New US top team come to life

26/8/2013 - 14:15

A new North American side have been created under the name Homeless, boasting a number of top players.

Over the last few weeks, we have seen a lot of changes in the upper Echelon of the North American scene, with Denial calling it quits half way through the ESEA season and Curse losing two players after the LAN finals.

Carey "frozt" Kertenian has now put together a new team with Trey "tck" Martin and Neil "MONTE" Montgomery, two team-mates of the Denial team who were marked dead on ESEA when they were 11-1 in the league.

Joining up with them are Keven "AZK" Lariviere, who quit Curse on Sunday, and Derek "dboorN" Boorn, who is famous for his time in compLexity and Evil Geniuses.

frozt from Quantic Gaming

frozt in new top US team

Sam "DaZed" Marine, formerly of Quantic Gaming, has also joined in as backup player while he continues his gaming career playing Call of Duty on the Xbox.

"We wanted to form a team that was in it for the long haul and could compete with the best teams in the world," Kertenian told ESEA News.

"We needed players with experience, a hunger to win, and that would stick together for the long haul. tck, montE and I have been playing together for years so naturally we wanted to all get back together.

"Dboorn is still getting fully accustomed to playing CS:GO, but he fits perfectly into the type of player we were looking for and his mentality with how he approaches the game meshes perfectly with us.

"We were initially going to use Mosbeck as our 5th, but we had been in talk with AZK for some time. Keven is really the only other player that we had wanted to play with. We've been competing against him for years, and we know his desire to be the best in the world as well as how he competes is on par with what we want to as a team.

"So we're really hungry to prove something, all of us feel as if we have a bit of a chip on our shoulder. We plan on competing in the ESWC Qualifiers, MSI Beat It tournament, ESEA this upcoming season as well as a few more major events down the road. We are solidifying negotiations with our sponsor and hopefully news about it will be revealed soon."

This new team, who will currently go by the name Homeless, boast:

Carey "frozt" Kertenian
Trey "tck" Martin
Neil "MONTE" Montgomery
Keven "AZK" Lariviere
Derek "dboorN" Boorn

Sam "DaZed" Marine (backup)

DaZeD shouldn't be backup player.

2013-08-26 14:16

16 replies

playing CoD on Xbox so...

2013-08-26 14:17

15 replies

im sure he learned some nice strats

2013-08-26 14:32

13 replies

I know one thing he's learning. youtube.com/watch?v=R7HbCkU_-cM&t=39s

2013-08-26 14:49

11 replies

:D :D :D

2013-08-26 15:47

must be hard not to get mad irl when they re yelling like fuck to you after you lost a round. i would have been so mad irl that it would affect my gameplay so freakin much. and my only thought had been to rape them irl lol

2013-08-26 15:50

dafuq did i just watch :D :D :D :D

2013-08-26 16:44

lmao

2013-08-26 17:17

That's awesome, I literally laughed until some coffee came out of my nose. What a bunch of cocks.

2013-08-26 18:24

That's fucking ugly.

2013-08-26 18:40

hm dont know if i got it correctly but speaker said there was 1 milion $ prize, so its kind of excuse for this behaviour

2013-08-26 21:46

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lol

2013-08-26 22:06

did u see such things at ti3 for example ? if not - then it cant be an excuse

2013-08-27 09:14

oh my god thats so freaking sad to watch LOL

2013-08-27 01:54

i think i was frowning the whole 50 secs i watched that... |:(

2013-08-28 13:14

and trick jumps

2013-08-26 15:54

youtube.com/watch?v=XB70tuGLdks what happened to him ?

2013-09-01 03:36

Stop playing cod and come own the us scene again.

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indeed! Marine we need you x[

2013-08-26 14:35

wicked

"We wanted to form a team that was in it for the long haul and could compete with the best teams in the world" Says the team with an xbox cod player as backup. R.I.P

2013-08-26 14:18

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That makes no sense you absolute moron. He was a good CS player long before he started playing CoD on Xbox which he has only been doing for a month or so.

2013-08-26 14:34

Says the guy that doesn't know pretty much everyone in the US Invite league says he's the best NA player (or was). R.I.P

2013-08-26 16:14

xbox cod is on par with csgo, not much difference.

2013-08-26 16:34

dazed probably is still probably top 10 in the world for csgo, that is a pretty good backup to have.

2013-08-28 02:39

gl guys

2013-08-26 14:19

DazeD Back up lol

2013-08-26 14:20

3 weeks

2013-08-26 14:23

hopefully this team will last longer :/ but It would not surprise me if they disband anytime soon

2013-08-26 18:18

GoDBlessAmerica!

2013-08-26 14:25

This team will win ESWC this year. Trust me I'm DaZeD's father

Canada!

