device out for several months; Jackinho under consideration on short-term deal - Report

20/1/2022 - 18:11

Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz's health issues could keep him out of the lineup for longer than initially expected and Ninjas in Pyjamas are looking at alternative stand-ins to Love "⁠phzy⁠" Smidebrant.

Both Dexerto and 1pv.fr have just reported that device's health issues will continue to keep him away from competitive play for longer than initially expected, supposedly up to several more months. As such, phzy will be standing in for the Danish AWPer for the upcoming BLAST Premier Spring Groups.

device is set to be out for an extended period

The news comes not long after a flurry of rumours at the end of last year that suggested device was looking to return to Astralis, although the player was quick to deny these rumours on Twitter which suggested that he was looking forward to tackling 2022 with Ninjas in Pyjamas.

It appears that Ninjas in Pyjamas are considering alternative options to start for the team while device is out, with Jack "⁠Jackinho⁠" Ström Mattsson rumoured to be the player that is being targeted to join on a short-term deal.

The Swedish AWPer, who left fnatic in November of last year, will be taking phzy's place in Young Ninjas for their upcoming Malta Vibes Knockout Series match against Sangal while the 19-year-old plays the BLAST Premier Spring Groups with the main squad.

Ninjas in Pyjamas's only comment on the story was to confirm device was "still recuperating", adding that phzy would stand in for the main roster at BLAST whilst Jackinho would fill in for Young Ninjas in the interim.

oof

2022-01-20 18:11

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Oof indeed. Hope the legend recovers well.

2022-01-20 18:45

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does he have mental or physical health issues?

2022-01-20 18:53

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He has severe IBS i think

2022-01-20 20:36

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Yea Im not sure if its excactly that but he has had in the past some severe stomach issues. Anyway hope for him he gets well soon.

2022-01-20 22:47

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IBS is irritable bowel syndrome, which is what he has

2022-01-20 23:08

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Yeah, the same thing get_right has

2022-01-21 09:32

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Nah brother. IBS is what you call a problem that cant be found any explanation for, basically just a fucked stomach. Get_right has Crohns, as far as im aware, which is IBD (inflammatory bowel disease).

2022-01-21 13:08

No gtr has IBD (chrons disease)

2022-01-21 14:43

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Sorry, got that mixed up

2022-01-21 17:11

Mental, he kind of said that himself I believe. Very understandable IMO. sucks to go all in on living in sweden, only to lose the primary reason he moved there in first place (his gf). I also think astralis have no interest in paying 1m to get him back, which I kind of presume he would want to if the choice was his alone, just to get a bit more familiarity back into his life being back in his home country. The fire is lit in astralis, and despite the lack of results I believe it's a much better environment than 1 year ago. I know he tweeted otherwise, but pr is pr. He can't say anything else but denying, until he has a contract offer from astralis. I feel sorry for him, shit situation to have gotten into.

2022-01-22 05:39

This isn't the first time hes been on leave for medical reasons. He was sat out of Astralis for a few months because he was in the hospital

2022-01-23 08:24

What happened to him? Mental health issues?

2022-01-20 18:54

Yeah! He has a lot going on in his life right now which led to him actually falling sick and he hasn't been able to deal with those problems because of that!

2022-01-20 21:31

It's not for mental reasons he is out, he has some problem with his stomach. Dont listen to all these boys who think it's only about a breakup, its so stupid.

2022-01-21 09:15

stress can make conditions like IBS worse so I’m sure Emilia leaving him isn’t helping

2022-01-21 12:12

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Well that I can agree on.

2022-01-21 13:16

2022-01-22 19:00

you need to look on his twitter. he literally posted about it in December

2022-02-17 18:56

Don’t let this distract you from the fact that Astralis has just beaten Fnactic 2 -1

Both tier3

2022-01-20 19:06

Wrong reply, sorry 😞😞😞😢

2022-01-20 22:11

Device is not going to be this year on the top 20 F

2022-01-20 19:57

Expected

Rest up king

Get well soon!

