Xeppaa quits CS:GO

19-4-2021 22:19

The North American player is making the move to Cloud9's VALORANT team with Ricky "⁠floppy⁠" Kemery.

Erick "⁠Xeppaa⁠" Bach has joined his teammate floppy and will continue his career in VALORANT while remaining with Cloud9, the organization he last represented in CS:GO before the team was shut down in March following a tumultuous time in Europe with middling results.

Xeppaa will now play in Cloud9's VALORANT division

Xeppaa rose to prominence in the second half of 2020 as one of the main engines in Chaos's success in North America, quickly becoming one of the region's top prospects. He averaged a 1.17 rating during his time with Chaos, whom he helped to win the North American divisions of IEM Beijing-Haidian and DreamHack Masters Winter.

The 20-year-old was then given a contract in Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer's Cloud9 'Colossus' at the beginning of 2021 to take over Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker's spot on the roster in a three-year deal worth $432,000. However, he only ended up playing a total of five events with the team, who struggled with role changes and poor results until eventually the North American organization put the CS:GO division on hold at the end of March.

rip

2021-04-19 22:20

bruh, sad, he was very talented seeya in 6 months

2021-04-19 22:20

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wdym 6 months?

2021-04-19 22:46

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My prediction is that a bunch of Players that now Switched to valorant will return when LAN Play resumes and a bunch of orgs start to invest money in NA cs again Or when they get tired of valorant, whichever comes first

2021-04-19 23:52

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Maybe C9 will reinvest in CSGO once LAN comes back but, I don't see more orgs investing in CSGO tho considering they can easily develop the Valorant scene as to CS, you have to spend like 1-2 mil or more on a T1 team (based from article about TSM not joining back to CS) since it already has a structure with a risk of getting fucked because competitions nuts.

2021-04-20 02:00

that really sucks

2021-04-19 22:20

Another one bites the dust

2021-04-19 22:20

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2021-04-21 00:32

Guy got super unlucky w chaos and c9, couldnt catch a break. Really sad to see.

2021-04-19 22:21

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Chaos deserved to get a bigger org, would have been a better move for c9 instead of listening to henryg

2021-04-19 22:22

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they had a player banned from valve events, who was the igl i think? they couldnt have bought them as a whole if they wanted..

2021-04-19 22:34

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steel left and they then had a full team of perfectly fine players

2021-04-19 22:38

Vanity was the IGL.

2021-04-19 22:59

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steel was

2021-04-20 11:16

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After steel left, Vanity took over the IGLship.

2021-04-20 12:30

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^this. Steel left a good impression on the team/vanity as an IGL, but they really broke through and became very successful after he left. Chaos dropping out of esports and nobody picking up the CS roster stings hard for NACS still, but atleast we got BnB out of it with Jonji, and Extra Salt looks great right now with MarkE as well.

2021-04-21 22:16

They won an event without steel

2021-04-19 23:41

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2021-04-20 12:31

Disappointment.

2021-04-19 22:21

WHAT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2021-04-19 22:21

Whole NA cs scene to valulrant

2021-04-19 22:21

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Y’all don’t even got a scene to go to valulrant

2021-04-21 14:57

bruhhh

2021-04-19 22:22

damn that guy had potential

2021-04-19 22:22

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yeah pretty much

2021-04-19 22:24

I WANTED TO SEE MORE OF THIS GUY ASFAFASFASFASF

2021-04-19 22:22

NOOOOOO WHY XEPPAA ;_;

2021-04-19 22:22

a big shame. I wish you all the best xeppaa

2021-04-19 22:22

expected

2021-04-19 22:22

mens(((

2021-04-19 22:22

smart move

2021-04-19 22:23

Xeppaa and leaf reunited GGEZ

2021-04-19 22:23

my god why is this happening

2021-04-19 22:24

Nice flashback. Na killing own scene like 2006 with CSSource and CGS. They ll cry soon.

2021-04-19 22:25

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big +1

2021-04-19 22:28

2021-04-19 22:35

educate me pls what is/was CGS?

2021-04-19 22:41

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liquipedia.net/counterstrike/Championshi..

