NKT unveil new lineup featuring Gratisfaction

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:

Indonesia Hansel "⁠BnTeT⁠" Ferdinand
Korea Hyun-Pyo "⁠XigN⁠" Lee
Mongolia Erdenetsogt "⁠erkaSt⁠" Gantulga
New Zealand Sean "⁠Gratisfaction⁠" Kaiwai
Mongolia Munkhtogtokh "⁠xerolte⁠" Enkhbat

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

Mongolia Yesuntumur 'nin9' Gantulga
Yesuntumur 'nin9' Gantulga
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.05
Maps played:
462
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.63
Mongolia Erdenetsogt 'erkaSt' Gantulga
Erdenetsogt 'erkaSt' Gantulga
Age:
28
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.11
Maps played:
933
KPR:
0.76
DPR:
0.66
Mongolia Azbayar 'Senzu' Munkhbold
Azbayar 'Senzu' Munkhbold
Age:
16
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.99
Maps played:
90
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.73
Korea Hyun-Pyo 'XigN' Lee
Hyun-Pyo 'XigN' Lee
Age:
26
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.13
Maps played:
791
KPR:
0.77
DPR:
0.65
New Zealand Sean 'Gratisfaction' Kaiwai
Sean 'Gratisfaction' Kaiwai
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.05
Maps played:
923
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.62
Indonesia Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand
Hansel 'BnTeT' Ferdinand
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.14
Maps played:
1083
KPR:
0.76
DPR:
0.63
Mongolia Munkhtogtokh 'xerolte' Enkhbat
Munkhtogtokh 'xerolte' Enkhbat
Age:
19
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.95
Maps played:
136
KPR:
0.66
DPR:
0.70
#1
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New Zealand SkirmishX
GOATISFACTION
2023-04-10 15:18
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#56
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Yugoslavia Acceb
Sk0r was available and they do this?
2023-04-10 16:33
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#59
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Mongolia TsedenD
It was decided before Sk0r left ihc
2023-04-10 16:56
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#77
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Mongolia temukkun
sk0r won't join NKT lul
2023-04-10 19:00
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+1
2023-04-10 19:17
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Damn, actually excited
2023-04-10 15:18
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gratatatata ok but senzu shouldve stayed
2023-04-10 15:19
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#22
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United States MrNorwood
Yeah, I wonder about this one.
2023-04-10 15:32
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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
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“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
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#4
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North America minte
what the hell
2023-04-10 15:19
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asian and oce mix interesting i like it
2023-04-10 15:19
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GRATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA
2023-04-10 15:19
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rip senzu lean
2023-04-10 15:19
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#9
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Brazil DIM4S
Solid tier 3 team! Congrats
2023-04-10 15:21
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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
2023-04-10 15:21
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I mean Grayhound beat themongolz in the rmr tho
2023-04-10 15:57
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#39
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Denmark 12inchNRG
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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5 replies
hopefully major at least one of them makes legends to give another spot for asia and develop the scene
2023-04-10 17:04
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#71
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United States MrNorwood
+1
2023-04-10 18:30
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#74
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Denmark 12inchNRG
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
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#88
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United States Dug
Nevermind. Made a mistake.
2023-04-10 21:06
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some1 didnt watch the game:)))
2023-04-10 18:56
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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
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hello
2023-04-10 15:24
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xccurate instead of xerolte and this is the best asian lineup ever
2023-04-10 15:24
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maybe in the future :( i think xccurate is a valorant player now
2023-04-10 15:40
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4 replies
oh fuck you're right i forgot
2023-04-10 16:14
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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
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#87
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Russia froelz1337
sadge, wouldve loved to see him play with bntet again
2023-04-10 20:37
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I mean, he tweeted "Wow CS2 😍" So he still has the passion for the game and can come back
2023-04-10 21:27
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grat(s)
2023-04-10 15:24
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#15
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Noppo | 
China TylootoMajor
LETS GOOOO
2023-04-10 15:24
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#16
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Australia boblao
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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6 replies
#38
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Netherlands itsm
Bntet got starplayer firepower so makes sense
2023-04-10 16:03
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3 replies
#41
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Australia boblao
asia has an abundance of star aimers all their missing is igls
2023-04-10 16:10
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2 replies
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
2023-04-10 19:00
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Star aimer without brain, they need someone like Zeus, Dosia, or Adren etc onboard
2023-04-11 04:18
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before bntet was igling he was lurk/entry
2023-04-10 19:11
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1 reply
#95
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Australia boblao
2023-04-11 01:49
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ez for MSL
2023-04-10 15:25
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1 reply
#98
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Europe Putin69
Delete your account!
2023-04-11 04:19
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The last dance: asia edition
2023-04-10 15:27
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#19
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United States Frostycow4
Good to see the Asian CS:GO/CS2 Scene still kicking and bringing international play to their rosters.
2023-04-10 15:27
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Oh
2023-04-10 15:28
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#21
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Latvia GetANick
First steps for "Asia's Faze / G2"
2023-04-10 15:31