LOL

2022-01-20 18:12

RiP

Gg Jackinho should prove himself or no t1 cs for him ever again

2022-01-20 18:13

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Would be kinda funny if they did better

he's gonna play for young ninjas instead, standing in for phzy.

2022-01-20 18:15

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Yeah, hltv worded this very poorly

2022-01-20 18:27

'' NIP's only comment on the story was to confirm device was "still recuperating", adding that phzy would stand in for the main roster at BLAST whilst Jackinho would fill in for Young Ninjas in the interim. '' very clear

2022-01-20 18:29

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yes but mens))) here only read headline not article

2022-01-20 18:30

The headline was misleading.

2022-01-20 18:51

Yeah, after reading the headline on main hltv page i thought jackinho would be replacing device

2022-01-20 19:20

+1 but Mr. krmb clearly reads the article before he even reads the title of the article...

2022-01-20 19:40

No he just reads the article before discussing the article like you should

2022-01-20 21:37

When did I discuss the article? I discussed the title of the article which is clearly misleading. If I wrote a headline "dev1ce leaves NiP" and then said in the post that "dev1ce leaves NiP to take a 1 week holiday in the Bahamas", then the title of the article is misleading.

2022-01-20 21:45

he is replacing dev1ce, after blast spring where they will use phzy because he has been practicing with them for it already. after blast phzy goes back to young ninjas and jack goes to main team.

2022-01-21 00:06

u r8 bro

2022-01-20 18:55

inb4 nip better without devve

They already played with phzy and they wad worse then woth device

2022-01-20 21:23

get well soon devve

Excuse me?

what??

2022-01-20 18:14

Bring back the Draken

2022-01-20 18:21

nah he still needs to prove he´s back to an acceptable level in t2 before he comes back propper to LANs. He has the talent to do it, now he just needs to prove he still wants it with grind and results. If Draken shows that (results etc) he´ll be back in tier 1 in no time, but now it´s clearly too soon. Savage is a mix team but it´ll still be good place to see how he´s playing. By April/May, if they keep on with constant matches, we´ll have an idea on what his future will be. Back to tier1 or stuck in tier2/3 hell (freddyfrog syndrome)

2022-01-20 18:46

DR. DRAKO BACK IN THE MIX

2022-01-20 20:53

weird shit also jackinho really? no better swedish awpers?

For young ninjas

2022-01-20 18:19

true so phzy stays my bad

2022-01-20 18:20

Not really, an obvious assumption given the bewilderingly atrocious headline

2022-01-20 18:36

No, they are considering jackinho as stand-in instead of phzy, but phzy will be stand-in at blast groups

2022-01-20 19:01

Considering how great phzy looked in two tournaments end of the year, I would very much rather like to see him in Nip main team than Jakinho.

2022-01-20 19:36

jackinho to young ninjas phzy to NiP

RIP

Jackinho kek

Well rip, gell well soon mens

like, what could actually be his health situation? is it depression or something?

2022-01-20 18:16

Yeah, most probably depression

2022-01-20 18:52

I think he has serious issues in his stomach

2022-01-20 20:08

Probably more than just a break-up, I guess. He was Mr. Perfect, maybe too hard on himself and he cracked. Who knows ?

2022-01-20 21:09

His true love got over him :/ (dupreeh) i was so hyped by that rumor of them reuniting, now that magisk zonic and dupreeh are gone, i feel like device has no real back up plan. I would feel miserable too

2022-01-20 22:13

I forgot about that. I didn't help. He probably thinks he was in control and +esetag, he didnt really care. It wasnt his friend.

2022-01-20 22:59

Are you calling 3setag an IT?

2022-01-20 23:15

Kind of. He wasn't an it. I guess. Device probably calls him the thing. I remember his face when pgl interviewer asked him about esetag relationship.

