Spanish teams shuffle players as LVP locks Superliga rosters

9/1/2018 - 16:45

In a scene that could have been taken out of Game of Thrones, a particularly gruesome roster shuffle took place ahead of LVP’s roster lock which was enforced at midnight ahead of both the LVP Superliga Orange and ESL Masters Spain's upcoming seasons.

Only two teams were left unscathed, Rajohn "⁠EasTor⁠" Linato’s G2V and Movistar Riders, although the latter will not play LVP’s next Superliga Orange as the newly created Movistar Riders Blue with Miguel "⁠exerz⁠" Marín, Rafael "⁠rAmbi⁠" Jiménez Montilla, Jon "⁠jonba⁠" Baraiazarra, Javier "⁠cloud⁠" López, and 17-year-old Ponciano "⁠loco⁠" Gómez, will take their spot. It is as of now unknown which of the two Movistar Riders teams will compete in the upcoming ESL Masters Spain. Having won it last season and therefore qualifying for ESEA MDL, Alejandro "⁠mopoz⁠" Fernández-Quejo Cano & co. will be looking to further focus on accumulating more international experience than dominating domestically.

After three quartets deserted Antonio "⁠FlipiN⁠" Rivas del Rey and x6tence in as many previous projects, x6tence now bought fellow veteran and former teammate Jonathan "⁠MusambaN1⁠" Torrent and Wololos stand-in Iván "⁠NaOw⁠" González for a reported $41,700 from Giants. Joining them will be local up-and-comers Tomás "⁠Ergasster⁠" Perez and Jose "⁠HUMANZ⁠" Luis Cebrian Martinez—the latter still under contract with gBots, who will not clear him until his contract expires at the end of the month.

Kairi & co., not bound by roster locks, are still on the lookout for two players

Meanwhile, David "⁠Kairi⁠" de Miguel, Aitor "⁠SOKER⁠" Fernández, and Nicolas "⁠Plopski⁠" Gonzalez Zamora, the more talented trio of the old x6tence core have distanced themselves from FlipiN, but are still bound by contract to the organization and will be looking for two international players to complete their roster and compete in online cups and leagues as x6tence will field MusambaN1 & co. in domestic tournaments.

The Spanish scene has also seen an influx of Portuguese players, as Luís "⁠ZELIN⁠" Lousada and Filipe "⁠Pizituh⁠" Pires will join last season's LVP Superliga winners KPI, where Victor "⁠xikii⁠" García and the Slovakian brothers Michal "⁠EMENK⁠" Belej and Peter "⁠shhhack⁠" Belej ply their trade. Furthermore, the Portuguese flag will be seen waving behind the Giants logo this season as Joao "⁠KILLDREAM⁠" Ferreira, Ricardo "⁠roman⁠" Oliveira, and Francisco "⁠obj⁠" Ramos have banded together and will be joined by the Spanish duo of Omar "⁠arki⁠" Chakkor and Miguel "⁠drifking⁠" García Bermell in a team which will be coached by Ricardo "⁠AIm⁠" Almeida.

Miguel "⁠Blastinho⁠" Llombart's MAD Lions, the runners-up in last season's LVP, will bring Rubén "⁠TorPe⁠" Jesús Gómez Rodríguez and Francisco "⁠Zorrele⁠" Rosa Egea on board, joining Raúl "⁠DeathZz⁠" Jordán Nieto and Javier "⁠Vasili⁠" Huélamo Gracia to form a quintet. Finally, Natanael "⁠kanarito⁠" Ródenas Betancort is once again left in the rain in gBots, as his teammates dispersed leaving him with a makeshift lineup expected to tank this season.

Here are some of the most notable new lineups:

KPI	MAD Lions
Victor "⁠xikii⁠" García	Miguel "⁠Blastinho⁠" Llombart
Michal "⁠EMENK⁠" Belej	Raúl "⁠DeathZz⁠" Jordán Nieto
Peter "⁠shhhack⁠" Belej	Javier "⁠Vasili⁠" Huélamo Gracia
Luís "⁠ZELIN⁠" Lousada	Francisco "⁠Zorrele⁠" Rosa Egea
Filipe "⁠Pizituh⁠" Pires	Rubén "⁠TorPe⁠" Jesús Gómez Rodríguez


Giants	x6tence
Ricardo "⁠roman⁠" Oliveira	Antonio "⁠FlipiN⁠" Rivas del Rey
Joao "⁠KILLDREAM⁠" Ferreira	Jonathan "⁠MusambaN1⁠" Torrent
Francisco "⁠obj⁠" Ramos	Iván "⁠NaOw⁠" González
Omar "⁠arki⁠" Chakkor	Tomás "⁠Ergasster⁠" Perez
Miguel "⁠drifking⁠" García Bermell	Jose "⁠HUMANZ⁠" Luis Cebrian Martinez*

* Expected to join after his contract with gBots expires at the end of the month

Finally

2018-01-09 16:46

3 replies

Wow

2018-01-09 16:47

1 reply

Where’s my boy plopski???

