smooya, Spinx to trial for c0ntact

24/8/2020 - 20:58

The former Chaos and BIG member will take up secondary AWPing duties alongside Otto "⁠ottoNd⁠" Sihvo.

c0ntact are set to trial Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield and Lotan "⁠Spinx⁠" Giladi as replacements for Luka "⁠emi⁠" Vuković and Georgi "⁠SHiPZ⁠" Grigorov, in a move first reported by DBLTAP and later confirmed by a tweet from smooya.

The British player's arrival on the roster signals a return to active play, with the 21-year-old having become a free agent following his release from Chaos in March after he was unable to attain a P-1 visa due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Two months later, it was reported that smooya and Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer were set to join the Mongolian roster of TIGER, but the organisation backtracked on their plans after their current roster gained renewed faith from management following a victory over TYLOO to secure the ESL One: Road to Rio Asia title.

smooya will make his return on c0ntact

Spinx is a relatively unknown quantity at the professional level, last taking part in the second Nine to Five tournament with Tikitakan, where he averaged a 1.17 rating against the likes of Syman, Illuminar, and ALTERNATE aTTaX. He also currently leads the August leaderboard in FPL, becoming the latest talent to join a team partially based on his plaudits on the platform.

c0ntact have struggled to find results in recent months, exiting Flashpoint 1 in ninth place near the start of the year and more recently failing to qualify for cs_summit 6 Europe after being knocked out of the Regional Qualifier. Additional lacklustre placements in two Home Sweet Home Cups and the FunSpark ULTI Europe qualifier are results that the team will hope to improve on with the addition of two new players.

Going forward, c0ntact's roster should be:

Rokas "⁠EspiranTo⁠" Milasauskas
Otto "⁠ottoNd⁠" Sihvo
Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer
Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield (trial)
Lotan "⁠Spinx⁠" Giladi (trial)

Neil "⁠NeiL_M⁠" Murphy (head coach)
Daniel "⁠djL⁠" Narancic (coach)

nice

2020-08-24 20:59

12 replies

Spinx <3

2020-08-24 21:17

8 replies

Spinbotx

2020-08-24 21:58

7 replies

Isreal CS top 1 soon

2020-08-24 22:11

6 replies

as soon as nertz is out of the country

2020-08-24 23:50

3 replies

Yes Israeli niko lol

2020-08-25 01:32

is it even a country ?

2020-08-25 18:28

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Savage

2020-08-25 23:38

Since when lul

2020-08-25 04:15

I said soon

2020-08-25 11:04

Why -shipz he's so good...

2020-08-24 22:09

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too good for this shit contact

2020-08-24 23:19

Yeah:(

2020-08-25 08:14

shouldve kept shipz instead of 30yo snappi while its covid and coaches can talk all time, during that let someone from their team kinda get to IGLing a bit imo worth the risk because the roster would be sick

2020-08-25 13:00

Shipz is trash online, they wouldn't have achieved anything with him on the team anyway, cuz they'd lose qualifiers.

2020-08-25 16:00

PogU

lol

NICE

C00l

2020-08-24 21:00

SICK lineup tbh, Spinx is god flameZ should get good team as well

OttoNd better Awper tho...

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smooya is 2nd awp,he said it.

2020-08-24 21:31

behind spinx he said

2020-08-25 01:11

Fairly comparable I would say, different style awpers though. I could see Smooya being main on his best map though.

2020-08-24 22:12

OttoNd better rifle also.

2020-08-25 15:13

dobt think so. i have only watched their games vs higher tier competition and there smooya seems stronger imo.

2020-08-25 21:21

2020-08-24 21:01

finally smooya has a team, good luck to C0ntact in the future

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finally emi and letn1 doesn't have a team*

2020-08-24 22:04

Well to be fair with emi he was swapped from coach to player when nexa and hunter left. Why it took this long to replace him idk man :()

2020-08-24 22:15

Now he's not even coach... Sad story

2020-08-25 03:12

Eemi did allright imo. No need to hate him.

2020-08-25 10:49

smoooooooooya

Gl, Spinx!

