Nakama part ways with SmithZz and day0s

27-2-2023 20:39

The French lineup is down to three players after less than two months together.

Edouard "⁠SmithZz⁠" Dubourdeaux and Paul "⁠day0s⁠" Niel are no longer part of Nakama' starting roster, the team has announced. The French squad lasted a little over a month before their first roster changes due to their failure to qualify for the BLAST.tv Paris Major Europe RMR earlier in February.

The squad was eliminated in the open qualifiers for the Regional Major Ranking event and ended up as France's most notable absence from the list, while teams such as HEET, LDLC, and Falcons all made it to the closed qualifiers.

SmithZz came out of retirement in January hoping to reach the Paris Major

SmithZz was never supposed to be a permanent addition to the squad as he stated during the Nakama's announcement stream. He was instead looking to inject more experience and leadership into the lineup before taking the step up to a managerial role. Meanwhile, day0s's departure came as a result of him not working out within the lineup. He was picked up due to his achievements in the FACEIT global ladder, but failed to gel with the team during their short time together.

shox links up with SmithZz and three newcomers

"I couldn't adapt myself to this team gameplay that we brought in," read day0s's statement on Twitter. "I wasn't aware enough of how difficult it would be to adapt my own gameplay to a team within little time. I'm still happy that I had the chance to play with two legends, and two youngsters that might become legends."

Now Nakama are left with Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon and the two youngsters Ryan "⁠Neityu⁠" Aubry and Jeremy "⁠Kursy⁠" Gast while the team is "evaluating various possibilities for the future." They must find a solution in the coming days as the French squad is set to compete at the ESL Championnat National Spring 2023 in March alongside compatriots such as Falcons, HEET, and GenOne.

Nakama are now just:

Richard "⁠shox⁠" Papillon
Jeremy "⁠Kursy⁠" Gast
Ryan "⁠Neityu⁠" Aubry

Boris "⁠flex0r⁠" Latry (coach)

wow

2023-02-27 20:39

7 replies

Didnt see this coming

2023-02-27 21:13

2 replies

nakama apex, shox to vitality

2023-02-27 22:35

1 reply

Shox to valorant*

2023-02-28 09:53

a shox team having internal issues? NO NEVER!? fucking diva, team killer

2023-02-27 23:05

3 replies

😂😂+1

2023-02-28 07:08

OMEGALUL!

2023-02-28 11:45

more like pughero toxic day0s but oké

2023-02-28 19:36

xDDDDDDDDD

read article

2023-02-27 21:12

Copium

2023-02-27 22:01

yes

2023-02-27 22:44

day0s -1500 elo

repeat that ⁉️💯💯💯🔥🗣️🗣️

2023-02-27 20:40

what are they wafflin' about 💯🔥🔥🔥

2023-02-28 12:57

I'm shocked

Yo les noobs "SmithZz came out of retirement in January hoping to reach the Paris Major" XDDDDDDDDDDDDD

5 replies

lmao

2023-02-27 21:52

How dare you mock SmithZz the 34 year old talent like that.

2023-02-27 23:31

he was realistic about it, he didn't really expect to make it to the RMR shox on the other hand was pretty delusional which is kinda sad :/

2023-02-28 01:37

and what? Worth a try no?

2023-02-28 10:37

True. No ragrets baby.

2023-02-28 15:23

Sadge for the project

2023-02-27 20:41

no more nakamas

ALREADY LMAO

no idea what they expected SmithZz has been a bot for ages

2023-02-27 20:43

you would know if you read the article

2023-02-28 01:38

its more about them expecting to make the rmr with smithzz on the roster

2023-03-01 01:16

tbh I don't think it's a smithzzz problem, aside from funny haha yo les noob meme he's really not that bad of a player

2023-03-01 01:22

surprised day0s didnt work out

what? smithz was alive?

2023-02-27 20:45

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The worlds shortest comeback

2023-02-27 20:46

2023-02-27 20:47

i get it because day0s is shortest

2023-02-27 22:47

Yo les noobs

2023-02-27 20:48

Smithzz looks like Jim Breuer

Tier 15

2023-02-27 20:49

Yo les noobs, Smithzz shouldn’t have been playing in the first place, at most as coach. And for day0s, what is even the point of taking him if you won’t give him the time to learn real team play…

2023-02-27 20:50

good take le noob

2023-02-27 21:02

+1 mr diplomate

2023-02-27 22:18

day0s lmao

2023-02-27 20:51

my dream team: Smithzz Ocean BERRY Zeus fifflaren make it happen. Nigma Galaxy vs these guys

2023-02-27 20:52

+semphis as coach

2023-02-27 20:56

dont add zeus with a bunch of noobs

major winners tho

2023-02-27 20:59

ok sorry we'll take HUNDEN instead

2023-02-27 21:04

Zeus never played good as peak Smithzz in csgo

2023-02-27 21:35

++ for KKona

2023-02-27 21:06

hunden?

2023-02-27 22:11

aahahahah

2023-02-27 20:55

Day0s FPL Cheater with Streaming.....I think day0s still cheating...

day0s vac banned? noooo... srsly? nooooooo

2023-02-28 13:00

>He was picked up due to his achievements in the FACEIT global ladder lmfao, first mistake

Damn it was only three months. Sometimes there are just decisions were nearly every one instantly thinks "how the hell should that work". And a few months later it will be terminated again

2023-02-27 20:57

Who?

