NKT unveil new lineup featuring Gratisfaction

10-4-2023 15:17

The Thai organization has also parted ways with coach Enkhtaivan "⁠Machinegun⁠" Lkhagva.

NKT have officially unveiled their revamped lineup and announced the addition of Sean "⁠Gratisfaction⁠" Kaiwai and Munkhtogtokh "⁠xerolte⁠" Enkhbat to the squad. The team have transfer listed Azbayar "⁠Senzu⁠" Munkhbold and Yesuntumur "⁠nin9⁠" Gantulga and parted ways with coach Machinegun.

The reinvigoration of NKT’s roster comes in the wake of a disappointing start to the year for the squad. They kicked off their year by finishing behind Lynn Vision, Rare Atom and Eruption in the Perfect World Arena Premier League before failing to qualify for IEM Rio.

The signing of Gratisfaction is something of a coup for NKT

A win at MESA League Season 3 followed, but without the best teams in Asia in attendance, and they then flopped qualification for the BLAST Paris Major Asia RMR, the BLAST Spring Showdown, and ESL Challenger Melbourne. This coincided with a slide to No. 133 in the world rankings.

As such they have sought new blood, removing ex-The MongolZ player nin9 (who has been their second-best rated player this year) and recent addition Senzu in favor of Gratisfaction and xerolte.

Gratisfaction is best known for his stints on Renegades, 100 Thieves and EXTREMUM, achieving top-four at the StarLadder Major Berlin with Renegades and second place at IEM Beijing with 100 Thieves. 19-year-old xerolte has a more modest CV, having featured for D13 and most recently Renewal, but he has impressed in 2023 with the latter and currently sports a 1.10 rating for the year.

NKT are now:

Hansel "⁠BnTeT⁠" Ferdinand
Hyun-Pyo "⁠XigN⁠" Lee
Erdenetsogt "⁠erkaSt⁠" Gantulga
Sean "⁠Gratisfaction⁠" Kaiwai
Munkhtogtokh "⁠xerolte⁠" Enkhbat

Yesuntumur "⁠nin9⁠" Gantulga (transfer listed)
Azbayar "⁠Senzu⁠" Munkhbold (transfer listed)

GOATISFACTION

2023-04-10 15:18

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Sk0r was available and they do this?

2023-04-10 16:33

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It was decided before Sk0r left ihc

2023-04-10 16:56

sk0r won't join NKT lul

2023-04-10 19:00

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2023-04-10 19:17

Damn, actually excited

gratatatata ok but senzu shouldve stayed

2023-04-10 15:19

Yeah, I wonder about this one.

2023-04-10 15:32

Who even are these guys? I know XigN, Ben10, erkast. I also know the most mediocre awper of all times - Gratisfaction who should be completely washed up after such long absence (his contract with Extremum expired in 2022 but he is inactive since '21 and played few games for Encore after that which doesn't say anything as Encore are bad even by OCE standards) Never heard of Xerolte nor Senzu. Nin9 was mostly carried by Machinegun, erkast, IHC throughout his career, expected bench.

2023-04-10 18:27

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Grat wasn't even AWPing with Encore, he was just a rifler. Sterling stuck with main AWP in the matches he was there for. So it may as well be 2021 since he's played.

2023-04-10 19:22

“As such they have sought new blood, removing ex-TheMongolz player nin9 (who has been their second-best rated player this year)”

2023-04-11 09:07

what the hell

asian and oce mix interesting i like it

GRATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA

rip senzu lean

Solid tier 3 team! Congrats

2023-04-10 15:21

good for gratisfaction to get out there and try to be top player again. in the cs2 event cycle I hope to see these guys out there. But with the emergence of TheMongolz they seem to have taken the number 1 Asia spot away from the classic TyLoo and Renegades/Grayhound. Hope, NKT can make it out there

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I mean Grayhound beat themongolz in the rmr tho

2023-04-10 15:57

Grayhounds spanked Mongolz, and have looked like the better team recently.

2023-04-10 16:06

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'spanked' 2-1 Mongolz win first map, than greyhound wins next two 16-9 than 16-12. I don't think that qualifies as spanking. just wait till major lil bro. Mongolz will do better

2023-04-10 16:19

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hopefully major at least one of them makes legends to give another spot for asia and develop the scene

2023-04-10 17:04

2023-04-10 18:30

You obviously did not watch the game, Grayhounds won it fairly easily. Even on the first map, Anubis which grayhounds are terrible at and Mongolz are good at, Grayhounds probably should have won. Mongolz shouldn't have dropped sk0r as they are not as good without him.

2023-04-10 18:39

Nevermind. Made a mistake.

