RobbaN set to take over as FaZe coach

4-2-2021 18:25

The Swedish veteran will return to the position he held through 2016-2019 following the expiration of his ESIC ban.

Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David revealed that Robert "⁠RobbaN⁠" Dahlström will take over the coaching role for FaZe in an interview with cybersport.ru. The former CS 1.6 professional player will therefore be back in the spot he stepped down from two years ago, and was filled by Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović in the meantime.

In the interview, coldzera noted that FaZe are waiting for the Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC) ban that was handed to RobbaN to expire before using him in tournaments. The Swede will be clear of the suspension of participating in ESIC-member events, including those organized by ESL, BLAST, and DreamHack, on March 13.

RobbaN will return to the helm of FaZe

"RobbaN will be the coach. We are waiting for his ban to expire, it seems that there is about a month left," coldzera said to cybersport.ru, adding that the tactician is already helping the team in practice games.

The Swede was handed one of ESIC's shortest bans, for 5.5 months, due to bug abuse in a 16-1 loss to Astralis in May 2017. However, RobbaN professed his innocence, claiming that he attempted to get out of the bugged state and that no information was passed on to his players

"By the time his ban ends, we will have a full roster," coldzera added, hinting at the arrival of the in-game leader which will take Olof "⁠olofmeister⁠" Kajbjer's spot on the lineup. "In addition, we are on the lookout for a psychologist to help solve some of our problems. He will also join the team when we resolve all issues with the fifth player."

When asked about the final FaZe player, coldzera answered that he will be announced "in March or April". Earlier reports have linked Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen to a return to FaZe, and with the expiry of his contract with the German organization set to happen in March, the 30-year-old in-game leader could be returning to the organization on a free transfer.

expected

2021-02-04 18:26

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+1 better than YNk

2021-02-04 18:27

37 replies

cool

10 replies

faze karrigan confirmed

2021-02-04 18:31

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hope not, mouse w/ acor and karrigan looks really good karrigan especially playing well

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karrigan's contract ends march, dont think its a coincidence

2021-02-04 18:32

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hes definetely coming no question but I hope it will be soon because faze right now are unwatchable

2021-02-04 18:48

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unwatchable? really? maybe cause it's top 200 hltv team rn?

2021-02-04 19:00

+1 ignore the stoopid weeb

2021-02-04 19:14

at least Twistzzz is there to make it a bit more watchable lul. I do hope they have 1 last run just for olof tho would be a great way to end a career.

2021-02-04 22:44

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+1 would be amazing

2021-02-05 11:21

??? He has contract that is in the end, there is no coincidence.

2021-02-06 19:23

its basically a monkey paw situation u want karrigan to faze but u kinda dont cus mouz has more talent by the time of the major could potentially win it

2021-02-05 10:24

+1 FaZe top 10 again

2021-02-04 18:28

top 5*

2021-02-04 18:33

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top 3* consistent

2021-02-04 18:58

woke

2021-02-04 19:05

Top-1 ok😄

2021-02-04 19:29

2021-02-04 19:30

*top 1 consistent

2021-02-04 19:53

top 30 at max

2021-02-04 22:39

nt sam2k

2021-02-05 13:41

ynk was niko's bitch

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actually xd

2021-02-04 19:09

no doubt about it

2021-02-04 19:23

YNK Coaching be like: COME ON GUYS JUST KILL WORST COACH EVER Also NiKo IGLing: OK GUYS LETS THROW SMOKES ON A AND THEN ROTATE TO B

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wait, but NiKo was better known for his strategy: "LET'S THROW SMOKES ON B AND THEN GO B"

2021-02-04 18:34

No it was Either throw poor smokes at b then go B. or Rush B thriw smokes on the way or later.

2021-02-04 18:45

NiKo is a tactical genius. He is best known for his signature tactic of "going B and then lose vs eco. He also has a second little known tactic of "Going A and then throw a 1v4" What an absolute legend. Top 3 IGL for sure.

2021-02-04 18:47

Allu is a tactical genius. He is best known for his signature tactic "Having IGL, but then kicking him". He also has a second little known tactic called "He's my friend and you are not". What an absolute legend. Top 5 IGL for sure.

2021-02-04 19:01

2021-02-04 19:07

He is friends with aleksib

2021-02-05 12:35

Nt allu

2021-02-05 17:50

He even plays with him and streams

2021-02-05 19:16

OFC

2021-02-04 19:02

up to supreme mm this works just fine

2021-02-04 18:46

No it doesnt

2021-02-04 20:06

pretty sure it does

2021-02-04 21:43

2021-02-04 21:30

This is exactly what i wanted, great stuff!

2021-02-04 18:29

FaZe are officially a top1 team now, they just need karrigan and they'll be unbeatable! #FaZeUp

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+1+1+1

2021-02-04 19:10

2021-02-05 05:06

Unbeatable except by: Navi Astralis vitality complexity g2 North although they disbanded mouz MIBR furia nip Dignitas I think you get the drill now

2021-02-05 14:02

0/8

2021-02-05 14:36

very unexpected*

2021-02-04 21:49

It was leaked that they were playing with him

2021-02-05 09:32

Oh. Now i remember. Lol

2021-02-06 00:07

pog

Time to throw pog champ

welcome back king

nice

OLD FaZe are back !!!11

+612 !!!!!!!!!!

