kassad leaves Cloud9

28/12/2020 - 19:59

The Serbian coach is out of the Colossus after less than four months.

Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović has left Cloud9, the organization has announced. According to General Manager Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer, the decision to part ways was a result of a stylistic clash between the coach and in-game leader Alex "⁠ALEX⁠" McMeekin.

"No one is or was at fault and there is absolutely no bad blood between him, the org, or players," HenryG stressed. "It simply felt like there was somewhat of a stylistic clash between the IGL [ALEX] and kassad's game, leading to a few too many compromises from a strategic point of view."

The Colossus is missing a coach four months into the project

At the moment, Cloud9 don't have a replacement lined up, with the Brit admitting that options are limited after ESIC banned 37 coaches in September as a result of their use of the infamous coaching bug, and once again calling on candidates to get in touch with him.

"I am still deciding which path to follow regarding the position," HenryG has stated. "Considering the recent controversy around the role, my options are rather limited. Also, I think coaching is still a bit of a dark art we haven't quite harnessed when it comes to CS:GO. With that said, I am absolutely willing to take a gamble on someone looking to prove themselves at the very top."

kassad had been a part of Cloud9 since early September as one of the first two pieces of the organization's new CS:GO division dubbed the "Colossus", alongside the General Manager. He helped assemble the rest of the squad over the course of September and went on to coach them at four tournaments in the last month of the 2020 season, as the team most notably placed in the top four at BLAST Premier Fall Showdown and made it to the playoffs at DreamHack Masters Winter.

With the coach's departure, Cloud9 look as follows:

Alex "⁠ALEX⁠" McMeekin
Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker
William "⁠mezii⁠" Merriman
Ricky "⁠floppy⁠" Kemery
Patrick "⁠es3tag⁠" Hansen

2020-12-28 20:00

24 replies

cloud 9 already disbanding as expected

15 replies

+1 but why didn't I get a notification wtf

2020-12-28 20:01

6 replies

I got two and both of them were late wtf

5 replies

yeah now I got the first one wtf hltv

2020-12-28 20:02

4 replies

my notifications is later than brazil 3rd major

2020-12-29 02:05

3 replies

What a blunder !!

2020-12-29 06:48

2 replies

faze clan should acquire this guy

2020-12-29 06:56

1 reply

Hope so, they anyway need a coach

2020-12-29 07:57

2020-12-28 20:20

+1 but why did it take so long wtf

2020-12-28 21:24

sfsfsf

2020-12-29 01:33

Alex "Two-Faced" Toledo

2020-12-29 03:52

NA cs without brazil lmao

2020-12-29 11:57

NA CS IN GENERAL KEK

2020-12-30 18:21

2020-12-29 12:43

yep

2021-01-03 22:06

he did the correct thing

You can edit comments btw

2020-12-28 20:10

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

WHAT A BLUNDER

2020-12-28 20:34

WHATS HE DONE THAT FOR?

2020-12-28 20:52

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2020-12-28 23:35

what? already? I feel like this change was related to the new AU team with jkaem

22 replies

2020-12-28 20:05

Kinda reminds mibr's story with taco and zews

2020-12-28 20:29

+1 lmao

2020-12-28 20:41

would be weird considering they didn't part on the best of terms

17 replies

If a shady Russian org offers you insane salary then you'll quickly forget those issues and work through it

2020-12-28 21:15

14 replies

cloud9 probably offers enough anyway, money isn't always everything

2020-12-28 22:20

13 replies

Money is everything

2020-12-29 01:01

12 replies

Not at all. Some people have bigger values and reasons to live.

2020-12-29 01:08

8 replies

Those values can be easily bought with money xD I mean if had 100 million in the bank I would have 500 girlfriends but sadly I don’t have 1 girlfriend or €100

2020-12-29 01:22

You don't get it, there are people who don't sell out and see that money only brings happiness temporarily. You never met honorable people in your life? What lessons did your parents teach you?

