steel & zakk join Luminosity

22/4/2018 - 21:23

Luminosity have added Lucas "steel" Lopes and Rafael "zakk" Fernandes as replacements for Marcelo "chelo" Cespedes and Alessandro "Apoka" Marcucci.

This marks Lucas "⁠steel⁠" Lopes's second stint with the organization, as he spent four months under the Luminosity banner back in 2015, when he played with the Brazilian lineup led by Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo.

The 24-year-old had been teamless since he left Liquid "for professional and personal reasons" in early April, following a five-month tenure with the North American organization.

Rafael "⁠zakk⁠" Fernandes had been looking for offers ever since the Immortals lineup was released in late 2017, after the previous team split up, with Vito "⁠kNgV-⁠" Giuseppe, Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles, and Lucas "⁠LUCAS1⁠" Teles forming NTC (later known as 100 Thieves for a short period).

steel quickly found his new home in Luminosity

Luminosity will be looking to bolster their stance in ECS and ESL Pro League. They are still in contention for spots at both finals, sitting in third place in the former league (seven wins from 12 matches) and in seventh place in the latter (25 points from 18 matches).

The new lineup will make their offline debut at WCA Finals, which will take place in Zhuhai, China, on April 29-30.

Luminosity now have:

Gustavo "⁠yel⁠" Knittel
Lucas "⁠steel⁠" Lopes
Gabriel "⁠NEKIZ⁠" Schenato
Gustavo "⁠SHOOWTiME⁠" Gonçalves
Vinicios "⁠PKL⁠" Coelho

Rafael "⁠zakk⁠" Fernandes (coach)

🔫Roster Update: Welcome @steelegabr & coach @IMTzakk to #LGCSGO. Thank you @chelok1ng and @ale_apoka for all your hard work and memories. We wish you all the best on your new adventure.

Read More: https://t.co/pi0iyejshO pic.twitter.com/aBUb3pDYaw
— Luminosity Gaming (@Luminosity) April 22, 2018

Wow

2018-04-22 21:23

8 replies

Sucks for steel

2018-04-22 21:24

2 replies

steel on suicide watch

2018-04-22 21:34

1 reply

LG pays good... he doesnt care i think

2018-04-23 11:51

Rip Steel

yes:( rip tier1-2 future

2018-04-22 23:43

oh man

2018-04-22 21:25

+HEN1 AND +LUCAS1 INCOMING POGGERS!

2018-04-22 22:15

Maybe?!

2018-04-23 12:35

AHAHAHAA BR CS IS 2K18

6 replies

German cs OMEGALUL

4 replies

Smooya lul

2018-04-22 22:44

German CS SK Mouz ESL other companies

2018-04-23 16:02

and how many players?????

2018-04-23 16:17

does it matter ? Germany is everywhere in esports.. one of the Reason it got so big is thanks to the ESL

2018-04-23 17:52

br cs is 2k18 ? what the fuck does it mean ?

2018-04-22 23:29

not ok

2018-04-22 23:32

Steel to tier 10

Good

expected

Nice

Why

nice

aww steels better than this

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BR cs is a dumpster fire atm. Luminosity is top 3 br. Might make it to Dallas

2018-04-22 22:34

I’m going to that event :)

2018-04-22 23:37

I’ll be in Dallas the week after 🙃

2018-04-23 00:14

would he be allowed to play there even? idk how the rules are but weve been screwed so many times with crap rules and standins and after all pro league is almost thru init? idk maybe they have a rule that u can change lineup in the middle who knows

2018-04-22 23:53

Yes he would I think. I know there is trade deadlines and what not but idk when they are

2018-04-23 00:15

Good move imo

Expected

GL steel

2018-04-22 21:26

steel :( from tier 1 team to tier 5 br team..gl..

2018-04-22 21:28

2018-04-22 21:30

MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

2018-04-22 21:32

BR CS Roster changes and not professionalism in their players. Expected

2018-04-22 21:33

??? uruguai cs ???? Always will have roster changes in professional scene of cs go its not only in br scene.... Where is the unprofessional not counting the dh montreal incident?

