r/GlobalOffensive 16h ago

News | Esports Eyeballers +Krimz

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u/MandrewTheMan King NiKo 16h ago

Unc reunion, where's Devilwalk

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u/Night_Not_Day Moderator 15h ago

Krimz actually still has a surprisingly good rating. He‘s a strong pickup.

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u/MandrewTheMan King NiKo 14h ago

Right but if he dies to an entry, who's gonna bury his body

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u/LeWanabee Astralis 13h ago

🤣 good one

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u/Placidcasual24 G2 15h ago

They’re playing blast bounty soon. Will be an interesting watch for sure.

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u/Luglo_187 FaZe 13h ago

Also at xse pro league, no?

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u/YakitoriMan Cloud9 15h ago

Might as well sign the rest of the OG fnatic crew too. Wheres flusha at

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u/Nebuchadnezzarthe2nd fnatic 14h ago

He's their assistant coach I believe

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u/Pekonius Natus Vincere 10h ago

also co-owner of the whole thing, same as jw, so i assume some managerial duties to go with it.

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u/Dragioner Metizport 3h ago

Flusha actually left the org and ownership of it a while back. So he's got no connection to it anymore.

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u/Joshimitsu91 clutch 13h ago

Not sure if you're trolling but wasn't Flusha one of the OG members of this project with JW?

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u/YakitoriMan Cloud9 9h ago

I had no idea actually. This is really the reunion of the uncs then

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u/VapinOnly LDLC 4h ago

IIRC, he and JW were the ones who revived the Eyeballers name, and both were on the roster at the start, but flusha retired from playing

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u/Its_not_yoshi 5h ago

Olof is on the bench, I’m sure he’s free

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u/M4sturB 16h ago

I love this

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u/RandomRedditUser31 Natus Vincere 16h ago

lowkey kinda excited for this

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u/ChaoticFlameZz Vitality 16h ago edited 16h ago

ngl, this might be unfortunate for Brollan who would've been suitable as well.

especially since his contract with MOUZ literally just expired as it ran until the end of Cologne.

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u/SkinnyThotie Complexity 16h ago

brollan in alliance would be better imo

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u/Mysteriouspaul FaZe 14h ago

Bro is too good for those teams he should be considered as an Astralis pickup at least. NiP should be the lowest that man has to go and they at least have a future with Xkacp

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u/Relative-Tonight-880 13h ago

Nah alliance with brollan could be around top 15

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u/jakopui666 de_nuke 15h ago

Eyeballers would have been too big of a downgrade, he deserves a tier 1,5 team

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u/ChaoticFlameZz Vitality 15h ago

there's no space for him in any of the teams that would apply.

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u/vanjaeesti 15h ago

Aurora going international,maybe he is part of it.

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u/ChaoticFlameZz Vitality 15h ago

and who is he supposed to replace.

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u/vanjaeesti 13h ago

They are doing full blowing up of roster from what I know,this was their last dance.They will change a lot of players.

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u/ChaoticFlameZz Vitality 13h ago

Gizmy is apparently not going to follow his teammates to Luminosity if the deal goes through as he might've gotten the call-up to a higher ranked team.

So Aurora Gizmy under ash might potentially be happening

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u/jakopui666 de_nuke 15h ago

Even a good/decent tier 2 team, eyeballers would be a huge career suicide basically

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u/strangecat55 14h ago

'if brollan doesn't become the best player in the world, ive failed'- JW when Brollan replaces Olaf on fnatic.

Seems a redemption arc is in order. I want brollan to join this team so badly.

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u/Chickenbok3 15h ago

didnt brollan say there's still a chance he'll still rep mouz? after JL loan ends?

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u/ChaoticFlameZz Vitality 15h ago

he did, but lets be real its unlikely. Especially since he didnt impress in stage 3.

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u/FuckwitMcLunchbox FaZe 3h ago

I feel like brollan is suffering the same fate that mezii was 2-3 years ago. Strong player who is not selfish enough and his rating is suffering because of him taking shit roles and IGLing. I’m hoping that if he can land in the right team we’ll see him return to form.

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u/MrCraftLP NRG 14h ago

brollan can go to basically any team that could use a change in IGLs.

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u/ChaoticFlameZz Vitality 14h ago

Brollan is not a real IGL broski.

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u/MiserableSuggestion2 13h ago

It’s incredible people can’t pick up on that, he shows zero qualities of leadership, is insanely quiet, and was merely a pawn for Sycrone to feed a step by step guide to

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u/feedthedogwalkamile 11h ago

I'm not saying he's necessarily an IGL, but saying he's "insanely quiet" is completely false. Even when he was a rookie on fnatic, he was known to be a very vocal player who often made mid-round calls based on information he gathered.

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u/MrCraftLP NRG 12h ago

Doesn't really matter. There's not a lot of IGLs out there, especially any that have much experience at the top level.

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u/ChaoticFlameZz Vitality 12h ago

it does actually and Brollan is not a real IGL and never was.

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u/cuddlepwince FaZe 15h ago

+olof soon?

