Fluxo exploring nqz, zews additions - Report

26-12-2022 23:32

The Brazilian team are looking to make changes heading into the new year.

Fluxo are exploring options to replace Lucas "⁠lux⁠" Meneghini and coach Willian "⁠Xamp⁠" Caldas, with 9z's Lucas "⁠nqz⁠" Soares and two-time Major champion Wilton "⁠zews⁠" Prado emerging as likely candidates to fill the positions according to reports from The Enemy and Dust2.com.br.

nqz has been a part of 9z for six months, during which he has averaged a 1.19 rating and quickly become the team's star player. He had particularly strong performances in 9z's domestic competition appearances, but also fared well at the IEM Road to Rio Americas RMR and during the Challengers Stage of the Major, impressing with the AWP.

nqz is on Fluxo's wishlist for the new year

nqz's arrival on the team would liberate Adriano "⁠WOOD7⁠" Cerato from the pressure of the Big Green and allow him to focus solely on in-game leading, while simultaneously providing Fluxo a boost in overall firepower by replacing their second-lowest rated member with a stable, impactful AWPer.

According to Dust2.com.br, negotiations between 9z and Fluxo are in advanced stages, but an agreement has yet to be reached. Fluxo are also exploring the option of replacing their coach, Xamp, and have began early conversations with zews.

The former Luminosity and Liquid coach has been largely inactive since departing Evil Geniuses in 2021, only briefly returning to coach O PLANO at the IEM Road to Rio Americas RMR. He ruled out a return to competition in July, citing the hectic travel schedule, time away from home, and poor diet as reasons he didn't want to return.

However, with more domestic competitions taking place in South America and Fluxo not being a partner team in any of the top leagues, zews would be able to comfortably coach the team while remaining in Brazil for larger swathes of the year. A prospective move to Fluxo would also reunite the 35-year-old with João "⁠felps⁠" Vasconcellos, whom he played alongside on Immortals in 2016 and coached on MIBR in 2019.

Dust2.com.br also pointed towards former FURIA assistant coach Marcos "⁠tacitus⁠" Castilho as a possible candidate to fill Xamp's position. Both tacitus and zews are free agents, so Fluxo have the ability to consider their choices without the added hurdle of a buyout, unlike in nqz's case.

Should both moves come to fruition, Fluxo's roster would be:

Adriano "⁠WOOD7⁠" Cerato
João "⁠felps⁠" Vasconcellos
Lucas "⁠Lucaozy⁠" Neves
Vinicius "⁠vsm⁠" Moreira
Lucas "⁠nqz⁠" Soares

Wilton "⁠zews⁠" Prado (coach)

Sounds good!

2022-12-26 23:32

ez for nqz

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Great lineup to farm malta vibes and esl cash cups, cant wait for fluxo to become the next lion of tier 3

2022-12-27 00:12

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0/8 haters stay hating

2022-12-27 00:33

zews the goat

2022-12-26 23:33

bro zews is like robban from NA xDDDDD free money as "coach" xaxa😋

2022-12-27 10:03

fallen wins nothing without zews

2022-12-27 16:53

nqz please go to furia. zews is solid tho

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T2 brasil stats are overrated Saffee had better stats in Pain compared to nqz

2022-12-26 23:39

nqz is 11 years younger than saffee lmao

2022-12-26 23:44

omg, you're right, i've never realized this lol, their age difference is huge

2022-12-27 01:33

furia is the marketing and corporatism team, they will never have big titles.

2022-12-27 03:30

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stop making up excuses to hate on Furia, Faze and G2 are much more invested in those areas and they still win titles, furia has been improving their game and getting better results every year and also has proven over and over that they are the best Br team by a large margin

2022-12-27 16:28

you are brazilian root: illiterate since when does personal opinion/criticism have to do with hate? expected....

