GuardiaN headlines new Sampi lineup

1-5-2022 21:21

The former FaZe and NAVI sniper will look to guide a new wave of Slovakian talent.

Sampi have announced the formation of a new Slovakian roster headlined by Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács, who will be joined by four young prospects pulled from Enterprise, eSuba, and FACEIT Pro League with the goal to compete at an international level.

The six-time top 20 player in the world spent 2021 playing under the Singularity and Trident banners, but was unable to find much success in tournament appearances with both teams. Now, the 30-year-old returns to a domestic lineup for the first time in ten years, taking aim at once again becoming the best sniper in the world despite his age.

GuardiaN hopes to help elevate a new age of Slovakian talent

Playing alongside the acclaimed AWPer is Matúš "⁠MATYS⁠" Šimko, who was purchased from Enterprise and is considered in the domestic scene to be one of the most talented players outside of SINNERS. In-game leadership duties will be assumed by Andrej "⁠ADEJIS⁠" Kameništiak, who was benched from Enterprise in February.

Rounding out the roster is former eSuba member Lukáš "⁠sAvana1⁠" Lintner, as well as an unknown prospect in Michal "⁠T4gg3D⁠" Vrzal, who was selected based on his performances in FPL and his marked improvement individually seen through watching his demos, according to GuardiaN.

Sampi are:

Ladislav "⁠GuardiaN⁠" Kovács
Lukáš "⁠sAvana1⁠" Lintner
Matúš "⁠MATYS⁠" Šimko
Andrej "⁠ADEJIS⁠" Kameništiak
Michal "⁠T4gg3D⁠" Vrzal

Jakub "⁠Bfull⁠" Kokoška (coach)

Not gonna work sadly

2022-05-01 21:21

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Guardian with the AWP takes down Astralis and raises his first ever trophy at age 30. Time traveler Information.

2022-05-01 21:23

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Guardian with the AWP takes down Astralis Talent and wins Pinnacle Cup V

2022-05-01 21:31

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that sounds pretty doable for him xD

2022-05-01 22:05

2022-05-01 22:21

I doubt they can win pinnacle cup xD

2022-05-01 22:49

Astralis Talent being in finals of anything? Impossible

2022-05-01 23:21

hahahahahahaha

2022-05-02 01:46

Pinnacle Cup Major 2022 but nt

2022-05-02 08:53

hahah +1

2022-05-02 11:32

kinda sad how badly he fell off after 2018

2022-05-01 21:32

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he didnt play the game even, wtf are you talking about

2022-05-01 21:33

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2019 maps played: 153 2020 maps played: 18 2021 maps played: 81 He didnt play much but saying "he didnt play at all" is you being stupid

2022-05-02 09:08

2022-05-02 15:14

Not with this team XED

2022-05-01 22:54

would be pog ngl

2022-05-02 01:44

first ever trophy? did you eat shit?

2022-05-02 12:08

stopped reading at astralis ngl

2022-05-02 20:12

MATYS and GUardian +3bots idk about T4gged

2022-05-01 21:49

tbh savana is decent, expect its gonna be matys and savana +3bots

2022-05-01 22:02

sad, but true

2022-05-01 23:04

😂 Then you’re an idiot because that’s their player 🤷‍♂️

2022-05-02 05:29

ahn?

2022-05-02 22:03

still better than poland, same rosters every year, taz and neo instead of developing new talents are bringing the same players, you are doomed

instead of developing young people and ending their careers, they just waste them playing for the team

2022-05-01 21:58

LETS GOOO Ps: fix guardian flag

2022-05-01 21:22

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huh

2022-05-01 21:30

arTmajor mvp 2022

2022-05-02 09:09

LES GO

guardian washed

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Better than fallen

2022-05-01 22:12

fallen is at the major nt

2022-05-01 22:13

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At least Guardian doesn’t have to miss 3-5 shots while repositioning to get a kill

2022-05-02 00:17

fallen at major to lock in 0-3

2022-05-02 00:25

NA bracket. It's basically a charity.

