Stand-in hades stars as ENCE win LOOT.BET Season 9

14-5-2021 15:13

The Polish AWPer shined bright and put on a ferocious performance in the playoffs.

ENCE won LOOT.BET Season 9 with a 2-0 victory over Fiend in the grand final following one-sided scorelines on Overpass (16-6) and Train (16-6). The international squad needed just three series wins to claim the title after being invited directly to the quarter-finals, brushing aside SKADE and Dignitas in the previous rounds.

ENCE won LOOT.BET S9 with a stand-in

ENCE were left without their veteran AWPer Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli as the team headed into the tournament, with the 28-year-old revealing on Wednesday that he was taking a leave of absence due to personal reasons. The international team looked to former Wisla Krakow AWPer Olek "⁠hades⁠" Miskiewicz to fill the gap temporarily, and the young Pole delivered with an outstanding 1.34 rating (seven maps) on the way to the team’s first-place finish.

The LOOT.BET success comes as a much-needed boost for ENCE, who have struggled for form in the last month, bombing out of the Flashpoint 3 Closed Qualifier in 13th-16th place and falling short in the IEM Summer qualification. The team's next tournament is the $100,000 Elisa Invitational Summer, which is scheduled to run from June 3 through July 3. It is still unclear what ENCE's lineup will look like moving forward, although allu emphasised that he wants to be back "sooner, rather than later."

ENCE's roster for LOOT.BET Season 9 was:

Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer
Joonas "⁠doto⁠" Forss
Lotan "⁠Spinx⁠" Giladi
Paweł "⁠dycha⁠" Dycha
Olek "⁠hades⁠" Miskiewicz (stand-in)

Eetu "⁠sAw⁠" Saha (coach)

LOOT.BET Season 9 final standings:

1. ENCE - $25,000
2. Fiend - $12,500
3-4. Entropiq - $3,750
3-4. Dignitas - $3,750
5-8. SKADE - $1,250
5-8. Young Ninjas $1,250
5-8. Endpoint $1,250
5-8. FORZE $1,250
9-12. Copenhagen Flames
9-12. LDLC
9-12. Anonymo
9-12. Movistar Riders
13-15. Lyngby Vikings
13-15. PACT
13-15. NAVI Junior
16-18. OFFSET
16-18. Sangal
16-18. Izako Boars
19-20. Lilmix
19-20. eXploit

allu got exposed

2021-05-14 15:13

31 replies

Nah they would win with allu too

2021-05-14 15:14

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bro they wouldn't, not even a chance for them with Allu

2021-05-14 15:15

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Nt hater

2021-05-14 15:16

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hes right

2021-05-14 15:21

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Now everything makes sense, it was allu holding ence back the whole time.... only if they removed allu for sunny, then we would have an ENCE era

2021-05-14 17:43

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ye, -allu +sunny -aerial +jamppi

2021-05-14 18:40

But he is right, allu is botting too often lately

2021-05-14 15:24

2021-05-14 15:26

They won 16-6 16-6 with hades being in the middle, he didnt hard carry the game like people make it out lol

2021-05-14 17:30

he is right

2021-05-14 16:02

I guess u didnt what their games, allu literally is a bot

2021-05-14 15:17

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allu is a bot? send me some clips of awp shots he missed with this roster. there are probably like 10 in total.

2021-05-14 15:19

he died without shooting so yeah

2021-05-14 15:28

+1 lmfao

2021-05-14 15:40

LMAOOOO

2021-05-14 15:41

exactly, that means his teammates couldn't hold flanks / their igl was making bad calls or he was given a bad position. allu is great in clutches too.

2021-05-14 15:42

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So basically it's always someone's fault but not Allu's. Nt fanboi

2021-05-14 15:59

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it's snappi's fault. their t sides, their positionins, their mid-round calls.

