ENCE round out lineup with Maden

21/1/2022 - 13:01

The Finnish organization has finalized its roster ahead of the 2022 season.

ENCE have announced the signing of Montenegrian rifler Pavle "⁠Maden⁠" Bošković from FunPlus Phoenix. With the new signing, the international squad is hoping to take the next step forward after a promising stint in the Autumn of 2021.

The 23-year old comes in to replace Joonas "⁠doto⁠" Forss following the Finn's benching earlier in January, which ended a year-long partnership between the Finnish player and organization. This won't be the first time Maden plays under the ENCE banner, however, as he briefly stood in for Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer during IEM Winter.

Maden returns to ENCE on a permanent basis

Maden will be back in action with ENCE after sitting on FunPlus Phoenix's bench since November, when the Chinese organization decided to discontinue its CS:GO division and transfer-listed its roster.

Despite an underwhelming year for FunPlus Phoenix, the young rifler was able to maintain a respectable 1.09 rating across 2021 and his performances helped the European squad secure three final appearances, most notably at DreamHack Open January 2021 Europe and Snow Sweet Snow 1, even stealing the trophy from Gambit in the latter.

With Maden now gone, only Luka "⁠emi⁠" Vuković and Jesse "⁠zehN⁠" Linjala remain contracted to the Chinese organization as both Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk and Asger "⁠Farlig⁠" Jensen left FunPlus Phoenix in January.

Apeks complete roster with STYKO

"We are very excited to bring Maden into the team! We already had a brief encounter with him at IEM Winter and he left a good first impression," said ENCE coach Eetu "⁠sAw⁠" Saha, welcoming Maden's arrival. "Maden is a social and easy-going guy who gets along well with the team. Also, he brings in a lot of firepower and aggression, which can help elevate our play for the upcoming season," sAw continued.

"Rolewise, there will be some changes to make Maden comfortable and make the team function better."

ENCE's International project rose rapidly through the ranks last Autumn after strong showings at ESL Pro League Season 14 and IEM Fall, peaking at #7 in the world rankings. However, a series of disappointing finishes in the closing stages of the year saw them drop several steps on the ladder.

The new-look ENCE are set to debut at the play-ins for IEM Katowice 2022 starting on February 15.

ENCE are now:

Marco "⁠Snappi⁠" Pfeiffer
Olek "⁠hades⁠" Miskiewicz
Paweł "⁠dycha⁠" Dycha
Lotan "⁠Spinx⁠" Giladi
Pavle "⁠Maden⁠" Bošković

Eetu "⁠sAw⁠" Saha (coach)

Aleksi "⁠allu⁠" Jalli (benched)
Joonas "⁠doto⁠" Forss (benched)

Awesome

2022-01-21 13:01

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+1 EZ 4 ENCE

2022-01-21 13:12

Not too happy about this, but I want him to prove me wrong!

LET’S GOOOO Would’ve been cool if it was another Polish player but Maden is very cool indeed

2022-01-21 13:03

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the only option was MICHU

2022-01-21 17:45

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rallen?

2022-01-21 18:05

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Michu has flopped in almost every team he’s played in recently and rallen couldn’t perform in tier 1 right now, Maden is a good choice

2022-01-21 18:09

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Michu is a beast, but he's always playing in fragile trash teams without future

2022-01-21 18:18

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+1 No one could have saved eg

2022-01-21 19:13

2022-01-21 19:14

downgrade

2022-01-21 13:02

he was benched, it's the best place he can go rn

He meant its downgradre for ence imo xd

2022-01-21 14:11

Than he is delusional - I feel bad for him and even the other ence players tbf

2022-01-21 21:07

he is right.

2022-01-22 09:06

THE ANCIENT GOD LETSSS GOOO

2022-01-21 13:19

Looking forward to the Future!

let's goooo

Super aggressive team! Will be fun to watch their matches

This team should be entertaining to watch!

2022-01-21 16:40

Doto was better

I hoped it will be valde

Great🥰

Good pickup by ENCE

Really interesting, GL.

Very cool)

-hades +farlig

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2022-01-21 13:04

farlig wasn't standin

2022-01-21 13:09

?? huge upgrade

0/8, are u drunk?

