Thunderpick World Championship 2023 Europe Series 2

TSM debut with win over former 00NATION squad

4-9-2023 16:47

The North American organization celebrated its return to Counter-Strike with a victory over Fake Natty.

CYPHER led the line for TSM on Overpass with a 1.89 rating

TSM claimed their first victory under their new organization, taking down Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David's Fake Natty 2-1. Their debut match took place online in the play-in of Thunderpick World Championship 2023 Europe Series 2, and the Europeans are now just one win away from the main knockout bracket.

The Valdemar "⁠valde⁠" Bjørn Vangså-led squad was officially signed in late August following months of reports regarding their lineup, and are now competing in the European tier two scene under their new banner.

TSM returns to Counter-Strike with roster featuring JACKZ, valde, CYPHER

Cai "⁠CYPHER⁠" Watson was consistently the team's best performer throughout the series, and perfectly showcased his aggressive playstyle on Overpass. The British rifler was on fire, finding a total of 12 opening frags to constantly put his team ahead in the early stages of the round.

Audric "⁠JACKZ⁠" Jug and Timofey "⁠interz⁠" Yakushin also had their moments of glory on Inferno as they powered TSM's failed comeback on the defensive side, registering 1.21 and 1.38 ratings, respectively. Despite their loss, the European mix looked threatening even in disadvantaged late-round situations.

The whole team came alive on Ancient to push TSM over the line, completing a comeback from 5-10 down thanks to the trio of interz, Mădălin-Andrei "⁠MoDo⁠" Mirea, and CYPHER. The Romanian AWPer even clutched a 1vs3 late to close the game in favor of the Europeans.

TSM's next scheduled match will be against The Witchers in the closed qualifiers for CCT East Europe Series 2.

Date	Matches
CCT East Europe Series 2 Closed Qualifier
07/09/2023	TSM 11:30 The Witchers	Match

Thunderpick World Championship 2023 Europe Series 2Best of 3

Fake Natty

Matchpage

4th September 2023

TSM

Overpass

Inferno

Ancient

Fake Natty	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Lucas 'nqz' Soares nqz	72 - 47	+25	78.3	72.1%	1.27
Marcelo 'coldzera' David coldzera	56 - 55	+1	74.7	70.9%	1.07
Eduardo 'dumau' Wolkmer dumau	46 - 58	-12	72.5	66.3%	0.93
Bruno 'latto' Rebelatto latto	44 - 55	-11	53.1	66.3%	0.80
Gabriel 'NEKIZ' Schenato NEKIZ	41 - 66	-25	56.9	65.1%	0.77

TSM	K - D	+/-	ADR	KAST	Rating2.0
Cai 'CYPHER' Watson CYPHER	62 - 66	-4	89.6	68.6%	1.18
Timofey 'interz' Yakushin interz	59 - 44	+15	68.9	82.6%	1.15
Mădălin-Andrei 'MoDo' Mirea MoDo	53 - 42	+11	61.5	75.6%	1.10
Audric 'JACKZ' Jug JACKZ	56 - 57	-1	66.3	73.3%	1.08
Valdemar 'valde' Bjørn Vangså valde	48 - 54	-6	71.1	76.7%	1.04

top3 contenders

2023-09-04 16:48

25 replies

Coldzera left sk gaming for this?

2023-09-04 16:56

24 replies

it's ironic because he plays for a team called fake natty after he admitted to using steroids :D

2023-09-04 16:58

2 replies

what? source

2023-09-04 18:14

1 reply

twitter.com/DonHaci/status/1163200783669..

2023-09-04 18:23

Its funny and ironic to see cold unemployed. Even fnx are doing better than him

2023-09-04 17:04

20 replies

and I thought pronax's fall off was bad

2023-09-04 17:40

7 replies

Pronax apparently had some bad mental health issues

2023-09-04 18:44

6 replies

yep

2023-09-04 23:49

I thought the people he worked with snaked him and lied about his mental health after they sent him to a psych ward and he was allowed to leave the next day

2023-09-05 01:27

4 replies

I'm unsure, but if that is indeed the case, that's fuckin awful man

2023-09-05 04:44

3 replies

that was supposedly the case. Basically screwed out of his own org and then forced into a psych ward against his will. At one point he was even struggling to even survive as he at one point was living on I think....around 500 euros a month?

2023-09-05 05:53

where did u get all this info from?

2023-09-06 13:38

He did an AMA on the GlobalOffensive subreddit years back after all of that shit happened. Somewhere, he mentioned he was forced to live off of around that amount of money and he was indeed forced into a psych ward but was released a day later.

2023-09-06 13:51

fnx was so broke he had to promote scam gambling websites His words

2023-09-04 19:07

11 replies

No sympathy. He made 50k USD a month and pissed it all away trying to be a showoff.

2023-09-05 05:07

Pretty much

2023-09-05 05:48

wait, he made bank but then somehow wasted all of it away? :DDD

Yes. Common occurance for those with low IQs

2023-09-10 22:35

Wasnt fnx to that show? Love island

2023-09-05 05:13

Yeah I believe it was in the beginning of 2021. Don´t think he was paid very much. He did it mostly for the clout.