2023-02-27 20:58

French CS at it's finest unfortunately.

unlucko Smithzz still #1

2023-02-27 21:00

back to retirement

2023-02-27 21:01

yo les noobs

Adieu les noobs

french drama in less than two months? sheesh

2023-02-27 21:05

2023-02-27 21:08

still n1 faceit lot of cheater locked in face it 1

2023-02-28 10:17

Merci La shawarma Ciao

2023-02-27 21:19

well that was fast :|

2023-02-27 21:21

ciao les noobs

2023-02-27 21:22

He isnt a true Nakama, Luffys Crew would never leave each other like that

2023-02-27 21:24

2023-02-28 02:14

SHOX LINKS UP WITH SMITHZZ AND THREE NEWCOMERS 11/1/2023 - 22:23 NAKAMA PART WAYS WITH SMITHZZ AND DAY0S 27/2/2023 - 20:39 hahaahaaaa

XD It was written since day one

2023-02-27 22:13

Classic french shitshow

2023-02-27 21:27

No matches team news XDD

2023-02-27 21:50

Hey noobs There's a difference between a sniper playing for his teammates and the teammates playing for the sniper. I'm co-leading, organizing every defaults, our "bomb site taking", nades, etc .. I'm going first when it's tough eco/buy round, and I'm throwing the nades when we do specific tactics. In the pistol round I'm buying the smokes and flashes. Anyway life is tough sometimes but I'm getting paid very well. I don't care about having 30 frags, 1.50 rating, I don't care having fragmovie about me, I want to win. And you know what? I've been winning since 10 years with all of my teams. I'm not here because I'm shox' best friend

2023-02-27 21:54

well if you are not an AWP prodigy that's how it should be played so besides dudes like OG Kennys M0nesy or Zywoo it's how most of old AWPers used to play and it makes a lot of senses, only noobs think an AWPer is just a guy peeking everything

2023-02-28 12:09

abama?

2023-02-27 21:55

Lmao

2023-02-27 22:00

Typical French Shuffles/Dramas? Does any French Insider want to talk a bit about this?

it was litteraly to be expected, nothing suprising, smithz said he only came to help his friend (shox ) and that it was temporray. And for day0s it just didn't work bc he lacks experience

2023-02-27 22:09

4 replies

Lacks experience with years of playing and 5000k elo on faceit after milion mathes wow maybe he should play with idk top no269 team to gain it or even here he is to "bad", sadly streams left to gain experience in next 10 years nerding without point.

2023-02-28 10:13

that's what i thought lol. he plays against best of the best daily and yet he doesn't have enough experience?

2023-02-28 13:03

Faceit pug is different than playing in a team

2023-02-28 16:54

+1 very very very different but bots on this site don't understand

2023-02-28 19:42

Read the article before flaming on god SMITHZ THANKS SmithZz was never supposed to be a permanent addition to the squad as he stated during the Nakama's announcement stream. He was instead looking to inject more experience and leadership into the lineup before taking the step up to a managerial role.

2023-02-27 22:07

are you expecting reading from hltv users lol?

2023-02-27 23:43

who would have thought

2023-02-27 22:10

these tier 3 drama queens thought "I really really want" is going to get them to major.

true lol

2023-02-28 13:04

Joke team Shox said " we have 60% chance to qualify for the Paris Major" 😂

2023-02-27 22:16

65% xD

2023-02-28 09:34

That was quick, but not unexpected

Most expected thing ever

2023-02-27 22:42

I mean........ :)

2023-02-27 23:29

LMFAO not surprised

2023-02-27 23:32

Expected for Smithzz, a bit sad for Dayos, but he's not young anymore and never played in a proper team.

2023-02-27 23:53

They used Smithzz just to get around a hype for this team obviously ...

2023-02-28 00:01

Smithzz legend

2023-02-28 00:24

If Devoduvek can come back after being a gambling streamer I see no reason why Kioshima can't come back ;)

2023-02-28 00:25

he had beef with the first generation of french cs, even if he decided to comeback there's now way he would play with shox, kennys, or nbk

2023-02-28 10:46

no longer a nakama

2023-02-28 02:08

Should have got Kyojin tbh maybe they still can idk

2023-02-28 02:09

2023-02-28 02:11

surprised pikachu

2023-02-28 03:40

best of luck, mr. shox

2023-02-28 05:00

POG good old french shuffles return - zywoo to nakama, smithzz to vita and day0s insted of spinx

2023-02-28 05:24

bruh

2023-02-28 13:05

always sad to see old pros falling off

2023-02-28 06:01

Good luck to them in future

2023-02-28 07:56

GTR, f0rp, shox, ScreaM those early days of csgo were great. RIP the stars from that era

2023-02-28 08:14

ALREADY?! IT FEELS LIKE IT WAS 2 WEEKS AGO

2023-02-28 08:49

WoW who expected, ofc clear talent day0s lost chance to play with legends because "he cant adapt" buahahahaha nice bullshit.

2023-02-28 10:06

It's true though, he could not adapt. He was awful in their matches. He was supposed to be their main star but he was close to the bottom.

2023-02-28 11:23

god day0s to where? they need to build team around him, so he can get top3

2023-02-28 11:32

nakamald

2023-02-28 14:41

no smithzz no major

2023-02-28 15:24

When did that team start to exist rly? I have not heard about it at all

2023-02-28 16:41

bye les noobs