iM joins GamerLegion

16-4-2021 16:30

The Romanian talent brings the team one step closer to a complete lineup.

Mihai "⁠iM⁠" Ivan has officially joined GamerLegion, the German organization announced on Twitter on Friday. The 21-year-old makes the move over from domestic side Nexus after averaging a 1.15 rating in the last three months.

With the addition of the Romanian, GamerLegion have four active players, having benched British duo William "⁠dobbo⁠" Dobson and Adam "⁠Adam9130⁠" Ahmad on Thursday.

iM's strong form in Nexus caught the eye of GamerLegion

iM has been a part of Nexus since 2018, helping the Romanian organization reach their peak world ranking of #40 at the end of 2020. The team featuring other notable players from the country such as Adrian "⁠XELLOW⁠" Guță, Valentin "⁠SEMINTE⁠" Bodea, and Cătălin-Ionuț "⁠BTN⁠" Stănescu, hit a downward spiral after the turn of the year and currently sit at the 93rd spot in the ranking.

With the addition of the rifler with proficiency in opening duels, GamerLegion are hoping to get out of their own rut. The international squad recently finished an underwhelming ESEA Premier season, barely avoiding relegation, and was unable to leave its mark in events such as Snow Sweet Snow and Pinnacle Cup.

GamerLegion are now:

Alfred "⁠RuStY⁠" Karlsson
Patrik "⁠Zero⁠" Žúdel
Sean "⁠eraa⁠" Knutsson
Mihai "⁠iM⁠" Ivan

Ashley "⁠ash⁠" Battye (coach)

Adam "⁠Adam9130⁠" Ahmad (benched)
William "⁠dobbo⁠" Dobson (benched)

cool move actually

2021-04-16 16:30

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+ rly talented guy

2021-04-16 17:04

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i don't know what this is all about but let me assure you "i am" not joining gamerlegion

2021-04-16 19:01

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Im joining gamerlegion though

2021-04-16 19:16

Yep. Him and Xellow often carrying the rest of Nexus. Unfortunately GL is not a team that's too much better, but maybe he'll stand out again and climb a bit further up the ladder

2021-04-16 23:13

4 replies

But gamerlegion has better future i guess...better players surely

2021-04-17 06:50

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I agree, better players in GL. An improvement for iM, but not a giant step up

2021-04-17 14:34

Yeah but i think its maybe better than some better t2 team

2021-04-17 18:40

If they find a good 5th player, they have a chance to establish in the best tier 2 teams.

2021-04-17 15:32

+1 jdc supposed 5 man pretty solid

2021-04-16 17:57

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oh? the fpl guy whos been showing up lately?

2021-04-16 18:58

yeah he left UOL to fucus on his individual play and its really been paying of they are praccing with him apperantly now

2021-04-16 19:00

That would be an interesting lineup. JDC is a good Player and I was surprised that aTTaX didn't took him. But who would be the igl in that team tho?

2021-04-16 19:47

zero like before I am think

I thought that adam was the igl before but I'm not 100% sure. Zero would be also my guess since he has the most experience

2021-04-16 19:56

DESERVED

2021-04-16 18:15

Nice. GL mate

2021-04-16 16:31

cool addition, he was good in Nexus as far as I remember

2021-04-16 16:32

Gl king

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Why is xellow not picked up by anyone, he is there for a long time while im recently showed up

2021-04-16 17:54

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He had offers from HR and from other teams but none of them was good enough for him & team and he wants to continue in Nexus to bring it in top 30.

2021-04-16 18:03

I think he was getting an offer in godsent (funplus pheonix now instead) instead of farlig, but he declined the offer

2021-04-16 18:10

He got many offers, from teams like hr, godsent or contact, but he just did not want to leave nexus. He wants to achieve something great with nexus.

2021-04-16 18:23

it was huge opportunity to make money, career and name, why would he ever decline it especially the facet that there is not so much talent in romania, first cosmeeN, now iM leaving

2021-04-16 18:26

He is treated very well at Nexus, management is great. He is still young so he probably wants to try 1 more year to push as hard as they can with this roster.