2021-05-14 16:17

after hades came in snappi's calls got upgraded in my opinion

2021-05-15 11:38

I see what you did there. Nice one

2021-05-15 21:18

Like dycha at actual events XD completely silent when not playing tier 6 opponents

2021-05-14 15:20

ye dycha wasnt playing well at t1 events and generaly recently, but allu as awp cant be 4th or 5th player, awp should be able to lead the team and be consistant. Im not saying allu is bad or didnt have good matches, he did. In flashpoint he carried ence in 1 match as i remember, im not ence fan. I think that ence, with better sniper can be much better team, not talking about hades only as a potential replacement though

2021-05-14 15:31

allu was second to spinx, what the fuck are you on about?

No, alu has 1.03, just like dycha, the problem is that allu was playing like usuall, and dycha has decline in form. I dont think that being in the middle according to stats of your team, as an awp is good result

2021-05-14 16:10

Playing like usual? He was carrying ENCE in 2020. He was one of the best awpers of 2020 up until Twista's suspension.

2021-05-14 16:31

Dont think so, also looking only at these players stats in 2020 allu is right after dycha with same rating as spinx. So he was decent, but still there are better awpers, especially now when he isnt playing as he used to. Im not saying he;s bad, i just think ence could get better awp and that would make them much better team.

2021-05-14 18:50

Haven't you seen the clutch against Nip in ESL PRO LEAGUE season 13?. and + if allu was playing they would have lost to skade like normal haha

2021-05-14 15:39

dycha has bad form, but allu is a bot even with tier 3, dont fight with facts

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2021-05-14 15:51

hades power. If you want we will take hades and allu become to you. ez wins with allu :)

2021-05-17 02:27

hades godes

2021-05-14 15:22

EZ 4 POLSKA!!!!

EZ4ENCE

just sign him

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he deserve for better team

2021-05-14 15:34

i think it's good for now

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2021-05-14 18:11

God hades(god allu better tho)

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Imo allu just needs different kind of team, he should start fresh so he could forget all the drama that he got into in ENCE.

2021-05-14 18:05

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he got into = he caused

2021-05-14 18:46

It’s not all allus fault, ENCE has terrible management. I think it was allus idea to get suNny to the team since they were good friends and both of them wanted to play on the same team BUT I don’t think it was allus idea to kick Aleksib tho. ENCE just needed the money to get suNny and it was either Aleksib or sergej because they were the only ones to get enough money to get Miikka.

2021-05-14 20:04

One of the most devious videos from ENCE was the one where natu and the CEO "explained everything". That was one of the biggest cringe moments of ENCE as an organization. This is probably one of the reasons people are saying that they "needed the money" even though no-one in that roster needed to be changed. They were top 3 in the world quite consistently, and no player change was going to take them to rank 1 magically. On top of that they had a huge fanbase and money coming from every direction. Everyone with a functioning brain understood instantly that aleksib leaving would kill ENCE instantly, which was true. Pretty much everything points towards allu being one of the biggest reasons for the aleksib trade. He was the one who couldn't handle someone telling him how to play the game and being the frontman of the team so he wanted Aleksib gone. Everyone in that legendary ENCE roster (even sunny) are not in good terms with allu. TBH that says it all...

2021-05-15 00:26

+1 If ENCEs organization wouldn’t be so braindead they wouldn’t have done any changes while they were as the top3 top5 team.

2021-05-15 12:54

Indeed my friend. We can only hope the org has learnt something and will get their shit together with the new roster. Or just disband and gg.

2021-05-17 08:28

Ezzzz

ez for hades

Ence without alu kekw

hadEZ

There are a lot of young talents on the Polish stage, but there are still no top teams... Weird

lack of Polish IGL is problem.

2021-05-14 16:45

+1 same here in Finland we only have Aleksib Edit. Maybe slowi coz he has done great job in HAVU actually.

2021-05-14 18:09

In Finland everyone just wants to be a pug star so we end up with the most Faceit lvl10s per capita and no tier 1 teams

2021-05-14 21:46

+1 When I were still playing I always liked to be the caller of our friend group and everyone else wanted to get the best kda possible :D

2021-05-14 22:47

The Polish Scene recovers slightly but its not ready to compete at best yet.

