Americas Minor North America Open Qualifier 1 - ESL One Rio 2020

moose joins Calyx, MICHU on Envy ESEA roster for ESL One Rio Major open qualifier

31-1-2020 06:11

Envy have added three new players to their ESEA roster ahead of the first North American ESL One Rio Major open qualifier.

Kaleb "⁠moose⁠" Jayne spent a majority of 2019 playing under the eUnited banner, briefly stepping down from the active roster in September after the signing of Ryan "⁠freakazoid⁠" Abadir. He made his return to the team two months later after the benching of Anthony "⁠vanity⁠" Malaspina, competing alongside them in the IEM Katowice 2020 qualifiers and the fifth Mythic Cup to no avail.

More recently, the 21-year-old Canadian was seen playing as a stand-in for the North American Singularity roster in WINNERS League Season 3 Invite and the DreamHack Open Anaheim qualifier just prior to the organization releasing their remaining American players. A report from cybersport.pl also recently linked moose to the final spot on the Envy roster, citing his eUnited teammate Edgar "⁠MarKE⁠" Maldonado as another candidate that was considered.

moose has joined the Envy ESL One Rio Major qualifier roster

Envy's roster for the qualifier also contains Michał "⁠MICHU⁠" Müller and Buğra "⁠Calyx⁠" Arkın, with the two players previously being linked with moves to the organization by reports from cybersport.pl and DBLTAP, respectively. Notably, both publications reported that Nikola "⁠LEGIJA⁠" Ninić would take up the role of coach for the squad, although the former BIG member has yet to join the above roster as of the publication of this article.

Envy began the year by benching Bradley "⁠ANDROID⁠" Fodor and Jacob "⁠FugLy⁠" Medina, with the latter player releasing a lengthy TwitLonger discussing his frustrations towards the end of his time on the team. Prior to the benching of the two players, Envy had transferred Sam "⁠s0m⁠" Oh to Gen.G, and parted ways with coach Zachary "⁠Eley⁠" Stauffer and manager Taylor "Tailored" Broomall, leaving them to rebuild around their two remaining players.

Envy's roster for the upcoming ESL One Rio Major open qualifier looks to be:

Noah "⁠Nifty⁠" Francis
Ryan "⁠ryann⁠" Welsh
Buğra "⁠Calyx⁠" Arkın
Michał "⁠MICHU⁠" Müller
Kaleb "⁠moose⁠" Jayne

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2020-01-31 06:12

12 replies

This roster looks weird

2020-01-31 06:19

6 replies

MICHU calyx and nifty lmao look at it

2020-01-31 06:27

90-120 days before Nifty bends them all over. Called it here.

2020-01-31 07:08

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2020-01-31 08:05

I was wondering why he would leave such a solid team for that shitshow, now I know why Envy really kissing Nifty's ass rn lmao

2020-01-31 09:18

1 reply

Nifty isn’t even that great of a player. Envy’s tolerance of his poor leadership reeks of desperation for prominence again. Which, with this roster? They won’t achieve. Sticking a bunch of Europeans together in the hopes they out-skill the NA rosters is such a shot in the dark. We’ll see how this shakes out with OG and Complexity in the long run.

2020-01-31 11:03

international

2020-01-31 09:11

Nifty awp and ryn rifler bad players... kicked.... 100% in 2020

2020-01-31 07:20

hes actually skilled flag checks out

2020-01-31 09:26

calyx better than every engilish player

2020-01-31 13:13

Calyx underrated

2020-01-31 13:49

Nifty making this a shittier team than when that trash can drone was on it

2020-01-31 15:19

Expected

2020-01-31 06:13

Yes

let's go Michał!

Will give Liquid and NRG problems for sure

4 replies

Doubt it

2020-01-31 07:21

NRG havent even played a match in many months! so strange!! where did they go!!!

