Monte promote Gizmy and ryu from academy

18-3-2024 22:04

Monte Gen will be on the hunt for two new talents after the move.

Gizmy played for Monte at the recent Europe RMR

Monte have promoted Jack "⁠Gizmy⁠" von Spreckelsen and Gytis "⁠ryu⁠" Glušauskas from their academy squad, Monte Gen, to fill the gaps in their roster left by the recent departures of Alexander "⁠br0⁠" Bro and Viktor "⁠sdy⁠" Orudzhev.

"After testing multiple options and player combos, we’ve decided that our academy duo is the best option for us in the current period," said Monte's Director of Esports, Denys "dance" Yashniev, in a statement on X/Twitter.

Monte saw their squad severely depleted recently after sdy left by mutual agreement and br0 signed for Astralis, leaving them without their best player and the player who helped the squad become a fixture in the top 10 of the world ranking. They have turned to their academy squad for reinforcements, promoting two members who have been with Monte Gen since the team's inception late last year.

sdy departs Monte by mutual agreement

Gizmy hails from the UK scene where he played for the likes of Viperio, making a name for himself by aiding Viperio to the BLAST.tv Paris Major Europe RMR last year. He recently stood in for Monte for two matches of their recent ill-fated PGL Copenhagen Major Europe RMR campaign, helping the squad pick up a win over Nexus.

ryu has historically featured for Benelux squads like LowLandLions and Genk, and will be making his first foray into the upper levels of CS competition.

Monte have already played two officials with their new lineup, both in ESL Challenger League Season 47, where they lost to SAW but picked up a win over PERA.

Date	Matches
ESL Challenger League Season 47 Europe
05/03/2024	Monte Finished 0:2 SAW	Match
13/03/2024	Monte Finished 2:1 PERA	Match

Monte are now:

Volodymyr "⁠Woro2k⁠" Veletniuk
Sergiy "⁠DemQQ⁠" Demchenko
Szymon "⁠kRaSnaL⁠" Mrozek
Gytis "⁠ryu⁠" Glušauskas
Jack "⁠Gizmy⁠" von Spreckelsen

Sergey "⁠lmbt⁠" Bezhanov (coach)

rip monte

2024-03-18 22:05

This Monte downfall is beautiful

2024-03-18 22:06

12 replies

2024-03-18 22:18

what did they do to you

2024-03-18 23:06

2 replies

Slovakia is nowadays Russia

2024-03-19 07:15

1 reply

So what did they do to you?

2024-03-19 14:34

2024-03-19 02:47

2024-03-19 11:08

why?

2024-03-20 09:14

5 replies

Cringe social media admin to start with

2024-03-20 09:38

4 replies

I didn't even know they had a social media presence. Protip: if you don't want to see their social media, don't look at it. I can give you other helpful tips if required

2024-03-20 09:40

3 replies

You asked me a question, I answered. Not that I clicked on their profile on Twitter

2024-03-20 13:51

then how did you see their cringe media profile?

2024-03-20 14:20

Browsing hltv, seen some threads about it

2024-03-20 15:21

couldn't get Kvem on the team, FeelsBadMan

Very british name von spreckelsen

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you serious? because it basically has to be german

2024-03-18 23:05

Sarcasm.. Most likely german, but could be dutch too. But german is the logical answer

2024-03-18 23:07

dutch would be van not von

Yeah i mixed it up. edited my comment

as i suspected its from around hamburg (😎🤙) since spreckelsen is prob originally even danish or sth

2024-03-18 23:10

Indeed

2024-03-18 23:11

if you feed a Gizmy past midnight, he turns into an evil von Spreckelsen

2024-03-19 01:00

Jerman humor?

2024-03-19 01:58

just facts

2024-03-19 09:12

Never seen gremlins?

2024-03-19 12:56

L, it was a good time to turn it into full UA

2024-03-18 22:07

14 replies

tell me 1 reason why would they do it xdd

2024-03-18 22:12

13 replies

better players and communicate in their main language

2024-03-18 22:13

better players? you have a way bigger pool of players you can get from international + it put them in a bad position in which orgs like ikla could want insane amounts of money for kvem and they would have to pay if they wanted to make an ukrainian team communicating in their language doesnt change anything, they will not play better while speaking ukrainian

2024-03-18 22:15

11 replies

ikla hasnt existed for one month already wdym

2024-03-18 23:17

8 replies

yep, but they are still on contract

2024-03-19 00:53

7 replies

how why

2024-03-19 01:11

6 replies

because their contracts haven't expired yet?

2024-03-19 02:39

but the org doesnt exist anymore? also why would they still get paid if they dont play anymore?

they don't get paid, but they're still contracted and the org still exists, why wouldn't it?

