Gux joins GamerLegion as head coach

11-3-2020 15:58

GamerLegion have completed their lineup by signing Rasmus "⁠Gux⁠" Ståhl as their head coach.

Gux was last part of a notable team in 2017, when he played alongside Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker and Issa "⁠ISSAA⁠" Murad in an ESEA Premier team Gux & Friends, before the duo was picked up by HellRaisers. After a three year hiatus, Gux returns to CS with GamerLegion in his first-ever coaching gig.

The fnatic CS 1.6 legend gux makes his CS:GO return

The Swedish player gained notoriety in CS 1.6 where he represented teams like SK, H2k, and LIONS, but most of his success came from his stints with fnatic. Gux was voted the 10th and 12th best player of the final two years of 1.6, but took a step back from the game as others transitioned towards CS:GO.

GamerLegion is currently ranked 39th in the world and was unable to secure a spot at the Europe Minor Closed Qualifier or in ESL Pro League, but they hold the top spot in ESEA MDL with 11 wins from 15 matches played.

GamerLegion have the following roster:

Hampus "⁠hampus⁠" Poser
Fredrik "⁠freddieb⁠" Buö
Dennis "⁠dennis⁠" Edman
William "⁠draken⁠" Sundin
Alfred "⁠RuStY⁠" Karlsson

Rasmus "⁠Gux⁠" Ståhl (coach)

nice

2020-03-11 15:58

Unexpected

WOW

why?

24 replies

So they can improve. They got good players and can easily reach top 15.

2020-03-11 17:56

23 replies

I understand why they got a coach, I'm not stupid. I'm just wondering why they got an irrelevant 1.6 player who hasn't accomplished anything in like 10 years.

2020-03-11 17:58

22 replies

ill never understand why kids have to use such negative terms to describe people that have achieved more than they ever could and are making moves in the industry that they based their lives on. They chose him for reasons of their own, and u have no reason to think he wont do a good job.

2020-03-11 21:37

1 reply

2020-03-12 08:31

9 year old confirmed. Gux is one of the best cs players to ever play the game. He has more skill in his toe then you'll ever have in your whole body. To call him irrelevant is just plainly dumb. The basics of the game has remained practiclly unchanged ever since he was one of the best swedish cs players of his time

2020-03-11 21:52

18 replies

I am not trying to discredit his career, but how can we be sure he'll be a good coach?

2020-03-11 21:55

12 replies

How could we be sure any coach will be good?

2020-03-12 00:41

Every 1.6 "star" is more than a good coach. Zonic was a star player, RobbaN was a star player... do you have Gux's steam account or something to see his CS GO hours?

2020-03-12 03:04

10 replies

neither of those were "star" players, even though they of course were very good at the game lol

2020-03-12 14:37

9 replies

Uhm, RobbaN and zonic wasn't star players lol?

2020-03-12 20:00

lol are u fucking dumb? zonic and robban werent stars? How old are u? when did u start watching cs? youtube.com/watch?v=NDC43_P1O2U

2020-03-12 20:43

3 replies

i saw that live thank you

2020-03-13 02:41

2 replies

no u didnt, nt newfag

2020-03-13 05:18

attended my first dreamhack in 2007 but okay started playing cs in 2004-2005, how about u?

2020-03-13 19:35

best danish team of all time mTw and SK.swe sure weren't star players... lol.

2020-03-12 23:27

tell me more about how taco is a star player, i mean, he's been part of the best brazilian team in CS:GO

2020-03-13 02:31

the 5 players of mTw.dk were stars, period. Why are you even argueing this?