2021-04-19 22:55

The death of NA 1.6

2021-04-20 05:49

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2021-04-20 12:08

Bruh big rip

2021-04-19 22:25

RIP NA SCENE

2021-04-19 22:25

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man the guy has potential and he threw it away, well i wont blame him because he needs to make a living out of something

2021-04-19 22:32

gl finding success on valorant scene

2021-04-19 22:26

Nail meet Coffin... You’ll be putting NA CS inside once it arrives in about 5 mins.

2021-04-19 22:28

Sad, gl

2021-04-19 22:29

It's sad how people shit on the guy Who do we have left from NA... I get it most people here are European, but NA is dying, Asia is totally dead, Southamerica seems more interested in Valorant aswell. It's only Europe that likes CS:GO. Once the greats of today are gone, we'll have nothing left. Sad.

2021-04-19 22:29

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Lmao who cars GOAT ptr will carry NA CS but in CIS and sa too

2021-04-19 22:35

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yes mens)) ptr

2021-04-19 22:38

Yep, I don't see why people cheer for players leaving the cs scene. Even if they would not be your fav player, it sure as hell is not "good for cs". Well it is actually good from player perspective that they have more career choices and they are not tied to volvo (e.g. jamppi case). I hope him GL to Valorant.

2021-04-19 22:39

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jamppi will most likely switch back to csgo as he doesnt like valorant as much, it will just take some time as he is in the season right now

2021-04-19 23:15

lol

2021-04-19 22:33

-1

2021-04-19 22:34

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2021-04-19 22:34

Weeks after weeks, disappointed by NA players' dedication to the game

2021-04-19 22:37

Super super lame

2021-04-19 22:37

C9: lets bench the cs team and force them to VALORANT

2021-04-19 22:38

NA scene will have a Renaissance in two years when Valorant starts losing popularity and they come back. At least I hope. Please?

2021-04-19 22:38

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yes please i want to see skadaddy again pepecry

2021-04-19 22:40

not happening, riot actually cares about valorant if you haven't figured it out yet, GabeN doesn't give two shits about csgo

2021-04-19 23:30

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Theyre starting to give more shits about csgo, theyve added some quality of life things that valorant had to csgo

2021-04-19 23:36

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that just shows how pathetic valve is to only update the game when it finally has some competition.

2021-04-20 01:07

I definitely agree with that. All Riot needs to change in terms of the competitive aspect is how their qualifiers work. Can't see Sentinels going through tier 2 Valulrant teams with a risk of not qualifying considering they won Masters.

2021-04-20 02:33

You say they care about Valorant, but the gameplay in general in Valorant feels like the fucking CSGO beta in regards to hit registration and model animations, on top of their qualifiers being complete ass, plus they will likely want to franchise which makes the entire competitive scene a LOT less interesting.

2021-04-20 18:38

it's only a matter of time before these dogshit players come back, if they had to pick between the two games we know their choice, the end result comes because of $$$$$$

2021-04-19 22:39

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Comeback where lmao ? Only decent NA orgs left in csgo Liquid and EG.

2021-04-19 22:51

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i didn't say they'd find a team if they came back, I just said they WILL comeback

2021-04-19 22:53

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Screenshotting this for later

2021-04-20 16:11

no one is coming back to this 2004 engine, zero content game. wake up the fuck man, i swear people on here are delusional.

2021-04-19 23:31

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“Zero content game” how so? The content on here is the same content you will find in valorant. Just one is cartoon/anime looking with abilities and the other is more realistically looking with utility. Both have the same concept in the end.

2021-04-19 23:39

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i'm talking about new content, cs is basically the same game it was 6 years ago only shittier. valorant has new maps and agents every few months.

2021-04-20 01:04

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new shitty maps and agents so overpowered that hurts

2021-04-20 16:03

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That is your opinion and even if it is shitty, they are still putting content out unlike Valve. Valve does a new operation with new skins and nothing else lol. Game hasn't changed and there is more money right now in Valorant. Who wouldn't want to switch when their org just gives up?

