Nouns part ways with cynic

The North American organization released its in-game leader and AWPer on Monday.

Nouns have parted ways with their in-game leader David "⁠cynic⁠" Polster. The change came just three days after the team's victory at the ESEA Cash Cup Circuit Finals, which earned the squad a spot in the IEM Fall closed qualifier and a Bootcamp during IEM Cologne in July.

This is the first change in the North American squad since February, when Edgar "⁠MarKE⁠" Maldonado was signed to fill the void left by Bobby "⁠stamina⁠" Eitrem's departure. Nouns will now enter the tournament break looking to fill both the IGL and AWPer roles ahead of their European boot camp next month.

cynic departs Nouns ahead of the summer tournament break

cynic was one of the original members of the Squirtle Squad roster that was acquired by the Nouns organization in September 2022. The North American team quickly became one of the most successful teams in the region's second tier, with the 23-year-old leading them to victory at CCT North America Series 3 as well as qualification for the Regional Major Ranking events for IEM Rio and BLAST.tv Paris, BLAST Premier Spring Showdown, and IEM Dallas.

Nouns struggled to take the next step and claim any significant placements on LAN, missing out on the last two CS:GO Majors before a poor 13-16th place exit at IEM Dallas. The whole team struggled at the Texas event, but it was cynic's 0.59 score that stood out, putting him in the bottom three at the event in terms of rating.

"Today we say farewell to our IGL and one of the foundational players of Nouns CS, cynic," read the statement released by the organization. "We wish him the best moving forward; we've had many great successes with him on our team and we hope to see him continue to excel."

Nouns are now:

United States Christopher "⁠cJ dA K1nG⁠" Jones
United States Brendan "⁠Bwills⁠" Williams
United States Carson "⁠nosraC⁠" O'Reilly
Mexico Edgar "⁠MarKE⁠" Maldonado

Canada Kory "⁠SEMPHIS⁠" Friesen (coach)