2022-01-21 00:27

Haha +1!

2022-01-24 17:14

JW pls

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I think that Hampus stated in some podcast that JW hates him, so that is probably of the table...

2022-01-20 20:16

On pantamera talkshow i think

2022-01-20 22:39

Phzy >>> jw

2022-01-20 22:40

JW is washed dude

2022-01-21 06:06

JW is pregnant he can't

2022-01-21 09:13

oh sry, I forgot. And loba is the dad right and that was the reason he didnt stream for 2 weeks? It is good to take some paternity leave, understandable.

2022-01-21 15:11

they had a threesome with Flusha we still can't figure out who's the father

2022-01-21 17:37

sadge. unlucky for the bois but mental health is important and it's good device is taking care of it instead of just letting him tear himself apart

Agree. Get well device. Best of luck.

2022-01-21 01:52

welp... gl to NiP

2022-01-20 18:17

just use phzy, jackinho is below average awpper

Phzy for main lineup, jackhino for young ninjas

2022-01-20 18:41

That's exactly what they're doing though...

2022-01-20 18:43

No, phzy is confirmed just for blast groups and jackinho is being considered for a short term deal

2022-01-20 19:22

Jackinho so clueless like he llay 1st time when he plays... even if they pick me id be better awper lol

2022-01-20 21:26

Jokes aside, I hope things are actually getting better on device's end. He might not have chosen to make all personal issues public, and being the toxic community that we are, it doesn't take much for people to assume the worst :( All the best and get well soon <3

+ respect

2022-01-21 01:19

Respect

2022-01-21 01:53

I hope he gets well soon <3

jackinho kekw

fr phzy was like so much better

phzy will stay in main NiP jackinho will go to young NiP

Hopefully. But you never know what Nip is thinking.

it literally says in the article

2022-01-20 19:43

It says that phzy will stand in for Blast groups. However it also says that they are thinkin Jakinho as stand-in. Which surely means for the main team. The way that they have written this article is extraordinarily stupid if they are only thinking Jakinho for standin for academy team. So more likely is that Jakinho is also linked as an option for the main team.

2022-01-20 19:51

Jack is not even an awper, he was a rifle before fnatic forced him to Awp

That's not looking good hope he can recover

it must be something serious if takes this much time any idea what could it be?

feel bad for device, i wish you the best bro :(

2022-01-20 18:22

Oh hell noooooo

2022-01-20 18:23

feels bad for device but this is a lifetime chance for jackinho

Playing for Young Ninjas is not exactly a lifetime chance, but better start somewhere again I guess.

2022-01-20 18:32

ah my bad, didnt read the part about young ninjas but i hope he can prove himself there anyway

2022-01-20 18:49

How come so many have trouble understanding this article. I thought hltv average iq was 120 mens((( phzy is current standin but they are considering making jackinho new standin

2022-01-20 19:30

because im stupid polack

2022-01-21 13:10

bad for NIP

2022-01-20 18:24

Sadge

feel bad for him, mental health issues are the worst and i hope no one would ever suffer from it, although Im really dissapointed with his resilience to critisisim and online hate, but dont wanna judge the guy, maybe its something above everthing that we have no idea about, either way; all the best for one of the game finest

2022-01-20 18:25

+1 There is obviously way more than just "He broke up with GF" thing going on here.

I think so too, hopefully he fully recovers

2022-01-20 20:03

Havent device been away on medical leave before ?

2022-01-20 20:35

he's never been out because of mental health before

2022-01-20 21:40

Yes at the end of 2017

2022-01-20 22:02

It'd be funny AF if with jackinho NIP does better than with device, that's how he goes back to astralis

2022-01-20 18:26

Jackinho will replace Phzy in the Academy team Phzy will step up in device´s shoes

what are his health issues? i skimmed the article >.< hope he is OK

Is this even confirmed?

Never question Jonathan E.