2020-01-31 09:27

2 replies

ikr, miss those guys

2020-01-31 13:30

It’s so sad they just went missing. They were such a promising team

2020-01-31 15:30

would like this to become a tier 2 team

2020-01-31 06:14

never will since envy roster manager is brain dead

2020-01-31 15:14

not bad just need to -Nifty. will never do it cause ENVY love Nifty for no reason

9 replies

Good AWPer, Bad IGL

2020-01-31 06:24

5 replies

Jason, i remember having a long chat with you over a year ago here on hltv. nice to see you're still around

2020-01-31 06:28

Thanks mate, Don't even play CS anymore, Just watch :)

2020-01-31 06:51

me too bro

2020-01-31 08:51

Homo..

2020-01-31 14:37

Also not a good awper, too inconsistant. But good sec. awper.

2020-01-31 12:14

Nifty was a snake in envy

2020-01-31 08:00

Nifty is probably One of the best 8 awpers in the world

2020-01-31 09:36

Just no. I'd say even ptr is better than Nifty

2020-01-31 23:44

who????

Actually that’s not a bad lineup

2020-01-31 06:15

2020-01-31 11:48

Ye ye mooooooseeeyyyyyy I wish the Canadians (stanislaw, NAF, TwistZz, WARDELL, and [insert young and rising star]) would form a contentious roster. 😏

2020-01-31 06:17

16 replies

imagine putting wardell in a team with tier 1 players hahaha

2020-01-31 06:31

Nah, liquid and EG needs the Canadian carry.

2020-01-31 06:40

Ofc :(

2020-01-31 06:50

stanislaw canadian carry? lmaaao EG needs the EU carry my friend

2020-01-31 08:54

tru

2020-01-31 14:42

Just put Subroza and it's a top5 contender.

2020-01-31 07:41

Subroza is weird. Good player, but can't remain consistent on a roster. I actually used to have a lot of faith in his development.

I still do and I hope he at least makes it to the Minor with just4fun, it would be hilarious.

2020-01-31 07:44

WARDELL definitely took the forefront for me for up-and-coming Canadians (and NA for that matter) that I have faith in. I wish he'd commit to a decent roster. He's burning through his prime years - although he is of course developing into a very good streamer. He's aiming to stream 365 days this year, I believe. By the end of the year, if he hasn't signed with a team, he'll be one of the top CSGO streamers. You definitely get your value for subbing to a player who is putting in that many 10-12 hr days lol.

2020-01-31 07:47

Imo WARDELL is kinda overhyped (just my opinion) and for him become a top streamer is a more viable and financially rewarding option than going pro.

2020-01-31 07:55

The only way going pro is more economically viable is when you're a Top 10 team making Tier 1 salaries. Otherwise, yes, streaming is the better route. The only downside with streaming is that much of your life is controlled by expectations of the public. While being a pro, people don't have to like you and you don't really have to publicly cater to them to get your money. You can be Conor McGregor and as long as you're performing well in the server, you're almost impervious to any outside scrutiny. Also, you get the glory of being a champion - whereas streamers don't. Unless you're Dr. Disrespect. ;)

2020-01-31 07:58

Maybe Canada could finally win a major 😏

2020-01-31 14:56

The 1/10th the population comparable to the US has never really helped our overall situation :P But we will always have WCG 2001. 😏 liquipedia.net/counterstrike/World_Cyber..

2020-01-31 16:16

NAF/Twistzz/Stan/Wardell Steel/Androidx23/subroza as 5th?

2020-01-31 15:44

Steel would be awesome - but sadly he's part of Richard Lewis' No Major Club, lol. Android if he could bounce back to form for the year or better yet Subroza if he could stay consistently in form! Maybe a new player if there was a ZywOo somewhere in the roughs.

2020-01-31 16:18

plus stan is already IGL so no steel, another raw fragger like OCEAN

2020-01-31 22:17

i hate this change with all my life

Doesnt look promising tbh

2020-01-31 06:29

wtf is this xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Ryaan the rat saved his ass

ye that kid is shit

2020-01-31 06:37

who?

2020-01-31 06:39

Keep fugly and minus ryashit

2020-01-31 13:24

Random team, at least good paycheck

2020-01-31 06:41

Calyx will be top20!

2020-01-31 06:42

2020-01-31 10:29

-ryann +SicK and good t2 team

2020-01-31 07:09

+ScreaM

2020-01-31 08:42

Save SicK and ShahZam

MICHU out of Polish scene.

