ISSAA parts ways with Eternal Fire

11/10/2021 - 12:52

The Turkish side has been spotted playing with Sabit "⁠mirbit⁠" Coktasar as their fifth.

Issa "⁠ISSAA⁠" Murad will no longer be a part of the squad dubbed the "Turkish Superteam" as he exits the project two months after its inception. In that time frame, Eternal Fire has not lived up to the billing as the team featuring the country's biggest stars Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker and Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş couldn't break past the 60th spot on the world rankings.

According to the organization, ISSAA "could not adapt to Turkey and decided to return to his own country", leading to the separation of the two parties. Eternal Fire have not revealed their plan for the fifth spot on the team, but are using German-Turkish player mirbit in the Pinnacle Fall Series 2 match against SKADE.

ISSAA's reunion with woxic didn't last long

mirbit is a 24-year-old player that represented teams such as Sprout, Windigo, and Alternate aTTaX in the past, but is currently tied to Nordavind who benched their international roster in favor of signing the O PLANO team under their new brand 00Nation.

Unlike ISSAA, mirbit speaks Turkish, and has stated that he would like to continue being an in-game leader upon his benching in Nordavind. It remains to be seen whether Eternal Fire will decide to add the 24-year-old player on a long-term basis, but he could offer solutions to the two glaring problems the XANTARES-led team had since its inception.

ISSAA's future remains equally unclear. The former HellRaisers and OG star posted a respectable 1.08 rating during his tenure with the Turkish team, but most of the 59 maps he played were against opposition outside of the top 30. The Jordanian's last outing with the team was in the IEM Winter Open Qualifier, where Eternal Fire missed out on a top-2 finish after a narrow defeat to FunPlus Phoenix.

Eternal Fire are currently playing with the following roster:

Özgür "⁠woxic⁠" Eker
Buğra "⁠Calyx⁠" Arkın
Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş
Ömer "⁠imoRR⁠" Karataş
Sabit "⁠mirbit⁠" Coktasar (stand-in)

Timur "⁠bishop⁠" Şengül (coach)

looooooooool

2021-10-11 12:52

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Issa was great but they had language barrier between, unlucky gl issa <3

2021-10-11 12:57

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Mirbit speaks turkish?

2021-10-11 13:33

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y, he is turkish originated

2021-10-11 13:36

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perhaps this means mirbit can go igl and xantares can continue xanatarespeeking

2021-10-11 13:38

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I don't know mirbit how much experience has on IGLing but xantares seems passionate to IGLing

2021-10-11 13:41

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well i am sure he has more experience than xantares

2021-10-11 13:52

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xantares has been around for like 6 years now tf u mean he has more experience

2021-10-11 14:08

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I think he means: experience BEING igl, not overall csgo experience

2021-10-11 14:17

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i love smart dudes

2021-10-11 15:16

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thank u mens

2021-10-11 16:42

2021-10-11 15:18

when mirbit was an igl

2021-10-12 01:08

wow. that was a hard one, huh?

2021-10-11 16:58

Mirbit igld for nordavind iirc and second igld for a German team he was on with Krystal

2021-10-11 14:55

I hope xantares doesnt keep IGL'ing, well have another case of Niko, the carry complex will drive him to try to IGL and his form will suffer because of it

2021-10-11 15:26

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he is playing insanely in EF so far, 1.30 rating with EF, i almost watched his all streams, he has potential being igL and has the gamesense, with compact teamplay they would be great, modern igLs doesn't speak much, everyone knows what to do, and xantares prolly the most passionate cs go player in the world

2021-10-11 19:04

i dont disagree he's playing well but I dont think that'l translate into T1 opponents, when your opponents are just "go kill" as a strat I dont disagree he's and absolutely insane player i just want to see him walk the same path as niko did

2021-10-11 22:04

He is almancı kuzen

2021-10-11 14:18

Try reading articles they may contain information you're asking for.

