OG invited to IEM Dallas; regali to step in for degster

17-5-2023 17:11

The Russian AWPer was scheduled to take time off after the BLAST Paris Major.

ESL has announced that OG will round up the team list for their upcoming IEM Dallas 2023 tournament. The European squad was not initially supposed to compete at the event, but stepped in based on their ESL Ranking when an unannounced team backed out of the competition.

Due to the short notice nature of the invite, Abdul "⁠degster⁠" Gasanov will not travel with the squad to Texas, USA as he was scheduled to take time off after the conclusion of the BLAST Paris Major. OG subsequently named Iulian "⁠regali⁠" Harjău as their substitute AWPer for the duration of the tournament.

OG were invited based on their ESL ranking

OG will join the likes of HEROIC, G2, and ENCE in the American LAN looking to take home the lion's share of a $250,000 prize pool as well as a direct invite to IEM Cologne 2023. The tournament victors will also join Vitality in the race for the Intel Grand Slam Season 5 as the trophy will also reward one of the four necessary wins to take the $1,000,000 prize.

The list of teams attending IEM Dallas is as follows:

regali is currently a free agent following his benching from Copenhagen Flames and the eventual bankruptcy of the Danish organization. The Romanian AWPer shined alongside the squad for five months, registering a 1.20 rating throughout several online competitions.

Copenhagen Flames files for bankruptcy

The 20-year-old AWPer will have big shoes to fill as degster has been OG's main star since his arrival in July 2022 and the team's most consistent fragger. To make things more difficult for regali, he has not seen official play since March and IEM Dallas will be his first LAN event since WePlay Academy League Season 1 Finals in August 2021.

OG will field the following lineup in Dallas:

Nikolaj "⁠niko⁠" Kristensen
Maciej "⁠F1KU⁠" Miklas
Adam "⁠NEOFRAG⁠" Zouhar
Shahar "⁠flameZ⁠" Shushan
Iulian "⁠regali⁠" Harjău (substitute)

Casper "⁠ruggah⁠" Due (coach)

Will this be in cs2?

2023-05-17 17:13

12 replies

umm... no

2023-05-17 17:14

8 replies

stop giving free spot to these overrated teams

2023-05-17 17:41

7 replies

they are partners bro. cope

2023-05-17 17:49

6 replies

no, they were invited due to ''ranking''. But it's fun in my opinion, you don't give replacement spot to teams like Monte or Gl, who play good now and are much better than og and who are hyped and can give you views. +OG without degster

2023-05-17 18:03

5 replies

Nope, they were invited because they were 3rd in the Qualifier.

2023-05-17 18:13

1 reply

They were 3rd in the closed qualufier where they were invited cuz of ranking

2023-05-17 19:20

again the same then you understand Monte and GL is fucking nonames and in long run noody interest in this teams its short time hype nothing more

2023-05-17 19:36

2 replies

Og is pretty shitty and noone cares about them after after sexa bench either

2023-05-17 23:40

+1 gl better than og both gameplay and interest wise

2023-05-29 13:11

lol. no next year for sure

2023-05-17 18:32

There is still many tournaments in csgo lmao dont even thonk of cs2 tournaments until game is fully released and ready for competitive play…

2023-05-18 01:29

Won't be a cs2 tournament for a while, at least not a proper one. Even Cologne will be in CSGO whether cs2 is out already or not.

2023-05-23 10:48

nice

Deserved

3 replies

hold this L

2023-05-17 19:25

joking XD

2023-05-18 04:42

i know bro, I made offensive comment and had to edit fast

2023-05-18 11:30

end the partner teams circus

Who would've thought they invite OG, right? Tough choice for ESL: pick not a partner team with full roster or pick partner with unclear future without preparation. Who even needs this thing called competitiveness

2023-05-17 17:27

OG was actually the next team up from the Closed Qualifier, so deserved I guess at least if you don't take into account all the roster circus.

2023-05-17 18:12

I must agree with that. I was wrong.

It's honestly ridiculous. There's about 20 teams that are better than OG. And that's being nice to OG.