2018-01-09 17:31

Ex x6tence

2018-01-09 16:49

wow

2018-01-09 16:48

Expected

No mixwell & lowel no party

i was expecting these waffles

Giants.PT xDDDD

ez for tugas

2018-01-09 20:27

Fckkkkkk

spanish scene LUL

2 replies

Fake flag?

2018-01-09 18:01

Portuguese scene Lul

2018-01-09 20:22

wow, I prefer 2017 kpi :( . but it will be nice to see fliplin and musa together again :)

2018-01-09 16:50

No words

2018-01-09 16:53

spanish shuffle with 5 players no one knows. good news

You do better, go then!! ;)

2018-01-09 17:58

I would but I have no contract

2018-01-09 18:17

Nice!

Where is dragunov?

2018-01-09 16:54

Movistar Riders, playing in ESEA MDL

2018-01-09 17:08

Thanks, I remember him being a decent player.

2018-01-09 17:10

he is so good

2018-01-11 10:00

lol iberian cs almost 6 years later, still nothing havent done yet. Our last hopes died in 2k14 with wizards and early 2k16 with gBots

11 replies

+1 :(

2018-01-09 16:56

5 replies

lul bruv u still around

2018-01-09 16:58

4 replies

It's been a while my friend since I last saw you. Nowadays I'm just lurking from time to time :>

2018-01-09 17:24

I barely even lurk. I still drop some knowledge every now and then here :D Many users of my time arent around anymore tho

2018-01-09 17:33

feelsbadman

2018-01-09 18:55

no ppl just lurk. i dont like the new design.

2018-01-09 19:02

Yup. Wizards looked promising at the time too :/

2018-01-09 17:06

Overgaming were also promising.

2018-01-09 17:11

The same team. The guys who played for wizards did it for overgaming and then x6tence. A few changes on the rosters in between, but the core was always the same.

2018-01-09 17:32

Overgaming was in the cologne qualifier in 2015, I had hopes to see them at the major

2018-01-09 18:07

k1ck in 2k14 was strong

2018-01-09 18:41

Recognize 5 out of 20 players, ggwp

Belej brothers know spanish?

2018-01-09 16:59

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Yes, very good spanish, Ive spoken personally to one of them

i am surprised that Slovakian guys play for Spanish team

2018-01-09 17:18

They grew up in Spain. They speak perfect spanish and i'm pretty sure they have spanish citizenship also.

2018-01-09 17:23

I think they actually do...

Yes cause its confirmed they are playing in LVP, meaning 3 out of 5 players are 'Spanish'.

2018-01-09 19:56

Ah ok thx

2018-01-09 20:00

GG x6

2018-01-09 17:05

ez 4 rambi

It will be new spanish team who can play wiht tier2 teams like( AGO; GODSENT; VALIANCE and others) Lowel Kairi Eastor SOKER And someone else with 1.20+ rating Cuz this 4 players dont have spot in spanish and others teams

2018-01-09 17:09

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hopefully

2018-01-09 17:20

I hope so

I hope 2, cuz i see how can play wolosos on lan vs tier1, tier2 teams like ss (huge comeback from 12-3, to 14-15), big (also simple comeback but to 16-14 from 3-12), and navi( ukraine with 3 navi players) comeback from 14-2 to 15-19. All maps was overpass btw

2018-01-09 17:59

If they train they can win against some t2 regularly

2018-01-09 18:10

Maybe it doesnt need to be european. Plopski (ex-x6tence, 15 yo half spanish half swedish) is an amazing player and an upcoming player...

2018-01-09 17:34

Plopski, trust me, that kid is a god

2018-01-09 17:48

Yeah....

2018-01-09 18:26

spanish cs elegigle

2018-01-09 17:12

Good luck folks! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

Flipin is the cancer of x6, he's only there because of ratkid legion he has from his stream.

kinda true but, afterall he made the cs a bit more famous in spain, at least before national shitty youtubers started playing cs just because of gambling

2018-01-09 21:09

Just read the list. Literally didnt heard about any of those players ever.

Giants is poortuguese now. Shame, gotta hate them now.

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Hate them now, why? They are nice players.

2018-01-09 17:26

I dislike portuguese fanbase. Not everyone obviously, but most of them are/were really annoying towards spaniards in the chat during Giant games.

2018-01-09 17:28

I understand you, are a lot of toxic people, but in both sides. Don't trust in twitch chat along the games, you have a lot of posers trying to show a lot of pride of his country, just because it's cool...but is not! Btw, Zelin is a great player.

