IEM Cologne 2022

YEKINDAR to stand in for Liquid at IEM Cologne

21-6-2022 22:38

The Latvian entry will play with Liquid at the last Big Event before the summer player break.

Liquid have announced that they will be fielding Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis at IEM Cologne, the last Big Event of the season, where the North American squad's new coach Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele will also be present.

Liquid announce daps as new coach

The skipper, who was announced on Monday, will thus dodge the need to stand in as a player, which he had to do in the previous team he coached, Evil Geniuses, with the Latvian rifler momentarily solving Liquid's short-term roster woes after they went down to only four players with veteran Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon being moved to the bench on Sunday.

YEKINDAR will stand in for the Liquid at the Cathedral of Counter-Strike

Liquid, who have struggled to find form this year with mostly group stage exits at their most important events of the 2022 calendar, will welcome the addition of the eighth best player of 2021, even if just as a stand-in for one event, who comes in rocking a 1.08 rating, a 1.18 opening rating and a 1.21 impact rating on LAN this year.

The single tournament loan was made possible since YEKINDAR was moved to the bench in Outsiders after the PGL Major in Antwerp despite strong individual play, as he was in the tough position of hailing from a European country but playing for a Russian organization with ties to the Kremlin.

Virtus.pro bench YEKINDAR and buster

IEM Cologne will mark the 22-year-old's Big Event debut communicating in English after kick starting his professional career in Russian-speaking teams and spending a large part of his amateur career in squads form his home country of Latvia.

Liquid will field the following squad at IEM Cologne:

Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski
Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella
Josh "⁠oSee⁠" Ohm
Keith "⁠NAF⁠" Markovic
Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis (stand-in)

Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele (coach)

OHHHHH

2022-06-21 22:38

28 replies

bro we posted same comment

2022-06-21 22:39

12 replies

NA is back baby!!!! Bring it on Navi!!

2022-06-21 22:42

9 replies

Cloud9 got it

2022-06-21 22:59

1 reply

RIP career

2022-06-22 12:05

flashback of Pimple in Liquid. Enjoy nothing of note

2022-06-21 23:34

4 replies

pimple is cis, yekindar is eastern europe...

2022-06-22 00:36

3 replies

Tell me you're new to cs without telling me

2022-06-22 01:47

2 replies

Nothing about geography*

2022-06-22 06:04

Haha +1

2022-06-22 09:00

YEKINDAR will change barely anything. I'm positive he will not win a major at all, good luck with NA 2nd best team. The number one was losing to 1.5 tier european team twice in Antwerp.

2022-06-23 09:44

1 reply

You are probably right but it's nice to hype it up and have something to look forward to watching and seeing what happens.

2022-06-23 13:18

ok now kiss

2022-06-21 23:53

1 reply

if you insist.

2022-06-22 00:12

liquid should disband and be banned from majors until further notice to thinking that signing shox was somehow going to make them better.

2022-06-21 23:34

11 replies

Thanks for the free cry, it's free after all

2022-06-21 23:43

10 replies

I'm also free and would have managed liquid better than the idiot who thought that was a good move

2022-06-22 01:48

9 replies

Good troll

2022-06-22 02:21

7 replies

you know what a good troll is? Who ever told liquid Shox was the answer

2022-06-22 02:22

6 replies

Honestly it was a good move just for making you cry this much

2022-06-22 02:49

5 replies

Oof

2022-06-22 10:14

lmaoo

2022-06-22 12:02

2022-06-22 18:10

How can a hater cry when he's proven right? Typical 3rd world logic you have there Ez win 1-0 how mad?

2022-06-22 21:00

1 reply

Not at all tbh, just amused

2022-06-22 21:07

lmao

2022-06-22 03:31

Surely just a stand-in

2022-06-22 01:20

2 replies

yeah but it could be a thing if he likes the offer that liquid will offer him, fingers crossed lol

2022-06-22 02:37

they will try snax for rio

2022-06-23 02:04

Expected

2022-06-21 22:39

3 replies

change title to "Liquid set to win IEM Cologne"

2022-06-22 14:50

2 replies

nah, cloud9 will win

2022-06-22 16:05

1 reply

C9-Navi would be a great final

2022-06-22 18:05

2022-06-21 22:39

OHHHHH

2022-06-21 22:39

top 1

2022-06-21 22:39

What?

2022-06-21 22:39

top1

2022-06-21 22:39

Wtf wasted talent

2022-06-21 22:39

34 replies

where else should he go

2022-06-21 22:41

22 replies

vitality

2022-06-21 22:45

21 replies

They were too busy wasting Zywoo talent

2022-06-21 22:54

apex just said he didn’t want to work with yekindar lmao

2022-06-21 23:23

18 replies

kick him then and magisk igl

2022-06-21 23:32

4 replies

+1 now they win 20 majors

2022-06-21 23:54

+1 on kicking APEX But they better kick misutaaa as well

2022-06-22 00:19

Based Magisk igl.

2022-06-22 01:22

1 reply

What does based mean in your sentence?

2022-06-23 13:48

source?

2022-06-22 00:06

12 replies

twitter.com/malekCSGO/status/15353554405..

