MAJ3R returns to CS:GO with Eternal Fire

8-7-2022 20:51

The veteran in-game leader has left his brief time in Valorant behind to join up with his country's top Counter-Strike team.

Engin "⁠MAJ3R⁠" Küpeli has been announced as Eternal Fire's new fifth. The Turkish team was down to just four players following the recent departure of Buğra "⁠Calyx⁠" Arkın, who left the team as a free agent after nearly a year with the team.

Calyx exits Eternal Fire

Eternal Fire initally struggled to find their footing after the team was founded in August 2021, but eventually broke through to qualify for the PGL Major in Antwerp and now sit in 22nd place in the world ranking with the hopes that the addition of a pure in-game leader will give the team a boost.

MAJ3R will bring his know-how and experience to Eternal Fire

This signing marks the end of MAJ3R's venture into Valorant, which he moved to with the core of his last CS:GO team, Sangal, in search of greener pastures, but a barren landscape devoid of events ended up with the 31-year-old once again back in his country's top CS:GO outfit.

Much has changed from the Space Soldiers and Sangal days, but the incoming in-game leader is not a complete stranger to the team he's joining, having played with both Ömer "⁠imoRR⁠" Karataş and Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş during his Space Soldiers days.

"Everyone know the story we did one time. But we never succeeded to do the same again," MAJ3R wrote in his statement.

"After sangal adventure I wanted to try a career in valorant, but I realise that the sistem of riot is completly different that cs. We pracced 6 months to only show it in one competition (vlr) I find the competition sistem so weak and I missed csgo so much in this time. With my full heart I took a decision to come back where I belong to my first love."

Eternal Fire came in top 4 at ESL Pro League Season 16 Conference and will thus be in the upcoming group stage, which kicks off on August 31, right after the player break.

Eternal Fire are now:

Engin "⁠MAJ3R⁠" Küpeli
Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş
Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker
Ömer "⁠imoRR⁠" Karataş
Yasin "⁠xfl0ud⁠" Koç

Timur "⁠bishop⁠" Şengül (coach)

FINALLY AGAIN TIER 1 TURKISH CS BACK

2022-07-08 20:52

4 replies

31yo kk

2022-07-08 21:34

"sistem" Ok

2022-07-08 21:49

CAP

2022-07-09 00:17

Maj3r is older than a big part of Tier1 coaches also, wtf is this nick, worse of the site

2022-07-10 23:32

Lets go boyzzz focuss. If we win pistol round they will eat banana. Best igl ever. Maj3r > karrigan

2022-07-08 20:54

stop the cap pls

2022-07-08 23:14

2 replies

hahahahaha cry more bec its stil best igl in the world

2022-07-09 21:52

1 reply

hahahahahaha lets see tier 0 play from EF

2022-07-11 11:22

lol maj0r> carrygun ......... u r dumb

2022-07-13 11:09

nice

lol

2022-07-08 20:53

nicee

Literally a nobody in valorant running back to csgo KEKW

7 replies

Literally one of the most storied Turkish/french player from 1.6 running back to CSGO..

2022-07-08 21:13

6 replies

he made it sound like some nonamer trying his shot in cs lmao

2022-07-08 23:33

he's prob a newbie in the CS scene.

2022-07-09 00:52

that doesnt change the fact he was a no namer in valorant

2022-07-09 07:53

3 replies

And ? Greatest Valorant players are failures in CS

2022-07-09 11:14

true dat xDd

2022-07-09 14:54

cs >>> valulrant

2022-07-10 08:14

wow

Hell yeah, I was hoping this would happen.

He's a GREAT IGL!! EF will be so much better in 2 months, after they get used to his style.

dude where is paz bring him in as well

14 replies

Which players out ?

2022-07-08 21:02

13 replies

imoRR or xfloud for sure

2022-07-08 22:20

for sure imor if u have xantares u dont need imor

2022-07-08 22:38

11 replies

xantares not comfortable with entrying, entry role is literally wasting his talents.

