FURIA set sights on junior to replace HEN1 - Report

22-11-2020 19:44

The Brazilian squad is considering going down the international route and picking up Triumph's AWPer to complete their roster.

FURIA have opened talks with Triumph about potentially signing Paytyn "⁠junior⁠" Johnson as a replacement for Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles, according to a report by Rush B Media.

The 25-year-old Brazilian sniper is seemingly on his way out of the team due to "issues outside of the server", as reported by DBLTAP, leading FURIA to consider international options.

junior has posted a 1.16 rating over the last three months of play

junior has been by far the best performer for Triumph in recent times, averaging a 1.33 rating in IEM Beijing-Haidian North America to push his team to the grand final, in which they will face Chaos for the title and a spot in the IEM Global Challenge.

While junior's form warrants FURIA's interest, introducing an American player to the fully-Brazilian team would provide a new set of challenges for the team that is currently ranked seventh in the world and won three out of four tournaments they played in North America after the player break.

According to the earlier report, HEN1 would still take part in FURIA's end-of-year tournament obligations, namely BLAST Premier Fall Showdown, DreamHack Masters Winter, and IEM Global Challenge, with a new player set to join the team for 2021. FURIA reportedly do not rule out the possibility of doing multiple changes, with a second player potentially being shown the exit door as well.

If the reported deal would go through, FURIA would looks as follows:

Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan
Vinicius "⁠VINI⁠" Figueiredo
Yuri "⁠yuurih⁠" Santos
Kaike "⁠KSCERATO⁠" Cerato
Paytyn "⁠junior⁠" Johnson

Nicholas "⁠guerri⁠" Nogueira (coach)

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LMAO WHAT "FURIA reportedly do not rule out the possibility of doing multiple changes, with a second player potentially being shown the exit door as well." Who else is gonna go?

2020-11-22 19:46

24 replies

VINI maybe

2020-11-22 19:47

18 replies

how about yuurih? can he speak english well? i haven't seen him in an english interview like ever. and same thing with kscerato as well. if they really are going international the communication part has to be on point.

2020-11-22 19:52

15 replies

Only Vini and Art speak english well. Yuurih, ksc and hen1 don't speak english well

2020-11-22 19:54

13 replies

that's exactly what i thought. they might have to make more than one change then. which would be sad to see such a great roster break up.

2020-11-22 19:55

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They will drop everyone who can’t speak English and will become an international team

2020-11-22 20:39

hen1 sixth MIBR member with vsm having the valve ban issues?

2020-11-22 20:00

9 replies

If Mibr add Hen1 1of the 5 will leave for sure

2020-11-22 20:02

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I feel like Lucas1 is the one who should be kicked in MIBR but if HEN1 is coming in we know that’s not what’s gonna happen

2020-11-22 20:07

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Lucas is not "the problem" of mibr, even with this low rating. But i agree with you.

2020-11-22 20:09

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Ya I agree the team is to new to say someone is a problem anyway, but if I had to move someone it would be Lucas. Even if HEN1 is a Awper removing KNG would be stupid

2020-11-22 20:17

He is shit

2020-11-22 22:18

Can u explain me what kind of things VSM cant do on the CS scene because his BAN?? Like can he still play a major??

2020-11-22 22:21

He can't play Majors and Major Qualifiers (Minors). Everything else is ok, I guess.

2020-11-22 22:47

:o thanks

2020-11-22 22:48

he can't attend any event hosted by valve

2020-11-23 06:21

Yuurihs english from the little bits I've heard isn't terrible, but he isn't someone you could have a proper conversation with. Kscerato and art I have 0 clue

2020-11-23 04:05

It will probably be Kscerato, it is visible that he had a fall

2020-11-22 20:11

vini has decent english and is a great support player, furia wouldnt kick him

2020-11-22 19:56

2020-11-22 20:04

I would suggest someone who's not that good at English since they seem to go international but I feel like it'll just backfire hard. They should've just gotten a Brazilian replacement instead

Furia is doing SK's mistake: going international

2020-11-22 20:01

Interesting that maybe we'll see the whole story unfold again... but WITHOUT the Majors.