2022-05-02 02:22

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2022-05-02 03:25

Wait why don’t you and 4 friends do it?

2022-05-02 05:42

I think they can destroy NA and qualify for major if u pay for him and his friends plane :)

2022-05-02 06:32

Matys is a beast so if there's one shot for this roster it's him

Best of luck

sad wish guardian played tier 1 still

gl guardian!

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Guardian won plenty of trophies or u confusing him with oskar?

He is baiting probably

2022-05-01 21:34

huh both won multiple s tier tournaments

Yh oskar won some good ones too, I was wrong

2022-05-01 21:35

he should have won way more.. too bad that mouz roster played in the prime astralis era, they had multiple top4/top8 runs

2022-05-02 06:04

EZ GUARDVIAN

GOAT

also ı hope best luck with you , young talent .

gl dad

this really didn't need to be news lol

2022-05-01 21:24

why not? It's nice to know the whereabouts of our not so distant old legends.

2022-05-01 21:48

I think it's quite newsworthy, I also read parts of the linked article, which was quite a nice read imo

2022-05-02 04:29

Good on him!

Guardian 17 lan trophies

POOG

EZ FOR NEW SLOVAK TIER1 TEAM

2022-05-01 21:25

best of luck. hope it works out. glad to see GuardiaN still playing

2022-05-01 21:27

GL Legend

I wish him the best of luck

2022-05-01 21:29

nice

it will be good for the young players even if they dont win much. same as coldzeras new team

This is a good opportinity for MATYS to show his skills to the world, even if this lineup fails, it may open up som international offers for him...T4get may be also a decent firepower

2022-05-01 22:26

guardian is a whole different person than cold ,it will work a lot better , trust me

2022-05-02 02:25

2022-05-02 03:32

typo; 'marketed improvement' should be 'marked improvement'

king is back mens))

great!

ADEJIS is even worse than golden xD

theelive would be way better option

2022-05-01 21:36

is he igl?

2022-05-01 21:39

yes

2022-05-01 21:42

so i have no idea why they decided to pick up adeljs

2022-05-01 21:51

adejis was a benched player in enterprise, the first picked guy by guardian for that team anyway

2022-05-02 03:06

sadly he is he is playing some shit roles though

2022-05-01 22:06

i think it could be like Grashog in AGO good personality, rather solid igl but not enough firepower to stay

2022-05-01 22:10

He is good player. He will be something like beastik in Sinners. Rating around 1. Something like 0.99/0.98

2022-05-01 22:16

gl legend <3

Well, another team that we are never gonna see again

cant wait for sinners vs sampi

2022-05-01 21:37

it will be somewhat downgraded version of sinners. One likely solid guy, one ok awper (hopefully) and then 3 guys that won't show up more often than not. I would like to be wrong, but let's be real. Either way, good for SK CS. Would like to know if queztone was considered for this lineup... Sinners first missed styko, now matys. Dunno what they are waiting for...

No way that STYKO would consider playing in czsk team when he has way better conditions abroad…

true, cant even imagine how much apeks are paying him

2022-05-01 22:03

Saddly, for al I know, the only decent firepower from slovakia is MATYS (if we exclude STYKO, frozen and zero), this might be a good opportunity for him to get some juicy offers in the future and to grind some experiences

2022-05-01 22:28

GODIAN

Nah, 3 guys with mediocre stats despite playing tier3. Not gonna work unless this t4gg3d guy is s1mple on alt account

2022-05-01 21:38

Matys is really good Savana1 is pretty good GuardiaN can be good ADEJIS is meh T4gg3D ?????

