Heroic announce Xizt departure

12-12-2023 18:54

The Swedish tactician leaves the organization after more than two years.

Xizt is on the lookout for a new team

HEROIC have announced that head coach Richard "⁠Xizt⁠" Landström will depart the organization after BLAST World Final. He previously signed a two-year contract extension with the Norwegian organization in January 2023.

Xizt renews contract with Heroic

The Swede stated in his announcement the move was made "based on a mutual agreement" and that he and the organization came "to the conclusion that it’s in everyone's best interest to go our separate ways." He added that he will be looking for new opportunities moving forward.

Xizt joined HEROIC in October 2021 after he retired from professional play following a 12-year-long career that included stints on fnatic, Dignitas, FaZe, and the legendary Ninjas in Pyjamas lineup that dominated the early stages of CS:GO.

The Swede joined on an interim basis but quickly became a permanent fixture of the team and oversaw their title wins at the Pinnacle Cup Championship, BLAST Fall Final 2022, and BLAST Spring Final 2023.

"I look back at my time in Heroic with a lot of joy and pride," Xizt said in his statement. "We built something amazing, from being booed in every stadium to being celebrated and applauded towards the end.

"Our playstyle was unique, dynamic and entertaining. It was the main reason I wanted to join, and I feel like I contributed a lot to one of the most successful teams in this era of CS. "

cadiaN: "It still haunts me that we lost to Outsiders in that Major final"

The move comes during a restructuring process for HEROIC, who recently lost Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller to Liquid and Martin "⁠stavn⁠" Lund and Jakob "⁠jabbi⁠" Nygaard to Astralis.

With the departure of Xizt, the organization is down to just two fully-fledged members. Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen joined the team in October but is only confirmed until the end of 2023, while Jason "⁠salazar⁠" Salazar and Rasmus "⁠Zyphon⁠" Nordfoss are also temporary additions ahead of the BLAST World Final.

HEROIC are currently:

René "⁠TeSeS⁠" Madsen
Rasmus "⁠sjuush⁠" Beck
Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen
Rasmus "⁠Zyphon⁠" Nordfoss (on loan)
Jason "⁠salazar⁠" Salazar (on loan)

unexpected

2023-12-12 18:54

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i called this weeks ago WHO DOUBTED ME HUH WHO DOUBTED THAT THIS QUIET LITTLE MOUSE WAS NOT A TRUE LEADER

2023-12-12 21:41

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wow, thats deep bro

2023-12-12 22:35

n obody cares

2023-12-12 23:35

still extremely cringe i see

2023-12-13 08:56

unexpected for me as well. will he reunite with get right, friberg and forest?

2023-12-13 12:18

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I mean those legends are not playing currently. Probably Xizt will take his time off before some new project comes his way. Friberg is already commentating some Swedish tournaments. Get Right and Olof is fully dived into streaming side of the game, they're content creators now. f0rest is still open to new opportunities though

2023-12-16 21:02

sadeg

RiP Heroic

ded org

after signing ence?

2023-12-13 08:57

The legend

Sad

Cant blame him tho. After what stavn and jabbi did and not being able to bring back cadian. He has all the reasons to leave

2023-12-13 08:13

Sadge

2023-12-12 18:55

rip

expected.

PashaBiceps welcome

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Byali done flipping burgers at mcdonalds, becomes heroic coach, screenshot this

2023-12-12 19:02

he's not working at mcdonalds, he's getting chicken dinners

2023-12-12 19:14

5 replies

Kfc?

2023-12-12 19:22

4 replies

pubg pro player

2023-12-12 20:12

Idk about pro but definitely a PUBG player

2023-12-12 20:14

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youtube.com/watch?v=BL6N25CJOl8 legendary video <3

2023-12-12 20:16

True

2023-12-12 20:25

NiP

its over

2023-12-12 18:56

Just before the Blast World Finals?

After that event .

bro.. it's in the first paragraph

2023-12-12 19:24

Caught me. I have read the title and then scrolled through the article.

2023-12-12 19:27

f heroic

Nip nip nip , comeback to Nip .

Nope org is dead

2023-12-12 19:28

That's why they should revive .

2023-12-12 19:31

Lol

2023-12-13 06:47

Heroic made a moove to nonbe in bankrupt but finally get no more players

Xizt back to competitive play??