2021-10-11 18:27

add majer = ez majer for EE

2021-10-11 12:58

it will be ez major spot for sure next year if so

2021-10-11 16:14

ETERNAL FIRE 1 MAJ3R S1MPLE 0

2021-10-11 18:13

EZ4FPX

man, there is almost no toxicity towards issaa. i am kinda surprised to see, considering that issaa suddenly decided to leave just yesterday, even though the team showed some improvement after beating sinners and almost beating fpx. is turkish community getting mature or what?

2021-10-11 18:14

I really don't know :D

2021-10-11 18:28

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More like Temporary Fire

2021-10-11 14:24

Lmao

2021-10-11 14:29

2021-10-11 20:31

Good one 😂

2021-10-12 10:31

big oof

2021-10-12 19:56

Wow

That was quick ahahahaha maybe now take Paz or someone actually good?

2021-10-11 12:53

Paz will never come to this team.

2021-10-11 15:15

never say never

2021-10-11 18:20

Never is assertive word but that's the truth. Actually it will be good if he stays in sangal for sangal future. They are doing good now I think.

2021-10-11 20:10

Why?

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He never left the core(hardstyle,majer and ngin) after ss disbanded even ngin and majer left once them but he didn't. So i don't think he will come this time.

2021-10-11 20:02

Ok. TY buddy.

2021-10-14 17:54

You are welcome.

2021-10-15 15:35

rip not even 2 months

KKKKKKKKKKKKK

Expected

indeed

2021-10-11 17:14

lul

lmao

I like ISSAA but this looks like a really good move if mirbit is a solid igl

KEKW

Kekw

Turkish team + German. Awesome

Aka the reverse BIG Clan

2021-10-11 13:44

hahahahhaha that was good mens))

2021-10-11 13:50

He can speak turkish stupid russian dog

2021-10-11 17:34

Okay, my little boy )

2021-10-11 22:25

Turkis team + Turkish expatriate living in Germany. Awesome

2021-10-11 18:17

HAHAHAHAHAHHAAH

2021-10-11 12:54

Why not paz?

Expected that this team is failure team

2021-10-11 12:55

-1

2021-10-11 13:49

2021-10-11 14:19

2021-10-11 14:13

2022 major gorillaz vs eternal fire in finals.

Won’t be able to sleep after reading this

2021-10-11 18:10

They just beat the #22 team and came close to beating #37 afaik, they're certainly improving.

2021-10-11 15:59

expected

Well that didn't last long

sadge

Bye

how tf?????

sad

at least they can speak turkish now

xdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxdxd woxic toxic gj

Unfortunately mirbit will not able to help them to much even though he knows turkish

i suspected as much tbh

2021-10-11 12:56

good for him, he deserves a good team

understandable.

Actually good seens like a good move for the team Gl issa :(

WHYY unexpected

RIP TURKISH FANTASY TEAMS KEKW

I hope mirbit takes the igl responsibilities off xantares, might be a decent lineup role-wise

guys I'm not sure but joining a team communicating in a language you don't speak and trying to learn it might be a bad idea just throwing that out there

I just hope they make it work. We want to see Turkish team in Major EF is our only hope for Turkish CS community and most likely in Esports.

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Isn't there some valorant teams that are pretty decent?

2021-10-11 13:00

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dont forget aslan mashadow: "your country god?" best KEKW

2021-10-11 13:07

And "You are my legend s1mple" from tecone xddddddd KEKW

2021-10-11 15:05

true i totally forgot about that one hahahahahahahahahahah

2021-10-11 16:27

do you have the clip somewhere? i cant find it :/

2021-10-11 16:31

Me neiter :/

2021-10-11 17:25

np, thx anyways kardes.

2021-10-11 17:56

And ''Bymas, can yuu downland valorant abe?''

