KEi replaces STYKO on Monte

13-8-2024 16:33

Monte now shift towards a Polish-speaking roster with the addition of the fourth Pole to the squad.

Kamil "⁠KEi⁠" Pietkun has replaced Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk on Monte's roster, the Ukrainian organization has announced.

STYKO parts ways with the team following Monte's decision to shift towards communication in Polish. The Slovak only played with the team for three months, during which the organization overhauled the squad with the additions of Olek "⁠hades⁠" Miskiewicz and Paweł "⁠dycha⁠" Dycha.

"I joined the team during turbulent times and, during the off-season, Monte decided to continue with a different direction," STYKO said in a statement on X. "I completely understand, respect and support this decision, so after mutual agreement it leaves no place for me to stay."

"My 2024 is a rollercoaster on the server and I think a needed break is going to help me reset and regain the passion. I will keep improving individually for the time when the right offer comes."

Monte now features a four-man Polish majority, and Sergiy "⁠DemQQ⁠" Demchenko is also capable of speaking the language, the organization has confirmed to HLTV.

Their new addition, KEi, is a former teammate of hades. The duo played together on and off between 2018-2023, most notably in the 9INE squad that qualified for the BLAST.tv Paris Major and competed in several Big Events after that.

They parted ways after ENCE bought out 9INE's core at the beginning of 2024, and they now rejoin forces at a time when hades has transitioned to an in-game leader in the new Monte squad.

Monte have the following roster:

Sergiy "⁠DemQQ⁠" Demchenko
Szymon "⁠kRaSnaL⁠" Mrozek
Olek "⁠hades⁠" Miskiewicz
Paweł "⁠dycha⁠" Dycha
Kamil "⁠KEi⁠" Pietkun

Sergey "⁠lmbt⁠" Bezhanov (coach)

Nice

2024-08-13 16:34

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Demqq being able to speak polish was not on my 2024 bingo card

2024-08-13 18:08

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Where does he live?

2024-08-13 22:27

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Lord knows

2024-08-14 04:26

Kyiv

2024-08-18 16:38

but why

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they want to speak polish

2024-08-13 16:35

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good point, completely forgot they have (almost) full polish now in my mind they still have boros and woro2k LMAO

2024-08-13 17:21

demqq speaks polish????

2024-08-13 17:28

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From what I understand, it’s not too difficult to understand Polish if you speak Ukrainian and vice versa.

2024-08-13 17:32

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yeah and also demqq propably is living in Poland rn like majority of ukrainian players

2024-08-13 17:38

All of ua players in monte living in ukraine

2024-08-13 17:41

DemQQ lives in Ukraine.

2024-08-13 17:43

It's also easy to understand Polish when you're Slovak man :/

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i used to play on cz/sk servers and i could understand a lot, slavic languages aren't that hard to learn if ur slavic already

2024-08-15 13:37

it says he can in the article

2024-08-13 22:07

i know thats why I put a lof of question marks, i didn't understand why/how

2024-08-15 02:16

oh apparently this move was decided when they signed hades and dycha, but kept styko for valve (and if I understand correctly styko knew about what's gonna happen). So demqq is already getting polish lessons, also I think he lives in Poland and also he played with a lot of polish players

2024-08-15 09:56

makes sense

2024-08-15 20:14

Kei is still very good player and has better aim. Styko wasnt delivering lately and kei is sigma

2024-08-13 16:36

Styko is the balanced support player with great game knowledge, seems very intelligent

2024-08-13 18:55

ik but kei has better potential than styko and when comparing aim kei is just better

2024-08-13 20:50

True, but i think thus team has so many supportive pieces they really needed more firepower

2024-08-13 22:08

imo kei is much better

kei is good and being able to speak their native language in a team could be way better for them

2024-08-13 16:55

Lets gooo, Kei is back

Huge upgrade

lmao

upgrade

xddd, history repeats itself

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but now hades on IGL and awp is really god, krasnal is good and demqq insane

2024-08-13 16:42

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yea, he's farming stats on t3, really impressive, he will miss every shot on t1 again, mark my words + infantile behaviour = ticking bomb

2024-08-13 16:49

of course there was an expert, hades did not miss at all in tier1, and played under the dictates of the current worst IGL gla1ve, now he has a strong team and can arrange the game as he wants, I'm sure they will still surprise everyone positively in the tier1/2 scene

2024-08-13 16:56

1.20 rating is miss every shot on t1?

2024-08-13 17:52

1.20 rating on t1? XDDD blind? hltv.org/stats/players/16848/hades?start.. 0.87 vs top 5 opponents (8 maps) 0.87 vs top 5 opponents (8 maps) 0.87 vs top 5 opponents (8 maps) 0.87 vs top 5 opponents (8 maps) 0.95 vs top 10 opponents (10 maps)

2024-08-13 18:04

Your filter is broken, here you are, important events: hltv.org/stats/players/16848/hades?start..

2024-08-13 18:28

"krasnal is good" bruh

2024-08-15 13:39

just creating division lol, imagine how it feels to be the only non polish guy on that roster

Ask Gla1ve

2024-08-13 16:39

podi?

2024-08-13 17:48

hltv.org/matches/2371510/bad-news-kangar..

2024-08-13 17:50

He's talking about before Ence went full international with the 9ine core.

2024-08-13 17:56

demqq and lmbt have polish lessons and understand a lot in polish language, like said nawrot, 2nd coach/assistant.

