anger to Curse, to DreamHack

6-11-2012 21:30

Hold mouse 1 has become Curse, picked up Todd "anger" Williams to replace Zach "tm-" Miller after ESEA finals, and will attend DreamHack Winter later this month.

Hold mouse 1 converted over to CS:GO from a Call of Duty background, and have since then fallen short versus Area51 at ESWC North America bowing out at 3-4th place, and secured the first seed for the upcoming ESEA LAN.

After showing improvement during their 15-1 record season which saw them only lose against Kyle "flowsicK" Mendez' We Are GO Players, the team was recently picked up by an organization called Curse.

hold mouse 1 at ESWC North America (Photo: ESEA News)

They have also recruited former Team Dynamic member Todd "anger" Williams, who was let go of when the team recruited Braxton "swag" Pierce and Francis "kiko" Lao right after the unsuccessful ESWC qualifier.

Due to ESEA's roster lock, soon-to-be former member Zach "tm-" Miller will still take part at the ESEA Invite Season 12 finals taking place on November 16-18 in Dallas, TX, with Williams taking a starter role right after.

Curse:

Todd "anger" Williams
Jeff "emong" Anderson
Preston "juv3nile" Dornon
Michael "Michael3D" Wilbanks
Tyler "Skadoodle" Latham
Zach "tm-" Miller

Curse's debut with Williams will be DreamHack Winter 2012 taking place on November 22-24 in Jönköping, just days after the ESEA finals. Williams' former team Dynamic will also be in attendance, while recent third place finisher at ESWC, Area51, will not be able to attend due to lack of funding.

nice america!

2012-11-06 21:31

Didnt think americans were good but after Area51 showed how sick they were at ESWC I got a lot of respect for these guys too :)))))

2012-11-06 21:33

16 replies

Why didn't your team invited for SLTV StarSeries? -_-

2012-11-06 21:37

2 replies

don't know :( would have really liked to played it!

2012-11-06 21:39

1 reply

sad :[ I'm sure that your team can do some damage from teams like NiP, Anexis, VG and so on.. ^^

2012-11-06 21:44

you will be disappointed with this American team.

2012-11-06 21:51

7 replies

hopefully not, i think curse has improved a lot since eswc qualies

2012-11-06 23:05

most of these people don't realize how big of a pickup anger is, hes just stupid good he kills everything

2012-11-07 15:55

Onliners?

2012-11-06 23:08

Cod players so I doubt they can do much but improve?

2012-11-06 23:50

they're 1st place in ESEA Invite online, above Area51 who's in 2nd place. Curse is 15-1 online, but they did poor at ESWC. They will probably do terrible at the ESEA LAN, because they're not practicing with tm- anymore, and he probably won't be trying because he got replaced already. I would pay attention to their dreamhack performance though, as that is their real lineup now.

2012-11-07 03:38

Yeah true, playing with a 6th man at an event is never good

2012-11-07 09:08

p0s is right actually, they aren't near area51/dynamic skill.

2012-11-07 20:42

...You didnt think americans were good, they were always better than americans in fps up until recent when the whole NA died. CGS for css around that time and 1.6 with comlpexity and shit.

2012-11-06 23:21

4 replies

He probably meant with all the amrican top cs players that quit post cgs era. Still a shortsighted vision

2012-11-07 00:00

americans were always better than americans? I guess you meant europeans?

2012-11-07 00:06

Europeans !!!!

2012-11-07 04:18

we all know that euros have been better than us for a long time now new game tho

2012-11-07 15:56

Curse is a huge organisation , great to see them get into counter strike, interesting to see how this team does at lan,Anger and miachel3d are sick though. Apparently michael3d already has 1k+ hours on csgo.

I like how you are much more active in HLTV these days, than in cadred. Thanks for helping us kill them! You are doing a great job for us buddy :)

2012-11-06 21:38

Are you actually this retarded?

2012-11-06 22:35

Indeed!

2012-11-06 21:48

true true :D 1k pretty sick :P

2012-11-06 21:49

Ugh... I can't follow American CS to save my life. Mainly because in order to follow it, you have to follow ESEA, and ESEA.net makes me lose brain cells.

2012-11-06 21:36

Has lpkane upset you? hahaha

2012-11-06 22:11

Ya ESEA News is terrible isn't it? Just stick with this site, maybe cadred and esplanet, for real news.

2012-11-06 22:21

+1. I don't think ESEA even covers news that doesn't involve U.S. and Canadian teams...

2012-11-07 06:13

whoc are about news, without esea, cs would be dead since 4 years

2012-11-07 15:49

I wish a51 had a org like curse.. no offence to these guys but dynamic and a51 will destroy them at ESEA lan. Nice to see more Americans coming overseas to compete in Europe though.

