EXTREMUM close in on BnTeT deal

13/1/2021 - 13:30

The Indonesian star is about to fulfil his wish of playing in Europe.

Gen.G player Hansel "⁠BnTeT⁠" Ferdinand is on the brink of completing a transfer to EXTREMUM, HLTV.org and 1pv.fr can confirm. The former TYLOO player will link up with the core of the former 100 Thieves lineup, which has been in talks with the Russian organisation for several weeks now, as previously reported by DBLTAP.

Gen.G recently made their entire roster — which features BnTeT, Kenneth "⁠koosta⁠" Suen. Timothy "⁠autimatic⁠" Ta and coach Chris "⁠Elmapuddy⁠" Tebbit — available for transfer, giving the quartet permission to explore their options during the off-season.

BnTeT is close to signing with Russian organisation EXTREMUM

The Indonesian player has been with Gen.G since January 2020, when he was signed from TYLOO. He enjoyed a bright start in North America as Gen.G won DreamHack Open Anaheim and ESL One: Road to Rio, but results took a turn for the worse in the second half of the season. The team ended up turning to Swedish pair Richard "⁠Xizt⁠" Landström and Rasmus "⁠kreaz⁠" Johansson to be able to field a roster for Flashpoint 2, their final tournament of the year, after Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele and Sam "⁠s0m⁠" Oh had decided to move to VALORANT.

The EXTREMUM lineup, which will reportedly be guided by former 100 Thieves coach Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović, is expected to compete in Europe in 2021. In a recent interview with HLTV.org, BnTeT said that he had already received some "interesting offers" and voiced his preference for a move to Europe.

EXTREMUM have been involved in Counter-Strike since 2019, fielding players such as Savelii "⁠jmqa⁠" Bragin, Nikita "⁠waterfaLLZ⁠" Matveyev and Vladyslav "⁠arch⁠" Svistov. The Russian organisation first opened talks with 100 Thieves' inactive trio of Aaron "⁠AZR⁠" Ward, Jay "⁠Liazz⁠" Tregillgas and Sean "⁠Gratisfaction⁠" Kaiwai, and then with Joakim "⁠jkaem⁠" Myrbostad, who has been confirmed to be on his way out of Apeks. The quartet played together for over two years in North America, notably reaching the playoffs at the IEM Katowice and the StarLadder Berlin Majors.

With BnTeT's signing, EXTREMUM will field the following lineup:

Aaron "⁠AZR⁠" Ward
Jay "⁠Liazz⁠" Tregillgas
Sean "⁠Gratisfaction⁠" Kaiwai
Joakim "⁠jkaem⁠" Myrbostad
Hansel "⁠BnTeT⁠" Ferdinand

Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović (coach)

Amazing move. -Liazz +Twistzz -Grat +dexter and you have a solid team.

2021-01-13 13:31

67 replies

100T -jks +BnTeT is not what I had for Bingo 2021

2021-01-13 13:32

26 replies

Twistzz faze?

2021-01-13 14:38

24 replies

I hope so

2021-01-13 15:01

20 replies

FaZe have signed karrigan (source: trust me bro) My other sources told me, that they will bench kjaerbye due to recent performances and will go with twistzz (Already tried him out in scrims)

2021-01-13 15:22

19 replies

they should kick washed up cold instead of Kjaer. Cold is old and should retire.

2021-01-13 15:31

11 replies

Cold is their igl and a decent player

2021-01-13 16:27

9 replies

they want a real IGL so your argument is wasted.

2021-01-13 16:34

if they're signing Karrigan I doubt cold will continue to igl lol

2021-01-13 16:38

7 replies

Faze : -cold -kjaerbot (-olof) +karrigan +twistzz +ropz

2021-01-13 16:44

6 replies

They need to keep a 3 man core for holding on the spots they conquered (including major). Cold is not leaving unless some team pays his buyout and he really wanna go. In case of him leaving Faze, would be beautiful to see brazilian juggernaut: KNG coldzera hen1 leo_drk trk lucas1 (6th) But I'm maybe bias to tell you that

2021-01-13 17:17

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Delusional. Cold is not leaving FaZe.

2021-01-13 18:17

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"Cold is not leaving unless some team pays his buyout and he really wanna go."

2021-01-13 18:18

Juggernaut only if Lucas is on the bench forever.

2021-01-14 05:44

Oh for sure, but he's gotta be on the team somewhere so that Hen1 wants to play kkkkkk

2021-01-14 17:05

cold >>>>>>>>>>> karrigan

dumb hater comment 0/8

2021-01-13 18:16

Kjaerbye is good player

2021-01-13 15:47

2 replies

No.

