Eternal Fire begin rebuild with Calyx return

8-11-2022 02:28

The 24-year-old reunites with his former teammates under the Turkish organization.

Eternal Fire have announced that they are welcoming back Buğra "⁠Calyx⁠" Arkın to the team. The move is the latest in a series of changes for the Turkish lineup after their dismal performance at the RMR where they finished in 12-14th place and were unable to capture a spot at the IEM Rio Major.

woxic benches himself from EF: "I want to continue my career in an international team"

Calyx's return comes just days after Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker benched himself from the active roster, with the Turkish AWPer citing a desire to play for an international team as the reason for his decision.

Calyx is back on Eternal Fire after a short stint with Benched Heroes

Calyx was one of the founding members of Eternal Fire when the player-created organization established by Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş and woxic first went live in August 2021. The team found success in Turkish competitions such as ESA Supremes Vestel Cup 2021 and ESL Turkey Summer Championship 2021 and even peaked at 20th place overall on the world ranking. Despite their strong results at local tournaments, they often struggled when it came to international events most notably at the PGL Major Antwerp where they exited the Challengers Stage in 12-14th place.

In January 2022, Calyx was placed on the bench due to personal reasons and in July officially departed the team. He joined Benched Heroes in August for the IEM Road to Rio Open Qualifiers, and though the five-stack reached the RMR through the final open qualifier they had to forfeit their slot due to Eugene "⁠Aunkere⁠" Karyat and Calyx's visa issues.

Eternal Fire part ways with paz and hardstyle

More additions are yet to come for Eternal Fire, who have gone through a rebuild following their 12-14th place finish at the Europe RMR. In October, Eternal Fire parted ways with shotcaller Engin "⁠MAJ3R⁠" Küpeli and promoted Yasin "⁠xfl0ud⁠" Koç from the bench to take his spot on the roster, with Ömer "⁠imoRR⁠" Karataş inheriting the IGL duties. Later in the same month, it was announced that Ahmet "⁠paz⁠" Karahoca and coach Canpolat "⁠hardstyle⁠" Yıldıran would also depart the team after just three months.

Eternal Fire's current roster consists of:

Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş
Yasin "⁠xfl0ud⁠" Koç
Ömer "⁠imoRR⁠" Karataş
Buğra "⁠Calyx⁠" Arkın

Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker (inactive)

First Costarican to ever comment on hltv

2022-11-08 02:28

28 replies

+Woxic and you can start all over again 🤡

2022-11-08 02:35

18 replies

xantares needs to get a better team

2022-11-08 02:40

12 replies

+1 xantares needs to leave this team asap if he want to win anything

2022-11-08 07:54

6 replies

he is getting married so i doubt he would leave tr

2022-11-08 08:21

3 replies

going abroad with wife is even better than going single +wife won't have any visa trouble as they are legally married.

2022-11-08 09:51

Marrying who? Imorr? I would love to be godfather of their pups ngl

2022-11-08 12:17

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instagram.com/busrabesirrr/

2022-11-08 14:42

They just need to give time to the team.

2022-11-08 08:26

He won the hearts of turkish fans. Adam adamm

2022-11-08 16:32

+1/2. I agree He is too good to be in this team. I get the idea about a Turkish team and everything, but IMO he is wasting all his potential there. Said that, I also support the idea of lifting a Turkish flag as a whole as well. GL

2022-11-08 09:19

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He doesn't care about his own personal glory, or how many trophies he wins, he only cares about the Turkish scene and wants it to grow within turkey. And that is noble.

2022-11-08 16:48

Cheers to that tho. All the best on his pathway, as you said, very noble indeed.

2022-11-27 13:14

Why in the world is Xantares ruining his career by staying on this team? He could be competing for trophies and making a lot more money.

2022-11-08 13:20

Probably got that from TabseN xd

2022-11-08 15:30

2022-11-08 02:43

also +bishop or whatever that guy was called

2022-11-08 02:49

+ Logicman please. This guy is a machine

2022-11-08 08:18

woxic just move to valorant u r trash

2022-11-08 11:32

lmao xd

2022-11-08 12:00

Grats. Anyways. -b0tm0rr +soufly and +maj3r

2022-11-08 03:07

4 replies

lmao maj3r back to valorante anime shooter, soufly won't leave sangal.