United States David 'cynic' Polster
David 'cynic' Polster
Age:
23 (2000-2024)
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.08
Maps played:
955
KPR:
0.74
DPR:
0.65
United States Christopher 'cJ dA K1nG' Jones
Christopher 'cJ dA K1nG' Jones
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.96
Maps played:
457
KPR:
0.66
DPR:
0.69
United States Brendan 'Bwills' Williams
Brendan 'Bwills' Williams
Age:
22
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.05
Maps played:
1065
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.66
Mexico Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado
Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.05
Maps played:
1068
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.65
United States Bobby 'stamina' Eitrem
Bobby 'stamina' Eitrem
Age:
24
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.00
Maps played:
399
KPR:
0.68
DPR:
0.68
United States Carson 'nosraC' O'Reilly
Carson 'nosraC' O'Reilly
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.95
Maps played:
738
KPR:
0.66
DPR:
0.69
Good luck in Liquid brother
2023-06-13 13:41
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7 replies
nt, lulquid not looking for IGLs
2023-06-13 13:43
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1 reply
lulquid
2023-06-13 14:07
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He will join Imperial to replace fallen
2023-06-13 17:13
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steel to IGL? also -carson +awper nouns would be top30 for sure
2023-06-13 17:33
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3 replies
does steel want to come back?
2023-06-13 18:50
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1 reply
2023-06-13 18:53
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top 30? honestly probably top 20. the stuff steel can do as an igl in tier 2 is almost magical. the only question would be how much his CS abilities were effected by playing Val
2023-06-13 20:47
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Good Luck in EG!
2023-06-13 13:42
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Good luck in Vitality brother
2023-06-13 13:43
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Who?
2023-06-13 13:43
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1 reply
#50
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Costa Rica YeAreGods
The NA Dev1ce but IGL
2023-06-13 18:26
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#7
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Norway Gjellan
Expected
2023-06-13 13:44
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#8
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Slovakia Georgiii
NOUNS DEXTER INC.
2023-06-13 13:44
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#9
Faceit level 10  | 
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Ukraine howie228
Clearly going to liquid, best of luck
2023-06-13 13:44
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Liquid should sign FanG or karrigan
2023-06-13 13:45
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10 replies
lulgan xD
2023-06-13 13:51
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4 replies
GOAT igl
2023-06-13 14:42
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3 replies
COPIUM igl
2023-06-13 16:15
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2 replies
stay preachin’ small bozo bro
2023-06-13 20:09
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1 reply
stay copin’ small bozo
2023-06-14 11:34
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to sign a 33 yo talent sounds like a perfect move for Liquid
2023-06-13 14:12
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4 replies
GOAT IGL
2023-06-13 14:42
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3 replies
oh sorry, shouldn't have replied to HWML flair, have a good day
2023-06-13 14:46
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2 replies
ur just jealous lil bro
2023-06-13 20:09
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1 reply
Of what? lmao
2023-06-13 22:13
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Not a paycheck stealer RESPECT
2023-06-13 13:46
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#12
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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United Kingdom Theodoooore
Nouns loses yet another one of the controversy kidsa :(((
2023-06-13 13:47
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i really hoped the NA scene would be clean again, but i guess that wont ever happen
2023-06-13 13:50
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1 reply
#58
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United States KhanQu3st
Wdym o.o
2023-06-13 21:44
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#15
Faceit level 10  | 
tory | 
Poland xOwcA
Liquid?
2023-06-13 13:55
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unlucky
2023-06-13 14:05
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What's a regionalsecond tier?
2023-06-13 14:11
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nooo :(
2023-06-13 14:18
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who cares
2023-06-13 14:19
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gl on TL, you will need it
2023-06-13 14:22
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Expected, he was too powerful even as an igl
2023-06-13 14:31
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sad
2023-06-13 14:31
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#28
Jame | 
United States j3tta
curious where he ends up. he’s not an upgrade over oSee imo but could play tier1 elsewhere
2023-06-13 14:44
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6 replies
#40
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United States 1Tuurtle
Apparently he stepped down and is taking a break until cs2
2023-06-13 16:07
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1 reply
#64
Jame | 
United States j3tta
in other words just having a normal player break like everyone else since cs2 should be out by cologne or at least epl. while also lft
2023-06-14 03:27
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He's worse on AWP, but cynic is still a really good rifler. He barely even buys AWP on T-side
2023-06-13 17:12
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3 replies
#65
Jame | 
United States j3tta
i shamelessly watch all the nouns games and he does a lot of T awping, so i disagree. but i do agree that he’s fine on rifle too.
2023-06-14 03:28
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I'd also consider myself a Nouns fan, so hi! Not trying to be super pedantic, but statistically in the past year, 31% of his kills on HLTV are AK compared to 21% on AWP and 16% on m4. For reference, most other AWPers get ~40-50% of their kills with AWP. Idk if you can separate T-side and CT-side statistics here, so I can try to estimate it. If you assume kills are a proxy to buys, he gets a similar amount of kills on both sides, and only get AK kills on T-side (big ifs, but ok for an approximation imo), he's 6x more likely to get an AWP on CT vs T. These assumptions are super general, but at the very least, I think it's pretty safe to say he's much more likely to buy an AWP on CT vs T. He does a decent amount of awping on T, but not nearly as much as most other primary awpers. Tbh, I'd say I even prefer him on rifle, but at the very least, I'm curious what he could do with a different primary awper (other than stamina) and dedicate to rifling/calling.
2023-06-14 04:12
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1 reply
#67
Jame | 
United States j3tta
those are solid stats, i concede. i was guilty of the old eye test lol. a lot of his charm for me is the AWP+IGL combo, which is why i like jame/cadian/fallen. so that's also why i would want him to keep awping, but i'll follow his career regardless
2023-06-14 04:43
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Fvck, rip Nouns :(
2023-06-13 14:52
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#31
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Romania RMS17
Who?
2023-06-13 14:54
1
Internet explorer lol
2023-06-13 14:54
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-wiz +cynic
2023-06-13 15:06
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#35
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United States MrNorwood
Unfortunate, he will be tough to replace I imagine.
2023-06-13 15:29
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L
2023-06-13 15:31
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Not surprised One of the most raw talented FPS players form NA but never realized his potential
2023-06-13 15:36
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#38
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United States burzeus
unfortunate but PwnAlone > this noob
2023-06-13 15:57
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1 reply
#71
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United States Boarding
PLUS ONE ONE ONE ONE ONE ONE ONE BONEALONE WINS
2023-06-14 14:39
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#39
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United States B0b3rT
Cooper gets the call up?
2023-06-13 15:58
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Liquid cynic? Feels like a risky play to me, but that makes the most sense
2023-06-13 17:11
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#46
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Lebanon ILOVEFEET
Wish him the best he deserves a better team than Nouns anyways. Hope it works out for him!
2023-06-13 17:30
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#48
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United States Frostycow4
Its sad to see nouns already falling apart. I love this team. At times they were very impressive.
2023-06-13 17:51
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Contract me
2023-06-13 18:10
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#53
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
United States Team Liquid
Liquid Marke vamos
2023-06-13 19:05
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#54
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United States cybonics
hes taking a competitive break
2023-06-13 19:32
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#60
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Canada K1nGoldY
Finally JT out and Complexity gets a gigachad fraggin IGL, plus a second awper in cyn1c in case Sonic is having off days
2023-06-13 23:16
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2 replies
why did you write off hallzerk? no more tourrneys in usa this year
2023-06-14 02:19
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1 reply
#68
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Canada K1nGoldY
Because.... NA team..
2023-06-14 11:10
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#61
Faceit level 9  | 
agony | 
Finland Tori9th
What winning Cash Cup does to an org:
2023-06-14 00:30
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na player awper igl and he frags liquid you know what to do this type of player does not appear every day
2023-06-14 02:19
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#69
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Canada K1nGoldY
No, we COL fans want him in
2023-06-14 11:11
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+1
2023-06-14 16:10
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#73
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Asia TL_aria
+1
2023-06-15 03:50
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#74
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
United States GunPaladin
Cooper to Nouns, he announced it on his stream.
2023-06-16 03:42
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