chrisJ joins FunPlus Phoenix on loan

26-1-2021 16:43

The Dutch veteran will make his first appearance for the team on Wednesday in DreamHack Open Europe.

FunPlus Phoenix have confirmed the signing of Chris "⁠chrisJ⁠" de Jong from MOUZ on a loan deal. The 30-year-old will take up captaincy duties in the ex-GODSENT lineup, in which he will reunite with his former mouz teammate Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk.

chrisJ was on the lookout for a new team to represent after over seven years with MOUZ. He was removed from the active lineup on Saturday to make way for Frederik "⁠acoR⁠" Gyldstrand, who was signed from MAD Lions.

chrisJ is the team's new in-game leader

The Dutchman will fill a role that has been vacant since Kevin "⁠kRYSTAL⁠" Amend was moved to the bench, in November. The team initially tested Luka "⁠emi⁠" Vuković for the position but ultimately decided to evaluate other options, according to the Serbian player.

chrisJ will be hoping to re-launch his career after a challenging 2020 tournament season. He averaged a 0.91 rating in all competitions and came under intense scrutiny in the final months of the year, when he became MOUZ' primary AWPer following the departure of Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker.

FunPlus Phoenix will make their first appearance on Wednesday, in the group stage of DreamHack Open January. The international team, who were unveiled by the Chinese organisation on Monday, have been placed in Group A alongside BIG, HellRaisers and Evil Geniuses.

With chrisJ's signing, FunPlus Phoenix now have:

Jesse "⁠zehN⁠" Linjala
Pavle "⁠Maden⁠" Bošković
Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk
Asger "⁠Farlig⁠" Jensen
Chris "⁠chrisJ⁠" de Jong (loan)

Jonatan "⁠Devilwalk⁠" Lundberg (coach)

LETS GO!

2021-01-26 16:44

14 replies

again.

2021-01-26 16:45

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ez top1 for fpx and top100 for mouz

2021-01-26 16:46

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lets go fpxJ

+11111111

2021-01-26 17:11

well spoken PeruvianWidepeeker

2021-01-26 17:29

F he was is and always will be mouz I are sad :(

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In mouz for over 7 years.... will be odd not seeing him on the mouz roster, but I guess stats speak for themselves. Don't think he'll reach the top again, but he's a legend purely for his longevity

2021-01-26 17:16

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Longevity for twitter breakdowns?

2021-01-26 17:31

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The fact he stayed in a team for so long. Even any of the VP Golden Five or the original NiP lineup didn't last as long as he did in one organisation. Deserves some credit for being able to stay relevant for so long, at the very least.

2021-01-26 17:42

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2021-01-26 19:54

"In mouz for over 7 years" Name one other pro who has been playing on the same team for 7 years

2021-01-26 20:22

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get_right and f0rest for nip

2021-01-26 20:35

Ya dad

2021-01-26 22:56

2021-01-26 17:08

Sick team, top15 soon!

2021-01-26 16:47

Styko should've been the IGL, I don't think this will work.

2021-01-26 17:12

STYKO i so one of their star riflers lmao

2021-01-26 17:14

He was a good IGL as well.

2021-01-26 17:46

when was STYKO an IGL?

2021-01-26 17:47

Mouseports for a couple of months

2021-01-26 17:54

Neophyte

2021-01-26 18:33

*is

Gl Chris! Legend

gooo

Who?

GODJ IS BACK BOIS

lol

expected

nice top20 lineup

Gl Chris!

legend

Nice

LETS GO CHRISSS

#freemaden

2021-01-27 10:17

GOOD LUCK CHRIS!

wtf no

Hopefully he can find some good form again, missed seeing ChrisJ performing well.

kekw

actually sick signing you know what he did for mouz before karrigan joined

braindead Chinese investors They had the chance to pick emi or any other IGL

Lmao chrisj >>>>>>>>>> emi

2021-01-26 16:57

Rly? :) ofc bro that he's better but how you compare those two? Igl and awp player/support rifle sometimes... You can clearly see the faze problem. It's not about who's better player, someone need to lead this team and they took another awp player over farlig, and styko is support, no sense at all

2021-01-26 20:13

Emi is worse thhan death

2021-01-26 17:02

let's go chris

chrisj and styko together=major

Nooo bot j

15 years ago.. Let's go youtube.com/watch?v=olm7xC-gBMY

okay

2021-01-26 17:10

retirement incoming

NOOOOO

Let's go ex GODSENT

Edit: Im potato, I wonder how good Chris will be as IGL. I bet he picked up on some things playing with Karrigan. This could actually be a great signing

2021-01-26 16:48

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We will see, chrisj helped bring mouz to the top-2 one day

2021-01-26 16:50

ChrisJ IGLing mousesports >>> karrigan IGLing mousesports

2021-01-26 16:55

lol not even in my dreams

2021-01-27 04:05

ChrisJ (IGL), Styko, oskar, sunny,ropz >>> karrigan, ChrisJ, woxic, ropz, frozen.

2021-01-27 14:24

He's just as good as karrigan, if not better. I believe he can do a lot.

2021-01-26 16:59

I doubt his igl skills

2021-01-26 17:00

Don't

2021-01-26 18:09

2021-01-26 19:39

I wonder how much he paid Karrigan for teaching him how to IGL

2021-01-26 17:34

sup karrigod teach me some rush b and i'll give u one of my jordans

2021-01-26 18:11

ahhahahahahahaha

rip fpx

GL boy

I wish ChrisJ all the best and hope it's something he himself wanted. That said in my mind Mousesports and Chris belong together I cant imagine them without him.

oh noononon

pog gl to chrisj hope he can find his form again

POG

So chris gonna carry fpx. whoa

bongj

He should retire. He can read books and smoke weed while his pension.