2021-10-11 18:43

XDDDD also good one. i think they played inferno when he asked this XDDD

2021-10-12 11:24

Actually it's a great swap. Xantares no longer needs to IGL, mirbit is a very decent player overall. Issaa may try his luck in international squads again (though at this point I don't know any such squads looking for riflers).

2021-10-11 12:59

Issaa has value if cs returns to lan -environment. Not tier1 value but certainly tier2 or tier3 value.

2021-10-11 15:57

rip

sad but better for both the parties , no point in having a national superteam without the mother tongue . probably rip ISSA`s career now , good luck to the Jordanian Beast!

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Why RIP career? maybe RIP playing at high level yes, but he's CS career would be alright since he could always find some decent Asian team in his region, there are plenty of them besides he got a lot of supporters there

2021-10-11 14:21

he didnt find a decent team back when he left OG and there isnt really a decent enough Middle Eastern scene either. He was already pondering over switching to Valorant back then. I hope that doesnt happen.

2021-10-11 14:28

If he goes for Valorant then of course his CS career would be dead agreed, but as long as he stays playing CS he could find some team in his region, not necessarily Middle Eastern, but Asian in general will be better than staying without a team even if he finds some team in his region he could always come back and play with a decent team in EU or CIS since he already did with Hellraisers was one of his favorite CS run in his career he was doing just fine him plus Woxic back then before he could ever move to Hellraisers he was playing with Camel Riders some team in his region, that didn't prevent him moving to EU to play at high level

2021-10-11 14:36

It all also depends on whether or not he wants to grind from the scratch again with a new team having no experience. He might have the same mentality as Fer when it comes to it. Someone like Nasr would be more than willing to get him if he would like to play.

2021-10-11 17:24

He had a buyout when he left/got kicked from OG. Now he has no buyout.

That's a valid point.

2021-10-11 17:22

Major will decide a lot imo. If some team does poorly at the major, we might see them pick up ISSAA, since he's a good rifler with a positive attitude. A team like FPX would surely profit from ISSAA, they look depressed after losing a few rounds and he could try to lighten the mood.

2021-10-11 17:28

yea ISSA is a jolly one for sure but he isnt the brightest either though , makes too many dumb mistakes some times. A lot of teams can benefit from him but his stint on OG wasnt good and even though he didnt have bad ratings at EF , getting kicked as the first doesnt reflect back on his resume. I just kinda feel he might not get invites from other top teams.

2021-10-11 18:09

Even though it is true that his time in OG wasn't that good, but he also was forced to play from home 'cause of covid. And for 90 ping on pro scene against eu teams he did pretty good.

2021-10-12 03:10

yea he wasnt bad back then too. Sometimes i wish what the OG OG would have achieved if LANs were still around when they were formed. They had 3 veterans.

2021-10-12 13:44

@HLTV "revelead" Please install a spell checker.

I deeply apologize for ruining your day with this typo

2021-10-11 13:03

Apology accepted, sir!

2021-10-11 13:04

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2021-10-11 13:12

big bruh

2021-10-11 13:01

sadddd

2021-10-11 13:02

lol

According to the organization, ISSAA "could not adapt to Turkey and decided to return to his own country" Nice englands

whats wrong?

2021-10-11 13:09

There is something wrong

2021-10-11 13:18

They make it sound like he got evicted from the country

2021-10-11 13:46

I knew it yeah yeah sure "he will learn turkish" hahaha

reverse BIG

mirbit might actually be a very good pick for them tbh but they're getting rekt by skade now so i guess we gotta give em time

0,7 rating vs tier 4 players "good pick" xaxa jerman

2021-10-12 19:07

yeah because having 4 players with a +1.1 rating brought them so much success they need leadership and not more firepower and mirbit is an IGL who can speak turkish brainded norwejian

2021-10-12 19:40

Reported + 0.7 aimstar

2021-10-12 21:56

A big lol

2021-10-11 13:10

"Don't worry, ISSAA will learn turkish" LUL

2021-10-11 13:11

Xantares haven't learnt german in the whole year and they expect issaa to learn turkish fast. It was silly.