2021-04-20 16:13

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surely valve < riot, but our community in cs > valulrant thousand times

2021-04-20 16:14

-Anti-cheat that actually works -New map every 6 months -New agents with new mechanics -Fixes and balance to the guns/agents -ACTUAL casual mode -More casual public due to being a new game -More friendly with their new players Yeah, i think Valorant is slowly getting better than cs

2021-04-20 01:22

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everything here is better except -New agents with new mechanics Agents in Valorant suck. The 50 different flashes and abilities you need to counter are disgusting. Wallhacks in-game lol Drones and rocket launchers and trip wires and cameras. This right here alone will kill the game for any real tac shooter fan. Doesn't matter how much you try to paint shit gold it's still shit

2021-04-20 01:57

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Your opinion obviously isn't the same as the opinion as every other tac shooter fan that switched to valorant. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean others don't like it. Also 50 different flashes and abilities, but only a mix of 5 agents per team, many of which aren't viable. Valorant has a lot more tactical depth (but less mechanical depth) than csgo. And it is seeming to catch on quite well despite your opinion

2021-04-20 11:20

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"Quite well" 6k viewers on an official stream is a REACH for quite well. I'd say it's doing the opposite considering. It's just a place for players to run and get a bag. Orgs are paying money because its brand new nobody is making money in valorant.

2021-04-20 14:26

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We’ll see next month on its first lan. Don’t forget viewership when csgo was new. Valorant is less than a year old

2021-04-20 15:46

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Can't compare CSGO's first year considering esports was nowhere near the size it is now. Facts are this, Valorant is doing horrible viewer wise.

2021-04-20 15:49

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Every time I look, it has more then CSGO...so if Valorant is horrible, I guess CSGO is worse.

2021-04-20 16:16

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Funspark English stream has 13k right now lmao F U N S P A R K nt 0/8

2021-04-20 16:19

Valorant casual is not better than csgo casual Community servers>>>>unranked and spike rush

2021-04-20 02:43

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Told that to a person who does not know what a server is and only want to play a quick game without tryharding. Csgo is an old game with old concepts and old interfaces, if csgo wants to compete against valorant, they will need to improve on the presentation of the game

2021-04-20 06:06

zero content? LUL This is the same logic people use to re-watch shroud over and over and over doing the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and THEY CLAIM TO BE ENTERTAINED You're a MORON

2021-04-20 00:10

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zero new content i should have said. it's the same maps we were playing 7 years ago, same guns, same everything. i get that's just what cs is, but it gets old. the updates/changes they've made have only made the game worse (new CT/T models, new queue system that splits the dwindling NA playerbase even more.) you're actually a moron if you truly think they have more than 3 people working on csgo. meanwhile valorant has a new map, agent, and battlepass every few months. meta is always evolving and it has 128 tick servers. it's laughable that you think anyone would come back to csgo at this point.

2021-04-20 01:02

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Well to be fair, every map in Valorant is pretty cheeks besides Ascent and Bind. They might add new maps but they aren’t really good lol. The new agents agents aren’t bad, it’s similar to siege, but metas are bad imo and kill or destroy games. Metas completely changed siege and overwatch, especially overwatch for the worst. And how did the matchmaking queue system change? I normally have to wait longer for valorant queues than I do for CS and im in the high diamond to low immortal range.

2021-04-20 02:49

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my point is valorant at least gives you something to look forward to, it's still evolving and it could turn out to be something great one day. csgo is just same old csgo. this is just my personal opinion and you can think whatever you want. maybe metas and new additions will ruin valorant but either way it'll be an interesting ride. grinding csgo is 2021 just feels like you're stuck in pergatory. also i'm west coast NA (which is dead) so i have to wait 6 minutes plus for csgo games but valorant is always always under 3 minutes even with 5 stacks.

2021-04-20 06:31

Maybe I am a boring person, but I like the cs among shooters as a classic. It's like chess, models against models, everyone knows how what works, maps from childhood, it has been tested over the years, there is no need to invent something extraordinary. Only sometimes change the pool of competitive maps (vertigo/cobble/cache/tuscan/aztec, again we all know them), the balance of weapons, so that it would not be like with krieg in 2019. I would have made desert eagle a bit more expensive, all the rest is ideal

2021-04-20 09:38

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Absolutely agree with you. In fact, classic models also means a screenplay or a script that makes sense which, in terms of features, Valorant does not have at all. It's a game and by definition a fantasy but, let's try to keep it real otherwise, we might as well go to LoL or similar...

2021-04-21 14:56

Wonder why they we're playing poorly LOL. They we're just praccing in Valorant. OMEGALUL Cant wait for the Zoomer and Chinese wonder kids to slap these runaway CS pros into the dirt.

