Sources: CacaNito to Apeks done deal

26-6-2023 16:55

The North Macedonian will don the Apeks jersey after the player break in place of NAVI-bound Justinas "⁠jL⁠" Lekavicius.

Aleksandar "⁠CacaNito⁠" Kjulukoski has signed a contract to join Apeks, HLTV has learned, and will take the place of jL on the team, who is expected to make a move to Natus Vincere.

The 22-year-old broke out with BLUEJAYS, where he played from 2021 to earlier this year, fighting in the second tier of European Counter-Strike. He averaged a 1.16 during the time with the North Macedonian side and was a big part of the team hitting the No. 30 spot in the world ranking.

CacaNito will reunite with BLUEJAYS' IGL kyxsan in Apeks

CacaNito had been in the orbit of teams like Endpoint and ENCE in previous transfer markets, but a transfer never materialized as they ended up going with the now established top flight players Lotan "⁠Spinx⁠" Giladi and Guy "⁠NertZ⁠" Iluz.

The North Macedonian now joins a squad led by his former teammate, Damjan "⁠kyxsan⁠" Stoilkovski, who has become a success story as an in-game leader capable of calling Apeks to Major semi-finals, which he did at the BLAST.tv Major in Paris.

kyxsan himself has also recently renewed his contract with the Norwegian organization, putting pen to paper to extend the partnership until the end of 2024.

kyxsan extends Apeks deal until end of 2024

The signing comes as jL is reportedly bound for Natus Vincere, a door which opened for the Lithuanian rifler as the Ukrainian organization is shifting to an international roster which would also include another Paris Major breakout, GamerLegion's Mihai "⁠iM⁠" Ivan, and Aleksi "⁠Aleksib⁠" Virolainen.

Media: NAVI in talks over iM and Aleksib

Apeks' roster will be:

Martin "⁠STYKO⁠" Styk
Joakim "⁠jkaem⁠" Myrbostad
Tim "⁠nawwk⁠" Jonasson
Damjan "⁠kyxsan⁠" Stoilkovski
Aleksandar "⁠CacaNito⁠" Kjulukoski

Jakub "⁠kuben⁠" Gurczynski (coach)

Apeks and CacaNito declined to comment on the story when approached by HLTV.

2023-06-26 16:55

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Whocanito

2023-06-26 17:23

9 replies

He's been one of the top prospects for a while now, probably doesn't get as much attention as the CIS awpers or Israeli players, but I think he will surprise a lot of people by how good he is. I think he is better than jL personally.

2023-06-26 19:40

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U trippin with better than jl part, but he is solid for sure

2023-06-26 21:45

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we will see, we will see. Bjays were carried by kyxsan and cacanito and they came to top 30. ALmost every time cacanito were top frager and had very very good games.

2023-06-26 22:18

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Everything i have known about bjay is they throw for food so hard

2023-06-27 02:44

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so you know nothing :D

2023-06-27 09:57

4 replies

2023-06-27 18:49

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Who tf asked u? omg hltv community today are full of nonsense comments and kiddos who has no idea of anything...

2023-06-28 09:43

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Yo Balkan. Chill

2023-06-28 13:00

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Ofc i am chill. Btw: next time try to bring something worth talking/writing, stop acting like 12 yo braindead kiddos

2023-06-28 14:43

Makes a ton of sense. Great pick up to replace a solid player

2023-06-27 15:35

kkkk

2023-06-27 18:24

nice

upgrade

I take that as a deep insult as a jL fan :(

2023-06-26 19:39

I'm not so sure

2023-06-26 21:20

2023-06-27 07:03

inb4 apeks go macedonian

2023-06-26 16:56

They have the only two good ones in existence

2023-06-26 17:41

xicoz crying in the corner

2023-06-26 19:06

As he should! xD

2023-06-27 08:51

great pickup, it's like BLUEJAYS but if they removed everyone who was bad. so pretty much everyone but kyxsan and cacanito.

ye exactly lol

2023-06-26 17:12

fax XD

2023-06-26 18:07

Rip Bymas

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fr get this guy a team cmon

2023-06-26 16:57

2023-06-26 18:45

Shakemas has done nothing to show he deserves a team

2023-06-26 17:03

a bit harsh when you consider players like borup get to astralis

2023-06-26 17:21

Borup is a veteran guy who been playing csgo for ages compared to Bymas being bad-decent-bad-goodforlike1tournament-bad for his like 2yr mouse career.