Half of portuguese viewership were like spamming in the chat "spanish bots" "portugal carrying" or some stupids things like that. But i agree. Let's say i dislike portuguese twitch community xD

2018-01-09 17:35

Twitch community =12 yo, just ignore them

2018-01-09 18:09

Why though? Whats up with the hate towards Portuguese people? Oh wait, Fan of G2, so probably French. Nvm now I understand LUL Jk

I'm spanish. Check #68

I agree that Portuguese are kinda cancer in chats. But thats a fraction of us, the rest are normal, decent human beings.

I know, thats why i said "not everyone". Let's just say twitch pt community during Giants games

2018-01-09 17:36

Exacly xDD

2018-01-09 20:07

Neither Portugal nor Spain learn from their past mistakes.. We swap around players time and time again, end up spreading the talent across 20 teams and none goes anywhere. We could barely make a tier 2 team, but it seems like everyone is ok to have lots of t3-- teams

Yeah, but it seems MRS is doing great and maybe Kairi, Lowel, Soker, Eastor and Plopski make a t2 team...

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which team is t2 for you? liquid? space soldiers? NAVI? this team would be a joke compared to that t2 teams

2018-01-09 20:02

Ago, Optic, Liquid, SS...

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and you are putting wololos without mixwell in the same tier as optic, liquid, SS. xD

2018-01-09 20:05

+1 lmao

2018-01-09 20:19

Well, maby optic and Liquid was too much but AGO, extatus, NRG level...

2018-01-09 20:23

AGO just beat SS extatus pro100 godsent kinguin ldlc and fucking VP Also many relevant teams are you high ???????????? NRG also manage to beat many good and even elite teams

2018-01-09 20:48

Beating a team =/= being better Just look at Movistar Riders brating envy in DH Valencia

2018-01-09 22:33

además tu debes saber mejor que nadie el nivel de los equipos en españa , g3ck0 y la importancia que tiene mixwell en wololos ya que compartiste equipo con él

2018-01-09 22:24

Jajajajaja

2018-01-09 22:32

bring back spanish super team with musambani..good times 10 years ago :(

2018-01-09 17:27

Too bad musambani sucks now, there are a lot of better Spanish players to make a tier 2 team

hope this will happen with french scene soon too

wtf

I know a few of these names

2018-01-09 17:45

To sum up, "Spain is different!"

2018-01-09 17:49

Zelin strikes again

2018-01-09 18:13

2018-01-09 20:34

yay!!

2018-01-09 18:22

flipin and musa bruh 1.6 feelings

2018-01-09 18:29

i clicked on this to see if lowel is doing something but nope

2018-01-09 18:34

He plays PUBG

2018-01-09 20:12

he will play for kinguin mark my words

2018-01-09 22:09

Go x6tence

2018-01-09 18:59

Am I blind or did they not talk about million from kick to gbots?

2018-01-09 19:08

He's in gbots but not in the first 5 in this league site he's a stand in, btw panda is a stand in of mad lions lul

2018-01-10 12:18

Ah, that makes sense, aight! Panda? Now that's a surprise. He barely played competitively during 2017 in Portugal.

2018-01-10 17:17

pro.lvp.es/superliga/csgo/temporada/noti.. Check it for yourself xD

2018-01-10 17:34

Oh, now that I see, million is actually in the team, and not as stand-in, atleast here, wut

2018-01-10 17:36

Wuut, then he's neither stand in nor in the active line up??

2018-01-10 18:42

Dunno lol

2018-01-10 18:53

Way to go for him, damn xD

Gold x6tence comes back!!!

2018-01-09 19:28

x6tence.xhiroz=D plSSs

2018-01-09 19:41

wow!

2018-01-09 19:44

spanish scene is trash

2018-01-09 19:46

it hurts, but i can't disagree

2018-01-09 19:55

Zelin is going to destroy!

2018-01-09 19:54

x6 payed 30k euros por MusambaN1 and NaOw. XD

2018-01-09 19:58

KILLDREAM ON GIANTS UUUUUUH

I love Spain scene and hope gBots get a good result this season with the roster change.

2018-01-09 20:08

x6tence good lineup

2018-01-09 20:24

ah yes

2018-01-09 20:31

Fox, Mut, Lowel, Soker and Eastor were my hope to Iberian CS. This lineup was possible but fox wanted the money so went to polish kinguin.

2018-01-09 21:17

-eastor +mopoz and that would be a seriously awesome line up to see! (fox wouldn't let eastor awp :S)

2018-01-10 17:19

WOW

2018-01-09 22:10

two best portuguese players after fox, now in kpi with maybe one of top3 players on spain, looks a great team if they fit good. For me right now: KPI> Movistar Riders>x6tence=madlions> giants

2018-01-10 01:30

2018-01-10 13:04

i'll never forget that dogshit player blastinho ruined my faceitgame. and guess what is nothing that special LOL pt\es cs is so low.. it hurts

2018-01-11 22:58