2023-09-05 06:22

5 replies

So what really happend there

2023-09-05 15:51

He was playing for imperial in 2020 (way before the rebranding and the last dance - it was just a minor team in brazilian scene). He then left the team so he could go to the reality show. The team wasn´t doing so well, he neither. Maybe a change of airs, as it´s typical of him, probably some easy cash (probably wasn´t earning much in Imperial anyways). Imperial reformulated the team after this, keeping only shoowtime and zqk.

2023-09-06 00:58

I was wondering what happend in the reallity show🤓

2023-09-06 06:13

lol It´s a reality show to kiss and fuck. He did all that. Multiple times. All day all night.

2023-09-07 02:11

Lol did you watch it? Was it good, worth watching it?

2023-09-07 17:50

from 10-3 to 13-16 Nice fucking choke on Ancient :DDD save nqz btw

If he keeps up he will probably be on Furia's list

2023-09-04 17:03

shoulda stayed on 9z, try is alright but nqz is just better

2023-09-04 17:39

brazilian matchfixers

2023-09-04 18:15

they probably got 50k with that game

2023-09-04 19:11

Tree fiddy i think

2023-09-05 01:31

clash of trash

if they are trash what that makes you?

2023-09-04 17:02

gigatrash

2023-09-04 19:06

Stats prove pretty well what I have been saying in that one thread ngl

2023-09-04 16:49

TSM ERA

RIZZOOOOO

So this gets a news article because?

2023-09-04 16:50

8 replies

2023-09-04 16:51

HLTV employees are secret TSM fans.

You would want an article when xiwu takes a shit

yea why not? even betboom,00nation is better than tsm. they probably paid for advertisement lol

2023-09-04 17:06

Tsm is a huge org and they came back to csgo after many years of absence. Ofcourse there will be an article dude

2023-09-04 18:34

who cares about org name results should speak, not name

2023-09-04 18:40

Yes, this big org that has won multiple tournaments in csgo, and has notable rosters in other esports is coming back to csgo. Thats why hltv article .

2023-09-04 18:54

I think this dude started watching in 2020 or some shit. Doesnt know who OG tsm roster was lol

2023-09-04 19:42

Team So Mid

Battle of Mid

Gj Jackz!

2023-09-04 16:54

Top 40 🔥🔥

2023-09-04 16:55

beat barely coldzera in 2023 nice sign TSM

That doesn't mean anything , for example G2 is always struggling against T2 opponents but they won 3 tournaments against best teams in the world :)

2023-09-04 19:17

you are aware it's their first game together right?

2023-09-05 11:09

GOATZERA!

2-1 vs SA team, GL

Smooya vs Cypher upcoming >:)

2023-09-04 17:05

news worthy for sure

thanks cypher, interz, modo for free money

2023-09-04 17:08

'cypher was consistently the team's best performer throughout the series' how to tell a reporter didn't watch the match or atleast not the 2nd map

TSM debut with a rigged tier8 tournament match

2023-09-04 17:13

Getting help is not a weakness.

2023-09-04 17:25

2023-09-04 17:59

my boi interz is so good

2023-09-04 17:35

2023-09-04 17:49

ahahahah coldzera team

ez for TSM first CS2 major winners.

2023-09-04 17:44

lmfao and this gets into the news?

2023-09-04 17:48

€€€€€€€€xpected

2023-09-04 17:54

xd tier 3 team barely won agains tier 3 team, gz

2023-09-04 17:53

Just retire at this point coldzera. Betraying your friends wasn’t good for your career it seems.

2023-09-04 18:07

the fact an article had to be made about them beating fake natty is sad like bruh fake natty aint even a top 50 team DX and the fact the game was close like bruh Team So Mid living up to the name

EASY

2023-09-04 18:12

Struggling to take down this tier 3 SA team haha. Future is looking great rn

2023-09-04 18:20

Yeah hltv expert, they need to be nailed to the cross after their first official game, which they won in 3 maps against ex 00nation

2023-09-04 18:41

they didnt win the game, natty decided to throw

2023-09-05 01:43

My fuckin bad buddy. Didn't know the expectations were that abysmally low for what should be a top-5 org. TF outta here with this shyte.

2023-09-05 16:48

You are cancer

2023-09-05 19:26

Does this mean I'm more lethal than TSM's new CS team? I'd be flattered if I didn't know how what TSM's CS team is...

2023-09-06 12:39

V3ry impressive :)

2023-09-04 18:25

sad for dumau :/

2023-09-04 18:32

sad for nqz

2023-09-04 19:20

Imagine struggle vs brazil kekw

2023-09-04 19:10

Is it really something worth its own article?

2023-09-04 19:18

paid af

2023-09-04 19:22

tier 4 vs tier 8 pure garbage

2023-09-04 19:21

Cypher is t1 material

2023-09-04 19:59

God interz

2023-09-04 21:08

most of the replies on fake natty twitter are from angry bettors LMAO

2023-09-04 22:13

what u expect after matchfixing?

2023-09-05 01:42

thank you, MoDo, New Romanian GOAT

2023-09-04 23:41

Somebody save cold and nqz :(

2023-09-04 23:51

I don’t want to say cold is a fraud but I’ve never seen anyone’s career last only 2 years. Man’s been on holiday since 2018. Maybe Ronaldinho knows something…

2023-09-04 23:58