TaZ bids farewell to G2: "Who knows what story life will write next?"

19-6-2025 15:30

The Polish coach said that he is unsure of his future.

G2 have announced that they have parted ways with head coach Wiktor "⁠TaZ⁠" Wojtas, who bid farewell to the players and staff he worked with in an emotional post on X.

TaZ was named head coach of G2 in December 2023, replacing Jan "⁠Swani⁠" Müller in the role. It was the 39-year-old's first coaching stint and it came after an illustrious playing career that included great successes, including a Major title in 2014 with Virtus.pro.

During his 18-month stint in charge of G2, TaZ led the team to three titles: IEM Dallas, BLAST Premier Final, and BLAST Premier World Final, all in 2024.

He coached his last game for G2 at the Austin Major, where the team missed out on a playoff spot after losing progression series against Natus Vincere and The MongolZ.

In his social media post, TaZ said that his future remains a mystery.

"What’s next for me? The past 18 months have helped me grow both as a coach and as a person. I’d love to stay in this world, but who knows what story life will write next?" TaZ wrote.

HEROIC bid farewell to sAw, SunPayus

TaZ's duties will be taken over by Eetu "⁠sAw⁠" Saha, who officially left HEROIC on Wednesday alongside Álvaro "⁠SunPayus⁠" García. The Spanish AWPer is also on the brink of joining G2 to take up the AWP — a role that was temporarily held by Olek "⁠hades⁠" Miskiewicz in the aftermath of Ilya "⁠m0NESY⁠" Osipov's transfer to Falcons.

THANK YOU MR. MERCEDES !! 🥰

2025-06-19 15:31

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TaZ ruined G2 made hooxi leave and everything went downhill

2025-06-19 15:32

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Don't forget NiKo baiting to leave to failcons as well which cost jks his spot

2025-06-19 15:36

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g2 just fumbled to get sjuush and NertZ + a decent coach like say sAw lmao

2025-06-19 15:37

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I mean they got saw eventually… Saw + young Israeli star rifler is a match made in heaven

2025-06-19 16:43

Niko has been ruining orgs for ages - he will hire every major winner / worlds best player to try get him the win, and when that doesnt work he just starts kicking ppl and hiring his Serbian mates.

2025-06-20 10:39

Hooxi literally was a reason why niko, m0nesy and hunter wanted to leave at the end of 2023 LOL

2025-06-19 15:47

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And they still regretting it cause they got snax next xD

2025-06-19 18:52

niko literally said that he had the best roster in g2 with snax and malbs LOL

2025-06-19 19:37

yesssss and TaZ <33333

2025-06-19 21:51

And now they have kyxsan xD

2025-06-20 11:24

source?

2025-06-19 19:01

"Trust me bro"

2025-06-19 19:17

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you have whole interview with g2 ceo LMAO

2025-06-19 21:53

imagine trusting g2 ceo lol

2025-06-20 08:03

how is that not just utterly fkn straight cap? like youre just lying straight up, niko wanted to leave cause he wanted the bag/big bucks millions at falcons and hunter and m0NESY wanted to leave if niko left.. with hooxi instead of snax and a competent coach instead of taz g2 wouldve done insanely better than they have been..

2025-06-19 20:38

Does new gen refuse to use browser or what? You have whole podcast with him and karrigan where he talk about reasons. Of course money is the main reason but still

2025-06-19 22:37

You got any proof that they would do better? Yea, don't think so.

2025-06-20 16:43

Everyone wanted Hooxi to leave after the Dallas win. And G2 were more consistent in the 2nd half of the season... G2 fucked up with -JKS.

2025-06-19 15:52

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Everyone wanted hooxi to leave is correct but not for the addition of fucking snax

2025-06-19 18:54

with hooxi instead of snax and an actual and competent coach instead of taz g2 wouldve done yet even better than they ended up doing, hooxi didnt have malbs man

2025-06-19 20:39

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hooxi missed a major with a stacked roster and bombed out from another.

2025-06-19 20:41

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thats just niko energy tho.. look what happened here in austin and with m0NESY too even...

2025-06-19 20:55

also had there been a major that he played with swani late 23 they wouldve got finals at least and he even got semis and nearly finals at copenhagen with taz and nexa lmao

2025-06-19 20:56

Without Jame PC Crash, Hooxi would have made 0/3 major playoff appearances with G2. Hooxi had his time and was kicked according to overall performance. Had nexa when he left, but didn't prove he could consistently have G2 as the best team before that (and wasn't a leader of men).