2022-01-20 20:56

If you do he swings the ban hammer

2022-01-20 21:59

Haha nice one

2022-01-21 01:56

rip

That’s unfortunate

What is this title? It should say phzy will fill for device. If people wanna know about jackinho they can read the article.

really hope things will get better for him soon

I hope it´s indeed heath issues and not what the rumours say (Upset on breakup / pissed so wants to go back to Astralis) Either way hope for him to come back to Nip asap otherwise they´ll struggle a lot as I can´t see any player in the rooster reliabily steping up to cover for him. Rez still is as consistent as jelly, Es3tag/Plopski are still nowhere their peaks, hampus can´t do T-sides and phzy is good but can ´t compare to device. hard times ahead...

2022-01-20 18:31

if this really takes longer than 1-2 months i am pretty sure that it'll be the end of devices career.

2022-01-20 20:55

How can it be if he top player every year. U make no sense.

2022-01-20 21:30

He is kinda right though. A huge buyout and an unknown mental form, no team will invest much for him. It is a bad comparison because kennys was benched, but he can finish like him.

2022-01-21 01:47

top player every year? LUL he barely made top20 last year bruh he wasn't even top of his own team recently. hampus and rez are way more important for them.

2022-01-22 22:31

From 2014-2021 he was top player. which means top 20 so i still stand correct he was every year in a row top player. #20 ('14) #3 ('15) #3 ('16) #5 ('17) #2 ('18) #3 ('19) #3 ('20) #11 ('21) And nice Swedistan fakeflagger. Rez most incosistent "superstar2 player xd While hampus i agree is good but device is as important for them rn way better then nawwk was or anything they could of got

2022-01-23 22:47

bruh i dont give a fuck about rez and hampus. but device has been washed up since he joined NIP, if you try to deny that you are delusional. fake flag your mumma. i dont give a shit about any scandinavian country.

2022-01-27 21:18

>Top 11 player >washed up Pick one. Actually im.not Scandinavian but nt and how am i fake flagging if from europe? You are just a hater of one of most consistent players ever. Might not be best but no other player has top 20 im row as him so im still correct and ur the only one delusional hater here. Edit: idc for noone of them but device is the only high rated nip player above 1.0 if not including hampus as hes igl the rest is supppse to be fragging

2022-01-27 22:18

I wish everything will go better for him in the future. Time can heal a lots !

2022-01-20 18:33

Is anyone buying this extended break due to health issues from dev1ce? I know he had some issues back in Astralis time as well but it wasn't anywhere near this long (or weird for that matter). It seems to me this is just a cover up for the fact he wanted to get out of NIP.

2022-01-20 18:35

Doesnt device have the same disease get right has?

hes sufferung from depression, simple as that. no need to flame him about anythinf, mental health is a bitch

I didnt and I wouldnt.

I don't recall what get_right has. If this is medical issue for real, then I wish him well. However, it is better be real. I find it is despicable when some players take some breaks because of healthy or family reasons and then 1 month later some news come out they leave the team and join a new team. That's just BS.

2022-01-20 21:32

Gtr has crohn's disease. I have a vague memory of something with gtr's condition and device I really cant remember.

2022-01-20 21:38

no, lets be real he misses astralis too much without gla1ve hes not even better than naf twistzz and elige (considering that device awps)

2022-01-21 05:36

get well soon dev1ce <3

Started of as an exciting lineup but just keeps getting worse.. Signing esetag.. Djl coaching over threat.. Now jackinho to play instead of device?..

What the hell is this news... jackinho will play for the main team? The title says one thing, the news says other

2022-01-20 18:37

Yeah its really confusing

2022-01-20 18:42

phzy -> NiP jackinho -> young ninjas

2022-01-20 18:56

just release this device and es3tag to astralis for Lucky and Xyp9x and create a full swedish squad with hampus REZ HEAP Plopski phzy/Jackinho

2022-01-20 18:38

they should sign draken instead of jackinho, he's doing better recently than him.

its better for dev1ce not to play then play being depressed and not in the right mind... a lot of ppl criticising him here but health comes first!

