Sprout set to reveal XELLOW as new AWPer

22-12-2022 18:22

The Nexus AWPer is slated to replace Fritz "⁠slaxz-⁠" Dietrich.

Sprout are set to announce the addition of Adrian "⁠XELLOW⁠" Guță as their new AWPer after coming to terms with Nexus and the player over his transfer and individual deal, multiple sources have revealed to HLTV.org.

Sprout signed the 22-year-old Romanian to replace slaxz-, who has officially departed the Berlin-based organization following a two-year service.

XELLOW is set to follow lauNX from Nexus to Sprout

XELLOW is best known for his nearly six years long stay with Romanian side Nexus, where he has consistently been the standout player. There, he played alongside Laurențiu "⁠lauNX⁠" Țârlea for a year before the young rifler joined Sprout in May 2022.

XELLOW also spent a stint on a loan with ECSTATIC alongside the likes of Thomas "⁠birdfromsky⁠" Due-Frederiksen and Dion "⁠FASHR⁠" Derksen earlier this year. The AWPer's time with the team was cut short after just four months amidst an overhaul and a transition to an all-Danish roster, which began with birdfromsky leaving to create the new Copenhagen Flames and FASHR joining up with fnatic.

Since then XELLOW has continued to ply his trade with Nexus without finding much success as a team. His impressive 1.20 rating over the past five months is a stark contrast to the rest of the Romanian lineup, whose peak on the HLTV.org ranking in 2022 was 76th place.

With XELLOW's addition, Sprout will have the following lineup:

Victor "⁠Staehr⁠" Staehr
Laurențiu "⁠lauNX⁠" Țârlea
Ismail "⁠refrezh⁠" Ali
Rasmus "⁠Zyphon⁠" Nordfoss
Adrian "⁠XELLOW⁠" Guță

Danny "⁠BERRY⁠" Krüger (coach)

nice

2022-12-22 18:22

51 replies

Romania CS peaked

2022-12-22 18:35

9 replies

regali robbed

2022-12-22 20:00

8 replies

sprout < cph flames

2022-12-22 21:05

1 reply

exactly

2022-12-22 22:40

i think sprout is much better than falmes at the moment

2022-12-23 00:29

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i feel they are at roughly the same level tbh

2022-12-23 02:43

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sprout more firepower but godfromsky > refrezh

2022-12-23 08:48

botfromsky only at igl ing over refrezh - when it's about firepower he's a complete bot

2022-12-23 13:31

if xellow fits into sprout then maybe

2022-12-25 09:06

should be a good fit. i'm rooting for sprout

2022-12-25 13:50

nice? thats a downgrade and you will it fast enough. if you wanna drop slax , at least get a good awper lmao

2022-12-22 18:41

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Xellow is the best Romanian player ever in csgo what you on about lmao

2022-12-22 18:48

30 replies

Regali wants to speak to your manager

2022-12-22 19:12

gotem

2022-12-22 19:16

So? Romania is not really csgo super power

2022-12-22 19:20

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imagine your argument when someone says niko is the best player in bosnia. well bosnia also has hunter, so if a guy is better than hunter he's pretty good

2022-12-22 20:17

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But there is no tier1 superstar from Romania? That was the point.

2022-12-22 21:06

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launx is not far from that. but xellow is at best the 3rd player in Romania behind him and regali

2022-12-22 23:45

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Launx is good and promising but not tier1 player nor superstar. My point was : "if you wanna drop slax , at least get a good awper lmao" "Xellow is the best Romanian player ever in csgo what you on about lmao" Like Romania is Denmark or Russia lul

2022-12-23 00:10

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yea, xellow is a strange pick up imo, especially when there are so many uncontracted more talented and experienced AWPers. launx is definetely a T1 player and he's arguably the best player on Sprout rn, and the kid is only 17. I think next year he has a shot at top 20 if Sprout does well.

2022-12-23 01:34

Xellow will shine immediately, he will add more quality to Sprout game, you'll see!

