oskar talks retirement

23-11-2011 20:04

We sat down with Tomáš "oskar" Šťastný for a short chat about his retirement from eSuba and pro-gaming.

As some of you may have noticed, eSuba last month announced that they wouldn't be making it to this year's WCG event in Busan, as the Czech Samsung branch had pulled out all funding of the trip.

This meant that the Czech team had no chance to make it to Busan, a big blow for the Czech team. This led up to Tomáš "oskar" Šťastný calling quits and retiring. Šťastný had one last showing with eSuba this past weekend, where he helped the team in stage two for IEM6 Global Challenge Kiev.

When we asked Šťastný about the reason behind his retirement, he replied with:

"The reason why I'm quitting now is because I lost the motivation to play. The only motivational factor for me, was to participate in WCG. It gave me a reason to focus entirely on CS.

When we were told by our WCG organizer that we couldn't attend, all the motivation was gone."

Šťastný has retired, but only for now it seems, as he would like to return at some point:

"I told my teammates that I would put CS on a hold for now. I don't know yet if I'll come back to play CS at a later point, but I certainly hope so."

oskar with eSuba at SEC 2011

Concluding the interview, Šťastný stated:

"I really enjoy playing with everyone in my team, and I wish them the best of luck in the future, and thank you guys for everything.

Thanks also go out to all my fans for the great support and thanks to you Nix0n for the interview, and for making HLTV.org such a great site for the community worldwide."

Šťastný is gone for now, should he return at some point, it seems his desire is to play with his former team mates from eSuba.

SAD!

2011-11-23 20:06

sadddd

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funny you say that since his name means happy in Czech :P bad news though

2011-11-24 15:54

sad for cz scene, he was like 90%

GG oskar

2011-11-23 20:07

sad :( oskar is a great player

2011-11-23 20:09

sad, guys... :(

2011-11-23 20:10

no cry, he will back soon :)

2011-11-23 20:11

sad, he is best player from czech so hope he'll be back really soon

this is sad.. gl in real life :)

2011-11-23 20:12

:( nice player

gl in the future oskar,I hope you come back to cs some day :)

2011-11-23 20:14

Thats really sad for the czech cs scene! he was acutally really good

Sad that you're quitting the game, but life goes on. GL in real life Tomáš <3

sad, great player

2011-11-23 20:15

oskar is not an progamer, just gamer nothing else

2011-11-23 20:16

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-1

2011-11-23 21:00

lol.

2011-11-23 21:05

2011-11-23 21:07

if he lived in a progamer country he would be, im sure of it.

2011-11-24 08:21

in our country you get lower support then in Bulgaria for cs so that's why

2011-11-24 15:56

sad, nice player!

2011-11-23 20:19

sad, best player in cz

2011-11-23 20:22

what a great talent u are!! Best of luck oskar!

2011-11-23 20:24

sad, very very great player... so bad

2011-11-23 20:25

:( gl in real life

2011-11-23 20:29

omg :( we love you oskar!

2011-11-23 20:30

Sick player, true legend :D

still remember RobbaN saying "one of their player was good! oskar I think"

2011-11-23 20:33

what are his achievements in his career?

2011-11-23 20:34

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Who cares what his achievements are. He was a great player and no one can deny that. If he was from Sweden, everyone would be licking his ass and crying like a bunch of fan-girls. The Cap'n has spoken.

2011-11-23 20:36

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+1 great player!

2011-11-23 20:39

+1337 People don't know him but he is a great player. Totaly agree with you.

2011-11-23 21:08

2011-11-23 21:15

I'm pretty sure symple was not trying to diss him or denigrate him, but was genuinely itnerested in his ach. I do not know for sure, but I guess pretty much 99 percent of chech tournaments and qualifiers won, and quite some great performances against good/great int. teams

2011-11-23 23:05

They didn't attend many world tournaments, but last year he was in the top rated players here in hltv.org. They had pretty close match in tuscan vs SK and tied with Power Gaming. But he was considered to be the best czech player for last years.

2011-11-23 21:14

youtube.com/watch?v=cEZvnHd0L2Q&feature=.. this is his archivments

2011-11-23 21:33

what are your achievements in your career?

2011-11-23 21:59

i dont refer to me playing cs as a "career" and it doesnt matter as i'm not "retiring" from my "career" anyway, thanks for your interest though :)

2011-11-23 22:12

hltv.org/?pageid=217&eventid=845&am.. There is a bracket. There is a match down there on this page. There were two teams in that match. eSuba and inyourmind. Two maps had been played, then only one team continued. eSuba. Get over it, darling.

2011-11-23 22:23

wasn't a rage comment, was actually curious as he played very well against us

2011-11-23 23:19

he has won everything there was to win in cz/sk, a top20 world player imo

2011-11-24 00:55

sad :( gl

2011-11-23 20:38

GG Oskar But The show must go ON !