2020-11-22 20:20

Alas, our only team last will be mibr, but it prolly won't last much

2020-11-22 20:21

SKs mistake was holding on to dated players for too long

2020-11-22 22:46

my boooooy 1junior

2020-11-22 19:44

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1clip is enough to get into furia ?

10 replies

what

junior has been good all 2020. he was second best in Triumph after Grim

2020-11-22 20:05

8 replies

And he's continued to carry them since Grim left. His stock is high and he does deserve a chance in a better team

2020-11-22 20:14

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He deserves a chance, but if Furia is going through this rebulding faze (as stated in the article that there might be more changes) then im not sure if going to Furia would be the best choice, Id rather hope TL or EG picks him up. (Also in that case Cerq could go back to EU)

2020-11-22 20:16

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tl shouldve picked up junior instead of grim

2020-11-22 20:31

+1 fully agree with that, they need a dedicated AWPer and especially as flash as junior is

2020-11-22 20:37

i really hope junior either stays with triumph and triumph become a really good team or he joins a good NA team yeah has already stolen NA talent, Furia is next i guess

2020-11-22 20:40

Or just should have picked up both instead grim junior naf elige stewie2k

2020-11-23 10:15

lmao twistzz > bot2k

2020-11-23 14:29

Agree with you, don't think Furia is the best move here. But a move somewhere is likely on the cards. Feel bad for Shake though, losing his star players every time

2020-11-22 20:46

WTF???????

Nice

like why

RiP FURIA

2020-11-22 19:48

gg((

2020-11-22 19:50

no way Junior top 1 2021

xaxaxaxa

NO WAY

NICE !

BIG WTF """!!!"""

rofl

2020-11-22 19:45

2020 really messing with us

junior ma boy is going more stronger

rip furia

happy junior finally getting some recognition

he's good

They gonna switch language for 1 player ? RIP FURIa back to tier3

ikr that's so stupid

Yeah, its weird :/

2020-11-22 20:27

I think it's because getting a Brazilian player with a us visa is really hard at the moment. The team is based in na now.

200 IQ

2020-11-23 16:31

WHAT?!! THEYLL SWITCH TO ENGLISH?!!

inb4 junior learns portugese

*brazilian portuguese which is harder and he is american, i dont see a way its happening

2020-11-22 21:12

I mean he's been super impressive and deserves the opportunity but like are they really just skipping over oSee for Junior? This would probably kill Triumph lmao

You're right about it killing Triumph but I think that Junior would be a better pick up than oSee. I'm not sure whether either one of them is a better option than hen1 though

2020-11-22 20:49

Hen1 is definitely the best player of the three just surprises me that they’re so set on Junior honestly, happy for him though he’s earned the recognition

2020-11-22 20:58

2020-11-22 21:11

he is good but what about the language?

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Portuguese is easy to learn.

2020-11-22 20:33

idk about that portuguese is quite different to english

2020-11-22 21:42

yeah, that's definitely not true, portuguese is pretty hard to learn if you don't already speak a latin based language.

ELiGE has other ideas.

2020-11-22 22:26

man Elige has higher iq than 99% of the cs:go scene. He was ranked as the best scholar of the 2015 and had some of the highest scores amongst the whole country in some exam. So it's not a surprise that he could learn spanish easily proof: montgomeryschoolsmd.org/press/index.aspx..

2020-11-22 23:33

beats team lulquid gets spot on furia

what? they must be kidding

Caralhooo

porra, why dud

:DDD junior is good AWPer, but yuurih and KSCERATO is worst English spoken players

it would be better for Junior to learn portuguese, surely he can pick up the basics

2020-11-22 19:53

Portuguese is one of the most difficult languages to learn. I don't know about that.

definitely not one of the hardest to learn lol

2020-11-22 23:06

I do think it is mens))

2020-11-23 14:26

well, it's not true. google it.

