Spiidi departs Sprout after over four years

31-7-2022 15:08

The European roster will head into the new season without its most experienced player.

Timo "⁠Spiidi⁠" Richter is no longer a part of Sprout, the German organization announced on Twitter. He departs the squad as a free agent after more than four years and 1380 maps played, being the last remaining member of the original roster following the acquisition of Seed in 2017.

The departure of the 26-year-old is the first change that Sprout have seen in the off-season and the second in the last three months as the team replaced Max "⁠Marix⁠" Kugener with Laurențiu "⁠lauNX⁠" Țârlea in May.

Spiidi is no longer a part of Sprout

Spiidi spent the years between 2014 and 2017 bouncing between MOUZ and PENTA before the latter released its roster. The players were then acquired by Sprout and the German rifler remained a staple of the team for the next four and a half years.

During that time, Sprout claimed trophies from several regional events, both online and at LAN. In 2022, the team transitioned into a European roster and experienced a brief resurgence as they climbed up the ranks to No.19, just three spots shy of the organization's all-time peak.

"Today will be one of the most emotional goodbyes as we say farewell to Spiidi. A player that was part of our journey from the very start, and who became family to us here at Sprout," read Sprout's farewell statement.

The departing player made it clear that he intends to continue competing via a Twitlonger post. "I definitely want to continue as a player because I still love CS and I still love the grind and I especially still love the team game," Spiidi wrote. "I have a lot of experience to offer. I don’t want to just join a team to have a team, I want to believe in what I am doing and I will give everything for the team that it will work out."

The German organization is now one man short but is set to debut its new roster at ESL Challenger Series Season 42 Europe on August 16.

Sprout are now:

Laurențiu "⁠lauNX⁠" Țârlea
Fritz "⁠slaxz-⁠" Dietrich
Victor "⁠Staehr⁠" Staehr
Rasmus "⁠raalz⁠" Steensborg

Danny "⁠BERRY⁠" Krüger (coach)

thank you for your service

2022-07-31 15:08

9 replies

RIP spiidi what a legend :'( youtube.com/watch?v=zl7d1DDVjQ8

2022-07-31 15:36

2 replies

LOL

2022-07-31 18:18

so sad to see legend go, I don't think even I have had a 1-19 game ;(((

2022-08-01 13:51

Sad for sprout. i need a new team to support now. Hopefully spiidi reunites with denis again.

2022-07-31 17:38

+1 by far not the best player individually, but a legend of the German scene in his own right

2022-07-31 17:40

3 replies

2022-07-31 20:04

2022-08-01 07:58

2022-08-01 12:30

Spiidi_did_nothing_wrong

2022-08-01 00:32

Sad but is he gonna get offers from T1 teams?

2022-07-31 15:09

11 replies

no but maybe fnatic

8 replies

Don't think so. Someone said that they are gonna get a player that has already been in the team

2022-07-31 15:12

7 replies

whats t1 for you? top40?

2022-07-31 15:20

sprout are top 19 wtf you talkin about...

2022-08-01 09:45

1 reply

what does this have to do with my question?

2022-08-01 18:25

No. A player that was active prior to player break. Not that was actvie in fnatic before.

2022-07-31 15:42

Why would they exactly specify that?

2022-07-31 15:51

Ohhh thx for the info

2022-07-31 18:17

Might be refrezh. He twitted a smiley which roeJ responded to and a friend of mine told me fnatic did make an offer to him.

2022-08-01 08:25

G2 spiidi

2022-07-31 15:56

FaZe spiidi

2022-07-31 22:41

thx god this bot is out

4 replies

????????? DELUSIONAL?

Are you from Austria?

no Australia i missclicked

2022-07-31 16:20

Understandable

2022-07-31 18:55

Shame

expected

BİRDFROMSKY HERE

big confirmed?

2022-07-31 15:10

g2 spiidi as expected

-jackz -hooxi +GODfromsky +Speedy

Spiidi to G2 confirmed

THANK YOU TIMO

2022-07-31 15:11

unexpected

zyphon and birdfromsky?

Spiidi Gonzales :/

-raalz and slaxz +rebuild with 3 new players andu have a t1 team

Good joke.