2022-05-01 22:09

LOL “can be good” like my 60 year old grandpa driving a truck… he can be good 🤷‍♂️

2022-05-02 05:33

+11

2022-05-02 11:25

GuardiaN isn't 60 though

2022-05-02 14:13

And he also isn’t driving in competitions as a racer 🤷‍♂️

2022-05-02 16:18

exactly my toughts. t4gg3d is a nickname perfect for some kind of motherfucker of a player tbh

2022-05-02 15:35

how the fuck adejis got on this roster?? and why kcik queztone & zur1s man they are amazing -adejis + zur1s -sAvana1 +queztone and u have new SINNERS, that roster could do some insane damage

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two awpers

2022-05-01 21:43

true but zur1s can 2nd awp, he is insane with riflers and pistols aswell

2022-05-01 21:45

I doubt that he would want to. Btw Adejis is capable of being one if the top fraggers. Not sure if hes gonna play same position as he did in EP Or not. I think that Adejis is gonna be IGL and Guardian 2nd caller probably

2022-05-01 21:52

this guy gonna be a top fragger? press X to doubt hltv.org/stats/players/matches/21063/ade.. it says in the article Adejis will IGL but honestly would rather see queztone or The Elive

2022-05-01 21:57

Well I watched his RMR qual matches that he played w Guardian and he was topfragging most of the games but ofc, there wasnt much of s structure

2022-05-01 23:18

Tbh at the begging if this roumored team I was almost certain that there would be quezstone, lets just see xd

-adejis +theelive -T4gg3D + ajtt

2022-05-01 21:53

tagg3d looks insane in FPL tho, might be new ropz type talent but yes The Elive is 10x better than adejis

2022-05-01 21:55

savana1 is good imo

bruh, u really think that queztone is better than savana? u live in 2016 or what? :D

2022-05-02 12:03

honestly yes savana1 very mediocre 0.99x rated rifler they need players with experience imo, rn only guardian has some

2022-05-02 12:05

to be honest queztone is terrible, he has just a name because he is there for a long time and played with neophyte and something like 5 games with HR back in 2016... but since then he hasn´t done nothing, couldn´t even lead SAMPIs last lineup, and he had like year for it. I like his personality, he´s a good guy, but that is not enough even for CZ/SK scene. I believe sAvana can improve himself as a youngester.

2022-05-02 12:25

Queztone is the best active cz/sk igl man except beastik. Put the right players, not randoms, around him, and he can do stuff. How can you not consider him if the goal is to build a cz/sk team? It's just beyond me.

2022-05-03 13:21

My fellow countrymen here are usually not that deep into the scene or CS as it is and lack the advanced knowledge, so all the things they come up with are somewhat constructed through things they heard about the players not by their own analysis. Honestly this Sampi lineup came to fruition through new and old friendships... Adejis recently started playing more with GuardiaN after he was benched in EP, t4gg3d tagged along and you also have Adejis and Matys reuniting again. Savana was a talking point ever since he joined main eSuba lineup with many people calling him overrated, time will show. Obviously there were definitely better picks for the roster, but let their results speak for themselves. I'm fan of some individuals in the team, not the roster as a whole but I'm somewhat biased and it's just my personal opinion. :)

2022-05-16 15:25

It's weird how the impulse seems to be to talk shit whenever people don't actually know the player - and a player from their own country at that... As far as queztone, I'm aware of his weaknesses, but he's just the best cz/sk have as far as IGL's go. The old Sampi did what they objectively could, considering the lineup. I wish them all the best going forward but it doesn't seem like a serious project. I'll keep track of their matches as I did with queztone's team :)

2022-05-16 16:15

Good luck bro

Hellslayers and Sampi top 20 soon

Hellslayers already is top20

2022-05-01 21:56

rip sampi

2022-05-01 21:41

EZ Major

Matys POG

GuardiaN on Retirement: "I don't want to be the kind of player who is struggling [...] FaZe will be my last team."

