kRYSTAL transferred to ALTERNATE aTTaX

11/1/2021 - 15:24

The former GODSENT in-game leader has returned to the organization he represented in two separate stints in 2011-2014.

Kevin "⁠kRYSTAL⁠" Amend has been transferred from GODSENT to ALTERNATE aTTaX, the two organizations have announced. With his signing, the German team is once again complete after changing three players ahead of the 2021 season.

The 27-year-old had been sitting on GODSENT's bench since mid-November while the European mixture were trying out Luka "⁠emi⁠" Vuković in his stead following some underwhelming results.

kRYSTAL completes ALTERNATE aTTaX's new lineup

ALTERNATE aTTaX previously parted ways with Marko "⁠kressy⁠" Đorđević, Sabit "⁠mirbit⁠" Coktasar, and Fritz "⁠slaxz-⁠" Dietrich, and added former BIG Academy duo Max "⁠PANIX⁠" Hangebruch and Karim "⁠Krimbo⁠" Moussa to the roster in early January.

This will mark the third time kRYSTAL has represented ALTERNATE aTTaX, having played under the German banner in 2011-2014 first in CS:Source and later in CS:GO. He will lead the organization's new roster, featuring a player whom he coached in BIG Academy in 2019, PANIX, as well as a former PENTA teammate Stefan "⁠stfN⁠" Seier.

ALTERNATE aTTaX's lineup now looks as follows:

Stefan "⁠stfN⁠" Seier
Robin "⁠ScrunK⁠" Röpke
Karim "⁠Krimbo⁠" Moussa
Max "⁠PANIX⁠" Hangebruch
Kevin "⁠kRYSTAL⁠" Amend

Nice

2021-01-11 15:24

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all the top comments deleted L

2021-01-11 15:28

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schrunk + krystal ez 3v5 every game

2021-01-11 15:34

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sad true bro

2021-01-11 15:50

+panix 2v5, why they sign so bad awper, andyy a way better, -scrunk +jdc/mirbit

2021-01-11 16:41

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yeah they should definitely resign mirbit who left less than a month ago??

2021-01-11 17:51

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Mb with krystal he will play again for atn, yes krystal statistics is bad, very bad, but he is definetly a good captain

2021-01-11 18:11

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I think mirbit will join an international roster, with him out of attax there is really no german team left, me ight even join a turkish roster.

2021-01-12 10:57

a very well prepared and tactically sound 3v5 > a 5v5 trust me mens Im nova

2021-01-11 19:00

2021-01-11 15:25

pog

tier 3 player now

2021-01-11 17:00

2021-01-11 18:04

tier 3 but still full-time money for far less work. Could be worse.

2021-01-11 18:46

Sprout are braindead if they did let that happen without doing anything...

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2021-01-11 15:29

kRYSTAL said that he doesnt want to play with denis and spiidi anymore

2021-01-11 15:32

-denis -spiidi +krystal +stfN All fixed!

2021-01-11 15:36

yeah, why would krystal play with people that frag as well as him and dont even igl

2021-01-11 15:53

Spiidi igls tho

2021-01-11 16:19

nah he has nex calling out from under the table ;)

2021-01-11 20:13

I'd love that, but nex is just gone for good now i guess :(

2021-01-12 01:57

*as bad as him

2021-01-11 16:39

the reason is obv. Denis and spidi are traitors.

2021-01-11 18:47

yeah i remember krystal’s special AK

Overrated player anyway.

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He is one of smartest IGL's

2021-01-11 16:17

If he dropped at least 5 kills per map he would be playing for Mouz right now

2021-01-11 17:40

Not good enough fragger to play in a team, go coach maybe.

2021-01-11 17:57

+111 not the smartest either😂😂

2021-01-11 17:32

Wtf sprout

2021-01-11 15:26

ScrunK deserves to go, what a shit player

Attaxs to top 1 Germany

lul

Nooo :((

Krystal is going to bring yet another team to the top20

2021-01-11 15:27

if he does it with attax... I demand that whole htlv will worship him as top20 GOAT

2021-01-11 18:49

THIS

2021-01-11 19:01

Noooooooooooooooooooooo(

what a sad team

I mean idk how affective Scrunk can be as a fragger if Krystal’s IGL.

I played often against him and spidii in 2013 they were respectively under enro Griffins and Eyes On U brand. And in my opinion Scrunk was really better on HS than everyone. So know i guess he got potential to be very relevant now cause his mind is free

2021-01-11 16:35

I don't really think so. ScrunK sometimes has performances that really surprise you and he playsd a game with a K/D of like 1.8 carrying his team throughout a map and in the next game he looks like he would struggle against eagles. There's a rason he has been the coach of attax for some time, he is simply not a good fragger. Attax has traded essentially their three best players, for another low fragging IGL and two completely unknown variables. I wonder how this will work out.

