Nouns bench MarKE, add CLASIA on trial

The new lineup is already in action for the Esports World Cup NA Open Qualifier.

MarKE has been moved to the bench after Nouns fell short in several key qualifiers

Nouns has moved Edgar "⁠MarKE⁠" Maldonado to the team's bench, adding American rifler Anthony "⁠CLASIA⁠" Kearney on a trial basis through April.

The decision to move MarKE to the inactive lineup comes just days after Nouns opted to shake up their coaching staff, moving Eric "⁠adreN⁠" Hoag to a GM and head coach position while Kory "⁠SEMPHIS⁠" Friesen shifted to a performance coach role.

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This slew of changes in the Nouns camp comes after several disappointing finishes for the team in a number of North American qualifiers throughout 2024.

In particular, Nouns missed out on PGL Major Copenhagen, IEM Chengdu, IEM Dallas, ESL Challenger Jönköping, and BLAST Premier Spring Showdown after falling short in the respective qualifiers for these events, despite often being the favorites among the other domestic squads.

MarKE's place on the team will be filled by a face familiar to the remaining Nouns players, with CLASIA stepping up to fill the gap in a trial position that will see him play through April.

CLASIA previously played alongside the core of Nouns on Gaimin Gladiators and ChocoCheck, but is most well-known for a brief tenure on EG Black during the summer of 2022 alongside Colby "⁠Walco⁠" Walsh and Jadan "⁠HexT⁠" Postma.

Since then, CLASIA has spent time with a number of different domestic sides, most recently facilitating Party Astronauts' run through the ESL Challenger Jönköping closed qualifier as a stand-in, powering the org-less side through the qualifier as the team's highest-rated player and earning them a spot at Jönköping over Nouns.

CLASIA is already in action for Nouns in the Esports World Cup NA Open Qualifier bracket which kicked off on Tuesday.

Following this move, Nouns are now:

United States Carson "⁠nosraC⁠" O'Reilly
United States Christopher "⁠cJ dA K1nG⁠" Jones
United States Paytyn "⁠junior⁠" Johnson
United States Jeorge "⁠Jeorge⁠" Endicott
United States Anthony "⁠CLASIA⁠" Kearney (trial)

United States Eric "⁠adreN⁠" Hoag (coach)

Mexico Edgar "⁠MarKE⁠" Maldonado (benched)