2022-06-22 00:11

yekindar is toxic and 1million dollar for him is way to expensive

2022-06-22 00:18

10 replies

defo not toxic but they shouldnt and will not get him as he doesnt fit anything they need at all except insane ratings

2022-06-22 01:40

6 replies

I think they don't like the attitude of Yekindar but yeah they should not change roster they just recently went into finals

2022-06-22 02:00

5 replies

Better for YEKINDAR APEX talking about someones attitude, yikes.

2022-06-22 02:19

4 replies

He never said he is toxic just said he s unsure if he would fit into team attitude wise and stylistics logically. People think he said that yeki is arrogant due to miss translations on some fkn reddit

2022-06-22 02:26

3 replies

oh lol. weird, I saw a lot of other frenchies saying the same thing even though they could read it in original.

2022-06-22 02:28

1 reply

They could just be trolling tho

2022-06-22 09:30

he wouldnt fit cuz they have 2 entry fraggers apex himself and duphree. They are both washed up and cant do shit. They would need to kick either apex or duphree in order for yekindar to fit in the team.

2022-06-22 03:36

all I hear is that yekindar is a very talented and nice person. No offense but APEX and the frenchies are the last people who should talk about toxicity. Never heard anyone saying a single bad word about yekindar until apexs interview.

2022-06-22 02:17

2 replies

He never said anything bad about yeki

2022-06-22 02:26

saying someone wouldn’t fit your team is hardly talking bad..

2022-06-22 13:35

apEX, dupreeh, YEKINDAR all three are/used to be entries

2022-06-22 13:42

Lol cry cry

2022-06-21 22:43

3 replies

Why would i cry, liquid need more players if they want to succeed

2022-06-21 22:47

us flag faze fan can you make it less obvious next time

2022-06-22 10:08

1 reply

Fazeup!!!!

2022-06-22 13:07

Wasted reply

2022-06-21 22:45

2 replies

All Americans are crying, biased

2022-06-21 22:50

1 reply

All the Euro's are crying because Yekindar is playing for NA lol

2022-06-22 13:08

He's just a standin, not like he could sign with any team yet

2022-06-21 22:50

3 replies

They are actually in talks

2022-06-21 23:20

1 reply

Saw this later

2022-06-22 12:25

After they win Cologne he won't be a stand in!!

2022-06-22 03:31

interesting

2022-06-21 22:39

Nooo don't do that to yourself yeki

2022-06-21 22:39

63 replies

Huge salary easy life

2022-06-21 22:40

47 replies

But a wasted career in a dead team

2022-06-21 22:40

46 replies

dude's 22 and csgo contracts are so short

2022-06-21 22:42

12 replies

Does he really want to lock himself into a shithole right before his prime and after a very promising year?

2022-06-21 22:50

7 replies

Right now he needs to get out of a shitty situation, if any team is willing to buy him out, its a good opportunity. Rather play in TL then to not play at all

2022-06-22 00:34

2 replies

Exactly. If he continues to put up carry numbers despite losing then it does him no harm for putting himself in a shopping window, though he might lose motivation after a while if the team doesn't do any better

2022-06-22 00:47

1 reply

He did not win in VP either, and looking at jame pov saving every round is already depressing. He did not lose motivation now so he should be fine in TL. I hope he will bring NA back to glory.

2022-06-22 12:50

like s1mple locking himself with shit players for years until they finally build players around him, i think yekindar can do the same

2022-06-22 01:38

It's not like VP were that good of a team either lol this Liquid roster is better than VP

2022-06-22 17:08

2 replies

Ok, but was he anyone before he joined vp? He shouldn't stay at the same level, he should go to a better team

2022-06-22 17:49

1 reply

Liquid (including him instead of shox) are a better team though They have legit top 5 potential with him. Unless he joins Navi, Cloud9, or G2 this is his best option

2022-06-22 19:27

Hopefully for him he gets a short contract lol

2022-06-21 23:05

you dont know cs

2022-06-22 00:08

1 reply

you do

2022-06-22 02:07

He is good enough to fix that shit show, they still need a better awper though

2022-06-22 12:45

Its not dead team 2 top 20 rifler decent young awper decent igl

2022-06-21 22:43

20 replies

Elige needs to be motivated for them to go anywhere. Hopefully this gives them some motivation

2022-06-21 22:57

MOUZ not dead team 1 top 20 rifler amazing young awper decent igl

2022-06-21 23:03

6 replies

Mouz has no top 20 rifler, they don't have an amazing young awper (Neither Liquid does) and Mouz definitely don't have a decent igl Dexter is super crap.

2022-06-21 23:34

4 replies

2022-06-21 23:37

frozen was top 21 in 2021 and has been playing even better this year..?

2022-06-22 00:04

2022-06-22 00:20

2022-06-22 14:03

Calling dexter decent is untrue. Calls are meh, aim incredibly inconsistent. Same for frozen, yes he's good, but inconsistent af. Torzsi is the only good thing about this mouz lineup

2022-06-22 17:50

But that lineup didn't do them any wonders, did it?

