ElBarco rumours 2.10.

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Click not goin toNavi

Kamo likely to Liquid, Kristal tryout liquid

Current Liquid roster: Nats - Keiko - Kamo -Kamyk

Runner confirmed for giantx

BBL tryouts for Profek and Click

Koalanoob (close to) confirmed for NAVI >90%

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How does runner get a job before tomaszy man? Life is so unfair

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Tomaszy is a hot stock for the remaining duelist spots. Probably gonna end up on Gentlemates or KOI if i had to guess

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liquid cooking. Click really got fucked over man

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NAVI xeus?

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Congo1

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Honestly ... with happy i would expect koalanoob....

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Koala is good. One of the best AWPers in the world imo and performed very well on LAN. Id prefer xeus if I was a NAVI fan but Koala and Click are pretty interchangable to me. Koala more proven but Click is pretty cracked

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I think the issue with koala is his weird agent pool

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he's only not good at raze and they have NaTank for that if need be

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unfortunately he is trapped in tier 2

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Congo1

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He has never played neon in his life my guy

And natank played one map in his career

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gold2peak

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Teams probably don't wanna risk potentially wasting 100k on a player who was shaky in trials. I just hope whoever they sign is not some NA bot

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every time i watch xeus it looks like hes cheating he has some of the most insane aim I have seen

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Gx cooked themselves with runner hopefully they can make it up and get good 5th player or else it is cooked

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catNmouse

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koalanoob actually confirmed to navi…? shit i’m happy for him but roles will be so damn weird in that team, getting a pure duelist just makes things way less complicated

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Rocky54

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It’s not confirmed it’s a rumour if you go to see the same day click fall to finalise a deal with navi i assume because of happy you can see kolanoob twitteing 2 times this is really good day so he probably got a call from happy

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catNmouse

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elbarco has been hitting with the leaks so far, i swear if this is the one they get wrong

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gablin

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That's the thing I don't understand. Happy gets the job and immediately hits up koalanoob. No way there was not at least a bit of nepotism involved, no?

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Congo1

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i doubt he even trialed with them. He probably just straight up picked him up like that...

I hope it doesnt collapse

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he was his coach and he prob thinks that he can go t1. coaches usually do this whenever they move teams in every sport.

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gablin

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But how do you know that the team chemistry works and that they can play well together without trials? Sometimes the best player is not the best solution. I think if this goes through there is world where this team doesnt work out (could be wrong though)

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happy personally coached him tho. i think he knows what he is capable of. i don think he personally chose him just to be buddy buddy with him considering happy is a well respected coach. i dont think navi would fail just because they dont trial him at first. multiple rosters have trialed and even been dominant in them and have flopped. trials are only an indication if thinks are working but never final.

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I understand that he's a reasonably good coach, but he's on a completely different and new team. He can't really assess well if this will work out if he's only really familiar with koalanoob and not the team. Either way, the decision to contact koalanoob and think about signing him feels rushed considering Happy's being put on a new team.

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it is rushed but i think its more of a statement signing as well. happy hasnt been involved in signing the other 4 or been really trialing with them until recently so management probably told him that he couuld chose whoever he wanted as long as it was a duelist.

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No no no. Koalanoob confirmed to NAVI has not been said brother. Likely but not confirmed

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i was gonna say cause no way it would happen that fast

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Congo1

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It will happen. Might not have a 100% agreement reached but it will very very likely happen/finish.

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Congo1

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i take >90% as practically confirmed.

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Mortadelo

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Take it as you will but Click also had a P until Happy came in. Confirmed is a strong word

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Congo1

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well... there is no head coach spot open anymore... so...

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Mortadelo

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Sure but it can still fall through and if it does people will think el barco said it was confirmed when that's not what they said

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patuj

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wtf NAVI.... Really hope BBL cook something tho and goes english speaking. Profek, Click, Rose, +, + or something would be cool

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Why is "nepotism" seen as a terrible thing in roster construction?
Short trial periods are not enough to properly assess players, you cannot assess how they will react when losing big games or longer form issues that arise in team environments.
Yes i understand that "mechanical better players" may be left out but we have seen time and time again that team dynamics are key.

Nepotism can only take you so far in a competitive space, you will need some expertise to stay/progress.

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Congo1

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Sure. An omen/Sage player is gonna complete this roster pefectly on the duelist role... like tf u do with yoru jett in this meta?

They have no neon on the team... Natank only play raze.

Idk man we will see

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another year of navi being peak entertainment, i respect that

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Why Kamo bro…
Shit management… :(

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Congo1

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Kamo has been a top option for the remaining 4 duelist spots. TL "won the race" in that sense.

Other two options would be tomaszy or filu

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if kamo was bad you wouldnt sign him. hes been trialing around with many teams and if he wasnt performing in trials he wouldnt have so many potential destinations

he had highest acs in stage 2 emea too

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I straight up said "imagine if bro joins Navi" in Koala's chat yesterday LMAO

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BBL Profek is so random, why put a polish around 4 turks and ruin comms

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kanyefan4238173

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bbl cooking wtf

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Runner and Koalanoob getting a team before Tomaszy...what happened to the game I love?!

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I didnt watch many of kc games is tomaszy really that good? Everyone talks about him rn... Can you name me a player he was as good as because idk how good he is