2020-11-23 18:26

portuguese is really complex and has dumb rules, to be honest i guess its easier if they start doing english

but surely it's better to have 1 player learning a language than multiple(kscerato and yuurihh)

2020-11-22 20:15

Nice! If he had 1.16 rating in Triumph he could go above the stars in a team like furia

WHAT THE FUCK

unluko

2020-11-22 19:57

This would kill triumph which would be sad, but Junior deserves a top team honestly

+1 just as they started to improve with the new roster

Yeah the exact same thing that happened with grim. At least with Grim curry had to leave for college anyways so it was a good opportunity to make big changes. Now it's just kinda rough for the 4 guys on the team now but if they get smooya that would be insane

2020-11-22 20:35

POG POG?

what????

LMAOOOOOOOOO WHY U DO THAT? 0 IQ MOVE

NO WAY THAT WOULD BE CRAZYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

POG

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

BR CS literally recycle the same 10 players LOL

Are yo-- Did yo--- wha--- When was Junior ever in a BR team??... tf you smokin

who is talking about Junior dummy

2020-11-22 19:49

You said BR CS literally recycle the same 10 players The article is about Furia adding Junior Who are you talking about then? TF?

exactly what I said. Hen1 removed then he will be back then he will join MIBR then he will be removed then they will pick up Lucas then he will be removed

2020-11-22 19:51

are u braindead?

2020-11-22 19:58

why not zywoo then?

f furia kick the best player

kkkkkkkk rip furia

What

"with a second player potentially being shown the exit door as well". oof

Pog

Rip kkkkkkkkkkkkkk

cuz NA players into a BR team worked so well in the past Keepo

If u saw what happened to MIBR after tarik and stewie left and u still think they were the problem theres no helping you lmao They were literally contending wtih astralis with tarik and stewie and then after they left mibr dropped off the map and tarik and stewie both joined top teams.

lel triggered NA fanboy spotted

he's not wrong though

2020-11-22 20:30

Doesnt make him any less right

2020-11-22 20:34

He spitted facts there fam, Astralis themselves said that MIBR was a bit of a challenge for them in 2018

2020-11-22 23:50

thats just astralis being modest

2020-11-23 03:02

rip furia wtf is this

PgoChamp

Junior is actually a good player, lots of trolls here

did they find this out comming to EU ? :) i hope Furia do good in Blast and reconsider

lol

based

Do the furia boys speak english?

Only Hen1 doesn't speak

yuuriih and ksc not that well too

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

wut

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT??????????????? OK

great player but communication will be super hard, yuurih and kscerato don't speak english that well

"⁠KSCERATO⁠" NEXT?

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

furia pog

yeah good luck

what HHAAHHHAHA

wut?

RIP FURIA

WTF IS THIS?

WTF? RIP BR SCENE AGAIN

uhhhh strange decision hen1 probably going to mibr then?

yeah probably, since vsm will most likely become their 6th. this is pretty much Immortals 2020-21 edition

Yeah i think so too, makes sense for vsm to be the sixth

2020-11-22 21:48

wtf how retarded is this? I mean he is a sick player dont get me wrong but wtf

+1, maybe with time we get some clues to what happened inside the team

wat de fak

one good match - FURIA

wtf

Hen1 is just stupid or what? Cause everytime he is in the verge of winning something big, he changes team

My guess would be he‘s joining his brother in mibr

2020-11-22 21:49

I think so, I hope they go big, and win a major

2020-11-22 22:43

WTF??

From bad to worse lololol

2020-11-22 20:03

Happy for Junior but WTFFFFFF??

DOES HE SPEAK PORTUGUESE

The only American csgo pro player that I ever know speaks good portuguese is Elige.

