Swani to step down from G2 after World Final

4-12-2023 14:11

The German coach's time behind G2 will end after one year.

Jan "⁠Swani⁠" Müller has announced his decision to step down as G2's coach following the conclusion of the BLAST Premier World Final later this month.

In a statement, the 28-year-old stressed it was solely his decision to end his year-long stint behind the team and explained it came as a result of the job taking a "big toll" on him.

"Now the time has come to take care of myself and my loved ones," he said. "I gradually felt worse throughout the year and it has taken a big toll on me."

"I will be eternally grateful for the memories I made along the way. I got to travel the world with my boys while living my hobby. But once the passion becomes a burden, it is time to end it."

I got to travel the world with my boys while living my hobby. But once the passion becomes a burden, it is time to end it

Jan "⁠Swani⁠" Müller

Previously the team's analyst and later assistant coach, Swani took over as G2's interim head coach in late 2022 following Rémy "⁠XTQZZZ⁠" Quoniam's departure from the team.

Before the year concluded Swani and the team broke G2's years-long title drought at the BLAST Premier World Final, and in 2023 they added the iconic IEM Katowice and Cologne trophies to their cabinet.

In recounting his year with the team, Swani outlined the Cologne victory on his home soil as the most important for him, thanking the fans for their support there. "When I think about the moments in the arena, having a crowd scream my name is still fucking surreal and I will be eternally thankful for you guys making this a lifetime experience for me."

Swani's last tournament with G2, the BLAST Premier World Final, will take place from December 13-17 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The team will compete for a share of the $1 million prizemoney at the season-ending event up against the majority of the world's top-ten teams.

Date	Matches
BLAST Premier World Final 2023
13/12/2023	MOUZ 14:05 G2	Match

sAw incoming?

2023-12-04 14:11

43 replies

saw is confirmed to falcons

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Zonic is in falcons

2023-12-04 14:12

33 replies

you know teams have more than one coach right

2023-12-04 14:13

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#27

2023-12-04 14:15

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Ynk to step in

2023-12-04 14:58

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most likely

2023-12-04 15:35

my money's on emi

2023-12-04 16:25

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+1 serb gang niko dream

2023-12-04 16:35

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wet dream, but seriously, there is a chance cause he played with them, in iNation with NiKo and was coaching in Valiance/CR4ZY plus they were looking for him, but in vain, because he was already captain in Partizan, roster destined for failure.

2023-12-04 16:39

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yes i know it. its jyst funny how niko rule g2

2023-12-04 16:49

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Well, according to nexa's interview in Serbian podcast about his departure from G2 and leaving to OG, he replied that they asked him to stay as G2's IGL, but the "shot callers" hierarchy would be in next order: 1. XTQZZ 2.huNter- (team captain) 3.NiKo 4.nexa He refused cause he didn't wanna lead the roster as number 4. I believe he was being honest and didn't wanna manipulate the data we were, as a community receiving, so he kept quiet. Every other thing I would add to this topic would be a lie. That being said, make your own judgment.

2023-12-04 20:38

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wonder what has changed. niko and hunter still there and hooxi is igl so nexa is still 4th.... or maybe nobody listen hooxi anymore

2023-12-04 20:52

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I think they've made mistake, they wanted to make comms on Serbian and fired a better anchor

2023-12-04 21:06

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how they can make comms on Serbian with monesy and hooxi

2023-12-04 21:08

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Well nexa as a second caller after hooxi bites the dust for info plus monesy living in Belgrade for the past 2 years would be my guess. When you're Russian, Serbian is not so difficult. Plus if they bring Pavle from Ence, I guess it's bye bye hooxi. That would be devastating, at least imho.

2023-12-04 21:12

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if maden comes than overdrive was right xD

2023-12-04 21:16

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yeah, I'm not sure if that was their intention, to rumble their roster for the Xth time, just to make some scout on spot with the info :)

2023-12-04 21:21

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I mean maden is better choice than hooxi the paycheck stealer shit gigantism

2023-12-05 02:00

+ynk +emi

2023-12-04 16:44

what about letn1

2023-12-04 17:03

falcons coaches: 2 falcons players: 1 dont know shit about economy but jeeeez these arabs know about stonks

2023-12-04 16:59

boros, magisk, snappi?

2023-12-04 21:40

magisk and snappi not officialy announced YET. remember when Niko was "100% confirmed"? guess what happened next...

2023-12-05 14:44

there's no way they would've left their old teams if the deal wasn't 100 % done

2023-12-05 16:00

small chances: true but maybe Magisk breaks the deal after seeing the final roster is not what have been promised, considering he is in his prime and doesn't want to lose 1 year building a team where he sees no future in winning big trophies. and Snappi will stay no matter what, he is 34 yo and needs all the money in the world for retiring, probably at Falcons.