2023-05-17 18:14

make own tournament invest and do without patner teams and e heppy therer is prolem, nobody who has brains give money forr noname teams.

2023-05-17 19:39

COPE HARDER. tell your fav team to invest instead of moneygrabbing

2023-05-18 00:37

so once we pick a team from ranking, once a team from closed quali nice ESL xDDD btw OG is #17

Sooooo - NIP or BIG as they are the only EU team aside from Vitality in front of OG, that isn’t attending….

2023-05-17 17:21

9ine is tenth in their ranking

2023-05-17 17:47

#38 there is supposedly some weird thing going on where Polish teams that should be next in line from the closed quals dont get invited in favour of a ranking team now magically they decide to enforce this rule sskipping 9INE Its just ESL doing standard ESL bullshit

wat

What about 9ine?

regali will be huge. Benched in CPH Flames with such a rating, then bankruptcy. Karma hits hard. Now its time for him to get what deserves.

2023-05-17 17:16

4 replies

Didn't he leave on his own ?

2023-05-17 17:48

rumors are he got benched cus hes toxic or unclear comms maybe both

2023-05-17 18:04

there so no rumors that he was toxic, where's that came from???

2023-05-17 18:08

Totally bullshit about regali being toxic in any way.

2023-05-17 19:15

Lessgo regali, hope he does good and ends up on Liquid or mouz. One of the most promising AWPers in the scene

2023-05-17 17:17

W OPINION

2023-05-17 17:19

Imagine he does so good og keep him instead of degster and degster gets mantuu'd

2023-05-17 19:23

Yeah that'd be quite ironic if they'll kick him with the same move they got him

2023-05-17 19:40

OG is rebuilding anyways, but if they build around regali, flamez & fiku they could do some damage.

2023-05-17 20:06

-fiku also, he is not good enough

2023-05-17 20:35

Least delusional Polak

2023-05-18 01:32

I would like that but I also would like to see nexa back tbh, feels like he had bigger ambitions and more motivation than these other guys seem to have so he couldn't be arsed to IGL if everyone wants to do minimum practice and play like PUGs all the time. Pure shot in the dark here but that's my feels about the nexa bench/kick.

2023-05-17 23:48

he had beef with flamez & degster per sources

2023-05-18 00:01

degster to mouz confirmed

2023-05-17 17:18

yay

2023-05-17 17:23

let's go regali!

2023-05-17 17:24

I don't think he'll continue with og anymore

2023-05-17 17:26

>Team which is underperforming >With a stand-in Also, they're 19th in ESL ranking, is it really first uninvited team? Can anyone explain to me? xDDD fkin joke

#21

2023-05-17 17:29

Also I really love those categories to explain why the same teams on the list: 1) Partner Team 2) Invited 3) ESL Ranking 4) Replacement Team A big variety in which you can find a spot.

2023-05-17 17:38

yes it is a joke. 9ine #10 place esl ranking and not invited but 9z #61 in esl ranking and invited. Poland always get f***ed

OG was actually third in the Closed Qualifier after C9 and Astralis who both qualified into the tournament through that.

2023-05-17 18:15

I could be wrong, but it seems like I've already seen those participants. ESL episode 949 with the same actors incoming, let's see who's got higher rank this time

2023-05-17 17:28

take time off = kicked

2023-05-17 17:31

Can’t fucking wait to be there

2023-05-17 17:34

enjoy yourself, i won't attend but went last year and it was sm fun

2023-05-17 17:39

Thanks man

2023-05-17 23:08

unannounced? VP said on twitter they pulled out of the event.

2023-05-17 17:37

Wasted spot

Should of been itb tbh

2023-05-17 17:40

irrelevant event

2023-05-17 17:42

Regali redemption time

I hope regali does well so he can earn himself a future in a T1 team. I also hope Nouns do well so the future of NA cs doesn't look as bleak. With pain on the come up I want to see the NA scene become more competitive, Im tired of Complexity and Liquid being the only relevant teams