[VOD] Mid-year recap on HLTV Confirmed with smooya

28-7-2021 19:51

The British AWPer will help the regulars wrap up the first half of 2021.

Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield will guest on the upcoming episode of HLTV Confirmed, S5E49, to talk about his journey with Movistar Riders and share his opinions on top teams and recent news.

The mid-year recap show will focus on what we witnessed so far in 2021, as our guest alongside Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill, Milan "⁠Striker⁠" Švejda, and Zvonimir "Professeur" Burazin discuss the best team, roster change, match, and more.

smooya joins the show at 20:00

Roster news, including Astralis signing Philip "⁠Lucky⁠" Ewald and extending with Lukas "⁠gla1ve⁠" Rossander, Luis "⁠peacemaker⁠" Tadeu joining Complexity, and fnatic edging towards Alex "⁠ALEX⁠" McMeekin and William "⁠mezii⁠" Merriman, will also be on the table on the show set to go live at 20:00 on Twitch.

Topic list:

Hot seat with smooya
- Joining Movistar after a rocky 2020
- Strong domestic results, top30
- Katowice, DHM, FP3 qualifiers with little success
- Looking forward
- Who wants to be a skinionaire?
Recent news
- Astralis back to six with Lucky, gla1ve extends
- Peacemaker reunites with blameF on Complexity
- HUNDEN not extending with Heroic, anti-strat sharing
- ALEX and mezii in talks with fnatic - Report
- Sprout considering denis cut - Report
- Liquid change IGL again?
- EPL team list + playoff rework
- Major in Stockholm, yes? No. Maybe?
Mid-year recap
- Most outrageous drama
- Best team
- Best and worst roster moves
- Best highlight
- Best match
- Biggest disappointment (team or player)
- Biggest surprise (team or player)
- Favorite guest/show
Playtime
- Parimatch matchmaker game
- Viewer questions and leftover topics

Keep track of the show on social media:

HLTV.org on Twitch
HLTV Confirmed on Twitter
HLTV Confirmed on Youtube
HLTV Confirmed Audio

Nice, goat sniper on goat podcast

2021-07-28 11:11

9 replies

irrelevant player from irrelevant scene

2021-07-28 12:07

5 replies

ok, i‘ll be the middle ground: decent awper from not too influential cs scene. but still f***ing great podcast.

2021-07-28 12:21

4 replies

+1 Great podcast indeed.

2021-07-28 12:24

sick awper from mediocre team and quite irrelevant scene in awesome podcast.

2021-07-28 14:02

2 replies

this

2021-07-28 14:49

2021-07-28 18:15

++1+1+1

2021-07-28 13:15

Sm omegalol omegalol ya

2021-07-28 13:24

2021-07-28 13:43

nice

Will be a fun watch :)

2021-07-28 11:12

2021-07-28 11:13

Smooya? Of all the possible pros, fucking smooya?

2021-07-28 11:14

20 replies

Maybe respect him?

2021-07-28 11:22

17 replies

Respect toxic rat????? Lmao

2021-07-28 12:45

15 replies

He has matured, it's seems the one lacking behind here is you.

2021-07-28 13:16

14 replies

Nope, smooya is still dogshit human

2021-07-28 13:25

8 replies

Before replying such stupidity, please look at yourself in a mirror. I'm 100% sure your life is miserable.

2021-07-28 13:46

2021-07-28 13:57

2021-07-28 17:24

I'm having a great life so maybe stop sucking someone who is the most toxic Bot in the community

2021-07-28 18:11

1 reply

YOU LIVE IN INDIA LMAO

2021-08-04 10:31

He was so young when entering competetive cs. He has for sure toned down a bit. Your just an ass if you dont think ppl can change when they get more mature.

2021-07-28 18:17

No smooya is still dogshit so stop sucking him

2021-07-28 18:23

didn't he like leave the sv when one of his teammates was still alive, he thought his team lost the map but then his teammate 1v3 clutched? this was like less than a year ago lol

2021-07-28 19:36

"He has matured" clips.twitch.tv/EncouragingSarcasticCatO..

2021-07-28 19:14

3 replies

It's competition m8, just a bit of banter. Why so so so so so so sensitive jeeeesus. I follow Movistar Riders closely and they are getting Smooya onto the right track, he is not perfect, no one is, but he's improving a lot surrounded by teammantes who like him and care about him.

2021-07-28 20:15

Yeah, clearly banter towards a tier 6 team and not just straight-up salt and toxicity that somehow it was close. What are the excuses for his rage quits? PC crash as he once said? It's funny how some of you like to defend him

2021-07-28 23:36

Who was talking about rage quits? Gotta bring that into the conversation to distract from your mistake earlier lmao? Admit it, it's just a moment in a competitive environment, or is TWISTZZ saying: "sit THE FUCK down!!!!", unsportsmanlike? I'm just refering to this specific case, in which is clearly banter against a PROFESSIONAL team, what you said was in fact disrespectful downplaying those guys so much.

2021-07-30 15:19

uktrash once, uktrash forever

2021-08-03 10:37

2021-07-28 16:18

the only one who's available probably :DD

2021-07-28 12:18

0/8.

2021-07-28 13:23

Smooooooooooooooo

Bot

SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYAA

xdd

2021-07-28 11:15

Nothing about FalleN becoming the IGL again after IEM Cologne :(

2021-07-28 11:16

where did you get that info from?

2021-07-28 11:19

clips.twitch.tv/KathishUgliestLobsterMin..

2021-07-28 11:26

next up: -grim +cold

2021-07-28 14:37

Unsure about that given the RMR points and the major is right around the corner. But anything is possible

2021-07-28 14:41

cold said he will play in EPL this season so unless he's going to join team one or furia, I would totally expect fallen to make that decision

2021-07-28 15:45

No, I asked a Brazilian to translate it. The articles regarding Coldzera playing EPL is completely wrong. That was another person actually not Coldzera. Although I could be mistaken

2021-07-28 15:47

There is a topic about that. It's the changing in liquid

2021-07-28 19:33

Might not have even know of that clip

2021-07-29 01:09

underrated awper

I dont think he is an underrated awper, he is just not rated as a human being, by other players/coaches/GMs,

2021-07-28 11:36

SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2021-07-28 11:34

YAAAAAAAA

2021-07-28 15:26

always like smooya because he has something interesting to say compared to stale pros who say basic bitch phrases

2021-07-28 11:38

2021-07-28 12:27

+1 built different

2021-07-28 13:18

smooya deserves good team.

2021-07-28 11:50

He had a good team but decided to become the rat king. Could have been a top20 player if he stayed with BIG

2021-07-28 12:12

It is good that he left. His personality doesn't work with german masterminds. Now we have Syrson the exact opposite of him. Calm never move his face impressions and just hit the shots.

2021-07-28 13:28

he said yesterday on stream that he got into T1 too early and now he is more prepared, i think it is better this way

2021-07-28 13:29

goat smooya will go to tier 1 team and win major

SMOOOOOOOYAAA

2021-07-28 11:54

SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYA

2021-07-28 12:17

4 is still too many and smooya again? It wasn't that long ago he was on the show. A bit disappointed tbh Will ofc watch anyway

Other players probably use the tournament break for other things. I wish Tabsen would come to the show.

2021-07-28 13:30

They invited Tabsen, he'll probably come later. I have no idea why s1mple rejects them though

2021-07-28 14:03

because he got flamed in the past very often sometimes because English his his third language and he didn't answer properly. I understand him. As long as there is no actual need, I would let do it others. Maybe boombl4 will do it someday.

2021-07-28 14:16