2022-01-20 18:40

rip nip, another nonsense year for the org, too bad. get well devv..

2022-01-20 18:44

damn this is unfortunate hopefully all the best to device. hopefully not the serious stuff he had to deal with in the past when he took tournaments off

Well, good luck with phzy I guess, and recover fast dev1ce!

saddest csgo news in a long while...

only report

poor rez

2022-01-20 18:48

Get well soon! Health = Wealth <3

this is more serious than I thought...

Get well devve <3

stay strong, king

device common man ...

2022-01-20 18:59

Oof, rip nip. Depression hit devve hard mens.

2022-01-20 19:03

Good recover Dev1ce

Get well soon

2022-01-20 19:07

nip considering jackinho????? oh no. that boy really hav some luck factor... first he was hired by fanatic.... now nip. He has 0 awp skill + 0 game sense + 0 iq..... still he is getting considered by tire1 organisation. someday i will hear jackinho replacing S1mple. LUL

2022-01-20 19:10

If you cant read PHZY IS GOING TO GO IN TO MAIN AND JACKINHO TOO YOUNG NINJAS

2022-01-20 19:21

no need to shout mens)) the headline implies that Jackinho might join NIP's main roster while the article actually says that phzy WILL fill device's shoes!

phzy >> jackinho

2022-01-20 19:13

Get well soon champ, hope u comeback stronger and retake your position as one of the best csgo players in the world.

2022-01-20 19:17

RIP Goat I cry every time ;'(

2022-01-20 19:31

Why cant them just let device or NIP go out with this instead cmon

2022-01-20 19:33

+1 hltv was wrong about device in their last report about device leaving to astralis to

2022-01-20 19:35

In both cases the report was based on that of 3rd party sites and sources that have access to (most of the times) trustworthy information?

2022-01-20 19:48

But why leak shit? Just let the org and players say it when they want to?

It is news?

2022-01-20 19:53

No it is not news, just rumors.

2022-01-20 20:09

And some of these rumours, if coming from a credible source as pointed out in #287, are worthy of being news.

2022-01-20 20:14

Yes it's funny to read rumours but you can't take them as news until they are confirmed. But they are worthy to make an article about.

2022-01-20 20:22

That is why these news pieces feature the "report" part, as I presume you are already aware of.

2022-01-20 20:33

I don't admire or like device as a player but I wish him good luck. Hope he finds what he needs

2022-01-20 19:34

Get well soon Devve

2022-01-20 19:47

Nip draken

sad news

expected

GET JW!!!!

2022-01-20 19:54

bro is grandpa

2022-01-20 20:43

NiP.... i don't like what's going on here..

2022-01-20 19:55

what health issues

2022-01-20 20:07

Jackinho omg, just take Phzy

Why not phzy the entire time?

2022-01-20 20:23

Sign Draken

Get well soon devve. We love you legend 💙

2022-01-20 20:30

Hope he feels better soon. Health should always come first

2022-01-20 20:37

i liked phzy. The kid got good potential. They should keep him as 6th and get someone else for the academy team.

2022-01-20 20:39

Es3tag is super cursed man

2022-01-20 20:41

Its actually impressive how cursed he is

2022-01-21 08:40

Yeah dude at least he gets the paychecks

2022-01-21 10:19

yeet

2022-01-20 21:00

what happened to dev1ce?

2022-01-20 21:02

Honestly I feel bad for NiP, they just don't get any luck and the roster is too unstable. Imagine paying all this money for the GOAT and him not being able to play for you. Obviously get well soon for device too

2022-01-20 21:06

You have a good fragging IGL, but he's a bit of a one trick pony and has little T side depth. You have a semi-experienced guy ,who seems to be stuck in a loop and doesn't really improve. You have an ex-star player, whom you signed for like the next 4 years for some reason, even though he's been mediocre at best for the past 2 years. You have a 4th rotating player that you changed 3 times in last year. I am still puzzled as to why device went for that team, but I'm definitely not surprised that he wants out. This team is a mess without structure.

