kassad leaves 100 Thieves

28-4-2020 16:08

100 Thieves coach Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović has left the team by mutual agreement, the North American organisation have announced.

kassad first linked up with the Australian lineup featuring Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage and Aaron "⁠AZR⁠" Ward at the start of 2017 and spent a year with the team during his initial tenure. A four-month stint with his countrymen in Valiance followed, but kassad ended up returning to Renegades before the end of 2018.

During the last two years with the Australian roster, kassad found plenty of success. He helped the team turn things around following the additions of Sean "⁠Gratisfaction⁠" Kaiwai and Jay "⁠Liazz⁠" Tregillgas, and they rose from the 30th place in the world ranking to their peak place of fifth following a top-8 finish at the IEM Katowice Major. The squad finished even higher at the following Major (3rd-4th at StarLadder Berlin), and came close to a title at IEM Beijing in November after transferring to 100 Thieves.

kassad worked with AZR and jks for almost three years

Since the start of the year, 100 Thieves have had mixed results, with a 5-6th at IEM Katowice coming in between group stage exits at BLAST Premier Spring and ESL Pro League Season 11 North America.

In a Twitlonger post, the 33-year-old explained that he and the players had been "drifting apart in more ways than one for a while" while admitting to being "generally unhappy with our progress and stagnation." He added that he is open to offers as he looks to continue his coaching career.

100 Thieves are now:

Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage
Aaron "⁠AZR⁠" Ward
Jay "⁠Liazz⁠" Tregillgas
Sean "⁠Gratisfaction⁠" Kaiwai
Joakim "⁠jkaem⁠" Myrbostad

UPDATE: The story has been updated to include kassad's statement about his departure from 100 Thieves and his future.

WTF ... he deserves a better team anyway

2020-04-28 16:09

33 replies

ikr RIP 100T

2020-04-28 16:10

26 replies

Late to realise that 100 bots are good for nothing but ok.

2020-04-28 16:33

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@ #121 100Thieves are a solid team imo, sometimes things work and they don't and sometimes things that have worked before, might not. From the major and past events e.g. Berlin or IEM Sydney it's clear that they have a lot of potential but they defo need a lineup change to be able to make that step further and reach the potential. Wouldn't write them off as future consistent top 5's, something definitely has to change.

2020-04-28 16:43

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2020-04-29 08:56

2020-04-30 07:03

kassad to astralis zonic joins north

2020-04-28 17:32

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Yeah no, no wonder your delusional

2020-04-28 17:34

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WELCOME TO LIQUID KASSAD

2020-04-28 20:10

6 replies

whats up with Adren? they are doing good, the usual chokes happen, but that is Liquid :D

2020-04-28 23:35

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he's decent, but as you can see on lan tournaments, adreN is just standing there, he's not giving any moral boost (unlike zonic, he always hype up astralis every round), and also it seems when it's timeout he never really talks with the team, so overall it seems that he has little to none impact for team liquid, especially in the "confidence boost" side, and you know liquid sometimes really need that confidence if they want to win.

2020-04-29 03:07

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Yeah and kassad is a really good person to fill that need. On a video I watched Thorin said that he thought kassad was a good idea for a new Liquid Coach

2020-04-30 04:48

imo adreN as liquid's analyst will still be beneficial for the team

2020-04-30 06:58

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yeah

2020-04-30 17:46

my username needs to become a reality first men))

2020-04-29 03:04

Man, I got banned for giving chances to ______ comment on you.

2020-04-28 17:51

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk deserved.

2020-04-28 17:52

Nah, It was not to harm you.

2020-04-28 17:53

LOL okay india

2020-04-29 14:02

Mad cuz bad?

2020-04-29 14:04

kassad to mibr they need a miracle and x10 robotic hands

2020-04-28 16:49

last I checked kassad doesn't speak Portuguese unless they want to all speak english then change language in game.

2020-04-28 18:16

He can learn stuff he needs for cs go in no time for sure,if mibr wants him he will be prepared for sure.