2022-05-01 22:07

XDD

hahaha

2022-05-01 22:24

Ah "good" old Guardian hater is back, long time no see

2022-05-02 14:28

Let's go GUARDIAAAAN!

not expected

this might be nice

2022-05-01 21:59

Would love to see them succeed!

SAMPI HLTV #1 CONFIRMED

The hell is even that. Adejis is awful, t4gg3d no idea but Savana isn't a star too :D. Who's IGLing this?

adejis igl. Savana is decent, t4agg3d zero matches played so idk about that

2022-05-01 22:08

Savana meh. He is just ultra budget ropz lurker. Matys is by far the best here. There are players a lot better, like Mangus or AJT, but maybe they weren't interested, idk.

2022-05-01 22:11

for sure matys is the best, no doubt, but dont be so harsh on savana, he has it in him, lets just hope he can be unleashed under adejis

2022-05-01 22:18

did you even read the article you fucking dumb fuck?

Irrelevant team, why would I read it :/

Guardian still with wrist injury?

I Hope So, maybe he Will recover And start playing again 🙂, maybe not 🙂

took him long enough, could have grown another arm in that time :DD

2022-05-01 22:19

Best of luck to them!

This team will win pinnacle cups and lootbet level tournaments at best

THE SERBIAN 00NATION

Serbian💀

2022-05-01 22:14

Oh shit, slovakian 00nation. Sry):

2022-05-01 22:15

Why do everyone confuse Slovakia with a Serb? Can I understand if they think of Slovenia or Serbia?

2022-05-01 22:51

the flag is very similar, even more so with such small pixels on hltv

2022-05-01 23:23

??? Why not Coach?

coach bfull

I know, I think Guardian should just be a coach.

2022-05-01 22:22

A legend like Guardian can play at a pro level still.. if he wants to. It’s about having enough motivation to work as hard as you need to. You don’t suddenly become handicapped just because you’re out of puberty. He is still the best awper and most knowledgable player in Slovakia. Afk or not. That being said, he is probably not looking to become Champions with this team. He is developing young talent. Playing with a god is very different from being coached by a god. I love this move from him! I think more legends should play with young talent.

2022-05-01 23:26

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

who

guardian's final dance

30yo talent lesgoooo <3 <3 <3

zur1s and queztone died for this?!

what happened to signing ajtt?

Karbhel stopro chtel ranec penez za nej. t4gget lepsi jak AJTT

Benchnut hraca a potom ho drzat v contract jail💀

2022-05-01 22:31

eco killers :D

2022-05-01 22:17

3rd best Kovac pog

Okay, I didn't expect that Good luck!

good luck!

2022-05-01 22:29

Good luck, but adejis feels like a weird decision tbh... 0,8 rating...

2022-05-01 22:35

Hopefully it will end up like sinners with oskar which was à major success

2022-05-01 22:36

losers

Flag no check out :(

2022-05-01 22:39

L-O-S-E-R-S

2022-05-01 22:47

not very canadian of u mens

2022-05-02 14:32

Happy for my man fakin Ladislav cyka Kovács

2022-05-01 22:37

2022-05-01 22:38

GL boys&men :D

solid t6 team

2022-05-01 22:43

Sampi = Dignitas = Last Dance. Old players with experience trying to lead a team of, mainly, youngsters. I think it is time for ESports to start organizing Master Events, gathering players that are old enough to stop competing but still wants to play tournaments. I would like to see an event for teams with 30+ average age, just to see the legends back.

2022-05-01 22:48

Let's go

2022-05-01 22:50

Guardian and Samsun Pide Expected!

this seems interestingg

2022-05-01 23:02

Happy to see him back, would be a beautifull story if he could teach those youngsters and make them better players, I really wish the best for GuardiaN, maybe if he proves his worth in this team he can get to Tier-1. Would be lovely. GL boys!