2022-01-20 22:28

Me either. I guess they promised a huge salary and he joined for his ex girlfriend. Nip was not promising before device joined. They were struggling to get into top10.

2022-01-21 01:51

ez 4 Love

2022-01-20 21:39

Oh shit, hope he recovers quickly

Poor hampus, he will have to create even more space than he usually does for this team to work, I'm really sad, I feel like without dev1ce NIP wouldn't even be a TOP 20 team. I hope he comebacks soon.

2022-01-20 22:27

bring back mr draken

2022-01-20 23:11

Come back stronger devee

F dev1ce

2022-01-20 23:00

damn rip

2022-01-20 23:12

Get well soon dev1ce

2022-01-21 01:20

Damn - NiP cannot catch a break. xD My best wishes of a speedy recovery go out to Device and fingers crossed NiP are still in good shape in spite of the current circumstances.

fingers crossed dev1ce overcomes these health problems and gets back with the team as soon as he can. NiP gonna need him at Katowice.

2022-01-21 03:58

Jackinho another bad player hired by NIP. The only organization that looks at how to make more money instead of wining tournaments. They should bring back to Draken, he is more familiar with the awp and the organization that jackinho.

2022-01-21 04:53

This title is really misleading, makes it sound like Jackinho is being considered for the main roster when the last paragraph says he’s being considered for young ninjas to allow Phzy to play with the main squad

+1 also device has said he doesnt know how long recovery will, why they say several months? guessing?

2022-01-21 08:07

I think it’s just their way of saying he’s out for a long time, but yeah they could have worded it a bit better “Device will miss significant time” or something like that if the timeline is unknown

2022-01-21 14:01

"dev1ce out for indefinite time" they dont even have to specify, and then they would even be speaking the truth rather than say some hunch they have xd

2022-01-21 14:23

I would guess 2-3 months

2022-01-21 14:46

Honestly though if by that time phzy proves his worth and gets good results with NiP then they shouldn't really take device back, they should just keep phzy

2022-01-22 08:04

NAWK LOST HIS JOB FOR THIS!

2022-01-21 05:59

a little bit sad, i think nawwk is pretty good player!

2022-01-21 14:24

Hes good but in tier 1 games he sucks

2022-01-27 22:21

need some experience maybe

2022-01-28 08:31

Good bye NIP from tier1 CS!

2022-01-21 08:05

My god es3tag is cursed

2022-01-21 08:39

get well soon GOAT <3

2022-01-21 08:42

no way jackinho

2022-01-21 09:06

Hope he gets better soon.

2022-01-21 09:22

RIP NiP What's their deal with always getting bad players? Phzy and Jackinho are the two worst Swedish players.

2022-01-21 09:49

I don't think that his tenure with NiP will continue... We'll see

2022-01-21 10:04

Hes said he wants to continue with nip and for people to stop spreading rumours and saying hes gonna swap teams etc. let him be and let him rest his personal health lol.

2022-01-21 10:38

Doesn't matter what he said it's what matter what he does and he does it sus as fuck he's going back mark this .

2022-01-21 21:21

this is unfortunate

2022-01-22 18:30

Jack was not good in fnatic. I'd expect similar results in nip. Just pit phzy back in

2022-01-24 18:27

bozo alert

2022-01-26 07:39

''health issues'' my ass. Device is just rounding out a deal with Astralis to go back...... We've seen these ''health issues'' before and most recently with konfig, who had a ''wrist injury'' and was going to be ''out for months'' but then just joined Astralis KEKWKEKWKEKWKEKW

2022-01-26 16:37