zonic to miss Gamers8

15-8-2023 16:42

Vitality's analyst, Mathieu "⁠MaT⁠" Leber, will stand behind the team at the Saudi Arabian event instead.

zonic "has to stay home for a personal event," Vitality said

Vitality's coach, Danny "⁠zonic⁠" Sørensen, will not be present with the team at the upcoming Gamers8 tournament due to personal circumstances, the organization has announced.

The announcement came just a little over a day before the kick-off of the $1 million tournament taking place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The event will be played in a single-elimination format from August 16-20 and has pitted Vitality up against MIBR in the round of 16 on Wednesday.

Date	Matches
Gamers8 2023
16/08/2023	MIBR 17:15 Vitality	Match

Vitality will be one of the favorites of the ruthless tournament, sitting at No. 2 in the world according to the HLTV ranking as one of the most consistent and successful teams of the year.

The European squad will eye the trophy in their third tournament following the addition of Shahar "⁠flameZ⁠" Shushan, who replaced Peter "⁠dupreeh⁠" Rasmussen on the roster during the summer break. Vitality previously traversed the BLAST Premier Fall Groups to qualify for the Fall Final and made it to the semi-finals of IEM Cologne, where they were eliminated by ENCE.

Missing the veteran coach could be a significant roadblock on Vitality's quest after the title, though, combined with the fact that their in-game leader, Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire, has yet to arrive in Riyadh after encountering travel issues.

Oh no!

2023-08-15 16:42

12 replies

Anyone knows reason? Is it because he is against arab money event like #20 said? 🤔

2023-08-15 16:56

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That would be a dumb move if true. I doubt it tho

2023-08-15 21:08

zonic is arab

2023-08-15 23:01

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what are you on about, he is brazilian

2023-08-16 04:53

Pork is haram in Saudi Arabia so no pork = no zonic

2023-08-16 00:39

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LMAO haha

2023-08-16 01:14

no pork, no gamers8

so why flamez is there? israelis/jews also dont eat pork its not kosher..

2023-08-16 09:15

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please do not chose a career involving logic or any real use of the brain thanks.

2023-08-16 11:29

yeah you really seem to be iliterate

2023-08-21 05:28

Lmao no zonic doesn’t have brain rot.

2023-08-16 14:25

Apex will be exposed eithout Goat coach zonic

2023-08-16 11:36

Ok nice

Wow very unfortunate for the team :(

unfortunate

vita is out in 1st round confirmed

no chance to lose to mibr , but second round elimination possible

2023-08-15 17:21

they will lose on semi finals from G2

2023-08-15 19:57

Unlikely, but no one cares about this Saudi tournament anyway. "Tier 1" event with zero prestige.

2023-08-15 17:48

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The teams surely care because of the 1 million prize pool

2023-08-15 19:20

this is legit one of the biggest esports tournaments, now cs is part of the loop, youre just clueless LOL

2023-08-15 20:03

Not ESL = irrelevant and 0 prestige, obviously... smh

2023-08-19 20:40

You wanna tell me its not prestige in Saudi Arabia but its prestige in Paris? The most dirty And stinky city in the world? Or katowice??? A Polish city nobody even cares about ahahah you are dumb bro

2023-08-15 20:37

says a bulgarian LOL

2023-08-15 21:17

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Germany cares about Polish cities. :) O.o :)

2023-08-15 21:41

well... "polish" cities

2023-08-16 00:02

idc about polish cities but i know from a half bulgarian friend that bulgaria is worse, even sofia the capital

2023-08-16 01:51

salty cuz no bulgaria in csgo event rooster :D

2023-08-15 23:00

affect my bet cmon

not good

2023-08-15 16:43

well, there goes my hope of a trophy to vita and fantasy

2023-08-15 16:44

i would like to miss saudi event in august as well, couldnt stand the heat

2023-08-15 16:46

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There are ACs unlike your country

2023-08-15 17:10

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Question, does ac even do anything for you guys? And is it really expensive? Cause i have it in canada and sometimes it doesn't even help when it's 40c... couldn't imagine yall with constant heat

2023-08-15 17:28

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It might be due to construction materials in the Middle East vs. Canada. We have thick brick walls + multi-paned windows instead of wood. A/C does really good here. You're almost never in direct heat, if you're at home you have A/C, driving you have A/C, offices you have A/C, shopping malls you have A/C. Only when you're driving or biking you might feel the blaze, but that is quite rare. Cars, petrol, and electricity are all dirt cheap.