2025-06-19 21:09

without jame pc crash he could still incredibly likely made playoffs there it just would have taken more OTs in that case also snax and noone else available was better at all either, just look what he made of astralis so quickly as well...

2025-06-19 21:19

Well I'm not saying Hooxi was bad, but he worked a ton on himself during his time off the server and it shows

2025-06-20 08:05

Yes because G2 w/ Hooxi did so much.... Smh, delusional clown

2025-06-20 02:57

yeah you are my point exactly

2025-06-20 10:45

2025-06-19 15:57

G2 mis-management made HooXi leave. blame Peca

2025-06-19 17:00

HooXi was finished when he was at his sister’s wedding while the team won Dallas with 0.8 Stewie standing in

2025-06-19 17:18

which was incredibly random and anyone not doing everything in their power to try to keep swani and hooxi is an utter fkn imbecile

2025-06-19 20:11

0/8 ngl

2025-06-19 18:36

bait used to be believable =D

2025-06-20 03:33

Hooxi was useless they couldnt win anything with him. After adding Snax they won two top tier tournaments. But then all fucked up due to Niko and Monesy. Cant have a team if you have two dudes talking about leaving over and over.

2025-06-21 07:08

Bye bye wont be missed

Welcome to Falcons mr Taz.

2025-06-19 15:39

Why not?

2025-06-19 16:45

Welcome Falcons Taz

would be biblical

2025-06-20 18:09

When disband?

when flair disband answer: the second some Brazilian millionaire decides to fund Insani's buyout

2025-06-19 17:01

welcome to Apogee Academy

help build a program from the ground up like Aristocracy: he helped produced Dycha. that's actually an interesting motivating project

2025-06-19 16:46

Probably one of the most disappointing coaching stints we've seen. What a disaster G2 has been.

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flair

2025-06-19 15:40

This flair is a mark of masochism, not pride. No amount of insults can out-do the pain given by Liquid.

2025-06-19 15:45

delusional and get ready for taz in liquid

2025-06-19 15:43

If that happens I finally take off the flair like I should have done a while ago.

the thing is... i actually imagine that as a possible move lol "siuhy and taz should get along!"

2025-06-19 16:14

3 titles in 18 months is disappointing ?

2025-06-19 16:15

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there are like 15 tier 1 tournaments every year

2025-06-19 17:03

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G2 has 10 trophies since their creation in 2014 , and 3 of those trophies are in Taz's period (he won em in one year )

2025-06-19 18:18

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Framing. 6 of the trophies won since m0nesy joined Niko. "Omg stewie2k won a trophy in just a couple weeks, he must be the reason!" Don't pay attention to m0nesy solo carrying entire events. Magically the team turns T2 after he/Niko leaves, surprise.

2025-06-19 18:27

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where is niko and monesy now ? they didnt even qualifie to stage 3

2025-06-19 20:03

irrelevant. Through 3 IGLs and 2 coaches the constant in all successes was niko and m0nesy, full stop. I would even add Hunter as an ingredient to that mixture. And even before the major, Falcons were literally toe-to-toe with the number 1 team. Even if their performance on Falcons mattered to G2's measurement, the data we have is conflicting at best.

2025-06-19 20:06

I think it's just a hate issue. you dont like Taz and thats it

2025-06-19 20:08

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I think this is a strawman, you have no argument and thats it.

2025-06-19 20:09

You literally have no proper argument backed up with anything that taz was bad by any means? infact, stats even speaks against you???????????????????

2025-06-19 20:53

I never said he was bad. He was "disappointing". He clearly wasnt the right fit for G2 and wasnt what they needed at the time. Stats speak against me? 2024 World Finals: 1.17 niko 1.35 m0nesy 1.16 malbs (with niko and m0nesy, 1.08 without) 2024 Fall Finals: 1.17 niko 1.29 m0nesy 1.10 malbs (with niko and m0nesy) Dallas: 1.32 m0nesy (literally hard carried the entire event and singlehandedly won the final) 1.18 niko 1.0 hunter Cologne 2023: 1.34 m0nesy 1.35 niko 1.21 hunter Kato 2023 the only outlier here with niko and m0nesy still putting up 1.10+ rating, hunter 1.21 and jks life tourney 2022 world final: 1.24 m0nesy 1.16 niko 1.14 hunter The stats prove that these 3 are the constant. Taz was just along for the usual ride. I never once said Taz made them worse. But he was a disappointing stint nonetheless with really nothing to show that he made an impact. The team was the same as it ever was because of 2 or 3 players. The real thing that increased win frequency? They got malbs for nexa. Malbs instantly putting up .1- 2 higher than nexa in an instant. And that performance instantly disappearing when m0nesy and niko left. Thats the bottom line.