2020-03-13 10:59

alright i'll leave it at that, whatever, they were all great players, but i'd consider "star player" being reserved for a certain type of role player for the most part, and even though for instance zeus is a legendary player, the most accomplished igl of all time, he's by no means a star player in my book that being said, whatever, my point is that guxs role on his team doesn't necessarily carry over a ton of usefull stuff into being a coach, however of course he could still be capable of coaching, it just wouldn't be as natural as it was for robban or zonic for instance, i think flusha is one of the smartest players of all time, but i don't think it'd carry over to a team-type-coach position, if anything he'd be great for coaching individuals on the team but not for the team as a whole

2020-03-13 20:20

while I think gux was the best player in the world when he stopped playing, i have no faith in his ability to coach, and I honestly think he will be complete garbage at it

2020-03-12 14:54

4 replies

Remember zonic? He was a former pro turned coach and became one of the best of all time

2020-03-12 16:14

and therefore every pro player ever must be a great coach, just like zlatan will be when he retires

2020-03-13 02:36

Almost every coach started out playing some sort of version of the game. Its not like they pick random people for coaching positions...

2020-03-14 10:48

why are u still talking? no1 is gonna take u serious...ur saying gux was the best player in the world when he stopped playing? meanwhile forest, getright, markeloff and numerous others were playing....pls leave the convo

2020-03-13 05:21

He has been on "trial" for a few weeks

2020-03-12 02:43

2020-03-11 15:59

Nice! Legend

Gl!!

he should join as a player grandpa gux still better than those kiddos

2020-03-11 16:00

-bot rusty +god gux

2020-03-11 16:03

2020-03-12 14:07

1.6

no gux no glory

2020-03-12 04:15

Ok?

Who

2020-03-11 16:02

Are you 16?

2020-03-11 16:21

Judging by your comment u look 16

2020-03-12 18:37

1.6 pro

2020-03-11 21:17

10th and 12th best player in LAST two years of 1.6 -> legend ...I laughed. If hes a legend than there are thousands of legends in cs 1.6

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you don't have to be top 5 all the time to be legend. Just look like fRoD/johnny R./XeqtR/ScreaM/Luciano not very long on top but still considered legends, for us who calls him a legend we knew him as the aggro mad fragger which was crazy to watch

2020-03-11 16:12

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Did you just compare Gux with ScreaM and XeqtR? Go to sleep.

2020-03-11 16:33

gux has never been a legend, I dont understand what you're talking about, he was a good riffler at that all.

2020-03-11 16:39

5 replies

Exactly

2020-03-11 18:03

Totally agree.... we are far from element, heaton, potti, fisker, vesslan, dsk, carn, f0rest, tentpole... as far i can remember now for swedish legends.

2020-03-11 19:20

elemeNt is Norwegian...

2020-03-12 01:00

yeah true, i was remembering the SK lineup and i miss that. my bad. but still a legend :p

2020-03-12 12:16

Very true.

2020-03-12 13:49

xeqtr was not long on top? POG

2020-03-11 18:37

Some ppl just never heard about early cs versions

2020-03-12 01:22

hes only considered a legend bc of the success fnatic had while he was on the team. Gux was a very talented player for sure, but i wouldnt consider him a legend, and i def wouldnt put him up with some of the players u listed. Frod is a legend bc the time that he was on top, he was completely insane. No1 wanted to go against coL bc they knew they had to deal with fr0d

2020-03-11 21:40

fRoD literally had the most years on top out of any 1.6 American, that i can think of. Dominated and carried coL for years and years.

2020-03-12 04:49

default kid

2020-03-11 16:19

Im your father putinko

2020-03-11 16:31

Stat-wise he was not that impressive but his playstyle was trully unique. He was part of Fnatic 2009, a team that by that time was considered the most dominant ever in CS and a team that spawned the core of Swedish CS for the years to come. It was also the first time GTR played for a professional team. As I said many times in these forums, stats don't really mean a thing. Karrigan is not top 20 stat wise yet he is one of the best players ever to touch the game

2020-03-11 16:50

17 replies

GTR played for Begrip and Giants before fnatic though.

2020-03-11 17:01

13 replies

and after those he went to SK (got bullied by tentpole) and then to fnatic!