2022-06-21 23:04

8 replies

Yes with shox being worst rated player on major

2022-06-21 23:10

7 replies

If somehow liquid pulls off some miracle run at Cologne then we'll see if liquid deserves yekindar. Until then I'll consider this a bad move for him

2022-06-21 23:13

6 replies

What do you think is his best option?

2022-06-21 23:33

5 replies

Any non-NA team, if I had to specify I'd say G2

2022-06-22 00:19

4 replies

G2's solution to any team problem is just "buy more expensive stars". It hasn't worked for years, so maybe they need to try something else

2022-06-22 07:19

3 replies

Works for faze 🤷🏻‍♂️

2022-06-22 10:52

2 replies

Worked before get destroyed by navi at blast. Faze and other team are lucky to what’s happened in Ukraine , coz navi would won 2 major in a row

2022-06-22 13:20

1 reply

+1 Faze had it easy for the first few months

2022-06-22 18:13

The team shouldnt be dead bc they have the pieces, but theres something so uninspiring watching them play :( Naf is sick and Elige is still great too but they just havent passed the eye test. Hopefully Yekindar can make waves in the team.

2022-06-21 23:39

2 replies

Naf and elige were both playing another role since they had to let shox lurk. It's hard to adapt in few weeks at pro level when you constantly have to play retake because shox cant win a single fight. With Yek replacing stewie as they should have gone first, they go back to their usual spot. I dont expect much in cologne because it will still be an adaptation for him and the team, but i woudlnt be surprise if they go in semis either.

2022-06-22 05:56

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Shox was also out of place with the positions he ended up in, i felt like he was someone that needed to be alive in the late round because thats where he did his best work on Vit, but on TL at the major for example it was like he was just walking out and feeding on CT and it was just bizarre. I think it was a total mutual mishap with him on the team where everyone involved just werent where they needed to be.

2022-06-22 06:09

Liquid would beat current entropiq any day of the week tho

2022-06-21 22:44

1 reply

Flag

2022-06-21 23:02

Bold comment coming from an Entropiq fan Lol

2022-06-21 22:44

9 replies

Flag

2022-06-21 23:02

8 replies

ok, doesn't change the validity of my statement. Try coming up with a real argument next time lol

2022-06-21 23:04

7 replies

Last time I checked you had no argument as well you just stated I'm a fan of Entropiq. Seems like your argument is similar to mine

2022-06-21 23:05

6 replies

You said Liquid was a dead team. I said Entropiq was more of a dead team. You said flag as if that invalidated my statement that Entropiq was worse. I really don't know what you could possibly be arguing in this position.

2022-06-21 23:09

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But how is that an argument? If you call that an argument, I'll counter your argument and say Entropiq is not more dead than Liquid and Liquid is worse than Entropiq. Let's see what argument you'll come u with now

2022-06-21 23:11

4 replies

The argument was simple. I said that Entropiq are more of a dead team than Liquid. How are you failing to comprehend this? All you need to do is look at world rankings and tournament placement in 2022.

2022-06-21 23:15

Dont bother responding. I dont care. This is stupid. Both teams suck

2022-06-21 23:16

1 reply

Liquid sucks I agree. Have a nice day

2022-06-21 23:27

Liquid would beat Anonymo and Heet, even if they suck. Building an argument that Liquid is better than Entropiq isn't difficult. Not here to argue, but that's a bad hill to die on.

2022-06-22 04:05

You believe NAF, Elige, Yekindar is a dead team? Plus a young awper in Osee. I call that firepower right there . All it takes is one player to elevate the rest, whether that happens here or not is a ? But will be fun to watch

2022-06-21 22:47

11 replies

Osee not t1 awp

2022-06-21 23:07

4 replies

oSee best AWPer in NA

2022-06-21 23:19

1 reply

So he is nova 4? ;D

2022-06-22 00:25

Osee is budget monsey! He just shuts down on important matches tho

2022-06-21 23:21

With Naf, Elige and Yekindar it could bring Osee to level up. Look how good every player in Faze looked at the last major. With the right players everyone on the team levels up.

2022-06-22 03:40

We shall see how they do if they sign him. People have been saying the same thing for m0nesy and G2 and it didn't solve their problems. Considering Liquid's recent results, I'm not in the wrong here for calling them a "dead team" am I?

2022-06-21 23:09

Elige has been shit tho. However if he can start playing they can start making some runs

2022-06-22 00:16

4 replies

Exactly like obviously he's not gonna drop 30 every game when his team is slumping

2022-06-22 00:25

His role was different, same as naf and its hard to win and get decent stats when you always have to play retake because shox cant win a single duel.

2022-06-22 05:58

2 replies

shox was the worst player at the major elige was the 5th worst as the star player of the current best NA team and hailed as one of if not the best north American rifler is not okey even if they went 0/3 in legend.

