oskar and STYKO headline new team Inner Circle

17-1-2025 13:31

IC Esports features an eclectic mix of names known to the European scene.

Two-time top 20 player oskar will be hoping to provide the firepower for InCircle

Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk and Tomáš "⁠oskar⁠" Šťastný are the headline names of a brand new team, Inner Circle, which launched today.

Joining the aforementioned duo are Szymon "⁠kRaSnaL⁠" Mrozek, Frederik "⁠Fessor⁠" Sørensen and Marcus "⁠Q-Q⁠" Krolak-Henriksen, completing a lineup made up largely of leftovers from the European scene.

oskar serves as the most decorated member of the squad, having won several notable LAN trophies and earning two mentions on HLTV's top 20 players list across 2017 and 2018. The sniper most-recently featured for SINNERS, averaging a 1.13 rating and guiding them to Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 Europe RMR during his tenure.

STYKO reunites with oskar on Inner Circle, with the duo having won trophies together on MOUZ. Since that time STYKO has been a journeyman featuring for a raft of European squads, notably making top-four at BLAST.tv Paris Major with Apeks. His most-recent playing experience came during a brief stint with Monte mid-way through last year.

oskar, STYKO and lmbt were winning tier-one trophies together across 2017/18

The final player with tier-one experience is kRaSnaL, who spent the last three years with Monte, averaging a 1.05 rating during that time whilst winning ESL Challenger Jönköping 2023 and reaching the playoffs of BLAST.tv Paris Major.

Two Danes, Fessor and Q-Q, complete the starting five. Both have spent their careers plying their trade in the lower tiers of Europe's online scene.

Coaching the team will be Sergey "⁠lmbt⁠" Bezhanov, who helmed MOUZ during their trophy-winning exploits with oskar and STYKO across 2017 and 2018. He also continues the Monte connection, as that was the team he most recently coached, guiding them to a brief peak at No. 6 in the world ranking early in 2024.

Tomáš "⁠oskar⁠" Šťastný
Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk
Szymon "⁠kRaSnaL⁠" Mrozek
Frederik "⁠Fessor⁠" Sørensen
Marcus "⁠Q-Q⁠" Krolak-Henriksen

Sergey "⁠lmbt⁠" Bezhanov

pogy GL

2025-01-17 13:31

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NICE! Rooting for you oskar and styko and the rest of the incircle boys!

2025-01-17 13:51

top 50 material they lack everything max 3-4 matches this year on hltv in none valve events

2025-01-17 13:40

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what are you expecting - top 3 material to compete against vitality in Katowice final and semi-final in Austin major? Respect that they love the game to still play. if they wanted, oskar and styko can make 42,500 euros a month from skin gambling websites that target late teen, early 20s brains ,

2025-01-17 13:57

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i think they cant make 42,500 euros max 41,000

2025-01-17 14:02

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the psychology of cs gambling websites and how they market their colors and website design specifically to the pre-pubescent and teenage gamer brain that is craving skins, the scientific research and marketing analysis that goes into the design of those gambling games , the different colors, the names of the cases, the user interface style, to addict the 19 year old gamer brain, in a completely unregulated market, is fascinating to me. And then have their favorite pro player or streamer stamp of approval on the website and a coupon code with 10% deposit bonus. Genius.

2025-01-17 14:05

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U got any good coupons?

2025-01-17 17:40

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ask loba and nightwere for coupons / codes , whatever theyre called

2025-01-17 19:38

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nightwere mentioned

2025-01-17 23:09

nightwere my beloved

2025-01-18 02:50

team name checks out

2025-01-17 14:03

lmaoo

2025-01-17 14:08

you are being too generous top 123 (right after imperial fe) at the best

2025-01-17 14:49

100% better then your team... ou sorry youndont have team...