2025-06-19 22:39

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You do realize Niko and Monesy leaving has been cleared up after the ridiculous interview with G2's CEO who blamed m0nesy for failing to recruit players... That was the worst possible thing a CEO could have said since it is the Orgs job to find potential players. m0nesy's job is to show up and play, that's what he gets paid for. Imo, after hearing the comments of the CEO for G2, it is clear he only cares about money... As believe me, the CEO was definitely not crying after a $1 mil for Nikos transfer and $2.5mil for m0nesy to join Niko w/ Falcons. There is no valid reason to hate Niko or m0nesy for leaving because it is no different than anyone else who works for a living.... I could care less about G2 as they asked for this after the whole dumb comment about "we could keep Niko if we wanted to" as I am glad Karma came around to have them assume Niko was not 1 of the 2 reasons(the other being m0nesy) on why G2 were successful. Niko is somehow monesy looks up to since he's been always helping m0nesy. You can replace coaches with statues and the outcomes of matches would not be any different.... The IGL makes the calls and I honestly have never understood what a Coach does for a CS2 team... Vitality is #1 and has been unstoppable after adding Elige in, the coaching had nothing to do with that winning streak.

2025-06-20 03:32

Vita added Elige? You sure you had no stroke while writing this? I somehow agree that the IGL makes the calls but you know nothing about the preperation before and what taz brought to the table. I mean G2 CEO is kind of dumb but not as dumb to pay a cheerleader for 18 months. Also taz wasn't even that bad when he played as a standin. Infact he played pretty decent.

2025-06-20 10:01

In no way was i ever criticizing niko nor m0nesy for leaving. Bro wtf is this comment? Wtf are you even talking about? None of your comment responds to anything I said. You're just steering the convo into irrelevant topics.

2025-06-20 11:04

Youre very skilled in writing long and stupid comments, lol.

2025-06-21 07:22

Yes because it is coaches who win Titles right? You are too stubborn to simply understand Counter Strike does not work like the NBA, NFL, MLB, etc; Vitality recently lost to Legacy and got demolished 13-3 so XTQ is a terrible Coach.... G2 won Dallas with a stand in last year and do you know why? I guess it must have been because Taz drugged m0nesy and Niko(Who both carried the entire team into winning the event as I still remember m0nesy 2.20 niko 2.15 HLTV rating w/ 100% KAST on Nuke vs Faze. hltv.org/matches/2372346/faze-vs-g2-iem-.. A coach never has anything to do with the game because they ARE NOT THE ONE WHO PLAY. You think a motivational speech during a timeout brings out miracle comebacks? CS is more about timing and if a coach calls a timeout to run a strat putting 4 on B site and 1 on A, if the enemy goes B and gets destroyed, that doesn't mean the coach did anything as he simply got lucky. However, if the enemy team decided to go A, everyone is on HLTV making threads about how terrible Taz and Snax are.... Smh

2025-06-20 03:17

You know what? I was going to write a thought out comment to demonstrate why 90% of what you said was completely irrelevant, strawmanning, and doesnt do anything to address what I said. But then I realized, you're stupid so what's the point.

2025-06-20 11:08

Omg typycal low IQ expert bullshit

2025-06-19 16:27

I guess it is low IQ to call this a disappointment. To be disappointed, you'd have to believe in it in the first place.

2025-06-19 18:23

9INE +TaZ +hades

2025-06-19 15:33

cringe

2025-06-19 15:34

+1 should have been kicked about 1 year ago

2025-06-20 18:10

this guy is never getting another coaching job in a top 10 team

Nah it'll be funny when Liquid signs him.

2025-06-19 15:35

bruh pls no

DeMars DeRover > Random Polish Has-Been

DeRamp DePush

2025-06-19 15:55

no story for a fraud like zonic lmao

wdym

2025-06-19 16:48

taz is a fraud whos not gonna get anything else

2025-06-19 20:32

G2 era incoming, snax will win a grand slam

Goodbye Cheerleader!

Good riddance

Why is the hltv forum community so unsupportive of a cs legend?

