{"id":19057,"date":"2025-01-07T10:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T10:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=19057"},"modified":"2025-01-07T10:15:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T10:15:46","slug":"nertz-joins-liquid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/nertz-joins-liquid\/","title":{"rendered":"NertZ Joins Liquid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Liquid <\/strong>has revealed the signing of Guy <strong>&#8216;NertZ&#8217; <\/strong>Iluz, aiming to restore their roster to full capacity following the exit of Mareks <strong>&#8216;YEKINDAR&#8217; <\/strong>Ga\u013cinskis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8216;NertZ&#8217; <\/strong>is anticipated to bring significant strength to the <strong>Liquid <\/strong>lineup, having achieved an average<strong> rating of 1.14<\/strong> while playing for <strong>HEROIC <\/strong>in 2024 and just falling short of making it onto the Top 20 players of the year list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The in-game positions in the new Liquid might become an issue, as <strong>Twistzz&#8217;s <\/strong>team doesn&#8217;t have a typical entry fragger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8216;NertZ&#8217; <\/strong>is set to take over for <strong>&#8216;YEKINDAR&#8217; <\/strong>on the active roster, following the announcement of his departure at the end of December after the Latvian experienced a difficult conclusion to his tenure with the Dutch organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The modification might provide <strong>Liquid <\/strong>with the chance to qualify for the Major as a team from Asia, considering they currently have two players from that region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Liquid Announcement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamLiquidCS\/status\/1876313108299518001\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Liquid roster is as follows:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keith <strong>&#8216;\u2060NAF\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>Markovic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Russel <strong>&#8216;\u2060Twistzz\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>Van Dulken<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Justin <strong>&#8216;\u2060jks\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>Savage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Roland <strong>&#8216;\u2060ultimate\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>Tomkowiak<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guy <strong>&#8216;NertZ\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>Iluz<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Torbj\u00f8rn <strong>&#8216;mithR\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>Nyborg (coach)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mareks <strong>&#8216;\u2060YEKINDAR\u2060&#8217; <\/strong>Ga\u013cinskis (benched)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Keep up with our coverage for more insights on the latest esports news and updates.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liquid has revealed the signing of Guy &#8216;NertZ&#8217; Iluz, aiming to restore their roster to full capacity following the exit of Mareks &#8216;YEKINDAR&#8217; Ga\u013cinskis. &#8216;NertZ&#8217; is anticipated to bring significant strength to the Liquid lineup, having achieved an average rating of 1.14 while playing for HEROIC in 2024 and just falling short of making it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":19058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,11],"class_list":["post-19057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cs-2","tag-cs2","tag-cs2-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19057","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\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19059,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19057\/revisions\/19059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}