Official: kassad returns to Renegades

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October 11th, 2018 04:23

Renegades have officially confirmed the return of Aleksandar "kassad" Trifunović as head coach, who had a surprise appearance ahead of their opening match against CyberZen at StarSeries i-League Season 6 on Sunday.

The Serbian coach left Renegades in May after his last event with the Australian squad at ESL Pro League Season 7 Finals, where they finished in 9-12th place.

During kassad's previous one year and a half stint with the former Australian lineup, he led them to two Asia Minor victories, an SL i-League Invitational title in Shanghai last year, on top of several playoffs runs including the 5-6th place at IEM Sydney 2018.

kassad is back with the "boys"

In mid-June, the 31-year-old was hired to guide Valiance, but he left after just four months, during which the team attended the Good Game League, in Poznan, and the ZOTAC Cup Masters 2018 Europe Regional Finals, in Milan.

After bringing Oceanic talents Sean "Gratisfaction" Kaiwai and Jay "liazz" Tregillgas to North America, Renegades had a 6-0 winning spree in ESL Pro League Season 8 before reuniting with kassad in Kiev.

With Aaron "AZR" Ward stepping up to be the shotcaller following Noah "Nifty" Francis' departure and kassad standing behind the "boys" at StarSeries i-League Season 6, Renegades' new lineup went on to overcome their BO1 swiss format curse with a 3-1 record, cementing their first playoffs appearance at their LAN debut.

Renegades' complete roster is now the following:

Australia Justin "jks" Savage
Australia Aaron "AZR" Ward
Norway Joakim "jkaem" Myrbostad
New Zealand Sean "Gratisfaction" Kaiwai
Australia Jay "liazz" Tregillgas

Serbia Aleksandar "kassad" Trifunović (coach)

