HLTV Confirmed with TaZ: Retirement, Rio results, and Major expectations

26-4-2023 20:05

The Polish Major winner joins the standard crew to talk about his career and the last week in Counter-Strike.

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Join Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill, Zvonimir "⁠Professeur⁠" Burazin, Milan "⁠Striker⁠" Švejda, and special guest Wiktor "⁠TaZ⁠" Wojtas at 20:00 tonight on Twitch to hear about the former Virtus.pro player's decision to step away from competition, and what is next in store for him.

TaZ will take time for the Confirmed show

The quartet will also speak about what happened at IEM Rio, especially the new Polish hope 9INE, but also Vitality's championship that came at the expense of Cloud9 and HEROIC, the FaZe struggles, and more.

HLTV Confirmed live from Espot Paris ticket sale starts on tonight (April 26), at 20:30 .

Find the whole topic list below:

Hot seat
- TaZ's retirement, end of HONORIS
- Looking back at his achievements
- Vox Pop: Iconic TaZ
- Future
Recent news
- Quickfire: B8, EF, Viperio, TeamOne, Sprout, Astralis
- Skinionaire
Rio and beyond
- 9INE - new Polish hope
- Vitality raises the trophy
- Heroic second, again
- Another Cloud9 collapse, FaZe bomb out
- NAVI development check-in
- What is happening before the Major?
Playtime
- Question of the week

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Taz should be coach The experience that he would be able to pass would be insane

2023-04-26 12:19

13 replies

Taz is a prodigy

2023-04-26 12:20

2023-04-26 12:21

maybe he's too tired to do it but it would definitely be one of the biggest losses for this game if he would choose not to

2023-04-26 12:25

7 replies

He's not. He actually wants to be a coach.

2023-04-26 12:50

How can he be tired? He's only 36 , outside of cs world it's still not that old, people work hard until their late 60s

2023-04-26 12:59

5 replies

maybe he meant tired from cs

2023-04-26 13:37

#18 he has enough money to start a business and/or invest (might've done that already) and maybe he wants to stay away from cs. after all, it's not like being a coach is easy, some of them spend 10+ hours every day just watching demos and shit. you still need to have a passion for the game if you want to be good

2023-04-26 13:42

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he earned 600 000$ in ten years, which means 60k/years, do you really think hes a millionar or what? He may have 100 or 200k spare, which is far from beeing enough to retire and live from investement... edit : sorry, I also forgot his salary from VP, he may be fare above, my bad.

2023-04-26 14:29

Yeah. Kids have no idea. They think you become completely geriatric when you become an actual adult. The brain doesn’t even fully develope until you are 25. It’s just about wanting something enough. As you get older, single-mindedness is harder to deal with.

2023-04-26 13:52

I think they’re talking about being tired of cs. Not saying he needs to retire and never work again, just that he may be done with cs and needs a new outlet, a fresh start with some new project or passion.

2023-04-27 02:52

Taz should be the leader of a polish team for cs2, without a doubt golden5 was the best on their era.

2023-04-26 15:51

2 replies

Taz is 36 he cant be leader anymore but he can be a coach.

2023-04-26 18:02

I actually meant that. Sorry if that was not clear.

2023-04-27 23:27

"What is your favorite memory of TaZ's playing career?" - His retirement.

That's because you weren't alive during his prime years so you're probably a 5 year old child.

2023-04-26 13:19

Mercedes

2023-04-26 13:22

Collapse9 :/

2023-04-26 12:22

kaz my goat

2023-04-26 12:33

legend

2023-04-26 12:38

Big love to the legend, no homo

2023-04-26 12:44

Seeing taZ with hair is my favorite memory. no pun intended xD

2023-04-26 13:00

respect man

2023-04-26 13:09

My 2 favorite TaZ moments: youtube.com/watch?v=up2LAklO9dI youtube.com/watch?v=lrh5HGCpirs

2023-04-26 13:27

6 replies

2023-04-26 14:20

youtu.be/M753K8qzHaU and this <3

2023-04-26 15:07

Back when pros actually had a personality and weren't bots like the zoomers nowadays

2023-04-26 15:19

they aren't bots either today, but they get coached in PR answers today which fucking sucks. Best example for that is Astralis, did you watch the last confirmed episode with device? He even defended fucking HUNDEN with classic bullshit PR answers instead of giving his own opinion.

2023-04-26 16:12

Quite unfortunate really

2023-04-26 17:04

insane how much olofs voice changed over the years

2023-04-26 15:56

When are we gonna get good guests on this show ? Only retired, tier 2 pros and Pimp

2023-04-26 13:28

8 replies

Man respect legend

2023-04-26 13:50

hltv.org/news/35713/device-on-hltv-confi.. Yeah, you're right - they never have good guests

2023-04-26 14:00

This is clearly an exception

2023-04-26 14:02

4 replies

It is like the showmatch in an event.The players who play it have lost. The podcast last 2 or 3 hr. The major is really near. So, their time is precious.

2023-04-26 14:07

3 replies

I know that but Thorin (who is supposedly hated in the scene lol) gets some of the best guests for his Reflection videos but HLTV pretty much cant find anyone good

2023-04-26 14:10

You' right, but thorin pre record some videos. The interview is sometimes two or three weeks old when he releases it. Thorin loves to attack some players (ex. device, yekindar, issaa), but the rest of community doesn't hate him IMO. Tldr his reflection are really good.

2023-04-26 14:16

True, I just hope HLTV can bring more top tier players in the future

2023-04-26 14:18

this is a t5 player by his standard.

2023-04-26 14:04

Ask about Mercedez

2023-04-26 13:49

they actually did lmao

2023-04-28 00:27

The hottest topic which can't be outdated ) Thanks for the info, should rewatch this then

2023-04-28 09:42

was asked towards the end, if you watch it on hltv’s youtube you can find timestamps in the description of the video

2023-04-28 09:56

Awesome, saved me a lot of time. Have a great day, mate

2023-04-28 10:05

finally will watch this

2023-04-26 13:59

Would be like a dream if TaZ somehow became a help to 9ine(assistant coach, analyst, maybe if Nawrot left he wouldve became a coach but obviously thats unlikely anytime soon coz why would he?). Theyre already playing like a top 10/15 team, they just need time to grind their way into the toplist and with somebody like TaZ it would take them less time and also they would have a higher peak.

2023-04-26 14:14

hltv.org/matches/2297019/virtuspro-vs-ki..

2023-04-26 14:21

"Kinguin team ma frend? they have no chance to win, no chance"

2023-04-26 16:11

TAZ <3 <3 <3

2023-04-26 14:22

Legend

2023-04-26 15:50

Taz will always be one of the greats

2023-04-26 16:16

This is going to be Amazing

2023-04-26 17:56

Is Nine the best Polish current line-up possible or would you still put in people like dycha etc? After seeing the video of Zywoo partying with Jabbi and Cadian I do wonder whether these things are common: 1. the afterparties and 2. both finalists partying together. (and also if Cadian really did the worm like in the copypasta)

2023-04-26 19:10