2025-01-18 12:38

disband in 6 months

2025-01-17 13:32

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what do you expect? they stick together for 4 years in a united team?? Of course they will go their separate ways eventually. If they last even 6 months that would be super impressive -- unlikely tho. Either way, I respect that They have the balls to grind and do this - it's admirable

2025-01-17 13:58

So you completely agree with me but feel the need to state the obvious?

2025-01-17 14:39

No more like the younger players gonna get poached instantly once they get a semi-decent result leaving STYKO and oskar behind. Or they'll make it to 2026

2025-01-17 19:43

this is not admirable , this is called waste of time and money , there's no enough firepower in this team and they know it , literally every kid from those academy teams would smash anyone in this team. I respect styko and oskar as a players but they should know when to retire and that time has come , styko should've retired specifically after apeks benched him.

2025-01-17 19:36

actually a decent point

2025-01-17 19:44

Yes don't get a paycheck for doing your job, instead retire since you wont win the major lmaoo

2025-01-18 01:35

Yeah i dont get that shi, people on the internet be telling dudes doing their jobs to just retire and stop being paid and making money? like, why dont you go to 30yrold mechanics or doctors and just tell them to retire since theyre "old" or sum? it makes zero sense.

2025-01-25 06:51

Nah more like the younger players gonna get poached instantly once they get a semi-decent result leaving STYKO and oskar behind

6 months unpaid

nice

Hope this will not be another mistake made by oskar, wishing him the best!

holy ass oskar better be getting paid good if he left sinners for this

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Probably not even that tbh, last time he left to play with his friends he didn't even get paid)

2025-01-17 13:52

Styko said that Sinners actually wanted to bench Oskar. He actually didn't have many more opportunities.

2025-01-17 14:38

There are multiple T3 T2 teams that have significantly worse awper than oskar. So i would not be THAT sure about that, his stats are still ok.

2025-01-17 21:16

imagine benching best Czech player in best Czech team

2025-01-21 17:32

he would be benched anyway, check Stykos yt video about it

he was benched.

2025-01-17 17:18

He was getting benched anyway so his buyout was not high, source styko yt

2025-01-17 17:25

someone sign lmbt to a normal team, this is such a waste

i think lmbt is still finished ever since the titans/gorillaz fiasco, so this is fitting

2025-01-17 13:35

oskar nothing nice to say about lmbt after he lured him into that scam, so I'm very very surprised they worked it out

2025-01-17 13:42

old Mouz core? top 5 for sure frfr gl to them, Fessor is a decent talent

imagine oskar makes major with this roster

imagine oskar win major mvp with this roster

2025-01-17 16:47

How is Oskar and styko still trying this is beyond me. Hopefully they at least get paid

2025-01-17 13:33

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Jagr of CS

2025-01-17 13:37

oskar needs to make money to secure future for oskar jr. and buy new lawnmower

2025-01-17 13:47

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Fair, but after being in similar random EU mixteam and not getting any for half a year, it's pretty bold to not rather secure the sinners paycheck. But who am I to judge anyways

2025-01-17 14:09

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Not confirmed but from what i saw and heard oskar had no choice anyways. Sinners even uploaded a vid where their CEO talked like oskar was replaced by the choice of management

2025-01-17 14:14

source?

2025-01-17 14:17

Oh I didn't know that. In that case this makes perfect sense, he probably didn't have any other options

Surely they didn't mean replaced immediately given he was their highest rated player. I assume he meant in the context of thinking about their future given that Oskar is 75 years old.

2025-01-17 14:34

it could be related to the fact that oskar's performance on RMR was horrible even tho he was the one who carried them there solely. Sinners management isn't known for making good decisions jsyk however ur not wrong about the future part

2025-01-17 14:47

Would be silly to make a rash decision like that based on 4-5 game sample size vs. the entire year. But I don’t know sinners mgmt so you could be right.