2022-06-22 09:52

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against top 10 teams 2022 he got 0.94 rating with the majority of his positive rating being from earlier in the year as his last 5 games vs top 10 has been 0.93 rating vs c9 0.43 vs c9 0.82 vs vitality 1.00 vs furia 0.64 vs heroic

2022-06-22 10:07

dude stand-in he isn't actually signed to TL not as of now anyway

2022-06-22 07:06

ENTROPIQ FAN AHAHAHAHAHAHA

2022-06-22 15:23

1 reply

ROMANIAN CS AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2022-06-22 15:24

yooooooooo

2022-06-21 22:39

INSTANT TOP 5

2022-06-21 22:39

Glorious

2022-06-21 22:39

1 reply

So glorious!! Cannot wait to see them in action

2022-06-21 22:49

OMGOMGOMG

2022-06-21 22:39

nooooooooooooooooooo why no snax

2022-06-21 22:40

8 replies

xd yekindar >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>snax

2022-06-21 22:40

4 replies

XD yekindar 1.05 rating in big events 2022 Nt Snax would eat him

2022-06-21 22:58

3 replies

All entries have lower ratings. Even dupreeh who is probably GOAT entry has 1.04 on lan

2022-06-21 23:10

imagine watching 2022 stats when he was playing in a dead team which was clearly impacted by a war

2022-06-21 23:25

1 reply

And even that, 1.04 as a entry is the equivalent of 1.10 for a second entry. Even on an off day, yekindar is above* average entry fragger.

2022-06-21 23:30

true -nitr0 +snax igl

2022-06-21 22:40

Played with ence, he needs to wait 120 days to stand-in for another team, according to snappi

2022-06-21 22:41

1 reply

yea i heard of it but liquid could have given him a 10days contract xD

2022-06-21 22:46

Liquid actually title contenders now in this stand in meta of 2022

2022-06-21 22:40

6 replies

True, but sadly god bymas will destroy everyone

2022-06-21 22:42

4 replies

+69

2022-06-21 22:45

who?

2022-06-22 12:02

2 replies

Why u bully bymas?

2022-06-22 18:12

1 reply

sorry brother :(

2022-06-24 12:43

Definitely cannot deny their firepower. NA playing the meta for cologne is hilarious

2022-06-21 22:54

liquid top 3

2022-06-21 22:40

Massive SHOCK

2022-06-21 22:40

Oh shitttt

2022-06-21 22:40

lul it happened at the end of day

2022-06-21 22:40

ITs happening!

2022-06-21 22:40

""""""""""""Stand-in"""""""""""

2022-06-21 22:41

yekindar, i know your back will hurt badly after carrying liquid, drink some vitamins, electrolicts, and stay strong

2022-06-21 22:41

8 replies

2022-06-21 22:41

1 reply

-1 cry

2022-06-21 23:41

2022-06-21 22:42

Electronics 😂

2022-06-21 22:43

1 reply

Electronics 😂

2022-06-21 22:43

If NAF or EliGE are on a good day, YEKINDAR will look like a tier 2 player next to them

2022-06-21 22:45

1 reply

NAF amd EliGE haven't had a good day in the past year or so then?

2022-06-22 07:09

Its not Liquid trying out Yekindar, its Yekindar trying out Liquid

2022-06-21 22:41

3 replies

Haha true. Liquid Players will give their best impression.

2022-06-21 23:06

not even a joke tho

2022-06-21 23:27

2022-06-22 04:01

EZ 4 LIQUID

2022-06-21 22:41

huge

2022-06-21 22:42

Don't do it!!!

2022-06-21 22:42

EZ 4 NA AND LATVIA CS

2022-06-21 22:42

Bruh

2022-06-21 22:42

Great that Liquid got a competent replacement at the last moment and even great is that he can be their future permanent member! Good choice for the team, Elige can have someone to bait and inflate his states again. NAF back to lurking, Yekindar makes bank.. Liquid becomes top 10. Everyone wins here

2022-06-21 22:42

2 replies

except for yekindar in 2 years when his back breaks lol cerq

2022-06-22 01:03

1 reply

As much as I like Cerq, he has been the biggest burden on the current EG squad for a year or 2 now and though he was a Top 10 awper 2 years ago, he also had Brehze and Ethan doing good work around him and EG never relieved on his sole carry to win.

2022-06-22 08:25

year of stand ins

2022-06-21 22:42

Now it's an interesting team

2022-06-21 22:42

ahahah lets go

2022-06-21 22:42

dont sign with Liquid or rip career

2022-06-21 22:42

1 reply

Too late He will do

2022-06-21 22:48

I hope this works out!!

2022-06-21 22:43

yekindar hate incoming

2022-06-21 22:44

RIP his career, bitch boy elige gonna do his thing as usual

2022-06-21 22:45

1 reply

2022-06-22 17:17

inb4 Liquid flukes a decent run next tournament and then everyone crying about +yekindar

2022-06-21 22:45

Fingers crossed Outsiders will make through play-in stage and meet Liquid in group stage, will be banger

2022-06-21 22:45

great addition

2022-06-21 22:45

excepted

2022-06-21 22:46

Now all the roles fit, it should be an instant improvement. Anything less than top 4-6 at cologne would be a disappointment.

2022-06-21 22:47

2 replies

trio yeki/naf/elige is good. Osee is okay-ish but nitro is meh tbh

2022-06-21 23:26

1 reply

True, three top 20 riflers should be enough to be top 5

2022-06-22 00:02

WASTED TALENT

2022-06-21 22:47

1 reply

Haters gonna hate waaaaaaaaah

2022-06-21 22:57

Still. BozyDAR > YEKINdar

2022-06-21 22:48

Hopefully just Cologne and then he joins an actual good team in EU.

