GuardiaN to stand in for Trident, seized returns

10-6-2021 21:06

The Slovakian AWPer has come out of inactivity to reunite with former NAVI teammate Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin.

Trident have reinstated seized in the active lineup following the in-game leader's brief spell on the bench and brought in former Natus Vincere and FaZe star Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács on a stand-in basis, the Russian organization has announced. Meanwhile, Mikhail "⁠tricky⁠" Krutov has been benched from the team.

The legendary sniper has returned from a long dry spell to help out the Russian side. The Slovakian has spent most of the time on the sidelines following his benching in Natus Vincere at the beginning of 2020, and since he stood in for Dignitas at Flashpoint 1 he has only played two official matches in HLTV.org's records in 13 months.

GuardiaN has been out of action for over a year

Last September, GuardiaN announced that he was ready to return to the highest level, but despite assurances that he was hungrier than ever the veteran remained teamless, even after he was officially released from his contract with the Ukrainian organization in February.

Although it's unclear for how long he will stay, GuardiaN now reunites in Trident with seized, with whom he played under the NAVI banner for almost four years in 2013-2017. The new lineup is set to debut in the European Development Championship 4's Group C, also featuring Copenhagen Flames, SKADE, and Budapest Five. seized & co. are set to face the Danish side in the opening round, on Wednesday at 13:00 .

Trident's lineup now looks as follows:

Timur "⁠clax⁠" Sabirov
Aleksandr "⁠glowiing⁠" Matsievich
Evgeny "⁠Norwi⁠" Ermolin
Denis "⁠seized⁠" Kostin
Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács (stand-in)

Mikhail "⁠tricky⁠" Krutov (benched)

wtf

2021-06-10 21:06

34 replies

good luck guardian hope that he won't miss again in clutches

2021-06-10 21:07

15 replies

Trident top 1 soon?

2021-06-10 21:08

12 replies

the only decay that have ever played t1 team has returned!

2021-06-10 22:03

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This lineup is pretty good, they can make waves in tier 3

2021-06-11 00:01

4 replies

Finally the legend himself is back, hopefully Guardian can keep up with him

2021-06-11 01:44

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Guardian Seized Now we need Markeloff and Zeus to join, so this team becomes Old Navi, or "Ol Vi"

2021-06-11 10:55

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+Edward

2021-06-11 14:31

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insta majorwin

2021-06-11 15:42

2021-06-10 22:35

If they will pull some tricks from akuma's playbook and lan is not coming soon then absolutely

2021-06-10 23:28

Lmao akuma's playbook hahahahah

2021-06-11 04:14

Cologne will be a LAN with no audience

2021-06-11 07:54

Trident will not be there anyway

2021-06-11 12:38

ah, i assumed you meant in general

2021-06-11 15:08

ladislav cyka kovac ready to get back in action

2021-06-10 21:12

It doesn't even matter if he does miss, I always remember a Guardian flick.

2021-06-10 21:42

godian is back

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cadian?

2021-06-10 21:29

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No tizian

2021-06-10 21:35

stop

2021-06-10 21:51

Cadian?

2021-06-11 02:43

Guardian is Canadian?

2021-06-11 18:45

Cadian too?

2021-06-12 17:34

JESUS STOP IT !

2021-06-11 08:42

respect guardian . its hard you know still playing with that age like f0rest . but guardian trying his best than NA scene young talent. move to valorant and give up their career.

2021-06-10 22:11

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2021-06-10 22:15

2021-06-11 06:44

he's not old wtf

2021-06-11 07:06

29 is pretty old for cs

2021-06-11 07:13

9 july he going to 30 y.o and its hard with that age , imagine theres many NA talent with 19 years old and give up because their aim and strategy at csgo bad then not trying at all/

2021-06-11 09:12

15 y.o kids think 30 is old, because it's double their age lol

2021-06-11 16:18

Ehhh. I'll be 30 next month, and I consider myself old.

