phzy joins Sangal on loan

13-8-2022 19:13

The young Swede goes international after leaving Young Ninjas on loan.

Sangal have announced that 19-year-old AWPer Love "⁠phzy⁠" Smidebrant will be joining their roster just under two weeks after it was revealed that Efekan "⁠S3NSEY⁠" Topaloglu was being moved to the bench whilst the Austrian completed his nine-month civil service duty.

phzy, who achieved a top-four finish at ESL Pro League and a second-place finish at IEM Winter during temporary stints with the main Ninjas in Pyjamas roster, stated via his own Twitter account that the move is a one-year loan.

phzy will forge his path on an international roster

Youngster phzy had been looking for a team since late April when Young Ninjas announced they were releasing him, Linus "⁠LNZ⁠" Holtäng and Anton "⁠Sapec⁠" Palmgren as they looked to bring fresh blood in for their academy project.

The AWPer did however remain contracted to the organisation and has continued to get gametime for Young Ninjas, participating in a run to second at Svenska Elitserien Spring and a 5th-6th place finish in WePlay Academy League Season 4 in June. He finished as the team's highest rated player in both events.

The Turkish organisation phzy joins has housed a European roster ever since dropping the Turkish core of Engin "⁠ngiN⁠" Kor, Ahmet "⁠paz⁠" Karahoca and Engin "⁠MAJ3R⁠" Küpeli late in 2021, picking up Kornél "⁠kory⁠" Szedlár, Robin "⁠ScrunK⁠" Röpke and Can "⁠kyuubii⁠" Ali early this year.

In 2022 the team achieved modest success, finishing second in ESEA Advanced Season 40 Europe and qualifying for the ESL Challenger League, as well as picking up another second-place finish in Esport Tour 2022 Series 2 amongst a field featuring some solid tier-two teams. Their biggest feat, though, was reaching the RMR.

Sangal did also experience some difficulties this year, finishing last in ESL Challenger League, therefore being immediately relegated back to ESEA Advanced, and struggling to make much headway in the world rankings where they peaked in 55th place.

Sangal are now:

Kornél "⁠kory⁠" Szedlár
Robin "⁠ScrunK⁠" Röpke
Can "⁠kyuubii⁠" Ali
Caner "⁠soulfly⁠" Kesici
Love "⁠phzy⁠" Smidebrant

Tugay "⁠TuGuX⁠" Keskin (coach)

Efekan "⁠S3NSEY⁠" Topaloglu (benched)

pyth > phzy

2022-08-13 19:13

4 replies

understandable.

2022-08-13 19:40

1 reply

my favorite Turkish org!

2022-08-13 21:10

big for phzy

2022-08-13 19:41

Pyth comeback 2023

2022-08-13 20:26

upgrade from NIP

2022-08-13 19:14

nice

epic signing

gl in tier 7

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You always have to start somewhere. Then its grindrtime

2022-08-13 19:22

gl to him anyway

2022-08-13 19:23

cool move kid

Lmao sangal lower rank then NIP academy

from sangal to gamerlegion to NIP main roster in 4 years pog

2022-08-13 21:12

what????

PHZY still in YN and they didn't play him in WePlay? ok

Most orgs dont care about winning tourneys for their acc team, they just wanna build players, once they are good enough, they just want to sell em if they can

2022-08-13 19:16

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still $45k prize money for 1st spot, he could have made the difference in season 5 especially with Mouz NXT playing bad

2022-08-13 19:17

The org sees little of that money compared to selling off a player is my understanding

2022-08-13 19:33

Prize money goes to the players I think. Little % of that money goes to the org.

2022-08-14 04:36

sandals with GOD SCRUNK are winning the rio major

2022-08-13 19:15

Weird to see this roster change but better to be on an actual team than be on an academy , let alone it's bench ! Good luck Phzy !

Let's Goooo huge upgrade for Sangal.

good upgrade

2022-08-13 19:20

Can be good for both him and the team, mby he can come back rdy for main team after!

cool move and cool roster tbh

Nice im now sangal fan

Cool

2022-08-13 19:24

looooool sangal lower rank then NIP academy or am i tripping haha wtf

2022-08-13 19:25

Swedish pride

2022-08-13 19:26

love the phonk music in the vid

phzy were a lovely player on Y.ninjas. Love that transfer. Top50 maybe?

2022-08-13 19:27

interesting move

2022-08-13 19:30

Unexpected, but pretty cool!

2022-08-13 19:32

Nice!

2022-08-13 19:34

Sad for him

2022-08-13 19:35

phzy > dev0rce

2022-08-13 19:46

good for him

2022-08-13 19:51

Good move for top60

2022-08-13 20:11

Sangal doesn't even have a good team to begin with, but I guess phzy just wants to play and get paid to do so? The only other good player on the team is Soulfly though. Everyone else is pretty bad.

2022-08-13 20:24

deserves more

2022-08-13 20:25

2022-08-13 20:39

phzy bald legend

2022-08-13 20:45

he was good on NIP. the fact they kicked him because of device and device never played was fucked up.

2022-08-13 21:17

6 replies

they kicked nawwk for device not phzy…

2022-08-13 21:46

5 replies

yeah but they brought in phzy when device went on a break then kicked him they thought he was coming back but he never did. they should have kept phzy, he was a strong af player.

2022-08-13 21:56