2022-01-21 13:32

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farlig >>> hades

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Hahaha you’re definitely drunk

2022-01-21 15:08

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lmao cya in a few months when hades gets kicked

2022-01-21 15:09

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Hades is for sure top 5 awp-er in the scene. He dominated most opponents during their games

2022-01-21 15:10

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Hades is pretty good, but top 5 is too much (s1mple, ZywOo, sh1ro, device, Jame...)

2022-01-21 16:32

He meant top 5 from his country

lmao 0/8

2022-01-21 17:08

Hades is a trash choker

2022-01-21 17:10

lmao not even top20 0/8

2022-01-21 17:13

g2 fan, shut up

2022-01-22 09:07

Why does it matter which team i support?

2022-01-22 20:30

a LOT

2022-01-22 20:42

mf i asked WHY does it matter and not WHAT

2022-01-22 21:33

im drunk, i cant read

2022-01-22 21:38

fair enough

2022-01-22 22:13

top 5? 0/8 🤣

2022-01-21 17:15

2022-01-21 14:13

2022-01-21 14:53

hades just have a bad time now, his performance was bad, but still better than snappi/doto in most matches, he will be back, everybody who knowes the scene, knows that is ts normal

2022-01-22 09:09

Excellent choice by ence

styko wouldve been better

2022-01-21 13:05

Or birdfromsky yea

2022-01-21 14:28

PagMan

Didnt allus contract end this year?

They have 4 talent and exp igl, didnt see it coming

2022-01-21 13:06

RIP Finnish CS, Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away.

2022-01-21 13:08

15.000$ /month for this? that's cap

Even hltv djs make more money

2022-01-22 09:05

Called it

EZ4ENCE

so ez

Nice. The only player I would replace is hades, he is a mediocre and overhyped awp, but now the roster looks quite good.

2022-01-21 13:10

Hades is great, he's just inconsistent that's all... hopefully he finds a good rhythm soon

2022-01-21 13:11

Agreed. His highs have been very good but too often he misses one or two simple shots that even us regular folk could hit 99% of the time. Maden deserves a good team though, the guy's been pretty consistent despite not being on a world-beating team.

2022-01-21 13:33

Actually Snappi said in ENCE behind the scenes that potential is huge, just have to utilize him right and get hades to right state of mind 99/100 games.

2022-01-21 16:41

I don't disagree, I think he could be great. Just really needs to stop making easy misses every so often and whole rounds could change as a result... Whole team is punching above it's weight though which is good to see

2022-01-21 19:36

>great >inconsistent

2022-01-21 17:17

just a bad time, you saw him on the beggining of ence? he was beast, he was carrying the whole team, he just need some time

2022-01-22 09:10

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I dont care how players perform during honeymoons tbh, he already peaked on his level in my opinion, there are younger and better available awps out there.

2022-01-22 10:06

And why was he good at the beginning of ence? Because they played tier2 matches back then. In tier1 he has been inconsistent. I also noticed from the ingame cameras that he is always getting a bit frustrated if he doesnt perform that well. But hopefully he will perform better this year, best of luck.

2022-01-22 10:14

esl pro league?

2022-01-22 13:22

Yeah he actually played really well in EPL season 14. He just has to be more consistent. And in LAN events he was pretty poor last year, 0.89 impact rating. Not a good thing to have an awper with that low impact rating but maybe he will step up. I hope they will do well with maden, but I just dont have the biggest expectations for Hades, sry.

2022-01-22 13:42

he is un-expirienced, major was one of his life first lans, it was expected

2022-01-22 13:51

that is true

2022-01-22 13:53

i think it was his 2nd lan, he never played a lan i think with wisla (covid), but PLE finals in avez

2022-01-22 13:54

yeah, and they played bad cs as a team at major. That also affected his stats there.

2022-01-22 13:56

cool gl!

Deserved

tetzz art on hltv poggers

not bad! gl maden

should have gotten AmaNEk here's your L ENCE management

still contracted with G2 free agent maden all the way

2022-01-21 16:27

great pickup, gl!

Expected

GOD Maden

2022-01-21 13:15

So, where is Eeddspeaks? Ence academy? Completely underrated player in the Finnish scene...

2022-01-21 13:14

+jimpphat +niklasj aka smooya destroyer

This team has great firepower, but I fear that they lack a supportive core now. snappi will probably have to play a lot more of the bad roles.

Maden will probably entry instead of Snappi and Snappi will be the anchor/support.

