{"id":14265,"date":"2022-09-19T17:51:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T17:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/the-return-of-kings-from-csgo-to-valorant"},"modified":"2022-09-19T17:51:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T17:51:50","slug":"the-return-of-kings-from-csgo-to-valorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/the-return-of-kings-from-csgo-to-valorant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Kings: from Valorant to CS:GO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following the release of VALORANT<\/a>, many former CS:GO professionals decided to either take a break from the game or leave it altogether<\/a>, some of which have returned to our beloved game of Counter-Strike. Today, I’m talking about some who have returned from Riot Games’\u0099 shooter game.<\/p>\n

nitr0’s return<\/h2>\n

Nicholas “\u00e2\u0081\u00a0nitr0\u00e2\u0081\u00a0” Cannella started his CS:GO career back in early 2014 playing for Area 51 Gaming and became one of the most formidable In-Game Leaders ever.<\/p>\n

Nitr0’\u0099s career had been on pause, thought never to be resumed after leaving Liquid in August 2020 to play VALORANT. Since then, nitr0 proceeded to win the first-ever VALORANT championship with 100 Thieves.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The American legend later announced his retirement from the game to return to CS:GO, reuniting with his former organization, Team Liquid, where he had won the second season of the Intel Grand Slam.<\/p>\n

The announcement has sparked conversations amongst fans and professional players alike talking about the future of the North American scene within the game. Nobody knows where it’s headed from here-on; one thing is for sure: nitr0’s return has ignited a flame that had once dulled in the hearts of American Counter-Strike fans.<\/p>\n

Autimatic to EG<\/h2>\n

Timothy “autimatic” Ta is a former semi-professional Counter-Strike: Source player and a current professional Global Offensive player. He most notably played for Team SoloMid, Cloud9, and Gen.G Esports in the past.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The American professional resigned from Gen.G Esports in February 2021 to pursue a career in VALORANT after being signed by T1. After nearly a year of participating in A-tier events, Ta wasn’t satisfied with the way things had turned out for him in the VALORANT scene, establishing his return to professional Counter-Strike as part of Evil Geniuses’ revamped squad.<\/p>\n

NBK- to MOUZ<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After being benched from the OG Esports main roster in February 2021, Nathan “NBK-” Schmitt attempted to kickstart a career in VALORANT after not receiving any contracts from organizations meant the Frenchman’s inevitable return to Counter-Strike.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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He recently went on to join the main roster of MOUZ <\/a>where he joined up with young names such as Aurimas “Bymas” Pipiras and David “frozen” \u00c4\u008cer\u00c5\u0088ansk\u00c3\u00bd, a team that could greatly benefit from the experience of a veteran such as Nathan, especially with him having won two Majors and playing for some of the best teams to date.<\/p>\n

daps as head coach<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Damian “daps” Steele is a former coach and is currently a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player from Canada. He left the world of Counter-Strike to have a run at a professional career in VALORANT in late 2020, but before doing so, he played for many world-renowned teams such as Team Liquid, Cloud9, Gen.G Esports, OpTic Gaming, and NRG. When leaving for VALORANT, he signed with the organization above of NRG, previously known as NRG Esports.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Canadian veteran made his return to Counter-Strike after nearly a year competing in VALORANT as the head coach of Evil Geniuses and is now playing with a team by the name of “Orgless”.<\/p>\n

koosta with daps<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Kenneth “koosta” Suen, a former Gen.G player, has joined Damian “daps” Steele’s Orgless squad as the latest VALORANT player to return to CS:GO. A month after the initiative was made public, the 25-year-old athlete has assumed Gage “Infinite” Green’s slot on the lineup.<\/p>\n

Kenneth “koosta” Suen<\/p>\n

After being reassigned to Gen.G’s VALORANT team, koosta withdrew from CS:GO at the start of 2021. Gen.G briefly ranked fifth in North America on VLR.gg’s team ranking during his stint with the Korean-American company. Still, he failed to win any career-defining trophies in the game’s top-tier North American competitions. With koosta, Gen.G’s most notable accomplishment was a third-place finish in the VCT North America Stage 1 Masters.<\/p>\n

draken’s journey to the top tiers<\/strong><\/h2>\n

William “draken” Sundin is a well-known Swedish professional player, having played for some of the most distinguished teams in the world of Counter-Strike, some of them being the legendary Fnatic and Ninjas in Pyjamas or “NiP”.<\/p>\n

William “draken” Sundin<\/p>\n

He transitioned into VALORANT in August of 2020 when the team of Inferno signed him. He played for a handful of teams during his residency at VALORANT but later carried out his retirement and reappearance into Counter-Strike with the team of Savage, joining with other familiar faces such as Simon ‘\u009ctwist’\u009d Eliasson and\u00a0Niclas ‘\u009cPlesseN’\u009d Plessen.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Nobody knows what the future holds for any of these players. Still, the one thing that we can be sure about is that no matter how many first-person shooters are out there, it’\u0099s not going to be easy to dethrone Counter-Strike and the rearrival of these players is more than enough proof to support that claim.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the release of VALORANT, many former CS:GO professionals decided to either take a break from the game or leave it altogether, some of which have returned to our beloved game of Counter-Strike. Today, I’m talking about some who have returned from Riot Games’\u0099 shooter game. nitr0’s return Nicholas “\u00e2\u0081\u00a0nitr0\u00e2\u0081\u00a0” Cannella started his CS:GO career<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":14266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}