ISSAA returns in new JiJieHao International roster

The former OG and HellRaisers player returns after a year-long stint in VALORANT.

A new roster boasting two European, two Middle-Eastern, and an Australian player has been assembled under the JiJieHao International tag, the Chinese organization has announced on Weibo.

Arguably the most recognizable name on the roster is Issa "⁠ISSAA⁠" Murad, most known for his time with HellRaisers, with whom he played three Majors in 2018-2019 and won an MVP medal at DreamHack Open Tours 2018, and for being part of the original OG roster.

The 26-year-old Jordanian returns from a spell in VALORANT two years after he played his last official Counter-Strike match in HLTV records, at the end of his brief stint with Eternal Fire in 2021.

The remaining players of the new roster consist of former Invictus International duo Vadim "⁠DavCost⁠" Vasilyev and Hussein "⁠m1N1⁠" Hijazi, ex-The Prodigies member Kristers "⁠keen⁠" Dārznieks, and 18-year-old Australian James "⁠SaVage⁠" Savage, who previously played for Looking For Org.

JiJieHao International have the following five:

Jordan Issa "⁠ISSAA⁠" Murad
Australia James "⁠SaVage⁠" Savage
Latvia Kristers "⁠keen⁠" Dārznieks
Russia Vadim "⁠DavCost⁠" Vasilyev
Lebanon Hussein "⁠m1N1⁠" Hijazi