2022-12-28 10:19

yeah that was 100% a constructive criticism right? Not like all the other brazilian "fans" that are constantly shitting on Furia saying this kinda of stuff while licking the boots of retired players I'm sure you are the exception, also you are the one who should probably go back to school as sharing a personal opinion/criticism and hating aren't excluvie, or do you think Hitler was just sharing his particular opinions while doing propaganda against jews?

2022-12-28 14:35

not now, Furia doens't need changes right now and nqz still needs more tier 2 experience before going to a tier 1 team

2022-12-27 16:22

Hope, finally I am feeling hope in the Brazilian scenario.

2022-12-26 23:34

Zews changing teams 4 times a year

2022-12-26 23:37

he's been literally retired for the past 3 years

2022-12-27 00:10

Flukeso kicking bot awper nice

2022-12-26 23:38

no, awper/igl going to just igl and worst player on the team getting kicked.

2022-12-27 03:02

2022-12-27 06:04

i dont think lux is the worst player. I honestly believe he is the one with the most potential.

2022-12-27 18:39

Fluxo smart org, understand that you can't win shit with a BOT AWP abuser Huge for them

2022-12-26 23:40

Nqz > Saffee

2022-12-27 23:27

their last game against 9z really did something huh? lux 0.52 rating against 9z

2022-12-26 23:41

cmon Furia don't let that happen. nqz > Saffee

2022-12-26 23:45

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not with arT on the team

2022-12-26 23:47

Nah I think saffee isn't doing that bad

2022-12-27 04:11

but nqz is arguably better and he is so much younger. it would be a no brainer not to pick him up

2022-12-27 04:45

But he not agressive just was furia play

2022-12-27 06:05

Why would nqz downgrade?

2022-12-26 23:51

its not a downgrade tho.

2022-12-27 02:51

it is more money in fluxo though

2022-12-27 06:09

Lux is a good player, and with the addition of NQZ, Fluxo will play with 2 AWP ??? I hope this change is good, but I don't believe Fluxo had any issues...

WOOD7 already was a rifler before awping

2022-12-26 23:57

Wood7 would become a rifler and nqz would arrive as an impact awper

2022-12-27 02:07

Zews "TwoMajors" Toledo, nice addition, hard-worker coach, Nqz interesting too

2022-12-26 23:56

Why nqz downgrade?

2022-12-26 23:58

$$$ (Fluxo's owners are really rich) and communicating in his native language

2022-12-27 00:03

fair enough

2022-12-27 01:37

Don't take nqz away from 9z or I get mad

2022-12-27 00:23

you will get mad, at least you have world cup

You have 5 lol

2022-12-27 19:06

Zews goat coach

2022-12-27 00:30

Finally woody won't pick AWP ever again thanks God, fluxo now have a real shot to actually go to a major.

2022-12-27 00:34

In one of his episodes with kassad, Thorin said Fluxo paid $320k for Lucaozy's contract. He looked insane toward the end of the year, wouldn't surprise me at all to see Fluxo top 20 soon

2022-12-27 00:53

It was €325k

2022-12-27 02:04

Great, F Fluxo and F 9z

2022-12-27 01:25

idk, this move doesn't look that promissing... nqz should join furia instead.

2022-12-27 01:35

Facts

2022-12-27 06:06

tier 3

2022-12-27 01:36

inb4 the npc saying luken/meyern/try should fill-in for nqz

2022-12-27 01:49

If nqz goes, id like to see what fakzwall can do

2022-12-28 04:04

zews bad coach

2022-12-27 02:21

Lol lux is terrible player but wood also. Nqz is on tier 3 level max

2022-12-27 02:39

Keeping wood7 instead of lux doesn't seem promising tbh. But nqz will probably carry them to major, so fair enough.

2022-12-27 02:47

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Yeah, just kick the best available IGL. Worked out so great for mibr!

2022-12-27 10:26

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mibr was never good though, this team could go places with lucaozy, nqz and felps.