2024-03-19 12:03

If they are under contract they are getting paid aswell.

2024-03-19 12:57

that depends on a contract, and considering it's a small org and not one of the big established ones, they're likely either not getting paid at all or have their salary cut. otherwise, it doesn't make much sense to stop playing before contracts are done, if they just end up wasting money for nothing

2024-03-19 13:20

they are wasting money for nothing if theyre still on contract bc theyd still have to have their salaries paid

2024-03-19 14:12

better pool of players matters little when you can't afford them, it's not like they signed blamef or jks. They could've made a stronger full UA team even without Kvem

2024-03-19 00:21

2024-03-19 14:35

will be hard for monte, that's 4 sure, but (HOPIUM) they'll have chances if they grind

2024-03-18 22:09

Solid t3 team

what a shame they fell off only paris major fluke team that had potential to become a title contender

i think management is the problem, the owner didnt reinvest any money from paris

2024-03-18 22:16

boros was bought out by falcons sdy basically gave up on the roster after they failed to qualify for copenhagen and br0 left for astralis if they stuck together after paris they couldve been a real threat

2024-03-18 22:19

They reached their peak after they added br0 though, team got way less dependent on BOROS hero plays and krasnal and demqq stepped up massively along with br0 being a really good role player. I think they would've been a full on fluke team if they kept BOROS, at the very least they had a solid 6 months of being an actual top 10 team now.

2024-03-18 22:23

i agree ^

with all due respect, why is ryu here?

idk he provably played br0's positions in avademy

2024-03-18 22:17

hope he does good, for my countries scene ;d

Lithuania > Poland

2024-03-18 22:37

With all due respect to Lithuania, jL and bymas, but no

2024-03-19 04:57

Not rn, only lithuanian in the scene is jL and other guys without teams like espi bymas etc.

2024-03-19 06:23

Currently no, but we still have talents. Espi coming back will be good for Lithuanian scene, seems to have motivation after doing mandatory military training and still being only 22. Bymas without team but if he takes it seriously can bounce back still only 20. Probably would say dziugss is most exiting youth player coming up in Lithuania currently playing for Navi Youth only 15.

2024-03-19 08:16

Really hoping dziugss can actually become a good player in the future our scene needs more T1 talents

2024-03-19 14:37

no boros :(

2024-03-18 22:24

monte t3 now sadly

2024-03-18 22:25

tier4 with t3 potential, radarQQ only carry in online quali

2024-03-18 22:46

meanwhile demqq: 1.07 online 1.16 LAN

2024-03-19 00:26

DemQQ is ironically a LANer.

2024-03-19 00:55

Oh Monte fell off

2024-03-18 22:26

ryu barely plays CS it's wild he's on the main roster, Monte are fully finished

2024-03-18 23:01

Should have gotten kvem but they probably couldnt afford him ig.

why didn’t they get kvem?

2024-03-18 23:04

maybe kvem has his own plans in mind? this is weird ngl

its obviously cause of money. And idk where else Kvem could land in, he's def tier 1 material at the very least.

Isn’t Kvem a free agent?

2024-03-19 01:06

unfortunately no. Unlike half of his ex-teammates, he's still contracted. IKLA's basically trying to sell him in particular since he's their standout player. While also seemingly putting him a decently high buyout for him. In a nutshell, unlike his teammates, Kvem in particular is essentially tier 1 capable and thus want to fetch as much money as they can for him. Unfortunately as a consequence, Kvem can probably only land in orgs that have alot of money unless his contract runs out which who knows when that'll be.

2024-03-19 01:17

thanks for the info, didn’t know that

2024-03-19 02:32

don't have enough money

2024-03-19 00:31

2024-03-18 23:09

UK Goat

2024-03-18 23:33

gg wp they are done

2024-03-18 23:35

Why no Ukrainians? Another boring eu team

2024-03-18 23:43

Jerman CS is back

2024-03-18 23:47

Glizzmy my goat

2024-03-19 00:02

ryu from street fighter?! sorry i prefer ken

2024-03-19 00:05

What a potato of move ; unbelieveable This is guaranteed downfall

2024-03-19 00:15

Either kvem was a greedy PoS or Monte were a greedy PoS

2024-03-19 00:18

IKLA, not Kvem he's still contracted to the org and needs to be bought out

2024-03-19 00:37

well i doubted when they added bro, but LMBT kind of made it work. He`s really good coach so i say give them few months just because of respect for LMBT and then we`ll see

2024-03-19 00:33

This either works out great or awfully, I like gizmy being added. Brings a hype man into the team and a great young prospect, ryu is still very raw but has insane potential. Expect him to take a few weeks-months to warm up to high tier cs.

2024-03-19 00:35