2021-04-16 18:31

That wont be possible with nexus, him and IM are talented enough for international teams, good im has taken his chance.

#144

2021-04-16 19:08

Xellow needs to leave Nexus if he really wants to ever have a chance at playing in a top tier time . Nexus is a dead team , Romania scene is dead.

2021-04-16 20:32

He got offers from teams like Godsent and c0ntact before, guess he wants to help nexus

jdc next

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+1111111111111

2021-04-16 16:39

portuguese talent

2021-04-16 16:42

enjoy your copium

LOL

2021-04-16 18:05

i swear, with jdc this roster will blow up, top 20 incoming

2021-04-16 17:19

would be sick

2021-04-16 17:42

and 1year after -k1to +jdc he needs just some experience

2021-04-16 18:30

GLHF

Now who will they sign as their IGL? Maybe Alex?? One can hope

they are practiicing with JDC atm

2021-04-16 16:33

The german?

2021-04-16 16:36

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Yes

Hes not an igl tho, is he?

2021-04-16 16:38

i think rusty or zero will igl

2021-04-16 16:46

Don’t think that Zero can be a good igl

2021-04-16 17:13

yh but theyll prob play pretty loosly anyways so its fine i dont think theyre looking for a big strat book here or anything. its a fortnite org at the end of the day

2021-04-16 17:59

IM will play entry or rifler.

2021-04-16 18:00

RuStY igl?

2021-04-16 16:41

GM next

+rep good move

Gl hero, u will be missed! <3

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Sad for Nexus. I don't think they can reach a hogh ranking again without him. He is a really good player and a big loss for Nexus. Who will replace him?

2021-04-16 16:57

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blytz replaced him meanwhile seminte was replaced by s0und, overall this nexus lineup is going to be better than the last one

2021-04-16 17:12

But why do they keep sxe thought?

2021-04-16 20:19

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Romanian esports league (organized by nexus) starts in 2 day and they need the core to play the tournament

2021-04-16 20:20

Yeah okay that makes sense but imo seminte > sxe

2021-04-16 20:22

i mean they both needed to be replaced and seminte isnt part of the core that holds the slot for REL so im guess that if he doesnt play good there and in other tournaments that will happend at the same time with REL (3 months long) he will also be kicked

2021-04-16 20:27

they got blytz, equally if not better aimwise

2021-04-16 17:14

nah.iM is very good and has much more experience than Blytz, as a team player i mean.

2021-04-16 18:28

blytz

naah,this roster is 10x time better than the one with iM and Seminte still on the team,I think they had some problems with the roles,like SEMINTE usually played support now sXe took his role,iM had the entry and aimer role which switched seminte to second awp and just made them play very bad,s0und took the support role now also he is one of the best supports in the country and blytz took the entry role

2021-04-16 18:27

with both of sXe and BTN in the team i dont think that they can reach their full potential. If they really want to push to the top again they have to kick one of them.

2021-04-16 19:55

+1 kick sXe

2021-04-16 20:12

i don't think that's the problem,BTN is the best IGL for them,and sXe idk how he will play from now on because s0und maybe took his support role

2021-04-16 22:07

We love you iM, Thanks you everything you did in Nexus, we support you no matter what.

2021-04-16 16:34

you're welcome

2021-04-16 17:05

iM dabab.y.

nice

bad move. pick up tarik instead

2021-04-16 16:35

tarik isnt gone play in tier 2

Well then go to Valorant

t2? they are between t3 and 4 rn this roster will prob be an upgrade but rn they are not t2

2021-04-16 18:01

one more reason why tarik wouldn't been pick up by GamerLegion

2021-04-16 18:04

actual good move from GL

"iM" sure this is a good move xDXdXDxdXDXd

Appropriate video youtu.be/mznsEcZlM2I

2021-04-16 18:09

please make romania great again xDDD

Good pickup

pog

2021-04-16 16:40

finally RO flag on news page MRGA

2021-04-16 16:44

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2021-04-16 17:37

+1 happy for the baieti mens)

2021-04-17 13:25

ROMANIAN PROUD! GOOD LUCK IM, YOU DESERVE IT! SUCH A NICE GUY

good move for romanian cs prietene

no xellow?

