http://www.hltv.org/news/16470-luminosity-to-change-two

Speculation, but still interesting discussion none the less, +TACO +fnx -Steel -boltz

It's already confirmed Boltz announced it on Twitter. I can't really tell you anything about the two they're adding but I hope they don't do well since Brazilians are the most obnoxious fans on hltv man I swear

LG also announced it on their website http://luminosity.gg/articles/news/general/26/lg-calls-on-fnx-taco-zews

and here ya go http://www.hltv.org/news/16474-official-luminosity-add-fnx-taco

idk dude I think the Polish fans have them beat...

idk it's close but brazil is worse imo. At least Polish people don't believe that LG is top3 after they win yet another bo1

Seangares stepping down from cloud9 from their twitter

http://cloud9.gg/news/sean-steps-down/

Yep seans gonezo

http://www.hltv.org/news/16479-sgares-steps-down-from-cloud9

Hopefully this sparks a true shuffle

I'd love to see some real predictions on who c9 gets, all hltv gives me is swag and pronax lmao.

Also can we rename this whole thread cs shuffle winter 2015

Since they announced open tryouts I doubt get right and pronax are going to come over (personally I thought that was stupid anyway) I think they might tryout ryx, roca, and some other. Since they lost their 2nd awper I would understand if they looked for someone that can fill that role. Idk who really since NA seems to be locked in a lot of places.

ryx? lol

https://twitter.com/c9seangares/status/669274048468119552 sean might stream tomorrow to answer questions....

They're going to wait until january until Swag gets unbanned. There's also the speculation by Richard Lewis that Get Right , whose contract with nip ends in a few weeks, was in talks with C9

koosta is the best up and coming player, but I don't know if he's willing to be a secondary awper and I don't think c9 is smart enough to plan for a double awp economy

plus there's the normal 'onliner' bullshit mentality that plagues top teams.

pimp would be the best EU transfer they could get at the moment, unless GTR is really willing to come across the atlantic. pronax is a good rifler but he wouldn't fit c9 as an igl and if he's not calling he's not enough of an asset.

he proved himself at RGN

one lan isn't enough for some of those guys. I've been on the koosta train for a while and I really believe he's the second or third best NA awp but I can't see him jumping straight from NME to c9. it's too big a leap and the only other person to recently make a similar leap was shroud who is a transcendent talent (even if I don't think he's going to ever make full use of that talent)

#prayforryx I really love that guy

I'd be down completely for a Pimp transfer. Not really a gtr guy, but he's good

Koosta sounds cool but he'd thin the good pool, and I also want Liquid to pickup a good awper and cut adren, but that'll never happen.
I also think picking up koosta is a really stupid decision since the team lacks firepower.

I can't really see anyone leaving a top team to join. Not sure who they'd snag players from since no real good ones are teamless

Maybe they import players that'd be fun to see who they get.

c9 as the org has the money to pay buyouts so it's not a question of can they get a player, more of will the player want to move to c9

GTR is the perfect name for C9 tbh. They're an org that picks players based on more than just in-game skill, and GTR is still the face of CSGO. Assuming they get him on a decent streaming schedule he'd be one of the biggest draws in the game and they'd be super quick to build more branding around him.

Valens has stepped down from complexity.
http://www.complexitygaming.com/articles/news/press/4569/changes-to-col.cs
http://www.hltv.org/news/16506-valens-leaves-complexity
This means that c9 will probably tryout the whole team lmao

they wouldnt pick up valens

roca is a beast

You're right because he's awful, the thing said that he isn't playing anymore, and I didn't even say I thought he would

Just wanted to show these
http://www.hltv.org/?pageid=246&playerid=8516
http://www.hltv.org/?pageid=173&playerid=8516&eventid=0&gameid=2

16-0 LG LOLOLOL

doesnt matter if they still got out of pools and took down nip and nv lol

Tbh fnatic looks strong this tourney

can we just give some credit to how fucking AMAZING LG has been playing especially with 2 NEW players. Major cred to TACO and fnx. Especially FalleN, if it wasn't for him, LG would be nowhere near where they are today.

LG

http://danishdragon.com/plugdj/kreygasm.png

God.
If you didn't watch TSM vs LG on inferno, go watch that shit. My heart.

PogChamp

I have no idea where the fuck device was that series. Its like he was lost on another island or something

Amazing performance by LG so far. Can't believe they just beat fnatic on the map they picked just a few days after they got wrecked 16-0 by this same very team (!). GO LG !