2022-01-21 15:27

Good move for ence. gl

2022-01-21 13:16

pog

2022-01-21 13:18

lets go

2022-01-21 13:20

I´ve been tolerating all kind of shit from this so called Finnish org in last years but this is the last straw. RIP ENCE 21.01.2022

There is a lot of orgs that dont have players from "their" country. Why ence cant be 1 of those

2022-01-21 14:18

They are making full Finnish academy team.

2022-01-22 02:58

what xD?

2022-01-22 09:11

What? ence.gg/article/ence-cs-go-academy-progr..

2022-01-22 11:20

-snappi +aleksib -spinx +sergej ENCE = t1

2022-01-21 13:24

spinx is god

2022-01-21 13:29

Spinx > sergej

2022-01-21 14:26

spinx god

vs tier 3 yes

2022-01-22 15:18

vs tier 1 yes

2022-01-22 15:45

YOOOOO

2022-01-21 13:27

????xxdd

NICE

Good pickup for ENCE! Maybe get sergej down the line?

2022-01-21 13:30

They have Spinx in his role.

2022-01-21 13:44

gl paavo. looking forward to see them play.

2022-01-21 13:31

GL&HF probably he is the one to find the best team from FPX roster

2022-01-21 13:35

Was he best player there? I didnt follow but his rating isnt highest

2022-01-21 14:36

Remember when ENCE was a Finnish team

Great addition

2022-01-21 13:37

lmao

2022-01-21 13:39

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2022-01-21 13:42

looks strong

2022-01-21 13:47

expected great pickup

2022-01-21 13:48

GL&HF

Not a single finnish player in the lineup

allu doto sergej sunny jimpphat org?

2022-01-21 13:49

very nice idea, but sunny and sergej won't play with allu.

2022-01-21 14:48

montewhat cmonBruh

2022-01-21 13:51

should have been Michu

no more finngolians? D:

Hoping team ence do a good year They have pretty dope logo for stickers so they need to be on majors

2022-01-21 13:52

its crazy for ence went from all fins to 0

2022-01-21 13:55

Not enough high end talents/players.

2022-01-21 14:50

Maden still underated,time to prove hltv plebs wrong.ez

2022-01-21 13:57

I would have loved to see Amanek in ENCE jersey, but way too expensive for ENCE. Interested to see who will be supportive player and who is entry.

2022-01-21 13:59

Ence without Finns XD Anyway roster looks promising, glhf

2022-01-21 14:06

Nice! Gl

2022-01-21 14:10

I remember that Ancient game.

Poggerz

2022-01-21 14:12

No fin player in ence now...kkk

No finnish players Sadge not ENCE anymore

-snappi +farlig

- snappi +aleksib kkk

2022-01-21 14:45

At least sAw is still there Copium

2022-01-21 14:25

good roster, potencial top 10.

nice

2022-01-21 14:29

Nice! Go go Maden!

Only if they could get zehn instead of Snappi... Sadly zehn isn't igl

2022-01-21 14:57

Madenko, see ya on shev's twitch! 🙃

2022-01-21 15:01

solid pickup

2022-01-21 15:06

Is good

2022-01-21 15:13

Not bad, but, who will play support? Snappi?

2022-01-21 15:33

solid player, let's see how it goes EZ4ENCE

2022-01-21 15:34

Nice

Why tf is doto benched?

2022-01-21 15:35

Finish team don't like fins

Probably Allu had something to do with this.

2022-01-21 16:54

Ence has always had braindead management team

only farlig now

2022-01-21 15:41

This could be a decent pickup just not for Doto.

2022-01-21 15:44

No farlig? lol, dead team

2022-01-21 15:48

rip finnish cs

2022-01-21 16:00

thats cool!

2022-01-21 16:16

maden underrated

2022-01-21 16:17

Decent player, they for sure needed someone more to create space for the team, they only really had dycha for that and it didn't seem like it was enough. They will still need more changes if they want to be TOP 5-10 like they said, I think there is still a lot of mistakes that won't be fix with this change in the team and they are probably going to make more changes in the near future if their goals are really that high. GL ENCE, GL Maden!

2022-01-21 16:24

Best they could get for their team. But I guess they have to change some positions

2022-01-21 16:31

yup, most likely dycha or snappi plays supportive role.

2022-01-21 16:42

Snappi definitely should if they want to utilize the player roles the best possible as Snappi is washed up in the fragging department but does decently still as an IGL & support.

2022-01-21 19:15

ez 4 ence

2022-01-21 16:44