2020-04-28 22:08

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dont think he will join mibr unless they pay him loads. Guy can go to any top 10 team (other than navi fnatic ast) and make massive impact instantly no point in joining a sinking ship + learning new language

2020-04-29 01:05

Fnatic were sinking ship and they are top 1 atm,any change can do magic for team

2020-04-29 01:18

Fnatic fix was so obvious (bring back Golden why in the fuck did they kick him no idea) and there are many swedish coaches that are good enough for Fnatic. Also, swedish talent wasn't completely locked up and flusha made a resurgence. Only fer is t1 level right now everyone else is trash. Mibr has BR talent who locked themselves up for 5 years. Everyone else isnt ready for t1 and there are no BR top coaches. zews is in EG and peacemaker isn't leaving Mad Lions.

2020-04-29 01:31

I don't even think its a coaching issue for MIBR. I think Fallens IGLing is just outdated as hell. Kick Kng and put Fallen in coaching role. And find an IGL and someone who can replace Kng.

2020-04-29 14:51

EDIT: EDIT: Maybe find an IGL and not kick Kng first and test it out.

2020-04-29 15:15

rip

2020-04-28 16:19

so SAD for... kasSAD

2020-04-28 16:42

ImaPet to stand in??

2020-04-28 16:57

Would be a great liquid pickup

2020-04-28 16:59

liquid incoming

2020-04-29 00:45

Okay

WHAT

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Im done dude

2020-04-28 16:50

im so fucking done

2020-04-28 17:21

sad :(

2020-04-28 17:23

Rip AZR's leadership

2020-04-28 17:45

Lol inb4 in 1 year he rejoins after coaching some shitty Serbian team.

2020-04-28 19:31

Nt 100Kriegs

2020-04-28 20:43

that shitty team was actually Valiance which was born outta iNation, org whose members were ynk, kassad, nexa, hunter, niko ...

2020-04-28 20:44

Damn. :(

2020-04-29 04:10

sed

2020-04-29 06:35

lol

-Gratisfaction next

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wtf

2020-04-28 16:11

Yeah and then +Smooya That team would be godly :o

2020-04-28 16:13

Smooya? nah. +Alistair

2020-04-29 01:24

Said the Alistair's fan

2020-04-30 03:15

ofc i fan him. hes really good at awping.

2020-04-30 12:08

plz that guy is one of the worst awpers to come into the t1 scene

2020-04-28 16:21

+smooya

2020-04-28 16:22

I feel the same man, he was so good when he stood in for them and I always thought they should've brought him in after that. The guy put up some solid scores at t1 events and carried Chaos during the time he was there. Makes sense. ;)

2020-04-28 16:25

2020-04-28 16:31

will only change the accent

Lmao..good one

2020-04-28 19:37

Actually no. Aussies english is the same with the brits.

2020-04-29 23:15

well then i have a psychological block bcs is very hard to me to understand aussies, even indian accent are more clean

2020-04-29 23:32

Would be awesome

2020-04-28 16:34

2020-04-28 17:11

rip 100T

Respect Kassad!

Well RIP 100thieves again

WHO?

why ?

UNEXPECTED

rip 100T, welcome ImaPet

that would be the only good move

2020-04-28 19:33

FaZe kassad let's go

2020-04-28 16:16

Faze already have his friend Maybe he would join g2

2020-04-28 16:40

expected, imagine coaching a team without results

+ImAPet

thought the same

2020-04-28 16:28

make sense

2020-04-28 17:39

It's probably what they're going for, I can't imagine anything else really, since this would be a brain-dead move without an actual good replacement available.

2020-04-28 17:40

Not expected

WTF?

Must mean Nifty is coming back /s

WUt

Unexpected

luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuul

AZR TO COACH, bring on Dexter and Ins to replace grat and azr

Are u that mentally dumb guy ?

2020-04-28 16:12

I’m not mentally dumb, I just have autism and I like csgo

2020-04-29 01:49

Lmaooooo go to hospital

2020-04-28 16:30

maybe 2 years later

2020-04-28 16:35

He will go coach when s1mple joins his team

2020-04-28 17:17

Trash aussies carried by Norwegian back to scraping at top 20

prntscr.com/s7fh4n

Jks is the best player on the team

2020-04-28 16:37

2020-04-28 17:24

2020-04-28 20:36

lobanjica who

2020-04-29 09:33

stats say otherwise, my smooth-brained friend

2020-04-28 17:01

Dafak

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

I agree, +imapet

Maybe he could go to TL? I don't really see adreN's impact there.

nah adreN is god

I'd leave too if i coached this bot team xD

respect kassad mens

ImaPet?

