Totally agree. NA needs more autimatics. I was hoping for him to take the role og IGL in the new iteration or go to complexity (as IGL, or just to contribute with experience).
I love Kassad, he's perfect for this type of podcast. I sometimes dislike him as analyst on tournament because he doesn't have that kinda analyst vibe, but in this podcast form he is killing it 🙌🏻🔥
For me it's that he's really stubborn on his opinion on the broadcast which is fine but he is not being so diplomatic as it is expected on those kind of broadcast. I think he has room to improve on that. Love him on this podcast tho.
@@Pisslowstomper to be fair i like him more and more, and he is a very good coach, judginf by the results he had, just the pairing of him, ynk and stunna is horrible. im probably the only one but i constantly see stunna, looking anywhere else in the studio and not paying attention to what the others are saying, like hes in a dogpark.
@@Pisslowstomper also, you love him on podcast, because podcast has 2 dumb nerds and one chad and one ex coach, obviously ex coach with his friends in game would be fire.
Definitely not, he could be replaced by other talents, this dude is dumb as rocks on broadcast but to be fair everyone is. Idk, i feel like this guy through his friendship nexus has stopped thus other next gen balkan guys
Having played against mezii, I genuinely don't understand how fnatic aren't building the roster around "mezii go kill". If they'd got roeJ, nicoodoz and HooXi, you've got a major quarterfinalist core with the experience of KRIMZ and the robotics of mezii. that'd be a scary team imo. kassad's a great no bullshit interviewee too, damn.
fashr is a pretty good pick up too. I think the logic is that all the players are experienced enough to know how they want to play, and none of the IGL's available were good enough to warrant getting over fashr.
has anyone from copenhagen flames even been picked up other than jabbi? if not i think that's pretty crazy considering how great they have been. I'm a little surprised astralis haven't picked up nicodoz. 22 year old Danish speaking awper who is a clear upgrade to farlig and has shown a lot more promise than farlig. unless the longterm plan is device and they don't want to spend more money I don't see why he wouldn't be at the top of the list for astralis
I have a feeling they might bring back aleksib after some time or trade him to fnatic for alex. No one can convince me hooxi is their main pick who will stay there for more than he's needed to (unless they win some event which I highly doubt)
While i agree with the views on ESIC funding is the biggest issue, To create a body to deal with infractions with E-Sports it needs funding at the moment ESIC doesn't have the required funding
What kassad said about the North American scene is correct… But please, as NA fans we really need to be patient. We just have to accept that we’re behind the CIS/European/Brazilian markets right now. This is partly our fault for mismanaging the talent we had between cloud9/Liquid/Evil geniuses/NRG But a lot of this also comes down to how covid and valorant has slaughtered out player base. North America will be great again but we need to give it Atleast 3 years of solid backing before we see fruits. Franchising hitting Valorant will hopefully give us the first “wave” of new T3/T2 players. From there, it’s our job as a region to really push to keep the T2/T3 scene alive. We really have to get behind them. Not only the T2/3 scene but also the academy side, we need as much NA youth representation at the WePlay academy league as possible, europe is miles ahead and are churning out talent like no tomorrow, monesy/torzi/phzy/Krimbo/JDC/regali, list goes on and on. If we can sustain this for just a couple years, we will see the stars align just like they did for cloud9 to win a major, and for Liquid to have an era and win a grand slam. Until then we need to accept we need European help, and we need to stop comparing ourselves to Faze/NaVi/G2 - they’re championship teams and are miles ahead of us. I have 0 doubt we’ll catch up, but we’ve got to be patient🙏🏾 please stop expecting liquid to challenge for titles with what NA has to offer…
Why is no one talking about xtqzzz? What is his philosophy and how does it differ from aleksi’s? To me it seems like g2 are downgrading their igl because of their coach. If the difference is so big - didn’t they know about it when they hired them? To me, g2 would have been better off with just doing the jks change and give aleksi some more time
1:39:40 And Niko would say: "Fuck you, I wanna play A this time, I want more kills" And two months after he stopped listing to the IGL, he say "Fuck this stupid IGL, I do better job, you camp this spot, and I do what I want"
In the case of Brollan leaving Fnatic, Brollan wanted to get sold, its hard to force a someone to stay and be motivaded when he wants to leave, if Carn would have put up a beliveable masterplan on how to bring Fnatic back he would probably have stayed but...Fnatic is kinda like G2 right now, fumbling in the dark...
I dont understand how can SpunJ not go and see his mom for 3 years. He is still young so his mom is also still relatively young, but as a person with quite old parents, I think he will be sorry in the future cause as Kassad said, he would change anything for 5 mins talk with his mom.