2020-01-31 07:18

What a weird roster,but im curious of what they can do.

2020-01-31 07:22

So ez 4 Just 4 Fun xD

2020-01-31 07:26

WARDELL and Subroza ez orgless Major :D

2020-01-31 07:43

2020-01-31 18:45

expected

2020-01-31 07:36

Even ex vp was better for michu

2020-01-31 08:01

2020-01-31 11:18

2020-01-31 12:04

No salary and no pick up

2020-01-31 13:27

Calyx👍

2020-01-31 08:04

Team Calyx

2020-01-31 08:11

imo actually pretty good lineup, we’ll se what they can do tho

2020-01-31 08:21

-ryann +ScreaM and we good 👍🏻

2020-01-31 08:41

michu why :(

2020-01-31 08:47

GO go MICHU

2020-01-31 08:52

Damn now they just need a brazilian on the team and they have the most cancerous fanbases combined

They need astralis player for the 12 year astralis fans "lEtS gO aStRaLiS!!"

2020-01-31 13:29

dead on arrival

2020-01-31 09:07

Not bad GL

2020-01-31 09:13

Imagine left Renegates then never be able to climb back, they are better without him

2020-01-31 09:31

Save Calyx and Michu...

2020-01-31 09:45

Nifty is still sunning in his iem sydney performance, he never reached that level again and everyone still thinks he is an good AWPer

2020-01-31 09:57

Let's go Calyx. I'm very happy now he has a real chance. I can't wait to see.

2020-01-31 09:59

Nifty feels like an american version of NBK, doing powerplays in the organisations behind his teammates back while scratching the backs of the owners Feels like this roster is doomed to fail, I'll give it 60-90 days tops

On paper it doesn’t look half bad, but I feel it won”t connect. Calyx being on too many rosters of late is dubiois of his character and non-NA players to get used to NA is also a factor.

2020-01-31 11:02

Ez majkel

2020-01-31 11:10

Dude, this lineup is actually decent. Just -Nifty +WARDELL and -Ryann +IGL

2020-01-31 11:25

kick all this NA trash and sign EU players maybe you can build TIER2 team

2020-01-31 11:44

cool

-nifty +wardell -ryan +sick

2020-01-31 12:00

Who igl?

kick ryan ffs and add sick

2020-01-31 12:05

wait so moose joined calyx?

2020-01-31 12:06

shit team

2020-01-31 12:11

2020-01-31 12:26

Good luck Calix.

2020-01-31 12:54

If legija is going to Coach they will perform. Otherwise they are up for a serbian 360° bitchslap.

2020-01-31 13:01

so michu will have to carry a shit team again

2020-01-31 14:07

Man michu was so much better back in the day.. as soon as he joined VP his performance dipped so much. He got comfortable as soon as he joined a big org and practiced less i think

2020-01-31 15:06

I don't think so. that VP roster was so utterly shit that even someone good had trouble dragging along a bag of heavy trash. Run a mile or 1000 feet or whatever you want. Now do it with bricks strapped to your back and see if you can do it as fast...

2020-01-31 16:20

Not really a good analogy there... there are plenty of players who has performed good while being in not so good teams. He just simply dropped off and was really inconsistent throughout his time in VP even struggled vs tier 3 teams etc. No excuse there.

2020-01-31 17:10

Nifty wasted talent in Envy - STEWIE + NIFTY

2020-01-31 14:41

Ex-vp > this Michu...

2020-01-31 14:46

They were going to get Luken from Sharks but it fell through, then they were pretty set on getting Bymas but he had issues so Moose is the 3rd option, imo it wont work. They needed the extra firepower Luken or Bymas could provide.

2020-01-31 15:04

Nifty is 1.01 rating, who builds a team around that? he has to have nudes of Envy owner or sex pics or some blackmail

2020-01-31 16:19

good luck

2020-01-31 17:30

Seems like decent NA T2 team on paper, IF IGL will do something (nifty is IGL?). I also struggle to believe this will work tho. I still think michu should join dycha in Sprout.

2020-01-31 17:34