Lebanon Hussein 'm1N1' Hijazi
Hussein 'm1N1' Hijazi
Age:
19
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.01
Maps played:
52
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.69
Latvia Kristers 'keen' Dārznieks
Kristers 'keen' Dārznieks
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.96
Maps played:
219
KPR:
0.68
DPR:
0.72
Jordan Issa 'ISSAA' Murad
Issa 'ISSAA' Murad
Age:
26
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.05
Maps played:
865
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.65
Australia James 'SaVage' Savage
James 'SaVage' Savage
Age:
18
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.03
Maps played:
423
KPR:
0.68
DPR:
0.62
Russia Vadim 'DavCost' Vasilyev
Vadim 'DavCost' Vasilyev
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.04
Maps played:
1342
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.64
#1
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Finland Kurkku))
the bag
2023-11-07 11:44
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11 replies
nihao
2023-11-07 12:03
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#75
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Poland Botaz
how tall is issaa?
2023-11-07 13:02
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9 replies
1.40m maybe
2023-11-07 13:30
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1.30m maybe
2023-11-07 14:22
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1.20m maybe
2023-11-07 15:47
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1 reply
1.10m maybe
2023-11-07 15:53
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He's like 7 inches.
2023-11-07 18:18
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1 reply
#154
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Poland Botaz
i didnt ask for pp size
2023-11-07 20:46
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4'11" but he rounds up an inch
2023-11-08 01:44
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1 maybe
2023-11-08 15:51
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Idk, but he's standing on a chair for the pic, that's why they didn't want to include it
2023-11-08 20:33
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#2
Jee | 
Poland Nalax
wtf is this team
2023-11-07 11:44
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3 replies
march 22nd
2023-11-07 11:52
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innovation bro
2023-11-07 12:04
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they will farm MENA qualifiers and hope they make it though the RMR
2023-11-07 12:36
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#3
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France Guilsz
welcome back beast
2023-11-07 11:44
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#5
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Paraguay LifeHater
Cool jersey
2023-11-07 11:45
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Good Luck @m1n1_cs 💪🏻
2023-11-07 11:45
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3 replies
LEBNOOOOOOON
2023-11-07 12:53
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#85
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Russia Lessix
Bonne chance
2023-11-07 13:19
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#118
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Poland NaKii
m1N1 has so much potential, but because he is from a shitty region no one wants to give him a chance...
2023-11-07 15:38
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wtf is this lineup
2023-11-07 11:45
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#8
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Turkey Orion1d
ahahahah wtf is this team
2023-11-07 11:46
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#9
Faceit premium user Faceit level 9  | 
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Australia Albino876
God tier team free Palestine
2023-11-07 11:46
0
they shouldve put him on a box or something
2023-11-07 11:47
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#11
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Europe Zwenix
Vrooom vroooooom
2023-11-07 11:47
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#12
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Bulgaria ba6ta_v1
Is this jks brother
2023-11-07 11:47
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2 replies
they are not related no
2023-11-07 12:10
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#144
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Estonia btlvl1
no
2023-11-07 16:58
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Pog
2023-11-07 11:47
0
#14
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
NEO | 
Poland ScR1337
what xd
2023-11-07 11:49
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#15
tarik | 
India Nujen
Holy
2023-11-07 11:49
0
#16
Faceit level 8  | 
MarKE | 
Wales Divertic
Guangdong dragons
2023-11-07 11:49
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#17
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San Marino Sk8erBoi
Great jersey, and a sick logo
2023-11-07 11:49
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4 replies
#22
Faceit level 8  | 
MarKE | 
Wales Divertic
jersey good but no way ur serious about the logo
2023-11-07 11:51
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3 replies
#30
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San Marino Sk8erBoi
Seriously one of the better looking ones. Some of the others look completely ass.
2023-11-07 11:59
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2 replies
It looks like those generic logos 14 year old children get on free e-sport logo makers on internet for their gold nova 2 so called "e-sport" teams
2023-11-07 12:04
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1 reply
#40
Faceit level 8  | 
MarKE | 
Wales Divertic
yes
2023-11-07 12:08
0
How is he not a Falcons candidate? Not good enough? Same could potentially be said bout BOROS…
2023-11-07 11:50
0
Wtf is this? This gotta be a joke
2023-11-07 11:50
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#20
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Poland BIGGEST_DONK_FAN
gotta be the most random roster I've ever seen in my life
2023-11-07 11:50
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Davcost bruh
2023-11-07 11:52
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2 replies
#27
Faceit level 8  | 
MarKE | 
Wales Divertic
good pickup
2023-11-07 11:54
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1 reply
xddd i hope you are joking. for how long he has been trying to get those stickers by qualifying through asian rmr?
2023-11-07 14:20
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Only needs some random brazilian like kng or vsm instead of keen to seal the deal
2023-11-07 11:53
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2 replies
#119
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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United Kingdom Enticles!
if you want to disband in 2 months, sure
2023-11-07 15:38
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1 reply
With keen they will disband even faster
2023-11-07 21:28
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That's one weird roster but for some reason it got me excited
2023-11-07 11:54
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#29
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Jimpphat | 
Finland WhenItsJust
Decent players but probably going to struggle getting to round 32 in any open qualifier.
2023-11-07 11:58
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1 reply
Had won a cash cup before official announcement. Maybe it could qualify to APAC RMR.
2023-11-07 12:04
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#32
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
HooXi | 
Sweden penismodel
he is better warrior on twitter
2023-11-07 12:00
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Goovy aaah roaster
2023-11-07 12:00
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#39
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Canada nclmrs
ISSA 1,60cm F
2023-11-07 12:07
0
what a random ass lineup
2023-11-07 12:08
0
Dogshit player signs in a dogshit team, such a news worthy event!
2023-11-07 12:08
