Bad News Bears add Bwills

31/10/2021 - 00:43

The lineup has gone full American.

Following the departure of Jonathan "⁠Jonji⁠" Carey, Bad News Bears have announced the addition of Brendan "⁠Bwills⁠" Williams, who played with Triumph since November 2020. The move comes after a 7th-8th place finish at IEM Fall North America, which saw them only defeat ATK and Extra Salt in Group A.

Bwills has been a mainstay of tier two NA since 2018

Shortly after a disappointing group stage result at DreamHack September North America, Jonji announced that he would be stepping down from Bad News Bears as a result of poor team performances and internal troubles. The team used coach Nathan "⁠madcow⁠" Retterath as a stand-in and were prepared to field the 26-year-old at IEM Fall, for which they had already qualified, due to the Valve roster lock.

However, to give his former team a better chance to qualify for the Major, Jonji returned to the lineup for the duration of IEM Fall, at which they dealt a mortal wound to the Extra Salt side in their campaign to PGL Stockholm.

Bwills comes into Bad News Bears after 11 months of playing under the Triumph tag, where he played alongside over a dozen different players including Paytyn "⁠junior⁠" Johnson, Alan "⁠Shakezullah⁠" Hardeman, Austin "⁠Cooper⁠" Abadir, and David "⁠cynic⁠" Polster.

Here is Bad News Bears' lineup going into ESEA Season 39:

Michael "⁠Swisher⁠" Schmid
Gabe "⁠Spongey⁠" Greiner
Alan "⁠Shakezullah⁠" Hardeman
Paytyn "⁠junior⁠" Johnson
Brendan "⁠Bwills⁠" Williams

Nathan "⁠madcow⁠" Retterath (coach)

2021-10-31 00:43

13 replies

So ez for USA

2021-10-31 00:44

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another team to be destroyed by Brasilian teams

2021-10-31 00:53

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... who are getting destroyed at the major

2021-10-31 01:15

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so that makes NA even worse?

2021-10-31 01:41

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doesnt change the fact that brazilians are getting 0-3d

2021-10-31 01:54

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NT where is LULstralia at legends stage?

2021-10-31 02:22

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where are all teams from brazil astralis crushed in challenger and now furia

2021-10-31 02:28

>lulstralia nt brazil

2021-10-31 02:12

lmao brazil can’t even actually have a full thought before saying some stupid shit in replies

2021-10-31 03:24

To be fair pain didnt do as bad as thweresults show. They had the closest matches in all the major. Devestating but close loses against vp and renegates.

2021-10-31 03:50

Australians know a lot about getting destroyed at majors huh.

2021-10-31 05:41

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True, one of our teams were down 0-2 legends stage and went up 3-2 played to semi finals

2021-10-31 09:23

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is this the greatest achievment in australian cs history then? I fell bad for LULstralia

2021-10-31 12:00

Bluls

Smart move by them, probably one of the best players in Premier last season.

2021-10-31 12:28

cool

Decent tbh.

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youtu.be/ZpBTNVre3fs

2021-10-31 02:33

youtube.com/watch?v=E6G8Nv9f88k

2021-10-31 02:35

youtu.be/sAhEFuq62-I

2021-10-31 02:56

youtube.com/watch?v=ptKDBXHn6dY Why is this video age restricted lol

2021-10-31 10:10

youtu.be/pg4Ferkqdvg Why are her eyes bulging out like that like a bug

2021-10-31 11:38

Nice

2021-10-31 00:45

gl NA cs :D

2021-10-31 00:46

nice addition

2021-10-31 00:48

America, fuck yeah!

HYYYYYYYYYYYPE

2021-10-31 00:49

Nice pick up, gl

so almost old triumph

2021-10-31 00:50

The best NA team after eg disbands and elige goes to Valorant

GET IN!!!!!!!!!!!!

what was wrong with Jonji?