2013-08-26 14:26

?? o.O

2013-08-26 18:19

dazed backup ? lol wfffffffff

2013-08-26 14:28

6 replies

He is playing cod on xbox did you not read?

2013-08-26 18:15

5 replies

yeh but hes obly better in csgo

2013-08-26 18:46

Yeah ive seen him play cod he sucks. Really bad. But its his personal choice

2013-08-26 18:49

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If DaZeD was in for dboorn this team would be win any tournament. Idk why people trust 1.6 players who blow in GO. Just like Cultivation they will never be good.

2013-08-26 22:04

Ok?

2013-08-26 22:25

Yeah....f0rest & Get_Right stop.

2013-08-27 19:03

THE MOMENT WHEN U REALISE THE BACKUP is better than the whole team ;DDD

2013-08-26 14:29

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2013-08-26 14:39

monte is easily the best player on that team, people just don't know it yet.

2013-08-26 15:00

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I agree.

2013-08-26 15:48

who is he? best USA (or Canada) source player or something like that?

2013-08-26 16:01

Monte... Is that you?

2013-08-26 16:13

hi monte

well menace he was really good in css , dont see that player in csgo ATM.

2013-08-26 17:50

who?

2013-08-26 18:50

who

2013-08-26 21:23

THE MOMENT WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT SHIT IS TOP NOWADAYS HAHHAA

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don't see your point, all of these players have played for top level teams as well as represented top level organizations in the past. were you expecting to see Ksharp, method or someone else from 10 years ago?

2013-08-26 14:38

He exaggerated, but I do see his point, the title sort of insinuated that it was the best of the best (top). "New US Team Come to Life" would be better in my opinion.

2013-08-26 14:44

it is a US top team though? his wording "when you realize" suggests that he himself realized that "this shit is top nowadays"

2013-08-26 15:20

look at topic mate ;]

2013-08-26 16:04

2013-08-26 16:29

new-us-top-team-come-to-life now do you see word "TOP" in title ? yeah, you're welcome.

2013-08-26 23:00

seriously what? that's what i have been saying all the time???

2013-08-27 06:29

They're not even close to Curse + Quantic + nothing's team trio. In terms of skills or achievements. That's why, due to topic name, he said 'when you realize that shit is top nowadays'.

2013-08-27 16:44

dazed playing cod on xbox? thats pretty fucking low man

admins be deleting my comments so sad :(

No mosbeck? WTF?!

after his performance at ESEA LAN, I don't think any top 3 team will take a chance on him again, at the very least not now.

2013-08-26 15:27

#1-3 NA #10-15 worldwide GG

Please do name me any NA team that played cs:go and were below top 5-7 internationally

2013-08-26 14:47

2013-08-26 15:02

Any....? Really any? There is like 2 US teams that could even come close to top 5-7 internationally. And since we haven't had a recent LAN event with all the top EU and US teams it's hard to judge anyway.

2013-08-26 15:14

That's nice. Now try reading what I wrote

2013-08-26 18:21

What you said is that ANY NA team is rank 7 or higher internationally. Which is a load of old horse shit. There is perhaps a single NA team that could work their way into the top 5-7.

2013-08-26 19:38

You misunderstood what I wrote. I was talking about tournament wise and obviously about Quantic and Curse, but not in overall ranking

2013-08-26 19:55

Fair enough in tournaments, although I believe Curse had a failure of a tournament once. Thing is, at most of those tournaments, key top teams had been missing, so it really doesn't accurately show where the US teams could be placed.

2013-08-26 20:38

well you sir r bullshit

2013-08-26 20:30

Well you seem like an intelligent chap

2013-08-26 20:36

every team in the us , that or top 3 can beat every team in europe. Thats just a fact. And the only real lan between usa and europe proved it.

2013-08-26 20:43

Right, and here we are another member of HLTV confusing the words fact and opinion.

2013-08-26 21:08

curse, they sucked balls and didn't even get out of a group stage @ Dreamhack summer.

2013-08-26 17:09

Doesn't really matter because it only happened once

2013-08-26 18:22

Dem excuses.

2013-08-26 19:23

#5-20 USA #25-50000 worldwide.

2013-08-26 15:21

damn CSGO is really kicking... 50,000 teams sick

2013-08-26 15:31

are hiko and tck brothers? they have the same surname.. could be a coincidence

nope, thats what I originally thought too

danke nachbar :D

2013-08-26 14:52

Yes indeed Spencer "hiko" Martin and Trey "tck" Martin are blood brothers hiko was a very well known top american 1.6 player and tck on the other hand was known in the css scene too.

so i was right! :D thanks for clearing it up m8

2013-08-26 21:33

will die before the end of next esea season

2013-08-26 14:43

"homeless disbands" file is already saved and ready on hltv hardisk , just in case, i bet

2013-08-26 16:41

frozt :))

dboorNNNNN googogogo

cool, gl!

awesome team, really hope they stick together and the scene picks up!