2022-11-08 03:58

they did maj3r dirty

2022-11-08 10:31

Big oof next logical move : disband

2022-11-08 11:40

+1 but who will awp then? soulfly is a riffler

2022-11-08 22:37

congratulations mens

2022-11-08 03:09

Nice f5 script

2022-11-08 03:59

Thanks mens

2022-11-08 04:14

#SAVEXANTARES

2022-11-08 05:53

EF 10 year era incoming

ef 10 yrd? for what???

2022-11-08 03:02

5 replies

10 year era of being banned from hltv for being toxic on their alts

2022-11-08 03:05

LMAO

2022-11-08 05:57

mens)))

2022-11-08 09:16

fake flagging and being enthusiastic about women

2022-11-08 07:08

2022-11-08 08:52

So bad

This guy has not had had success since Space Soldiers btw.

2022-11-08 02:29

Won tournaments with BIG

2022-11-08 09:27

the article is about calyx, not xantares

2022-11-08 13:24

Qualified for RMR

2022-11-08 10:41

Missing one player

8 replies

Smooya soon

2022-11-08 02:31

FURIOUSSSS THE GOATEST STRIMER AND BEST FRAGGER TO EVER TOUCH CSGO! Cap aside, Xantares has to swallow his ego and bring back maj3r. Literally the only turkish igl...heck the only turkish player with functional braincells.

LOL ,turkish cs is that level of braindead? i just thought it was some joke at some point woxic is smart (or suposed to be in mouz) idk why he doesnt want to try igling

2022-11-08 06:00

I'm pretty sure he did IGL for a bit before they switched back to imoRR.

2022-11-08 07:19

They did , Woxic announced in live stream that he can't focus on his own game when he is being IGL in EF , that's why he gave this role to Imorr after team decision . His stats boosted up immediately after that but it was not enough for him to get satisfied .

2022-11-08 08:37

When I watched woxic in this year's matches, he played extremely stupid, like pushing with an awp after a kill and just dying.

2022-11-08 13:31

Woxic smart??? Wtf did u even watch one woxic match Probably one of the less smartest pro ever

2022-11-08 13:38

you need to smart to use 8 sens i cant see him like a dumb one

2022-11-08 18:32

calyx back from 2nd valorant retirement huh?

Announce tarik already

tarik the valorant pro?

2022-11-08 02:44

tarik the NA GOAAAAT

fuck that guy his head is completely in valo

2022-11-08 09:08

Go XANTARES!

Again hahaha

gonna be like pl teams now change players every week :D

2022-11-08 02:30

lul

can they just stop recycling the same garbage players lmao for their own sake, they should disband and go international.

calyx back calyx out paz back paz out maj3r back maj3r out XD

2022-11-08 02:55

They shouldn't even get paz+hardstyle combo in first . They ruined their own prodigy with that .

2022-11-08 08:39

They literally recycle like 7 Turkish players over and over again. The scene is too small to sustain a full-Turkish lineup.

shouldve never kicked him in the first place. +soulfly and imoRR to aAWP now

Best idea! imoR is a better awper than woxic.

2022-11-08 10:08

Totally agree, his quick scopes with AWP was insane when he was awping for Sangal.

2022-11-08 17:18

indeed! If I'm not misstaking imoR is also the IGL atm? IGL + AWPER = good combination in general :)

2022-11-08 18:28

Yes, he is IGL of EF atm. As you said it's a good combination but imorr is very tensed player, I doubt he can stay cold blooded and calm most of the time. These two things are very important for IGLs in my opinion. So better EF use imorr as awper but not IGL. :)

2022-11-08 23:38

It's happening man, imorr is taking awp role with new line-up!

2022-11-19 18:15

Just read the article! Nice! Would love to see Soulfly though, but maj3r is ok as well!

2022-11-19 20:00

“Rebuild”

do Turkish have no new blood?