2022-07-08 23:03

10 replies

imor is not a tier1 player and not will be but xfloud have that potential and paz more consistent than imor,every round imor playing a gamble if he wins the gamble ef wins the round if he loses everything falls apart. probably frustrating to play with him

2022-07-08 23:15

9 replies

he will play better with maj3r don't worry

2022-07-08 23:17

I believe so too, paz is outdated. We also need to invest on young blood. Imor and xfloud have to stay no matter what to keep sustainability. Maj3r too is outdated and probably he will go 8-18 most of the maps but we dont need him to frag. He just needs to lead the team.

2022-07-09 07:29

ofc, this team has a lot of firepower more than many current t1 teams, he will fragging though, he is modern igl. at one point we will see +soulfly and this will be more young team and we will watch the team atleast 6-7 years at top tiers.

2022-07-09 11:58

he averaged 1.15- 1.20 ratings under MAJ3R though. We need to see first

2022-07-08 23:35

they were playing against tier3 teams. I don't think imoRRR will perform as much as he did in Sangal. -xfl0ud is dumbest thing ever. typical turkish logic. his role on the team is the hardest one and he is good at clutching. If one more change needs to be done, then it should be -imorr +paz

2022-07-09 00:16

I would prefer if Calyx fix his mental problems and comes back instead of paz

2022-07-09 00:35

I agree with you but don't generalize all turks with fankids, I don't think -imorr +paz would work, imorr and xfloud doing dirty roles, paz always plays baiters/rifler roles you don't need paz when you have xantares and woxic, imorr opening many rounds with his crazy entry skills, you wouldn't want to defend against imorr, bcuz he can do unexpected things and it keeps defenders obsessed and it creates great spaces to the team, if the style couldn't work karrigan wouldn't win major.

2022-07-09 12:07

Your thoughts are true for me too but i wanna see how he will play with majer. Also imorr was better than paz in sangal so i think he will be better.

2022-07-09 01:13

agreed

2022-07-11 00:34

Expected. No more change needed. No paz please.

2022-07-08 23:05

COME TO BESIKTAS. Also, expected.

Washed up, EF is ranked #22 rn, let's see how they will do W 31 yrs old igl

17 replies

Top12 guaranteed

2022-07-08 20:56

karrigan 32 yo major winner?

2022-07-08 21:00

8 replies

you gonna compare maj3r with karrigan lol? And maj3r played his last year in sangal or some shit, literal tier 3, also you kicked 1.10 rating riffler for him so i dont know how you compensate for firepower

2022-07-08 21:06

+1 delusional af fans, this could have been good without calyx leaving, now its just way worse

2022-07-08 21:18

they didn't kick him , he decided to left . Calyx is a good rifler and support for sure but i think there were some problems with him and team members so he decided to leave after that . Also team fully speaks turkish so there is no better turkish igl in scene than Maj3r at the moment . Also if you look at the ratings of igl's , almost all of them has 0.9 rating or something so 0.8 is okayish ( Aleksib , karrigan , snappi , dexter , stewie , apex had 0.9 or something in last years ) Edit : Comparing him with karrigan is huge mistake for sure , karrigan is a legend with many trophies and achievements . I hope Maj3r get his own , still i believe this change will be good in long term for EF . Imorr is a good rifler , never been an igl before so he can focus on his talent while maj3r is here

2022-07-08 22:00

Good points

2022-07-08 22:05

By his tweetlonger it sounded like that, not exactly a kick but more like "well uh, can you go away for an igl" type of leave

2022-07-08 22:06

That's the mistake they did when they created this squad . None of them was true igl but yet they decided to give it a go , i can't say that they failed but they were not so succesful too . Many teams do that changes in order to be more succesful , look what fallen and stewie did to ppl in history . It's not a suprise or anything for me When you got 2 same type players in your squad ofc at some point you have to make that decision ( Xfloud and Calyx ) . Also Calyx known as shaky mood player which had issues mentally , couldn't focus on his cs go career many times. On the other hand , Xfloud looks very promising as support player and b anchor .

