently have:

Gabriel "⁠NEKIZ⁠" Schenato
Lucas "⁠steel⁠" Lopes
Ricardo "⁠boltz⁠" Prass
João "⁠felps⁠" Vasconcellos (loan)
Felipe "⁠skullz⁠" Medeiros (loan)

Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles (benched)

Rafael "⁠zakk⁠" Fernandes (coach)

UPDATE: On Twitter, steel confirmed that the team is "out of LG", adding that a statement on the matter will be issued "later".

free boltz

2019-09-12 20:21

7 replies

expected

2019-09-12 20:22

4 replies

+1 #NOF5GANG

2019-09-12 20:23

2 replies

absolutely expected

2019-09-12 20:24

1 reply

blotz farting his ass wtf

2019-09-12 20:41

boltz farting out his ass wtf((((

+1 good aimer

2019-09-12 20:36

2019-09-12 21:01

Expected

yikes

Not renegades bad #ytb

is this happens because we are from BRAZIL?!

9 replies

shut up f4g

8 replies

raported

2019-09-12 20:45

who cares?

2019-09-12 20:59

6 replies

neymar

2019-09-12 21:00

5 replies

nt pulisic

2019-09-12 21:02

wtf Makuszewski

2019-09-12 21:05

tom brady?

2019-09-12 21:12

michael vick

2019-09-12 21:13

Kobe

2019-09-19 13:10

RIP

Nice

Rip

Poor felps

kkkkkkkkk wtf the season has just began

yea but they have been having a lot of bad results for 2 years without a relevant win

2019-09-12 20:25

3 replies

they are with two new players

2019-09-12 20:26

yes, i hope they don't do it, and let them work, with these two new players

2019-09-12 20:28

2 loaned players

2019-09-12 21:52

losing to Tier 3 NA teams

ripperino luminoserino

not surprised tbh

wtf

expected... disbanderino

Its looming

Why pull the plug? Because they are Brazilian?

is this happens because prove it or i’ll terminate you??!!??

expected, no future team, just siting and getting money for losing against tier100 nonamers

1st

No surprise, their team is completely irrelevant with washed up players

they just added skullz lol

LOOOOOOOL

rip lg :(

Expected from the worst scene

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OMEGALUL ocident china scene. Better watch boxe kanguru.

2019-09-12 20:37

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AUSTRALIA_1_2019_LEGEND_STATUS BRAZIL_0_2019_LEGEND_STATUS

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omg!!!!! im shocked

2019-09-12 21:28

Ur shittalk dsnt need any answer

2019-09-12 21:34

Huh?

2019-09-12 21:36

U shittalk for yourself.. miserable

2019-09-13 04:08

Nice Englando

2019-09-13 04:48

Hur dur

2019-09-16 14:52

Australia 0 Majors, 0 Major's finalist Brazil 2 Majors, 3 Major's finalist

2019-09-12 21:48

We’re talking about the present

2019-09-12 23:02

Thanks

2019-09-16 14:53

MIBR LEGEND OF KATOWICE 2019

2019-09-12 22:48

#124

AUSTRALIA_0_BRASILEIRAO_2019 BRAZIL_1_BRASILEIRAO_2019

2019-09-12 23:55

hltv.org/ranking/teams/2019/september/9

2019-09-13 00:00

I don't get your point, Sharon

2019-09-14 06:48

major? any big tournament in cs 1.6? OMEGA LUL KANGURU

2019-09-12 22:01

hltv.org/ranking/teams/2019/september/9 salty favela :D

first: i live in the south of brazil, so we dont have favelas here (im living in a better place than u :D) second: ranking? how about 2016 and 2017 with sk/lg at top1? xDD

2019-09-13 20:57

#124 I highly doubt you live In a better place lmao. A bad neighbourhood in Australia is a good neighbourhood is Brazil.

2019-09-13 22:04

well, that was a bad run. rip

2019-09-12 20:29

OMG So unexpected!

2019-09-12 20:32

-ablej +Felps

+1 Wouñd be great for furia, felps have the playstile for the team and has alot of experience 2.

2019-09-12 20:39

Yeah, let's put another retarded pushing every round. Instead of 4v5 because of art, you will have 3v5 with Felps.

2019-09-12 20:43

+1000

2019-09-12 20:50

Felps is an experienced player, and is way better than ablej, they already has this playstyle, every player in furia play agressive, only passive player is kscerato

2019-09-12 20:52

2019-09-12 21:29

That's why it's not gonna work. You need BALANCE on a team.

