FPX part ways with Devilwalk, peca

18-10-2021 14:22

The coach and General Manager have exited the Chinese organization after a streak of poor results.

FunPlus Phoenix announced on Monday that they parted ways with coach Jonatan "⁠Devilwalk⁠" Lundberg under mutual agreement, which followed shortly after General Manager Petar "⁠peca⁠" Marković revealed on Twitter that his time with the organization has come to an end.

The managerial changes follow a couple of underwhelming months for FunPlus Phoenix. Jesse "⁠zehN⁠" Linjala and co. missed out on a spot at the CS:GO Major in Stockholm, failed to qualify for premier events such as IEM Cologne and ESL Pro League, and crashed out of the top 30 of the world rankings in the leadup to these changes.

Devilwalk has been with the team since the NoChance era in 2019

Both Devilwalk and peca have expressed their intention to continue with their roles in new teams. The Serbian, who also managed FunPlus Phoenix's Valorant division, said that "after an exciting year, it's time for me to chase new endeavors," while the Swedish Major winner stated that he is open to offers in CS:GO or Valorant.

FunPlus Phoenix's international roster is currently competing in the IEM Winter 2021 Europe Closed Qualifier with the hopes of earning a spot at the $250,000 event in December, which could give them something to fill their otherwise empty calendar with, as well as offer a chance to climb back up the ranks.

FunPlus Phoenix are now:

Jesse "⁠zehN⁠" Linjala
Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk
Pavle "⁠Maden⁠" Bošković
Asger "⁠Farlig⁠" Jensen
Luka "⁠emi⁠" Vuković

top 10 coach removals

2021-10-18 14:23

17 replies

Removing a great coach but keeping a bad igl

2021-10-18 14:38

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How do you know he's a bad IGL? Have you seen him call? Have you seen him prepare for matches? Also flair and name doesn't check out.

2021-10-18 14:45

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have you seen fpx results

2021-10-18 14:52

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It doesn't look like a problem with tactics. The individuals are really not consistent. You can see almost every FPX player Top frag in one map and then bottom frag in the next.

2021-10-18 14:56

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which looks like not the right choices/calls and maybe positions. imo they played way better with chrisj as igl

2021-10-18 15:11

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they did. I still don't understand why they didn't just drop the money to sign chrisj and instead went with emi who has literally no experience in tier 1 and already had a stint as a coach.

2021-10-18 15:25

But chrisj was too creedy and missed great chance with this team. IMO they would have been top 15 certainly and probably even top 10 as team.

2021-10-18 15:26

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well it wasnt really up to chris to decide. Fpx could not agree with mousesports regarding the buyout. what mouz wanted was too much for fpx, so they rather choose to not make it to the major ;)

2021-10-18 15:28

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wouldn't do with chris either

2021-10-18 15:42

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well thats your opinion

2021-10-18 15:51

Do you see how bad is farlig they are all bad tactics are good

2021-10-18 17:52

well he have to be calling out of his mind if its gonna be worth it for his lacking fragging and I doubt he does that.

2021-10-18 16:17

He is not a bad IGL. He is okay-ish IGL. Farlig is an okay-ish awper, and same goes for the whole team. They are okay-ish team with current lineup. And their placing right now is realistic, 40 to 30 is what they deserve

2021-10-18 15:37

They were a top 15-20 team before crazy hoe they dropped off though something needs to be changed

2021-10-18 15:48

Agreed. Removing dewilwalk is a step in right direction I think

2021-10-18 15:49

This is not report about -zews, keeping Stanisław tho

2021-10-18 16:02

+krystal ez

2021-10-18 16:10

unfortunate

Devilwalk 1 Major S0mple 0 major, sorry guys big mistake

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s0mple org 1, devilwalk org 0

2021-10-18 14:24

2021-10-18 14:31

Huh? Why do you mention s1? hltv.org/player/21497/s1

2021-10-18 14:42

cuz very good

unbeliefable

2021-10-18 14:37

Devilwalk 1 Major, S1mple 0 Majors

2021-10-18 16:37

2021-10-18 16:59

unlucko

what is going on

Makes sense, team with 4 good players should not be playing this bad

2021-10-18 14:39

-emi next

yeah -emi +chrisj

2021-10-18 14:36

If they don’t pick up ChrisJ after his contract ends idk what fpx are on

2021-10-18 15:53

they brought serbian coach and you think they will kick emi now lol

2021-10-18 19:43

I mean they should.

2021-10-18 23:55

Yeah, it was devilwalk’s fault. Give me a break.

2021-10-19 14:38

Farlig to CoL Maden to G2 Zehn to Gorillaz disband

Actually makes sense.

Zehn can go to havu and finally get rid of jemi

maybe, but I think he is too old and HAVU need young blood

2021-10-18 14:46

+zonic

2021-10-18 14:25

This whole situation just makes me sad Good luck in the future FPX and Devilwalk!