2025-01-17 14:59

STYKO said he was already benched and SINNERS just didn't announce it, and that's why they were able to afford him

2025-01-17 15:54

Crazy

2025-01-17 16:35

Yup. I thought it was another horrible decision from oskar, but apparently not

2025-01-17 16:45

most underrated player ever I think, I always wish best for him

Actually good team

2025-01-17 13:34

Nah

consistent top-60 team, good luck

are you expecting them to win cologne and major semi-finals? It's a small project. Top 30 is fine.

this roster screams multiple roster changes or disband within 3 months

50yo truck driver Pog Pog Pog

last dance for oscar. major winner 2025

You know the team sucks ass when the biggest star is 33 yrs old truck driver. I would like to see oskar make a big stage one last time but i dont think i will with this team and considering his age i might never see him on big stage again. Glad i was watching mousesports back then.

feels like last major was his last chance , no way he will achieve anything with this team and who would pick him up in like half a year

Kick qq and this team can cook

2025-01-17 13:38

+woxic + sunny for extra nostalgia

Take me back to 2017 please

2025-01-17 13:41

why not chrisJ mens))

2025-01-17 14:06

true but I was thinking bro stopped playing, afaik woxic and sunny are still around(?) but yeah why the hell not, let's do a spice boys revival

2025-01-17 14:13

sunny is a truck driver now

2025-01-17 22:15

why am i not surprised

2025-01-18 01:31

noo +sunny only for firepower

2025-01-17 14:21

Austin major winners

2025-01-17 13:39

Not bad

sunny day real estate be like

literally an FPL mix team

lmao what a trash team

top-60 roster. what for? we know an answer: 322

Monte with worse players

2025-01-17 13:43

all I can see is unpaid salaries and cct closed qualifiers

2025-01-17 13:45

Aw man. This is extremely underwhelming compared to what I was expecting from Oskar. I know dude is old but I was hyped to see where he would end up until I saw this

sad, retirement home for Oskar. Was hoping he could make a major with sinners

New CCT team

Surpriseteam of the year, Mark my words. Styko and krasnal brainpower, Oskar AWP god and to really good riflers. I believe in top 20.

2025-01-17 13:48

ez for 33yr old young prodigy oskar

2025-01-17 13:49

holy shit he's only 33?? fucking spring chicken tbh

just because most of hltv are losers doesn't mean anyone can't make a team try compete

I'm just hoping it isn't LMBT founding someone questionable to make a team again like it was with Gorillaz/Titans. And so far this at least has the name of the org backing them up revealed not many months later. Everything else though...

2025-01-17 13:54

Yeah there was aslo Selectah! I really hope this won't end up like those past iterations.

2025-01-17 15:59

wtf

solid tier 2 team

2025-01-17 13:56

not enough firepower

the battle of mid

Whos the scamme- i mean person creating and managing the org?

2025-01-17 14:00

it's not scam , i think styko is doing all finances alongisde some sponsors probably.

2025-01-17 19:31

reunion <3

2025-01-17 14:01

either way looks like PR is our only hope for the Czech Republic to make the major

Can they beat Imperial FE?

Qq is actually very good

i hope this roster turns out to be competent, but I just feel bad for oskar's career trajectory. Teams keep taking gambles on youngsters who dont pan out while you have a legit tested awper in oskar that is going to perform at any level. not every young awper is a m0nesy, but they keep picking them up like they are. Maybe Q-Q and Fessor are going to somehow turn into great riflers and this team ends up better than hardstuck RMRs failure SINNERS.

Fessor is a great rifler.. But his attitude..

2025-01-17 15:12

He's been needing a tight knit team like this. Being a part of the project from the beginning and having Styko father figure will cure him

2025-01-17 16:12

omg top5 in 2025 easily

STYKO Explained youtu.be/eO8wDGEILQc?si=z6XWpuwJBHm18jf6

2025-01-17 14:15

One of the surprises for me here was that Sinners actually benched oskar, so it wasn't his decision to leave, because up until this video I thought he decided to part ways

2025-01-17 14:51

bro is refusing to retire lmao

oskar? why would he? he still got it

2025-01-17 16:56

krasnal and styko let's go best of luck to them and hope they achieve their goals

2025-01-17 14:22

Who plays star roles on this team?