I personally absolutely not like the jks move , like we saw how bad he was/ his fit was with complexity. Jks has to be the first option on the team otherwise hes not gonna work are u gonna tell niko and hunter to let him be the star when he hasn't played in 3 months??? Doesn't make any sense
Bruh g2 out of cash or something if their choice of igl is HooXi. I know he's not horrible but i dont think he got what it takes to lead a squad of that caliber.
They were in talks with Boom4le and he refused because he wanted to remain in Russia due to his "close circle of friends", then AleksiB looked completely lost in his last interview after they got knocked out of Cologne, the guy genuinely didn't know why it all went wrong. Hooxie was on some interviews with Thorin and Sammler and he spoke with them and actually really wanted to lead this team. However he does, the guy has passion so I think he deserves a chance because I think he'll give his best.
What's the problem with Kassad? Why does he hates everything, think every org is doing things wrong and are dumb, has the solution for everything very condescendent... I mean, is the most knowledgeable person in the world about cs or is he just a commentator and ex coach?
The fact yall are STILL kissing device's ass is soooo sad. He's gone, please stop romanticizing him as a player, probably won't even perform on the same level as the past. Gold rose tinted glasses are so strong with these people.
The fact that you didn’t have atleast a 2 min section regarding Stewie2K exit from competitive scene shows that everyone on this washed up show is STILL somehow spiteful of the Boston 2018 results and it’s extremely childish how much resentment spunj specifically has and how underhanded the conversations of stew’s career have been and I hope you guys realize the hypocrisy of trying to underplay professional CSGO players’ careers especially when it is your JOB to provide intrigue regardless of your personal opinion!
This show is much more active than Stewies career has been the past few years. Stop trolling. The guy doesn't need a whole section to discuss how his move to streaming is gonna affect the CS scene.
Gotta love kassad. No censorship. Tells it how he means it.
And casually drinking vodka 😅
True that. He's no filter gotta love that
Kassad shitting on EG never gets old.
This might even be better than his feat. on Snake & Banter.
Kassad is just such a genuine dude, cannot hate on this guy haha, nice Episode.
You can tell Kassad knows what he's talking about when he recognizes how important a player autimatic is.
Totally agree. NA needs more autimatics. I was hoping for him to take the role og IGL in the new iteration or go to complexity (as IGL, or just to contribute with experience).
EXACTLY HOLY SHIT FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT
Everyone talking about Kassad, why is no one talking about his cat? They truly made the episode, underrated contributions imho.
I love Kassad, he's perfect for this type of podcast. I sometimes dislike him as analyst on tournament because he doesn't have that kinda analyst vibe, but in this podcast form he is killing it 🙌🏻🔥
yup. as an a analyst hes too loe energy and just kinda is there, almost as unprofessional as stunna
For me it's that he's really stubborn on his opinion on the broadcast which is fine but he is not being so diplomatic as it is expected on those kind of broadcast. I think he has room to improve on that. Love him on this podcast tho.
@@Pisslowstomper to be fair i like him more and more, and he is a very good coach, judginf by the results he had, just the pairing of him, ynk and stunna is horrible. im probably the only one but i constantly see stunna, looking anywhere else in the studio and not paying attention to what the others are saying, like hes in a dogpark.
@@Pisslowstomper also, you love him on podcast, because podcast has 2 dumb nerds and one chad and one ex coach, obviously ex coach with his friends in game would be fire.
Cheers Kassad! Important piece of our csgo scene, great insights as always.
Definitely not, he could be replaced by other talents, this dude is dumb as rocks on broadcast but to be fair everyone is.
Idk, i feel like this guy through his friendship nexus has stopped thus other next gen balkan guys
Wishing the best for Kassad's future endeavor!
Having played against mezii, I genuinely don't understand how fnatic aren't building the roster around "mezii go kill". If they'd got roeJ, nicoodoz and HooXi, you've got a major quarterfinalist core with the experience of KRIMZ and the robotics of mezii. that'd be a scary team imo.
kassad's a great no bullshit interviewee too, damn.
fashr is a pretty good pick up too. I think the logic is that all the players are experienced enough to know how they want to play, and none of the IGL's available were good enough to warrant getting over fashr.
@@benhefel3095 azr? Hooxi????
has anyone from copenhagen flames even been picked up other than jabbi? if not i think that's pretty crazy considering how great they have been. I'm a little surprised astralis haven't picked up nicodoz. 22 year old Danish speaking awper who is a clear upgrade to farlig and has shown a lot more promise than farlig. unless the longterm plan is device and they don't want to spend more money I don't see why he wouldn't be at the top of the list for astralis
@@plate1014 fnatic
@@plate1014 all of them, nico/roej to fnatic hooxi to g2 and zyphon most likely to sprout
Great show guys, the drought has been difficult to deal with
Oh shit Karrigan became Marrigan! Big ups to him!!