United States Christopher 'cJ dA K1nG' Jones
Christopher 'cJ dA K1nG' Jones
Age:
26
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.98
Maps played:
614
KPR:
0.67
DPR:
0.68
United States Anthony 'CLASIA' Kearney
Anthony 'CLASIA' Kearney
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.07
Maps played:
489
KPR:
0.73
DPR:
0.66
Canada Colby 'Walco' Walsh
Colby 'Walco' Walsh
Age:
22
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.96
Maps played:
819
KPR:
0.65
DPR:
0.68
United States Eric 'adreN' Hoag
Eric 'adreN' Hoag
Age:
33
Team:
Mexico Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado
Edgar 'MarKE' Maldonado
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.05
Maps played:
1226
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.65
United States Jeorge 'Jeorge' Endicott
Jeorge 'Jeorge'  Endicott
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.04
Maps played:
649
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.66
Canada Jadan 'HexT' Postma
Jadan 'HexT' Postma
Age:
22
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.02
Maps played:
818
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.67
Canada Kory 'SEMPHIS' Friesen
Kory 'SEMPHIS' Friesen
Age:
34
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
0.99
Maps played:
848
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.71
United States Paytyn 'junior' Johnson
Paytyn 'junior' Johnson
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.11
Maps played:
749
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.58
United States Carson 'nosraC' O'Reilly
Carson 'nosraC' O'Reilly
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.95
Maps played:
896
KPR:
0.66
DPR:
0.69
Noo markee
2024-04-17 01:49
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1 reply
+1 Bad move
2024-04-17 14:02
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#2
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Poland BAN_ANIME
seriously? who is igling, because i see 2 guys below 1.00, surely marke wasnt a problem?
2024-04-17 01:50
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11 replies
marke was hard bottom fragging with star roles :(
2024-04-17 01:50
0
7 replies
The stars are Junior and Jeorge
2024-04-17 01:59
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4 replies
#19
swag | 
United States HagEy
+1
2024-04-17 02:20
0
+1
2024-04-17 03:16
0
Do you know what star roles or star positions mean
2024-04-17 05:48
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1 reply
How is a pit anchor and someone who is buying constantly an awp to the awper in star roles
2024-04-18 04:51
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#66
MarKE | 
Cuba Sebox
but he wasnt bottoming nor playing the star spots
2024-04-17 12:35
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Marke was NOT playing star roles LMAO
2024-04-17 18:11
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#27
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United States festivve
Those are all time ratings. If you look at the last 3 months MarkE has the worst rating. I believe Carson is IGLing.
2024-04-17 03:00
0
And that's why you don't look into all time rating when making decisions now. Here's his stats for 2024, you can see his teammates lower for the same time period hltv.org/stats/players/10892/marke?start..
2024-04-17 16:20
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1 reply
#85
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Poland BAN_ANIME
i see, thanks well hopefully they do get better now, they seem to be together for so long but never achieve like anything
2024-04-17 19:09
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#3
 | 
Moldova salkoay
Rip italian prodigy
2024-04-17 01:50
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3 replies
#23
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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United States TacticalSanta
clasia is italian
2024-04-17 02:27
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2 replies
explains his past problems of toxicity)
2024-04-17 05:05
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1 reply
#63
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Brazil Madamrocas
That's what you get when you insult his mother or his prosciutto
2024-04-17 12:32
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I love marke but man was he slacking
2024-04-17 01:50
0
bench one of their best & cheater? not smart
2024-04-17 01:51
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2 replies
cheater?
2024-04-17 08:45
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1 reply
#55
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
steel | 
Belgium VulcunStoleMyD
Marke streamsniping Moe in rank S
2024-04-17 09:04
0
clasia lmao
2024-04-17 01:51
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3 replies
You seem like you're pretty in touch with the NA scene. I think I remember hearing rumors about clasia being really toxic or something, is that true?
2024-04-17 05:55
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2 replies
It was the reason why he got kicked from Gaimin when they were NA back then after 16 days. And he never changed after that as that also led to him getting benched on EG Black despite him being the team's best player. Bounced around in tier wherever since then, and then was left without a proper team since last year after his 2 month venture into Strife aside from that lame mix called MIGHT. I assume he's been working to make amends but he basically lucked out here.
2024-04-17 06:05
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1 reply
#86
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Poland BAN_ANIME
soooo he would fit perfectly into elevate?
2024-04-17 19:11
0
¿Por qué Nouns?
2024-04-17 01:51
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Rip K1ngoldy, he wished for cj da king bench :(
2024-04-17 01:53
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5 replies
#18
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United States 1Tuurtle
I’d hope most nouns followers did. But the reasoning seems it was our-of-game so who knows
2024-04-17 02:17