2021-06-11 17:51

Yeah like NHL goalies playing until 40, meanwhile hltv kids: he cant play cs cuz he is old <insert clown emoji>

2021-06-12 11:31

Exactly. There's actual sports players that have to move around constantly not just sit in their chair that are well in their 30's, yet sitting on your PC playing a game professionally at 29 is 'too old'.

2021-06-12 14:36

lol

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-clax + flamie = navi)

2021-06-10 21:30

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+ killmatic + lambert = top 1

lambert 2000 elo player

2021-06-10 22:24

enough for Trident to be top 1

2021-06-10 22:25

2021-06-10 22:26

WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT LAMBERT???????????????

2021-06-11 08:35

he said: "lambert 2000 elo player".

2021-06-11 12:14

Killmatic very talented zywoo on smurf acc

2021-06-11 01:17

Is flamie still tied to NaVi? Would like them both somewhere else

2021-06-10 22:16

Would like you somewhere else as well hltv.org/logout

2021-06-10 23:32

Unnecesary. What an idiot.

2021-06-11 01:10

2021-06-11 07:28

Flamie is officially still in the team. But they can rent him, if Navi let them or if flamie actually wants it

2021-06-11 10:36

I don't see them letting him go so easily, still a high tier player. Must be expensive and idk how deep are Trident's pockets.

2021-06-11 19:03

lol imagine if flamie leaves navi for another team and wins a major like zeus, i would shit my pants

commenting to bookmark this on the one in a million chance.

2021-06-11 11:37

Clax is good, - norwi

2021-06-11 12:15

Seized and guardian back together. Trident major finalist in Stockholm?

2021-06-10 21:46

i would probably pee if that happened

2021-06-11 05:34

Holy shit

Let’s go :D legend returns

2021-06-10 21:13

I really hope he pops off. Dunno about seized tho…

2021-06-10 21:16

29 year old prodigy)

2021-06-10 21:36

so? im 34 and fresh af

2021-06-10 21:52

I'm not trying to make fun of him, I'm just stating that he's 29 years old and still good

2021-06-10 21:55

so? Im 34 and fresh af

2021-06-11 02:44

Lmao

2021-06-11 04:15

Not funny mate.... Im 34 and fresh af

2021-06-11 08:27

29 years young

2021-06-10 22:14

Loba is 31 and still GOD

2021-06-11 10:56

God of faceit? 😃

2021-06-11 20:36

GOD of FPL

2021-06-11 21:59

Less go

pog

POG!

unexpected

TRIDENT WIN MAJOR

Yes please

2021-06-10 21:44

POGGERSSSSSSSS

Pointless, team with 0 future If they would get flamie here or something then maybe they would have some potential, but this crap ? I dont think so

flamie is still singned to navi, maybe in the future

match fixing team

New Mercedes for seized inc

2021-06-10 21:09

he aint taz

2021-06-10 21:10

hltv.org/forums/threads/2422974/seized-h..

Dont is think guardian is actually trying out or whatever rofl, I think he's trying to show off in official matches on hltv so teams can see that he's still got it. His only match in 2021 in hltv is with a pug, I think he wants to stay around longer in a team environment, probably just sick of waiting. I know he's play some cups with pugs on esea but didn't do too well.

He was standin for Sinners less than a month ago and was top fragging with a rifle.

2021-06-11 04:00

GUARDIAAAN

Nice

GodiaN

cyka kovac

bring flamie and lets fucking go

Nice!! GL

poor Guardian:(

I was here

good move guardian is a beast

lulW

POG

Hopefully guardian does well so someone can pick him up

gl bro

EZ 4 NAVI 2.0

expected

gl ladislav cyka kovacs

Pog

0.7 kd inc

He was good in sinners as stand in so i am doubtfull he will be bot

2021-06-10 21:14

I hope he'll do good

2021-06-10 21:26

+flamie

Lets gooo

Long as guardian does well enough to get picked up then doesn't matter this team has 0 future

2021-06-10 21:11

2021-06-11 04:01

I actually might have a reason to start watching games again tbh.. well outside of my flair :)

2021-06-11 07:36

Why was Seized temporarily benched?