2021-04-16 16:43

awper but he still might leave nexus although it seems they are set on giving the new roster a chance

Why are u signing random players from romania???? But im is still better than dobbo.

what are u talking haha

+1 wtf??

iM was a BEAST on Nexus

2021-04-16 17:21

it sucks that a random kido is talking s**t about a true talent:(

2021-04-16 19:50

Congrats IM

Very good move made by GamerLegion, good luck iM making Romanian cs known.

2021-04-16 16:45

Good move

ahahhhhahahaahhaha

what are on about? use words m8

xaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxa

2021-04-16 18:22

okeh bro have good day mens

2021-04-16 18:53

jajajaajajjajaajjajaja

2021-04-16 18:56

nice but xellow still stuck in t3

2021-04-16 16:47

he had offers but refused all, even Godsent had an offer for him.

2021-04-16 16:51

why ?

2021-04-16 18:11

at this point im starting to belive he either really like nexus/romanian cs or just doesnt want to speak english

2021-04-16 18:59

all of the players can speak english pretty good so it's definitely not that.

2021-04-16 19:48

he said he really wants to grind with nexus.

2021-04-16 19:51

Congrats IM gl gamerlegion <3

2021-04-16 16:48

Now xellow needs to be signed cuz nexus just isn’t a good team

2021-04-16 16:49

Great addition, but poor xellow

2021-04-16 16:52

+Xellow next

2021-04-16 16:53

They have eraa already

2021-04-16 16:54

they are apperantly working on signing jdc rn or atleast they are considering him rn

XELLOW ROMANIAN PRODIGY WHEN??

2021-04-16 16:55

right now people know he is good m8 he wouldt just leave nexus for any project iM chose to leave to persue int. teams

2021-04-16 18:12

GL iM lets go to Tier1 <3<3

wow IM joining gamerlegion? PogMe

2021-04-16 16:56

The whole romanian scene joins gamerlegion! Crazy!

2021-04-16 17:03

True that, they will have some followers from RO too with this signing

2021-04-16 17:39

Niiiice! Been keeping an eye open for iM for over a year now, i like this pickup. Good luck!

so excited heres my reaction imgur.com/a/Xs6NPD0

2021-04-16 17:08

who joint who

2021-04-16 17:09

iM joined gamer legion

finally freed from romanian prison, GOOD LUCK MENS

where is cosmens

retired.College right now i think.Not playing anymore at all.

Great name

top 20 incoming

2021-04-16 17:15

Congratz iM <3

2021-04-16 17:17

good move IM was great on Nexus gl

I'm not.

2021-04-16 17:18

And now +XELLOW

not happening

2021-04-16 18:13

cool

damn good move, GL lookin kinda scary now to become tier 1.5

2021-04-16 17:20

Gl 👌

2021-04-16 17:23

now someone save XELLOW

2021-04-16 17:30

semms like hell give this current roster a shot or maybe he just really doesnt wanna play in outside of romania?

2021-04-16 18:14

GL our boy. make us proud

Wtf why did I typed exactly like you? Kekw

2021-04-16 17:32

hahaha. smart minds think the same

2021-04-17 16:07

I can confirm that mens))

2021-04-17 17:21

Congrats man and make us proud GL

GL GL and please no cosmeen v2. story

there's no chance that iM would eventually end up like cosmeeen.

I hope so because his potential is huge, t1 material. We'll see...

2021-04-16 17:55

Im? You are?

It's my

2021-04-16 18:51

My fire. The one?

2021-04-16 22:18

Finally he can play in a decent team Watching him waste his time in nexus was sad so glad to see him step up Hopefully he can evolve and not get screwed like cosmeeN GL

2021-04-16 18:06

cosmeeeN screwed himself

2021-04-16 18:17

what happened to him ? He was beast..