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#23
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United States MrNorwood
Should be interesting to see how this lineup does.
2023-04-10 15:34
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#24
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Australia Skycap
LETS GOOO
2023-04-10 15:35
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#25
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United Kingdom eyre
GRATATA THE GOAT
2023-04-10 15:36
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huh, that's neat
2023-04-10 15:38
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aaaand... what are they aiming for? CS2 1st Major? That`s hella far away...
2023-04-10 15:39
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#73
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United States MrNorwood
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
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Honestly very interesting, hope they do well!
2023-04-10 15:39
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wat
2023-04-10 15:40
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WTF MENS
2023-04-10 15:41
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#32
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Indonesia ycrows
please
2023-04-10 15:46
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good names i'll be sheering for them
2023-04-10 15:49
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He joined the legendary polish pride player!!
2023-04-10 15:53
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Pog gratata
2023-04-10 15:54
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#37
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China halflife2
We call him “little mustache” in China.
2023-04-10 16:00
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#45
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Ukraine Lud0_
Why is that, elaborate please, grati's mustache is quite big
2023-04-10 16:12
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big mustache is juanflatroo
2023-04-11 14:48
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#40
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Australia bsharp)
grat should be igl tbh, erkast and polish beast have much more firepower xerolte support/anchor?
2023-04-10 16:08
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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
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#42
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United States lizardgecko
Asian super team for real now??
2023-04-10 16:10
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#43
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Poland csRIOTgo
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!
2023-04-10 16:10
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#63
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Mongolia bayraa0227
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
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Is meta better than mesa trash? Are they the same people?
2023-04-10 18:02
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#105
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Poland csRIOTgo
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
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#44
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Brazil rafaelml
wow actually a great team!! gl to nkt
2023-04-10 16:12
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#46
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Scotland tr@c
Cool team tbh
2023-04-10 16:14
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#47
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Mongolia TmJay
GRATATATATA
2023-04-10 16:14
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#49
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Netherlands itsm
Erkast having played with australians before, grat playing with bntet before, xign and the other one both asians. This could actually work!
2023-04-10 16:14
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NKT > Faze
2023-04-10 16:20
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POG
2023-04-10 16:21
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#54
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Australia Beard43
GL lads
2023-04-10 16:23
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#55
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Nepal ekadeshma
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
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almost every player they kicked/got poached achieving peak performance(y4mi, annihilation,sk0r etc)
2023-04-10 17:26
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nkt = ihc academy team
2023-04-10 21:07
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#57
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Brazil CS_KING
I remember how this guy was famous in 2019 with renegades, they reach berlim major semi final with him
2023-04-10 16:49
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Better than the NIP line up
2023-04-10 16:53
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Was only a matter of time until Grat ended up in Thailand with that dodgy moustache.
2023-04-10 17:04
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Ladyboy incoming 🤣🤣
2023-04-11 04:21
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let’s go papa grati
2023-04-10 17:14
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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
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what the hell
2023-04-10 17:30
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#68
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United States vip3r_k1ng
Monumental W
2023-04-10 17:57
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This team is sick
2023-04-10 18:31
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I do not like this
2023-04-10 19:00
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interesting cant wait to see how it pans out and hopefully it doesnt go to the shitter
2023-04-10 19:12
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Nice
2023-04-10 19:16
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#83
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Czech Republic maXX_CZ
sk0r would be sick, but dunno about his communication capabilities. That said, still very interesting lineup after a while.
2023-04-10 19:20
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#85
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India arc_
Hello HLTV devs, the tooltip that pops up on hovering over NKT still shows the old lineup.
2023-04-10 19:26
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Cool looking lineup!
2023-04-10 19:33
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GL
2023-04-10 21:08
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#91
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Poland BIGGEST_DONK_FAN
Pog
2023-04-10 21:13
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#93
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Australia opzy
erkast and grat reunited <3
2023-04-11 00:42
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#94
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United Kingdom Theodoooore
Gucci gratata returns I like this lineup a lot
2023-04-11 00:57
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#96
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North America USLE
Grat will be hitting flicks ez
2023-04-11 04:16
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Good luck
2023-04-11 10:37
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Good to see Grat still competing, I'll be following this squad's progress.
2023-04-11 16:45
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I hope CS2 will bring new life to asian scene.
2023-04-11 16:58
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