That's the dream

2021-01-26 18:59

ez4godj

2021-01-26 16:49

Good team on paper. 10x better than current Cloud9/FaZe/G2.. Good luck ChrisJ..

onlineJ era

budget mousesports

GL to him.

imagine getting the lowest impact player on the market as your 5th.

2021-01-26 16:51

Leets gooooooo

2021-01-26 16:52

bot

PogU

ez tier 3

2021-01-26 16:53

2021-01-26 16:54

noob disband ;d

garbage

2021-01-26 16:56

Shoulda got Xizt

2021-01-26 16:58

Emi>Chrisj. This not gonna work. Rip.

2021-01-26 17:01

next 2959 day contcart coming

This man will never get retire

paycheck stealer till he is dead

2021-01-26 18:03

if he fail in this one.. He's gonna be like get_right for sure

2021-01-26 17:03

NOOOOOO rip mouz' old timer

2021-01-26 17:04

bongJ last chance

2021-01-26 17:05

thank god its only a loan

They will probably buy him

2021-01-26 18:16

Glhf

2021-01-26 17:06

BotJ

final chance if he wants to stay in T1

he will carry

Yearly godlike 1vs5 incoming

dunno why FPX wants chrisj. but at least he has experience playing with styko?

they picked Chris over this Serbian guy?

guy whos only hightier exp is with godsent for couple months, rocking solid 0.8 rating is somehow better than veteran from day 1 with better rating than this dude who farmed mixes in qualis his whole career. makes sense

2021-01-27 18:50

chrisJ + STYKO again?? FPX are one move from having the old mouz core

2021-01-26 17:15

chrisj honestly better igl than sunny

LET'S GO EAZY LATER -ACOR +GODj WHEN LAN STARTS AGAIN

2021-01-26 17:20

again, why did they remove krystal? they're just trading bots at this point

less gooo

2021-01-26 17:24

2021-01-26 17:25

COOL TBH! GL CHRIS AND FPX

potential

2021-01-26 17:30

for tier3 maybe

2021-01-26 17:37

tier 2

2021-01-29 02:11

If ChrisJ is IGLing and maden, farlig, and zehn play well might not be that of a roster for the time being

My new favorite team. Edit: Godsent is salty.

LuL

good for chris but bad for fpx. one man's trash is another man's treasure :D

2021-01-26 17:40

glgl

2021-01-26 17:41

igl? XD

2021-01-26 17:44

Not a horrible team ngl

2021-01-26 17:45

Wow nice,

2021-01-26 17:49

GL Chris!! And now Flusha has to get a team and I'm happy.

GodJ on ex-godsent? It's poetry.

2021-01-26 17:56

*loan*, so basically +chrisJ to mousesports confirmed in 1-2 months :)

2021-01-26 18:00

oh no

2021-01-26 18:01

GL mate! P.S. didn't know zehN is so "old" too :o

glhf

2021-01-26 18:04

2021-01-26 18:07

Interesting, glhf!

Could work. I think he should slot in well here.

2021-01-26 18:20

So good

2021-01-26 18:27

chrisJ stylo combo pog

2021-01-26 18:29

Tbh good move. Mouz +acor looked dominant against faze. Looking forward to seeing how they do with Dexter

2021-01-26 18:31

I think chris will reinvent himself, this team is something new and exciting for him. He became less motivated playing for mouz for so long. Chris is good and I know a lot of people were hoping for a better signing (considering chris's form recently) but I believe this is going to be perfect.

2021-01-26 18:38

chirsj is ok player but new organizations have to bring new talents no old boomers

2021-01-26 18:37

Excited to see what he can do. And technically he hasn't left mouz yet since he's on a loan.

2021-01-26 18:41

expected but good move

2021-01-26 18:46

interesting, could work, GL Chrissy

2021-01-26 18:51

Thank god that its just as a stand-in. Hopefully it stays that way as well lol.

2021-01-26 19:03

GL Legend!

2021-01-26 19:05

Because that's what they need. 30 y.o. guy well past his prime...

2021-01-26 19:18

+1 ikr

2021-01-27 00:19

EZ4FPX

2021-01-26 19:29

Looks like good tier-1,5 team, but without big trophies

2021-01-26 19:33

nice

2021-01-26 20:00

I thought he would of became the head of the CSPPA tbh

2021-01-26 20:01

inb4 godj #1 hltv 2021

2021-01-26 20:06

please don't be botJ

2021-01-26 20:07

I think its fair to say that ChrisJ was pretty much the player (of one of the top players) with the longest time under one org. 2013/14 is INSANE.

2021-01-26 20:09

I really don't know how this will work, I'm not saying that ChrisJ is bad player at all but they pick another awp/rifle support player over farlig who's super talented and styko who doing good job as support, point is who will lead this team, this looks like faze story a little, and if they think to put chris or styko as igl I really think that this is bad idea but that's just my opinion, I love this core but we will see

2021-01-26 20:18

2021-01-26 20:24

Styko has been waiting for this 3 years in a row

Good luck!

2021-01-26 20:29

GODJ TOP 1 GO GODJ GO

2021-01-26 20:43

lets go!

2021-01-26 23:28

I can’t believe he is 30 years old...

2021-01-27 10:14

this isnt going to work...

2021-01-27 10:18

GL!

2021-01-27 10:30

Godsent/FPP are most unlucky team. They have 4 strong players, playing all the time together and they cant never find 5th for their team. Chrisj wont be good answer i think :/

2021-01-27 10:52