ImpressioN leaves BTRG

23/9/2020 - 11:40

The Singaporean IGL has stepped down from BTRG citing a breach of contract by the organization.

Anthony "⁠ImpressioN⁠" Lim has announced that he is parting ways with BTRG after the Chinese organization breached the terms of their contract. The 24-year-old joined BTRG in March of 2019 shortly after closing a chapter in BOOT-d[S].

ImpressioN averaged a 1.10 rating during his time in BTRG, all the while leading the team and taking on some managerial duties, which eventually ended up being too much for the Singaporean player to handle despite "good performances on a individual level and pretty alright results on a team level," as he put it in his statement.

ImpressioN will take some time off to recover and plan his next steps

"As I'm the only Chinese speaking player in the team, I was basically tasked to be the middleman between the org and the CS:GO team," ImpressioN said, "it was necessary for me to communicate with the org while arranging prac, settling daily tasks/goals for prac, fixing mistakes while maintaining my own personal play time and etc. was really too much of a burden to shoulder."

Things got better with the addition of coach Piyangoon "⁠MYM⁠" Kitisin in July, but ImpressioN still decided he needs some time to recover. "Having to juggle my workload a la Cirque du Soleil was far from productive," he stated, "and personally it has become a form of unnecessary stress that despite me doing what I felt was 'handling it well' it has definitely taken a toll on my mental, physical and emotional state."

ImpressioN didn't give details about matters regarding the breach of contract, but said that "the issues have yet to be fixed despite us working on it together. There has been too many delays and the work efficiency is nonexistent."

ImpressioN ended his missive stating that he is now entering the free agent pool and hopes to remain tied to CS by joining another team as a player, coach or analyst.

BTRG are now:

Hyun-Pyo "⁠XigN⁠" Lee
Kevin "⁠xccurate⁠" Susanto
Kritthee "⁠Geniuss⁠" Sawatmuang
Kevin "⁠Eeyore⁠" Gunawan

Piyangoon "⁠MYM⁠" Kitisin (coach)

woooow thats so sad!

2020-09-23 11:41

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2020-09-23 11:43

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2020-09-23 11:48

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scammed by chinese org rofl

2020-09-23 22:17

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Didn't get the scam part. Feels like everything about China is wrong.

2020-09-23 23:10

nah suckks for them they suck for breaching

2020-09-23 17:01

Very Interesting!

personality

2020-09-23 15:00

jermanz

2020-09-23 16:17

see u in hell

2020-09-23 17:26

let me be first , holy :C

2020-09-23 11:42

who cares

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The whole of Asia does :< We want to be like Brazil and fight for the top too :<

2020-09-23 12:32

only if your top is upside down

2020-09-23 12:34

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If Brazil can fight their way out of their geographical location, why not Asia :D 100 Thieves even managed to make it

2020-09-23 13:15

Tyloo would destroy furia, nocap

2020-09-23 13:33

TyLUL

2020-09-23 13:34

never underestimate the asian people

2020-09-23 20:36

:/ xcurrate to Gen.g EZ top 15

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2020-09-23 12:06

+ oBo

no...... xcurrate so noob, and why would we aim for top 15 only? LOL

2020-09-23 13:14

sorry to disappoint you but xccurate have been playing in valorant tournament with his brother recently

2020-09-23 13:22

Would much rather see XigN there

2020-09-23 13:30

+1 XigN to GenG would be best rostermove 2020

2020-09-23 15:43

+1 he's the most focused and consistent in btrg. geniuss is so inconsistent while both indonesians play in valorant tourneys w f0rsaken n roseau n i forgot the last guy

2020-09-23 17:21

NO!

2020-09-23 15:08

i'd rather pick kaze, splashke, benkai, or even qqgod over xccurate

2020-09-23 19:03

If the orgs werent so lazy and abusive, asian CS might grow, but this isnt the first time asian players get screwed over, really sad

2020-09-23 11:44

C9 or Complexity?

s1mple top 1 2020

2020-09-23 11:45

Xccurate plays for Tyloo before and still impression is the only chinese speaking player?