2025-06-19 16:47

he's a legendary player, not a legendary coach

2025-06-19 17:04

true

2025-06-20 05:14

All the nice comments and then calls Hooxi a bitch ok kkkkkkkkkk

everyone said they didn't get along very well

and cause of taz.. hooxi had his wishes for what coaches he would need and g2 straight completely ignored him..

2025-06-19 20:34

9INE + mr mercedes man

good luck further

2025-06-19 15:38

I know. Retirement /closed

2025-06-19 15:42

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Not TaZ bud, he'll never retire CS is this guy's life. Imo he'll fit either Komnata or apogee

2025-06-19 17:09

Basicaly anonymo 2.0, got it

2025-06-19 17:19

Yup

I would rather see him go for casting for the polish scene or creating a supportive system to get next gen players from poland like scouting.

2025-06-19 17:21

He was a scouter, he scouted dycha for sure maybe he'll be polish overdrive, and as caster/analist? Maybe

2025-06-19 17:22

And this will repeat at least to his 50s

2025-06-19 17:20

Lets coach a tier3 so he can learn how to coach

Dude could've taken the retierment as a VP legend and ended up finishing on a sour note on G2

hype man at best and not a coach. but hey cant blame him for getting that fat paycheck

2025-06-19 15:53

Legend and best coach G2 has had since XTQZZZ, hope he gets a good team soon!

Swani better

2025-06-19 16:57

debil? they hired him just for vibes, not to be an actual coach which was apparent watching him "coach", he always looked like he had no idea what to say

Tell us more stories from G2 management. What does peca like to eat for lunch?

2025-06-19 17:26

pecan nuts what else would he eat but thats what G2 said when they hired Taz, for vibes, not for coaching

2025-06-19 18:17

I think Peca eats deez if you know what I mean

2025-06-19 19:24

Bye fraud coach

2025-06-19 16:01

well thats one fraud gone, when is zonic getting fired now?

2025-06-19 16:02

taz go to failclowns to cheer the player

2025-06-19 16:08

cheerleader coach finally out

2025-06-19 16:11

Goodbye fraud

2025-06-19 16:31

who needs a therapist mid game tho?

2025-06-19 16:38

It's finally over! That was an absolute mistake for G2 to take TaZ as a coach, and no t1 orgs should sign a rookie coach to begin with.

They got taz just for vibes, they confessed it following the disasterclass after NiKo left xD

2025-06-19 18:55

3 top tier trohpies out of 10 in total of G2 history in 2024 xD With useless dudes like hooxi, nexa, malbs. xD

2025-06-21 07:27

>@HooXiCSGO – You were a bitch :O

Good luck Mr. Wojtas!

Maybe Philadelphia Eagles are looking for a cheerleader, new story of life 👯‍♀️

Ass coach

2025-06-19 19:18

Farewell bald fraud, I'll see you soon in Permitta

2025-06-19 19:23

Who do pros do once they are done with playing/coaching? Stream? Retire? Work normal jobs like the rest of us?

stream usually

2025-06-19 23:49

Top 3 worst coach ever behind Yanko and Moses

2025-06-19 19:50

liquid taz

So emotinal from TaZ. Does he think he's Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, wtf?

2025-06-19 22:23

if we play good guys as me in VP we win guys trust the strong guy

2025-06-19 22:27

g2 down 0-8 scoreline on map first, bud takes timeout and says guys we need to win some rounds ok ? kkkkkkkkk xD

2025-06-19 23:13

yea

2025-06-19 23:16

:< Farewell, you legend.

2025-06-19 23:14

Finally

2025-06-19 23:47

Best cheerleader.

2025-06-20 00:01

Bring Swani back

2025-06-20 07:32

One of the worst Tier 1 coaches this game has ever seen, constantly keeping G2 from reaching their potential by making stupid decisions, nepotism and just overall bad coaching.

2025-06-20 13:08

Wow these comments are stupid, what a read out there. All these tiktokers with no cs2 idea who think that coaching in CS2 is equal to coaching in football or voleyball. xD Anyway Taz was medicore, however kudos for kicking out Hooxi useless IGL and kudos for winnig 3 top tier trophies. Thats still like 30% of all s-tier G2 trophies. He will easily get a T1 or T2 team to coach. Only Niko and Monesy were top players in his squads through 2023-2025, rest of these noobs will run down to T2 asap.

2025-06-21 07:32