2021-01-11 17:53

he sometimes carried some final games as igl, i think he can be decent

2021-01-11 17:18

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD NEW 322 TEAM

F carreer

imagine selling your whole team and letting go of krystal...

Mousesports? Hello?

NTY

2021-01-11 15:30

Why keep Scrunk? Lmao.

2021-01-11 15:31

emi to FpX

Obviously a big downgrade for Krystal personally but a huge win for the German scene. Excited to see what he can do with attax

2021-01-11 15:33

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same shit like jkaem, will leave after 2 months after seeing no future in the team

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well krystal have no future either so win win

2021-01-11 15:41

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Not as a player but as a coach

2021-01-11 15:49

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yep

2021-01-11 15:51

Even as a player he could work with a solid Top 20 team. Yes he will always have bad stats but Godsent really had good teamplay and as one of very few teams even tried to get some pistol round strats going. I feel like they screwed themselves with this move.

2021-01-11 16:21

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Yeah but the problem with kRYSTAL is that he has not much firepower so no t1 team will pick him up as a igl because nowadays it's important to have a fragging igl (like blameF, nexa, tabseN,...). But he could easily join a t1 team as a coach with his big brain and win tournaments. I also don't like the godsent move but it's also nice that the jerman scene has him back again.

2021-01-11 16:36

You mentioned the best examples why fragging and IGLs just don't mix well. TabseN dropped off massively since he started to be a real IGL in-game. You can literally see the point where he changed his tactical approach to the game, he lost like 0.15 rating. Nexa and blameF to me are no real tactical IGLs. You can see from the playstyle of their teams, they have set strats and concentrate on their individual game instead of multitasking. That's why they can maintain their good stats, but they always have to rely on their gameplan working out, the other players on their team to help out (like RUSH, I think he does at least 50% of the IGLing in-game) or the tac pauses to fix the mistakes in their team. Krystal is more like karrigan with worse individual skill but solid in-game IGLing

2021-01-11 16:55

Yeah I think that if you are a "real" igl you are doing everything for the team (baits, calls, basically playing around players. tabseN dropped off in mid 2020, almost 1 year after he became an igl. I think the main reason for this was that he was exhausted and nor because he became a real igl. He had a tactical approach before he dropped off (maybe with the help of tow b). I have the feeling that you have to rely on firepower nowadays, even as a igl to win tournaments. Like gla1ve, arT or apEX aren't really fragging igls (at least not the star players of their team) but they are able to win clutches and rounds for their team, which I don't think kRYSTAL can do. Someone like kRYSTAL is playing for the team, does baiting, ... and he is very useful for the team like we saw in godsent. But in the end he has to hope that his mates can perform because he depends on them

2021-01-11 17:23

Agreed. With the resources and the right balance within the 4 other roles on the team kRYSTAL is definetly a good enough IGL to compensate for his fragging in a Top 20 team imo.

2021-01-11 17:24

Funny thing is Godsent kicked krystal twice, once in early 2020 and before they even went public with their roster change, they realized they do not function without krystal and asked him back. I wonder what made them think that things will be different this time around.

2021-01-11 17:55

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true and as far as we know they don't really have a competent replacement either. Sunny is no real IGL, he is more of a secondary caller, karrigan would be an option since they go to FPX, but they would have to battle with FaZe...

2021-01-11 17:58

if karrigan were to leave mouz it would only be to faze. i think karrigan feels at home at mouz since they have been one of his biggest teams when he was just starting out and whatever team he would sign with would have to be really convincing, aka faze.

2021-01-11 18:01

and FaZe has rain

2021-01-11 18:03

rain is an entryfragger though

i wasn't talking about his role, rain really wants to have karrigan back.

2021-01-11 18:05

the players themselves lost trust in his calls. in godsent the squad has a big call on what happens

2021-01-12 15:09

Attax has actually good players though

2021-01-11 16:03

tier 4 player to tier 6 team

twitter.com/zehncsgo/status/134864556030..

2021-01-11 18:51

good luck kRYST0.91L

2021-01-11 15:35

it says sold it to the germans lol

rip Stfn .... 4 bots and stfn

2021-01-11 15:37

2 IGLs who frag bad, 2 inexperienced youngsters and only one decent player RIP attax

2021-01-11 15:39

stfN = shut the fuck Now? :))))))))))))

2021-01-11 15:43

-scrunk +someone with hands, top30 by june

2021-01-11 15:44

does anyone know what happened to nex? Did he recover from his hand injury, or did he retire? He could probably bring the needed firepower to carry them to tier 2.