WHAT WHY HOW ????????

Keemstar

big f

Again?

Imapet

Team Liquid, pls.

+ImAPet +smooya xd

2020-04-28 16:14

RIP Kassab

probably going to add Chet. rip kassad tho, was a gr8 coach

2020-04-28 16:15

rip 100t

Rip 100t

expected, JKS is next

He deserves better so quite understandable. Bad for 100 T though.

azr to coach +sexter igl -grat +smooya

2020-04-28 16:17

Naww, AZR still has a lot to offer. As for Grat, Smooya should 100% replace him, their team would put up much better results. For the coach, I honestly don't know who could coach them at this point, we'll just have to see.

2020-04-28 16:32

rip eg +kassad

Eg have zews

2020-04-28 17:02

-nadeshot would be a much better move. Soon -100t cs team

2020-04-28 16:18

great coach, deserves better than 100t

IMAPET Pog

+Iampet

wonder if the coach issues lately are because they can talk mid round now lol.

Damn, he's good coach, why?

noooooooooooooooooooo

2020-04-28 16:20

nooooo :(

dexter Sico jks jkaem Liazz/INS/aliStair ImAPet

Joining Team Liquid Confirmed

Maybe they sign IMAPET?

So now coach predictions. 100T +Chet (ImAPet) Liquid -Adren +Kassad

not good :<

deserves better anyway. Matthew "SNAKEshot" Haag foff.

wut

Damn, thats really sad to hear. He is a really cool person and an insanely good coach. Hope he finds a good team soon. For 100Thieves +ImAPet would be nice as he is really good aswell.

waddukek especially in middle of the time when coaches can actually talk to players during matches.

RIP 100T Get imapet

2020-04-28 16:23

100t disband soon

Liquid Kassad mark my words

Damn wonder if there is any beef involved with him & AZR I hope not. Best option is ImAPet but i don’t think the team will improve with him.

2020-04-28 16:24

100t top 5 soon

Bye bro

Omg... Wow. Makes sense.. 100T org requires high standard coaching.. Unfortunately kassad doesn't fit the bill. I wish the best for him, he got good money tho!

2020-04-28 16:26

shouldn't it be "North American organisation HAS announced."?

2020-04-28 16:27

I've actually seen this weird "phenomenon" in English a few times. Apparently it is possible to use plural forms with institutions. Or they all wrong and this is some kind of a Mandela effect.

might be lol xD Thx for info.

yeah he’s right

2020-04-28 17:27

Depends, if you consider an organisation to be more than 1 person then it's 3rd person plural. But 'the organisation' itself is singular so it should be has. There's many spelling mistakes in articles written by (non-)English speaking writers, why shouldn't HLTV have some of those articles too? :D

2020-04-28 16:58

WHAT?????????

EG?

2020-04-28 16:29

They have Zews now

Feels bad to see this, every good thing has an end.

WHAT??

good for 100 thieves

Care to elaborate ?

2020-04-28 21:05

After extensive discussions, we’ve sold Kasaad to Team Liquid. Monday - Team Liquid welcomes Kasaad

RIP 100 THIEVES

yo but kassad was so happy with the org during his hltv stream

sad af

this team is ded without KRIEG KEKW

Kick Gratistrashtion already lol

WTf Kassad hello? He was such an integral part of the RNG/100T squad that I can't believe that this was a team decision, rather a personal one or otherwise.

thank mr kassad

HERE COMES CHET!!!!!

ImAPet inc

Remember when Renegades kicked kassad and became bad? And when he came back they became much better? Now they kicked him again, guess what happens

Do you need to get kicked in the face to understand what getting kicked means

2020-04-28 16:46

you mad because of a joke, fuckhead?