I don't want to ruin his reputation, but he got addicted to some stuff. That's what people are saying.

2021-04-16 18:43

Damn :(

2021-04-16 22:57

The rumors are he liked cocaine more than CS

2021-04-16 18:55

iM is beast. GL to him

expected

no suprises but really nice moves

2021-04-16 18:20

The best romanian player

Rip sexus

honestly they arent really worse of than they were before esp if xellow stick around and if blytz is actually that good

2021-04-16 18:57

+mezzii

2021-04-16 18:29

they are praccing with jdc who is literally free they arent paying a buyout for mezzii

umm c9 let him go actually its up to mezii if he wants to join idk if he has an agent but technically c9 let him go

ah okeh I was not know this information but I still dont know if hell go from like 15k a month to like 2-5k

2021-04-16 19:02

true if he has an agent its way worst

2021-04-16 19:03

Mezii is good, I’m sure he’ll get better offers than gamerlegion

2021-04-16 19:34

+1 or valorant is always looking for more players to overpay

2021-04-16 19:39

I'm seeing +ALEX next, it just makes sense

2021-04-16 18:34

it just doesnt but nt

Alex doesn’t want to play mdl, he wants to be rich

2021-04-16 19:33

then he should go play valorant, heard they pay a lot

2021-04-16 20:13

I could see that happening

2021-04-16 20:37

I am I am not

2021-04-16 18:40

NICE! gl to iM, really solid player! But can't see xellow staying at nexus now.. unless cosmeeen comes out of retirement(idk if he even plays the game anymore)

2021-04-16 18:54

he doesn't play anymore, he tried to comeback some years ago, it was a total failure.

This is disappointing pickup to put it... gently...

Why ?

oh sorry i exchanged him with other guy, he might be solid, wish him GL

xD, He is pretty solid and he is working hard

Nexus out of esea main, no wonder he joins GL

2021-04-16 19:07

main? maybe premier

sorry, that's what I meant. PREMIER, yes man. Thanks :D

2021-04-16 23:04

It's ok bro=) you're welcome

2021-04-17 02:03

Tier one million

GL iM

2021-04-16 19:18

im gay

2021-04-16 19:20

happy for him honestly I hope XELLOW will eventually move on from Romanian teams too. He could definitely join a t2 european team imo

2021-04-16 19:23

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2021-04-17 10:37

Cool pickup!

2021-04-16 19:32

good luck!

ok now I'm also a GL fan I guess, wherever iM goes, I'll always be a fan of his team, I hope they can get some good results with him!

2021-04-16 20:21

brother of iMoRR

2021-04-16 20:24

2021-04-16 20:43

Finally im can play in international team and wont waste time with romanians with no future Sellow next pls

2021-04-16 20:59

Sarmale power

2021-04-16 21:02

OMEGALUL MADE ME SPELL MY DRINK OMG SO FUNNY BRO

2021-04-17 12:58

who?

2021-04-16 21:20

I'm feelink thank you

2021-04-16 22:12

good move, gl iM, nexus go top 500

2021-04-16 22:38

Pog gl

2021-04-16 22:56

hey romania! does the elder gods still exist?

2021-04-16 23:17

they're all retired, but most of them are streaming on youtube

2021-04-17 00:25

the golden era

2021-04-17 11:00

TeG <3

2021-04-17 23:37

he deserved that chance!

2021-04-17 11:39

iM is a great player, one of the best Romanian players to ever play the game I feel like. However I think GamerLegion will need more changes if they really want to be good, I don't think the core of RuStY, Zero and eraa will work long term. But GL to them.

2021-04-17 13:05

Good luck IM! Tier 1 next

2021-04-17 13:21

Good Luck, Mihai ! <3 iM- <3

2021-04-17 15:07

Great move iM-, good luck!

2021-04-17 15:27

Good luck ;)

2021-04-17 18:59

This team has future! GL iM

2021-04-17 23:36

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