mithR joins Liquid

11-7-2024 21:27

The Danish coach is the first piece of Liquid's off-season rebuild.

mithR was recently head coach for Apeks

Liquid has announced the signing of former Apeks coach Torbjørn "⁠mithR⁠" Nyborg, marking the first official addition as part of the team's off-season rebuild.

According to the lineup submitted by Liquid for BLAST Premier Fall Groups, Roland "⁠ultimate⁠" Tomkowiak and Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage are the remaining personnel left to be announced.

Sources: jks, ultimate and mithR registered by Liquid for BLAST Premier Fall Groups

Liquid undertook an ambitious rebuild of their roster in the most-recent winter player break, which included bringing in two-time Major winning coach Wilton "⁠zews⁠" Prado. After a string of lacklustre results across the first half of 2024, which included missing out on PGL Major Copenhagen, the team parted ways with zews in June.

mithR takes up the head coach mantle having recently served in said role for Apeks, although he also has stints as a coach for MOUZ and Renegades on his CV.

The Dane took over at Apeks in September 2023 after Jakub "⁠kuben⁠" Gurczyński departed for ENCE. mithR helped the squad maintain a spot inside the top 15 of the world ranking for much of his tenure, and the team achieved second-place finishes at Elisa Masters Espoo and ESL Challenger Atlanta with him at the helm.

As part of their announcement Liquid pointed to mithR's record of "developing IGLs," which will be an important skill should Russel "⁠Twistzz⁠" Van Dulken take over the leadership role as expected.

Sources: Liquid target Polish AWPer ultimate

According to HLTV sources and the rosters submitted by Liquid for BLAST Fall Groups, ultimate and jks will be the two players Liquid add in place of Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller and Felipe "⁠skullz⁠" Medeiros.

Liquid now feature:

Russel "⁠Twistzz⁠" Van Dulken
Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis
Keith "⁠NAF⁠" Markovic

Torbjørn "⁠mithR⁠" Nyborg (coach)

Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller (benched)

2024-07-11 21:27

8 replies

Good change, Liquid's coaches have always been mid except for adreN!

2024-07-11 21:35

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mithR is below mid tho.

2024-07-12 16:18

MITHR EXTENDS CONTRACT WITH APEKS UNTIL 2027

2024-07-11 21:41

not bad

2024-07-11 21:49

Coach with 0 achievements nice

2024-07-11 22:37

That just ain't fair

2024-07-12 02:45

Better than Zewz

2024-07-12 12:10

clown org not even worth following their news anymore

2024-07-13 00:03

tier 5 change

23th upvote

2024-07-12 17:30

Cool I guess

2024-07-11 21:28

fukin hell man im finished

2024-07-11 21:29

no liquid is

2024-07-11 21:32

xd tier 5

this guy faceit so annoying idk how any team can stand him

2024-07-11 21:31

"track record of developing IGLs" Twistzz new IGL confirmed.

2024-07-11 21:33

glgl

2024-07-11 21:34

Mmhh

2024-07-11 21:36

better than zews that's for sure

2024-07-11 21:37

3 replies

Is it... zews led Liquid to great heights previously. The lineup was the problem this time.

2024-07-11 23:42

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It was a long time ago though. We only assume coaches stay good forever

2024-07-12 00:32

zews was not the reason for that lineups success

2024-07-12 01:28

jeez

I like this move.

this team is coooooked

2024-07-11 21:38

kuben was dropped from Apeks he didn't leave to go to another team. ENCE picked him up only AFTER Apeks had already replaced him for mithR.

2024-07-11 21:44

I think he's a solid coach pick-up, one that can aid Twistzz in his In-Game leading endeavours. From the outside MithR seems more of a people person and he will easily get along with the like of NAF, Yeki and Jks. Let's hope this version of Liquid can cook

2024-07-11 21:46

+HooXi +jks ? Edit: Have a good day!

2024-07-11 21:47

Hope Twistz doesn’t have big drop in form, being IGL and star rifler at same time

2024-07-11 22:00

He should have never left Europe.

2024-07-11 23:41

Another waste 6 months

2024-07-11 22:04

I dont think this is a bad change, but coaching pick ups are always hard to judge instantly. Zews looked like a great fit for Liquid and the team fell apart under his own eyes, so we will just have to say. If you mean the roster, I would say there is a likely chance you are right unless twistzz is a 1.1+ IGL and Yeki goes back to at a bare minimum 1.13+.

Give him a chance brother!

2024-07-11 23:28

The most important piece of rebuild, I hope he does well.

2024-07-11 23:31

Downgrade from zews, but sure.

2024-07-11 23:40

give yekindar a good coach and he will go back to his GOAT form best entry of all time

2024-07-11 23:48

Navi -iM +Yeki would go so hard

2024-07-12 02:03

Lol after Jame and Cadian I think he’d have a panic attack under Aleksi

2024-07-12 04:11

Don't forget Blade too. Honestly his best play was under Jame and a strong system so I think individually he'd do well at least. Mentally he'd be in shambles I suppose.

2024-07-12 04:34

Liquid should sign jks HooXi SunPayus/Woro2k and bench Yekindar and actually a notbad team

2024-07-11 23:59

upgrade

2024-07-12 01:58

i feel like dastan would have been the best pickup, prolly could get yekindar back to winning ways

2024-07-12 02:31

Good pickup and an upgrade for Liquid

2024-07-12 04:43

what a joke, next 6 months we will see more from the same, Liquid losing over and over again ah ah ah ah ah ah

Bench botkindar, dude is paycheck stealer

2024-07-12 11:18

disband when

2024-07-12 12:16

Good luck! Surely yekindar has to find some form soon...

2024-07-12 12:35

Yekindar still The main problem Since he joined TL he ruined the team, with his ego and low perfomance Anyone else more humble and dedicated than him can fit his place

2024-07-12 18:00