2020-12-29 01:28

Money is power and freedom, with that power and freedom you can make meaningful change in the world. Why would you not take it? lol

2020-12-29 08:52

"Lol", that's you and me, alright, two. What about that guy above and the millions of others? Do you imply this way of thinking is common for all those whose lives revolve around money? Even for those whose don't? If you can keep the track of a man's one true desire and filter them out for sacrificial and greedy, I'll disappear like a father in the wind.

2020-12-29 10:04

The fuck would you want 500 girlfriends for? That’s actually really sad man

2020-12-29 01:35

I agree, thats way too many. 480 should be enough.

2020-12-29 20:42

Fun times xD

2020-12-30 12:50

+1... dont even try to explain something to american :D

2020-12-29 11:59

faker for example stuck with SKT despite getting blank checks from all over the world because he cared more about the competition than anything else

2020-12-29 03:48

I've turned down jobs making a good deal more than I'm making now because I knew I'd be miserable doing them. Money is important, but as long as you have what you need, do what you love.

2020-12-29 05:54

+1 plus people only watch for the final number, but if you need to move to an expensive city/country for example, that money is gonna worth way less.

2020-12-29 08:24

Told you :')

2020-12-29 16:26

damn son :D

2020-12-29 17:21

possible. the boys are getting back together

2020-12-28 21:32

That was quick

2020-12-29 06:21

Rip

FaZe +kassad

7 replies

+1 broky told me .

can confirm i am broky

ahahaha

2020-12-28 20:12

Love you

2020-12-28 21:44

WTF I’m broky Nt fake broky

2020-12-28 23:09

Nt fake broky I am olof can confirm broky sleeping

2020-12-29 04:55

2020-12-28 23:53

FaZe +kassad POG

And Liquid +YNK

2020-12-28 20:50

Me gusta

LMAO

2020-12-28 22:17

Extremum incoming

c9 elmapuddy?

I was thinking the same.. That would be cool

2020-12-28 21:48

well, c9 hired elmapuddy before as analyst... there's that connection there!

2020-12-29 02:18

oh yeah i forgot about that

2020-12-29 08:42

clowns

bruhh rip :( still rooting for C9

clown9 going full clown

leaves to coach extremum

Could he be going back to the boys?

Could be that Peca FPX cs/valorant gm wants him.

2020-12-28 20:14

Just say fpx

2020-12-28 21:17

saying more detailed bcs Peca is serbian and he's friends with Kassad.

2020-12-28 23:06

2020-12-29 08:39

FPX bought devilwalk, plus devilwalk has good chemistry with the players

2020-12-29 04:21

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

KEKW KEKW

KEKW

Prank9

lmaooo

AHAHAHAHHAHAHA

actual lol

Kassad to Faze incoming!

Might be a possibility, but I think it’s more likely that he rejoins his boys in extremum

2020-12-28 20:03

Yeah specially with Niko no longer in Faze and G2 love their coach too much to replace him

2020-12-28 20:13

AHAHAHAHAHAH

wait what.....

kassad to liquid pls

CO LUL SSUS

????????????? -content-

rip c9

good

Lol the project is falling apart already

respect for kassad.

ahahahahahah

WElp... That was a long run

FaZe kassad?

I liked this guy as a coach... F :/

Wow, who would have guessed that Colossus become Co-Loses

Losses even sounds like lossus why wouldn’t you just keep the second s?

2020-12-28 20:49

Ruski brain

2020-12-28 20:54

lmaoo

2020-12-28 20:04

clown9 they waste a lot of money kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Cloud 9 ready to disband .....The owner is homeless after buying these expensive noobs

2020-12-29 00:18

JOKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKeee

rofl

C OMEGALUL L OMEGALUL SS OMEGALUL S

KKKKKKKKKKKKK

"clash between the IGL and Kassad..." Clown9 in full force.

wot?