Curse beat both those teams online, and they all have a lot of LAN championships in different games, so we shall see. :)

2012-11-06 21:56

Very good team, had an amazing aim on LAN tbh. Great to see these guys on DH against some European topclans.

Curse now too in CS :D

2012-11-06 21:50

gl at dreamhack

"...was recently picked up by an organization called Curse." it reads like curse were a no-name organisation?! xd

2012-11-06 21:58

12 replies

who are they? never heard of them.

they have a huge LoL team... have their own house, etc. Pretty darn big

2012-11-06 22:23

for whom i still consider an average reader of hltv.org, a former cs 1.6 player/fan, curse isn't a well known organization unless they've followed other games.

2012-11-06 22:31

9 replies

You've never heard of the program 'Curse'? Kinda a big deal.

He didn't say he doesn't know them, but the newpost is long enough right? Hltv isn't a lol site ;p

2012-11-06 23:55

"...unless they've followed other games." A big deal for WoW gamers maybe.

2012-11-07 06:27

the same curse that played 1.6 caleague for like half a decade? didn't nothing get his break from them as well?

2012-11-07 01:06

5 replies

Most europeans knows nothing about the history of american cs since like 2005 because... well.. it sucks.

2012-11-07 06:29

no clue, afaik n0thing got his break from check six, mainly jimbO fogle

2012-11-07 06:56

he was never on checksix with foogs lol.. he was on x6 with me and thomz

2012-11-09 22:30

yea but afaik foogz is who brought him into the invitescrim scene which allowed anyone else to actually recruit him, no?

2012-11-09 23:18

no that was Cursed, not Curse. i used to play against them all the time back in the day. Cursed was never good. n0thing was prolly just ringing for them in random scrims/10 mans.

2012-11-08 04:17

anger was one hell of a good rifler (apparently he was the best in the US for a while). Great news for the guys.

2012-11-06 21:53

good luck guys

2012-11-06 22:01

COD to CS GO....ah no surprise

COD dying (competatively)! :D

2012-11-06 22:14

The only competetive cod (cod4) has been dead for a couple of years now.

Do you think this is bad? Don't you think it would be a good thing to have more FPS players migrate to CSGO so we can have a big community?

2012-11-06 22:18

3 replies

+1. Haters gonna hate

2012-11-06 23:32

It's very good indeed, and curse into the cs community even better!

2012-11-06 23:56

He meant that pro gamers are leaving their own games so quickly to come to GO

2012-11-07 06:41

2012-11-07 08:16

next TSM

2012-11-06 22:04

juv3nile, ... -.-

2012-11-06 22:08

barack obama will win

2012-11-06 22:15

theyre not even half as good as a51

2012-11-06 22:16

Got any statistics to back that up?

they placed 3-4th at eswc north america, area51 placed first, they won 100% less matches while placing 25% of area51. therefore they are more than 2x worse. in reality, area51 just placed 3rd at eswc and beat them at the qualifier. until curse does same, no reason to think they can compete

2012-11-06 23:12

Curse have alot of teamwork and Skadoodle is possibly the best NA awper right now. Still, not quite good enough to beat dyn or 51 on a consistent basis

2012-11-06 22:45

play.esea.net/index.php?s=stats&d=match&.. eh, yes they are..

2012-11-06 23:07

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ah they won an online match when a51 had shitty pinekone (who still beat hm1 2-0 on lan)

2012-11-06 23:13

hmo didnt even know the money system, watch the VOD and see how many times they had to save. clearly thats not the case anymore

2012-11-07 00:16

because money system changes from online to LAN. Wow.. didn't know that one

2012-11-07 05:43

.. they didn't play counter-strike for long before the lan. they came from different games. did you not know that? they were brand new to the money system, aside from playing the game for like a week or two before the tournament.

2012-11-07 08:52

You must be somewhat delusional... They were already 5-0 in CS:GO invite at that point with the most scrims played than anyone in the league. You're trying to convince me they didn't have the time to learn about the money system? Oh, okay. Nice try.

2012-11-07 16:48

Watch the VODs..? out of the 50 some odd rounds that they played they saved over 30 of them. Obviously, that doesn't happen anymore to them. I'm not trying to convince you of anything, you're clearly too bent on arguing with me to accept any information that differs from your own.

2012-11-07 17:46

A match from months ago when they had pinekone.. alright. I'm confident in my predictions because they tend to be right but ESEA LAN is coming up so I guess proof can come then.

2012-11-06 23:29