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2 replies
#165
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Bosnia and Herzegovina dc4
zionist
2023-11-08 01:09
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Flag lul
2023-11-08 11:34
0
savage? weird
2023-11-07 12:10
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1 reply
#47
Cooper | 
Europe kuu1
You guys have many...Savages in Australia.
2023-11-07 12:14
0
expext the unexpected
2023-11-07 12:11
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Isa why did u pick cache?
2023-11-07 12:13
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#48
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Romania g4briela
top 150
2023-11-07 12:15
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I TUT PRIBEGAET DAVCOST
2023-11-07 12:16
0
uhmm alright
2023-11-07 12:22
0
#52
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
dgt | 
Uruguay XEMBAO
they will farm a lot of money
2023-11-07 12:27
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#54
Faceit level 10  | 
rain | 
Finland BMurr
The lineups of these chinese orgs are so unpredictable. LMAO
2023-11-07 12:28
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1 reply
jijiehao has great connection with NIP, holding its LOL academy squad and transferred some VALORANT players to NIP's new Chinese squad.
2023-11-07 12:37
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#55
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Latvia GetANick
isa should defend gaza right now
2023-11-07 12:29
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1 reply
are you dumb?
2023-11-07 12:54
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#56
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England DB_R20
wtf is this
2023-11-07 12:29
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#57
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Malaysia Bolehland
HAHAHAHAHQ wtf is this?? Keen? M1n1?
2023-11-07 12:31
0
Let's goo
2023-11-07 12:32
0
Damn hes short
2023-11-07 12:38
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#62
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
aNGeldusT | 
Sweden eeVjoX
Awkward
2023-11-07 12:43
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#63
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Russia mshkoda
Good luck
2023-11-07 12:44
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#64
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Netherlands Dutch69
nice mix..?
2023-11-07 12:48
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The most random mix possible
2023-11-07 12:51
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LEBANON MENTIONED
2023-11-07 12:52
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Definitely international
2023-11-07 12:53
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#71
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Germany hltvfinest
this is what the call from Ghuanzeng China meme is for. They all picked up the phone.
2023-11-07 12:56
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#72
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Samoa nuuuuucky
tier 5
2023-11-07 12:59
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#73
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Pakistan yuhflowyuh
dude why savage?
2023-11-07 12:59
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#74
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Europe Klobby
What xdd
2023-11-07 13:00
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#77
autist | 
Australia admo
Savage with a Chinese paycheck Better than sticking around here for sure
2023-11-07 13:05
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#79
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Ukraine Bumbas_cat
top100 team POGGERS
2023-11-07 13:10
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most random team ever
2023-11-07 13:11
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#81
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Egypt BomberMan_
This is a lineup for sure. Twistzz complains about 50 ping being trash I wonder how this lineup fares lol.
2023-11-07 13:12
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4 replies
They had all gone to China and training on Chinese platform like 5e arena.
2023-11-07 13:27
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3 replies
#92
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Egypt BomberMan_
Yeah but until the major any relevant tournament they play will most likely be in EU, and Middle East qualifiers for the major are probably on servers hosted in Middle East so I cant imagine it will be a good situation unless they can fund more boot camps.
2023-11-07 13:49
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1 reply
They had won an Asian cash cup before official announcement. I don't know whether DavCost lives in Middle East or they might play in rest of Asia zone against ex-NKT.
2023-11-07 14:10
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Do they get social credit points for wins?
2023-11-07 21:00
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imagine leaving for valorant, kekw
2023-11-07 13:14
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#83
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Philippines sijibats
Budget jks
2023-11-07 13:17
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#84
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North America soduk_db
Who is taller ISSAA or Golden?
2023-11-07 13:17
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#86
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Netherlands p2dr
fire that photographer for putting the shortest guy in the middle 😂👌
2023-11-07 13:20
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1 reply
Issa is like 4.11 :))))))
2023-11-07 14:00
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NI HAO JIJIEHAO? MUCHENTUCHEN
2023-11-07 13:22
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#88
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
jackasmo | 
Russia *Tpo-_-JI.b*
I like the team’s logo. Thats all im gonna say.
2023-11-07 13:22
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#89
Faceit level 10  | 
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Romania Mavericckk
I remember that savage was a great player in Australia. When he was playing for Looking to Org, I remember he had some ratings like 1.25+ i'm not so sure
2023-11-07 13:27
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1 reply
#168
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Australia Pennings
He has always been the most over rated player in AUS
2023-11-08 03:55
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#93
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Finland Teukkasd
tf is this lineup
2023-11-07 13:55
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1 reply
#131
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Germany Sol1taire
not every team can be sh1ro, flamez, rain, zywoo, electronic. They're competing - let them compete
2023-11-07 16:19
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They just want that sticker money from major :) Cause not even matchfixing makes sense lol
2023-11-07 13:59
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4 replies
#133
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Germany Sol1taire
the whole fucking scene is fixed to make Gabriel Newell money... matchfixing money is just peanuts - if you wanna be mad at cheating, direct your anger at big corporations and gabriel Newell type people... not fucking davcost or m1n1 lol
2023-11-07 16:21
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3 replies
Anger? Bro calm down Your statement is legit and I agree with you so chill :)
2023-11-07 20:58
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2 replies
#170
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Germany Sol1taire
im chill i like u
2023-11-08 05:02
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1 reply
Good
2023-11-08 10:24
0
Go back to valulrant
2023-11-07 14:05
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#99
Faceit plus user Faceit level 10  | 
gabs | 
Romania SplaXie^
why tf is savage in this team
2023-11-07 14:10
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#100