Whoever made that thread earlier, holy shit you're spot on.

Me..? I dont think so though xd

2020-08-24 21:11

Thanks mens)))

2020-08-24 21:21

no, thank u))

2020-08-24 23:42

Very unexpected but Great move

Expected move

2020-08-24 21:02

spinx gj!

2020-08-24 21:03

Rip

ez 4 uk cs

2020-08-24 21:07

cool

Isreal Cs keeps improvin.

2020-08-24 21:04

SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYA Finally a team , though he is too good for Contact ...

2020-08-24 21:05

too good for c0ntact are you srsly dude the team has bad rankings cuz they are dealing with roaster problems LUL

they havent been relevant ever since G2 stole Hunter and Nexa from Valiance , that was a long time ago.

2020-08-24 21:23

Perhaps because they were playing 3v5 all the time.

2020-08-25 12:10

THE KING IS BACK I LOOK AROUND IT'S NOT THE SAME

ez back to top30

-snappi +flameZ plzplzplz

2020-08-24 21:06

Who igl?

2020-08-24 21:18

Now this is a team capable of reaching top 20 or higher for sure

2 boys got triggered already xD

Read rofl? It literally says "The former Chaos and BIG member will take up secondary AWPing duties alongside Otto "⁠ottoNd⁠" Sihvo." ??

2020-08-24 21:10

"The former Chaos and BIG member will take up secondary AWPing duties alongside Otto "⁠ottoNd⁠" Sihvo."

Who is Igl in Contact ?

snappi obviously otherwise he should have been out instead of shipz xD

2020-08-24 21:12

probably snappi

2020-08-24 21:13

Up for me Snappi is bad player and Ships is better

2020-08-24 21:30

Ofc snappi

2020-08-24 23:02

ffs emi finally gone, this team can get back into form

looks interesting

ACTUALLY HUGE OMG SPINX IN CONTACT??? THIS IS SOOO GOOD HOOLY

2020-08-24 21:14

2 AWPers ??

2020-08-24 21:15

smOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2020-08-24 21:16

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2020-08-24 21:40

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2020-08-24 22:29

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2020-08-24 22:37

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

2020-08-24 22:51

smOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2020-08-25 01:40

thie KappaPride

2020-08-25 04:41

wtf

2020-08-25 12:57

Pog

Glad for spinx, But why smooya? Ottond god awper

Good for spinx Btw i want see spinx flamez and anarkez in the same team

Our israel friends said anarkez doesn't want to play with another Israel Players.

2020-08-25 03:13

fuck , it's sad

2020-08-25 19:15

SPINX! LET'S GOOOO although I don't feel like smooya as a secondary awper is a good choice, but it's nice to see him back.

why would they let go of shipz

+1 he is so good i think he will back when smooya trial expires

2020-08-24 21:26

do you know why they dropped shipz? he seemed to be doing ok so i dont really get - shipz???

2020-08-24 21:54

shipz still in twitter has officialy playing for c0ntact.

2020-08-24 22:00

because they are on trial none of them are officially in yet

2020-08-25 00:42

I'm just telling that to them cuz they think that c0ntact dropped shipz

2020-08-25 00:48

Espiranto saved, thanks god

spinx was very good on fpl, I hope he can prove himself on LAN. Good Luck Brother

2020-08-24 21:24

He played for Tikitakan and he was also good in official matches

2020-08-24 21:29

I think that tikitakan had only online matches or i'm wrong ?

no, ur right, they are just a mix team that were playing like couple of tourneys, not more, but they did upset good teams such avez and syman, with spinx and flamez carrying

2020-08-25 22:01

Yeah Spinx has really good chance of proving him self now in this even cuz there is some decent teams in Malta Vibes 9

2020-08-25 22:35

Ok this lineup I can get behind.