2023-12-05 16:46

sAw will be assistant coach

I don’t think the head coach of a top 5 team, a guy that knows he is one of the most capable coaches in the scene will agree to being an assistant

surely he won't 💰💰💰

2023-12-04 14:16

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2023-12-04 15:02

for good price? why not if he dont need to do anything when main coach is doing things

2023-12-04 15:29

there's no way anyone pays an assistant coach to do nothing

2023-12-05 17:30

nah, snappi pretty much already confirmed that he won't go to same address than saw

2023-12-04 16:10

sAw will go to OG afaik

2023-12-04 16:41

yeah timeline of events make more sense

2023-12-04 19:04

confirmed? I want to hear a source for this, after all it was confirmed that snappi and sAw weren't a package deal by Natu :D

he’s baiting.

sAw to OG, wasn't it?

straight up lying on the internet

2023-12-04 14:19

truly unheard of

2023-12-04 14:38

never happened before

2023-12-05 03:28

Nt try, you can't lie on internet secured servers

2023-12-04 16:22

Nope, no rumors have connected saw to falcons The only rumors are the exact opposite, saw and snappi aren't a package. Hope this helped! :)

2023-12-04 16:02

WAS????????///////////

swani to big

2023-12-05 15:36

uh oh

Expected

+emi

Good

Goat

lul

Welcome Ynk and maden

+1 and kassad as assistant coach

kassad altready has org but maybe he XTQZZZ his way out of that

2023-12-04 14:14

kassad is in BLEED

2023-12-04 16:26

2023-12-04 16:51

niko & friends =D

2023-12-04 19:56

this cancels out +nexa

sAw is the only real choice here. At the same time, I can't see him in G2 either due to him being more of a roster building coach. another HLTV comment mentioned this in a sarcastic way I believe, but that fraud maLeK might be an actual option.

I don't think they would want maLeK again. After listening to what nexa said on Thorin's interview recently, it seems like they have a few disagreements

2023-12-04 14:50

what did he say?

2023-12-04 15:04

why is maleK a fraud

2023-12-04 14:51

have you seen him in EG?

eg was doomed

Not Maleks fault, read this Interview 1pv.fr/news/141238-evy-tells-us-the-stor.. TLDR: lack of discipline+stewie refused to work with him

2023-12-04 15:12

And yet post-Stewie he still couldn’t make shit work.

2023-12-04 16:36

Neither could and of the players he was working with

2023-12-04 17:12

have you seen the article about EG ?

2023-12-04 16:28

What strain are you smoking that you can look at EG over the last three years and think "Yeah Malek was the problem"?

2023-12-04 21:41

"Roster building coach" This is so idiotic lol. He is a real coach and snappi spoke multiple times about how much he adds to the team

2023-12-04 16:03

YNK coming back as a coach?

would be a dream tbh, wouldn't have to watch him as an analyst. good riddance to kassad too

2023-12-04 21:44

ykn inc, NIKO doing it again

BIG?

why would someone replace gob b with swani no hate i like both of them, but gob b is an actual legend in german cs and also he is part owner of BIG

2023-12-04 15:52

and also the reason why they still play like its 2018

if ynk comes back ill laugh my ass off

1st round of helium is on me!

damn the guy walked in took world final kato cologne and still refuses to elaborate further, what a chad

Emi/YNk/LETN1 +VLDN/Maden as 5th

Good thought. I think the same. Feels like they want to build a fully balcan Team with one language. I guess monesy is learning serbian language cause he lives there so at some point they could switch fully after they get rid of Hooxi.

2023-12-04 14:56

+ peacemaker

+1 let the man ruin one more roster

2023-12-04 14:22

ahahah good one

fired within a month

Goat ynk with goat maden and G2 will actually be sad that they kept Niko,Hunter,m0nesy instead of getting money

2023-12-04 14:20

EZ 4 HUNDEN

2023-12-04 14:21

Wow G2 Upgrade.He was a bad Coach

2023-12-04 14:23

How can you say that ? what insider info you have that all of us don`t know ?

2023-12-04 14:25

He brought anything to the table? No. Maybe think why G2 had problem with being calm and malding? Nobody was able to calm the boys down,why G2 t side was that bad?

2023-12-04 14:28

"He brought anything to the table? No." - Do you work at G2 ? "why G2 had problem with being calm and malding? " - Which event or game are you talking about ? can you share some clips ? 54 % Winrate on T side : hltv.org/coach/21606/swani If you think that is too bad than you can compare that with any other coach you want. Only problem i see with g2 is not being consistent but i think that has been classic g2, They failed in RMR under xtqzzz who is very well respected coach in the space. so i don`t know how much swani can be blamed for this ? I am not saying he is the best coach ever or something but just saying he is bad without any solid argument is ridiculous.

2023-12-04 14:40

I don't but i have eyes XD Also you have eyes? They are malding and it goes further. Their t side is crap and it's thanks to Hooxi and their useless friend....i mean coach but he is not a coach anyway XD They were consistent with Nexa and xtqzz left coz of personal issues with the roster and this Aleksi drama.Swani is not a bad coach,he is useless.