2021-04-19 22:41

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+1 XD

2021-04-19 23:16

You made me wants to keep in an eye on valorant for this sole reason ^^. I honestly can't wait as sadistic as it might sound.

2021-04-20 00:21

i think you mean korean but yea

2021-04-20 05:15

Mark my words, Turks will absolutely destroy these NA washed ups in valorant.

2021-04-20 15:22

so many salty brazilian kids...

2021-04-19 22:46

2021-04-19 22:47

LMAO

2021-04-19 22:50

WHY make another article and not just merge this with floppy ????? Floppy leaves csgo Xeppaa quit csgo.....

2021-04-19 22:51

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true actually

2021-04-19 23:16

Because C9 released two different statements a half an hour apart

2021-04-19 23:56

i thought he was a good person

2021-04-19 22:53

richard lewis right once again. sad day for na cs

2021-04-19 22:54

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2021-04-20 02:44

So many player (mainly eu) find themselves without teams and or orgs and are grinding for months even years to then get back on another team or find an org. These Na players cant go 1 week without it before taking the easy way out. Im honestly glad they are gone, with this mentality they dont deserve a team or org in csgo.

2021-04-19 22:56

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i mean this wont work forever cause valorant also doesnt need an infinite number of players, so if every NA player switches to valorant they wont make shit again xD

2021-04-19 23:17

I mean they had everything they needed to get top 10, but no skill so why stay in csgo if u suck at it?

2021-04-19 23:23

+1. NA teams shuffle every week (or used to when they existed)

2021-04-20 14:40

Ah, what a day!

2021-04-19 22:57

Damn cs keep losing

2021-04-19 23:01

another one

2021-04-19 23:04

Now add Vanity to that roster and has some future of tenz stays

2021-04-19 23:08

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No chance Sentinels isn't buying out TenZ if they do well in iceland

2021-04-20 11:22

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Sentinels might not even make it to Iceland atm

2021-04-23 13:25

great

2021-04-19 23:09

Truly a shame but I wish Xeppaa all the best of luck in the future. :) I liked Xeppaa despite the redundant witch-hunting, of course.

2021-04-19 23:14

cringe

2021-04-19 23:18

Sad how they play Valorant for almost two weeks and are already pros. A slap to the face to anyone who is grinding the game hoping to get that spot.

2021-04-19 23:18

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I wonder why teams are so sure it'll work, going from csgo to valul. It's almost as if they are saying csgo is harder anyway. : D

2021-04-19 23:43

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I think they know CS Is the harder and more skilled game/higher skill gap. I think everyone knows that, the pros and just players in general. A silver in CSGO is pretty much a plat in Valorant.

2021-04-19 23:53

That's not at all what it is? Years if not decades of experience in a game that is highly similar to Valorant is obviously going to translate well into valorant skill. Also since the skill ceiling in Valorant is not super high in mechanics but it IS high in teamplay/strats, players who have experience in top level teams in CS will tend to perform really well in Valorant top level since what they're really good at compared to your average player is that team element, not necessarily mechanics. Valorant mechanics are quite easy to learn, teamplay is not, so of course they have an edge over everyone that comes from different games or has started purely in valorant. They've had years to develop that teamplay in CS which is highly similar

2021-04-20 11:24

wasted money id say

2021-04-19 23:21

Another example of players who couldnt make it in csgo goes to valorant. If xeppaa and floppy played well in c9 they would still be in csgo.

2021-04-19 23:21

NA scene is so dead

2021-04-19 23:26

waste

2021-04-19 23:27

so when you good at CS you already pro level at valorant? I was pretty sure C9 would recycle their player under contracts lol At least they dont work at the superstore xd

2021-04-19 23:34

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"Welcome to Kentucky Fried C9 may I take ur order" Xddd

2021-04-19 23:46

Much easier to become pro at new games yes, hell even when Cs:Go was released there were quite a lot of pros who today wouldn't even make it onto scrim teams.

2021-04-19 23:50

If you're a pro in CS you are likely pro level in valorant* given that the pro level in valorant compared to the rest of players in valorant is mainly differentiated in teamplay and strategy, not mechanics, that makes total sense.