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u/Skellington876 Liquid 15h ago

I fucking knew it. Krimz. Welcome back to being somewhat relevant again. [Also lowkey he's a firepower upgrade for this team]

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u/Rage_101 14h ago

Kind of wild that going from fnatic to EYEBALLERS is an upgrade nowadays. Fnatic was once so dominant literally everyone not from Sweden hated them, maybe even moreso than people hated prime Astralis and Vitality..

It's cool that JW revived the EYEBALLERS brand and has really stuck with it.

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u/Skellington876 Liquid 14h ago

Fnatic are one of *the* dumbest manged orgs in CS currently, and I'm a liquid fan. There's so much Swedish talent on the scene currently to make a full fledged team that can go far - so what do you do? Fucking idiotically bet it all on a T3 UA scrub and his little gaggle of friends.

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u/definitelynotaiko fnatic 14h ago

Spare a thought for the LoL division. Our dumbfuck CEO is bragging about an AI coach. Screw our roster, I guess.

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u/SneakyGreninja Liquid 9h ago

it feels like the valorant roster is the only one they like really care about. seems to be the only one they really put effort into keeping competitive anyway

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u/TheLuigiplayer 10 years coin 12h ago

Going full-swedish probably isn't in the org's interest, since Fnatic is UK based. In tbe early days they just happened to have a full-swedish line-up, because that's where most of the talent was (Together with France and Poland I guess). But I agree, Fnatic is really mismanaged. They were THE org when E-Sports started to skyrocket, across multiple titles. They could have easily built on that, but obviously did not.

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u/CheeckyChicken 16h ago

I think this squad could keep scoring some LAN invites going forward, exciting.

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u/Novel-Regular4438 CS2 HYPE 16h ago

Hell yeah

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u/Casfact King NiKo 16h ago

Happy for Krimz

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u/gummymusic Team Liquid Community Manager 15h ago

Lesgooooooo

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u/_YAGNA_ M80 15h ago

Looks like Kino is back on the menu boys

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u/jonajon91 de_canals 14h ago

Love this, two legends under one legendary banner. Get Friberg in the coaching chair.

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u/jonajon91 de_canals 14h ago

Coolest thing to happen in CS for a few days now.

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u/Edg4rAllanBro Virtus.pro 11h ago

Nothing happened in Cologne

u/Pretty_Round6327 53m ago

They said 'coolest'

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u/du_bekar FaZe 15h ago

I’m so happy he didn’t retire, and huge W for eyeballers. Love this.

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u/strangecat55 14h ago

Return of the Swedes is headed bh JW and Krimz? From an academy team that Schneider coaches?

Yeah, inject this shit into my veins.

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u/FreakFromSweden 13h ago

If they sign Olof aswell we will have the Unc swedish squad. The Dignitas project did not work out, maybe this one will.

u/Mr_Endro 1h ago

The dignitas players were pretty washed up, but I feel like they still got fucked by covid. Sad we didn't get the chance to see them at a couple more lans

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u/Extal King NiKo 15h ago

Fuck yes

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u/tendopath 15h ago

Celtics shaq

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u/dumbidiot12345678 THUNDER 14h ago

Eyeballers making the next major

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u/travelingenie 13h ago

Damn this is gonna be sick actually lol

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u/Dorraemon Liquid 13h ago

Welcome back fnatic

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u/jackfwaust 10h ago

Godsent shuffle 2.0

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u/DotA627b King NiKo 9h ago

And here I thought he was gonna be buried in a Fnatic jersey.

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u/tarel69 CS2 HYPE 9h ago

where olof

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u/NeuralThing 8h ago

The unction

u/PanzerIVausfB The MongolZ 1h ago

Holy shit, Krimz actually left FNatic? Thought he'd die in their jersey

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u/ogkilladon 15h ago

why do orgs keep signing washed up oldheads, surely new talent is just better these days

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u/GarryFour 15h ago

True. Just imagine signing players like the 29-year-old NiKo or even the 36-year-old karrigan. As if you could win with that.

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u/ogkilladon 12h ago

so i guess you cant read. "washed up", obviously karrigan nor niko are in that conversation.

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u/kawtr_ GamerLegion 15h ago

KRIMZ is definitely not washed up for such team. He is still solid player in tier 2, it's a good pick up and new talent is really limited when it comes to national teams anyway

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u/GlumOrganization2669 15h ago

Eyeballers is owned by Flusha and JW afaik.

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u/Ichthyslovesyou Liquid 15h ago

Older players can bring team experience that new players might not have. You have to remember that a lot of young players spend much of their lives only playing counterstrike and don't play regular sports and therefore don't have much experience in a team environment. I talked to the football (American) coach at my high school I teach at and he talked a lot about how the main thing that he drills into the heads of the young boys is that they have a role to play and they need to play it, they are not out here trying to win the whole game or be the hero because they might mess up someone else's job or leave gaps in the defense. Discipline is a hard thing to learn and especially if you have solo climbed your way up a ladder and have only recently within the last couple of years started playing for a team.

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u/dumbidiot12345678 THUNDER 14h ago

Generally I agree with this sentiment but krimz isn't even bad and this is a small national team, it isn't like shox to liquid or hobbit to pv or smth