Valiance snap up trio

3/11/2018 - 20:26

Valiance have confirmed an overhaul of their CS:GO squad with the signings of Rokas "⁠EspiranTo⁠" Milasauskas, Nemanja "⁠nexa⁠" Isaković and Otto "⁠ottoNd⁠" Sihvo.

EspiranTo and nexa have been both recruited from Imperial, while ottoNd has been snatched from HAVU after being close to joining the DreamHack Summer champions.

Making way for the trio will be longtime member Luka "⁠emi⁠" Vuković, who will transition to an analyst role within the organisation, and the team's previous recruits, Aleksandar "⁠jayzaR⁠" Zarkovic and Aleksa "⁠Impulse⁠" Stankić, who have been moved to the bench.

EspiranTo is one of Valiance's newest recruits

With these changes, Valiance hope to establish themselves "as one of the top 16 teams in the world". The Serbian side peaked at 26th in the world in April after qualifying for DreamHack Masters Marseille but have since dropped more than 30 spots in the ranking.

During their eight-month stint under Imperial, EspiranTo and nexa won Copenhagen Games and DreamHack Summer, helping the team to cement a place in the top 30 for ten weeks.

ottoNd, on the other hand, had been with HAVU since September 2017, when he was recruited from iGame.com. He helped the team to win several tournaments, most notably back-to-back Nordic Championship and Finnish eSports League seasons.

With these changes, Valiance now have:

Nestor "⁠LETN1⁠" Tanić
Nemanja "⁠huNter-⁠" Kovač
Nemanja "⁠nexa⁠" Isaković
Rokas "⁠EspiranTo⁠" Milasauskas
Otto "⁠ottoNd⁠" Sihvo

Aleksandar "⁠jayzaR⁠" Zarkovic (backup)
Aleksa "⁠Impulse⁠" Stankić (backup)

Good luck!!!

2018-11-03 20:27

38 replies

expected trash comment from trash user

20 replies

ez for Otto "ottoNd" Sihvo

2018-11-03 20:28

7 replies

6 replies

Ez for HuiChul "Garfield" Jung

2018-11-03 20:43

5 replies

ez for Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett

2018-11-03 21:09

4 replies

Ez for Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer

2018-11-03 21:13

3 replies

Ez for Manuel “SolEk” Zeindler

2018-11-03 21:41

2 replies

Ez for Kenny "kennySaveme" Schrub

2018-11-04 08:00

1 reply

EZ4Walkover

2018-11-10 09:28

Just jealous that he is fame and you not

2018-11-03 20:29

11 replies

+111111111

2018-11-03 20:31

expected trash comment from another trash user ntnt

2018-11-03 20:37

mad

2018-11-03 20:41

+(-1)

2018-11-03 20:52

Expected from would like asian

2018-11-03 20:53

2018-11-03 20:56

nt hitler

cmon thats not fair :D

2018-11-04 13:37

There is only one chance i can play the hitler card xD

2018-11-04 14:13

2018-11-03 20:47

2018-11-03 20:51

Always first.

fan of SK XD

SK was a good team when it had eu roster. Big was never a good team

2018-11-03 20:32

big is a good team right now, sk doesnt even have a roster nt

2018-11-03 20:35

+1 rekt this noob xD

0/8

2018-11-03 20:39

they were fucking bots xD

2018-11-03 21:53

nice

Man, this line-up have future, they have very skilled players, especially ottoNd, EspiranTo and HunTer. I would say they’re better tha MiBuur

+1 but to be fair, mibr is the worst team in the world at the moment XD

MiBR Pro team Pick one

2018-11-03 20:49

WHY bench impulse?

2018-11-03 22:15

I was thinking exactly the same.