2020-12-28 20:06

Kassad to rejoin the boys? -AZR -Jkaem -Liazz -Twistzz -Gratisfaction -Kassad

Maybe

2020-12-28 20:08

-twistzz +INS or Dexter The latter if you don’t mind raping AUS scene of its decent IGL’s

2020-12-29 01:37

that was fast

FaZe kassad

Kassad is amazing coach! Go to New GODSENT roster, approved!

2020-12-28 20:07

Devilwalk is pretty good. No need to replace

2020-12-28 21:20

trash coach

dont say that man. that is unrespectful

2020-12-28 20:15

sry

2020-12-28 20:58

Wtf hahahahahaha

FaZe Kassad? (As coach)

as player mens)))

xddddd

Look like he is gonna reunite with 100T guys. So far this C9 team has looked like a mess. More (bad) publicity than result.

LMFAO

2020-12-28 20:09

NBK was kicked because of leadership, now kassad leaves because of leadership. Is ALEX really that much of an out of the box igl?

ALEX = shit IGL

2020-12-28 20:11

NBK is a pos two faced asshat. The downfall and lengthy recovery of the french scene was nearly all his own doing.

How so? I know there was drama in the french scene but what makes you say it was all his doing

I don't have time to elaborate at the moment will give you an explanation afterwards. But he instigated some of the worst shuffle ever just to be kept in teams etc. A true snake.

Yeah ik about that, i just dont get how it was him who made those shuffles happen, pretty sure he wasnt the only one unhappy about the teammates he had to play with, just an impression tho

2020-12-28 20:23

shox was the puppet master actually 😂 although nbk cause the 1st roster shuffle because he sided with happy

2020-12-28 20:30

Imo it was the entire top tier french scene. They all had wayy too much power which led to all the drama as it was a constant power struggle between players

2020-12-29 06:44

extremum Kassad incoming

Kassad to FaZe?

how can u disagree so hard that you have to leave the team? its cs. kassad probably couldnt take alex anymore so just ragequit

Alex is the problem. And he was the problem in vitality. Two teams and two times the problem. Clown 9

stop calling it colossus xd

yea, that's a frankenstein monster.

Why not? It's a Colossus Failure 🤣

2020-12-28 22:25

WELL, here we go. -alex in 6months? 12? Or just pure disband.

EXTREMUM or FaZe ez

Hmm, strange. C9 parting ways already? Or kassad is reuniting with his former 100T core?

disbanding already

and now guess what?? that's right "Kassad to reunite with ex-100T quartet in EXTREMUM"

wtf? we just started?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

an actual KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

???????????? Wtf how bad can a fight be this early to make anyone leave

2020-12-28 20:16

kassad + faze

ALEX vs KASSAD ALEX won KASSAD out :(

kassad was part of cloud9?

He knew the team is shit, good that he left Hope this helps

2020-12-28 20:18

wait. they had a conflict regarding strats? Do the manager not infor himself and his team what kind of strats they want to run???? esports LUL

Better for kassad. Dont get why C9 signed ALEX, got saved by zywoo in vitality and cant handle more then 2 matches a week.

2020-12-28 20:19

look I don't even follow vitality/c9 or anything but didn't he bring LDLC to tier 1 when their only semi-decent player was amanek?

2020-12-28 22:10

LDLC teams without Happy never were tier 1, he barely touched tier 2 and that was the only indication of him as a good IGL. He didn't have to sweat it much in Vitality and they're doing better now without him.

2020-12-29 01:14

doesnt erase any of his past achivements that were making EPL with 3DMAX and then being igl in vitality being a top 5 team and winning a couple tournaments. does that mean hes worth what theyre paying him now ? no idea. can he do it again with an intl roster? hasyet to be seen. benching himself for like 6 months def doesnt do him any favors

2020-12-29 01:53

That's the point, he doesn't have any significant achievements after quite a lengthy career. His only highlight is a good run with Vitality when he had players who can pug their way through to the top without any leadership. So it's very questionable.