2022-07-31 15:32

+kyxsan +CacaNito +h4rn omg its so good

2022-07-31 16:07

-slaxz yes -raalz? lmao

2022-07-31 16:13

Launx is going to ence if spinx leaves

2022-07-31 16:55

5 replies

u sure about that? good move for launx but not a good move for sprout though

2022-07-31 19:07

Sprout is going to build around Staehr & Zyphon. The reports are that they will go full danish.

2022-07-31 20:00

lol

2022-08-01 12:13

Sprout has always eagerly sold their strongest players, I doubt that they wouldn’t do it again

2022-08-01 12:35

you are correct

2022-08-01 13:20

+ kito??

2022-07-31 15:14

When syrson and kito left sprout, sprout had a livestream where the manager said that they would take back syrson everytime but they would take back kito under no circumstances

2022-08-01 09:46

That’s 2.5 years ago though

+fashr? wtf

2022-07-31 15:17

+birdfromsky lol

So what

Welcome to Valorant, Spiidi!

2022-07-31 15:19

+fashr

ZYPHON LESGO

no one cares about german bot

"fan of dickstacy"

2022-07-31 15:48

dickstacy goat “brazilian fan of serbian pug team”

2022-07-31 17:59

The most based guy ever

2022-07-31 18:26

why do you comment then

2022-07-31 18:22

i want to express how careless i am

2022-07-31 20:02

-raalz +fashr +birdfromsky top 10 team

2022-07-31 15:21

2022-07-31 15:23

+0.5 u gotta remove slaxz too hes bad

2022-07-31 16:44

+1 and add h4rn

2022-07-31 17:08

slaxz is going soon and launx is joining ENCE, full danish roster soon

Sprout declined 90k offer for Launx from ence so...

2022-07-31 16:09

Source?

2022-07-31 16:15

some romanian trollers

2022-07-31 18:43

his instagram story

2022-07-31 19:06

Ok,thanks for the info

2022-07-31 19:12

raalz next please

2022-07-31 15:22

Noo spiidi

sad :(

Last year he started playing better than almost his entire career, so it's kinda sad tbh.

2022-07-31 15:25

Good move for them GL to him

2022-07-31 15:26

Now -raalz +valde and +aleksib, that would be tier 1 potential with launx and staehr.

2022-07-31 15:27

No -raalz -slaxz +Birdfromsky +Fashr +Zyphon Ez

-zyphon +h4rn

2022-07-31 17:11

Damn, end of an era.

2022-07-31 15:29

extremely unexpected

Spiidi to ENCE

Damn, romanians really can t catch a break.

12 replies

This is the best thing that could of happened, spiidi was so bad

2022-07-31 15:39

6 replies

yeah, but still they are top 19.I hope they will get a good fit and not ruin everything.

2022-07-31 15:45

Only top 19 because they participate in many tournaments, No way they are 19th best team in the world tbh

This is not ATP rankings mate, doesn’t matter in how many tournaments they participate.

2022-07-31 17:00

It does. Even last place gives +points so obviously you get more points from participating in a lot of tournaments

2022-07-31 20:05

Sprout has 19 tournaments, while FaZe has 18. They are a top 20 team rn, it has nothing to do with the amount of tournaments they participate in.

2022-07-31 20:12

ah my bad u trolling i thought you were serious lol

2022-07-31 20:36

Launx is going to ence, Sprout is going full danish

2022-07-31 16:59

yeah i heard but it s hard to believe.

2022-07-31 22:07

why? he fits Spinx' roles and he's a really good young prospect.

2022-07-31 23:01

he is my fav romanian player but t1 is something else and spinx is their best player, ence finally has a good team and instead of investing money to get an actual proved top player they somehow go for lau? I mean yes he is one for the future but still, it just doesn t make thst much sense.If at least they would have got degster... now - spinx and hades still in the team it doesn t look thst good.

2022-08-01 00:25

They are not a big org, it's not like they want to lose Spinx, but it is a business after all.

2022-08-01 00:31

:( sad

lacked speed

2022-07-31 15:40

He is a fiendly guy. Wish him best of luck for the future.

2022-07-31 15:41

-raalz -slax +bird +fashr +refrezh

2022-07-31 15:50

1380 maps played, wow! gl in the future

2022-07-31 15:54

I feel it will be +shitfromsky but pls no

2022-07-31 15:55

+k1to or +birdfromsky?