2023-04-10 21:06

some1 didnt watch the game:)))

2023-04-10 18:56

Dude, I love both teams but give Mongolz a break, they have just changed their roster. They are undoubtedly the best 2 teams in the APAC region so no need to compare them

2023-04-11 14:32

hello

2023-04-10 15:24

xccurate instead of xerolte and this is the best asian lineup ever

maybe in the future :( i think xccurate is a valorant player now

2023-04-10 15:40

oh fuck you're right i forgot

2023-04-10 16:14

ngl Xerolte and Neuz were hard carrying Renewal. They won almost every Inferno game they have played (against IHC, Rare atom, Tyloo, LVG etc you name it) They both had an insane firepower.

2023-04-11 14:43

sadge, wouldve loved to see him play with bntet again

2023-04-10 20:37

I mean, he tweeted "Wow CS2 😍" So he still has the passion for the game and can come back

2023-04-10 21:27

grat(s)

LETS GOOOO

What is NKT management, you got erkast and bntet 2 igls and then you have erkast igl???

2023-04-10 15:25

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Bntet got starplayer firepower so makes sense

2023-04-10 16:03

asia has an abundance of star aimers all their missing is igls

2023-04-10 16:10

Yeah but Asia doesn't have a lot of star players with international experience. That being said, I still don't really understand this roster

Star aimer without brain, they need someone like Zeus, Dosia, or Adren etc onboard

2023-04-11 04:18

before bntet was igling he was lurk/entry

2023-04-10 19:11

#41

2023-04-11 01:49

ez for MSL

Delete your account!

2023-04-11 04:19

The last dance: asia edition

2023-04-10 15:27

Good to see the Asian CS:GO/CS2 Scene still kicking and bringing international play to their rosters.

2023-04-10 15:28

First steps for "Asia's Faze / G2"

2023-04-10 15:31

Should be interesting to see how this lineup does.

2023-04-10 15:34

LETS GOOO

2023-04-10 15:35

GRATATA THE GOAT

2023-04-10 15:36

huh, that's neat

2023-04-10 15:38

aaaand... what are they aiming for? CS2 1st Major? That`s hella far away...

2023-04-10 15:39

Well, they have ECL now and Perfect World in a few weeks, so it's not like there is nothing to play for.

2023-04-10 18:32

Honestly very interesting, hope they do well!

wat

WTF MENS

2023-04-10 15:41

please

2023-04-10 15:46

good names i'll be sheering for them

2023-04-10 15:49

He joined the legendary polish pride player!!

2023-04-10 15:53

Pog gratata

2023-04-10 15:54

We call him “little mustache” in China.

2023-04-10 16:00

Why is that, elaborate please, grati's mustache is quite big

2023-04-10 16:12

big mustache is juanflatroo

2023-04-11 14:48

grat should be igl tbh, erkast and polish beast have much more firepower xerolte support/anchor?

2023-04-10 16:08

when was the last time you watched a NKT game? erkast is far far away from having a star firepower,gratata's there to awp and bntet is there to secondary entry/rifler,only reason paycheck stealer erkast's there is because he's blackmailing NKT

2023-04-10 17:25

Asian super team for real now??

So the rumour from the MESA podcast was true after all. Wonder who's going to be coaching them! Hopefully we can get exciting talent to nurture them!

fyi, FreezeTime is from META, not MESA. META = Mongolian Esports Tournament Arena MESA = Mongolian Esports Association also, if i remember correctly, he (caster kei) said transfers were confirmed and they were leaking it early

2023-04-10 17:15

Is meta better than mesa trash? Are they the same people?

2023-04-10 18:02

Thanks for the info. Interesting... can't wait to see them play. Literally BnTeT's last team. If this didn't work out, I'm afraid probably his last foray as player :(

2023-04-11 14:51

wow actually a great team!! gl to nkt

Cool team tbh

GRATATATATA

Erkast having played with australians before, grat playing with bntet before, xign and the other one both asians. This could actually work!

NKT > Faze

2023-04-10 16:20

POG

2023-04-10 16:21

GL lads

2023-04-10 16:23

Feels like NKT has become a place for washed up players. I don't understand why they did not keep senzu and even yami before. xerolte is a good addition tho.

2023-04-10 16:30

almost every player they kicked/got poached achieving peak performance(y4mi, annihilation,sk0r etc)

2023-04-10 17:26

nkt = ihc academy team

2023-04-10 21:07

I remember how this guy was famous in 2019 with renegades, they reach berlim major semi final with him

2023-04-10 16:49

Better than the NIP line up

2023-04-10 16:53

Was only a matter of time until Grat ended up in Thailand with that dodgy moustache.

Ladyboy incoming 🤣🤣

2023-04-11 04:21

let’s go papa grati

2023-04-10 17:14

Gl for Everyone in this team they always where better than their region but never were lucky enought But gratisfaction wa never a tier 1 player to me so lets see if he can "reborn"

2023-04-10 17:23