2018-04-23 21:13

now -pkl and +someone else and that team looks a real promise! Good luck showtime, zakk and steel, you deserve! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

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-PKL +Horvy, Steel can be the IGL and Horvy is a great player

2018-04-23 00:07

2018-04-23 02:46

good sight, I agree with that too

2018-04-23 04:55

Why would steel leave Torqued for this? loool

2018-04-22 21:41

"still" LUL

2018-04-22 21:36

I cant see so much diff between this LG and Torqued LOL

2018-04-23 21:09

Good luck

2018-04-22 21:35

GL Steel!

2018-04-22 21:37

happy for them both :)

2018-04-22 21:38

His big experience on IMT/Liquid will surely help LG to reach higher levels. This team still need more firepower tho. They will have to play tactically perfect to beat good teams.

- pkl + trk would bring the fire power that LG needs

2018-04-22 21:53

I would love to see a team build around trk, lucas and hen1, it's a strong core. leo_drunky is a wasted talent on Sharks too. trk leo_drunky HEN1 lucas +1 Would be cool as fuck, for sure a better team than current the LG/TeamOne ones.

2018-04-23 00:47

yeah

2018-04-23 03:09

LG will come back stronger

2018-04-22 21:40

Good luck up for LG. When steel is actually allowed to play and get comfortable he's legit. Hopefully this poor guy will actually get some dam games in instead of being swapped around ever month or two

Like swapped by taco 2 times already, taco is not even an upgrade from steel, feelsbadman.

2018-04-22 22:47

taco has plenty of tenure, look where SK are without him. coldzera almost looks human again

2018-04-22 23:54

Both are solid players

2018-04-23 00:04

Steel's mom R.I.P [*]

2018-04-22 21:43

-PKL and +TRk

-SHOW -PKL -NEKIZ +HEN LUCAS AND TRK

noice

2018-04-22 21:44

garbage player anyway. overrated just because he is a cool guy and fun at interviews.

2018-04-22 21:48

-1, he was absolutely awful when he first came up in fallens team. then he got kicked but since he worked his way up to the top again he actually was a lot better than he was when he first entered the scene. hes not a star player but hes decent enough and i dont think liquid really had a compelling reason to kick him if it hadnt been for taco basically being knocking on the door.

2018-04-22 23:55

+1, he isnt a fragger, but when i saw he playing in liquid, it seems that all the kills that he got was so important. Still, i prefer him on lg, -pkl, +leo drunky, steel to igl, would be a excelent move.

2018-04-23 02:51

GL steel! Have a nice day! -VeryNiceGuy

Sup my very nice German dude

2018-04-23 01:03

whats up my friendo Have a nice day! -VeryNiceGuy

2018-04-23 15:18

Danke! Gutted Morgen meine Freund!

2018-04-23 15:45

Looks promising

2018-04-22 21:51

rip steel

-shoowtime or pkl +trk

2018-04-22 21:54

ye im surprised they havent kicked pickle yet hes dead weight

2018-04-22 22:00

at least he is the igl

2018-04-22 22:01

Steel probably Will be the IGL, and Horvy Will Join LG replacing PKL

2018-04-23 00:10

Rip steel

2018-04-22 21:55

-sh0000w

2018-04-22 22:08

I thought that they'll form new roster with horvy, lucas, hen1 and yel probably? LUL

2018-04-22 22:12

dont remember hen1 and lucas basically killing themselves when IMT bought horvy, and they didnt wanna play with him whatsoever?

2018-04-22 23:56

welcome to tier 5

2018-04-22 22:13

Steel and Zakk are really nice guys. But unfortunately, this is a huge downgrade for Luminosity.

2018-04-22 22:20

NEW LUMINOSITY yel steelega LUCAS1 SHOOWTIME HEN1 zakk

GamesAcademy's core PogChamp

2018-04-22 22:23

GOOD LUCK STEELEGA MAN!!!!!!!!!

2018-04-22 22:25

Time com Nekiz nao tem futuro.

2018-04-22 22:26

? Nekiz é o melhorzinho da LG

2018-04-22 22:28

2018-04-22 22:33

Tirando o chelo e o yel(online) o nekiz era o melhor player da outra line.