2023-12-04 15:26

he turned faze up side down LOL just say bye to daddy and thank him

2023-12-04 16:53

When he did that? he is a useless coach mate,did nothing there and left.It's like saying that Aleksi wasn't the reason that ENCE was good

2023-12-04 17:23

I mean depends how you view it, cause ence was not just aleksi making good calls, it was allu in his best days and sergej fragging like crazy. Anyhow, nope, you're just stupid, swanii is an okay coach at worst.

2023-12-04 20:26

Lel, he's their most decorated coach. Surely a fluke, yeah. If you don't have any insight, just shadap. There's so much stuff going on behind the scenes you can't even judge, yet you do. Kinda cringe, but that behavior is common these days. Everyone is an expert based on puny opinion.

2023-12-04 16:08

You all know that sAw left from ENCE and has done contract with some org already. And it's not Falcons.

2023-12-04 14:26

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Liquid also free

zews most likely going there.

2023-12-04 14:29

So it's G2 if not Liquid.

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yup.

2023-12-04 14:30

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I think Liquid fits him better coz atmosphere,less pressure,personalities

2023-12-04 14:31

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Like I said most likely it's zews. But yeah, it's either Liquid or G2. Depends if he wants to stay in Europe or go to NA.

That's true.I think G2 won't be that good but let's see but it's def upgrade over Swani

2023-12-04 14:57

Or then it's some other org that isn't doing so well. Like OG, NIP, Fnatic, BIG etc. And he can be involved to the team building itself.

2023-12-04 15:01

Going to OG is like a life sentence.Degster is like a ghost that says:,,Don't go if you want to live"

at the same time, he’s probably the only person that could save OG. As long as he gets a solid budget and free rein of the rebuild and roster. And plus it’d be funny as shit if he could turn another shitty meme team into another contender team.

2023-12-04 15:07

They need more than a world class coach.They need a roster

2023-12-04 15:08

I know. And sAw can do just that, he knows how to build a team.

2023-12-04 15:09

So it will take money anyway. So get: Interz(TSM new roster soon confirmed by ITB) Rainwaker(he can work at the right roles) Degster(if possible)/Syrson if possible Mynio(coz he proved that he can make a consistent team) Forester(1WIN disband so why not) or get Kensi or IM if he leaves Navi I think it would be solid.

2023-12-04 15:19

For one: degster def not due to his notorious rep. For two: there are better IGLs out there to gamble than mynio For three: rainwaker has matchfixing allegations. Only interz could be likely due to being an anchor. Forester is more likely to join another Russian team.

2023-12-04 15:25

That's why i wrote (if possible) Mynio deserves a chance coz he build a solid top.25 roster out of nothing. Rainwaker can do alright even those he has allegations. Forester can play there and he can learn eng

2023-12-04 15:28

It’s probably OG. It doesn’t exactly mean much but after the news of him departing ENCE, I spotted him suddenly following OG’s CS twit acc. He doesn’t follow any other orgs except ENCE and HAVU. Like I said, it doesn’t really mean much but its too much of a coincidence if you ask me.

2023-12-04 15:06

If OG somehow convinced him to join them it's amazing. If sAw builds new roster from scratch it would be x2 amazing.

2023-12-04 15:34

Legend

everybody feel bad thanks to niko

Hi saw

2023-12-04 14:32

lmao

Great coach especially for his first year and a good asset overall, there are probally upgrades available that can bring more in terms of leadership but its sad for G2 to lose him completely

Niko bring Ynk to G2

NiKo is so hungry Who is next?

2023-12-04 14:35

he was the reason for g2s success. you are the goat jan müller.

Wow G2 Serbian superteam?

2023-12-04 14:41

balkan coach incoming

2023-12-04 14:42

End of an era

2023-12-04 14:43

These guys have nothing in the tank or what? Done after only a year that was far from the busiest years we had in pro CS, with a new game on the horizon, and the Christmas holidays coming to take some time off and reset. You only do that for a few years, make the most of it ffs. If it becomes a "burden" there's something wrong in the organisation.

Trash team. Save M0nesy from that dumpster fire

2023-12-04 14:53

FaZe or C9 m0NESY in a year or 2 KEKW.

2023-12-04 15:27

Goat Hooxi to become Coach so Maden can join

2023-12-04 14:54

+ YNK???

+mAlEk

2023-12-04 15:05

+yung stew

typical hltv takes in the comments as usual. This guy went from being a meme in german forums to lifting the most important trophies in cs. No one here knows how hard this job is, especially being promoted to being head coach with no prior experience and not even wanting to be promoted. No one hear knows if he had personal struggles. No one except the team knows what this guy brought to the table and how hard the toll on his body/mental really was. I think it is really mature that he knows to set his priorities according to what he really feels like. It has been fun chanting Swani's name together with a whole arena and hope everything turns out for the best. GG Swani

2023-12-04 15:17