2020-03-11 18:28

Those were Swedish top teams but they couldn't be considered contenders. SK and Fnatic had the monopoly of the country

2020-03-11 21:28

8 replies

Giants were decent though, they had the likes of kHRYSTAL and FYRR73 at the time who later went to play for Lions iirc... They were a solid tier 1.5/2 team who still managed to put up a fight against the big names.

2020-03-12 01:05

7 replies

"managet to put up a fight against the big names" doesnt make you a legend of a game. thats the point

2020-03-12 09:46

6 replies

Who exactly are we talking about here? I haven't mentioned anyone being a legend in this thread.

2020-03-12 09:51

then you missed a subject :) Gux was the topic as he was named "legend" in the text above which I find laughable

2020-03-12 10:08

I didn't miss it, I wasn't even part of the conversation so not sure why your reply was directed at me. Gux was always a solid player though but wouldn't exactly go as far as calling him a legend, you're right about that. He was still a vital part of fnatic and SK when still active.

2020-03-12 10:16

Well noone said he wasnt, every player is good or important, but just some of them can be called legends.

2020-03-12 10:22

If you consider XeqtR a legend then you have to consider Gux a legend as well. Gux played for the best teams in the world for most of his career. His SK and fnatic teams were always Top 3 in the world.

2020-03-12 18:42

Well take a look at Gux winnings (in those top teams you said) and then take a look at XeqtR's winnings and then add that XeqtR played almost 10 years before Gux, then take into account prizemoney that was available in 2000-2005 and 2007-2012 and then come back and compare the players.

2020-03-13 11:54

Begrip is known as the farm team for swedish players....like triple A compared to major league baseball. You go to begrip to learn the fundamentals before u move on to a top team.

2020-03-11 21:42

I'm aware of Begrip's history, I've been following pro cs since 2004. They were still by definition a professional team though.

2020-03-12 00:57

oh well pardon me sir

2020-03-12 01:11

Every player has unique style of play. Im not stats guy but Gux was AT BEST an average player even in those years (talking about top tier)

2020-03-11 18:05

He was pretty good. I hated fnatic that year, they destroyed every one. I believe only the poles won a major over them that year

2020-03-11 21:26

Would not call him a legend as well, but saying he was average is just total bullshit. He was dominant, and probably the main cog of fnatic/SK success.

2020-03-12 14:13

That's oddly specific, where do these placements come from?

What placements?

2020-03-11 18:23

Who ?

omegalul

2020-03-11 16:04

zywho

expected from newfag

2020-03-11 16:06

newfag

2020-03-11 16:22

Thought it was grux at first

Same

2020-03-11 16:07

Gux pingu

2020-03-11 16:14

127.0.0.1 or just localhost

2020-03-11 16:41

legend lets go

2020-03-11 16:09

LEGEND

2020-03-11 16:10

Wait.. who ?

2020-03-11 16:11

2020-03-11 16:18

who

2020-03-11 16:25

newfag deluxe

2020-03-11 17:08

2020-03-11 17:16

idi 10 godina unazad pa se seti ko je bio Gux .... a da ti tad ni nisi bio rodjen, izvini Albanac ...

very cool!

Together with Gux Gamerlegion will soon be #1 swedish team

2020-03-11 16:16

Not sure this will work but still love the player. fnatic 2009 best era.

2020-03-11 16:17

one of my favorite players, woulde like to see him playing but thats smt

2020-03-11 16:23

1.6 vibes

2020-03-11 16:24

who cars

okay, this is epic

2020-03-11 16:26

bloody legend m8

2020-03-11 16:30

Tier 7 team anyway

Finally

legend

2020-03-11 16:35

2020-03-11 16:43

who?

