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G2 bench Davidp

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December 18, 2020

G2 Esports G2 Esports Europe Rank #0 Mixwell Oscar Cañellas ardiis Ardis Svarenieks paTiTek Patryk Fabrowski pyth Jacob Mourujärvi has benched Davidp and is allowing him to pursue other options, confirming an earlier report by neL of 1pv.

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VALORANT Roster Update - December 2020

g2esports.com/2020/12/18/val…

The official announcement provided some additional insight, citing a desire to "deepen [their] flexibility moving forward."

Team manager Maik "MaikTurtle" Maik Löffler expanded on the move:

It's exactly what they say: it's harder to stay at the top than it is to reach the top and we will always want to stay at the top, no matter what. This requires ambition and energy which will get put into it, but it also requires adaption and flexibility at times which might seem shocking. David completed our roster a few months ago and we have seen incredible success together. It has been an emotional few months and we are super thankful for the time with David, but as a team, we came to the conclusion to search for additional options and let him explore as well. We will do all we can to support David with his future and are sure that we'll meet David on VALORANT servers very soon.

G2 recently suffered its first major tournament loss to Team Heretics Team Heretics Europe Rank #0 nieSoW Dustyn Durnas AvovA Auni Chahade nukkye Žygimantas Chmieliauskas lowel Christian Garcia Antoran pAura Melih Karaduran in the semifinals of First Strike: Europe, ultimately placing in the top 4. Prior, the team had taken first in six consecutive major European events.

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Tweet from Davidp

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rip

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I think he will find another team, he is a good player. Maybe cutting down on the toxic tweets can help also.

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Maybe going to Vitality? idk

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+yacine but i dont think Yacine wil leave Guild :(

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G2 needs a IGL

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Leaving my Guild for G2 would be like Ronaldo joining Hammarby IF in Sweden.

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Sayf is a really exciting addition, the guild team could really be special, as I consider you, sayf and draken to be superstar level players.

Leo is also very good, especially for his age, and bonkar is one the best IGLs in EU. Overall, extremely strong roster.

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LOL legend

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yep, pretty accurate

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mf talks way too much for someone who cant win a single tourney or beat unsigned teams in first strike qualifiers

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and wheres your tournament win? youre talking to bro hhhh

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Yeah they def didn't beat G2

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they played g2 6 maps and thats the first time they "won" then they get DQ'd for exploiting LMFAO stay mad bc your team cant win shit

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They still would have lost tho, I know their boosted egos couldn’t take that loss so they just cried to riot so they could get another chance to loose. Embarrassing, they lost and came back just to loose again lmfao

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you’re braindead if you think they got dq’d because of g2 because g2 didn’t even know that guild got dq’d until like an hour before the match guild was supposed to play against nip. and it still doesn’t change the fact that guild lost to nolpenki, an unsigned team who disbanded after first strike

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Yes, the G2 players didn't know anything until 1 hour before, but obviously it was the managers and the org of G2 who made the deque happen together with Riot, not the players. Not having G2 qualiy for First Strike would have been a big loss in views etc, and money talks...

The fact that nolpenki wasn't signed doesn't take away their skill, look at SUMN FC, an unsigned team who were in the finals. Nolpenki also have (had) much invidual skill, and in a BO1 this can explain why they won, even if I think Guild shoud've won.

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Damn Swedes always using exploit boosts smh

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nope g2 had nothing to do with the ban it was all riot and if guild "should've won," why didnt they? all the other teams had no problem qualifying for first strike

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The best answer for that is probably a combination of BO1, bad seeding-rules and ofc that they didn't play at their best. EU First Strike was however a joke with all the BO1s, but maybe even more dumb was the seeding-system. Guild qualifed in the C-qualifer, and got seed nr1 for that going into the final playoffs. The rest of the teams in C-qualifer got seed 2-16. Nolpenki however, qualifed in D-qualifer, and got the best seed from that, with the 17 seed, and the rest got 18-32 from D-qualifer. How stupid is it then that the best teams from both qualifers is in the same tree in the playoffs? That is why they met so early, because EU First strike ruling was a joke.

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Hell yeah, finally that clown out

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+meddo

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they need igl

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+lowel and gg wp

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Not sure why they didn't keep the roster. Davidp was not the problem. Pyth was the problem. But pyth is only a problem because he doesn't understand Valorant yet in the same way nitr0 struggles on Omen.

Any org would be crazy not to instant pick this man up. He clutched out hard in First Strike. Constantly made smart plays. oof. pyth better work out :)

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I’d agree davidp wasn’t the problem but pyth is a pretty smart player, not sure what ur tryna get at. And nitro is actually one of the better omens NA (not exactly the highest bar but still)

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In watching First Strike and JBL, I've seen nitr0 misplay his smoke + teleport more times than I can count.

What I'm getting at is that it's a new game and it takes time to be proficient. Pyth had a lot of issues in First Strike but he is definitely an investment player, like nitr0. They may not be the best now but the potential upside is exponentially higher. That's it.

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agreed

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Adios

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Mixwell "two faces" Toledo

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Of course, he's played on a team with NBK before.

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