2021-10-11 13:19

eternal meme

Good

2021-10-11 13:16

already issa out? big xd

2021-10-11 13:17

Lmao big gave xantares 2 years to learn German, issaa was given 2 months to learn Turkish lmao Also poor xfloud, they must really hate him after his twitlonger

what twitlonger

2021-10-11 13:27

wasnt twitlonger, was on his stream sorry! youtu.be/BCJ2QWeVtSE

2021-10-11 13:34

i think he is refering to xfl0uds twittlonger where he wrote something like "eternal fire said they sign me 100% so i left gorillaz but after i left gorillaz, eternal fire said they rather go with issa and now i'm teamless because of them"

ouch i'm friends with him on steam and i understand that he'ss not the brightest but that's just ouch

best choice of his life

well that went fast i wonder what every team thinks that after few matches they gonna be top1 with totally new lineup?

2021-10-11 13:21

This is sad :(

2021-10-11 13:23

2021-10-11 13:25

nice for issaa, he deserves better. good luck!

2021-10-11 13:26

what in the f is that Flair

I'm not an ef supporter but a new igl and turkish comms could do them good. i don't think mirbit is that great of an player but a refreshing igl in turkey? why not. better than all of the same old recycled igls that get kicked and join the same team over and over again like paz. this reminds me of the old ex6tenz / France igl problem they had at one point so why not try it out. they have nothing to lose anyway ;D and if this doesn't work out, well.. english speaking teams i guess

They need Tarik basically but he wont come

2021-10-11 13:31

true but is his turkish even ok?

Not a citizen level but he has fluent turkish to play w/them

ok, cool to know

2021-10-11 14:20

Well, good luck ISSAA But is it gonna be an improvement? The switch to Turkish and change of IGL? Hopefully so

2021-10-11 13:29

this shit goes South

"could not adapt to Turkey and decided to return to his own country" Is it because Erdoğan ?

Syrians don't want other refugees in Turkey.

2021-10-11 17:20

That was quick

2021-10-11 13:32

Get Majer!!! They need an igl !!

Mirbit? LMAO GG "Eternal" Fire, Turkish "Superteam"

2021-10-11 13:39

I’m genuinely sad, he was a great player, thank you for everything

2021-10-11 13:43

mens(( gl

Expected GL issa

2021-10-11 13:47

Expected.

2021-10-11 13:48

mirbit igl?

feelsbadman

2021-10-11 13:57

Why not MAJ3R?

2021-10-11 13:59

Gotta respect the man's decision ISSAAA is a good player I'm sure he will be ok and find a team in future which suits him the most

2021-10-11 14:05

hltv mens predicted like always

2021-10-11 14:31

Rip language barrier tough

2021-10-11 14:32

"turkish superteam"

2021-10-11 14:35

better late than now gl issaa

2021-10-11 14:40

2021-10-11 14:48

damn, just as they were showing some good signs... good luck issaa, hope EF can find a decent replacement

2021-10-11 14:51

without him knowing Turkish it was prob not going to work

2021-10-11 16:35

that was quick..

2021-10-11 14:56

lol, super temporary

Issa was literally the second best fragger on the team. Woxic is doing terrible considering his roles , and the other 2 just just straight up have worse stats than Issa

2021-10-11 15:38

ISSA was good.. hope he doesn´t go to valulrant

2021-10-11 15:49

Gob b to Eternal Fire, or riot.

2021-10-11 15:56

Sad, they just qualified for Pinnacle series and were rounds away from going to iem winter closed qualifiers. Hoping the best for both ISSA and EF.

2021-10-11 16:00

xfloud?

This team isn't going to achieve anything let's be honest

2021-10-11 16:08

this roster was made only because, they want to show us how to fail properly? max 2 months and disband is real

2021-10-11 16:17

good aditions to that squad would be xfl0ud, tarik or mirbit himself. depends on how good he plays.