2022-06-21 22:48

18 replies

More like a trial for both sides

2022-06-21 22:54

You need to get off NA's dick bro, you are obsessed lmao. Your best team is Bots in Panties.

2022-06-21 23:41

16 replies

Bots in Panties > any na team tho

2022-06-21 23:48

2 replies

Except current Liquid

2022-06-21 23:55

1 reply

Eeeeeeeeeh. Wait for results. Liquid have loads of ways to fuck this up.

2022-06-22 07:11

No i am not. But NA scene is legit GARBAGE. And its sad to see a solid player like Yekindar possibly end up on a dumpster fire team like Liquid. EG is even worse though, jesus. No wonder they signed 3000 players so they can money grab in the future, they dont care about the players lol. And you are clearly delusional at #188 lol. NIP won the only bo3 that they played vs Liquid 2022 and also the last match in 2021: hltv.org/matches/2354984/nip-vs-liquid-e.. and they beat them the last in the last match in 2021: hltv.org/matches/2353163/liquid-vs-nip-i..

2022-06-22 01:18

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"But NA scene is legit GARBAGE." They were on the brink of top 10 with 4v5 EU shox and 2-0'd Heroic and Astralis. Their roles were all fucked. Yekindar plugs in perfectly and isn't complete shit dropping 0.0001 ratings and taking roles from NAF. Pretty obvious you have no knowledge of CS and are just deranged to obsessed levels with NA (USA but you say NA) lmao.

2022-06-22 01:30

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NA have ONE team in top 30. So yes, NA scene is legit GARBAGE. The team you have in your flair literally gave up and starting up a money farming system by signing all the decent T2-T3 NA players. They care about the money, nothing else. Look at the rankings early 2022 and keep looking. Went from 2-3 teams to 1. And that 1 team should not even be in top 15 right now. I do have knowledge. But classic NA people saying "yOu dOnT hAvE aNy KnOwLeDgE" when people say that their scene is garbage, which it is.

2022-06-22 01:45

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Every scene but Europe is shit atm due to Covid isolation and being the biggest region (Asia has been dead). And most big EU countries like Germany, UK, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Romania, Netherlands, etc. are completely dead. You guys just ride the nuts of Denmark and CIS hard. Anyways point stands. Liquid > Bots in Panties

2022-06-22 01:56

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"And most big EU countries like Germany, UK, Spain, Belgium, Italy, Romania, Netherlands, etc. are completely dead." Well you are very wrong. Germany, Spain and UK got some decent teams actually. Not all of them are T1 obviously but their scenes are not dead. Spain literally got a team that is 3 spots behind Liquid as we speak lol. Other countries, such as Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, France got plenty of teams and/or players/talents as well. "You guys just ride the nuts of Denmark and CIS hard." bruh. Sweden: Multiple major wins. Legendary 87-0 lineup and more. I am not riding anything. You are so delusional it hurts. Liquid got destroyed at the major. NIP didnt. NIP is actually playing well WITHOUT their main AWPer which is the...2nd or 3rd best AWPer in the world. NIP literally beat Liquid not long ago lmao. Get help.

2022-06-22 02:08

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"Germany, Spain and UK got some decent teams actually." "BRO NA SCENE IS COMPLETELY DEAD" Hahaha. Thank you for proving me right. Go back to obsessing over NA to deranged levels. Every single post mentioning them you are crying. Cheers "mate" !

2022-06-22 02:11

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Proving you right? Wtf are you on about? German T2-T4 scene >>>>>>>>>>>>> NA T2-T4. Yes, NA scene is dead. Especially since your flair signed all of them just so they can money grab in the future which is disgusting. Have a look: hltv.org/ranking/teams/2022/june/20/coun.. top 10 teams in NA rankings is a JOKE. Majority of the teams would be tier 4 in EU.

2022-06-22 02:14

Literally 1 rez clutch away from losing that

2022-06-22 19:09

5 replies

So? Liquid is still garbage compared with the other top 15 teams.

2022-06-22 19:10

4 replies

and your supposed best team in sweden, ranked top 5 this year, nearly lost to them

2022-06-23 07:23

3 replies

And our best team is #8 in the world and didnt go 0-3.

2022-06-23 13:54

2 replies

congrats, you play in EU and had a better major than a team that practices almost solely in NA and played 3 top 9 teams in the world

2022-06-23 21:47

1 reply

Its not EU:s fault that NA teams choose to stay in a dead scene.

2022-06-23 21:49

s1mple 2.0

2022-06-21 22:50

Expected

2022-06-21 22:52

LFG

2022-06-21 22:53

Liquid will make playoffs atleast

2022-06-21 22:54

Now let's see if lulquid can perform or will it be the same old story of getting out in the semis.

2022-06-21 22:54

Fuck it. Cant everyone just start using random standins in every tournament? It the new meta afterall?

2022-06-21 22:55

1 reply

Cant counterstrat

2022-06-22 19:10

wasting his talent in that trash org, jesus christ....

