Official: kassad returns to Renegades

11/10/2018 - 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:

Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage
Aaron "⁠AZR⁠" Ward
Joakim "⁠jkaem⁠" Myrbostad
Sean "⁠Gratisfaction⁠" Kaiwai
Jay "⁠Liazz⁠" Tregillgas

Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović (coach)

eZ 4 the bois

2018-10-11 04:23

3 replies

2018-10-11 06:50

1 reply

Expected

2018-10-11 09:53

disband in 2 weeks

2018-10-11 19:39

keemstar is back

2018-10-11 04:24

6 replies

expected low comment

Lol

2018-10-11 04:25

Underrated comment

2018-10-11 04:30

ALEX IS A STUPID

2018-10-11 06:37

lol

2018-10-11 12:15

Lets get riiight in to the newwws! :D

2018-10-11 14:43

omegalul

dang

He is a god

slightly more difficult for ence now

2 replies

but still ez 4 ence

2018-10-11 04:35

its always ez 4 ence

2018-10-11 19:40

Who

POGGERS

Why chrome notification so late

🦀 KASSAD IS BACK 🦀

who

2018-10-11 19:41

So what

2018-10-11 04:26

aussie aussie aussie

2018-10-11 04:27

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

Nifty is not australian

2018-10-11 09:35

first of all nifty isnt australian and secondly nifty SUCKS

2018-10-11 09:52

expected, he is a good coach

2018-10-11 04:28

nifty WAS THE PROBLEM

2018-10-11 04:32

10 replies

2018-10-11 04:37

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

8 replies

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

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

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

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