2022-12-23 11:10

That won't be hard tbh Slax was absolute garbage

2022-12-24 14:13

#76 didnt mention tier 1

2022-12-23 13:38

Context - If you kick slaxz at least get good awper Reply: Xellow is best RO player Ergo, Romania is kinda superpower in csgo and in reality is not. Same as I said Omg hes best Serbian player and we have nexa only ans he is not great by any means

2022-12-23 13:53

so if i say X from country Y is best player of country Y means country Y is a powerhouse? if he said xellow is best romanian player and launx is pretty good, than xellow must be too, therefore he is better than slaxz

2022-12-23 14:51

He didn't mention LaunX

2022-12-23 15:00

so you didnt know launx is from romania or what? he said best romanian player wtf

2022-12-23 15:11

I thought Launx is danish lol

2022-12-23 16:04

cosmeeN doesnt agree

2022-12-22 19:53

Cosmeen exists but xellow is #2

2022-12-22 20:23

thats speaks millions about romanion cs scene LMAO couldn´t even do anything on ecstatic trial, when they removed wolfy to put him.... only started killing when the team had to abdicate resources to acommodate him even more than usual.... literally farming stats vs romanian bots all the time.

2022-12-22 20:31

like wolfy was any better lmao

2022-12-23 09:18

he went from choosing his picks to playing supportive awp always carrying the bomb but thats all u can say when u dont watch the games

2022-12-23 14:52

tbh i Think launx is the best romanian player , even better then im regali and xellow . Atleast raw talent wise , launx is the best romanian player by far , his individual skill is something else when he is there to deliver . So ig 1. launx 2. regali / xellow , 3 . iM , 4 . regali / xellow

2022-12-26 18:05

are you watching cs since 2021?

2022-12-26 21:02

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Nope , but launx is clearly the most talented from them , even Im said on his livestream ;) . launx is the most talented player romania has ever seen but in the same time he is the most lazy :D

2022-12-26 21:52

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i'm not gonna disagree with you, launx is best romanian player achievement-wise, otherwise there are other candidates

2022-12-27 00:04

I am not talking achievement wise , neither iM was , launx is the most talented player romanian scene produced and that's just a fact , he is just 17 , best romanian player and somehow he has close to 0 lan experience , I don't even want to know what he will do next year if he starts hard working , no romanian will be able to be at his level just because he is so far away and he is just 17 , and 20 I can see him lifting a major trophy if he actually grinds his way and he gets into a team like ence and then proceds to get in faze or other big teams

2022-12-27 01:14

When you'll be watching the matches in a coach's mind you will say something else, otherwise you will keep your opinion about lauNX

2022-12-27 01:43

??? EVEN BERRY SAID HE IS THE MOST TALENTED PLAYER HE HAD IN HIS TEAM OR BY HIS SIDE , WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT WTF ???

2022-12-27 04:35

launx is talented in a game where frags can't win you games anymore, kid still has to learn, especially teamplay, until then iM regali XELLOW and Blytz will be superior to lauNX

2022-12-27 13:48

Don't think so, I am a regali fan aswell but LauNX is from another world

2022-12-28 11:11

will what fast?

2022-12-22 18:57

it will fast 💪🌮

2022-12-23 00:47

slaxz is probably the worst awper in all of t2 so i don't think this is a downgrade at all

2022-12-23 00:38

u will see.

2022-12-23 01:00

Fcuk it only took him like 10years to get on a tier 2 team

2022-12-22 20:22

He only is 22 yo .. that surprised me

2022-12-23 01:01

Considering some people have been signed in their teens he's kind old. Been around forever

2022-12-23 02:50

the first time i knew about him, he must had around 15 yo then..

2022-12-24 09:30

nice, he looks like a mix between broky and allu :D lets see if he awps like it too.

2022-12-24 15:52

excellent

2022-12-22 18:23

Good

oMg why

POG

solid team first

big L

Why? For xellow or sprout?

2022-12-22 18:26

??? what

2022-12-22 18:28

WHAT GOGOASA LOL

2022-12-22 19:15

fake flagger

2022-12-22 19:10

he wanted regali

2022-12-22 18:24

W Xellow deserves it

+ regali

2022-12-22 18:25

good luck with that. falmes will not sell him /or without a good payout for him

2022-12-22 18:40

It was just a joke

2022-12-22 19:21

i kinda want him in sprout also mens ))

2022-12-23 00:26

regali won't leave flames for at least 1 or 2 years

2022-12-23 08:39

Woowwowoowowowow thats sooooo coooooool

amazing news

YESSS

solid pickup. mantuu wouldve been nice but this is good

not mantu hades instead of it but hopefully he's better

2022-12-22 18:34

WOW HE LEFT MATCHFIXING ?

no it's matchfixing who upgraded themselves to tier 1 now days :) xD

Tier 5

Great upgrade good luck to Sprout

what happened to german sprout

Sprout is an interesting project!

top 1 incoming

Big W really big fan of this roster

Xellow dont want to throw matches for money anymore?