2021-01-13 16:52

he would have the potential, but he is very inconsistent.

2021-01-13 17:26

I don't think Olof will stay so long

2021-01-13 16:32

He will be replaced with karrigan :)

2021-01-13 16:43

yeah, #194 and it was already told in a HLTV article, that olof plans on retiring.

2021-01-13 17:25

you are backwards latvia

2021-01-14 04:52

faze need an igl first

+1 the kjarbye move was already a dumb one

2021-01-13 16:12

Twistzz retire or valorant

2021-01-15 00:22

Lmao yep

2021-01-14 12:40

Haahhaha jermen cheaters didn't make it in time to become #1 so they gave up and didn't comment at all

2021-01-13 13:34

Wait, this actually hypes me lol

2021-01-13 13:40

if you want dexter why dont you kick AZR instead of gratis?

2021-01-13 13:41

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Igl >>>>> For reference ask Finn's what happened to ence after kicking aleksib

2021-01-13 14:03

dexter is also an IGL.

2021-01-13 14:09

dexter is an igl tho

0/8

2021-01-13 14:25

Dexter is an igl lol Big fail here Also liazz could become better than twistzz, especially a twistzz that has not shown anything promising in more than a year now. And who would Start awping after kicking grat?

2021-01-14 11:18

This is very fucking bad move for BnTeT. Again he goes to shit team that he has to carry and he dont win tournaments or accomplish anything big. Pls i hope this deal doesnt come trough. #FreeBnTeT

2021-01-13 13:43

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100T wasn't a bad team per say though. Still better than anywhere in the Asian scene or any of the available NA teams Though maybe there would have been spots in Mouz or Faze, I don't think he fits those roles required as well. If he takes jks' role as the star aimer, he'd do well

2021-01-13 13:51

14 replies

Struggling a lot even with JKS, but definitely a good starting point for BnTeT considering he played in asia before.

2021-01-13 14:02

13 replies

It gets him into Europe, though they'll be grinding in the mud of tier 2 competitions for a while Though I really couldn't see any better offers right now, unless someone else does?

2021-01-13 15:44

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Agreed, it might work though because Liazz can finally lurk and not clash with JKS’s roles. Bntet equal firepower to JKS. Gratisfaction is still the biggest problem to me, but idk. Maybe sign Xellow or Ottond or Smooya

2021-01-13 15:49

Or sensei

2021-01-13 18:24

My hopes aren’t high considering they struggled to succeed in NA, and that was with JKS on the roster.

2021-01-13 21:34

This year they didnt play horrbily, they were just the team that would lose to FURIA in grands all the time.

2021-01-14 01:15

It was NA cs tho, does not really fit their style, they play structured and methodical cs, at least used to with jks

2021-01-14 11:19

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The competition they played was very low VS Europe, either way. That’s why I’m not hyped.

2021-01-14 12:28

Just saying, dont know if that was the problem but i could imagine it being one

2021-01-14 13:02

The return of international play should help everybody.

2021-01-14 13:49

Bring back my daddy GuardiaN

2021-01-14 02:36

He sucks, not even capable of being in tier 3 teams.

2021-01-14 03:20

He's been playing really well in FPL, also he brings tons of experience.. the only area where he would be lacking is communication, since all of the EXTREMUM players are native speakers

2021-01-14 12:45

They don't need experience, they've had deep runs in the last two majors. Guardian is a massive downgrade from Gratisfaction. Guardian might be playing well in FPL, but Gratisfaction is godlike in FPL, it doesn't always translate to matches though.

2021-01-14 21:26

He goes to a team that made final 4 at the last major. No other teams from the final 4 at Berlin Starladder have a free spot on their team. Anyway he probably knows the ex 100T guys quite well from competing in Asian minors against them for years.

2021-01-13 18:58

2021-01-14 02:14

Replay Grat (sniper) with dexter (IGL) and have dexter and AZR in 1 team? CS expert right there

BnTeT and twistzz together would be very hard to develop now considering the issues that 100T core had. I think dexter has better opportunity in Renegades too.

nah, even tho dexter may be better on aim than grat, they still need some experience and consitency, which gratisfaction is granting the team

2021-01-13 14:56

Wdym, Gratisfaction's entire problem was how inconsistent he was. Sometimes he'd be the best player on the server vs top 15 teams but sometimes he would be awful.

