Nouns bench MarKE, add CLASIA on trial

17-4-2024 01:49

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.

Nouns name adreN GM and head coach

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:

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

Eric "⁠adreN⁠" Hoag (coach)

Edgar "⁠MarKE⁠" Maldonado (benched)

Noo markee

2024-04-17 01:49

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+1 Bad move

2024-04-17 14:02

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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marke was hard bottom fragging with star roles :(

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The stars are Junior and Jeorge

2024-04-17 01:59

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2024-04-17 02:20

2024-04-17 03:16

Do you know what star roles or star positions mean

2024-04-17 05:48

How is a pit anchor and someone who is buying constantly an awp to the awper in star roles

2024-04-18 04:51

but he wasnt bottoming nor playing the star spots

2024-04-17 12:35

Marke was NOT playing star roles LMAO

2024-04-17 18:11

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

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

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

Rip italian prodigy

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clasia is italian

2024-04-17 02:27

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explains his past problems of toxicity)

2024-04-17 05:05

That's what you get when you insult his mother or his prosciutto

2024-04-17 12:32

I love marke but man was he slacking

bench one of their best & cheater? not smart

2024-04-17 01:51

cheater?

2024-04-17 08:45

Marke streamsniping Moe in rank S

2024-04-17 09:04

clasia lmao

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

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

soooo he would fit perfectly into elevate?

2024-04-17 19:11

¿Por qué Nouns?

Rip K1ngoldy, he wished for cj da king bench :(

2024-04-17 01:53

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I’d hope most nouns followers did. But the reasoning seems it was our-of-game so who knows

2024-04-17 02:17

cj is a beast hltv.org/stats/players/9571/cj-da-k1ng?c..

2024-04-17 02:21

He’s okay but he’s the weakest nouns member imo and the most easily replaceable

2024-04-17 04:14

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

I am happy when you are happy bro <3

2024-04-17 16:17

hmm

2024-04-17 01:57

clasia my goat

2024-04-17 02:12

they all remind me of cynic for some reason

2024-04-17 02:15

Noooo

deserved for clasia

2024-04-17 02:22

1 down 2 more to go...

2024-04-17 02:52

CoL -grim +MarKE

2024-04-17 02:54

Tbh eloge looks IGLable and JT looks kickable

2024-04-17 11:50

Grim looks like he wants to be benched.

2024-04-17 12:51

Floppy 0.90 rating on cs2 I think u have the wrong name

2024-04-17 16:33

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

Ye grim downfall start with elige taking his roles

2024-04-17 18:00

benching their best player instead of cj and carson matchfixers

2024-04-17 03:01

Its disgusting

2024-04-17 04:42

ikr, maybe MarKE to NaVi

2024-04-17 05:39

The whole Chinese scene is match fixing and you calling others for it

2024-04-18 06:30

Big brain Adren

2024-04-17 03:10

imagine how bad NA CS has to be to recycle the same players time and time again

2024-04-17 03:15

CLASIA is unironically good though. his only problem is he simps for egirls on twitter

2024-04-17 04:13

He would have more success in valorant then

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

Good for you ig because you clearly lost form and became shit yourself to never breakout the people scene

2024-04-17 11:52

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