2022-06-21 22:55

6 replies

GOAT played in that ''trash org'' aswell

2022-06-21 23:27

1 reply

And he won jack shit as well.

2022-06-22 07:13

How is Liquid a trash org? They respect and treat their players properly unlike EU orgs like Astralis? Lmao

2022-06-21 23:40

1 reply

Exactly, it’s much better than joining Astralis or Fnatics management, my god talk about career ending

2022-06-22 13:12

0/8

2022-06-22 02:06

LOL the euro’s are so mad

2022-06-22 13:11

cool!

2022-06-21 22:56

geez, what is with stand-ins this year....

2022-06-21 22:59

wasted

2022-06-21 23:00

1 reply

flag

2022-06-21 23:39

expected af

2022-06-21 23:01

Oh no...

2022-06-21 23:01

Good 4 TL... But Yeki do nota deserve this downgrade

2022-06-21 23:02

LETS FCKNG GO !!!

2022-06-21 23:02

It is a stand in. And honestly yekindar can sign a 6 month / 1 year contract. Nobody want to pay from him and he can compete to against t1. Also, ppl tend to forget Twistz, sinple and fallen played for liquid. They doesn't look dead after that "awful experience".

2022-06-21 23:03

2 replies

fallen looks dead tho

2022-06-21 23:50

1 reply

Not at the major. The last dance was an one hit wonder. They cannot keep the motivation and momentum with that kind of line up. They still did above the expectations.

2022-06-22 00:18

Liquid actually used brain and went with the stand in meta

2022-06-21 23:03

Why

2022-06-21 23:04

2 replies

you expect him to sit on bench and not take atleast stand in opportunity?

2022-06-21 23:27

1 reply

A reasonable Latvian. Honestly, ppl say jks need that team, don't deserve that team. He had been benched for almost 1 year and the change of a return s getting slim. A good player bounce back from awful experience and it is a stand in situation, no worry for now.

2022-06-22 00:22

Lol

2022-06-21 23:09

stand in = play good So liquid is winning cologne huh

2022-06-21 23:11

expected

2022-06-21 23:11

liquid will iem cologne now

2022-06-21 23:11

This is gonna be really exciting!

2022-06-21 23:14

Very exciting, can't wait to see what he brings to the table!

2022-06-21 23:14

LETWS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2022-06-21 23:14

Rip career

2022-06-21 23:15

1 reply

Honestly I cannot be worse than styko's career.

2022-06-21 23:25

RIP

2022-06-21 23:15

RIP EU CS...

2022-06-21 23:17

Getting high on HOPIUM

2022-06-21 23:20

YESSSSSSSSSSSS

2022-06-21 23:22

Nooooooooo his career

2022-06-21 23:23

8 replies

The guy is 22 and will sign 1 year contract at best. Navi, g2 or vitality can buy from liquid instead of vp.

2022-06-21 23:26

1 reply

True, but still I would have loved for him to be in another team

2022-06-22 04:50

WDYM his career? Everyone who leaves Liquid has amazing opportunities. Stew with EG, Grim with Col, Twistzz with FaZe, etc. Only Bot fallen in Botperial has bad luck since he's bad. Reported

2022-06-21 23:39

5 replies

Even if you dont like fallen, fallen had a good opportunity and did pretty well with Imperial.

2022-06-21 23:50

1 reply

+1 WTF is wrong with that guy

2022-06-22 04:51

>Everyone who leaves Liquid has amazing opportunities. >Stew with EG, Grim with Col Kkkkkk

2022-06-22 07:15

2 replies

Are they not getting paid 6 figs? Them being dogshit is on them. dumb

2022-06-22 07:58

1 reply

fair

2022-06-22 17:44

nice

2022-06-21 23:23

Omg

2022-06-21 23:25

LET'S GO!!! Good luck to YEKINDAR and TL!

2022-06-21 23:27

EZ Clap

2022-06-21 23:27

i guess this is a trial... lets see how it works :O

2022-06-21 23:29

Now take decent igl and liquid are ok

2022-06-21 23:33

oh no

2022-06-21 23:36

Now just -oSee +degster -junior +oSee let's go!

2022-06-21 23:36

career ruined

2022-06-21 23:36

4 replies

Joining a 4v5 team with two top 10 riflers on the brink of top 10 even with washed Shox, as well as having perfect roles, = career ruined? kkkkk

2022-06-21 23:38

How? Elige and NAF are good osee upcoming talent nitr0 somewhat decent.

2022-06-22 00:08

2 replies

Bro, if they where "good" Liquid was able to compete atleast, but they can't even stay competitive

2022-06-22 02:40

1 reply

Elige and naf were not even playing their usual roles. Its also very hard to win when you always have to retake sites because shox can't win a single 1v1.

2022-06-22 06:04

IM SO HAPPY))

2022-06-21 23:37

Weird lineup.

2022-06-21 23:38

SAVE YEKINDAR BEFORE COLOGNE

2022-06-21 23:50

welp looks like yekindar is committing career seppuku

2022-06-21 23:51

i believe

2022-06-21 23:54

givin a test drive before throwing away some time of his career for money. Wise decision, hes very young, has time to waste for $$

2022-06-21 23:56

rip career

2022-06-22 00:02

2 replies

True, he should've joined G2 for a Botsi B to ruin his career instead

2022-06-22 01:32

1 reply

2022-06-22 08:12

kick some ass yeki!