He does want to throw matches, that's why he's joining Sprout

2022-12-22 18:27

lmao bagguete flair

2022-12-22 18:32

wtf bro that's reunion

2022-12-22 18:53

rip 1iquser

2022-12-23 12:39

fr(

2022-12-23 14:50

How active do I have to be to be able to simply create a forum thread in this website? Seriously, this policy is so ridiculous.

It takes like 5 comments a day for a week bro, be patient, we already have a ton of degenerates making threads, this is the last filter, let it be

2022-12-22 18:29

I understand that they want to prevent unruly and spammy behaviour from HLTV no-lifers, but the vague conditions are hurting average CS enthusiasts like me who just want to visit this site occasionally and initiate a constructive discussion with fellow CS fans.

The time will come when you will be endued with that power. But use it wisely. Until then remember that patience is a virtue.

2022-12-22 18:44

That's one way to put it xD. Hope this reply is included in the "50 comments quota" required to be granted the right to create posts. Honestly, feels like a system where HLTV users are incentivized to report users engaged in spam would be better (which can also be open to report abuse which is why a moderator will still be needed to evaluate the legitimacy of the reported users IMO).

2022-12-22 19:04

2022-12-22 19:08

50 comments in total iirc

Rating 1.0: 1.14 Maps played: 1160 KPR: 0.78 just saying..

All against tier 66 teams

Launx also played vs tier 66 teams and look at him now.

2022-12-22 18:30

leggo XELLOW best sniper

Niceee

Deserved. Xellow playing good for such a long time.

Nice Xellow , i really like this sprout now :)

3months after NEWS: XELLOW back home Nexus

2022-12-22 18:31

ez for xellow

Nice

2022-12-22 18:33

Not really sure how much of an upgrade he is but gl

regali >>>>

2022-12-22 18:36

xd , baiter awp and malding kid . fuck him , deserves to be stuck in t3

2022-12-22 18:38

>17 win streak, 4 event win streak, 1.24 rating >t3 choose one

2022-12-22 18:50

bruh , u clearly are a fanboy actually flair cph , every romanian player and streamer said regali is toxic and is still just a kid :) , so i would rather have a mature guy then another kid besides launx:D

2022-12-22 18:52

i can only judge based on how i saw him on his livestreams and interviews, he seems like a chill guy, on streams he's laughing a lot with his friends but then again idk how is he in private.

He really isnt toxic. Not a single bit

2022-12-22 20:45

bruh falmes will not regali go just like that

2022-12-22 18:43

regali has buy out, he's really expensive!

2022-12-22 19:01

sprout is a budget org so yeah

Interesting 🔥

2022-12-22 18:37

Definitely better than slaxz, decent upgrade. i liked him on ecstatic tbf. he's not tier 1 material, maybe tier 2/3 but it's fitting sprout. sprout is a decent project atm, glhf!

On ecstatic i felt like his power were suppresed...like he wasnt given the freedom that he needed to do what he wants, because what he wants is always good..

I was so shocked to find out that he is only 22 years old. I feel like he's always been this talented guy that never had a chance to compete in better team. The transition might not be that easy for a player that spend that much time in lower tier cs. Of course I wish all the best for him in Sprout, it's nice to see romanian scene growing. It also feels like an upgrade for the german organisation, even if XELLOW isn't really proved in t1/t2 cs. Slaxz wasn't doing too well (considering he is an AWPer), so who knows, maybe Sprout will be something bigger in close future.

he joined nexus at the same age as launx did

2022-12-22 19:00

Ikr, it feels like he was stuck in Nexus forever, but he is only 22. With how well Sprout were doing carrying the most inconsistent awper in the tier1-2 scene, I think a consistent AWPer that oscillates between average and good, like Xellow, could bring them to the next level.

2022-12-22 19:28

Romanians slowly taking over the danish tier 2 scene

haha seems like danish + romanians works pretty good, sprout, cph flames, gamerlegion, Allstars.

Allstars?🤣🤣🤣🤣

2022-12-22 19:06

lower tier romanian org has 3 romanians and 2 danes

2022-12-22 20:21

this guy is 22?? hes been around fuckin ages

2022-12-22 18:42

Yeah, I noticed it too.

yes, he started playing at 16 or 17 years old

2022-12-22 20:35

Bro imagine all sprout players play at full potential..... they would be unstoppable

W move

nice move!