2020-08-24 21:25

Gl spinx

bad move for smooya

2020-08-24 21:32

POGGERS LETSS GOOOO

2020-08-24 21:33

rofl smooya and espiranto on one team, toxic overload imminent 2 weeks max

+1 lol

2020-08-24 22:28

POGU

Nice move. Good looking future for c0ntact

2020-08-24 21:35

Let's go spinx

2020-08-24 21:36

They remove wesg winner and mvp for tier 7 israeli player who is level 9 in faceit???? Actualy good move

2020-08-24 21:38

wesg is crap anyway

2020-08-24 21:39

+++ I agree

2020-08-24 21:41

yeah, I'm also disappointed

2020-08-24 23:22

Tier 7, level 9 ? "...where he averaged a 1.17 rating against the likes of Syman, Illuminar, and ALTERNATE aTTaX. He also currently leads the August leaderboard in FPL,..." people on HLTV can't read

2020-08-24 23:48

2020-08-25 23:25

Noice

spinx seems like a great pickup

2020-08-24 21:44

smooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooya

SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYA

2020-08-25 10:46

oh god lets go

Smooooooooooooooooooooooooooyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Nooooooo snappi sucks, shipz > snappi

2020-08-24 21:49

Snappi is IGL, shipz was rifler and 2nd awper and i guess shipz has some problems that's why they didn't participate in last malta vibes.

2020-08-24 21:57

shipz was lurker and support, always being the anchor and used to bait

maybe he was in last matches cuz i didn't watch them

2020-08-24 22:10

Shipz God will miss you

2020-08-24 21:53

i guess shipz has some problems that's why they didn't participate in last malta vibes.

hmm I don't know also

2020-08-24 23:21

deadly

2020-08-24 21:55

Nice!

2020-08-24 21:56

Finally they're doing some changes.

idk who spinx is, but definitely a good move for smooya

2020-08-24 22:02

-spinx +SHiPZ and very nice move

-snappi, + flamez, because spinx was igl in Tiki

wE dOnT NeEd sMooYa SnaPpI BecaUeSe wE aRE BeST iN tHe AsiA. -erkaSt eliminated by Beyond in rmr

erkASSt lulw

How good is djl as coach? :O

just a question. is smooya toxic or unlucky? what is the main reasom that he is not finding any good team? He is decent tier 2 awper as I see

2020-08-24 22:14

Unlucky bro, he is decent with chaos back in NA then suddenly covid coming up then he need to leave the team

2020-08-24 22:21

lol 'unlucky' smooya refused to play in major for BIG because gob didn't allow him to be main awp and fucked over his team completely because it was after roster lock and they had to play major with stand-in

2020-08-25 13:10

toxic af

2020-08-25 13:12

yay

2020-08-24 22:16

GL smoo <3

2020-08-24 22:18

Nice firepower upgrade

2020-08-24 22:20

glgl

Is rael?

2020-08-24 22:22

c0ntact finally doing something

2020-08-24 22:23

spinx god

2020-08-24 22:24

Spinx good one smooya secondary awper is bad one

2020-08-24 22:27

Smooya is on fire with ak just watch out for him.

2020-08-24 23:09

Smooya playing with Snappi after all...

2020-08-24 22:30

So many flags, its cute team

2020-08-24 22:34

Shipz > snappi ... flameZ > espiranto

2020-08-24 22:36

“Shipz> Snappi“ No sh*t shipz is rifler and snappi is igl you found two players who to compare.

honestly its wasted talent

wtff

2020-08-24 22:56

shipz is a great player though, he should still be there

2020-08-24 23:07

Shipz is probably still in team but on bench cuz he has some problems I guess.

2020-08-24 23:08

2020-08-24 23:16

+1 for removing emi but ShiPZ I have nothing to say

2020-08-24 23:18

Let’s go smooooya

smooya should consider switching to Valorant. CSGO is so fkin dead and he just waste his time on those t3 teams.

You mean American cs is dead

2020-08-25 15:04

EZ4SPINX

2020-08-24 23:23

Good lineup

2020-08-24 23:30

shipz is great I hope he is going to join a better team

2020-08-24 23:36

Shipz is getting removed? That's a bit of a surprise to me since he was one of their better players. I understand removing emi though. He just isn't as good as everyone else and you can't have more than 1 weak link (frag wise) on a team.

