LDLC part ways with roster

20/1/2022 - 14:23

The French organization will pursue a completely new project in 2022.

LDLC have announced the departures of Nicolas "⁠Keoz⁠" Dgus, Lambert "⁠Lambert⁠" Prigent, Ali "⁠hAdji⁠" Haïnouss, and Steeve "⁠Ozstrik3r⁠" Flavigni from the team. They join Bryan "⁠Maka⁠" Canda and Christophe "⁠SIXER⁠" Xia in free agency, with the two players having departed the squad in the last month following a disappointing year with the organization.

The past year was a rough one for LDLC, with the French squad finding very little success outside of a few regional events while failing to qualify for the biggest international tournaments, only reaching the play-in stage of IEM Cologne 2021.

hAdji will join Maka and Keoz in a new team

Despite this, the French organization was in the process of re-signing part of the squad for 2022. The plan included a possible transfer of Jayson "⁠Kyojin⁠" Nguyen Van from Vitality, but disagreements during negotiations with some of the players resulted in the deal falling through.

"Thank you to the whole team for playing under our colors. We are proud to have counted you among our Foxes," LDLC said in their most recent announcement, putting an end to any speculation as the players were not signed back up by the French organization.

A report from 1pv.fr suggests LDLC's intention is to start anew and acquire the young French GenOne roster, a project kickstarted by Sebastien "⁠KRL⁠" Perez. The new project would be under the supervision of Julien "⁠Krav⁠" Hernandez, although his exact role in the team is yet to be defined, and there are talks of a sixth youngster also joining the squad.

Maka, who announced his free agency on the eve of the year, is now reported to be looking for an organization alongside former LDLC teammates Keoz, hAdji, Ozstrik3r, as well as two new members, Jordan "⁠Python⁠" Munck-Foehrle, and Kyojin.

LDLC will field the following roster if reports come to pass:

Remi "⁠Diviiii⁠" Alexandre
Filip "Graviti" Brankovic
Ryan "Neityu" Aubry
Hugo "Brooxsy" Di Bono
Florian "ElectuS" Delearde

bye bye(

2022-01-20 14:23

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LOL can’t wait to hear English casters say these names. 3/4 are hard and are you saying Elect-us? Or tous? They don’t even say “ON-velope” instead of envelope. Now they’re saying these names? This will be fun.

2022-01-20 14:45

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Allo Single language speaker

2022-01-20 14:52

3 replies

those players dont even have hltv profile wtf

2022-01-20 15:15

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How do you even say “Diviiiii” Dev-aye-aye-aye-aye? 🤣 Definitely watch the first game in English to hear second tier casters struggle.

2022-01-21 04:42

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probably dee-veeeeeeeeeee

2022-01-21 05:16

rip delusional ldlc fan

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2022-01-20 14:24

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They get new team no worry

2022-01-20 14:32

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I know and I followed GenOne (the youngsters they're gonna sign) for about 1.5 years. But I want a top20 roster ... fuck

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You don't think they'll make it?

2022-01-20 15:42

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It's a good roster but they're never going to be competitive. Their best performance ever was snatching a win from eSuba, not a long time ago. So yeah, LDLC is going to be a top70 roster, top50 at best, but won't go further LDLC knows about that : but they don't want a top20 roster, they want a "neat" team that will give them good results for a low budget. They just want to stay in the french scene for a low investment and maybe a good reward if those kids go far

2022-01-20 15:44

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-not a low investment -saying they are NEVER going to be competitive is such a shitty statement lmao, nobody can tell what's the ceiling of this line up right now, this is quite literally impossible and I say so while I guess few people have watched them more closely than I did They did not even played team cs one year ago, now in advanced and getting picked by ldlc. You should at least give them the benefit of the doubt

2022-01-20 16:06

genone has been live for more than a year no? Even tho there was changes here and there... + yes its a low investment when its youngsters with 0 buyout and 0 expectations of salary and when I mean COMPETITIVE I mean COMPETITIVE for tier 2.

2022-01-20 16:17

-they will get 2 years contracts with more or less the same salary than the previous iterations got, so I don't see how it is a specifically low investment. -none of them (except for maybe divii but I'm not even sure) had any real team experience before january 2021 -I think they have the raw skill necessary to get into tier 2, tho they will obviously need some time, this is exactly why they wont play in Premier right away and keep their spot in Advanced first

2022-01-20 16:23

2 years contract? u sure? +we'll see but honestly tier 3 rn is ruthless and they might not get to premier if they go to premier it's already a BIG achievement

2022-01-20 16:31

Sur CS le salaire est influencé en grande partie par la marketabilité des joueurs, personne connait GenOne à part les viewers de KRL

2022-01-20 19:20

yaura au moins deux fois plus de viewers qui regarderont les matchs ldlc qu'avant, ton calcul est pas bon, ldlc s'est surtout payé l'équipe fr avec le plus de visibilité après vita

2022-01-21 10:54

Xddddd gl men!