2022-06-22 00:04

looking forward to it

2022-06-22 00:07

FINALLY LIQUID BACK TO TOP3

2022-06-22 00:08

Not really surprised. Not many teams he can realistically sign with. Navi don't want to deal with VP, G2 decided to keep their current roster, etc.

2022-06-22 00:08

Still a group stage exit

2022-06-22 00:09

Sadge :(

2022-06-22 00:11

Nice

2022-06-22 00:11

This should be fun! I think g2 would have been a good fit however

2022-06-22 00:11

Yekindar from tier1 to tier3 team…

2022-06-22 00:12

8 replies

VP was way much worse without Yekindar in 2020, liquid > VP (withou yekindar) for sure

2022-06-22 05:01

7 replies

anyway vp was much better team then this liquid

2022-06-22 05:09

6 replies

most of events they played are mafia matches in 2020. Liquid top7, VP top20

2022-06-22 05:15

VP WAS much better because they had yekindar, no they are just another K23 or forze after losing yekindar. Do you think k23 is a better team comparing to liquid?

2022-06-22 05:21

4 replies

No way, VP even now much better then forze and k23, look at the EPL conference, 0 problems, all matches was so ez for them. while forze cant beat mouz nxt. about k23 i dont want to talk, they are garbage now. Liquid should rebuild roster, NAF, Elige +3

2022-06-22 05:35

3 replies

we will see in cologne, epl16 and rio major. We can see how ordinary this vp is.

2022-06-22 05:38

2 replies

now we can see, vp >>>>>>> forze

2022-06-23 16:15

1 reply

vp lost bro, and this is just a matchfix cup, just look how furia throws as usual. We can see in cologne

2022-06-24 08:51

please just for stand in, don't ruin your career

2022-06-22 00:13

1 reply

This = saves his career. he hated jame

2022-06-22 01:32

rip yekindar

2022-06-22 00:16

Huge dub for NA CS

2022-06-22 00:17

Well, if I was Liquid, I would sign him ASAP. If I was YEKINDAR, I would ask myself the question if I seriously want to commit to a NA team.

2022-06-22 00:18

Please just be a stand-in to farm money and media. Don't throw your career away

2022-06-22 00:19

4 replies

Says Botperial losing to rank 50 and rank 100 teams lmao Stay salty that bot Fallen was kicked

2022-06-22 01:31

3 replies

EG fans talking kekw Your team is worst team NA scene ever had lol

2022-06-22 02:42

Like a EG fan can talk abou something. Also Liquid 0-3 in Legends stage, with Fallen they won at least one match. OMEGALUL

2022-06-22 13:29

1 reply

0-2 to rank 100 teams Botperial moment

2022-06-22 18:34

from VP to NA jesus lol

2022-06-22 00:20

If only FalleN was here as well

2022-06-22 00:20

Stand in.. smh why are they giving me hopes :(

2022-06-22 00:33

best for both parties, Yekindar can finally play again and Liquid has a huge stand-in

2022-06-22 00:34

pls let is be only a stand in otherwise RIP YEKINDAR D:

2022-06-22 00:38

1 reply

Blah blah braindead NA hate

2022-06-22 01:31

Niceee, see you back is always good yekiGOD

2022-06-22 00:48

GG rip career ahaha

2022-06-22 00:49

1 reply

Flag

2022-06-22 01:31

Here we go...

2022-06-22 00:52

liquid will make deep run because stand-in era

2022-06-22 01:13

Yes the plan is coming together

2022-06-22 01:14

THIS IS SUCH POG EZ 1ST PLACE FOR LIQUID

2022-06-22 01:31

Let's go!

2022-06-22 01:32

honestly they should -nitro +daps into the lineup itself. Let nitro coach or something instead. Also it sucks for Yekindar's career to go to liquid, but on the plus side he should be able to make good money with them even if they don't find success lol.

2022-06-22 01:36

we love yekindar!

2022-06-22 01:41

-osee + degster liqiud top 5

2022-06-22 01:58

3 replies

-nitro +Boom

2022-06-22 07:44

2 replies

nooo boom is cocain addicted

2022-06-22 08:10

1 reply

He still performs better than Nitro.

2022-06-22 09:41

Let's gooo just sign him after cologne

2022-06-22 02:05

pog

2022-06-22 02:12

Liquid should disband and create an EU roster around YEKI as one of the core players. I mean, buy someone like REZ or Brollan and your lineup is already better than this washed up NA mix. NiP and swedish scene are dead anyway. 1. YEKINDAR 2. REZ/refrezh/Bubzkji 3. degster 4. tabseN/Lekr0 5. b0RUP just a random example of a much better team.

2022-06-22 02:34

8 replies

B0rup ahah nice troll

2022-06-22 02:42

3 replies

? whats wrong with him? an exprienced young dane who plays supp role and got great aim and stats. he is easily the best supp available right now, literally for free.