:(, gl

great player

2011-11-23 20:43

LOL1: Like you actually sat down with him. LOL2: Retirement is the point where a person stops employment completely. The very classical understanding of the term and you propably meant the same. I understand when forest retires, he has been getting paid for gaming years. I doubt Oskar recieved any salary so you can't call it an actual job. Therefore, no retirement, just quit. Problem? I am always amused when e-sport people try to make e-sport fancy or more serious. Like calling zerogravity CEO -lol

2011-11-23 20:53

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He is the CEO. I agree, titles suck and I hate them.

2011-11-23 23:01

well considering Na'Vi's financial statement would show an income of close to 2 million dollars, id say he is entitled to have 'fancy' title.

2011-11-24 08:24

I don't know about this player, but fact that he retired is a very sad. Good luck oskar.

2011-11-23 20:54

yeah, amazing player, I remember like 7 months ago, he uploaded on sk gaming movie from czech championship, it was really sick

2011-11-23 20:58

You are right .... It was just one event,and he was able to manage so many nice frags.Btw ,I really like his aggresive playstyle. youtube.com/watch?v=nvAotGRLhOo&feature=..

2011-11-24 00:32

last frag o.o

2011-11-24 16:17

best player in the world right after foxj, hope he can still play ocasionally.

lol

There are several players in the world that are so much better than other players in their country, and it's such a shame other teams from other countries didn't think about taking them - because it's a shame to see them retire\play with a team who's not as good as their level is. Oskar is one of those players, and it's a shame to see he decided to retire..

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That's right.

2011-11-23 21:11

Indeed, that's why he lost motivation imo. You know language barrier is pulling players back. BUT hunting our scene isn't very motivational, sad.

2011-11-23 21:17

hes back in a few ;D

2011-11-23 23:24

He is one of the best all-round players in the world, his skill, movement and in game thinking can be compared to players like forest, neo etc. Sad...

2011-11-23 21:03

gl irl man :p

again? :D he will be back soon

2011-11-23 21:12

GG ;(

shame on playzone.cz regarding that WCG and czechs lost the best player

Not really fault of PLAYzone.cz actually.

2011-11-23 22:05

cool story bro..:D

2011-11-23 22:53

sad :D it is little bit funny because in czech republic "štastný" means happy

2011-11-23 21:32

to bad he was rly good

2011-11-23 21:34

i dont 100% sure i somting remember it's not meaby top cze player? or somting like cogu in brazil? or meaby some time ago hes was ;p i dont know meaby 100% sure but now only hylayn~ from esc or a2g not sure i know from cze :P bad for national cups they can be top 10 now it's much harder.... gl in live !

2011-11-23 21:35

2011-11-23 22:58

now in english :<

2011-11-23 23:32

you made my day :D

2011-11-24 01:14

n0thing, oskar, chrisj, falleN +1

2011-11-23 21:36

AdreN as 5th

2011-11-23 22:10

or foxj, sixer, msx, and before they retired dodz LeX and tommeh were sensational aswell

2011-11-23 23:16

2011-11-24 02:11

why sad? he is not dead :)))

2011-11-23 21:38

he should play in european team like ESC, mouz, x6 or ALTERNATE. sad to see him go

2011-11-23 21:39

oskar we miss you good luck!

2011-11-23 21:41

GG, hope he comes back :/

2011-11-23 21:42

nah, he had potencial...

2011-11-23 21:45

but his teammates does not.

2011-11-23 22:11

its true.

2011-11-24 11:08

best of [>--] !

2011-11-23 21:55

never heard of him

2011-11-23 21:58

just count them a lot more player will retire it's just a matter of time until cs dies

oskar > iym destroyed them

2011-11-23 22:04

No Way Tomas :(

2011-11-23 22:26

sad.. oskar the best :(((((((((

oskar is not the best in cz, 90% here childrens! Mjckl example is even more better as him.

2011-11-23 23:00

Who is mjckl? Do you mean jackal? If yes then you are trolling.

2011-11-24 12:26

xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD made my day

2011-11-24 16:32

sad :/

2011-11-23 23:15

best player this country ?

By a long shot.

2011-11-24 00:22

gl in future oskar

2011-11-23 23:42

Another player was gone. Really sad :(

2011-11-24 00:19

noob

2011-11-24 01:01

welcome:D:D

2011-11-24 01:29

lulz

sad :(

2011-11-24 02:06

I think that hes got the best stats on HLTV.org cause his rating doesnt stay on K/D like all players ( K/D 1.15, rating 1.18 ) ofc stats are not all

2011-11-24 07:05

<3 eSuba <3 osk! but it's sad for cze scene :(( oskar is the best player on cze/svk (maybe better than dev1)

2011-11-24 07:11

For sure better than dev1 imo.

2011-11-24 09:52

lol we still play CS in our countries?

2011-11-24 10:22

sad he is high talent ://

2011-11-24 10:23

You know whats the worst part of it ? Samsung.cz's explanation why they didn't provide the money was like this: "We are really sorry, there was a mistake in our accounting system". So in other words, it was just a fcking excuse for somthing like this : "We have the money, but we don't want to give it to you anymore"...

2011-11-24 11:19

oskar is very overrated, he is no so good as you talk about him, he played good againts SK where robban told he is a talent and thats when his overrating started :)

2011-11-24 12:34