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2 replies
2024-04-17 02:21
0
1 reply
#36
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United States 1Tuurtle
He’s okay but he’s the weakest nouns member imo and the most easily replaceable
2024-04-17 04:14
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#58
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Canada K1nGoldY
Thanks for the condolences :( but again I wanted CLASIA to find a team he was signed by my second favorite team. So I'm happy happy happy :D
2024-04-17 11:48
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1 reply
I am happy when you are happy bro <3
2024-04-17 16:17
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#11
Faceit level 9  | 
 | 
United States Twitch_FishTheHusky
hmm
2024-04-17 01:57
0
clasia my goat
2024-04-17 02:12
0
they all remind me of cynic for some reason
2024-04-17 02:15
0
Noooo
2024-04-17 02:15
0
#22
 | 
United States jaank
deserved for clasia
2024-04-17 02:22
0
1 down 2 more to go...
2024-04-17 02:52
0
CoL -grim +MarKE
2024-04-17 02:54
0
5 replies
#59
 | 
Canada K1nGoldY
Tbh eloge looks IGLable and JT looks kickable
2024-04-17 11:50
0
4 replies
Grim looks like he wants to be benched.
2024-04-17 12:51
0
3 replies
Floppy 0.90 rating on cs2 I think u have the wrong name
2024-04-17 16:33
0
2 replies
Grim (non support rifler) 0.6 kills per round Floppy (support rifler) 0.5 kills per round someone in Grims roles is not supposed to perform similarly to someone in Floppys roles. Although I do agree with K1nGoldY that JT might not be the best igl for CoL, MarKE replacing JT could be good too but I think MarKE replacing Grim would be better.
2024-04-17 17:27
0
1 reply
Ye grim downfall start with elige taking his roles
2024-04-17 18:00
0
benching their best player instead of cj and carson matchfixers
2024-04-17 03:01
0
3 replies
Its disgusting
2024-04-17 04:42
0
ikr, maybe MarKE to NaVi
2024-04-17 05:39
0
The whole Chinese scene is match fixing and you calling others for it
2024-04-18 06:30
0
#29
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United States sallos
Big brain Adren
2024-04-17 03:10
0
imagine how bad NA CS has to be to recycle the same players time and time again
2024-04-17 03:15
0
2 replies
#35
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North America minte
CLASIA is unironically good though. his only problem is he simps for egirls on twitter
2024-04-17 04:13
0
1 reply
#65
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Brazil Madamrocas
He would have more success in valorant then
2024-04-17 12:35
0
#32
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
United States jibjeenyus
It's crazy all these kids I used to crap on in rank G years ago are just now becoming pros.
2024-04-17 03:30
0
2 replies
#60
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Canada K1nGoldY
Good for you ig because you clearly lost form and became shit yourself to never breakout the people scene
2024-04-17 11:52
0
1 reply
#91
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
United States jibjeenyus
I don't have to play and id still come back and be better than all these kids barley making it, wasting their lives away, played last year for literally 3 months, hit 3k elo and qualified for fpl-c.
2024-04-17 23:13
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#33
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Argentina cheapdeed
upgrade yet still same thing
2024-04-17 03:38
0
Sad for alanzoka :/
2024-04-17 04:00
0
#37
Jame | 
United States j3tta
bro fuck. nouns are screwed without mexican legend marke.
2024-04-17 04:25
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1 reply
#51
Cooper | 
Europe kuu1
When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best.
2024-04-17 07:30
0
NOOOO MARKE WTF GUYS
2024-04-17 06:04
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#46
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Russia SaitoXX
W (L) imagine kick marke when you have cj and nosrac. Classia is good
2024-04-17 06:46
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1 reply
Carson IGL and CJ plays ass positions with good rating
2024-04-17 07:04
0
mankz+
2024-04-17 07:18
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clasia is very toxic and mentally problematic guy. I dont think it will work
2024-04-17 07:22
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2 replies
#61
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Canada K1nGoldY
Money and a proper org can cure everything, exceptions are if you join orgs like EG, NIP or OG
2024-04-17 11:54
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1 reply
OG as an org is fine. EG and NIP on the other hand...
2024-04-17 19:12
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MARKE WAS NOT THE PROBLEM BRUH
2024-04-17 07:26
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This markE guy is wasted talent for sure
2024-04-17 08:04
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#53
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United States kalimbo
Finally a normal team picks Clasia. He deserves it.
2024-04-17 08:10
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#56
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
HooXi | 
Sweden penismodel
what? marke going somewhere else then
2024-04-17 10:32
0
2 replies
Could he consider Iberian teams? Might have more luck there than staying in the NA loop of constant recycled lineups
2024-04-17 14:42
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1 reply
#84
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
HooXi | 
Sweden penismodel
maybe
2024-04-17 18:58
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#75
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United States 2046
Benching your best player is crazy
2024-04-17 15:25
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Mexico's greatest :(
2024-04-17 18:13
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#88
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Brazil SecondKS
MarkE > NA
2024-04-17 20:32
0
Wtf guys, what horrible decision, bad move
2024-04-17 21:01
0
bad move
2024-04-19 07:27
0
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