2021-02-04 23:47

Great news!

God RobbaN

Expected

Good coach, Faze back to top 5

POG

time to get karrigan and guardiaN, roll back the years 😎

Tutorial on how to ruin FaZe.

PogU

faze slowly rebuilding nice to see

NiKo left they bring karrigan and robban NIKO THE PROBLEM

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Nikola "THE PROBLEM" Kovac

Niko "The Big Ego" was always the only problem.

2021-02-04 19:11

well if robban and karrigan makes allu win some tourneys, maybe niko was the real the problem there.

2021-02-04 20:30

2021-02-04 18:39

Good for FaZe

1.6 legend

Yes, magnificent time with old and real "SK"

2021-02-05 06:16

yesss welcome back legend

eZaF

Welcome back!

hi Rob. VALVE maybe -vertigo +cache :)

I was thinking about it and it's happening :D. Good for FaZe. karrigan and robban = strong duo

glad for GodbaN

youtube.com/watch?v=Mk3_b55z3us

Who?

2021-02-04 18:30

Lol

Signed up 2020-08-03

2021-02-04 19:32

who?

2021-02-04 19:36

FAZE FLUSHA CONFIRMED

Now announce karrigan and there is finally some hope again for FaZe

Niko was the problem confirmed

+1111

2021-02-04 18:35

+11111

YES WHAT A LEYEND 😍 Welcome back boss, now FaZe is slowly coming together again as one of the top 5 best teams in the world, where they rightfully belong. Thanks God YNk is gone, phew. After karrigan, we will land a psychologist, and that's where the fun begins.

hahahahhahahahahahaha

Very nice

Well if RobbaN is comming back, we can say that Karrigan is surely following.

why though

2021-02-04 19:19

Karrigan and RobbaN like the best duo (igl and coach)

2021-02-04 19:35

What about zonic & glaive?

2021-02-05 12:49

LETS GOOOO

Karrigan inc

Expected.

MY BOY ROBBAN <3

2021-02-04 18:36

FaZe will rise from its knee soon since NiKo was gone. You will see it soon don't worry.

2021-02-04 18:41

yes. WE rise like monkeys.

2021-02-04 18:43

Do you mean climb like a monkey?

2021-02-04 18:52

He meant the movie the planet of the apes where the monkeys rise and i think the quote is: apes together apes strong

2021-02-04 20:01

YES PLEASE!

2021-02-04 18:37

now time for Karrigan

OH SHIEEET, JUST NEEDS KARRIGAN AND FAZE IS BACK

MSL or flusha

2021-02-04 18:38

POG RobbaN back!

2021-02-04 18:40

LETS GOOOO ROBBAN

2021-02-04 18:42

People actually think Robban is better than ynk kekw

faze was it's most dominant with RobbaN, faze with YNk were just a constant disappointment

Maybe niko was shit igl? When Robban was coach, they had karrigan kekw, when Robban left, karrigan did as well.

In that case it shows that Robban was crucial to their success if karrigan left

So u basically saying karrigan and Robban 50/50 were responsible for faze's success?

2021-02-04 21:14

Im just speculating, you never really know the real deal / what was done behind what publicly was shown

2021-02-05 15:57

I mean.... FaZe with those two were good and successful. FaZe without those two were garbage and hardly accomplished anything. Even with NiKo. Not saying they succeeded solely because of those two, but they obviously were a huge part of it. RobbaN >>>>> yNk yNk is a disappointment to coaches everywhere and really doesn't need to "coach" any team.

2021-02-05 17:24

Finaly some good news for FaZe

Imagine getting banned for “cheating” and you lose 16-1 hahaha

imagine smoya in tier4 team.

Imagine clown9 nt british noob

Yup. Losing 16-1 while cheating either shows pure incompetence or that he's innocent. Pretty obvious which of those two options it is

indeed. just like that footage of the vitality coach. the game was speccing. you see no mouse movement. then u see a random movement and him clicking out of it. like he wasnt watching it and then looked and realised and went out of it. pretty mad really.

2021-02-04 19:45

POGGERS

GOOD LUCK

+flusha -olof

LETS GO

LET'S GOOOOO LADS

2021-02-04 18:50

God robban is back

robban way better than niko's boyfriend ynk, good choice

robban back is pog, and i guess he confirmed karrigan considering they will wait to announce until march after karrigan's contract expires?

2021-02-04 18:53

go to desk ynk

cheater smh

2021-02-04 18:59

Astralis fan calling RobbaN a cheater after he was given one of the shortest bans and they still lost the map that it happened on 16-1 (ONLY HAPPENED ON ONE MAP).... And there have been a plethora of statements saying he never used the bug to give his players any advantages in game, period. After he noticed it, he reported the bug and the issue was handled. Just shut your uneducated mouth.