1:35:34 love you for that little thing you did there lucas
No shot that jks bringing in more than Jackz did is a “sure thing” 💀
bus/sidewalk analogy was fuckin amazing shoutout kassad
Kassad is such a great guest 🆓😎🆒
2:46:10 This is enough to make a man cry
Who has 100 on Niko getting rid of Hooxi in 1 year 😅?
I'm actually oddly hopeful about this one.
6months*
1 months*
I have a feeling they might bring back aleksib after some time or trade him to fnatic for alex. No one can convince me hooxi is their main pick who will stay there for more than he's needed to (unless they win some event which I highly doubt)
Love that skinnionaire is at the start now so it’s easier to skip
Hahhahaha
Kassad is such a real one
Kassad is a top G. Smart, experienced, straight talking and very entertaining.
Just found out about this channel and have been loving the podcast. Good bronzing content boys.
While i agree with the views on ESIC funding is the biggest issue, To create a body to deal with infractions with E-Sports it needs funding at the moment ESIC doesn't have the required funding
Great guest 10/10
What kassad said about the North American scene is correct…
But please, as NA fans we really need to be patient.
We just have to accept that we’re behind the CIS/European/Brazilian markets right now.
This is partly our fault for mismanaging the talent we had between cloud9/Liquid/Evil geniuses/NRG
But a lot of this also comes down to how covid and valorant has slaughtered out player base.
North America will be great again but we need to give it Atleast 3 years of solid backing before we see fruits.
Franchising hitting Valorant will hopefully give us the first “wave” of new T3/T2 players.
From there, it’s our job as a region to really push to keep the T2/T3 scene alive. We really have to get behind them.
Not only the T2/3 scene but also the academy side, we need as much NA youth representation at the WePlay academy league as possible, europe is miles ahead and are churning out talent like no tomorrow, monesy/torzi/phzy/Krimbo/JDC/regali, list goes on and on.
If we can sustain this for just a couple years, we will see the stars align just like they did for cloud9 to win a major, and for Liquid to have an era and win a grand slam.
Until then we need to accept we need European help, and we need to stop comparing ourselves to Faze/NaVi/G2 - they’re championship teams and are miles ahead of us.
I have 0 doubt we’ll catch up, but we’ve got to be patient🙏🏾 please stop expecting liquid to challenge for titles with what NA has to offer…
NA is behind about everything. even in education. NA is good in instagram and tiktok tho.
@@benlagman1 hahahaha, well I was focusing on the counterstrike
NA behind about everything? Still USA number one
@@alexaender1992 make a dance video about it on tiktok.
@@benlagman1 I'm not from USA i'm finnish and i don't have tiktok. I'm just saying, USA as a country is the world's biggest superpower.
Why is no one talking about xtqzzz? What is his philosophy and how does it differ from aleksi’s? To me it seems like g2 are downgrading their igl because of their coach. If the difference is so big - didn’t they know about it when they hired them?
To me, g2 would have been better off with just doing the jks change and give aleksi some more time
Alexsi probably wanted out of the team
if you have to chose between xqtzzz and aleksi, 9/10 orgs will chose xqtzzz
@@hzd1164 i get that. Im just surprised they cant make it work. As I said, if their philosophies are so different - why were they hired together?
@@TheHajsan yeah i agree it doesnt make sense to sign 2 people with completely different views of the game
@@hzd1164 its bc they dont know. esport scene is stupidly
Imagine CoL BlameF with the G2 lineup.
Awper? Upgraded.
A consistent konfig? Hunter/Niko duo.
Jks == jks
Brazil is sleeping on biguzera and nython
1:39:40 And Niko would say: "Fuck you, I wanna play A this time, I want more kills" And two months after he stopped listing to the IGL, he say "Fuck this stupid IGL, I do better job, you camp this spot, and I do what I want"
striker: please stop saying "LIKE"
Kassad's speech about EG really put it in perspective for me lmao, EU coach didn't work.... hmmmm.... let's bring in another EU coach.
EG needs to go on a rescue mission & drag oBo back into their team
In the case of Brollan leaving Fnatic, Brollan wanted to get sold, its hard to force a someone to stay and be motivaded when he wants to leave, if Carn would have put up a beliveable masterplan on how to bring Fnatic back he would probably have stayed but...Fnatic is kinda like G2 right now, fumbling in the dark...