2022-05-01 23:05

Basically this is retirement home for GuardiaN. Gonna juice as much $$ as he can for little effort. Smart man

2022-05-01 23:09

I rate this lol / lmao :()

2022-05-01 23:16

Good luck with your country teammates king 🙌

New gambit

2022-05-02 00:00

A boomer and 4 lowest rating zoomers This team is going to be top 1 ezpz

2022-05-02 00:09

ez for Ladislav "cyka" Kovacs!!!

2022-05-02 00:19

Goodluck. Good to see this.

2022-05-02 00:43

Just lol

2022-05-02 00:46

so we are actually going to have a scene? nice

2022-05-02 01:48

ayo u the twitter guy from sampi tweet??

2022-05-02 22:17

nah, that's someone else, I had this name for a while now tho

2022-05-02 22:47

<3333 GUARDIAN!!!

2022-05-02 01:51

Nice gl

2022-05-02 02:03

The golden awp lets goooooooo

Pls win major Guardian

2022-05-02 02:08

pls win major :((((

2022-05-02 03:03

Lets go, Guardian! Support from Bulgaria - will never forget how you won dust 2 against us single-handedly! Respect.

2022-05-02 07:22

Welcome back, legend.

2022-05-02 09:15

let's go lil suka blyad lad! world miss ur flicks and aggression

2022-05-02 10:42

I don't understand some people who write TIER6 and the like. Finally, there is also a team where players like Poland are still not the same and are looking for a combination, the guardian has 4 new talents there, he doesn't have to be good anymore, but he still has something to give them.

2022-05-02 10:45

talents with shit stats from tier5 scene

2022-05-02 11:45

Even if he had a terrible AIM, he has so much experience that he can sell them that you would be surprised, but you don't know what it's like to work like this, so I'll write something to you unnecessarily.

2022-05-02 11:46

bro stop using google translate to comment here xd

2022-05-02 14:36

So guardian is planning to sell people or play cs?

2022-05-02 17:30

Sell people to play CS fulltime ;)

2022-05-02 20:45

2022-05-04 14:06

Gl guardian! I remember flickeroni

2022-05-02 10:49

Vamozcks! Said the slovakian mens

2022-05-02 11:22

Retardian

2022-05-02 11:43

How can a man fell off so hard like GuardiaN, from one of the best awper since 2013 - 2018 to become absolute dogshit in 2019

Getting married and lazy

2022-05-03 00:23

Any info on t4gg3d? Is he any good

he was 6th in fpl last month

2022-05-02 11:56

you mean 2nd in march

2022-05-02 14:33

was he? I don´t really follow him but in one czech article on playzone was written that he was 6th in april

2022-05-02 15:11

fpl prodigy, he can topfrag in fpl after 2 months there so definitely a lot of potential

and what is matys gonna play?

2022-05-02 11:58

???? sadasd

2022-05-02 12:06

glgl

2022-05-02 12:56

gl hopefully a new czsk team that can do well against t1 teams

2022-05-02 12:58

Guardian and Matys, take my money!

2022-05-02 14:18

Good for Slovakian cs best of luck GuardiaN

2022-05-02 14:24

could be really interesting. nice to see goat guardian back on the field

2022-05-02 14:53

Good luck, he'll definitely help those youngsters develop!

2022-05-02 17:00

All the best.

2022-05-02 17:02

2022-05-02 17:37

+nexa +styko +frozen

2022-05-02 20:08

Guardian couldn't even AWP lately, but now WE are supposed to believe he can do it while IGLing ?

2022-05-03 00:22

Where did you get that idea from

2022-05-03 12:49

Washed

2022-05-03 07:52

hobbit storyline incoming

2022-05-03 07:59

I don't understand why guardian is not IGL (he has more than enough experience and authority to be one). And just get rid of this guy: hltv.org/stats/players/21063/adejis?star.. At first look this seems just like "bad stats" until you realize this is vs T4 opponents only. Get one more decent player (or better IGL), this will not work vs slightly better teams at all.

2022-05-03 09:35