2020-04-28 16:52

you mad because of a joke?

nah I am clearly joking about how you dont understand what kicking means man, maybe you need a kick in the head "fuckhead"

2020-04-28 21:22

He wasn't kicked before, and he wasn't kicked now.

2020-04-29 06:55

Good decision, they are playing very bad rn.

2020-04-28 16:36

Rip 100T, jks should leave them now for FaZe

who would he replace? olof or broky

2020-04-28 22:24

Broky has the lowest impact rating in FaZe, if olof is even worse but he is at least somehow impactful.

2020-04-28 22:51

#266 Don't let your parents read your reply because they will be regreting their whole life why they didn't use condoms that night

2020-04-29 14:20

+HUNDEN COACH

2020-04-28 16:38

lol why

2020-04-28 16:39

Lul kicking kassad move is gonna cost 100T everything, they were bad and now they'll become worse

It was on equal terms so probably a beef with someone in the team

2020-04-28 17:09

Kassad to G2?

Really unexpected

100T + imapet Team Liquid -AdreN +Kassad

2020-04-28 16:45

compLexity???

this is fucked up. big loss for 100T.

2020-04-28 16:47

+1 this will be a bigger loss to 100T than to kassad. He will probably join either an NA or and int org soon

2020-04-28 16:53

unexpected af.

Back to being bad again.. is he going to cr4zy or g2?

Mibr in coming.?

2020-04-28 16:54

Kassad to FaZe. YnK as a manager

He will go to: 1) FaZe 2) MIBR 3) c0ntact

2020-04-28 17:00

I'm thinking MIBR would make the most sense rn

Are mibr coms on english or ?

2020-04-28 18:18

not now, but they have been earlier

2020-04-29 12:56

i hope this works out for 100t...

2020-04-28 17:07

some coach leave tier 3 team nice news

2020-04-28 17:12

Kassad to FaZe?

2020-04-28 17:19

Maybe

2020-04-28 17:42

Much better than YNK as a coach. Faze can move Ynk to an analyst role for the team.

I doubt it tbh

2020-04-29 13:45

Yes yes yes first team with two coaches 🔝

2020-04-29 14:11

Check #217

2020-04-29 16:47

Like people have said before me this will have terrible consequences and at the same time I am really happy for him. He deserves a team that is a top contender and not steady top 10. Hope this means that 100thieves wants to finally make some serious changes maybe -azr +dexter and -gratisfaction +smooya? (not so sure about the last one, personality wise.)

consequences for 100 Thieves that is I am almost certain Kassad will be better of.

2020-04-28 17:20

Lulquid can -adren +kassad to become liquid

2020-04-28 17:22

Sad news I hope they will get the right coach to stay in the top 10

2020-04-28 17:28

unlucky but gl in future to both team and him

2020-04-28 17:30

by mutual agreement? Sounds like something is getting insinuated there.

Faze +jks

2020-04-28 17:31

Cheers kassad! I guess something had to give eventually with their poor performances this year. So, imapet? Also, -grat?

+Imapet

2020-04-28 17:36

Come to mibrrrrrrrrrr

2020-04-28 17:41

Now they are Coachless

At some point they were really up there competing with top1 tier teams, but then disappear. GL 100t.

2020-04-28 17:46

LIQUID KASSAD CONFIRMED 1000000%

2020-04-28 17:50

i dont know if he will join liquid or so joining faze replacing ynk is more realistic but nothing is impossible

2020-04-28 17:55

Then YNK joins Liquid, they need a coach like Kassad and YNk, AdreN to analyst

2020-04-28 17:57

welcome to mibr

2020-04-28 18:07

WTF..... NOOOOOOOOOO... Welcome to MIBR

2020-04-28 18:10

100T with kassad , were good but bad 100T without kassad , bad but actually bad

2020-04-28 18:19

They haven’t even played a game yet without kassad.

2020-04-28 18:54

But they were bad with him in last month, imagine without him.

2020-04-28 19:06

imapet 100t confirmed

2020-04-28 18:21

Man get jks out of there he is such a good player but really needs teammates that can work around him, he is a s1mple and zywoo level player if given the chance to prove himself under a different team

2020-04-28 18:23