2022-01-20 15:49

they are getting a new team, 5 rookies

2022-01-20 14:27

Hopefully they pursue a new logo too…

2022-01-20 14:39

Their old logo was good, the fox one is cringe and reminds me of a Fortnite pro team some 12 year old would make

2022-01-20 14:46

rip

To the future!

unluchko

They're gonna sign youngsters, they're not leaving CS thankfully

We know that they are picking up youngsters, right?

Yep, 100% confirmed

2022-01-20 14:25

zywoo ldlc trust me bro zonic dmed me on twitter

2022-01-20 15:07

#9 says it all , sad time mens ...

2022-01-20 15:30

Oh nooo! Anyway…

KKKKKKKKKKKKKK

They killed my boy!!! Why did they have to kill Lambert? Whyyyyyyy?!

2022-01-20 16:25

Lambert will probably be the coach of the team its not official yet.

2022-01-20 22:34

Lambert to Vitality

oh no, who's gonna buy the ex-LDLC then?

envyus, already confirmed

2022-01-20 14:40

Sauce?

2022-01-20 15:12

Béchamel

2022-01-20 16:32

who? lol

cars

2022-01-20 21:17

F for GOD Lambert

Radical changes, cool

2022-01-20 14:26

sad for hadji

kennys amanek and youngsters?

5 youngsters. amanek and kenny still under contract with g2

I see, thanks for the info

2022-01-20 14:43

The youngsters picked by LDLC are the old GenOne lineup created by a famous french streamer "KRL" who was part of VG during it's era on CSS. They were completly unknown before being scouted by KRL and they climbed to ESEA advanced in only one year with the help of pros like NBK, Maniac KennyS and XTQZZ who intervened to help them improve :)

2022-01-20 17:39

thats very nice good luck to them ))

2022-01-20 17:52

About time, either Hadji, Maka and Keoz establish themselves as actual players or they should retire rn and not waste any more spots in teams

who cars

sad for the core but good for the GenOne kids

Very good for the scene, thx to ldlc

2022-01-20 16:33

gl new kids

2022-01-20 14:28

Maybe G2 or Vitality will go full french again now with so much talent on offer :)

2022-01-20 14:29

Indians leading Vitality don’t think like that. Source: worked for four. “Berlin-based” G2 is not kicking NiKo

2022-01-20 14:34

vitality could take maka and hadji for free but they take magisk&dupreeh 🤦🤦

2022-01-20 14:30

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Ikr, 7 majors combined vs one MaxiLAN and UberEATS lvl 10, how dumb!

2022-01-20 14:35

Are u idiot? 2 washed bots > 2 best france players? wtf

Yeah they should have taken Hadji, 26 yo, and Maka, 24 yo, never won any t2 event in their lives and just led LDLC to an amazing top 50 on HLTV! I don't understand why you'd take 7 majors winners for free XD

2022-01-20 14:42

I have yet to see an honest non-french Vitality fan to oppose this decision. All of them are Russians/Navi/s1mple fans everytime.

2022-01-20 15:48

I still think this move is risky and stupid, and bad for the scene. However Dupreeh is my favourite dsnish player and this potentially could lead to something positive .... But I doubt

2022-01-20 16:35

Magisk isn't exactly what you call washed, dupreeh yes has seen better days I have to agree.

2022-01-20 14:49

Still a freaking god compared to Maka and Hadji bro come on

2022-01-20 15:24

I never said they should drop them for maka or hadji, just pointed out that magisk isnt washed

2022-01-20 17:54

haha washed bots? delete yourself

2022-01-20 15:52

Indian org. You can make fun of an American org FaZe doing the same thing. Just go by numbers 5 years ago.

2022-01-20 14:36

wait wot since wen

If you’re working at Toyota, no one cares what country you’re from. It’s a Japanese team. Since forever that five employees have played for an Indian team.

2022-01-21 04:59

What the fuck are you saying bro

2022-01-20 15:25

Vitality biggest sponsor is an Indian. Faze did the same kinda thing like vitality to mix players.

2022-01-20 15:50

Yes but they don't have anything to do with Vitality's choices lmao

2022-01-20 16:13

EDIT : Of course they have some words to say, but they only care about profits, they don't care about your project being French or European. And the fact they're Indians doesn't change anything about it anyway. Btw, afaik, there's no Indian sponsors at Vitality. An Indian billionaire has injected 20 millions in the society back in 2018 and Vitality gave contracts to 4 indians streamers in 2021 to represent them on social media.

2022-01-20 16:22

I don't know anything, i just said what that American guy was trying to say.

