{"id":7427,"date":"2023-10-26T20:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T20:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/s1mple-puts-esports-career-on-hold"},"modified":"2023-10-26T20:02:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T20:02:02","slug":"s1mple-puts-esports-career-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/s1mple-puts-esports-career-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"s1mple puts esports career on hold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iconic Ukrainian Counter-Strike player, Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyljev, has decided to take a break in his esports career, announcing his decision to step down temporarily from Natus Vincere’\u0099s starting lineup. The decision marks the first time in seven years that s1mple hasn’\u0099t won the yellow and black of Ukraine’\u0099s most famous organization.<\/p>\n

In announcing his decision, s1mple said in a statement that he wished to take a break to focus ‘\u009cdocuments and take care of other people in my life’\u009d and that he was willing to entertain offers from other organizations.<\/p>\n

s1mple also mentioned that he will work on his own CS2-related project and promised to reveal it later.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Natus Vincere spoke of s1mple’\u0099s accolades with NAVI:<\/p>\n

“With him, Born to Win became champions at the PGL Major Stockholm 2021, successfully completed the $1,000,000 Intel Grand Slam, and reached the podiums of the most prestigious tournaments multiple times. During his time in NAVI, s1mple became HLTV.org’s Player of the Year three times and earned 21 MVP medals.”<\/p>\n

HLTV’s sources<\/a> say that NAVI wants to hire Sprout’\u0099s Ukrainian AWPer Ihor “\u00e2\u0081\u00a0w0nderful\u00e2\u0081\u00a0” Zhdanov to fill the vacant place and they are close to signing the contract.<\/p>\n

NAVI are currently:<\/strong><\/p>\n