They have an academy team but I'm not sure how well they are doing

2022-11-08 02:38

their academy team didnt achive anything as of now, so yea no new blood currently

Soulfly or kyuubi can be their alternatives, other than, all Turkish kids play valorant, no new bloods for cs anymore. I believe there are 5 professional Turkish team in valo but we can't even create 1 in cs go. Sad..

2022-11-08 17:20

Kyubi talks turkish?

2022-11-08 18:23

Yes, Turkish descent but was born in Germany. Of course his Turkish is not perfect but still good enough.

2022-11-08 23:33

+smooya

AHAHAHAHHAHA

2022-11-08 02:36

disband pls

if xantares commits to this i really don't understand him..

2022-11-08 02:37

beyond insane a rifler as talented as xantares wasting his time in such a clown project. what's his problem wiyh learning some english and join a top team that can win tier s events? smh

2022-11-08 02:47

He has decent English to play on an international team. Probably he's the only tier 1 player in the Turkish scene who could find a team easily. The thing is Xantares prefers his stress-free life in comfort zone and that's about it. Some people don't aim high even with a skill ceiling that high, it's just a preference.

2022-11-08 05:50

So he is hiding something... I see.

2022-11-08 06:36

Xantares is probably the best all aim no brain player, not to mention he's rich af living in turkey. Too comfortable in life to strive for greatness it sucks to see we will only see him in t1 if EF drops him or shuts down.

2022-11-08 06:54

Suprisingly he started to develop himself and started to combine his brain with his gamesense in last 3 months . Sadly he will develop like a snail speed in EF if this prodigy can't achieve something noticable . I mean you can't develop yourself fast as t1 rifler if you just keep playing against t2-t3-t4 teams

2022-11-08 08:43

Just bring back woxic and you have the old lineup back. Nice "rebuild"

I apologize to my turkish brothers but this team is becoming a meme

2022-11-08 02:39

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2022-11-08 06:15

+1 Why was he removed in the first place? I still believe they will be better than before though, woxic can be really problematic and hard to deal with when things aren't going well. He was removed from mouz for this reason and he just failed to get back to his prime which demotivated him even more.

2022-11-08 07:41

bro we and your saw team going down the hill since antwerp qualifs lmao

2022-11-08 09:10

Man, the whole Portuguese scene is a meme, nothing new about that. But with xantares and woxic, this Turkish superteam was expected to be a solid top10 team

2022-11-08 10:28

top 20 not top 10 mate

Yea, I got ahead of myself there

2022-11-08 13:37

Turkish cs is full of drama

2022-11-08 17:23

lmao what a shitshow. feel bad for turkish bros, they deserve a good team to cheer

Ef is the biggest shitshow in the history of csgo but what can you expect when the co owner of the team is mentaly breaked by me and my faceit stack

2022-11-08 02:41

Woxic?

clown org players leaving then coming back constantly

2022-11-08 02:42

Xantares please stop waste ur prime, go back to big or some another good team

This project is so dead they're kicking and adding ppl every month.

2022-11-08 02:48

*kicking and adding the same people every month

2022-11-08 04:48

Like soulfly would ever join this mess

now +smooya and they can be good.

2022-11-08 02:51

EF doing more lineup shuffles than the whole polish scene

LUL

+smoooya

2022-11-08 03:01

its not a rebuild if people voluntarily leave and you bench and unbench the same shit players

2022-11-08 03:18

Again lmao, they keep kicking and then signing the guy 🤡🤡🤡

2022-11-08 03:32

Turkish kardeslar at its finest

2022-11-08 04:40

+BOROS

2022-11-08 03:42

You’re not rebuilding you’re just rotating players in and out of the roster depending on form 💀

2022-11-08 04:02

Turkey only has 6 players LOL

2022-11-08 04:06

+MAJ3R time again

2022-11-08 04:07

ah shit, here we go again

pls, add young promising IGL

2022-11-08 04:23

Good news

2022-11-08 04:38

Nice

2022-11-08 04:45

Rebuild my ass this is just rotating players

2022-11-08 04:47

2022-11-08 04:53

turkish scene = big joke

2022-11-08 04:55

Always the same, it's an in and out that leads nowhere.