2023-12-12 18:57

xizt to faze lets go

2023-12-12 19:00

Expected

that's bad

2023-12-12 18:58

Don't know how heroic will come back from this, they sign dupreeh until the end of the year while completely destroying the roster, what's the point?

Disregard that

2023-12-12 21:14

Legend. Has gone through so much sh!t and turbulence. He deserves better

Only one that can save them is sAw

And sAw will join Heroic

2023-12-12 19:01

RIP

NIP Xizt?

astralis?

astralis xizt when??

rip heroic

Soooo .... pasha or byali for coach? For another Danish IGL Polish ex-VP coach....

he should join Astralis now, right?

2023-12-12 19:03

Welcome sAw!

2023-12-12 19:05

Let's gooooo Heroic!!

2023-12-12 19:41

Finished org

2023-12-12 19:06

Dupreeh coach incomming

2023-12-12 19:07

leaving this burning ship, good for him now get dupreeh away from this and put him on preasy or something

2023-12-12 19:08

To be fair, the ship kinda sunk before the captain left in this case.

2023-12-12 19:44

Where did the captain go

2023-12-12 21:13

heroic dead org

Stabbi and Stavn ruin another great Heroic member

Yeah right. They just sacked the coach

2023-12-12 20:13

Yes, while being on the astralis roster lool

2023-12-13 01:15

They are doomed Only 1 man can save them and its the one and only Christian Møss Andersen AKA Buzz!!!!!!

2023-12-12 19:12

Welcome sAw or Welcome Byali

2023-12-12 19:11

there's no coming back unless sAw joins

byali becomes new Heroic Head Coach

sadge

Alliance Xizt?

2023-12-12 19:18

One can hope

SAW incoming?

2023-12-12 19:20

sAw or Robban?

2023-12-12 19:23

F my man

2023-12-12 19:25

Heroic announce Tier 3

2023-12-12 19:26

Poor dupreeh

2023-12-12 19:34

Isn’t he only there till like the end of the year? I think his goal with heroic was to show he still has it- which imo he has

2023-12-12 20:26

The best he can do is Heroic atm tho, he wont get good offers

2023-12-13 01:20

booooo! hopefully the GOAT of cache is moving on to something bigger and better

2023-12-12 19:36

Astralis 2024: device jabbi stavn TeSeS blameF Xizt

2023-12-12 19:38

Nah

2023-12-13 06:51

Time to go back to NiP Bruh

2023-12-12 19:43

Expected, imagine sacking cadiaN. GL to Xist in finding a new team, smart to move on for sure.

2023-12-12 19:47

Welcome Hunden Kappa

gl xizt

2023-12-12 19:50

It has never been more over

+HUNDan free agent

2023-12-12 19:58

Heroic took a 180 implosion, hope they can manage to recover a t1 competition to some point

comeback to NIP please mr landstrorm. djl is garbage for a very longtime

2023-12-12 20:00

Xizt to astralis

Hopefully he gets another position in a good squad!

NIP what are you waiting for ???

2023-12-12 20:28

good luck legend

2023-12-12 20:31

It's all falling apart

2023-12-12 20:34

COACH THE SWEDISH SUPERTEAM!

2023-12-12 20:49

+SAW EZ

2023-12-12 21:00

Join NiP, kick threat and the coach, take full control and fucken fix it. Would be so funny if he joined astralis tho, lmao.

2023-12-12 21:09

I realised he’s a pretty shit IGL because he is washed but a good coach. He and Acadian are basically responsible for Heroic being the most consistent top 1 team in recent history.

2023-12-12 22:08

Shit igl wtf you never watches him play than bruh

2023-12-13 06:53

replace b1ade in Navi

2023-12-12 22:16

Yes Navi Xizt. Blade is a washed coach.

2023-12-12 22:46

i wouldn't say washed, but he definitely needs to take a step back and refresh his gameplans for the team instead of trying to enforce a setup that typically only works when you have the best player in the world. the team right now is a bunch of bandaids on bandaids, and could use a complete reset in strategies.

2023-12-13 16:17

Nip should defenitely be looking to pick him up, now that threat has been giving coaches the power again he could hopefully rebuild a good roster. He already has old ties to the org.

2023-12-12 23:14