Salamander bench Aaron; flashie transitions to active roster

25-5-2020 10:17

Áron "⁠Aaron⁠" Homoki has been moved to Salamander's bench, with Viktor "⁠flashie⁠" Tamás Bea shifting from head coach to the active lineup, the organisation has announced.

Aaron had been part of Salamander since its inception in April 2019, when the Hungarian organisation first stepped into the CS:GO scene. In the 13 months competing with the team, the 21-year-old averaged a 1.00 rating across 93 maps, with a slight drop off in form in the last three months.

The team has cited consistency issues as the primary reason for Aaron's removal, with an inability to fix in-game mistakes throughout his tenure ultimately leading to the decision.

flashie returns to Salamander's active roster following a coaching stint

Filling the vacant position left by the removal of Aaron is the team’s head coach, flashie. The 24-year-old is no stranger to the role, having played for Salamander for seven months in 2019 before transitioning to a coaching position at the end of the year.

"Of course we didn't make the decision without having a solid plan for the future, but for now our best option is to have flashie play for our upcoming games, because he is familiar with how our team works," Patrik "⁠bodito⁠" Boda told HLTV.org.

“We are trying to be more and more consistent and in order to reach this we need to minimize the mistakes. The fewer mistakes we make, the more consistent we get. While Aaron tried his best, we felt like he couldn't fix these mistakes in the last 1.5 years, so the best solution was to try something else."

Salamander are participating in the second season of the Hungarian National Esports Championship, where they currently hold a perfect 13-0 group stage record. Their unbeaten run has secured them a direct path to the grand finals, set to be played on June 13.

Salamander are now:

Patrik "⁠bodito⁠" Boda
András "⁠coolio⁠" Fercsák
Kornél "⁠kory⁠" Szedlár
Ádám "⁠torzsi⁠" Torzsás
Viktor "⁠flashie⁠" Tamás Bea (stand-in)

Áron "⁠Aaron⁠" Homoki (benched)

good change ?

2020-05-25 10:18

1 reply

We will see, but I think so

2020-05-25 19:55

ggs

thanks aaron

Wow, this is a game changer for the pro scene.

2020-05-25 10:19

7 replies

ikr

2020-05-25 10:20

bahahahahah

2020-05-25 10:22

neither are 99% of other roster moves, with the 1% being Astralis 7 man lineup etc, so I guess they should just stop reporting anything)

2020-05-25 12:14

4 replies

Bruh who gives a shit about no name tier 7 Hungarian Cs xDDDDDDDDDDD

2020-05-25 14:16

3 replies

FeelsBadMan

2020-05-25 16:26

ireland cs best

2020-05-25 17:08

hltv.org/matches/2341157/forze-vs-salama..

2020-05-27 10:14

now -coolio +barcode

2 replies

barcode playing valorant, and coolio is the most important in the team

<3 @HAWI

Wasn't Aaron their best player? Only seen a few of their matches, but the ones I've seen he's been the best.

2020-05-25 10:23

6 replies

there is no way he was the best with torzsi in the team

2020-05-25 10:28

A year ago he was good

2020-05-25 10:37

That would be torzsi

2020-05-25 12:52

ok, thx. Isn't he the cheater though? :D

2020-05-25 13:00

He used to cheat when he was 13, he had no idea that one day he will go pro And there's no actual evidence that he cheated on any official match

2020-05-25 13:56

I think he has a VAC ban on one of his accounts, but he isn't cheating as of right now at least.

2020-05-25 13:58

Who Hungarian shitshow part #51351

2020-05-25 10:49

Accurate. :(

2020-05-25 11:26

very important news. XDD torzsi still vac banned account, so Salamander isn't going anywhere :>

2020-05-25 10:24

Not to a major, and thats all but they will wreck honoris at the HSH this week

2020-05-25 10:38

That's true my Hungarian brother, Honoris shit, but I love competetive drive and the history of Neo and TaZ, gotta support them always :)

2020-05-25 11:37

i hope Aaron will become a decent t2 player one day

2020-05-25 10:26

You can say WHO but they are bette r than all of you HLTVREDDIT users :O

2020-05-25 10:44

RIP Sala

Wut? Why??

Well, he was bad in last games

Honestly never heard of this team nor their players

2020-05-25 10:56

anyone else read it as flamie at first xD

2020-05-25 11:15

Aaron >>> flashie sorry flashie, but it's true

2020-05-25 11:17

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he is the coach, its just a temporary solution.

2020-05-25 11:20

I know :) I remembered flashie from the time in Valiance, he is really bad player, no sense for game at all, unfortunately, looks like good guy, just no talent :(

2020-05-25 11:22

He's just washed up. He's been in the scene for such a long time now, and achieved so little. He's not a bad player at all, it's just things never really worked out, lost motivation, left CS, then came back, then left again and came back a few more times after that. It's like a love and hate relationship between him and CS. He can't live with nor without it. So he pushed himself back to the scene over and over again. It's amirable, really, that he didn't give up on what he loves to do. It's just... he did it in such a manner, he kinda made himself ridiculed and became a meme. So by the time he got to play in Valiance, he was completely washed up. The many years of lack of success and the negativity he recieved from the Hungarian community ground him alive.

2020-05-25 20:49

Its ok, I hope he will finally stand up and show some crazy cs here, as I love salamander play style so much 🙂

2020-05-25 21:57

Hope for the best! :)

2020-05-25 22:03

"Guys we just reached the top50 for the first time in Hungarian CS:GO history, let's shake the roster up asap!" Every single f****n time it looks decent and promising they gotta change the lineup.. Like flashie is jealous of his own body of work.