Australia Aaron 'AZR' Ward
Aaron 'AZR' Ward
Age:
26
Team:
Renegades
Rating 1.0:
1.01
Maps played:
659
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.70
APR:
0.14
New Zealand Sean 'Gratisfaction' Kaiwai
Sean 'Gratisfaction' Kaiwai
Age:
22
Team:
Renegades
Rating 1.0:
1.11
Maps played:
487
KPR:
0.73
DPR:
0.60
APR:
0.12
Australia Justin 'jks' Savage
Justin 'jks' Savage
Age:
22
Team:
Renegades
Rating 1.0:
1.08
Maps played:
656
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.63
APR:
0.13
Norway Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad
Joakim 'jkaem' Myrbostad
Age:
24
Team:
Renegades
Rating 1.0:
1.03
Maps played:
695
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.69
APR:
0.14
Serbia Aleksandar 'kassad' Trifunović
Aleksandar 'kassad' Trifunović
Age:
31
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
0.75
Maps played:
98
KPR:
0.52
DPR:
0.73
APR:
0.14
Australia Jay 'liazz' Tregillgas
Jay 'liazz' Tregillgas
Age:
21
Team:
Renegades
Rating 1.0:
1.20
Maps played:
499
KPR:
0.79
DPR:
0.60
APR:
0.16
United States Noah 'Nifty' Francis
Noah 'Nifty' Francis
Age:
20
Team:
Envy
Rating 1.0:
1.01
Maps played:
633
KPR:
0.68
DPR:
0.66
APR:
0.09
#1
Argentina Fryno 
eZ 4 the bois
2018-10-11 04:23
#36
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Canada Timings 
eZ
2018-10-11 06:50
#45
MITSARAS | 
Austria FAZE_IS_OVERRATED 
Expected
2018-10-11 09:53
#54
shrek | 
World fe_em_deus_dj 
disband in 2 weeks
2018-10-11 19:39
#2
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Faroe Islands AdminIWasRDM 
keemstar is back
2018-10-11 04:24
#3
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Austria S3nsey 
expected low comment
2018-10-11 04:24
#12
JZFB | 
United States FrostDeezAKA 
Lol
2018-10-11 04:25
#17
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Indonesia Astranesia 
Underrated comment
2018-10-11 04:30
#34
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Brazil vinnyzeraNTC 
ALEX IS A STUPID
2018-10-11 06:37
#57
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Germany B8hoven 
Nugget
2018-10-12 09:37
#50
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Malaysia byaIi 
lol
2018-10-11 12:15
#52
Finland _fAle_ 
Lets get riiight in to the newwws! :D
2018-10-11 14:43
#4
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Italy steven513 
omegalul
2018-10-11 04:24
#5
Sweden Black13777 
xd
2018-10-11 04:24
#6
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United States drobotgamer 
dang
2018-10-11 04:24
#7
jks | 
Australia Lachurs 
He is a god
2018-10-11 04:24
#8
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Canada haroonscape 
slightly more difficult for ence now
2018-10-11 04:24
#19
Australia MrProkda 
but still ez 4 ence
2018-10-11 04:35
#55
shrek | 
World fe_em_deus_dj 
its always ez 4 ence
2018-10-11 19:40
#9
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Panama Gambit_1_Major_NAVI_0 
Who
2018-10-11 04:24
#10
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Australia kTw0 
POGGERS
2018-10-11 04:24
#11
United States hoobit 
Why chrome notification so late
2018-10-11 04:25
#13
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Australia dolebludgernoz 
🦀 KASSAD IS BACK 🦀
2018-10-11 04:25
#56
shrek | 
World fe_em_deus_dj 
who
2018-10-11 19:41
#14
GeT_RiGhT | 
Germany NiP_1_major_FaZe_0_major 
So what
2018-10-11 04:26
#15
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Australia HLTVconfirmator 
aussie aussie aussie
2018-10-11 04:27
#37
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Japan GR8B8M8IR888 
Kick jkam for nifty. I want a full ausi roster :D and myb kassad for spunj cuz hes a fucking legend i love him xD
2018-10-11 07:47
#41
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Indonesia segopecel 
Nifty is not australian
2018-10-11 09:35
#43
World NukestrikE 
first of all nifty isnt australian and secondly nifty SUCKS
2018-10-11 09:52
#16
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Indonesia EvilPolish 
expected, he is a good coach
2018-10-11 04:28
#18
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New Zealand Eauor 
nifty WAS THE PROBLEM
2018-10-11 04:32
#20
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Australia CaZeR01 
+1
2018-10-11 04:37
#22
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Australia ADAWG 
Now he's on an average team that probably won't do anything and renegades have the two most talented OCE players. Definately a win for the renegades with kassad back in town to guide them.
2018-10-11 04:50
#28
Australia Azza2530 
Don't 100% agree... Gratisfaction AWP not as good as Nifty but hopefully Gratisfaction can do better over next few months
2018-10-11 05:09
#30
shroud | 
Australia Hythrex 
Nifty had one good map every 3 months and his IGL'ing was sub-par. Renegades playoffs appearances with new roster: 1/1 Renegades playoffs appearances since May with old roster: Literally 0.
2018-10-11 05:41
#31
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Australia ADAWG 
They were carried by NAF for so long that you din't notice it until he left. Nifty is good when he's on, but when he's off they lose. Also I agree that his IGLing wasn't that good
2018-10-11 05:45
#32
shroud | 
Australia Hythrex 
Yep. Nifty has an insanely high peak, arguably top 3 AWP NA at his peak. He has way more lows though..
2018-10-11 05:52
#39
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Spain JasonRacism 
Nifty might be more flashy but Gratisfaction is a lot more consistent, Consistency is better than having 1 good game every 5
2018-10-11 07:53
#42
jks | 
Australia IceIceIceIceIce 
+1
2018-10-11 09:37
#44
World NukestrikE 
man nifty was freaking horrible, their second worst player. he just had that 1 good map out of 30-40 but thats it.
2018-10-11 09:53
#38
CIS LightningSwarm 
+1
2018-10-11 07:52
#21
shroud | 
Australia Hythrex 
ytb
2018-10-11 04:43
#23
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Australia Xplicid 
NAISE
2018-10-11 04:50
#24
kennyS | 
United States d123aniel2005 
K
2018-10-11 04:52
#25
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Mongolia heartlessteneg 
lmfao like they can do anything now
2018-10-11 04:54
#26
shroud | 
Australia Hythrex 
Well.. Yes they can. Look at the slump they went into when kassad originally left. No playoffs appearances.. nothing.
2018-10-11 05:00
#33
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Mongolia heartlessteneg 
expected from chokeagedes fan
2018-10-11 06:12
#35
shroud | 
Australia Hythrex 
saltiness towards renegades expected from grayhound fan
2018-10-11 06:42
#27
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Other mikecool 
YTB
2018-10-11 05:07
#29
SPUNJ | 
Europe vsebush 
nice
2018-10-11 05:31
#40
gla1ve | 
Greenland Grobiz 
Wtf who is this? And what is "renegades"?????
2018-10-11 08:14
#46
way2sexy | 
Ukraine _KaSmA^ 
skribbl.io/?vNldufiDBpSWQxkfZ6hg
2018-10-11 10:40
#47
Belgium Kniken 
renegades is such a meme team
2018-10-11 10:40
#48
s1mple | 
United States Weskerz 
who?
2018-10-11 11:22
#49
coldzera | 
Brazil Andre_LGP 
ok
2018-10-11 11:55
#51
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Australia Ez_Game_Ez_life 
POG
2018-10-11 14:41
#53
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Germany add_aykeN_ffs 
better keep him, he's good
2018-10-11 14:45
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