2020-03-11 16:47

nvm, just googled him and found that he's a legend )))

2020-03-11 16:49

-dennis

Woooooow haven't seen him for ages. :^)

2020-03-11 16:53

2020-03-11 17:00

-rusty +Tabz

The reasons he was good in 1.6 are largely irrelevant in GO (impeccable positioning). Still, it could work out, he was a very intelligent player.

he joined as a coach

2020-03-11 17:05

Yeah, I know. What I'm getting at is that his playstyles were kind of at odds with how you'd be decent at GO, but I also mentioned his intelligence could lend itself to helping. He was just very positional, and it's not as effective in GO.

maybe hes not gonna bring his 1.6 positioning to csgo? u dont think hes been studying csgo and maybe changed up how he thinks about some things?

2020-03-11 21:44

Obviously he's not stupid, but typically good coaches have been players who previously led teams. I think his experience is solid, but I'm curious how much he's truly followed the scene. I think sometimes it's hard to change mentality in players, even when they're on the outside looking in.

2020-03-12 00:10

To be good coach you don't need to be great player. And you can find proof in many sports for example football. Guardiola current coach of Man City has never been great player but still amazing coach. When it comes to CS in general to be good coach you must have amazing game knowledge which comes because he played 1.6 on top level. When they singed him they looked about his past but also nationality mostly so they can speak same language which also brings more chances of winning.

2020-03-12 12:50

Rpk play similar as ct on some maps, from what i remember from gux

2020-03-11 17:41

Probably somewhat similar, Source was more angle-heavy than GO, but still not as much as 1.6.

2020-03-11 18:29

If he transitioned to CSGO he could've been one of the best im sute.

2020-03-11 17:02

Had no idea gux was even still in the scene, thought he retired after 1.6

2020-03-11 17:06

he did.

2020-03-11 21:54

apperently hes still here. Was even playing in 2017 it says.

2020-03-11 22:55

Gux and friends

2020-03-11 17:13

Wooooooooooooo !!!!!!!! Dude !!!!!!! BIG fan !!!! Legend Fnatic is back

2020-03-11 17:14

Interesting because GuX was never an igl in 1.6. But gl to him, nice guy and great player

Amazing 1.6 player, his aim was Crazy GuX^Pingu

2020-03-11 17:19

fucking legend <3 Pingu

2020-03-11 17:32

Nt thought it was Grux was disappointed

He was sick as a player, great memories

2020-03-11 17:42

i tho he will play Gux :(

2020-03-11 17:50

-anorexic rusty +someone not skinny

2020-03-11 17:53

Thorin made a video on his Youtube titled "Thorin's Thoughts - Who is Gux?" watch it and you will know way better than these comments.

2020-03-11 18:02

woahh

2020-03-11 18:20

man would rather he come back as a player!!!! and how fitting if he wouldve joined dignitas his style in 1.6 was like magisk now

2020-03-11 18:30

same bro, yeah but even insane than magisk gux was just incredible i was fan of Poles. But man this guy was a beast

my fav 1.6 player. Will never forget how he returned to fnatic and helped them win against everyone at GameGune 2010. Such a legend!!

2020-03-11 18:31

Legend! Good memories tho!

gux the entry master of 1.6 !!!!!

2020-03-11 18:59

king gux

2020-03-11 19:09

1.6 Pog

2020-03-11 19:44

The one and only Gux^Pingu

2020-03-11 20:16

thats right!

Cool

2020-03-11 20:19

PISTOL KING IS BACK

2020-03-11 20:38

Ok boomer

2020-03-11 21:13

gux or grux?

2020-03-11 21:31

gux 1.6 pro player, he was beast if u didnt follow 1.6 scene. If ur trolling i lost 15 sec of my life <3

nah bro i'm newcomer

2020-03-12 14:02

good luck Gux :)

2020-03-11 21:48

LEGENDDDDDD

2020-03-11 22:07

yes i approve this msg (Y)

2020-03-12 00:24

Gux has never veen a legend. When you talk about legends is for history, mooves, skills, era, whatever... Gux is NOT a legend. 1.6 legend: f0rest, zeus, carn, harts, msx, ksharp, frod, cogu, dsn, spawn, heaton, etcetcetc But no Gux anywhere. He was good.. yes... but not a legend.