sAw joins Heroic

16-12-2023 16:09

The highly-regarded former ENCE coach has found a new home in HEROIC.

Eetu "⁠sAw⁠" Saha has joined HEROIC to replace Richard "⁠Xizt⁠" Landström as their new Counter-Strike head coach, the organization has announced.

The Finn makes the move from ENCE, where he formed a highly-regarded duo with Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer from 2021-2023 and headed multiple successful rebuilds, which helped them maintain a place among Counter-Strike's elite for most of that time.

Snappi and sAw depart ENCE

HEROIC are now in desperate need of that expertise in rebuilding rosters after their disastrous losses of Martin "⁠stavn⁠" Lund and Jakob "⁠jabbi⁠" Nygaard to Astralis and Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller to Liquid.

It remains to be seen what else the future holds for HEROIC, who currently only have Rasmus "⁠sjuush⁠" Beck and René "⁠TeSeS⁠" Madsen tied down to long-term contracts.

They have been competing at the final tournaments of 2023 with Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen and Rasmus "⁠Zyphon⁠" Nordfoss, as well as with Jason "⁠salazar⁠" Salazar at the BLAST Premier World Final, but it's unclear whether any of them could remain on the team moving forward after they were only announced as temporary stand-ins.

sAw's announcement in part confirms a Dust2.dk report that linked HEROIC with interest in the coach as well as ENCE's trio, Álvaro "⁠SunPayus⁠" García, Pavle "⁠Maden⁠" Bošković, and Guy "⁠NertZ⁠" Iluz. HLTV however understands that at least the former two will not be a part of the rebuild.

pog

2023-12-16 16:09

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pogmachine turned to 1337 setting

2023-12-16 17:02

ence fans... its over

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ence fans evolved to heroic fans

2023-12-16 16:31

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Heroic fans evolved to Liquid fans

2023-12-16 16:42

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This xd

2023-12-16 17:26

yes

2023-12-16 17:36

Or we just gonna call heroic ence 2.0

2023-12-16 16:43

Heroic fans evolved to Astralis fans

2023-12-16 19:11

hahahah

2023-12-16 19:23

I'm sure gla1ve and kuben can cook something new out of the ashes

2023-12-16 19:33

expected

big 4 eetu

nice

holy moly

2023-12-16 16:10

if all remaining ence's roster also joins heroic it will be the weirdest move of the year lol

but who is new igl?

2023-12-16 16:11

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Damjan Stoilkovski most likely

2023-12-16 16:12

roger roger

2023-12-16 16:13

sjuush has stated he wants to igl

we need to see if he acuallly CAN igl....

2023-12-16 16:16

but rene was doing it uh

2023-12-16 16:20

sad now i gotta cheer for heroic

maden, nertz, sunpayus next

2023-12-16 18:12

lol

Heroic new roster: sjuush kyxsan maden Sunpayus Nertz

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will definitely be competing for many cct titles

2023-12-16 16:24

only spirit could beat them in CCT

2023-12-16 16:27

shouldn't they keep dupreeh no?

2023-12-16 17:35

You'd think so, but all the rumors say he's not gonna be staying on the team. It's a very weird situation.

2023-12-17 00:25

bruh such a weird move but power to heroic i guess

2023-12-16 16:14

being an esports coach has to be the ultimate leisure job. If you succeed, people praise you. if you fail, it's because of the actual players because everyone knows coach impact is 0.01% of the actual outcome. win-win either way

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I think people are more aware about how much coaches affects to team and strats these days. Only npc bots keep flaming individual players.

2023-12-16 16:15

you have much experience from coaching tier 1 teams i assume lol

2023-12-16 16:17

Guerri would disagree with you lol, he gets all the hate for furia's downfall but people won't actually blame the real problem which is the twofaced man.

2023-12-16 16:23

So only problem for Heroic is... who's gonna be the IGL ? they keep sjuush which means they need an IGL

kxysan apparently

meh... Maden mafia here we go

Good Luck Eetu

and takes players with him. well played betrayal

snappi was first

2023-12-16 16:26

win/win ENCE sell roster for nice money and sAw links up with 3/5 of old team in new org

Please get out before it's too late sjuush.

I like sAw, shame he went to a shady organization like Heroic

So heroic the new ence

sAwcon is gonna be lit this year!

Aleksib Heroic 2024

2023-12-16 16:18

GL sAw

gla1ve's legacy not looking too hot now.

2023-12-16 16:19

ence version two point zero saw borup jks maden dycha sunpayus

Clueless

2023-12-16 16:22

tanks

bro assembled the worst lineup ever 🔥

Congrats :( happy for him but not happy for the ence changes

waaat!

2023-12-16 16:21

Zyphon deserved a chance

Enceroic incoming

Or not

2023-12-16 16:38

Imagine being dycha...

Good luck my man

2023-12-16 16:40

Oof the fuckening of glaive has started

lost all respect for sAw

2023-12-16 16:56

2023-12-16 16:57

they are buying all of them for TeSeS to lead them?

2023-12-16 17:07

GL sAw!

2023-12-16 17:17

Look, he constantly made ENCE overperform, constantly made them go deeper than the expectations of this group of players were supposed to, constantly found new talent, and while I was never a fan of ENCEs playstyle, I really respect this guy, I think he is pretty much the best person Heroic could've gotten now that they desperately need a rebuild. GL sAw!

2023-12-16 17:20