2018-11-04 05:15

me too

2018-11-04 17:15

Gl Hope they'll make better that what imperial did (even they did pretty well)

2018-11-03 22:46

Imperial V2

ofc

Nicee

time for espiranto to kill another team

other guys are decent pick ups though

holy shit

glgl

budget option Faze

-ottond +anyone on bench

Best player on the tiem

2018-11-03 21:19

who&why?

gl with espiranto diva

Ez Man's Not Hot v2

2018-11-03 20:30

NOOOOOO

hmm not so sure about -impulse

should be good, dont know about LETN1 but other players so much talanted

Serbia Nestor "LETN1" Tanić Bosnia and Herzegovina Nemanja "huNter" Kovač Serbia Nemanja "nexa" Isaković Lithuania Rokas "EspiranTo" Milasauskas Finland Otto "ottoNd" Sihvo LEGIJA NiKo nex Kvik allu mouz v2 lol

but nex is german?

i know but nexa is one of the best players in serbia so i couldnt find another player so i checked his nick in game and without "a" his nick is nex

poggers roster

2018-11-03 20:33

Whos gonna take the role of 'bad' player?

better question is who is gonna take the role of “good” player

How's that mr wise guy

2018-11-03 23:08

dont really think the team will work with these players, most of them seem inexperienced, but my bet will be otto taking the L and hunter being good

2018-11-04 00:01

nexa's probably willing to take the L. Ottond has also been an igl in the past i think he's also willing to take some challenging positions for the team.

2018-11-03 23:09

still tier 3

ROFL

RIP Serbian CS

2018-11-03 20:34

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3 Serbs in team still though i dislike espigayanto

2018-11-03 20:36

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2018-11-03 20:40

9 replies

3, i guess you are autistic

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can u name 3?

2018-11-03 20:42

Hunter is Serb

2 nationalities? and how about NiKo? btw love how you call someone autistic for not knowing someone and say that EspiranTo is toxic :DDDDDDDD

2018-11-03 20:46

Bosnia is Serbia, Serbian land NiKo is serbian ye u are

huNter is not a bosnian liquipedia.net/counterstrike/HuNter NiKo and huNter are Serbians form Bosnia.

Wow you are smart dude Like im fighting with some american dude that doesnt know europe history at all

2018-11-03 21:01

it says Bosnian of Serbian descent. so is Tabsen Polish then?

2018-11-03 21:22

1. Bosnians are muslims, I dont think Nemanja is a muslim name 2. write "Republika Srpska" in google you will find that There is a country in Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its Republika srpska (Polulation: 1.3 Milion, land mass" 50% of Bosnia and Herzegovina) huNter is from Bejeljina its 2nd largest city in Republika srpska (5th in Bosnia)

2018-11-03 22:13

isnt he like super toxic? gl to him beeing toxic with balkan ppl i guess LUL

Yeah I agree, kick espiranto asap, no matter his skill, hes just cocky bitch I agree

he has loba on his side no problem :DD

Thanos?

Nice

Impulse > ottoNd

Rip imperial :D

So basically Diva EspiranTo destroyed Imperial first just to leave the team a few weeks later? Good job, kiddo!

-espiranto

ooo good lineup

valiance t1/2 now

desperado haha

This team has potential. But im sad about impulse he is really good awper and he can use rifle good aswell

DJoXiC was also good maybe they gonna create another team with NANO,Imp and Dj

2018-11-03 20:54

Lol that ain't happening. They hate each other.

damn :(

2018-11-03 21:24

You don't know about the drama? Damn. There was a beef between all of them (except huNter), saying that NENO was not attending practises, not being on time and that he was toxic. On the other side, NENO said that he tried everything as an IGL but things didn't work out as he planned and he dropped the IGL role to LETN1 (I believe), but things got worse, until he got kicked, by which he found out via HLTV/Twitter. TLDR: They will never play again together (probably), and if they do, they'll suck major ass, because they're all toxic cunts. That's the Balkan - South EU scene for you. Probably the region with the most talent (not enough money to find and develop it tho), but also one of the most toxic.