From what I heard their Awper just benched himself so they were 2 player's down so they put him back on the line-up.

2021-06-11 04:03

correct a little and it will be perfect - clax - glowiing -norwi + zeus +flamie +edward

No need in Zeus, he hasn't played for years. Let glowiing stay and that's actually a great line up

2021-06-11 10:39

Decoy returns

Do not believe in his strong play again, but good luck

POGGGGG GUARDIAN IS BACKKKKKK

ez major win now

LEEETS GO

Would Love for him to drop 1.3 rating or something

inb4 guardian goes 4-23

2021-06-10 21:15

+ FLAMIE + EDWARD + ZEUS

Wtf

2021-06-10 21:17

Ok i was never expecting that

hahahaha ok.

gl hf

2021-06-10 21:18

Ladislav SUQA Kovach

2021-06-10 21:19

GL LADISLAV

2021-06-10 21:20

will win major

2021-06-10 21:21

Damn

2021-06-10 21:23

kkkkkkkkk

Ez godian

2021-06-10 21:24

glowiing has been sick on this team for a while, hopefully GuardiaN can bring it back and pop off once again

EZ FOR SLOVAKIA

slo vac

2021-06-11 17:28

yea

2021-06-11 17:52

Finally Godian♥️♥️♥️

Trident u won one more fan GL guardiangod

EZ major 4 GuardiaN

2021-06-10 21:27

+flamie = ez major :)

FINALLY ATLEAST SOMETHING, I MISS THIS GUY SO FUCKING MUCH. <3

2021-06-10 21:28

hype incoming :D

Why does GuardiaN have the Serbian flag on?

2021-06-10 21:34

flag checks out

2021-06-10 21:40

no no, the Slovakian flag has no gold on its emblem.

2021-06-10 21:43

TRIDENT> BOTUS LOSERE

5 slovaks

+Zeus +flamie +Edward

2021-06-10 21:38

+1, actually all of them except Zeus could happen

2021-06-10 22:00

GL GODIAN

2021-06-10 21:39

it's tricky

POGU

navi should sign trident roster

ez top1

Unlucko tricky :-( I can't deny my interest to see guardian back in action though.

Yes, always good to see Guardian back. Tricky does deserve the benching though, his numbers haven't been great lately, and he's the awp

2021-06-11 00:20

Yeah I do agree, I've just had some fun watching this team so it's a shame :-( oh well!

2021-06-11 00:24

Guardian <3 cant wait too see how much he improved

ahhahahahahahahaahhaahhahaha

2021-06-10 21:47

Guardian in 2K21 LUL

+flamie +sergiz ez major

2021-06-10 21:50

WHATTHEFU

LEEEEEEEEEZZZ GOOO GUARDIANNNNNNNNN, THE BOY IS STILL YOUNG HE GOT THISSSSSSSSSSSS!

1 june seized bench and transfer listed 10 june welcome back seized wtf

This is what happens when you have no better option

2021-06-10 21:57

This is what happens when you get new Mercedes Benz

2021-06-11 00:22

2021-06-11 00:40

PogU

Great to see, I expect something big ;)

2021-06-10 21:59

nice to see legend back to scene

lmaao

2021-06-10 22:04

top 10 team by next month

2021-06-10 22:06

woooooow I miss him!! Welcome back GUARDIAN111!!!!

2021-06-10 22:07

Add Flamie here please and here we go NaVi 2016

2021-06-10 22:08

CIS version off dignitas

Yep just imagine Seized IGL Guardian AWP Flamie Edward Adren Washed up but pog

2021-06-10 22:43

Ok but... how unexpected?

2021-06-10 22:09

OMG !~!!!!!!!

Hopefully he'll show what he's made of.