2018-04-22 22:50

+1 yel so online lul PKL is bad and showtime too

2018-04-22 23:42

Shoowtime top 1 Br player

2018-04-23 00:11

RIP steel. Hope LG still has success without chelo

2018-04-22 22:30

rip gl

RIP steel's career

2018-04-22 22:36

2018-04-22 22:51

2018-04-22 22:52

0.99 team kkkk

2018-04-22 23:01

Another potential Brazilian roster: hen1, lucas1, horvy, shz, some IGL. Would be about as good as this team tbh. Probably a bit better, if the IGL isn't complete trash.

2018-04-22 23:09

and what exactly do u know about horvy? all i know him from basically (he never really played in IMT) is FPL streams where he appears on a regular basis. dunno how people wanna rate him as a player unless im missin some info about him.

2018-04-22 23:59

He Played for a portuguese team called Kick with Mutiris too, but they didn't win anything special

Honestly, it doesn't matter that much. We know Lucas1 and Hen1 are good players, shz played pretty well with Tempo Storm, and horvy wasn't too bad with Immortals. Hen1 >> yeL Lucas1 >> Shoowtime shz = Nekiz (shz is arguably better but whatever) Even if horvy and the IGL are a bit worse than steel and PKL, the theoretical team will still be better than this Luminosity team. While we don't know how good Horvy is, he would have to be incredibly bad for the team to be worse than Luminosity. I just don't think that's very probable.

2018-04-23 00:42

Steel <3

2018-04-22 23:11

Nice downgrade Steel LMFAO Probably a team he deserves though, I don't rate Steel highly at all

2018-04-22 23:12

he is bad

2018-04-22 23:41

Yes

relax he played pretty well in IMT and liquid

LUL no

2018-04-23 00:00

yeah fuck yeah imo he has proven that he can easily be the worst player on a really good team, and thats really all he needs to do. be a support player, help with calling and hold ur own while other people on ur team do the heavy lifting. like taco, pretty much.

2018-04-23 00:01

feelsbad Steel

2018-04-22 23:27

New Brazil #1

2018-04-22 23:30

2018-04-23 00:13

2018-04-23 00:17

such a terrible lineup but good luck.

2018-04-23 00:27

LG não se deu conta que se manter PKL e SHOW no time, não vai andar, independente das mudanças. O mais adequado no momento é add Lucas1 e Hen1 para maior dinâmica. Caso contrário o time continuará a mesma coisa, batendo em cachorro morto e sendo espancado por times 1 pouco melhores, mesmo que ganhem de vez em nunca da C9. Fui !

2018-04-23 00:44

gl steelega, decent player, nice plays

PKL = coldzera?y

2018-04-23 01:53

interesting

2018-04-23 02:09

Steel you're much better than this. Hope you find success soon.

2018-04-23 04:07

was there ever a confirmation post before this that said steel was cut from liquid?

2018-04-23 06:43

this is sad to watch

2018-04-23 08:03

Steel deserves a better team:(

2018-04-23 10:01

Rip steel :(

2018-04-23 14:41

Good luck steelega.

2018-04-23 14:42

New Immortals?

2018-04-23 16:04

SHOOWTIME SUCKS HOW IS HE A PRO???

2018-04-23 16:48

GREAT PLAYER BUT IT IS INCONSTANT, IT MAYBE BECAUSE THE TEAM SYSTEM USES, OR MAYBE FOR ANOTHER REASON ... FOR YOU TO HAVE AN IDEA, SHOWTIME WAS IN THE TIME (SOME YEARS AGO) A PLAYER MUCH MORE PROMISING THAN '' BOLTZ ' ',' 'STEEL' 'AND OTHERS ... BUT, SOME THING HAPPENED IN THE' 'MIDDLE OF THE WAY' '... HUG

2018-04-23 18:01

THE FAT F*CKS UP HIS BRAIN

GOOD LUCK LG, STEEL, ZAKK ... THESE IMMORTALS EX-MEMBERS DESERVE A HAPPY FINAL, AFTER SOME PLAYERS OF THE TEAM THAT THEY PLAYED THERE ARRIVED AT THAT END OF CHAMPIONSHIP AND LOST FOR "WO" ... GOOD LUCK GREAT STEEL AND DEAR ZAKK ...

2018-04-23 17:58

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