2021-04-20 11:26

So sad all talent leave NA CS

2021-04-19 23:38

He's Talantet.. sad to se him go.. but on the other Hand.. Atleast he doesnt have to play a broken game with exploits that never will get fixed LUL

2021-04-19 23:53

Rip NA's biggest young talent

2021-04-20 00:12

expected but also rip NACS for a while

2021-04-20 00:12

Sad :(

2021-04-20 00:12

expected from NA player

2021-04-20 00:14

wow, F for NA

2021-04-20 00:16

So both xeppa and floppy been playing valorant on the side instead of trying to fix their fcking csgo team before they disbanded lul

2021-04-20 00:21

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NA players really only care about money lol

2021-04-20 00:35

It's pretty sad that we lost talent like that.Good for C9,Bad for CS:GO,that young NA Players rather waste career in Valorant instead of fighting on top level.I survive Floppy departure but not Xeppaa-coz he was one of the talents i was following for pretty long time.

2021-04-20 00:36

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Your argument depends on one thing: that going to valorant is wasting your career. nitr0 is making 25k a month in valorant, how is that a waste of his career?

2021-04-20 11:27

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I mean not in terms of money(coz u will make a lot of money).Nitr0 is bad example coz he plays for prob best team in Valorant.Mostly players like S0m,Daps,Leaf,Autimatic are wasting their careers coz of results.

2021-04-20 12:29

LUL9 ISNT EMBARESSED ENOUGH TO KEEP AN ESPORTS TEAM OK

2021-04-20 00:36

Wait for VaLULorant to crash and burn, and come back to CS:GO

2021-04-20 00:43

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bruh the only thing that's crashing and burning is this 2004 engine, past it's prime game. people look at the steam playercount and think csgo is doing good, not realizing most of that is chinese perfect world bots. csgo has been stagnating for years and nothing will change that other than a source 2.0 overhaul or a brand new cs game.

2021-04-20 01:10

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Chinese players have nothing to do with the steam player count but nice try. You just gotta accept the fact that CS;GO is actually that popular.

2021-04-20 04:36

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it does though, i'm not going to argue this stupid ass point for the 10th time though so just look on here. you can also look at how singapore alone has 10x the US west coast playerbase. steamdb.info/servers/

2021-04-20 06:22

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West coast is always dead when it comes to PC gaming. Also NA is actually the smallest continent if we think about video gamers in general. Europe has twice as many, Asia is waaaaay bigger than anything else. So i'm not really surprised that NA servers are not showing up as your continent simply has the smallest amount of gamers.

2021-04-20 07:05

They do though. CSGO reached its peak concurrent player count and peak monthly player count the same month wuhan went into lockdown.

2021-04-20 11:28

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still chinese servers makes only 100k out of 1 million concurrent players.

2021-04-20 14:05

good for him tbh, sad for the CS scene to lose him. He defenitly could have been in a top 15 team

2021-04-20 00:56

Shame. He had potential.

2021-04-20 01:09

good move. follow the money

2021-04-20 01:31

cmonbruh

2021-04-20 01:35

He was good, although I didn't enjoy his colleague Leaf too much

2021-04-20 02:00

go late

2021-04-20 03:40

VAlorant gets another talent

2021-04-20 04:47

This is sad, all NA players dont have love for the game :/

2021-04-20 04:52

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That's presumptious? Floppy grinded MDL for three years. There's two teams left in NA signing players and they are literally all full. What do you expect them to do with their skill set? What a stupid mind set.

2021-04-20 05:04

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I speak in general, the complete scene moves to valorant for more money Chill kid

2021-04-20 05:48

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I'm chill I just honestly think it's disrespectful for people that grinded for years and years. Say what you will about fucking Crashies or whomever but guys like Floppy and Xeppa grinded their asses off and frankly should never have been cut.

2021-04-20 05:50

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well there was no other option back then so they stuck to play cs

2021-04-20 09:47

He honestly had a lot of potential, but Valorant's biggest audience is NA, and NA orgs want to sign more Valorant players for obvious reasons. Makes sense from his career perspective, but this just continues the bad news for CS scene :(

2021-04-20 05:03

LOL

2021-04-20 06:08

I had no idea there was this much salt in Brazil...

2021-04-20 06:42

Goodbye

2021-04-20 08:30

expected

2021-04-20 09:28

weak player

2021-04-20 10:31

That's sad, idk why everyone is celebrating. PLayers are switching to Valorant on daily basis from average casuals to professional active/non-active players.

2021-04-20 11:47