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Not the end to a career that anyone would want
Snappi has retired from professional play, but never fear, Snappi fans, the already has himself a new gig. As does SunPayus, and there’s absolute no prizes for guessing who he’s signed for.
Tier one CS is also back - thank God - and we’ve got a packed ESL Pro League Season 24 to sink our teeth into.
Spirit have been the best team in the world since the Summer break, but Vitality have now revived hope in them after their win at StarLadder Barcelona. The two teams now have a chance to truly stake a claim for the best team in the world at Pro League, with the iconic Spodek being a very fitting battleground for the fight to take place.
With the caveat that apEX may have to sub out due to the upcoming birth of his child, our money is on Spirit. That’s something you may have expected anyway, but we aren’t so sure it’s that much of a guarantee.
Spirit have never been the sharpest team after a break, and Vitality have their confidence back. It’s not as open and shut as you might expect it to be.
We hope that means we’ll get to see them play a banger BO5 final, but let’s face it, one of them will f-ck up in the Swiss stage and we’ll get it as a quarter instead.
Alternatively, Falcons could also come and spoil the show, and that’s an outcome we couldn’t mind at all. They’ve been pretty bleak since their Major win, but after having some time off to refine their map pool, we expect them to be back with a vengeance in Katowice.
Outside of the race for the top, the race to qualify for the Major will also be in question in Poland.
NAVI absolutely need to win games at this event or risk not qualifying, and given the fact they face G2 in their opener, we’re not confident they’ll get off to a good start.
There’s also a solid chance they’ll play nafany’s 1WIN in an 0-1 game, too, and we’re not sure they’ll win that either.
We’re also intrigued by Legacy vs PARIVISION, although our interest has been slightly diminished by arT missing the event due to meningitis.
That said, we have absolutely zero confidence in PARIVISION, so a loss to an IGL-less Legacy doesn’t sound too crazy…
Everyone loves opening cases, so Valve had to ruin them by making them those miserable terminals. Of course, you could still buy old cases and open those at extortionate prices, but why line the pockets of Valve if they can’t be f-cked to even make a working anti-cheat?
Fortunately, our friends at Razed have the solution for this, so get yourselves on razed.io by using our referral link and get three free cases upon sign-up!
This week on Overtime on Inferno, Sam and Quacke build a team of players that they believe get far more credit than deserved. If you want to be the judge of who conjured up the more overrated squad, then watch the full episode, and maybe even shout at us in the comments.
Rejoice, for the reign of terror is finally over. Never again will you need to tune into a tier one stream and lay your eyes on an AWPer as stinky as the team name would imply.
In other words, cmtry is no longer on FUT.
SunPayus takes his place, reuniting with ex-Heroic teammate xfl0ud on the budding squad that is slowly approaching the top level. And, for once, we’re kind of happy about it.
Look, is SunPayus the best thing since sliced bread? Is he a teenager with huge potential? Does he have a wealth of experience and a massive trophy cabinet?
The answer to all those questions is no, but the question that matters is: is he good enough?
And perhaps no other AWPer has ever been more “good enough”, more middle-of-the-road, more vanilla than SunPayus. On a team with young stars with performance swinging left and right, and an IGL still finding his footing in tier one, perhaps what you need is a steady pair of hands and a strong voice.
Reuniting with xfl0ud could be a great move as well, as their stint together at Heroic brought the best SunPayus we’ve seen in CS2. The latter is already on fire, so here’s hoping that SunPayus has the same glow-up under Krabeni.
What we don’t understand is why it took so long to announce the move, with it having been rumoured for literal weeks. In fact, go ask your parents right now if they know who will replace cmtry on FUT. We’d bet they do.
(And if that RHCP song is still stuck in your head from the heading, you can hurl abuse at quacke in the comments under this week’s podcast episode.)
Let’s make one thing clear:
We love Snappi, and he had a much worse career than he deserved.
Seriously, Snappi made HEROIC relevant long before cadiaN could even dream of playing for a European team again, and then he had an ENCE team punching far above their weight for two years before the release of CS2.
Since then, though, it hasn’t gone very well.
First, he got blueballed by NiKo and Falcons. Promised a much better team than the one he was given, Falcons - to no one’s surprise and everyone’s joy - failed.
Then, there was NIP.
And, well, we’re tired of talking about NIP, but we’ll do it anyway: F-ck Xizt. Dogsh-t coach.
Seriously, though, despite havign to put up with Xizt, Snappi did everything right at NIP. He brought them back from nothing all the way to the Budapest Major, despite having to deal with multiple roster changes throughout his time there.
Then, as stars struggled for form, he converted stavn to an AWPer, and stavn’s stats have never looked better.
We’ll just ignore the fact that he hasn’t seen a proper stage yet.
Despite these successes, Snappi’s time on NIP came to an end without the team even having a permnanet fifth player. His replacement? Krimbo, a first time IGL. How disrespectful.
Sadly, following his benching, Snappi has now retired from competitive play. A man who probably could have turned still G2 into a title contender if they weren’t so obssessed with huNter-, he’ll now have a much harder task on his hands: coaching HEROIC.
In all seriousness, we’re happy Snappi has a new job, and we’re sure he’ll do a cracking job at it. WE just can’t help but think what might have been, though, had Snappi actually got the upgrade he deserved when moving on from ENCE.