2022-11-08 04:56

2022-11-08 05:03

Oh it's too late

2022-11-08 05:25

Xantares time to leave and go international. Don’t waste career

🤡joohoo

2022-11-08 06:08

Turkish scene kek

Eternal clowns 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡. Inb4 they kick him again

2022-11-08 06:12

Please just disband this team you have no idea how to manage one

2022-11-08 06:16

Rofl, recycling kings

2022-11-08 06:33

just stop this pls

Hmmm

No duggyversus no win

2022-11-08 06:45

godyx now bring back maj3r Kappa

2022-11-08 06:59

You got back Cayx, now get back woxic and you have back the best Turkish 5 you can get, which is not surprising considering the fact that this lineup got you into the Major, unlike the second one

2022-11-08 07:07

This is starting to look like a joke! I really like the team but you cant kick, then bring back people like there where a yoyo

2022-11-08 07:24

WHOM WILL AWP?

2022-11-08 08:04

Imorr

Prolly Imorr , maybe Calyx in some maps or T sides

2022-11-08 08:44

doing the same things and expecting different results lol

Definition of insanity

2022-11-08 09:14

and still they have imorr, they’ll never learn

2022-11-08 08:31

shut up u dont know cs

2022-11-08 08:45

2022-11-08 09:48

cry

2022-11-08 11:48

luxemburg cs scene LUL

2022-11-08 17:02

im originally turkish, cry is free

2022-11-08 17:09

No ur not LUL

2022-11-08 18:56

dead turk team

2022-11-08 08:51

Everyone except for imorr is decent rn. 1 more consistent player ef pls...

2022-11-08 09:01

they are still trying to make this team work smh Xantares ruining any chance he has to win events, just join a mixed team already

2022-11-08 09:21

I don’t know what I can say but let’s go (again), I guess :D

2022-11-08 09:22

now add Izzy plz

2022-11-08 09:47

What a joke of an organization

2022-11-08 09:49

this needs smooya as awper, he knows enough turkish to play with these guys top kek

2022-11-08 09:55

He will scream INSHALLAH on every call and manage to 1 v all .

2022-11-08 10:27

Clown fiesta 🤡

2022-11-08 09:57

you can't call tier 2 team clown

2022-11-08 10:25

lmfao just disband already, holy shit

2022-11-08 10:19

I miss the SS days where we once had hope for the Turkish scene, now it's just heartbreak after heartbreak.

2022-11-08 10:23

The Merry-Go-Round continues to turn

Doomed ever since they kicked ISSAA. You can't make a super team of a small scene if you don't even have 3 best players on there , Woxic and Soulfly missing. Just save yourself from misery and go intl again , Xantares . OG will benefit from you

2022-11-08 10:26

Its not a rebuild, its a never ending recycling of the same players, who are not even good. I dont get it, cant they try and find some fresh new talent from Turkey, why are they still doing this shit

2022-11-08 10:35

-calyx +maj3r -random academy kid +w0xic there you go, maybe they can win some t2 tournaments or qualify for big tournaments. oh wait. that ship is loooong gone lol fuck this team

2022-11-08 10:44

comedy =(

2022-11-08 10:46

it has become a soup

2022-11-08 10:57

They are currently trialling TROJN

2022-11-08 11:17

now just -onlinetares so it can be called a rebuild

2022-11-08 11:19

good news

2022-11-08 11:21

Now that their awper is inactive EF will disappear you can't replace someone like woxic or XANTI these two players are the pillars of the Turkish superteam woxic was the biggest impact player ever in EF now he benched himself it doesn't look good maybe it's a sign for departure it looks like.

2022-11-08 11:38

Smooya it's time to learn Turkish...

He knows how to swear in many different ways he is ready

2022-11-09 11:37

Just disband lmao

xgod

2022-11-08 11:49

i wonder if there's any turkish players besides the ones who played in EF? everytime there's a roster change is like "ex teammate return"

2022-11-08 12:32

Godyx Welcome back

2022-11-08 12:37

There is 2 mode problem, 1- who will be the IGL? 2- new turkish awp’er where do you find a good awp’er? So I think the team will not getting an happy and :)

2022-11-08 12:45

Xantares is staying in this team? Wtf?