2020-05-25 11:24

flashie is a tactical genius. He is best known for his signature tactic ”going A, but then benching Aaron”. He also has a second little known tactic of ”going B, but then going home without any wins”. What an absolute legend. Top 3 coach for sure.

2020-05-25 11:30

Bench their igl never worked haha teams dont learn

2020-05-25 11:55

Aaron is an entry fragger, he stepped into the igl role a couple months ago, and he felt like he couldn't make good calls as an entry fragger, that's why the team will work better with flash, he won't play as an entry+he has experience as an igl so just stfu if ur dumb af Amugy nem igaz hogy ennyi agyad van, mit gondolsz egy ember forgat a csapatban vagy mi? XDDDDDDDDDDD

2020-05-25 12:05

Aaron asked to be support instead of entrying but got denied also him IGL-ing made sala somewhat relevant + flashie's playing as a stand-in and probably will go back to coaching soon

2020-05-25 12:12

he got denied because coolio is a better support and they didnt want to make big changes in roles flashie is the best hungarian coach, that is a fact that u cant deny, its better if he is a coach and they find a new 5th, but he is also still relevant as a player

2020-05-25 14:03

okay why is him flashie not flash?

2020-05-25 11:38

I hope Deadfox returns

2020-05-25 11:41

he will not anytime soon unfortunately. Maybe 1-2 years from now

2020-05-25 11:49

is he in jail?

2020-05-25 13:12

its worse than that.. he's playing valorant

2020-05-25 13:17

2020-05-25 14:04

GL for my Hungarian Brothers

2020-05-25 11:52

#GoSalamander

2020-05-25 11:53

+Fleav *_*

2020-05-25 12:03

Kicked by your own org. OMEGALUL

2020-05-25 12:06

Aaron now go film some better series of Ghost Adventures. gl

2020-05-25 12:15

Good, Aaron was to inconsistent, however who is flashie I have no idea. Also this roster now is better, but still looks very bad, I don't think they will be good with that change, they need more changes.

2020-05-25 12:20

2018-01-17 signed Thats why you have no idea, np for you

2020-05-25 14:01

Registered 2019-10-08 talking XD Also that I'm on HLTV since 2018 doesn't mean that I'm on the scene only for 2 years.

2020-05-25 16:15

new acc no? If u dont saw flashie in the past then you did not follow the scene. Because from 2014 to 2017 he was playing every week

2020-05-25 16:22

Every week online T19 CS? Sorry but I don't have time to watch every T19 match.

2020-05-25 17:30

check aaron twitlonger for the drama behind this

That story though... Aaron gooooood, everyone else baaaaaad. Because that's how things work in life, right?

2020-05-25 16:20

No, but it would be nice to have both sides at least! Seems strange that they included the statement from the team but not Aaron's, meanwhile with GODSENT +farlig they quoted Maikel's twitlonger which was actually quite similar to Aaron's in spirit.

2020-05-25 16:24

I agree with you 100%. It's only fair to see both sides of the story. What I'm saying is, it's always fishy when someone blames everyone else around themselves and wouldn't take responsibility for anything that went wrong. Feels like the players weren't on the same page about fundamental things (for example, it looks like even the roles weren't clear or adjusted to an ideal level), which was possibly caused by lack of effective communication. To add to that, small things can build up to a point when no matter what you do, nothing will work out for the team. Mistakes have been made, that's for sure. It's inevitable to have some sort of conflict in a group, it's just human relationships. Maybe the issues would have been fixable, maybe not. We, outsiders, can't know that. That being said, if you're a grown man (well, we can argue if a 21 y/o person is "grown", but anyway...) and you're some kind of a professional, you should act like one. Conflicts don't just rise by themselves, and if you decide to let the world know about the team's struggles, you should drop your ego to a healthy level and admit you made mistakes about at least something.

2020-05-25 18:43

Well said, I have nothing to add. 100% true. I guess in general these kinds of statements shouldn't really be included in HLTV news but they did it anyway in Maikelele's case because he's a well-known & established figure in the scene.

2020-05-25 19:16

I agree. I'm heartbroken for him though. He (well, they) built up a team from zero, worked hard without salary for a very long time, fought their way up and then these news hit us and him out of nowhere. That situation wasn't handled in a fair and correct way either. Not even the neighborhood. Of course it blew up, it's scandalous on their level.

2020-05-25 20:20

2020-05-25 12:49

I wish them all the best and i hope to see more new country/regions rising through the ranks. BUT until then who joined who????

2020-05-25 12:57

why tho? it happens everytime that one hungarian team does well and all of a sudden they change a player and they start to suck.

2020-05-25 13:02

Hungarian cs scene still shitty, always the same players. Also a noname hungarian cs team won 2k$ on a valorant event and they inmediately started shittalk about counter strike, how much valorant is better cuz they can't win shit in cs but when pro players appear in valorant they won't get anything there too.

2020-05-25 13:06

Fakeflagger talking shit about things he doesnt know...

2020-05-25 13:09

I'm definetely a fake flagger and you from russia knows what's going on in hungary. Yeah sorry It was 500€ in Valorant.. metabro.hu/hu/2020/05/10/ujabb-magyar-va..

2020-05-25 13:23

typical flash things

bestest hltv profile pic got benched wtf dudes)))

2020-05-25 14:50

Aaaand it has begun. Just hun scene move. For a long long time, we had a hope, but no. We can not make a decent team, inspite that we have good aimers, but we also have the highest ego in the world...

2020-05-25 14:57