2022-07-08 22:12

2022-07-09 12:09

out of topic is possible

karrigan won a major 32 FalleN still competitive 31 and an "born to be IGL " better than 2nd caller turning into IGLing

2022-07-08 21:08

5 replies

Imperial are on a 10 game losing streak

2022-07-08 21:19

and the average bulgarian skipping the first and third lines and focus on " Imperial " your name explain much about you

2022-07-08 21:25

Your example was shit, no need to go flag hunting, also Albania of all countries jesus

2022-07-08 21:26

this all dialogue is so @cursed_balkan_comments

2022-07-08 23:38

lmao

2022-07-08 23:41

he was fragging before valo transition and his igling skills great beside his fragging capable.

2022-07-08 23:06

POG!

2022-07-08 20:55

Feel like majority of Val pros would come back to CS If they were offered contracts imo

have you played valorant that game sucks

2022-07-08 21:33

imagine having globe smokes

2022-07-08 23:39

Of course. It was fun when it came out but overtime it got boring and the community of the game makes it worse. So many degens. I just hate how dumb downed the game is.

2022-07-09 20:29

calyx was much better, but at least they now have an IGL, but it would be better if he came instead of imoRR

Bro I don't think it so, cuz calyx and imorr different types of players. Everyone saying imorr would be better but imorr's play style is so agressive compared to calyx.I think ef needs imorr and his plays because non of them can do these kind of fast plays except imorr, yes he can throw sometimes but also can bring the rounds. Again, I'm saying its my opinion but I wanted to say it. I agree calyx better then imorr but not for this team.

2022-07-08 22:54

Bad for EF but ok. Who cars.

Paz is loading soon too.

Lets go j3r

2022-07-08 20:57

Lets goo tier 1

Lesgo

Let's Gooo EF!!! 🔥🔥🔥

2022-07-08 20:58

please bring paz as well. please.

+111

2022-07-08 21:11

Pog

What a dumb move lmao

young talent

nice but they wont be better

2022-07-08 20:59

Start your engins

#forEF as a maj3rfanpage xD

Lets gooo

2022-07-08 21:03

#ForEF

spacesoldier 2.0

2022-07-08 21:04

Best of luck to them.

2022-07-08 21:05

LET'S GOOO! #forEF

MAJ3R = MAJOR TRUST ME

2022-07-08 21:09

paz will back

2022-07-08 21:10

Welcome back kaptan!

Oh wow they actually did it

Good luck Turkey, this gonna be gUd

*Türkiye

T U R K E Y

2022-07-08 21:21

Turkiye amk

2022-07-09 12:10

yok Türkiye

2022-07-09 13:29

Ü doesnt exist international language amk

2022-07-09 18:58

who cars

2022-07-09 19:50

You bro haha dumb turkey

2022-07-10 19:29

xf0ud will leave the team and paz will come

2022-07-08 21:14

SpaceSoldiers Last Dance.

2022-07-08 21:15

so cringe

paz denies EF's offer to not sell his friends, but maj3r aka 0.80 rating bot takes the first offer he got. Lost all respect

If you wanna play with your friends you can do it without being professional. I love paz but I really don't understand the way he think, he ruined his career. Such a wasted talent.

2022-07-09 01:21

Last part of pazzle is PAZZ

2022-07-08 21:23

Sorry for triggering you when I asked who he is. He seems to have achieved a lot.

Nice. Welcome maj3r.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

İts fucking Poggers man

2022-07-08 21:28

at least the instability in the team will decrease

2022-07-08 21:29

Hmmm wrong move.

LET’S GOOOOO MAAAN. He’s probably washed but still nice to see him back.

turkish last dance

GL J3R

best of luck boys. Sad to see calyx go but i hope majer can bring the brains needed.

2022-07-08 21:37

paz next pls

+CALYX - XFLOUD

2022-07-08 21:42

2022-07-08 21:52

31 yo talent

2022-07-08 21:55

who

Sistem

2022-07-08 21:58

What a shitty move. Turks are not surprising us, again they are destroying a good team. Washed player who can not even play decent valorant now come to be an IGL in where he can't do.