2022-06-22 03:41

2 replies

Bro support role doesn't exist in cs, it just an excuse for bad players tho

2022-06-22 03:47

1 reply

xd. it does exist. and b0rup is def not the one who has bad stats or aim.

2022-06-22 03:47

HooXi Zyphon zabbi YEKINDAR IDISBALANCE

2022-06-22 03:08

2 replies

not bad. but imo CPH should stick with full-danish lineup.

2022-06-22 03:48

1 reply

nwm heroic just signed jabbi :/

2022-06-22 03:48

You want them to become as shit as Bots in Panties? nt swede

2022-06-22 04:10

why no degster?

2022-06-22 02:30

Have fun playing with elige!!

2022-06-22 02:31

Expected

2022-06-22 02:34

This year will be the year of stand-in meta xd

2022-06-22 02:44

Good luck Yeki, Liquid too. Have some success at the sunset of this season

2022-06-22 02:46

This is definetly some upgrade, SHOX play very defensively where Yekindar is very aggressive player, getting many many openinig kills. Good stuff and looking forward to see him play in Liquid. - Play Machine " Kuang ge" yyds

2022-06-22 02:57

1 reply

Shox defensively? I've never seen someone die so often in vertigo at B stairs. Even when he play defensively, he cant even win half of his 1v1. Liquid was always playing retake.

2022-06-22 06:07

Now -nitr0 +stew

2022-06-22 03:30

3 replies

??? Can someone explain me that stewie2kills jerk off among NA fans? He is literally the worst pro player who has played t1 cs alongside taco

2022-06-22 09:18

2 replies

Taco plays bot positions and support! Stew entries and makes space but unlike taco he is somewhat toxic and egoistic but still both are better than niko in manners and achievements!

2022-06-22 13:01

I dont know. Liquid's end was catastrophic with him, he even admitted that he is not a good igl and he is on horrible form rn. You add the Malek and evy drama over that. I dont know why ppl want stewie in this team. It is beyond my understanding.

2022-06-22 13:59

3 entries in the same team?

2022-06-22 03:30

yekindar will carry liquid like what s1mple used to do

2022-06-22 03:50

NAF Elige Yekindar Degster Boombl4/jks/Snax We’re not asking a lot, Liquid can become 2nd NaVi with such line-up.

2022-06-22 03:54

3 replies

Nah degster wont be moving to na that easily since he established himself in eu against tough opponents!

2022-06-22 12:59

2 replies

Liquid’s base camp is in the Netherlands, mate.

2022-06-22 14:22

1 reply

Did they announce that they are gonna practice there next season?

2022-06-22 19:07

Liquid's new carry

2022-06-22 04:15

NA copium at an all time high

2022-06-22 04:50

-oSee +degster and we might see a tier 1 event contender.

2022-06-22 04:55

Big W

2022-06-22 05:24

WTF

2022-06-22 05:31

Either liquid have a miracle run or they bomb out either way Yekindar is not gonne be in liquid for more than 1 year or even 6 months

2022-06-22 07:04

-osee +degster asap

2022-06-22 07:08

1 reply

They would be very dangerous then

2022-06-23 12:13

Ahh, the sweet money from useless team.

2022-06-22 07:37

-Nitro +boom and liquid might actually win something now.

2022-06-22 07:41

YEKINDAR_LEFT_VP_FOR_THIS

2022-06-22 08:01

easy

2022-06-22 08:21

Faze up! Liquid dont need stew, he is toxic and too much brags how he is better then others. Stew need change ego.

2022-06-22 09:06

1 reply

Agree on last point but stop hurting us!

2022-06-22 12:57

Called it Excited to see what they can do

2022-06-22 09:19

gl Mareks!

2022-06-22 09:24

will be liquids gamechanger !

2022-06-22 09:31

Give me Snax

2022-06-22 09:46

If they find roles to fit them all they could be a challenge

2022-06-22 11:47

Next jks inc

2022-06-22 12:16

Deserved for Yekindar ))) have fun

2022-06-22 12:18

rip carrer, better to stay in vp

2022-06-22 12:22

Feels bad man

2022-06-22 12:52

team with standin wins the tournament, ez 4 yekindar

2022-06-22 13:08

jks over nitr0 and i think this team can be decent

2022-06-22 13:10

bad move lmao

2022-06-22 13:40

yekindar career ruined

2022-06-22 13:42

they should really just sign him permanently

2022-06-22 14:40

What a waste of european talent for literally a sinking ship in liquid

2022-06-22 15:17

2 replies

They have good players though, they 2 stars, 1 super talent and an IGL who they all respect and love. Their potential is not missing. Its definitely not as bad as people claim. But people are rarely honest these days, as they often exaggerating a lot using way too many extremes. Idiocracy movie predicted this years ago.

2022-06-22 16:15

Liquid is the ONLY org that might create NA majority team that will compete in top 10 Botexity? 0 chance EG? 0 chance C9 not NA

2022-06-22 16:18

Oh noooooooo, lulquit is mass grave.

2022-06-22 16:12

So many nwgative posts, and I don't see a single realistic one amongst then. All being extreme. Get some true absolute self esteem instead of this fake relative self esteem. Then you won't need to mock others to feel good.

2022-06-22 16:20