2021-01-11 17:46

His twitter has been inactive for more than six months and before that has been only retweeting BIG giveaways, his facebook went 404 and the last pic on his instagram was in fall of 2019 and is a picture of smooya. I doubt he will make a comeback anytime soon, however I would really like it.

sad, at one time he was the best german player :(

2021-01-11 17:59

WILL BE SO EZ 4 ATTAX KRYSTAL MONSTER LEADER!

2021-01-11 15:45

This guys' career is so fucked.

2021-01-11 15:46

for a german in csgo he has one of the better careers.

2021-01-11 18:53

i think -Scrunk soon, otherwise great for our shit scene :). No kRYSTAL stickers soon tho.

2021-01-11 15:47

Maybe scrunk coach and +JDC/prosus

2021-01-11 15:48

+JDC would be dope tbh

Yeah JDC was the only good thing from UOL (maybe apart from Andyy). I think he is still under contract and only benched himself so maybe they wait until he is a free agent ifk

xaxaxaxaxa bot ScrunK bettr

GL kRYSTAL and aTTaX

scrunk and krystal in one team 🤢

2021-01-11 15:52

Gl css cheaterkid!

I would like to see him with awp again but they have panix already. But will they get good rifler instead of scrunk? It's most important task for them now.

GL Legend

2021-01-11 15:54

what a cumback

Expected, good luck !

2021-01-11 15:56

Good luck!

2021-01-11 15:57

2021-01-11 15:58

nice now it will be 3v5 every game but without their 3 best players -299910231iq move

Finally ! GL kRYSTAL

2021-01-11 15:59

Scrunk + kRYSTAL ?

2021-01-11 16:00

good fit

2021-01-11 16:09

He is pretty good, but I don't think this roster will play well together, having 2 IGLs isn't a good idea, and it lacks some star player aswell.

2021-01-11 16:12

Krimbo star player with the help of kRYSTAL. I call it now. Dunno what scrunk is still doing there tho

2021-01-11 16:15

ScrunK is good supportive element I think, he is important for this team.

2021-01-11 20:14

I think that they need more firepower and maybe krystal can be the support player idk

2021-01-11 20:23

Yeah kRYSTAL could do that role to, but I guess both ScrunK and kRYSTAL are going to setup other players.

2021-01-11 23:32

Probably for now. aTTaX also hasn't a coach atm so maybe there will be some more changes If the roster doesn't work out

2021-01-12 15:18

I think there will be more changes soon, I don't think this roster is what will work out for them.

2021-01-12 19:16

2021-01-12 21:50

Krystal and scrunk 2 bots in 1 team omg

2021-01-11 16:14

-scrunk +rigon

Well it's official, they screwed themselves lul. He is a weak link individually but seems to be a solid T1 IGL, sad to see him drop to tier 3...

2021-01-11 16:16

this guy needs to be coach, beeing a player he is so washed up.. f alternate attax

2021-01-11 16:32

jermany stronk

what a drop!!!

2021-01-11 16:37

nice igl

2021-01-11 16:40

ScrunK wasnt IGL?

2021-01-11 16:42

-Krimbo -PANIX +SolEk +tahsiN

2021-01-11 16:45

dream team

2021-01-11 17:12

Time to retire you little cheater....

2021-01-11 16:54

Good luck, big brain player

2021-01-11 17:26

Good for him!

2021-01-11 17:29

finally this bot found his home in tier 5 cs.

2021-01-11 17:39

now ⁠kick ScrunK for someone like nex and this could be a solid tier 2 team

2021-01-11 17:47

is this an upgrade for him or downgrade

liquid shouldve picked this guy up as a coach instead they got moses LMAO

Stay on a team at least once in your life.

2021-01-11 19:22

Good move for them

2021-01-11 19:25

-ScrunK; +rigoN and it would be dope.

2021-01-11 20:33

2021-01-11 20:35

wasted igl

2021-01-11 20:40

Barber: What kind of haircut do you want? kRYSTAL: Do you know SPUNJ? Barber: Say no more

2021-01-11 20:48

expected

2021-01-11 22:34

I thought he was a good fit in GODSENT. I wonder what actually happened?

2021-01-12 16:07

As usual, they grow an ego because they suddenly become top20 and think they could be better without the IGL. Seen like a 100 times and worked out maybe once. Let's see... In my opinion, the biggest weakness of GODSENT was alwas their individual inconsistency. That probably won't go away, so I think they already reached their maximum potential.

2021-01-12 16:12

Ah I see. Yea see that happening to most teams that finally break the top 20 ranking system. Everything is loose and no pressure until you get to the level where people are expecting you to win. Thanks for the insight.

2021-01-12 23:16