2021-02-05 17:28

2021-02-05 17:29

Can't come up with any come back so you copy paste my reply lmao. Get a life.

2021-02-05 17:35

not going to argue about literally nothing with someone who is clearly mad, also why do i have to get a life, i did not write half a paragraph reacting to 2 words...

2021-02-05 17:40

Yeah, 2 words that are clearly biased and false. RobbaN is not someone I know personally, but he is still a person and doesn't deserve false allegations. Just like every other person on the planet. You're delusional and uneducated. And it's people like you who make this world a worse place than it really should be. There is no argument to be had, considering you have no points or proof of anything. This is a statement from me. Sorry, but nice try moron. Writing a paragraph doesn't take very long to do btw, so I don't know why someone can't have a life just because they wrote one. At least try and make your points have a little common sense too them lmao.

2021-02-05 18:42

yea he got banned and didn't get unbanned by ESIC , volvo acknowledges those bans so I assume the ban was given with reason and so he can get the label "cheater", I think I said that because I think bans should be a bit longer even if you didn't do that much. you still have to be punished harshly because I think there should be a 0 tolerance policy like ESIC is claiming to have now ( they already failed with that but that's not the point) reading you're recent replies you are either baiting or think very highly of yourself. You can think I'm a moron but plz stop acting like a cunt.

2021-02-05 19:34

The ban was given to him because of the spectator bug that happened. Of which, the people that actually looked through previous matches only found one instance of RobbaN using the bug and it was unintentional. He reported the bug, and it was handled by admins on duty. The one instance it happened in was FaZe vs Astralis where FaZe then proceeded to LOSE the match 16-1. I don't know about you, but cheaters play to win last I checked. Quit spewing false information out of your cunt mouth and go fuck yourself.

2021-02-05 20:07

he got banned for exploiting a bug. exploiting a bug that Is getting you an advantage over the enemy team is cheating, doesn't matter if you win 16-1 or lose 16-1. also, chill down ur getting urself banned if ur going to talk like that all the time.

2021-02-05 20:26

You're to idiotic to realize that he DID NOT cheat and he reported the bug when it happened. It was taken care of after that. Someone doesn't need to be punished if they DIDN'T do anything wrong in the first place. ESIC and Valve are both a joke when it comes to dealing with cheaters/hackers and everyone knows that. Krimz was literally vac banned and then they removed it. Not saying he did or didn't cheat, but he was VAC banned. So are you saying that he should be punished? You have no points, you're literally only repeating FALSE information and I'm not gonna get banned lmao. I've talked like this on HLTV for a long while now and you're dumb if you think I'm gonna get banned xD.

2021-02-05 20:49

The only bait here, is you. Moron

2021-02-05 20:08

legend

LEGEND IS BACK BABYYYYYYYYYYYY, LETS FUCKING GO

make FaZe great again! good luck coach!

2021-02-04 19:04

LEGEND IS BACK

2021-02-04 19:08

Wow

Remember when MIBR announced the "(almost) classic line-up" and the aftermath? I'm not too hyped yet.

Thank fucking god. I want to see Nikos face when his old team fucks him.

2021-02-04 19:12

would be gold if faze became better than G2. Imagine the laugh threads

2021-02-04 21:34

I hope FaZe do a 2-0 with one 16-0 on G2 in major. That will be so satisfying to watch.

2021-02-05 05:03

Imagine the faces of KennyS and Niko tilting against the new FaZe XDDD

2021-02-05 05:15

I don't know it just feels so nice it's like a puzzle falling exactly in the correct order and pieces.. everything seems good, previous coach, Karrigan, twist and a psychologist if it all goes well they can be super amazing (to watch)and dangerous (to other teams) Excited for the entire confirmed lineup.

2021-02-04 19:13

Thank god

2021-02-04 19:15

Flusha next

2021-02-04 19:16

-karrigan +karrigan -robban +robban 200 iq move from faze

2021-02-04 19:17

FaZe will be carried by a swede just like in the FaZe-Xizt days

2021-02-04 19:22

hmm i arent think that

2021-02-04 19:33

any way to translate the whole interview to English?

2021-02-04 19:27

Woho

2021-02-04 19:28

people shouldnt expect too much from this...

2021-02-04 19:31

If the karrigan move wasn't confirmed in peoples minds already, now it should be.

few months later hltv news: "Ynk sets to join G2 as a coach"

faze are actually doing something

2021-02-04 19:47

This is actually a good move, for once :D

2021-02-04 19:49

This part of my life, this little part, is called happiness

2021-02-04 20:02

Karrigan + Robban = 2017/2018 Faze is back bois

2021-02-04 20:24

One of the best coaches in the game. Great to have him back.

2021-02-04 20:44

"The Swede was handed one of ESIC's shortest bans, for 5.5 months, due to bug abuse in a 16-1 loss to Astralis in May 2017." KKKKKKKK used the bug to avoid the 16-0, understandable!

2021-02-04 21:16