2022-12-27 12:53

Wood7 is at least in the top 3 best igl in South America, the teams he was always "smurfed" here in Brazil

2022-12-27 23:31

Well, Fluxo aims bigger and dreams bigger, so they won't be pleased with only doing good in Br. They won't do shit with Wood7.

2022-12-28 19:18

There is no one more available, unless Fallen comes and fulfills two functions, this is the best possible option on the market

2022-12-28 22:14

+1. WOODY is super good as an IGL, but a horrible awper, And lux was a big liability in terms of firepower.

9z go for Try pls

nqz is so good

2022-12-27 02:56

Honestly, the Fluxo lineup is slowly shaping into a pretty strong team

2022-12-27 03:44

Realistically Fluxo is a top5 SA team, shame they missed out on the major

2022-12-27 04:10

They're probably 2nd after Furia imo. 9z and MIBR may be up there too, but Imperial and 00Nation are dead ends imo Edit: forgor about PaiN. They're in the same category as 9z and MIBR imo

2022-12-27 07:52

Nice words 1-Furia 2-Fluxo 3-Pain

2022-12-27 23:32

That would boost them for sure

2022-12-27 04:31

9z should get Try if this happens.

2022-12-27 06:11

They tried getting him back before bringing nqz, but obviously his buyout was bigger that what 00 paid for him, so negotiations failed. Now that he has found his footing, and with nqz taken, they don't have the money and 00 doesn't have a replacement, so i don't think that's possible. Saving RCF from the trainwreck that is Case would be super cool, though!

2022-12-28 22:30

nqz is a young good player. Nice trade for Fluxo. Best Brazilian team if it happens.

2022-12-27 08:19

not upgrade over 9z

2022-12-27 09:39

cya in paris

2022-12-27 10:56

Nice

2022-12-27 11:07

Good pick ups for the team

2022-12-27 11:41

rip FLUXO

2022-12-27 11:48

nqz is tier 3 player lmfao

2022-12-27 11:56

In your head cold, fallen, fer, fnx, taco started their career playing against the best tier 1 players in the world

2022-12-27 12:56

next report: fluxo kicking zews

2022-12-27 13:20

Why ''Zews kicked'' jokes? He was coaching for only like 2 teams in the last 5-6 years. At O Plano he is just standing/helping

2022-12-27 13:27

bro he is just like glaive these days/years. and i mean finished.

2022-12-27 15:28

holy moly, actually sick moves that potentially could make Fluxo somewhat compete with tier 1 I'm a fan

2022-12-27 13:45

Lucas => Lucas Willian => Wilton hmhm

2022-12-27 14:07

-WOOD7 pls

2022-12-27 19:35

good choices

2022-12-27 23:48

+ nqz - wood7

2022-12-28 04:24

Lux>>>>wood7

2022-12-28 04:37

Wood is IGL

2022-12-28 22:15

Felps...

2022-12-29 22:00

definitely not

2022-12-30 06:27

Why

2022-12-30 22:17

Felps is not Igl and see what is happening with teams that try to put players from another role like Igl

2023-01-01 06:54

Seriously, super exciting change!! WOODY is awesome as an IGL, but a horrible awper, And lux was a big liability in terms of firepower. You can see it in Fluxo's games even against tier 1 teams, their strats are almost always on point (very high rate of T plants and almost never getting outsmarted on CT). But on T side they ALWAYS have to hold the site 2v3/2v4 because lux and WOODY died with almost no impact trying to take the site and the other guy was a 1 for 1 trade. And on CT side they always choose the right site to stack, but WOODY had died earlier trying (and failing) to get an impact kill with the AWP, and the site with lux has effectively just one CT, so third guy takes 1 or even 2, but the other 2 are forced to save because they are outnumbered. It's so sad to see. It was the same on MIBR, i just wish they had decided for kicking Tuurtle and doing this after bringing HEN1 instead of removing him. But anyway, exit seems promising as IGL, and we REALLY need those around here, so at least that's a win for the scene.

2022-12-28 22:24