2021-01-13 16:51

Please don’t +dexter. The Oceania scene can’t afford its 2 best (by miles) IGL on the same team. I suggest +INS if you need to make a change up

2021-01-13 15:10

you know what with the pieces they have now its a good upset team it up to grad and liaz to show up also aslong as azr's system WORKS

Before Liazz was picked up, he was one of the hottest players in Australia. He went to RNG/100T, and had to take a backseat to JKS as their roles clashed. I feel Liazz will show up big time if he gets given a little more space to work. Grat is also sick when he's at the top of his game, it's just he isn't always there.

2021-01-14 06:12

it's like Faze after niko lefts more space for rain to fragout not saying its a good move but hey he fragout dust2 recently

2021-01-14 12:07

You do that and you got a Top 5 team ez. Dexter is the most underrated IGL/player out there now.

2021-01-13 17:01

don't they miss rmr points if they do that?

2021-01-13 18:41

they have no money to buy Twist ...

2021-01-13 21:08

-Someone who will be the star rifler -an awper for Twistzz and another IGL, makes complete sense

2021-01-14 00:46

Dexter aint awper. Sico > Grat tho. And swap AZR and Dexter. AZR is kinda washed up ngl

2021-01-14 05:45

how about +kaze?

2021-01-17 04:30

nuce

2021-01-13 13:30

noice

veyri nois

2021-01-13 13:59

nais

2021-01-13 19:13

yees good for polish cs

Bestest

polish hero

2021-01-13 13:44

+1 prokda

2021-01-13 16:06

nice

unexpected

pog

predictable

:DD

uuu nice but got a bad feeling about this shady org

Lets fucking gooooooo

EZY CLAP

Best Polish player?

For sure bestest player

Why your flag upside down mens?

2021-01-15 00:25

hltv bug maybe

2021-01-15 00:58

thank fuck they aren't getting jks at least this team is slightly different to 100T

2021-01-13 13:33

WOW nice lineup

wow

"The Indonesian star is about to fulfil his wish of playing in Europe" Wouldn't they play in NA as that's where the core used to play or are they all moving to EU?

They are supposed to be moving

2021-01-13 13:36

No one wants to play in na lol

2021-01-13 17:16

yeah NA cs is dead

2021-01-14 04:58

They were dropped by 100T bc they wanted to go to EU during covid

2021-01-14 01:20

Wow

Fake extremum account was real!!

Pog as fuck

NICE

That can work, probably not better than with jks but seems reasonable.

Hopefully they will be better after getting to practice against eu teams.

2021-01-13 13:52

True, that can actually make them work harder and overall be better team. +1

2021-01-13 14:10

Letsgooooooo, Best Asia player + the 100T boys will clap these EU punks

Asia player? He is bestest polish player

2021-01-13 13:35

Hell yea The bois are abot to shit on those eu noobs

2021-01-13 14:06

Why not jks(((

Jks play for coL

2021-01-13 14:15

they wanted to buy him out maybe

BNtet > jks. You will see. jks without 100thieves playing for him is trash.

2021-01-13 16:39

expected, this roster is sick asf. legit the OCE / AS dream team

So fucking happy

Just needs Jks, Wanted Jks and BnTeT together since the Asia minor days :(

2021-01-13 14:08

same bro, but who knows what 2021 will bring

In NeL's article it even says Jks was rumored to wanting to come back, Sadly i think the only weak link right now is Grat and that would leave them without a primary AWP :(

2021-01-13 14:14

yeah, i just dont see a world were they can get bntet, jks and have a great awper at the same time without removing AZR or Liazz. If grat doesnt perform, there are heaps of talented awpers. If EG leaves csgo (which is a rumour) they could get Cerq and that would be crazy

2021-01-13 14:17

There is no OCE / AS superteam without Dexter

2021-01-13 15:02

Now just add Twistzz and it'll be a banger 6-man lineup

-bntet +twistzz hello?

Polish pride

Poggies

hahahaha bntet join classical renegades XD

I remember when tyloo fans were saying renepause hahhaa

2021-01-13 17:55

good luck polish pride

2021-01-13 13:37

I saw the title an I thought it was some tier 10 indonesian team, sick roster, I hope they do well

same

2021-01-13 16:30

PogU

intresing

2021-01-13 13:38

GL for best EU carry

Top 10 soon

Quite good

- azr + jks

AZR IGL

jkaem good igl i think

2021-01-13 14:28

... No

Had a feeling this would happen, good luck

PogChamp

Lets go bantet

2021-01-13 13:42

this could be cool

2021-01-13 13:45

i fucking love Bntet man with this team I hope he will achieve something

Decent team

The polish God is returning home. What a journey!