Yeah he's so weird, look at #34 Why would Indians not want a French project?

2022-01-20 17:08

It’s not weird, it’s logical. I won’t cheer for my local team winning the NBA finals when none of them are from California. Just pointing out three top teams are Ukrainian, Indian, and American. Doesn’t matter where their employees are from.

2022-01-21 04:50

"Just pointing out three top teams are Ukrainian, Indian, and American." What are you talking about? How would that be a relevant point anyway? Still, your point doesn't stand for two reasons : 1. Investors only care about profits 2. Vitality hasn't recruited any Indian players

2022-01-21 13:17

Right. Actually Vitality received money from indian billionaire to develop esport in India

2022-01-20 16:37

genone here we come

2022-01-20 14:31

simple 1 major btw delete plz

2022-01-20 21:18

Deserved

-roster

French and Polish scenes are finally getting some new blood. Hopefully they're good lol

2022-01-20 14:33

they are but young

Who

cares

Sad for GODbert :(

He's gonna be their coach at least

2022-01-20 14:38

I hope

2022-01-20 15:19

didn't think ldlc could be worse, wp to them

sad for god SIXER

As expected.

Maka > Gorillaz Keoz > Spirit Lambert > Valorant or some T3 French roster hAdji > Gorillaz SIXER > Stay with Ambush

MAJOR TEAM

save hadji :(

fucking finally

2022-01-20 14:50

dbl poney reborn i guess

2022-01-20 14:51

+ maniac

2022-01-20 14:55

easy tier 12 roster

2022-01-20 15:00

thought they were good

2022-01-20 15:05

LAST DANCE IS COMING

2022-01-20 15:16

GenOne > old LDLC anyway

2022-01-20 15:20

Developing the next french generation, i like this mindset.

Props to them for chosing GenOne, but first of all let's not forget that Krl lead them to this success.

2022-01-20 15:21

Krl can be very proud of what he acomplished. Found 5 young french talented players, make them grind ESEA League, to Main, to Advanced. Now they are signing pro contracts, he taught them all of his game science (Krl was a pro player on CSS, with VeryGames), he must be a bit sad, but what a nice adventure !

2022-01-20 15:22

Don't have the time to watch his streams anymore, but did he talk about it? Makes me sad to think i won't hear him scream at them during pauses :(

2022-01-20 22:09

yes he did on stream. youtube.com/watch?v=2Q0zNw5Wtcg Looks like Lambert gonna be their coach, which is great as well.

2022-01-21 16:36

Damn the 2 year contract really makes me hyped for them, ty for info

2022-01-21 17:46

yes it's a real nice story, np my friend.

2022-01-21 17:47

Filip "Graviti" Brankovic of course, futur best player, no joke, from GenOne to the top of CS ! You read it here first

Wait they had a roster?

2022-01-20 15:33

welp kinda expected. Shame they didn't get stable performance because that would surely be interesting.

2022-01-20 15:46

Bring Happy back again.

2022-01-20 15:47

Sad day for goat Lambert

sad

2022-01-20 16:00

why tho...

2022-01-20 16:04

i thought LDLC remove player called roster im stupid

2022-01-20 16:08

4 of them dont even have hltv profiles

2022-01-20 16:10

Lol and now they must regret so much not signing DBL

2022-01-20 16:12

Propably DBL POney were refusing thier offer cuz Body too smart to catch better org :)

2022-01-20 16:21

nooooooo not god Lambert

The fact the team was salaried for as long as it did with results as shit as they had is straight up bad management. Keoz/hadji/Maka all have a decent future but I hope I don't see Lambert any time soon. He's prob a nice guy and decent igl but individually he made Blad3 look like Niko. A new young roster is the way to go,as Gambit showed with their youngsters rooster. An interesting long term project but much like Gambit that will take a while to show results (and they will need to grind A Lot) GL frenchies

Rip!

If the old lineup found an org it look good for the scene. With all the new projects from na and sa, the level of t2 will become insane

Sign Tier 9999 young team and let real hard working pros leave??? At least could have kept Hadji

Lambert gave up blackmailing the ceo finally.

Sadge

2022-01-20 17:18

rip roster, i hope he doesnt retire.

2022-01-20 17:24

Oztriker - now that’s a name I have not seen in more than a decade. Dude still “competing” at 43.

2022-01-20 17:40

GENONEEEEEEEEE

2022-01-20 17:50

Time for kennySSS. I think his contract with g2 ends soon right? Edit: pardon, didn't see their sh*tty roster

2022-01-20 22:50

That's sick,i really like the idea but don't expect them to be a t2 team or DBL like rn. For sure they are the futur of french cs

2022-01-20 23:55

LDLC is so good for paying noobs

2022-01-21 03:33

new paycheck stealer team pog

2022-01-21 05:04