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Ukraine antokheN
davcost xDDD
2023-11-07 14:10
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#101
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Korea jin67300
Davcost lol
2023-11-07 14:16
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#105
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Hungary !WARREN
-anyone + poizon
2023-11-07 14:39
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#106
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Finland areufu
Ban that f hamas dude
2023-11-07 14:50
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#107
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Germany _car
That's some interesting team...
2023-11-07 15:01
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#108
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Latvia DINGUU
gl
2023-11-07 15:08
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Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8265U CPU @ 1.60GHz 1.80 GHz Installed RAM 8.00 GB (7.86 GB usable) System type 64-bit operating system Graphics: Intel (R) UHD Graphics 620 The game doesn't launch and crashes everytime. Tried running it as administrator and updated all drivers and windows 10. Disabled full screen optimization too but still doesn't work. what can i do now?? Too broke to upgrade laptop!!
2023-11-07 15:16
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#110
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Albania mensik
Issa returns in hamas when?
2023-11-07 15:19
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THIS LINEUP IS CRAZY I LIKE IT
2023-11-07 15:23
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Well, that's a country lineup I'm pretty sure I've never seen before.
2023-11-07 15:27
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#113
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Ukraine Patrizio
What is this? XD ISSAA is back, he left to Valorant just to achieve nothing and comeback XD
2023-11-07 15:28
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No future
2023-11-07 15:32
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#116
Faceit level 9  | 
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Czech Republic sobrez
top 200 good luck. in 4 weeks disband for 4 feet guy
2023-11-07 15:34
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Tier 99?
2023-11-07 15:35
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So random, looks like they org knows what they doing with DAVCOST there..
2023-11-07 15:40
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#121
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
GeT_RiGhT | 
Philippines nub_ayun
Wasn't aware davcost still played
2023-11-07 15:44
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#124
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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United States TacticalSanta
inshallah
2023-11-07 15:59
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1 reply
#127
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Germany Sol1taire
just means Deo Volente
2023-11-07 16:16
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#126
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Germany Sol1taire
YESSS! ISSSAAAA!!! Let's goo!
2023-11-07 16:16
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5 replies
#134
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Israel Xpicyy
hes ur best player from palestine
2023-11-07 16:21
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4 replies
#138
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Germany Sol1taire
he's actually from Jordan - his flag has the little white star in the red triangle
2023-11-07 16:27
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3 replies
#139
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Israel Xpicyy
but isnt he a palestinian living in jordan?
2023-11-07 16:35
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1 reply
#179
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Germany Sol1taire
my cs knowledge doesn't run that deep. I thought he was Jordanian thats it
2023-11-08 22:12
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Is that the average height there?
2023-11-07 21:01
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#128
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Lebanon Dogman69
james savage is justin savage (jks) lil bro?
2023-11-07 16:18
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2 replies
No, he's Ben's son.
2023-11-07 16:38
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#145
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Estonia btlvl1
no
2023-11-07 17:03
0
I love Lebanese food
2023-11-07 16:18
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#130
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Europe Naitee
hope they fail!
2023-11-07 16:19
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1 reply
#132
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Israel Xpicyy
+1
2023-11-07 16:20
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nice t10 LU
2023-11-07 16:21
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#136
Faceit level 6  | 
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Indonesia go0s3
im just glad issaa is back even tho it is the most random ass roster ever
2023-11-07 16:25
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#137
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Canada _penguins
Needs Fejtz
2023-11-07 16:25
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Random af
2023-11-07 16:48
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Welcome back ISSAA I've been waiting for this announcement
2023-11-07 16:57
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Interesting team! Israel Strong 💜
2023-11-07 17:17
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He was beast in HR
2023-11-07 18:17
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igl: refrezh awp: mantuu entry: ISSAA support: TMB lurker: LauNX
2023-11-07 18:22
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#151
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United States Chuffer
Savage JKS brother?
2023-11-07 18:36
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2 replies
#175
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Estonia btlvl1
no
2023-11-08 17:50
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1 reply
#176
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United States Chuffer
Rip
2023-11-08 17:56
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2k elo faceit five soloq players would destroy em like 80% of the time smh my head
2023-11-07 18:47
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Just 5 years ago, having 2 middle eastern, 2 eastern european and one australian players in the same roster felt very unthinkable, international rosters would only have players from the same region with very few exceptions (CadiaN's Rogue for instance). This feels so weird.
2023-11-07 20:10
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#155
deko | 
Korea lki
they deleted the pic of him
2023-11-07 20:48
0
wb
2023-11-07 21:54
0
New jijiehao WTF
2023-11-07 22:08
0
#162
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Sweden fued
Looks like they are on a mission to mordor
2023-11-07 22:20
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#163
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Scotland IX!
was the GM hitting the pipe when they constructed this roster? I kind of hope it succeeds purely because it's funny
2023-11-08 00:16
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ni hao guangdong tigers csgo
2023-11-08 00:48
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#167
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Australia Pennings
With savage this team would even lose to Sunday school LMAO rip
2023-11-08 03:54
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#169
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Poland csRIOTgo
Wow... how did Savage ended up here? :O
2023-11-08 03:56
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#174
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Brazil gu1zera
laugh thread
2023-11-08 17:20
0
who cars
2023-11-08 17:57
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