2021-01-13 13:47

This roster looks really good. I'm looking forward to seeing this project.

2021-01-13 13:50

SAD FOR KOOSTA... man this guy such a good player. big org should hire him.

pretty sure he would be getting offers. I would be very surprised if he didn't. Only thing hindering him is maybe if he's not keen to move to Europe.

I think he could be a decent igl too

2021-01-14 11:03

LET'S GOO

2021-01-13 13:54

Now kick grats for a decent awper and que have a team

2021-01-13 13:55

-grats +alistair and we gucci.

2021-01-13 14:04

no, +kaze, give a chance to him

2021-01-13 14:07

i wouldnt mind that either , Kaze is too good for Asian scene like Bntet.

2021-01-13 14:13

Nice lineup :)

2021-01-13 13:56

polish god

Polish pride!

2021-01-13 13:57

Pog

2021-01-13 13:58

Damn that's a good move. Still my hopes aren't high considering how much the core struggled before.

2021-01-13 14:00

Well this was supposed to be Renegade's line up before BnTeT fell through as TyLoo rejected the bid I believe.

nah i think bntet was linked to be on renegades in 2017, so it was the nifty, azr, jks core i think.

2021-01-13 14:27

2018, He was suppose to join instead of Jkaem

the negotiation started in early 2017 and ended in 2018 source : youtube.com/watch?v=0W_FOxISpb0&t

2021-01-13 15:09

Yeah i remember the convo of Jkaem standing in so they could get BnTeT's VISA sorted but ended up sticking with Jkaem, Didn't know they also tried getting him instead of Nexa in early 2017

2021-01-13 15:17

right... so it's not TyLoo who blocked the deal then? I must've been wrong I guess

2021-01-13 23:27

Finally he returns to Europe and he maybe visits his homeland Poland! Polish pride forever!

LETS GO , actually hyped for this but sadly this move basically means Liazz wont be the Lurker in the team , again . Kinda sad to see that happen. But Good Luck to these guys!

good for him, he's too good for asian region

Yes, lets fucking go

yes with the boysss

yes he's competing in europe!

2021-01-13 14:11

2021-01-13 14:12

This could be the best place for BnTeT to show how good he really is

POG

Actual pog team

2021-01-13 14:19

Ez top 15

2021-01-13 14:20

Nice Poland

2021-01-13 14:21

Nice, but where's dexter?

2021-01-13 14:22

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Still stuck in Australia with the rest of his team :(

2021-01-13 14:42

i think he's a father so it's understandable, but man what an insane waste of potential

2021-01-13 14:43

he isnt a father

2021-01-13 14:54

then wtf is he doing???????

2021-01-13 15:40

Australia was very strict about international travel. He couldn't go even if he wanted to until now.

2021-01-13 16:00

AUSTRALIA KEKW

2021-01-13 16:23

Lol

2021-01-14 05:00

I swear ive heard spunj saying something about him being a father

2021-01-14 15:24

You don’t need 2 IGL on the same team. +INS if you need to add another change imo

2021-01-13 15:15

-AZR ofc

Polish player under russian org with aussie teammates, nice combo

Let's go, Elisa Invitational champions

2021-01-13 14:26

-liazz +jks

2021-01-13 14:29

solid lineup.

2021-01-13 14:30

pretty poggers, I'd really like to see how far this team will go!

2021-01-13 14:36

Gonna see a lot of BnTeT vs eu team! So happy & excited for him! Lets go Hansel!

2021-01-13 14:37

Very kool

2021-01-13 14:39

From NA accent to AU accent. Well, its gonna be hard for you my Polish brother

2021-01-13 14:40

is it so different? more close to british accent?

2021-01-13 14:51

elmapuddy was literally the geng coach

+1 and they were roommates so Bntet should understand au accent well

2021-01-13 17:21

BnTeT will teach them polish xD

Hmm, could be good but at the same time it's kinda sad because Liazz will still be stuck in his shit role instead of going back to his old role now that jks is gone...

2021-01-13 14:41

lets go

2021-01-13 14:46

Polish cs lives

2021-01-13 14:50

Poggers GODTET is VAC!

Yesterday rival, today became team

2021-01-13 14:53

replace grat with a good awper and this is a good team

I was exepecting a bigger/mature org tbh.. but really happy to see the line up tho

2021-01-13 14:57

Let's GOO! After 100T disband I was very sad, started to be a fan of fnatic and then fnatic bench flusha... but now? This move is amazing! I'm fan no.1 of EXTREMUM!

yea man, just so sad flusha go, but he reunite with auti is such a interesting thing

2021-01-13 16:49

They stole this from my c9 game thread wtf

never see this coming. but it's interesting move.