2018-11-04 01:17

so rip then but some big potencial's can go into EU mix squad

2018-11-04 01:31

hahah wut Impulse is a beast

2018-11-03 20:44

ye but they had to make space for ottonD awp

2018-11-03 20:50

In balkan teams are about personal relationship between player. I think nexa doesnt like him. Thats the only reasonable way to explain his choice.

2018-11-03 21:05

'his choice'? I don't really think he would just go 'sorry you have to bench this guy if I'm joining' and somehow valiance going 'oh ok everything for you mr nexa'

2018-11-03 21:43

he is the best serbian player atm and that's how the things are going here :D

2018-11-03 21:58

with hard work maybe can reach top20~

who plz? go buyout niko so u can fail twice hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhahahahaahahhah

Espiranto to make Yugoslavia great again

GL to them.

2018-11-03 20:45

ez for nemanjas

Is otto decent? Someone? Jay was an ok i guess. Also, this is by far best lineup for serbian players to build

2018-11-03 20:48

decent for tier3 level, not sure that he will show same performance on t2 level

top 30 team nice

Holy shit. This might actually be a really good team. Tier 2 ofc tho.

2018-11-03 21:00

-LET1N +jayzar

2018-11-03 21:02

LET1N IGL and good player

2018-11-03 21:57

Good coach and decent top 10 team complete

2018-11-03 21:03

Unfortunately kassad left to go back to renegades

2018-11-03 21:29

i quite like this line up there is potential is espiranto isnt a cunt the whole time

2018-11-03 21:08

is it me or that move makes no sense whatsoever?Espiranto and nexa both have great potential and are making step backwards with those guys..jeez

Impulse is probably as good as ottond, quite stupid move. Now they will communicate in English and suck

2018-11-03 21:15

ah yes the serbian espiranto

2018-11-03 21:25

such a skilled lineup

2018-11-03 21:18

i give it 3 months max

2018-11-03 21:20

nice lineup

2018-11-03 21:28

so what do you think, does this roster have the potential to reach top16 ?

2018-11-03 21:30

probably depends if they do well early on or full tilt since their expectations are high. for imperial roster they wanted top 20, reached it and started making roster moves to go higher. biggest question is ottond since he's more aggressive awper but atleast this roster is stronger on paper than the one with pronax and hadji.

2018-11-03 22:20

I would put my money on it, all they need is not to burn out from pressure to do it to early. top10 potential for sure

2018-11-03 22:25

Wtf espiranto Lithuanians are all snakes

Omg wtf just happened

2018-11-03 21:32

yea fuck this roster

NeKo

2018-11-03 21:42

and imperial ?

2018-11-03 21:52

disband

0 players because hadji was released and these 2 sold. neil_m (their coach) stayed with org in a different position (probably management). I guess they could sign scream's team

2018-11-03 22:31

Get rid of the Finn.

2018-11-03 21:59

racist

2018-11-03 22:02

he meant karrigan

2018-11-03 22:10

finn can make serbian cs great again!

since otton is finnish that means that it is 1/5th ez for valiance

2018-11-03 22:23

JayzaR their best player, nice one!

2018-11-03 22:05

it is also known that many swedish teams when looking for talent overlooked him although he puts up very good stats, even in tier3 (old fnatic academy)

2018-11-03 22:06

He has had a lot of problems with his attitude, no one wants to play with him. At his best he really is very good, can't deny that.

2018-11-04 05:40

hunter > jayzar espiranto > jayzar nexa > jayzar letn1 igl, ottond awp.

2018-11-03 22:11

WTF?

2018-11-03 22:01

now 2 Nemanja`s?

2018-11-03 22:04

No comment mentioning they'll have to start communicating in English, gonna take a couple of months to see their true potential

2018-11-03 23:15

ha its true.. thats a weakness :) But Nexa and Espiranto bring enough to make the switch. Nexa knew its impossible to make a powerful team only from Yugoslav scene so thats why.

2018-11-04 05:48

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2018-11-04 02:01

Wtf

2018-11-04 07:43