2021-10-31 00:51

tilted and went to val after choking against T1

2021-10-31 00:55

ah ok understandable. He rating was so bad however

2021-10-31 01:01

It's weird, he started out as like a 1.2 player for BnB and then it all just started going down for him.

2021-10-31 01:08

he is really fucking toxic and doesn't have faith in his teammates

2021-10-31 01:49

The amount of desire and dedication it takes to grind the way they are is unbelievable. They, in reality, have to overcome so many more downs than having wins they can celebrate. Probably took a toll on him but I am glad BnB didn't disband. If they end up achieving stuff the reward will feel so much better anyway.

Dude has attitude problems and went all emo. Got a bunch of tats and and pierced his nose going through a Lil Peep phase in his twenties thinking he will go somewhere in Valorant.

2021-10-31 02:32

Very strong team

2021-10-31 00:57

without Jonji i literally don't care

2021-10-31 00:59

Who

2021-10-31 01:03

2021-10-31 01:04

Let's go Bwills and BnB!! Good luck!

2021-10-31 01:05

This is the Triumph's Shakezullah overpowered that he couldn't have before

2021-10-31 01:09

best kept secret??? LOL...

2021-10-31 01:11

"Bwills has been a mainstay of tier two NA since 2018"

By far the best available player, can’t wait to see the boys win prem again

2021-10-31 01:21

madcow is a beast

2021-10-31 01:22

good move, Bwills is a good player, hopefully this team can reach the next level!

2021-10-31 01:31

who and who

2021-10-31 01:40

BNB still without an org right? Surprised they didn’t go to val

2021-10-31 01:43

Because na valorant scene is already oversaturated and arguably harder to win tournament there

2021-10-31 02:18

sadly they wont

2021-10-31 08:10

Who cares?

2021-10-31 01:50

who the fuck is that guy xD

2021-10-31 01:55

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO

2021-10-31 02:05

bwillis is actually a good player from North America and is not a recycled sack of shit.

shocking news

2021-10-31 02:23

he was very toxic, always tilted and bottomfragging xD huge upgrade

2021-10-31 02:43

Bear Bwills

2021-10-31 02:59

why do they recycle the same players

2021-10-31 02:04

nice

2021-10-31 02:13

good see u jonji idiot

BNB is just TRIUMPH now

2021-10-31 02:39

the greatest of all time ez

2021-10-31 02:46

Why not "pwalone?

i dont think they could get any of the Party Astronauts players to join honestly

2021-10-31 04:35

2021-10-31 04:00

Pretty big downgrade tbh projects with bwills always fail, look at how many teams he’s been on lol

2021-10-31 04:40

Who else could they possibly get

2021-11-05 06:02

idk they really fumbled the bag by letting Jonji tilt his way out of the team

2021-11-05 13:31

But Jonji isn’t good

2021-11-05 20:41

Jonji was their hard carry for a while until he fell off If you think bwills is anything but a downgrade though you haven’t been paying attention to NA

2021-11-06 01:20

They could easily upgrade by getting other free NA agents

2021-11-05 20:42

Triumph 2.0

2021-10-31 06:09

no canadian player = no carry

2021-10-31 07:56

Bwills seems promising tbh, I hope BNB finally succeed Respect to them for grinding for so long

2021-10-31 08:01

Triumph 2.0 - EX TRIUMPH NTH CHANGE

2021-10-31 09:34

The guy from Die Hard?

2021-10-31 11:21

He look like average reddit user

2021-10-31 11:30

Defienietly one of the most promising players in NA, but I doubt he will really fit the shoes of Jonji tbh., Jonji was one of the most aggresive players in the region, while Bwills is more of a passive anchor, and that's what he does best, so Idk. where is it going for BNB but it might indicate more changes to be done. Anyway GL, huge respect for grinding CS while you could've made much more money in VALORANT!

2021-10-31 20:03

Now -Swisher +Grim (once Liquid benches him) Then Bad News Bears is literally just Triumph haha

time for major win