2023-08-15 19:07

Let’s see how it is in 10 years

2023-08-16 00:32

Didn't know all that thanks:) glad you guys have good ac

2023-08-16 20:49

US air conditioning is actually the best thing to exist

2023-08-16 00:25

well normally you dont need one, except 2 weeks in July or August

2023-08-15 19:13

True, you have beautiful weather.

2023-08-15 20:01

Total confidence in MaT, present for years, very competent and highly respected by players

well crap, apEX also having issues trying to fly to Riyadh but at least he get to smoke weed with rain, SunPayus, and the other one :v

2023-08-15 16:48

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??? Elaborate

It was a joke, apex is stuck in the Netherlands right now cause he cant get a flight and just happened to meet SunPayus, rain, and Falcons's coach and just hung out for the night.

2023-08-15 16:57

I would rather not go to riyahd and smoke weed with Rain and sunpayus, way better than melting.

2023-08-15 17:08

Yep

2023-08-15 17:11

Sounds fun

2023-08-16 01:15

"the other one" made my day

2023-08-15 22:18

Unfortunate, but MaT is more than capable

2023-08-15 16:47

emuLate MaT we trust you legend

Noooo zoniccccc

its joever for vitality

2023-08-15 16:51

he is the only one holding apex back from going full clown.

This was the comment i was lookin for!!! 🖤

called it

ZywOo go kill will activate now.

2023-08-15 16:52

G2 free run now.

2023-08-15 16:54

There we go - confirmation of the rumour. I have no idea how this will effect Vitality but I can see apEX struggling without Zonic to call timeouts.

2023-08-15 16:55

He alredy struggling to not create drama bruh, you see him tilting every round

2023-08-15 17:07

True but that doesn't usually affect his game. Mostly dumb deaths or kills he should've gotten that tilts him, the team still look structured despite that. I think it will just be more noticeable now, so Vitality have a point to prove that they can still win games without Zonic when everything isn't hunky dory.

2023-08-15 17:34

tilt in general affects performance

2023-08-15 17:56

I think it will improve him abit, when the pressure gets to him he plays way better sometimes, only plays with stupid peeks when it's really going bad for others.

2023-08-15 18:55

Yeah, agreed. :)

2023-08-15 18:57

It's a pity, vitality will be hard at the tournament

2023-08-15 17:01

Vitality winning this

2023-08-15 17:06

sad

Finally we have a good coach.

2023-08-15 17:23

zonic loves eating pork, unfortunately it's forbidden in saudi arabia, what a shame, see u soon best coach <8

2023-08-15 17:24

Ahahaaha

2023-08-15 17:53

He is danish, we eat pork)

2023-08-16 09:09

I am french, we love jambon and saucisson here 🔥🔥

2023-08-16 10:20

And frog no?

2023-08-16 12:21

never tasted even once

2023-08-16 12:40

Visiting dupreeh to ask him to come back for CS2.

2023-08-15 17:29

MaT is great, we won't see any difference. And the experience he can get from this event is nothing but good for Vitality !

Okok, this is NOT funny. You guys are pro and fessionals, aight? Just hologram him in via Zoom 3D call. And I and so many others don`t care if this is against the rules to use AI driven 3D hologram hocus pokus CGI VFX deep fakes... We talk about ZONIC!!! What next, let Gary miss a major???

2023-08-15 17:43