2024-08-13 16:48

Ukrainian isnt much different than Polish, so it isnt hard to learn it for DemQQ. Plus he already played with a few polish players so i assume he knows a bit

2024-08-13 17:44

expected

For monte fan from first sdy game with monte, now I can say that Im not sure about my want to cheer this team

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it's still a better team than ence and there's Monte Gen, really excited to see what these kids can achieve

2024-08-13 16:40

that’s not the point, he, as a Ukrainian and a fan of sdy, doesn’t want to root for the Polish roster

2024-08-13 16:50

monte should just rebrand at this point

2024-08-13 17:03

I hope. ryu rly have good tier1 perspectives, demqq too, lmbt was only one who boost BOROS to his prime, but full polish-speaking way changing all perspectives for monte

2024-08-13 17:17

why?

Polish-speaking team vector for me not good idea...

2024-08-13 16:54

vector? Elaborate i kinda dont get what u mean by it

i will continue cheer this team at this moment, but perspective -demqq and -lmbt, polish-speaking team and full another guys from moment when i start cheer this squad and why im cheer, so tilted me for future about this team, just example why im not fan of vitality, good squad, zywoo #1 and... but wheres my fan interest

2024-08-13 17:10

fair....but still memories of golden age sdy squad amiright?? :d same with 9ine full polish run. Memories.

2024-08-13 17:11

Downgrade, we will see disband after they fail to qualify for the major. Sad but true, in universe's laws there is one that says "maximum 3 polish players in a team after 2018"

we will see, this time we have consident hades and also he is good IGL, demqq is better than any polish rifler, kei clears styko, and krasnal is strong anchor

2024-08-13 16:44

dont be too much sceptic, give them time and we'll see what theyre gonna do. im not saying that theyre going to achieve t1, I'm just saying it's too early to predict how this move will affect the organization.

good upgrade, styko pls retire

2024-08-13 16:37

this roster is definitely capable of top20 with the addition of kei

bro played one good match as a standin yesterday and got the job, crazy GL, hopefully demqq can adapt well to speaking polish and we can have a good T2 polish team again!

2024-08-13 16:38

somebody needs to save demqq

2024-08-13 16:41

happy for kei, but sad for styko 💔

honestly, feels like they going to have a honeymoon period where they play decent and fell off the cliff few months later

demqq speaks polish and this roster is insane

Not rly insane but good enough to maybe qualify for opening stage of Shanghai Major

2024-08-13 16:43

its just old 9ine but with huge upgrade, hades is consident and also good IGL, demqq is strong rifler and krasnal also pretty good

2024-08-13 16:46

RIP styko

"Monte now features a four-man Polish majority, and Sergiy "⁠DemQQ⁠" Demchenko is also capable of speaking the language, the organization has confirmed to HLTV." but can lmbt speak polish?

Doesn't matter. Saw has barry as coach, eho I doibt soeaks portugese

Imbt has polish language lessons and probably understands a lot

2024-08-13 18:38

he doesn't speak with them during game

2024-08-13 20:23

NOOOOOOO STYKO! I'LL MISS U MY GOAT. ALSO DEMQQ YOU GIGACHAD I HOPE YOU MAKE TOP20 IN 2025

no radar - no top20

2024-08-13 22:56

remaking 9INE with Monte's shirt... it won't work

They have better Anchors in dycha and DemQQ the only sus part is kRaSnaL but maybe tomiko or bnox could join post Major and we cookin?

Team gets a few poles, they do decent, they replace rest of the team with poles, they start doing bad. Story old as time

thats true

2024-08-13 17:20

Styko could go into coching or analyst position tbh, that way he would be bought by some tier 1 team cuz in that aspect he is very good

he is better coach than TaZ even with 0 coaching experience

2024-08-13 16:52

2024-08-13 16:58

hes right tho

2024-08-13 18:12

he is better than swani was that's for sure

2024-08-13 18:57

im serious about styko being good with strats and knowledge. his problem is that he has less aim than he should have

2024-08-13 20:39

and I'm on your side Styko could be a great coach

2024-08-13 21:13

yep, i like him

2024-08-13 22:14

well maybe this time I'll finally get that STYKO-oskar reunion

how many times will styke be replaced :D

Styko xDD I feel bad for him rn

surely the same polish mix will work this time

Don't missunderstood me but this is the same like ENCE. Players changed to polish and goes totally garbage.

glaive does not know polish mate XD

2024-08-13 18:56

wtf why? get good ukrainian player for krasnal tbh. Demqq also needs a friend

2024-08-13 16:51

polish dreamteam= sluhui mhl kei kylar fiku

in 2022 yes

When I'm in a not learning from past mistakes competition and polish players are my opponent

Sad for styko He deserves better

2024-08-13 16:59

looks good on paper but beside vp there hasn't been any Polish team that performed good for a decent period of time. Why this should be different?

2024-08-13 17:01

why? somehow all the polish lineups are pure dogshit? I don't want to hurt anybody but thats the harsh truth brothers...

2024-08-13 17:02

Interesting, demqq really speaks polish?

2024-08-13 17:07

yes monte confirmed it

2024-08-13 17:19

Kei to success

2024-08-13 17:08

nin9 core

2024-08-13 17:18

styko the most kicked player ever?

I hope that it wont be next polish team that will disband after 6 months

Legend is back

2024-08-13 17:23

So it's basically the same team as before

2024-08-13 17:37

sad day

2024-08-13 17:45

so you are telling me that styko had to play yesterday with his replacement in one team?

2024-08-13 17:46

-maden +styko

2024-08-13 17:47

It's funny to watch how these organizations take players and base themselves on something and then suddenly tell them that I want to play in another language :D I have nothing against Poles but it will turn out like with Polish teams as always :D Anyway GL Monte