2021-06-10 22:10

has any other cs pro won legit tournaments in all 3 games ? guardian is a legend

gl Ladislav... despite anything you are still one of NAVI's legends so you're Worldclass legendary sniper

Pog. Gl mens)))

Guardian the Legend, and Seized, 2 big names in the history of Navi, I am excited about this

2021-06-10 22:17

GuardiaN to G2, it's time for reunite of Kovac brothers

2021-06-10 22:18

No, he should stay away from Niko.

2021-06-11 04:08

+flamie +edward

2021-06-10 22:21

Faze is my last home, washed up anyway.

2021-06-10 22:29

Who knows maybe he returns to FaZe soon

2021-06-10 23:07

good luck legend

2021-06-10 22:33

Good luck.

2021-06-10 22:37

Pudge of cs is back

2021-06-10 22:38

Godian

he was always bad cs go player. only awp, holding angles. greasy skin needs money i think

2021-06-10 22:39

still achieved more than whole ENCE*10

2021-06-11 00:33

Haha +1

2021-06-11 04:09

YO WTF

2021-06-10 22:47

lmao wtf

2021-06-10 22:49

Lol what

2021-06-10 22:52

gl sloVAC

2021-06-10 22:53

+flamie +edward +zeus navi retirement team

2021-06-10 23:01

++ Reply needs to have actual content

2021-06-10 23:16

youtu.be/hE0a8wvquMk?t=24 ;) ;) ;) ;) Xddddddd

2021-06-10 23:18

2021-06-10 23:24

Trident top1 soon

Oh boy #LETSGOTRIDENT

2021-06-10 23:40

GuardiaN, time to show HLTV what you've been up to! Poogers GodiaN ace montages incoming.

2021-06-10 23:47

Do I only tought when first saw he was joining faze?

2021-06-10 23:55

who?

2021-06-11 00:06

2021-06-11 00:09

xDD

2021-06-11 00:15

New top 1 hahah gl

2021-06-11 00:21

Trident>Na'Vi

2021-06-11 00:30

why would u join that scam org? xd

I'm actually happy for Guardian, I hope he gets to live the dream once again. I've watched him several times in the last months and He seems focused.

2021-06-11 00:34

hopefully he will do well, gl !

2021-06-11 00:46

that's awesome

2021-06-11 00:50

woah that's cool

2021-06-11 01:00

ladislav cyka kovac nice

2021-06-11 01:01

Yeesss!! Welcome back Guardian!!

2021-06-11 01:02

wow nice roster, gl Trident Guardian <3

2021-06-11 01:09

Guardian is back!!!

2021-06-11 01:28

im really happy for Guardian

2021-06-11 01:40

GodiaN is back to business

2021-06-11 01:47

get flamie -> tri ex-navi

GuardiaN isn’t good anymore, sorry

2021-06-11 01:56

Ez for navi

2021-06-11 02:55

LadislaV KOVIC

2021-06-11 02:56

god Guardian.

2021-06-11 03:14

I remember a Guardian's flick.

2021-06-11 03:40

I am just happy he is just a stand-in and did not join them on a contract. Top fragged with a rifle with Sinners, now it's time to carry Trident.

2021-06-11 04:13

nice 0.9x rating team

For tier 2, he probably still solid enough to compete. He did well for Sinners.

2021-06-11 04:42

Did he? They lost to BP5, sure he has a + rating, but it's a team game.

2021-06-11 06:54

Well we can all assume you just look at stats and don't watch the game. Because if you would have watched the game you would have known why they lost that game.

2021-06-11 14:04

Yes, that's why I asked "Did he?"

2021-06-11 16:44

GOAT is back

FATian !

2021-06-11 05:08

Decoy ?

2021-06-11 05:14

-clax +zeus

2021-06-11 05:32

I am pretty sure that trident could sign a deal with world edit. He's been a tier 2-3 awper for so long and he has always been consistent. I'm glad to see guardian there as well. I hope he does good but he deserves better. Tho world edit would be nice addition to the roster

2021-06-11 06:01