2022-12-22 18:47

Romania powerhouse

2022-12-22 18:51

so romanian cs is arrive but it's downgrade for Sprout

better than 0.98 rating

2022-12-22 18:55

no he is not lol ?

xdddddd baguette brain

2022-12-22 20:42

Nt PennyS

2022-12-22 20:51

holy fuck.It s gg nexus for good this time but xellow is finally gonna show the world who is the king of romanian cs.The guy is a monster of a player, i m glad he will not totally waste his career on nexus.

no gg cuz onetap disbanded and nexus has got where to choose from and their rival is dead, perfect timing

2022-12-22 19:05

They played already with swifter, modo and smek probably just tryouts

2022-12-22 19:46

expected move, tier 1 awper for ages already.

Does this team still compete in German leagues or now what

no, they announced the ending of their partnership with esl meisterchaft

2022-12-22 19:02

i think they kicked those 2 poor german players now

sick team

xellow good but not the bestest. cosmeen the best

Personaly I would have tried to get deco or some german talent like askan, but xellow is a good choice and they prolly got him for cheap

2022-12-22 19:18

deko will not come cheap and i m not sure Sprout can afford him. Considering the transfer amount they probably paid for Xellow this might be the best option for them.

2022-12-22 19:36

GL KING siuuuuuuuuuuuuu

2022-12-22 19:17

Maybe they can outedge BiG academy 2:1 now Gl in tier3 sprout

2022-12-22 19:22

Sprout will get into top 15 maybe top 10 if refrezh calls are good enough, solid pick up

2022-12-22 19:30

Let's goo, interesting pick up!

very interesting pickup hope it works out

2022-12-22 19:44

xellow finally left cancer nexus with the notorious match fixer BTN. good for him. still needs to stop drinking and losing nights with cheap whores. at least that was his habits when i visited nexus arena last 5y.

bro what, xellow is in a relationship for a long time and he's introverted and shy irl

2022-12-22 20:09

he is still dating that chubby girl? idk didnt follow for a while. when i was there he dated cheap bartender girl from nexus cafe. and drinking beer all night long.

2022-12-22 20:32

hahahaha if that's true it might just be a wild night, he's not that type of guy.

2022-12-22 20:37

Bro wtf you sound sad as fuck hating on another man like that, he is 22 now meaning he was 17-18 when you met him. Pretty normal to drink beers and fuck around with girls at that age, ESPECIALLY if you live in Romania what else can you do? 💀

2022-12-22 22:02

he's obviously full cap

2022-12-22 22:26

sounds more jealous than cap tbh, maybe you’re right Idk

2022-12-22 22:27

it's exactly the opposite way, xellow didn't left nexus / romania to be with his girlfriend, but haters are always gonna hate i guess

2022-12-22 22:29

Hope it works out, he looked pretty bad on kekstatic

Rip Sprout, he’s not an upgrade to slaxz unfortunately. They should have sold Staehr and get a solid AWPer for that money

2022-12-22 19:56

They could have had hades for free

2022-12-22 20:03

yea, hades >>> xellow. but maybe it will work out cuz of the chemestry between him and launx

2022-12-22 23:43

Would prefer full Danish(regali+k0nfig), but this may become semi sicko as well, but not top5 :/

2022-12-22 20:07

konfig in cph would be amazing

2022-12-23 00:34

Good move

2022-12-22 20:24

This is way too late, he missed his chance long time ago Thank to your friend BTN =)

yea the move seems 3-4 years late

2022-12-22 20:33

He is still young tho

2022-12-22 20:38

Romanian CS pog

2022-12-22 20:25

will be looking up for him

Finally this guy leaves Romania, he’s been t1 caliber for years imo never understood why he hasn’t left earlier

omg finally Xellow on a higher tier team, never thought it would happen

2022-12-22 20:49

disband in 3 months

very good opportunity for him . on paper hades or mantuu looked better but maybe the danish players got good information from his ex danish teammates . DEF an upgrade over slaxz , much better ceiling .

2022-12-22 20:59

why not hades?

2022-12-22 21:01

xellow better

2022-12-22 21:09

1.09 vs tier 7 and they signed him, hahah lmao what a downgrade

2022-12-22 21:07

if you mean the rating from when he played in ecstatic he was playing kinda more supportive but he can definitely be way better than slaxz who has 1.02 rating

2022-12-22 22:21

Noice big upgrade here, make it happen

actually GOAT move for XELLOW, best of luck to the romanian goat

2022-12-22 21:15

Big upgrade for Sprout!

2022-12-22 21:48

xellow finally saved?