2022-07-08 21:59

An actual IGL joining a team with no IGL is a "shitty move" according to you ? Well you should not be taken seriously if you really mean that

2022-07-08 23:46

2022-07-08 22:02

Washed pilayer

2022-07-08 22:08

nice to hear it, i liked him in space soldiers, good team and good memories

2022-07-08 22:09

31 years old young talent

2022-07-08 22:19

finally

2022-07-08 22:26

Now -imoRR +paz and that's a potential Major qualifying full Turkish team.

2022-07-08 22:45

wow xD pretty surprising, I remember him from the Millennium days in 1.6

2022-07-08 22:46

poggers kapitano

2022-07-08 22:51

we dont want these washed noobs coming back

niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

2022-07-08 22:52

Space soldiers memories starting to come back We needed an igl, maj3r is the best turkish replacement. Lets see how it goes

2022-07-08 22:55

Herkes gün olur evine geri döner Kaptan :)

2022-07-08 23:10

Lets gooooo

2022-07-08 23:18

2022-07-08 23:23

Aftter 1week. Wakup hlshittv.

2022-07-08 23:25

but today offical

2022-07-08 23:26

2022-07-08 23:29

LETSGO BOYS HADİ SİKELİM ONLARII FOKUSS

2022-07-08 23:40

hmm. lets see if this works

Is this going to work? Let's see, gl

2022-07-08 23:43

disband in 2 months?

2022-07-08 23:53

why in the world is this being reported on when BIG Academy just won the Y-Games Pro Series 2022??

2022-07-09 00:42

Who cares about academy matches? They won 15k so what? So many people want to see ef playing, interesting matchups and great potential

2022-07-09 02:30

"Who cares about academy matches?" being 3-17 in the academy league, i suppose EF shares that sentiment XD

2022-07-09 03:17

Why ef would care lol they are not even their academy team. They are there to just play official matches. Otherwise before the academy league they were in another team (not ef academy)

2022-07-09 07:25

they need to clone Xantares x4 to make the team work and Erdogans technology is not quite there yet. We need to extradite Gülen so this becomes a possiblility 🙏🙏🙏 please Mr. JoeBiden you know what to do

2022-07-09 01:02

Nice kafa

2022-07-09 05:48

Now everyone will know what happens if EF win the pistol round :) I was frustrated when they send calyx away. I hope this will fix most of the issues with them. GL EF

2022-07-09 01:12

isn't he french

2022-07-09 03:48

as far as I know he was born in France but he's Turkish

2022-07-09 09:32

VAL LUL RANT trash game confirmed

2022-07-09 04:00

young and upcoming player

2022-07-09 04:38

This can go both ways. Maj3r is not the best turkish igl but he is like the only one. Hope he can contribute

2022-07-09 05:47

😂 bruh if he is the only one that makes him the best one logically

2022-07-09 06:11

I thought i said something really smart. Why you make me realize its actually dumb 😖

2022-07-10 16:02

cuz bros are for correcting each other ;)

2022-07-11 20:39

İyi bayramlar herkese

2022-07-09 06:31

Thanks bro happy and blessed kurban feast to all muslim nation

2022-07-09 06:32

Animal slaughter mubarak

2022-07-09 11:38

You have totally missed the point brother… it was all about sacrificing your soul and self for the Creator, for the Master of all beings… it was about seeing how animals are made obedient servants to us so that we may reflect upon it and become conscious of the fact that we, the slaves of Allah, become as such. It was about observing and pondering how difficult it is for self to be forsaken. Still, I pray that He guides you to the Straight Path(Islam). With love and mercy 🤍

2022-07-09 18:24

No, thanks. I'd rather drink bleach.

2022-07-10 10:17

Sure, you have free will and it is up to you to choose path.