2020-12-29 02:08

no significant accomplishments, lol. his trophy cabinet is better than literally 95% of pro cs players, and you’re literally just using conjecture to state that the players needed no leadership when in reality you have no idea how the team functioned internally, fuck off

2020-12-29 06:25

Chill Alex, we both know ZywOo was your one way ticket to the top. Now is the time that you truly have to prove yourself. You sure did get some of those on the wave of success but you came to the already structured team and don't tell me your leading skills were anything impressive outside of "ZywOo go kill" tactics. You have a very sleazy attitude towards players you dislike, you should grow, both as a person and a captain. Good luck chap.

2020-12-29 06:32

autism speaks

2020-12-29 08:35

lmao

2020-12-29 10:38

Karrigan + kassad in FAZE = pog champ

dead team anyway basically budget OG

Budget OG, but the budget is millions of dollars.

2020-12-28 20:48

More expensive but worse OG

2020-12-28 21:22

og has some structure, c9 feels like watching fpl

2020-12-28 22:02

Alex IGL style is basically put all his effort into his star player aka ZyWoo. And I guess they tried that with woxic and woxic isn’t even the player zywoo is

FaZe +karrigan +ropz/twistz +kassad

L M A O M A O

2020-12-28 20:24

L M A O M------A A-------M O A M L

2020-12-29 05:11

2020-12-29 05:50

#10 FaZe or FPX +kassad pls

2020-12-28 20:21

Faze Kassad would be cool

2020-12-28 20:25

disband now save woxic

good for kassad

2020-12-28 20:26

this roster won't last till mid 2021

1 week later: Cloud9 disband

2020-12-28 20:27

LMAO KASSAD BACK WITH THE BOYS?

kassad - chad alex - chubby frenchman

mezii has leave alex has leave woxic has leave es3tag has leave cloud9 buy extra salt roster and welcome to new cloud9 roster.

Henry just threw a lots of money haha

2020-12-29 10:10

Basically alex wouldnt agree with coach strats. Anyways good for kassad, nothing good is gonna come out of this weird mix team

HAHAHA "uberteam 2.1M" only took 4 months init??!! now whens the next release of a player.. im smellin woxic? XDD 😋 😋

so they should wait and wait like other teams and let it continue to drag them down? MIBR for instance

2021-01-12 11:10

No. Its called preparation son.. should’ve done their homework when entering the scene with a fresh lineup. Dont tell me they did theirs if u see what kind of _blunders_ they’ve had (to use botG’s fav word)

2021-01-12 11:52

Alex probably blamed Kassad for their failure. When they continue to drop the ball, hopefully thats the end of HenryG and C9.

Not very epic

2020-12-28 20:31

???????? IS HE GOING TO JOIN FAZE THEN?

2020-12-28 20:32

G2 or ex 100T

So he left because of the salty brit? lmao clown9 This lineup is anyways a failure xd Good night mens! xd

"Fuck this shit, azr here I come"

HENRYG HAHAHAHHAHAHAH nice waste of money in 2020 2.1kk $ for overrated alex tier 4 player mezii washed up woxic es3tag (tier 2 player) and only good floppy

2020-12-28 20:33

RIP Guess he found an actual team to coach xdd

ALEX" TWOFACED " TOLEDO

2020-12-28 20:36

CLOWN 9 XD

2020-12-28 20:35

No way this is a "stylistic clash." I strongly feel like he is reuniting with AZR, Grat and the others.

Wtf?

HAHAHAHA WTF

CLOWN9 NOOBS and k|ass|ad noob as well

Come on faze, you can do it. But tbh I don't know if kassad and karrygan are the names they need to make a comeback

FaZe: +Kassad as coach -olof (retires) -kjaerbye +Karrigan as igl +Twistzz +Mia stehlberg Coldzera Broky Rain Karrigan Twistzz Kassad (coach) Top5 contender

2020-12-28 20:38

you decide for nothing why write this

2020-12-28 22:00

xD, long work

RattlesnK new coach when

2020-12-28 20:43

Don't really get the point of a coach in CS when you have a designated IGL, it's like having two managers in football and you know you're never going to get two that agree on everything. Can see the point if the coach only focused on analysing opponents etc.

how can igl focus on every aspect while playing?