Tyloo did some crazy things

2020-09-23 11:50

Pretty sure even in Tyloo, xccurate didnt speak much chinese (could also be one of the reason he left tyloo), thus why Bntet was reported igling in three languages

2020-09-23 12:31

bntet with that 3 language igling is the definition of a fucking mad man

+1 the only chinese xcc and bntet knows is very basic and callouts. They can't chat with chinese

2020-09-23 13:53

who cares of asian cs ?

2020-09-23 11:47

asian people

2020-09-23 15:44

+ Gen. G :)

2020-09-23 11:49

Singapore cs Kekw Go make us proud

2020-09-23 14:38

thought Benkai was SG's best player, performing like a beast most of the time even with alecks sometimes dragging the team down

2020-09-23 19:05

sad for him no more 322

2020-09-23 11:51

oh no?

2020-09-23 11:52

Rip Poland CS

That left an impression on me.

2020-09-23 11:53

Unfortunate, hope he can get in a better org and improve still.

2020-09-23 11:54

who???

2020-09-23 12:02

RIP polish scene

2020-09-23 12:08

Who leaves who?

2020-09-23 12:11

that's the news I'm looking for

2020-09-23 12:12

pinoy mens))

2020-09-23 13:19

can you update us where he is now? we hope he is doing really well

2020-09-23 12:20

Who, leaves what? Xd

2020-09-23 12:28

Who leaves what ?

who cars

2020-09-23 12:30

Our star!

the core was honestly pretty good for asian cs level, too bad theu cant find another two good players

2020-09-23 12:33

+1 XigN ImpressioN xccurate was really decent, should've just signes jinx and lakia when they went off lucid dreams

2020-09-23 15:48

Now get rid of eeeyore and get 2 solid players wherever you can. And 2021 might be decent year for this org. Or try to sell good players...

2020-09-23 12:37

oh no

2020-09-23 12:44

i'm not impressed

Nobody cares

2020-09-23 12:53

hahahaha xccurate and eeyore playing too much valorant and impression got fed up due to their attitude. I am pretty sure.

2020-09-23 13:01

Who? No impression of this guy

2020-09-23 13:04

he will join c9

2020-09-23 13:08

didn't leave a good impression

toxic leman was my worst esea experience to date. Rip ago

2020-09-23 13:28

Wrong thread bro?

2020-09-23 17:57

I think hltv fucked up

2020-09-23 18:27

C9 comfirmed

2020-09-23 13:44

Noooo.. he was a very important piece to the team :((

2020-09-23 13:51

I don't think the rest of the roster will stay for long. Impression is the one that assemble them together. Sadly, currently in SEA tournament scene valorant growth seem better than csgo. It won't be long players jump the ship like Korea and there'll be China and Mongolia left for Asia. Valve and big TO has been neglecting asia region. 4 team participant for tourney is a joke.

2020-09-23 14:23

+1 they only invite the same teams every time, so teams like BTRG get so little chance to actually play in a high profile tourney

2020-09-23 15:49

wait who????

2020-09-23 14:24

gl. Promising line-up. -xccurate +f0rsaken -genius +freeman -eyeore +machinegun

2020-09-23 14:25

Even though I love machinegun he’s not that good anymore

2020-09-23 15:42

OneThree♥️

2020-09-23 17:06

Honestly I’m just a massive fan of captainMo so I just like all the teams he plays for. So I have to change it to TSG

2020-09-24 18:08

im deguoren fan of cncs.. i love LVG for beeing clean always (no matchfix no cheats) and im a big onethree fan. may i add you on steam and we have a talk?

2020-09-24 20:55

Who?

2020-09-23 14:50

who?

2020-09-23 14:52

the organization violated its own contract kek

2020-09-23 15:03

could have a chance in na/tier 2 eu teams, 1.10 rating while igling is pretty good even in asian scene

2020-09-23 15:47

He is insane, he will find a new team with ez. Building a team around the core of ImpressioN, XigN and xccurate would still be great for me, but I understand his decision. Now BTRG should rebuild around XigN and xccurate.

2020-09-23 15:51