2022-07-10 13:34

Space soldiers

2022-07-09 07:20

GOAT HAS COME BACK

2022-07-09 08:01

This team now has an actual IGL, an awper, a braindead entry who can be cracked on his days and good support element. Xantares has got the best pieces he could get for the Turkish super team now. Only problem is Majer being out of scene for long so who knows how long it takes him to adapt again.

2022-07-09 09:13

lets gooo turkish scene to dominate csgo on source 2 soon

2022-07-09 09:57

great potential

2022-07-09 10:04

It was supposed to happen, but that will affect their firepower. Together we will see the consequences of this decision. Even though I think this decision is wrong, I wish you success.

2022-07-09 10:51

he came instead of calyx so it doesn't matter, he is modern fragger igl, he will add more firepower than calyx believe me. Calyx was talented but never been close to his potential.

2022-07-09 13:10

I totally disagree with you. It would be foolish to compare the firepower of a player who has moved from Valorant to CS versus a player who plays top tier CS.

2022-07-10 07:14

do you think EF don't have enough firepower without calyx? do you know calyx's stats? was he contributing to firepower? 0.98 rating and 0.85 impact rating in 2022 even when he was baiting his teammates..

2022-07-10 15:02

I don't think you have enough ideas about the game, my friend.

2022-07-11 22:05

MAJ3R igl now?

2022-07-09 12:02

yes

2022-07-10 10:35

naice

2022-07-10 18:33

unironically liked their twitter

2022-07-09 12:28

expected af

2022-07-09 13:08

TURKISH KARRIGAN

2022-07-09 13:11

Welcome Maj3r its a Dream True. GL

2022-07-09 13:24

I would have change xfl0ud more than Calyx

2022-07-09 14:21

im sure thats how it was thought of because of the roles.

2022-07-09 18:41

So maj3r is igl and fragger, but woxic is actual igl. Calyx was fragger. Woxic will drop off igling?

2022-07-09 20:51

woxic is awper, he already dropped off the igling 3 months ago and imorr became igl. now imorr will be fragger and maj3r will get the igl role.

2022-07-11 00:24

hmmm ok, sounds nice for them

2022-07-11 13:36

yes, the turkish-french beast maj3r is back

2022-07-11 13:59

After a year of not meeting any expectations set in the first place, my take on this move, especially in the current meta of the professional cs go scene, EF cannot afford another player who makes less than 10 kills every game even if Maj3r performs at his peak in regards to IGLing. How this move will turn out heavily relies on how scorer Maj3r will be and I remember that the fragging was one of the main factors that led him to give Valorant a try. Wishing nothing but the best #forEF

2022-07-09 17:10

Should have just rebuilt the space soldiers team

2022-07-09 18:53

space soldiers did not have a dedicated awper that wouldnt make sense

2022-07-10 08:31

that's it

2022-07-09 21:50

+pazz and maj3r as coach would be better mb

2022-07-10 02:18

who will get the igl role then?

2022-07-11 00:28

They need an IGL you guys dont understand this...

2022-07-11 22:08

2022-07-10 08:25

who? new kebab cooker?

2022-07-10 13:44

according to your "who" you must play cs since last month.

2022-07-11 14:55

16 replies

ty frenchman for the necessary and sufficient reply <3

2022-07-11 20:45

idk if you troll or not. im old dude

2022-07-11 21:46

no man i am serious.. in fact your reply echoed inside my head :D

2022-07-11 22:56

hahah

2022-07-12 16:40

hmmm space soldiers hmm he hasnt won anything important apart from winning tier 3 tournaments prob he will just make ef worse than already it is maybe get young guy not a washed up bot who havent played the game since 2019

2022-07-12 17:56

boston major winner was c9 and they won against c9 in that* major... i am feelink ty

2022-07-12 18:18

Wow they won againts them??? Wow bro than they should have won the major dont u think? Lol turkish braiin Helo i want 1 kebab xxl with coca cola

2022-07-13 04:22

comparing space soldiers when turkey got absolutly no scene (so they did great job at this time) and now the current EF lineup.... i guess you dont know anything and just recap old results

2022-07-12 21:37