2023-06-26 19:13

+1 also was bad on faze

Borup has been grinding the game like crazy for past 2 years to get his opportunity, op's words are true

2023-06-26 21:47

bymas is grinding aswell. no hate to borup i just want to compare

2023-06-27 01:34

What exactly? I haven't seen him play on hltv even in t3

2023-06-27 18:21

as long he has a contract he cant play. and even if he doesnt have one, its not worth for him to play t3 cs.

2023-06-28 13:53

he is trash

2023-06-26 17:10

Still better than Sausol

2023-06-26 17:25

true but still trash

2023-06-26 17:27

great pickup

Big if true

apeks slowly turning into bluejays

I guess more ppl leave apeks anyway

Macedonia gang

cool

2023-06-26 16:58

apeks playing in 3 now ig

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he was averaging 1.16 which is more than jL was, I think this is a upgrade if he keeps up the results

2023-06-26 17:01

imo he's super mid, cannot understand why would apeks take him instead of young prospect like nilo, jimpphat

2023-06-26 17:07

because kyxsan used to play with him and as I said he had great results so why not give it a try

nilo and jimpphat expensive cacanito cheap probably

2023-06-26 17:51

cacanito uncontracted my guy

2023-06-26 17:52

Money isn't problem for Apeks

2023-06-26 18:03

how could you possibly know that and even if money 'isnt a problem', a free player will always seem attractive over a contracted one if skill is similar, and bruh #39

2023-06-26 18:05

Because Apeks owner is a millionaire + getting a young player is better cause you can sell him for profit in the future

2023-06-26 18:20

jimphatt is contracted to mouz and they don't give away their propsects. Likewise with nilo and NiP. Cacanito is very good, I predict he proves a lot of you wrong.

2023-06-26 19:43

Good player cheap good chemistry with kyxsan imo it’s not a bad change at all and apeks could very well attend another major

2023-06-26 23:23

2023-06-26 16:59

W but he needs to play LANs

they already qualified for like 3 at least so no worries

2023-06-26 17:02

yeah cologne play-in, epl and saudi event

2023-06-26 19:34

-nawwk +aidKit

2023-06-26 17:14

As a Macedonian, no.

2023-06-26 18:55

honestly nah

2023-06-26 19:05

LOL no

2023-06-27 10:06

good one lmao

2023-06-28 14:29

ty for filling in for ATK <3333 gl on apeks big man

Niceee!!!

There's potential apeks performs even better with him

operation: save nawwk

2023-06-26 17:04

Nah, i think he is exactly where he should. Its a good team.

2023-06-26 17:08

nawk is a great player, im sure that he will stay in the team and he will keep showing what is he capable of.

2023-06-26 18:00

Top 10 team, cry more.

2023-06-26 18:56

we'll see in the future dude

2023-06-27 14:03

new joseLuis nice

2023-06-26 17:05

what

jL standing for Jose Luis is a gag here

2023-06-26 17:13

-jkaem +stYleEeZ

2023-06-26 17:06

StYleEeZ was the worst player in BJ

2023-06-26 17:38

good move

downgrade but not so bad

could be worse

2023-06-28 14:32

i like it

2023-06-26 17:09

-styko +xicoz

holly shit yes

Ho cmon slow down, take it easy.

2023-06-27 11:31

Xicoz, which did not make it in the Slovak and Czech tournaments, will be better than STYKO? Did a snake or a spider bite you on the butt?

2023-06-27 11:33

Nah they are good like this! They need styko's experience. Styko can still shoot heads also. I can't wait to watch them on lan!

2023-06-27 18:54

congrats Aleksandar !!

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

if NaVi end up with: s1mple b1t jL Aleksib iM That's a scary squad. Would be interesting to see how s1mple gets along with Aleksi this time. iM and jL are amazing riflers.