Lmao this team is a fking joke. Why kick him in the first place if you want to eventually get him back? As a Turkish person I feel like supporting the team, but come on.

2022-11-08 12:49

tbf I only see soulfly as an option besides that smooya would be fun with the turks

2022-11-08 12:50

With xantares’ ego, he won’t sign smooyay even if he speaks perfect Turkish

2022-11-09 05:30

:/ hella true

2022-11-09 12:44

its not about smooya its about sterlin and turkish lira Inequality

2022-11-11 12:40

EF is the most joke team I've seen lately

2022-11-08 12:51

Do they really think this is gonna change something?

disban pls

2022-11-08 12:52

already failed

2022-11-08 12:54

-Maj3r +Maj3r

2022-11-08 12:59

-calyx+calyx-calyx+calyx w0xic leaving was the final nail in the coffin for this team i know they want to be some kind of turkish BIG but theres even less talent in the turkish scene than in the german scene. at least BIG has built a very good academy program to draw players from (krimbo, s1n...). i feel like EF should attempt the same and go international in the meantime

2022-11-08 13:21

rebuild by doing the same move xddddddd I wish them luck, but they need to think outside the box or else they'll just get the same results

2022-11-08 13:27

+maj3r +paz +ngiN ez space soldiers

2022-11-08 13:28

Loool these guys really have no idea what to do with the roster. Just kicking players and then getting them back

2022-11-08 13:43

Someone must be joking right? just disband already 🤡

2022-11-08 14:50

Didn't they kick Calyx like 5 times already?

2022-11-08 14:54

i hope they can be stronger now Turks let's go, i want to see XANTASPEEK

2022-11-08 15:02

Sorry but it is not gonna work. I have been supporting this team since the very first game and I had watched nearly all of the games they played so far. There are some problems which is not related with the game. Xantares blaming his teammes for not putting effort as much as he does. This is not something ethical. Once they win, xantares title himself as hardcarrier, king of peeks but once you lost you blame your friends. On the other hands he's playing rotation and get free kills, trades mostly and also hunting for eco rounds. As far as I see stats are misleading people. Ofc he is godtier player but wind doesn't blow because of him. The problem was clear however everytime EF created new problems. First it was lack of support player then xFloud came into sceen and problem seem to be solved. Then somehow they thougt there's an IGL problem in the squad and they kicked Calyx which is the ONLY and BEST anchor turkish player. That was the decision. Imorr playing entry and have some explosive talent but his clumsiness cause %75 lost rounds for EF. Only thing needed was to kick IMORR and bring somebody can stick with game plan and make less mistakes or maybe just MAJ3R. However things become more dramatic and IMORR became IGL and tbh he is not that bad within this role. But this squat rotation make other players tired. Especially if you're playing as AWP'er you need some guys to hold angles for you, you need somebody that stay strong in sides but w0xic was always feeling insecure about the players he playing with. He most of the time tried to overpeek for get an advantage. He showed off on many important games and carried team as well. But cs is not only putting aim to the hitboxes. There was a disaster in terms of management of players. I don't believe this roaster can achieve something without w0xic.

2022-11-08 15:23

That sucks, I really like EF but they got some serious issues.

2022-11-08 18:09

You're right about most of the things you said, imorr espacially, his igl is not bad but dying at first 20 sec most of the rounds and excusing for info peeks makes other players tired and out of mood as you mentioned. For woxic, if you remember the games he carried, mostly he play with rifles. When its awp, his positionings and calculations always goes wrong when he peeks or clutches. Literally not fits for an awper. I think he is the most skilled player, yet laziest one. I was hoping for disband after woxic's left to be honest.

2022-11-08 22:04

Best possible ef atm: Give awp back to imorr as was the case in sangal back in the day, transfer tugux + soulfly

+Maj3r soon

2022-11-08 17:00

am i snappin or are there only like 8 pro turkish players? so basically the rebuild is just swapping around the same players over and over again lmaoo

2022-11-08 17:07