2021-10-11 16:19

tarik won't come, he is fine as a streamer and he would stick to the NA even if he joined a team. I'm not sure between mirbit and xfl0ud, one is an IGL but not good enough while the other one is good enough but will force XANTARES to be an IGL further.

2021-10-11 19:19

Expected, xantares will leave for a better team soon too I guess

2021-10-11 16:20

Nahh he will play valorant probly

2021-10-12 15:01

wow expected but not so soon. I think this team gonna be disband next I even expect xantares to go back to Big tbh

2021-10-11 16:23

Xfl0ud incoming

it was bound to happen really...

2021-10-11 16:33

@Tarik????

2021-10-11 16:34

Valorant top1

2021-10-11 17:38

2021-10-11 17:50

ThaNN YOU for My RUIned FAntsy U Bish

It's a bit of a deja vu BIG -Xantares move. ISSAA definitely not bad but mirbit could be a decent addition as he can at least add something to the IGL work even if they'd continue to let XANTARES being the main IGL. I hope they will let XANTARES focus more on fragging though. Sad for ISSAA, I think he'll likely move to Valorant now.

2021-10-11 16:41

Has it ever worked out that a CS:GO player learned the language of the team? I can't think of any examples. Usually, people already knew the language (or parts of it) beforehand or the team switched to English.

2021-10-11 16:49

elemeNt and bsl and I think vesslan as well. Obviously it was hard for them haha

2021-10-11 17:55

Why xantares leave big

2021-10-11 16:59

Cuz big no superteam

2021-10-11 17:10

Cause big better without him

2021-10-12 19:08

Because he couldn't adapt :/:/ so sad

2021-10-11 17:07

The spark was gone The fire's off It just couldn't last anymore

2021-10-11 17:21

Why not paz as IGL and hardstyle as coach? That would fix everything IMO.

2021-10-11 17:26

Paz isn't igl what r u smoking men))

I'm smoking your grandmothers ganja it's fire and yeah but neither is Xanatres? I would rather him be unleashed and solely focused on his fragging abilities but fitting with the theme if you're going with a high impact "IGL" why not someone with a higher K/D and skill ceiling?

How about Big Brain TaRik he's of Turkish decent lol

2021-10-11 23:48

2021-10-11 17:29

anyone could learn a language in 2 months Kappa

FUCKING FINALLY, eternal fire instant top5, mirbit seems like a sick pick up as well, GOOD LUCK Turkish superteam.

2021-10-11 17:36

instant top5 = instant loss to skade? lol

2021-10-11 17:54

Unlucko game, but basically yes, within 1month top5.

2021-10-11 18:19

We'll see, communication may be improved but Issaa is a much better player than mirbit imo. I'd be very impressed if this roster even made it into the top 30 in the next month, let alone the top 5.

2021-10-11 18:31

Communication is 100% key, this will improve them tenfold, did you hear their english comms? It was unbearable. Mirbit IGL as well?? Less pressure on Xantares with woxic top 5 awper and imorr goat tier entry with Calyx picking up the slack, instant top5, no question about it(not like the competition is fierce currently lol). Only good teams are navi, gambit, heroic, nip and Liquid pretty much +soon new astralis with k0nfig, Bubzkji, Lucky, gla1ve +1, perhaps decent.

2021-10-11 18:41

Sounds good on paper but, who knows. Xantares should be back on form if he feels comfortable. Woxic hasn't been in peak form for a long time even before leaving Mouz and it will probably take longer than a month for the team to jell, let alone break into the top 20...anyway, we shall see.