2020-11-22 20:10

how do you know?

that Elige speaks Portuguese? He made some streams 1-2 years ago with FalleN and cia and he made every call in a good portuguese besides a conversation in portuguese with FalleN. Ofc I don't know if theres more csgo pro players that speaks portuguese like his second language, I just said what I know 'till now. But americans in general doesn't learn a second language(maybe only spanish), after all you can use english in everyplace nowadays.

2020-11-22 23:12

Triumph always getting poached out of their good players lmao

2020-11-22 20:22

LOL feels bad for Junior

2020-11-22 20:06

lol?

WTF GL FURIA

of course brazil needs NA to carry in order to make their rosters less shit

Why the hell switch languages just because of one player? If they need an AWPer, why don't they sign up Fallen?

I think Fallen would ask for a gigantic salary which Furia wouldn't agree to give, but yes I would definitely sign Fallen instead of Junior

2020-11-22 23:39

???? Reply needs to have actual content Another NA tier3 team inc LUL

why change communication for one player? understandable if was s1mple.. but... junior...

2020-11-22 20:08

GL junior, guy is nuts

I mean junior is a really good player, but still taking him instead of HEN1 isn't an upgrade. They should change VINI, not HEN1, HEN1 is literally their best player.

2020-11-22 20:13

Stop ruining Triumph to make a shittier roster! Rip Grim, Rip Junior, Rip Furia, Rip Liquid, Rip Triumph, Rip NA.

RiP, killing 2 teams by this move. Just get FalleN as an awper, he’s still a good player despite being a crap igl

This is retard move if it happens

junior is sick but can he really do what HEN1 does?

Another dumb management doing dumb roster moves. This will not go great and will break the chemistry they had.

FURIA ALSO WANTED XEPPPA AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA jokers

junior is a great player, but that's not gonna work, unfortunately. The language barrier is op

2020-11-22 20:18

Is this a joke?

This is fucking madness, junior is a beast but i don't know how this'll pan out.

2020-11-22 20:23

RIP furia. this means they're going to become a tier -4 team. very sad to hear.

lOl wat ? :DDDDDD

2020-11-22 20:24

I just hope that the same thing that happened with sk

2020-11-22 20:26

Furia doesnt need any changes even role changes

if Mad Lions couldn't make 4 + 1 work then how tf will Brasil do it rofl

2020-11-22 20:28

Mad Lions had different problems..

wdym? Cultural exclusion is a thing, plenty of players have talked about how important of a factor is a team's camaraderie outside the game

2020-11-22 21:55

Mad Lions didn't have problems with english speaking,they obiously had problems with AcilioN.

2020-11-22 21:56

Unexpected AF

right, because this went well last time...

Wtf Furia?

2020-11-22 20:32

That's the end of Furia. This is the problem with these e-sports teams, they can't be professionals. In football or basketball players can hate each other, but they will play together to win, lol.

funny how some kiddos playing in garbage tier 3 NA scene get some frags and then get a foot into the tier 1 scene. cs is 100% dying and orgs are desperate.

its not THAT bad tbh. hen1 to mibr probably.

End of Furia.

kid does well against NA trash and gets into furia oka

New FURIA VINI junior ArT felps yuurih

0/8 felps and art frontline 3x5 for furia 1:40 on the clock

2020-11-23 14:34

nice englando

2020-11-23 14:47

Poor Triumph first they lose their best player Grim,now they lose Junior....

No player wants to stay on a team where the only win case is if they pop off

2020-11-22 20:44

WHAT?????

RIP Furia

2020-11-22 20:41

Very nice move from Furia org !

2020-11-22 20:42

Junior the brazilian fallen Pog

2020-11-22 20:43

whats with this weird trend that Yeah gaming started, by signing 2 americans into the BR team? its weird, why would u change the whole communication language to english just for 1 player... p.s, feelsbad for triumph, every time their team looking decent, someone steal their best player(grim, junior)

2020-11-22 20:47

What do you mean??? Hen1 was one of the best players in the hole... They were wrong to dismiss him, no comment... Zero grade for the leaders of the furia...