2020-08-24 23:45

Thx god im c0ntact fan for a long time

2020-08-24 23:53

Very happy for Spinx, he deserves it! But why -Shipz? I would've done Espiranto since he's known for being toxic and being a bad teammate.

2020-08-25 00:02

Another one who thinks Espi is toxic, you listen too much of one side nukkye has biggest ego in lithuanian csgo

2020-08-25 01:14

I actually think this can be a great team !

2020-08-25 00:09

good team actually. i hope they make top 15

2020-08-25 00:24

This team actually looks decent.

2020-08-25 00:26

Two awpers?

2020-08-25 00:37

I hope Espiranto will come back to form, loved watching him in Imperial and CR4ZY

2020-08-25 00:49

He just needs the fire in team and who believes in him and he will be beast once again.

2020-08-25 01:15

spinx can make any team look good c0ntact looks fire rn

2020-08-25 00:50

2020-08-25 01:24

Funny how FPL became the new tool to find replacements for pro teams. Hopefully Face It is there, imagine having to count on Volvo and matchmaking

2020-08-25 01:26

FPL = Faceit PRO League you think that it was made to not be scouted if you can play with pro players ?

2020-08-25 02:14

Where is spinx from?

2020-08-25 02:23

Israel

2020-08-25 04:47

Where?

2020-08-25 21:54

I wonder if its better to keep emi as an IGL and let snappi go xd But anyway, i love to see smooya back on the scene! Smooooooooooooooooooooyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

2020-08-25 03:15

emi is probably going 3rd coach xD

Interesting mens ))

2020-08-25 03:47

+smoo +spinx YAY -shipz and not -otto or -espi hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

2020-08-25 04:17

Shipz had more downs than ups in his latest matches.

2020-08-25 04:46

#180

2020-08-25 09:07

Shipz has been literally trash recently

2020-08-25 06:25

Roles don't work though. I'd be screaming for them to cut snappi if they'd signed a replacement. You're not going to fit otto and smooya into the same team

Ok so as long as they can beat Dignitas

2020-08-25 05:09

kick shipz big mistake

2020-08-25 07:34

I dont think smooya is optimal unless they want to run double awp. Ottond is very versatile with different weapons tho but then again smooya said he will be secondary? I dont see this working

2020-08-25 08:35

Spinx & flamez are awsome, played amazing together with TikiTaken. gl

2020-08-25 08:57

glad to see shipz untied from bot team, -botbye + shipz, unfortunately espiranto still remain lul

2020-08-25 09:18

What a lineup! GL

2020-08-25 09:49

On paper it looks great, but honestly there are lot of potential weaknesses. Can captain handle their toxicity. Smooya only secondary awp? Communication? Let's see... might work quite well, or really terribly. They need some time now for sure.

2020-08-25 10:53

Espiranto and smooya LUL

2020-08-25 11:07

Kewl, but shipz is a great player.

2020-08-25 11:06

Smooya without the awp is gonna be a disaster. He had average stats with awp and being a star, without it he is gonna go full bot mode

2020-08-25 12:13

Average stats with awp? Which smooya have you been watching?

2020-08-25 12:48

The one in 2018 and 2019. You can look his stats up, they are pretty fucking average, mate.

2020-08-25 14:08

You mean the ones where he played in BIG as a rifler?

2020-08-25 14:19

First of all, he was not a rifler but an AWP, second of all there isnt any fucking year where he does not have average/atrocious stats. Stop being so fucking delusional you numbnut.

2020-08-25 14:21

stop rekt him broo. lol

2020-08-25 20:57

Finally kicked those noobs

2020-08-25 12:46

Happy for my man smooooooooya, hope this lineup lasts more than a week for him

2020-08-25 13:03

need kick out espi because that such young talent wastes time with this trash team

2020-08-25 16:21

Really cool lineup now but -shipz is shit. Anyway smooya > shipz This roster can be in #30

2020-08-25 20:56

2020-08-25 23:26