2021-10-11 18:54

0,7 ration vs tier4 teams good pickup

2021-10-12 19:09

Ez for cocktasaur

2021-10-11 17:37

just take pazgod paz get a life dude pls

Unluko

2021-10-11 17:53

ISSA is a great player, he carried some matches for the team as well. But i hope EF goes for a full Turkish lineup (xfloud as 5th seems possible)

i don't know but my instincs says that someone in ef is so toxic and issaa couldn't handle anymore

2021-10-11 17:57

+1 probably xanta cause he and woxic are great and calyx seems nice imor maybe

2021-10-11 18:12

xantares is very demanding for sure, but i doubt aleksib or any other IGL would be too different. having said that, if they won against fpx yesterday, i am sure he would not have left, at least for now.

2021-10-11 19:16

2021-10-11 18:07

+Furious

2021-10-11 18:16

lmfao clown so expected

2021-10-11 18:29

Good luck for your future career ISSA_GOOD

2021-10-11 18:35

KURD5 WITHOUT 5 KURD? WHAT IS THIS?

2021-10-11 18:44

das ist deutsch englisch man. Yaaa man

2021-10-11 18:53

same pb with OG he didn't want to change country You can't expect a tier 1 career with this mindset

2021-10-11 18:46

-niko -FlameZ + NBK +ISSAAA :)

2021-10-11 20:57

it's hard to handle turkish ego

Nah, noone cares about turkish shit team

2021-10-11 18:48

Dude, they are a 2-month-old team with a guy who has never been an IGL yet they can already beat the likes of Sinners and Spirit. Their ceiling is tier 2 anyway and they are on a good path for it.

2021-10-11 19:10

Nothing more than top50

2021-10-14 20:49

Sad for EF , disband in max 4 months

2021-10-11 18:49

That wasn't going to work but ISSAA still did great. Thank you for your services o7 But I'm not happy with mirbit choice, EF's ceiling is tier 2 at best and mirbit isn't even there. We need either paz or xfloud there, paz is better since he can split or even take the IGL role from XANTARES but he probably won't join EF.

2021-10-11 19:08

ISSA >>>>>>>>>> Woxic and calyx for sure

2021-10-11 19:17

ISAAA played decent but it was bad idea since start of this team, honestly. Mirbit might be much more insteresting fit. We will see..

2021-10-11 19:18

so they finally decided to form a team to sell excellent kebabs naise

2021-10-11 19:23

So people would still rather live in Jordan than in Turkey? Noted.

2021-10-11 19:32

Well that was quick, but hiring him was a mistake to begin with. No point having one Guy who can't speak turkish in a turkish superteam. They should sign Paz asap

2021-10-11 19:42

rip İSSA

2021-10-11 20:20

2021-10-11 20:26

lmao some teams are walking memes

2021-10-11 20:32

at least its full Turk now ig better comms

2021-10-11 21:10

its becasue 9 lira 1 dollar

2021-10-11 22:14

nooooooooo

2021-10-12 00:06

what

2021-10-12 00:53

rep 💔💔

2021-10-12 02:49

Absolutely the right move, it eliminated any advantage of having an all turkish speaking team to have ISSAA on it. Great player though

2021-10-12 06:23

ISSAA is a great player, I kinda wanted to see him playing LAN's for OG this year when he was still in the team.

2021-10-12 09:45

yeah replacing him with niko is such a waste..

2021-10-12 10:12

it was so stupid to create this roster just to speak english ingame again lmao issaa is a decent rifler but not good enough to throw away native language comms

2021-10-12 09:49

Bottares can't crack top 60 :DD

2021-10-12 10:07

valulran here we come

2021-10-12 10:11

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

2021-10-12 11:28

good news

2021-10-12 13:37

good decision

2021-10-12 13:50

felt bad for ISSA. Some players are just unlucky with their country and how much their Esports scene is advanced. GL to my man ISSA <3

2021-10-12 15:03

2021-10-12 17:57

best decision for him. gz bro best of luck

2021-10-13 17:55

Nice now they need 3 more germans and it will be good team!

2021-10-14 16:49