5 year contract btw KEKW

WHAT???? WHY????

wtf?

2020-11-22 20:50

Junior isn't leaving a team where he is a star player to join Furia to get kicked after max 2 months.

What language will they speak?

english ofc dont google furia speaking english

2020-11-22 20:53

Do they know enough english?

2020-11-22 20:56

art and vini can speak english quite well that's it i guess xD idk about yurih tho

2020-11-22 21:02

junior > hen1 > fallen > s1mple > zywoo > cogu

2020-11-22 20:51

It would be better Junior to Liquid

2020-11-22 20:54

Exactly... I doubt the entire FURIA squad can speak proper English in-game (fast paced)

2020-11-22 21:29

maybe what happened to stew on mibr

2020-11-22 22:44

mibr players speak way better English than FURIA ones... they moved to USA years before

2020-11-22 23:30

Triumph > liquid Junior won't leave

2020-11-22 23:00

Junior > Liquid > Triumph **

2020-11-22 23:45

this wont work

liquid wat doink?

2020-11-22 20:59

Man

2020-11-22 21:00

why

2020-11-22 21:03

BIG MOVES

2020-11-22 21:17

Ohh No...

2020-11-22 21:21

Caralho, como tiram o Jacaré, vulgo melhor awper do game?

2020-11-22 21:38

Google translate sucks, so i am not sure if i got your comment right, but, it says why they will remove him: The 25-year-old Brazilian sniper is seemingly on his way out of the team due to "issues outside of the server" Also, VINI could also leave and Xeppaa from Chaos could join xD #212

2020-11-22 21:52

I wonder if they fought. I can't see other situation to the furia changed its player so fast.

2020-11-22 21:53

Maybe. I have no idea. But it looks like -Hen1 -VINI will happen and Junior + maybe Xeppaa will join

rip Furia

2020-11-22 21:44

This is a really bad move. The language barrier can't be underestimated. Should've learned from MIBR's mistake. The Furia guys seem to communicate in English just fine during their interviews but so did the MIBR guys. In game is a different story. Not sure what happened with HEN1 "outside of the server".

#212 Seems like VINI might leave as well, but its not 100% that Xeppaa will join.

2020-11-22 21:54

They want to pull a Stewie/Tarik move like MIBR. Clearly they didn't pay attention to what happened with that roster. RIP Furia.

2020-11-22 22:00

twitter.com/Rafinhafps_/status/133060948.. RIP VINI as well

2020-11-22 21:50

What is happening with Furia?

No idea. But, in the article it says "FURIA are on the lookout for players to potentially replace their star AWPer Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles, according to a report by DBLTAP, following issues outside of the server." So, i guess Hen1 and VINI might have some issues? Idk.

2020-11-22 22:24

I don't know

2020-11-22 22:57

did hen1 left? And if yes why?

2020-11-22 21:51

Do not accept this offer. Have a good day

2020-11-22 22:30

Well, if the rumours about Xeppaa joining is true as well then he should imo. I think the other 4 players in Triumph will switch to Valorant.

2020-11-22 22:41

Valorant is shit as fuck

2020-11-22 22:58

Well, for you it is. But for other players its a good game. And, since a HUGE amount of NA players left CS for Valorant i think they could do it as well.

Counter Strike is for MEN Varolant is for Children (Coloured and cartoon game).

2020-11-22 23:05

Xeppaa joining what?

2020-11-22 23:32

Yeah: twitter.com/Rafinhafps_/status/133060948.. But, like i said before, lets wait and see what happens lol. Seems like the deal wont happen, but lets wait and see.

2020-11-22 23:34

LMAO what the fuck... the guy has never played a lan in his life, how could FURIA invite him to join??? This mix of Americans and Brazilians will never work anyway (mibr was top5 during the entire year of 2018 btw, according to HLTV rankings, but never been a title contender).

2020-11-22 23:35