2022-12-22 21:58

HOLY SHIT IT’S HAPPENING Still not convinced about refrezh calling but if he can make it work this team could beat anyone on a good day (including FaZe, NaVi etc) Insane potential

2022-12-22 22:04

Finally XELLOW woke up

2022-12-22 22:08

I didn't know there were so many Romanians on hltv but looking at this thread proved me wrong

2022-12-22 22:17

Romania what happened to cosmeeN? i remember him from old times

2022-12-22 22:19

drugs

so basically fnx

2022-12-23 00:44

coke

2022-12-22 22:24

Huuuuuge upgrade. Finally Sprout decided to save their organisation

2022-12-22 23:04

Mantuu better bruh

2022-12-23 00:03

more than decent sign ... peoples been skeptic about Staehr or Launx too when they joined ... Xellow is more than decent in a proper team like Sprout

2022-12-23 04:02

Sprout going full Romanian in 3 months ez $

2022-12-23 09:20

Hope not, romanians have big ego, for no reason.

2022-12-23 10:04

+1 but launx and xellow are some of the best. They could make it work

2022-12-23 11:05

Nah they wont , you have no romanian player for a 3 core , you already have the best upcomer and rifler from romania and the best awper u could get from romania without ego :d . Only iM could be a trio but I highly doubt sprout wants a romanian flag (coz of jerman management + gamer legion wont sell him , he is their stable pillar)

2022-12-27 01:16

idk if this is happening but what I can say: one of the most impressive human beings I met in my life, with a great attitude towards CS, with an inhuman skill and aim. Good teamplayer with a huge clutch probability. For people in doubt, you said the same about launX, but you aren’t ready for Xellow supremacy, if this is happening they will join the teams that are in T1 very shortly.

2022-12-23 10:08

how much did you ask for him and how much they paid?

2022-12-23 10:54

it would be a shame if this transfer is not happening, it's not everyday a team with this potential comes asking for you, make it happen anguts

2022-12-23 11:13

He is such a good player! Good luck, man, you really deserve this!

2022-12-23 10:43

sprout will be top 1 next year

2022-12-23 11:39

rip sprout

2022-12-23 12:05

Just as it was RIP for NiP since AlecsiB came

2022-12-23 21:32

xellow's form is insane right now, I was expecting a big team to buy him. I just hope refrezh knows how to use him to his full potential.

2022-12-23 12:42

another bad player from romania, when will they realize that players from that region don't work in t1

2022-12-23 14:04

who are the other "bad players" from romania? there are like 4 players playing in international teams and they're all good

2022-12-23 14:14

still better than the entire norwegian scene

2022-12-23 18:55

who

2022-12-24 23:00

nvm you changed the flag from norway to somalia so it's gg already

2022-12-24 23:05

thank you for admitting i was correct.

2022-12-24 23:06

finally xellow gets a chance idk why it took him so long, hes carrying romanian scene for 5 years

2022-12-23 14:35

Xellow is a bot, this is a mistake

2022-12-23 18:32

Gl xellow I find it interesting how romanians perform decent in tier 2 for now but when they are a full romanian team they can't do it. Why? I mean...xellow + launx were in the same team but didn't performed in T2 .. Also I've seen l0rd in fpl playing like crazy but when he was in full romanian team he didn't performed well Are they more hard workers when they mix up with players from another countries? And between them ( romanians ) each one of them put the ego first?

2022-12-23 19:24

i don't think is because their ego, because the ex-onetap team had some very humble players. i think is because the orgs are not very professional and they let the players do whatever they want.

2022-12-23 19:37

They have no tactics and play matchmaking style. Plus Nexus throw a lot

2022-12-24 23:34

we usually don't like romanians :)), like when i play faceit i prefer not to be teamed up with romanians because they are toxic and sometimes don't know how to play, but this doesn't sum up why romanian teams don't perform, in my opinion there are alot of factors that may affect this, mood, momentum, like when Nexus started getting results in 2020, they got up to top30-40, highest ever but when 2021 started, they didn't have the same momentum and since then they started going down + iM left to GL leaving a big gap in the team I also suffer from this "disease", when i'm not in the mood or i don't have a momentum, I can't peek, aim, concentrate, just like i'm trolling

2022-12-25 03:19

romanian cs stonks

2022-12-23 21:40

grats for xellow , the nicest romanian player and such a talented guy . Somehow the biggest romanian talents are in the same team , I hope they work out because if refrezh knows how to use launx and xellow ,god damn sprout can become a nightmare for a lot of teams

2022-12-27 01:17