2020-12-28 21:02

Coaches can't even talk while playing can they? only during time-outs and then you still have the problem of the IGL having one idea and the coach having another, as is the case here hence kassad leaving.

2020-12-28 21:23

the coach is the boss. IGL is little boss. Coach prepares with watching demos of opponents, being the voice that can bring the players together, solving shit that needs an outside opinion etcetera. Important af.

2020-12-28 21:46

In football there is the captain of the team that makes decisions on field and the manager gives ideas. Same applies here igl is the captain and coach gives ideas.

2020-12-28 22:33

that's not how it works in football lmao

2020-12-28 23:44

weird

that was fast xD

get lmbt asap 😂

who?

2020-12-28 20:44

This team is a joke.

2020-12-28 20:45

c9 elmapuddy inc

2020-12-28 20:46

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THIS TEAM IS A JOKE

2020-12-28 20:47

kassad reuniting with the boys

COLOSSUS LMAO

hopefully faze dont miss the chance again to pick him up

2020-12-28 20:55

Alex = Allu. Dead team no future

2020-12-28 20:59

e majmune jedan

He was coach for 11 series!!! GG lol

2020-12-28 21:01

hahaha LUL

2020-12-28 21:05

Co LUL ssus

2020-12-28 21:06

its time to kick botxic aswell lol XD

2020-12-28 21:07

holy shit this is so unexpected...faze better yoink him QUICK

2020-12-28 21:09

and so it begins...

2020-12-28 21:13

henry just disband this tier10 team and come back to casting

2020-12-28 21:16

CLOWN9 xaxaxaxa COLOSSUS kkkkkk

lul9 > n*vi

2020-12-28 21:25

Maby he will be taken for cheat,,,,

lmao gg

2020-12-28 21:26

2020-12-28 21:27

Whaaar

2020-12-28 21:36

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha That was fast

2020-12-28 21:41

expected

2020-12-28 21:42

kassad to EXTREMUM confirmed 😎

2020-12-28 21:43

FaZe getting new coach

2020-12-28 21:49

LOOOL ALEX so toxic.. kassad can coach extremum instead and will easily surpass clown9 in world rankings

-kassad +launders

2020-12-28 21:56

WTF lol thats a dead team

2020-12-28 21:58

alex is just 0/8

2020-12-28 21:59

now -woxic -es3tag +autimatic +twistzz

I'd keep es3tag but not t0xic I mean w0xic. The only reason why twistzz doesn't really have a place imo is because twistzz is more of a star player and so is floppy + es3tag can play any role afaik.

pls

wasted money on tier 3 team

2020-12-28 22:05

🤡9

2020-12-28 22:08

Disband incoming

2020-12-28 22:09

bruh

2020-12-28 22:12

Expected tbh. Now faze+kassad+karrigan+twistzz=solid top10 team. If c9 wanna be at least in top20-25 they need to change woxic. This guy is soooo inconsistent. Not only bcs of his ping, but bcs of his sense as well.

2020-12-28 22:15

Kassad in Ago? They have money, they can go international with Mhl Rallen Twistzz AZR and one more

2020-12-28 22:16

this will happen keep dreaming my polak brother

lul

2020-12-28 22:50

Ago ll go international this year (most propably). They have money. Everything is possible here. AZR is free agent, rallen as well, they can get Liazz for free and buy only Twistzz.

2020-12-29 12:13

I didn't expect that :DD

2020-12-28 22:26

Cloud9 was scammed ultra hard. Losers of decade

2020-12-28 22:37

clown 9 of course

2020-12-28 22:39

XDDDDDDDDD

2020-12-28 22:44

tier 3 team anyway who cars

2020-12-28 22:45

The beginning of the fall of the colossus that never rose

2020-12-28 22:59

Sounds good, doesn't work.