No museums in malaga. Outrageous scenes
Wrong Timecodes for liquid
I dont understand how can SpunJ not go and see his mom for 3 years. He is still young so his mom is also still relatively young, but as a person with quite old parents, I think he will be sorry in the future cause as Kassad said, he would change anything for 5 mins talk with his mom.
kassad needs to voice a GTA character
Giga chad kassad
now imagine Furia with Dumau and Nqz
Now that I think about it Vitality mezii would have made a lot more sense role-wise and probably cheaper
Kassad gigachad
Kassad📈💪🏽
Make kassad the head of ESIC, the proffesional scene would be fixed
G2 need an aggressive igl like boomich. In my humble opinion...
Still waiting for prof's beard
Kassad is complete G, he needs a new team.
Best guest ever I love kassad
1:02:27 best moment
We need kassad permanently
BASED kassad oml
I personally absolutely not like the jks move , like we saw how bad he was/ his fit was with complexity.
Jks has to be the first option on the team otherwise hes not gonna work
are u gonna tell niko and hunter to let him be the star when he hasn't played in 3 months??? Doesn't make any sense
2:06:50 so cute cat
No way lucas is 23..i thought he would be 32.
Whoop whoop
kassad is legend
no FNX no major
Try to do a podcast with PashaBiceps. Hes open to many inyerviews
I just hope g2 doesn’t ruin JKS
Complexity already did that
@@AMACarter why did complexity bench him? That team isn't even in top 20🤣
When is the last time Niko won something? Not a hater. Just saying...
Talk about a team. Coz a player only wins mvps and evps individually. To win trophies, a player needs a team
@@1nsaneme973 lmao sanji fan
Where’s the timestamps?
It's there dude, use your eyes
@@ExZ1te too much work
Why snax to ence wasn't discussed?
Taco to furia?
I’ll move back to the Philippines and build a new Asian region contender team. Bring that EU experience 😂
Bruh g2 out of cash or something if their choice of igl is HooXi. I know he's not horrible but i dont think he got what it takes to lead a squad of that caliber.
Other Suggestions?
@@maxolschanski9872 Someone like ALEX would've been a better pick or just keep aleksib and see if the team gets any better with just replacing jackz.
@@Ho_Lii_Fuk aleksi wanted to leave
They were in talks with Boom4le and he refused because he wanted to remain in Russia due to his "close circle of friends", then AleksiB looked completely lost in his last interview after they got knocked out of Cologne, the guy genuinely didn't know why it all went wrong. Hooxie was on some interviews with Thorin and Sammler and he spoke with them and actually really wanted to lead this team. However he does, the guy has passion so I think he deserves a chance because I think he'll give his best.
I think he has
Really unpopular opinion, prime Stewie wouldve fit this G2 lineup well.
a good observation but still too late
3/4 years too late
@@govi5189 yeah ik
Stwepid Hallzerk doubters, Håkon is a top 5 player in the world, you will suffer
Well then…
Shower with men
And then G2 won Katowice and Cologne lol
What's the problem with Kassad?
Why does he hates everything, think every org is doing things wrong and are dumb, has the solution for everything very condescendent...
I mean, is the most knowledgeable person in the world about cs or is he just a commentator and ex coach?
In my opinion, the solution for g2 was +blamef +konfig
1 of the players adapts to support
And u have an insane team
But none of them are an igl ....Jks+any good igl would have been great....Heck even Aleksib would have been great
blame was the igl in complexity and the secondary caller in astralis (and even calls in maps like mirage) lmao what are you talking about
@@patches3 He is still not an igl that can win G2 tournaments....As I said they need good igl, someone like Hampus atleast
@@patches3 name one relevant tournament that blamef has won as an igl
@@patches3 he said he doesn't want to be igl
m4a1s is still overpowered and csgo devs don't care about balance therefore it's a waste of time to play csgo
based as usual
G2 is ONE BIG mistake!
This is the reason Kassad is T3-4 "coach"
?? He was the coach of one of the biggest underdog stories in renegades when they made playoffs twice.
T3 - 4 coach who's team reached major semis?
The fact yall are STILL kissing device's ass is soooo sad. He's gone, please stop romanticizing him as a player, probably won't even perform on the same level as the past. Gold rose tinted glasses are so strong with these people.
The fact that you didn’t have atleast a 2 min section regarding Stewie2K exit from competitive scene shows that everyone on this washed up show is STILL somehow spiteful of the Boston 2018 results and it’s extremely childish how much resentment spunj specifically has and how underhanded the conversations of stew’s career have been and I hope you guys realize the hypocrisy of trying to underplay professional CSGO players’ careers especially when it is your JOB to provide intrigue regardless of your personal opinion!
lmfao tell me this is a troll
@@DuckoftheDraw why would this be a troll
😂😂😂
bro NA CS and fucking STEWIE LMFAO nobody cares
This show is much more active than Stewies career has been the past few years. Stop trolling. The guy doesn't need a whole section to discuss how his move to streaming is gonna affect the CS scene.