2019-09-12 21:53

+1 lmao

+1 doesn't fit with mibr already

2019-09-12 21:27

2019-09-12 23:23

Ouch. Well, MiBR loan Felps to INTZ & then INTZ get Boltz & Hen1 from LG. Boltz (IGL / Support) (Entry if needed) Felps (Lurker) Chelo (Entry) Xand (Entry) Hen1 (AWPer) Decent...right?

would be rly nice roster.

2019-09-12 20:40

+1 Best possible they could & should do right now tbh.

Still BR scene has many talented players but they are so dumb and instead of creating some top teams the best players are playing alone. skullz, b4rtiN, trk, hardzao are some very promising players, i mean BR could have 4-5 teams in the top30 ez if they had brain

Pain got a really decent hoster now with hardzao + biguzera, let's see if they can show up at an international tounament

2019-09-12 21:15

agreed, we have talent to make some great teams but they still thinking about "friendship" and other bullshits

2019-09-12 21:04

Expected, as they had a two months break in Brazil and just went to US this week...

2019-09-12 20:33

3 decent players on that team.

2019-09-12 20:35

Boltz, hen and felps is a solid t3 maybe t2 core, but whit steel and nekiz? No future, they should come back to brazil and restart the climb whit 2 yung talents.

Skullz has potential.

2019-09-12 21:11

maybe, he did terrible in his first oportunity, and sometimes, that is it.

2019-09-12 22:26

He deserves time and that´s it.

2019-09-12 22:43

He not deserv time, but in that case the core has no option, they should keep skull and kick nekiz to bring hen back.

2019-09-13 00:44

feel ban for felps..

that take so long

oof

poor boltz, the handsome devil!

2019-09-12 20:47

tier 29

Nooo Edit: LumiNOOO

2019-09-12 20:49

Felps and Boltz dont deserve this

2019-09-12 20:48

There are some salvageable pieces on LG, but they gave way too much time to some of their previous lineups. Smart decision, this LG team have been terrible for a year+ now.

very expected. Zakk worst coach I have seen

2019-09-12 20:51

Rip felps

2019-09-12 20:53

FINALLY DISBANDING

2019-09-12 20:54

Boltz deserves a better team.. Boltz, Felps +3 decent players

2019-09-12 20:56

skulls deserves a chance, too. Good potential.

2019-09-12 21:10

2019-09-12 23:27

NO DISBAND say hello to Coldzera fnx fox bit & some gay kid

Hey so now i'm the new LG player

2019-09-12 21:16

RIP, Brazilian Shuffle? FURIA: -VINI +felps (he can play aggressive finally) TeamOne: -bit +steel INTZ: -yeL -destiny +boltz +HEN1

I don't know what to think about a team with both arT & felps. I don't think it'd work out to well, tbh.

2019-09-12 21:03

I just want to see felps at his full potential, I'm sure that arT can change his playstyle a little bit to make space for felps

U have to remember that kNg already left, so u dont have to remove 2 players from intz. But i liked the changes tho.

there's some rumors about shz (Who used to play in Keyd) joining INTZ to replace kNg, thats why I didnt mention his spot

2019-09-12 21:24

oh is see, didn't heard about this

2019-09-12 21:31

cold was right

Loool

They just make a loan of skullz and now this news come? Bad management

Probably they were on the verge of dumping the team, and maybe gave it a last shot getting this skullz guy. Exiting a qualifier in such a ridiculous way probably was what was missing for them to fire the guys

2019-09-12 21:08

nice insight, mr brazil

What the fuck is a restricted free agent when it's at home? Embarrassing.

2019-09-12 21:09

felps BibleThump

Steelega boltz Felps Coldzera HEN1

That would be exciting! But Coldzera would never play with felps, boltz or the twins again. I mean, he even said steelega doesn't know how to practice. So, he practically ended any small chance of this roster coming alive.

Ok now intz add felps and hen1

2019-09-12 21:14

And boltz

2019-09-12 21:33

With xand and chelo it looks really promising.

2019-09-13 01:48

xand? idk man felps hen1 chelo boltz someone*

2019-09-13 02:26

Melhor o xand que o tal do nekao

2019-09-14 13:49

GOOD LuCK guys

2019-09-12 21:30

rip

2019-09-12 21:41

The team is actually not bad, maybe they should kick nekiz and add a decent awper

2019-09-12 21:56

It was about time, they gave a lot of opportunities to these guys, they cant really complain. Brazilian CS has been on a downhill since the end of 2017.

2019-09-12 22:04

Loans a player then they release the team two days after. Omegalul

2019-09-12 22:08

i think felps, botlz and steel should still team up ... maybe try new yound player or mix it up with intz (chelo and xand instead of nekiz and skullz)

2019-09-12 22:20