2022-07-31 15:59

+FASHR please if raalz is going to CPH with bird then they also need igl? who will they get

2022-07-31 16:00

Will Birdfromsky join?

Doesn’t really make sense, Raalz is the IGL. Flames should pick up Birdfromsky and TMB, build something around them with Zyphon

2022-07-31 16:12

New Sprout: Birdfromsky FASHR Zyphon Staehr lauNX

2022-07-31 16:16

Birdfromsky is going to new CHPF with Regali , TMB , Raalz and B0rup

2022-07-31 16:39

So Aleksib instead of BFS should me good too

2022-07-31 16:58

New CPHF ... but instead of Buzz would be Raalz hltv.org/matches/2357309/4glory-vs-123mi..

2022-07-31 16:45

So they are going full danish after all. launx goes to Ence, I wonder where slaxz will end up.

2022-07-31 16:21

now -slaxz +iM +PANIX

2022-07-31 16:26

iM renewed with Gamerlegion just few days ago

respect

2022-07-31 16:32

Rip

2022-07-31 16:35

-raalz also

2022-07-31 16:36

Spiidi ence lets go

2022-07-31 16:49

Absolute legend and best support in Germany imo. All the best in the future, brother, hope to see you back in the server soon!

2022-07-31 16:57

Dude seemed like a good guy and all but this move was long overdue tbh. I know the word legend gets thrown around a lot but in what World is spiidi a legend?xD lol

2022-08-01 01:18

For me he is, he‘s by no means legendary in a grand CS sense, but I like him and he‘s a cool dude. A legend of German CS, but you‘re right, not really when you consider all of CS.

2022-08-01 17:34

I can't believe he's been on Sprout for longer than he was on Mouz Time is weird man, 2014-2017/18 in CS feels like it lasted twice as long as it did

Device, valde, niko, refresh, zyphone.... Don't know who is IGL :D

2022-07-31 17:10

Raalz can

2022-07-31 17:12

yeah was already the igl

2022-07-31 22:45

Sad departure of a legend, looking forward to see where he ends up

2022-07-31 17:15

Big should try and get Spidi as 6th man, he can take Tizian roles its almost 1to1 fit and maybe he will help with calling.

2022-07-31 17:17

kind of a downgrade in firepower

2022-07-31 18:16

Big lacks mid round calls and ballsy risks most, if they game plan is not working they almost never adjust. Thats something for Spidi to help with. Might be better for them after all even with him not hitting hs well enough.

2022-07-31 19:35

They already have 2 IGL, dont think thats the problem.

2022-08-01 01:37

Damn, to me Spiidi WAS Sprout, wild to see him leave

2022-07-31 17:37

Thank you Spiidi <3

2022-07-31 17:39

mens( this is so sad

2022-07-31 17:42

2022-07-31 18:04

When I was new to CSGO in 2015 I would play with a friend I'm no longer in contact with and he would always talk about Spiidi for some reason, maybe because he was German too. Legend

+krystal ez fix

2022-07-31 18:47

So no -slaxz?

2022-07-31 19:15

stop ruin launx career

2022-07-31 19:20

who

2022-07-31 19:21

Wow, never thought its happen tbh Hopefully we find a good replacement and gl to spiidi

2022-07-31 19:33

End of an era for Sprout, Spiidi was the team. Just watched that vid sadge

IS THIS THE REUNION OF THE BEST DUO OF ALL TIME, DENNIS AND SPIIDI??

didnt dennis retire? after apeks or something?

wrong dennis, he meant DENIS

2022-07-31 23:02

2022-08-01 00:36

Spidii for tiziaN please

2022-07-31 21:16

what everyone in the community wants and knows would improve BIG, but Tabsen is too nice of a guy to make it happen :(

That wouldnt even be a upgrade, if its like a german Launx that could fit tizians role then yes, but for spiidi?

2022-08-01 01:42

he'd help a ton with mid round calling. having a secondary caller is underrated

2022-08-01 01:55

very true actually. Twistzz helps a whole lot in terms of calling, which just makes it easier for karrigan to call (you can go to FaZe Clan's Comms videos and you can see Twistzz is very vocal)

2022-08-01 06:58