2020-12-28 22:58

Kassad goes to Faze or Extremum. But I'm worried about this trend, its like kassad is too damn unrelenting in his approach and he cannot synchronize with the IGL properly. He reminds me of peacemaker who wants the IGL to be just his tool and perfectly sync with his ideas or else he will not work in the long term.

- willing to take a gamble on someone Maybe he tries to sign a washed up player like kio or xist for the role?

2020-12-28 23:04

wow already disbanding? that was fast.

Stylistic clash wtf??? Clown9 never had any notable styel!

2020-12-28 23:07

Just disband this joke team

2020-12-28 23:12

Extremum kassad?

2020-12-28 23:15

2020-12-28 23:17

weird just noticed that all of the different flags have red and white in them (5players, coach and gm)

2020-12-28 23:26

because blue, red and white are the most common flag colors in the world.

2020-12-28 23:40

Seems like red and white are most common. Blue might came after them but those 2 seem to be clearly above other colors.

2020-12-29 13:41

ALEX seems typical salty piece of shit

2020-12-28 23:41

OMEGALUL

2020-12-28 23:43

Takes balls to leave. Good luck to you Kassad

2020-12-28 23:46

Uhh

2020-12-28 23:58

Alex strikes again!

2020-12-29 00:17

Lmao

2020-12-29 02:48

He realized line-up isnt going anywhere :D

2020-12-29 00:22

COLOLSSUS

2020-12-29 00:33

wait, didn't they just sign this guy with the new roster?

2020-12-29 00:49

He was basically first signed and then the roster came, and would you imagine Henry doesnt let alex choose coach that would be good for his igl style but just signs kassad and this happens, what a blunder!

2020-12-29 00:52

ye I was pretty surprised when they signed him too

2020-12-29 01:57

Thats what happens when you hire coach before igl i guess

2020-12-29 00:50

+1 lol

2020-12-29 00:54

Kassad going back to the boys 8)

It should've been AL, a whiny little rat.

2020-12-29 01:15

Kekw

2020-12-29 02:42

Should have kicked alex TBH xD

2020-12-29 01:25

Alex could rush b 15 times in a row on t side and henryg would back him and kick people that criticize his calling

please liquid pick up kassad

2020-12-29 01:40

Guys... imagine Faze: +Carrygan,+kassad maybe +ropz -olofm (he can finally retire as he wants) Maybe -kjaerbye (rain is an awesome entry, and i think its better to go for a hard lurker like ropz and avoid role overlap. I think in Heroic -borup +Kjaerbye would do wonders) Faze lineup: Karrigan IGL/entry Ropz LURKER Rain ENTRY Coldzera IDK Broky AWP Kjaerbye replaces borup thats been struggling alot from their first good even this year.

2020-12-29 01:43

why would ropz and karrigan downgrade?

2020-12-29 05:20

another great move from clown 9

2020-12-29 01:56

Weird, they have been looking really good, but it's better if he and ALEX had different visions. GL to both sides.

2020-12-29 02:02

wut

2020-12-29 02:07

xD is not even more than a year

2020-12-29 02:30

Alex so shit xaxaxa Liquid get kassad ffs So your beta soyboys can finally have a proper leadership and guidance

2020-12-29 02:35

RIP Clown9

2020-12-29 03:23

Surely woth Jkaem being bought out of his contract he is joining AZR Liazz and Grat at extremum and noy with kassad out of C9 all the pieces to the puzzle fit

2020-12-29 03:54

Fghj

2020-12-29 05:48

extremum confirmed

2020-12-29 06:05

‘stylistic clash’ LOL this is CS not DOTA/LoL/StarCraft, there can be no ‘stylistic clash’, you either shoot the people and win or dont and lose. CRINGE!

2020-12-29 06:11