Totally unexpected for me, I thought they will change igl or maybe one of Zehn/Farlig because of their stats being mediocre for their roles. GL devilwalk

flair + fpx + devilwalk

2021-10-18 14:27

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Are you talking about yourself?

2021-10-18 14:30

about your flair at least

2021-10-18 14:32

FPX fan with Vega Squadron flair wtf!

wtf.... how could he

2021-10-18 16:52

Wtf

mid game? - Fucking cold.

He must have known about it before the game started.

2021-10-18 14:26

I would also leave mid-game if I saw my team losing 2:13 to ENCE LMAO (this is a joke)

unluchko

Chris J is warming up

who

wait they dropped their coach in the middle of a BO3 kekw

kassad to coach or something? FPX just need more firepower, their gameplan always were pretty solid i think.

Would be cool.

most likely +kassad and maybe jkaem if he doesnt go to coL also they might replace emi with azr, since that was the plan before azr went to extremum. their opinion on him might have changed when they saw the dumpster fire of extremum tho

2021-10-18 16:22

Devilwalk 1 major, S1mple 0 majors

-emi +AZR

he just leaves mid game? lol

Another team that is gonna bench their roster

Disband this shit, or invest in top talent. This is terrible waste of money currently.

2021-10-18 14:28

devilwalk to dignitas

2021-10-18 14:29

No way Much cooler with vendetta

maybe gamerlegion or aura :-)

Who is peca

General Manager, he used to be the GM of CR4ZY back in their golden days as well.

scammer

sadge

- zehn - emi + kassad +jkaem +chrisj

2021-10-18 14:33

Mid game kekekek

2021-10-18 14:40

Sad for the CSGO line-up in two years, organizations from NCH69, Smasch, Godsent to FPX have been replaced

F px

if they just signed chrisj months before they would have won the major

2021-10-18 14:41

no kRYSTAL no major spot

devilwalk jw flusha +2 its all coming together

xizt get right

2021-10-18 15:52

both retired already

wouldnt be surprised if emi becomes coach

2021-10-18 14:44

No more free cheques

2021-10-18 14:55

I love Devilwalk, hope he gets a nice job somewhere else

2021-10-18 15:01

s1mple 1 Grand Slam Devilwalk 0 Grand Slam

2021-10-18 15:13

Great news getting rid of Peca, not sure if getting rid of devilwalk was right, he did his best!

2021-10-18 15:29

ratwalk

2021-10-18 15:31

FPX had like a good start but since then they just look awful

lulrant no way

announcing it while they where playing 🤔

2021-10-18 15:55

sad

2021-10-18 16:03

Rip

2021-10-18 16:11

Bad move

2021-10-18 16:14

krystal was the problem

2021-10-18 16:16

last piece of the OG squad, fpx went to hell after removing maikelele first then krystal.

2021-10-18 16:19

Eksem sucked however + horribel work ethic.

2021-10-18 18:17

doesnt matter, it was him, krystal and devilwalk who made the team and they were removed which was a shitty thing. they havent been competetive since maikelele was removed. he was a perfect fit as a passive awper which allowed the riflers to excel. work ethic is irrelevant

2021-10-18 18:18

To be honest Maikelele was a good decision. I remember that styko or krystal said that he isn't feeling comfortable awping on certian maps and he was medicore against t2 competition at best. After adding farlig the team improved and they could become a top 10 team imo. Removing krystal was also understandable but what really fucked them up was not getting a better igl and being stuck with emi

2021-10-19 01:43

2021-10-19 13:13

i guess we just have to disagree. i followed the team since its inception when scream and maikelele started playing together again, and literally watched every game i could since. stopped watching them since krystal was removed as i lost my affiliation with them, so i feel as my opinion is the one more though out, however ur allowed to have ur own opinion.

2021-10-19 13:40

hltv.org/stats/teams/events/6902/godsent I just looked at their finishes again and I guess the godsent prior to the Maikelele change wasn't that bad. With farlig they got some pretty good finishes like cs summit 6 but they also bumped out of some t1 events last. I think that we can say that godsent didn't really improved overall but imo farlig>>>Maikelele EDIT: hltv.org/stats/players/compare/13300/far..

2021-10-19 16:15

Devilwalk_1_Major_S1mple_0_Majors

2021-10-18 16:35

2021-10-18 16:43

You kick a coach but don't kick someone like falling emi or zehhn nice job

2021-10-18 17:09

They just beat Ence tho

2021-10-18 17:12

RIP FPX

2021-10-18 17:16

-10 social creds

lol good coach

2021-10-18 17:33

What a fucking joke, this is a team filled with misfits players and an t2 coach as an igl, does FPX management think that they can grab tournament wins if they arent even willing to pay for ChrisJ after he did so well with the team standing in?

2021-10-18 18:03

They were braindead on that move, there is no saving grace for them. Farlig & Maden have been inconsistent for a while now, zehN is no longer hard carrying them (he was popping off like every single match), STYKO is average most of their matches but that's only 2 players out of 5. STYKO is the only consistent guy.

2021-10-18 18:26