2021-05-14 16:46

It's called Mercedes curse

2021-05-14 17:05

ENCE without allu just doesn't feel right

but surely feels better

Ence hasn't felt right after -aleksib

2021-05-14 18:06

Hades should just stay lol

he wont tho cause allu is the one (probably) with the highest voice in ENCE so i dont think allu would get benched and hades gets put in his place

If hades plays one more tournament and they win it, I think Ence will sign him.

2021-05-14 15:52

Saw has the highest voice in ence if he thinks hades is better he will replace allu

2021-05-14 16:34

yeah no i understand but i ment as in players (also allu is and always will be the problem)

2021-05-14 21:41

had EZ nuts

HAD EZ

If they’re a better team now, they simply should sign him. Sucks for allu, but that’s just how the scene works. There’s always some random super skilled player out there that could take your place if you aren’t performing up to par.

I think its more than just hades being better than allu (not saying its true or false), but the whole team looked better and more crisp also it has to feel better for dycha to play with hades, dycha had some questionable performances before so might be good for him too doto looked refreshed

2021-05-14 15:25

Im starting to feel allu is mentally harming his team and team mates. It would make sense if we remember comments of sunny and Sergej I agree with you 100% that as a team ence looked way better with Hades. They should keep hades and if the team performs at Elisa invitational just bench allu for good.

2021-05-14 16:50

polish mountain

polish S1mple/ZywOo/NiKo/coldzera/Elige/Stavn/Nivera/Twistzz/ropz/Zorxs/Allu...

2021-05-14 15:23

Without allu the team seemed yo be more calm. I can speculate but i think allu brings a negative impact in the mood of the team

2021-05-14 15:29

Yeah everyone is hitting their shots now when allu isn't playing I don't think that this is coincidence

2021-05-14 15:37

Allu is the funny man in the squad, no negative vibes, hades just plays better

2021-05-14 16:36

wdym, he kicked aleksib for mr firepower

2021-05-14 16:52

in the new squad, the old squad was pure depression

2021-05-14 18:20

imagine waking up from coma and seeing this ence lineup

2021-05-14 15:32

You would need a 2 hour lecture to explain all the happenings xD

god

2021-05-14 15:45

allu was the problem

NOICE

2021-05-14 15:49

BloodTrail

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2021-05-14 16:03

finally ence has won something

2021-05-14 16:16

Now go back to the news post about allu leaving to see some delusional people saying they should find something better than hades like Woxic, Msl, or Guardian. If Ence doesn't sign Hades, either G2 (-Jackz with Niko full rifle and Amanek full lurker) or Faze (-broky) should.

gj hades good luck in future !

2021-05-14 16:59

ALLUL

2021-05-14 17:03

-doto Ence will be Polish team

2021-05-14 17:20

allu who?

2021-05-14 17:29

PL GUROM

2021-05-14 17:54

Allu man, this is really a red sign if u go back to ENCE and can't pull what Hades can.

2021-05-14 17:56

Hades good :)

RIP Allu

I'm not that surprised that hades is performing like this, he is for me one of the best Polish players out there. I'm looking forward to seeing ENCE play more tournaments with him, I hope it isn't his only tournament with them.

2021-05-14 18:45

wow T5, impressive

2021-05-14 19:08

Great play by Hades. Keep up the good work

2021-05-14 19:09

2021-05-14 19:12

Unluko for Entropiq but the next season is theirs to win, I reckon

2021-05-14 19:20

time for allu to retire

2021-05-14 19:37

ALLU WAS THE PROBLEM Pog!!!

2021-05-14 20:23

Hades needs a good team!

2021-05-14 20:53

good for him man

2021-05-14 22:36

sad to see ence without god allu :/

2021-05-14 23:16

only a greek god could replace a finnish leviathan

2021-05-15 01:44

if they don't sign him then I hope some better team will do it 🥵

2021-05-15 09:57

Allu apparently had some issues with his personality and this willfeel (mental coach) guy was hired to help, but he turned out to be a scam artist so they kick him and week after allu goes on leave. Then ENCE plays good CS again as if a switch was flipped on. Yeah allu just tired, I'm sure he will come back SOONtm... omegakek

2021-05-15 13:11