Cacanito is actually really good, and was usually top performing at Bluejays. Glad for him, seems like a deserved upgrade!

I was under the impression that cacanito is completely incapable of playing in english?

All his teams been international ones except bluejays?

2023-06-26 17:22

GOD kyxsan translates to english mid-game while he is calling, no problem

2023-06-26 17:56

Well considering he was a stand-in for ATK, I would say that's unlikely.

2023-06-26 17:24

Macedonia is one of the best English speaking country in Europe for young people. Shouldn't be a problem

2023-06-26 22:01

I think kyxsan had a good say on this one lol

2023-06-26 17:19

It's nice to see a pickup that actually makes sense. Common Apeks W

Was thinking the same, it just seems to be a seamless replacement. Hyped to see if they can continue cooking like they were in Major!

2023-06-26 23:28

coach: Alex4nder Th3 Gre47

lmao

2023-06-26 19:07

Why keep signing unproven talent

He is proven to be very good in tier 2 even in tier 1 he played decently well..

2023-06-27 14:06

this basically means the navi rumors are true, if they werent already basically true

2023-06-26 17:28

instead of cypher you're getting a tier 4 player like JL lmao

2023-06-26 17:29

cypher is god on lan, tbh thats kinda it, yeah the dudes still young and promising can be a great tier 1 player soon but i would pick jL over cypher if im navi anyday, dudes just better and more experience, been around longer and isnt even an older player

2023-06-26 17:31

lmao, dude just said jl > cypher and maybe npl back instead of iM for a TOTAL LMAO

2023-06-26 18:02

this name cacanito means something along like "sheet" in many languages lmao

kakkaniito

2023-06-26 17:57

yeah p00p00nito )))

2023-06-26 17:58

Nice. This is a great move for Apeks.

Caca lmao

2023-06-26 17:35

Godnito

2023-06-26 17:36

hltv.org/news/35307/apeks-complete-roste.. the prophet speaks but am i ever wrong? hltv.org/forums/threads/2741970/next-tie..

2023-06-26 17:39

Letssss goooooo. Caca and kyxsan back together

2023-06-26 17:45

caca = poop or shit in spanish

caca = poop in half the languages

Ye, he will poop on everyone in the future.

2023-06-26 18:13

haahhaahhhhaah +1

2023-06-26 19:09

caca lmao nice name

2023-06-26 18:15

I actually love this team. I want them to stay tier 1, and O think they have a fine chance of doing so

2023-06-26 17:50

Ok don

not bad

2023-06-26 18:04

Good addition

2023-06-26 18:17

powerful roster

2023-06-26 18:19

2023-06-26 18:32

could've been way worse, hope it will turn out well

2023-06-26 18:41

A tier 2 player for a tier 2 team , pretty okay

2023-06-26 18:42

This is solid, Kyxsan already has a good understanding of the type of player he is and Cacanito was putting up his best numbers with him as an IGL. I do wonder if it may get to the point where they need to let go of Styko for more firepower. Jkaem and Nawwk are still solid, and Cacanito can make up for some of the firewpower... but JL's shoes are hard to fill.

Good pickup

2023-06-26 18:57

It's an upgrade, but I feel like there were other interesting guys to pickup before cacanito. Maybe kyxsan knows him well and can see his potential. Or Apeks didn't want to spend too much.

2023-06-26 18:58

reported

2023-06-26 18:59

2023-06-26 19:00

who is this

Great rifle from Macedonia.

2023-06-26 20:31

you're really trying to convince yourself your country is called whatever u are calling it,lul

2023-06-30 23:17

It was a good option for Apeks to pick him up even though there were young players on the transfer lists, also flameZ was up there but he got picked up by Vitality pretty quick, dupreeh could have joined the squad but I guess he can try astralis. Overall a good move for Apeks I'm eager to see them in the next lans and more.

Insane roster move, CacaNito is even better than jL.

2023-06-26 20:24

We'll see. Kyxsan and cacanito played together for a lot of time. So he really knows how to use him, I hope this will be a good roster move.

Macedonia stronk 💪💪💪💪

2023-06-26 21:10