2013-08-26 15:03

2013-08-26 15:08

top team lol

2013-08-26 15:09

not top team, especially since they haven't done anything yet

2013-08-26 15:10

It has 5 players + a backup that are definitely good enough to beat euro teams. If they can forge a good practice schedule, pick up a good sponsor(which apparently they have already) and everything clicks they could beat coL and Curse(when they rebuild, if they do)

2013-08-26 15:35

Yeah I can def see them beating a shit team like Alternate or N!

2013-08-26 15:49

Or fnatic.

2013-08-26 15:52

Or Astana Dragons aka Disband after DH Bucharest

2013-08-26 15:59

n! arent shitty,almost knocked nip off the gs in dreamhack..not many teams have that behind their back

2013-08-26 21:22

pure luck

2013-08-27 05:51

lots of ifs, if only 1 "if" fails, they have 0 chance already

2013-08-26 16:43

This is a top team u europeens r low

2013-08-26 15:29

LMAO...

2013-08-26 18:25

ROFL. It's nice lineup, but I wouldn't call them top team, anyway gl.

2013-08-26 15:30

why?

2013-08-26 16:08

Because coL is better.

2013-08-26 19:13

dboorN is back, gl :D

2013-08-26 15:36

GL yanks and canuks.

2013-08-26 15:37

The clutch king!

IMO top50

gl dboorN :D

2013-08-26 15:55

say me top 5 players of America because i do not know much about Am players

2013-08-26 16:06

nothing and fallen the only worldclass players easily could do well in big teams, the rest just bunch of potheads.

2013-08-26 16:46

I guess that when he writes America, he means USA

2013-08-26 18:51

I'd say Dazed is by far the best NA player. Sadly he doesn't play CS anymore (for the time being).

2013-08-27 06:06

fallen world class.. riiiight. maybe when he actually starts playing cs go instead of dead 1.6 and that f2p shitty game, the name i cant remember.

2013-08-27 14:49

and Curse ???????

2013-08-26 16:19

They picked up freakazoid and stan rejoined

2013-08-26 16:33

how do you know ? ^^

2013-08-26 16:40

ive read something on esea on facebook

2013-08-26 17:54

we have not rejoined, we were ringing for the show match that curse had scheduled.

2013-08-26 19:51

nice line up ... but i liked curse more with AZK

2013-08-26 16:28

top team just right after they were formed!

After the next ESEA season, i'm pretty sure they will make a lineup change, like most/all americans do.

2013-08-26 16:36

maybe they will be top team after more practice, just give them some time, good lineup imo

2013-08-26 16:38

Meh..

"has also joined in as backup player while he continues his gaming career playing Call of Duty on the Xbox." ... just made my day

its hard to judge whats most ridicuolous, playing csgo or cod as a career. cs players received respect before, not anymore. I know why and I agree.

2013-08-26 16:48

.. Or paying fallen real life moneyz to teach you br newbs how to play a DEAD GAME. xD

2013-08-27 14:52

wow good l-up. gl

2013-08-26 16:55

woow great lineup, I hope to see DaZeD play some matches! =)

2013-08-26 17:20

dboorN allways love this nick :D

2013-08-26 17:32

2013-08-26 21:21

"New US top team" ... top team in us = shyt everywhere else

2013-08-26 17:38

Pretty strange comment considering coL put up a fight against NiP

well until now complexity is the best NA team,they are the only team that took a map from NiP on lan. if those guys can make it then ok :)

this gonna be so good

2013-08-26 18:10

gl. u never know. they may change things. it would be fun ) beating nip one map on home turf still isn't as impressive as what you see in the European scene atm!

2013-08-26 18:44

After the next ESEA LAN finals, they're gonna drop again. NA scene is a joke, I expect only cuL and coL to remain stable.

2013-08-26 19:31

lol europe does this all the time?

2013-08-26 20:01

asd

2013-08-26 19:37

comes to life?

2013-08-26 20:21

could be huge, we ll see

2013-08-26 20:44

ill give it 2months.

2013-08-26 21:19

"...under the name Homeless" AUAHAU*HAUAHAUAAHUAHAUHJAJ

2013-08-26 22:46

Sorry but a top-tier team with a back up player that plays CoD is like the biggest joke i've read ever since the release of CSS.

2013-08-27 03:21

Considering Dazed is easily one of the best players NA, and one of the best riflers in GO (most people on hltv would agree here), I bet he would still do amazingly @ LAN.

2013-08-27 06:07

well that's retarded considering that most 'top-tier' teams never need to use a backup/stand-in

2013-09-01 06:31

plZ stay together longer then 1 Lanevent..

2013-08-27 10:27

2013-08-27 13:33