2025-01-17 14:35

Fessor for sure

2025-01-17 15:25

has to be right

2025-01-17 18:31

The core of styko, Oskar and krasnal is actually interesting! Fessor and QQ is really questionable though. Decreases the hope a bit (for my sake)

2025-01-17 14:36

-kRaSnaL⁠ -Fessor⁠ -Q-Q⁠ +SuNny +Ropz +ChrisJ

2025-01-17 14:41

team for the future for sure

2025-01-17 15:14

How does fessor keep getting chances. Hes and idiot arrogant and is gonna say hes sick so he can play faceit again he aint pro hes a fucking garbage noob

You sound really smart.

2025-01-17 17:04

Im right tho ask his former teammates he baited like shit hunted eco frags and when he was in astralis talent he called in sick so he could stream all night long

2025-01-17 18:19

I am all for the oskar and styko comeback

why styko

2025-01-17 15:27

He literally built the team lol

2025-01-17 16:09

Hopefully they will make their opponents SWEAT.

2025-01-17 15:37

I got a bad feeling about this... I hope I'm completely wrong.

2025-01-17 15:51

ok now -krasnal +chrisJ -fessor +sunny -q-q +ropz and were cookin

save oskar styko

2025-01-17 16:16

33 y.o talent strikes again

2025-01-17 16:33

Lets go

2025-01-17 16:43

mr.firepower?

2025-01-17 16:48

Needs Chris De B0ng

2025-01-17 17:00

Good luck boys!

2025-01-17 17:20

whos IGL?

2025-01-17 18:25

Styko. He mentioned it in his lastest YouTube video

2025-01-17 18:28

Finally q-q on a team

2025-01-17 18:40

This team has Faceit LVL 6 firepower.

2025-01-17 19:25

oskar and styko chrisj disappear should be investigated

2025-01-17 20:14

they'll disband in a month or two

2025-01-17 20:27

I feel like oskar is a great piece to start the roster with, I know he is 33, but you get a very experienced player, and a consistent AWPer at that, he might not be your star, but that's a great piece to start the roster with. Q-Q as an IGL is where I see the problems start, first of all of course inexperience, but if we look at him, all he did was playing for academy teams with little to no success, and his teams never striked me as a sort of well led teams if you know what I mean, so I think thats a bit of a problem and I'd pick someone else. As for the riflers, I think Fessor is solid, I think he deserves a chance, he might be a good rain-esque style of player, who maybe will sacrifice and go first a lot, but can create a lot of place on the map for his teammates. Now I'd expect kRaSnaL to be put into roles of sort of star-rifler, which I think is another problem, he never impressed me with his game sense tbh., I don't think game sense wise he was ready or good enough even for a team like Monte, and his aim isn't great either, I don't consider him a good player tbh., and have no idea why they went with him. As for STYKO, an anchor player, very experienced, smart, but individually, not good enough anymore I think, he can have pop up games, but lately he has been very inconsistent I feel like, and I thought going analyst way now would be a good idea for him, and I also don't like the fact they took him. Overall, I think roster is very dissapointing and they're gonna struggle even in CCT like events, and will probably disband fast or make a complete rebuild. But GL.

2025-01-17 21:59

Why does everyone think a CS player is finished at 30?

2025-01-17 22:06

Because children community now

2025-01-18 02:34

chrisJ next

2025-01-17 22:08

Very doubtful project.

2025-01-17 23:29

Rip krasnal career, from prime Monte which was international to play with 3 polish players and after all he gets kicked and Monte keeps 2 overrated bots which forgot that cs2 isn’t csgo, sad for him since he’s a good player

2025-01-18 00:19