2021-01-13 15:03

"never see this coming" u dont follow the rumour eh?

2021-01-13 16:48

The meme is so strong that I forgot BnTeT was from Indonesia and i thought HLTV did a mistake not saying he is from Poland.

Lol man XD

Is bntet from Poland or from Monaco?

2021-01-13 15:12

of course poland, never heard of polish god?

Poland's Last Hope

letsa go

kinda sad hes not going to more established team but maybe this is the best offer that he got, anyway wish for the best and good luck :)

2021-01-13 15:23

Thorin & Rich bout BnTeT youtube.com/watch?v=hg-i8QnWi5Q&t=4874s

bruh, really, thankyou so much for the link man!

Trash org apparently fixed enough low tier games to be able to pay these players for a while

BnTeT deserves a better team

2021-01-13 15:27

Yea but mby that will be decent top 5 rn

Happy for all the Monaco CS aficionados :)

2021-01-13 15:28

Pooog leeeets goooo

2021-01-13 15:30

Easy top 5 end of 2021.

2021-01-13 15:41

Let's go

2021-01-13 15:46

This is cool!

2021-01-13 15:48

LLLLLLLLLLESGOOOOOOOOOO

2021-01-13 15:51

EZ POLAND LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2021-01-13 15:54

Good luck for BnTeT !!! GASPOLLLL bro!!!!

2021-01-13 15:59

Now hes legit tier 1 matchfixing xD

2021-01-13 16:02

BR TALKING KEKW

2021-01-13 16:40

Nahhh he stopped after leaving Chinese mafia team Tyloo what a trash org Threw so many games

2021-01-13 17:58

ajajajajaajajjajaaj cant agree more.... I got u a quiz : who push middle on inferno as CT with AWP?

2021-01-14 16:14

Somebody Push BANANA

2021-01-14 16:18

dude perfect 100 score for u! hahahahaha but I also watched him push mid with AWP once, what a madlad

2021-01-15 01:00

Lol I watched that Katowice 2019 tyloo vs nrg game live So close, tyloo could have gone 3-0 instead of 2-3 ;(

2021-01-15 04:27

ez for poland!!!

2021-01-13 16:15

Nice. Can’t wait to see them play.

2021-01-13 16:35

Hello again Last time you reply the thread was 404 so idk what you say to me Use hltv message :)

2021-01-13 17:22

Letss goo

Finally a real team for him!

Ez4EXTREMUM

2021-01-13 16:54

SICK MOVE polish god bntet.

Bntet’s neighbour can confirm

2021-01-13 17:10

Polish god gl !!!

Poland jks, makes sense

2021-01-13 17:31

HE WILL BE THEIR SUPERSTAR OMG BNTET FINALLY NOT GETTING SHAFTED BY NA ORG

2021-01-13 17:32

Expected, GL polish god!

2021-01-13 17:37

huge

2021-01-13 17:44

polish dude to aussie team? ok

2021-01-13 17:50

Cool

2021-01-13 18:23

What is this fucking transfer fiesta?! Why GenG don't take a new IGL and continue?! And now bntet wasting his talent with bot grat and bot liaz

2021-01-13 18:25

Actually liazz was good only thing is he isn't in the position he usually plays during 100t if grat his awping skill is meh

2021-01-14 11:06

should give kaze a chance tho, kaze is too good for asian scene

2021-01-17 04:35

Yes

2021-01-17 05:42

I'm so hyped for this!! Great move for all involved.

2021-01-13 18:51

expected

2021-01-13 19:37

the polish god

2021-01-13 19:44

-Liazz +Twistzz top 5 EZ

2021-01-13 20:52

BnTeT is too good to waste his time outside of EU CS

2021-01-13 21:00

BnTeT joining his old opponents xD, but nice move and good luck to him

2021-01-13 23:25

Holy shit. You know what they say, if you can't beat em, join em!

2021-01-14 00:59

Gratisfaction is the wirst awper in pro scene. Dont u think

2021-01-14 07:33

xccurate is worse XD

2021-01-14 16:12

-Liazz+Twistz -Gratis+Kaze Top5

2021-01-14 07:43

Really want to see bntet and kaze in one team tbh

2021-01-14 08:22

- Best oceanic player + best asian player hmm...interesting

2021-01-14 08:42

well, u got a point tho

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2021-01-14 11:53

bntet back in Poland? :D

2021-01-14 16:47