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Gen.G part ways with koosta

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February 18, 2022

Gen.G Gen.G Korea Rank #1 Foxy9 Jung Jae-sung (정재성) t3xture Kim Na-ra (김나라) Munchkin Byeon Sang-beom (변상범) yoman Chae Young-moon (채영문) Karon Kim Won-tae (김원태) have parted ways with longtime member Kenneth "koosta" Suen.

@GenG

From CSGO to VALORANT, we want to give a huge thank you to @koosta for everything he's brought to our teams and org!

Wishing you the best wherever your career takes you - #TigerNation is always rooting for you! 🐯💛🖤

koosta's time with Gen.G began in December 2019, when he was still competing in CS:GO. Two years later — in late January 2021 — he left CS:GO to join Gen.G's Valorant roster. His departure came around the same time as many other notable talents from North American CS:GO chose to discontinue their competitive careers in Valve's tactical FPS and compete in Valorant.

In 2021 with Gen.G, koosta and company found a handful of top-four finishes at the end of Stage 1, namely a fourth place finish in Stage 1 Challengers 3 and a third place finish at Stage 1 Masters. In Stage 2, the team continued to make appearances in playoff brackets, but couldn't secure a finish similar to or better than what they had achieved in Stage 1. After the new year of competition kicked off, Gen.G's results continued to wane, and the team exited both open qualifier events of Stage 1 challengers in the round of 16.

With Gen.G now down to four active players, the team's search for a new fifth has begun, with the organization revealing that they will be trialing players in the upcoming weeks. The next time that Gen.G will appear in tournament will be in the YFP Winter Classic which begins next week. Their first match of the event will be against UnitedERA UnitedERA Inactive on Monday, February 21.

The roster of Gen.G Gen.G Korea Rank #1 Foxy9 Jung Jae-sung (정재성) t3xture Kim Na-ra (김나라) Munchkin Byeon Sang-beom (변상범) yoman Chae Young-moon (채영문) Karon Kim Won-tae (김원태) is currently:

Emir "rhyme" Muminovic
Anthony "gMd" Guimond
Nicholas "NaturE" Garrison
Shawn "Shawn" O'Riley
Andrew "Blank" Leverette (Manager)
Chris "Elmapuddy" Tebbit (Coach)

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W for rhyme fans

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Expected. I don't think it's a good strategy for an org to pay the contract of a player that doesn't put the time and work into the game you want to succeed at. Even more if he's supposedly the IGL of the team. You want motivated players.

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I thought gmd is the IGL

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W, paycheck stealer gone!

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bro just gave the tldr of #3 and got downvoted

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Fr 💀

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no matter who they replace this team will never find success
just disband

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Common jblancard L

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Whole Brazil should disband from Valorant & find something good in R6

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+Jerk ?

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W. Hope Geng can do better next challengers cuz rhyme is insane

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he never plays

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Apparently he doesnt play the game anymore, and you know this game rewards the grinders, maybe he lost motivation and that affects a lot.

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eh true

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this will only be good if we replace him with someone really good cause koosta wasnt consistently bad or good

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Yea agree, Koosta was always decent on sentinel. But when they started messing with his roles to sova and later jett he got worse. Last VCT wasn't even that bad, but he probably just doesn't like the game enough to keep him around.

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I forget whether or not NaturE is their IGL but if he is, they should probably get aproto or maybe Levi if TSM get rid of him(and move NaturE back to sentinels). If he isn't, they should probably go after someone like payen or stellar to fill in as the sentinel main and bring an experienced IGL to the team. Something needed to be changed and I just hope they make the right addition.

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They’re looking for jett player like Jerk

Ps: joke

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jerk has played jett a total of 2 times

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Didn't know that you make the roster moves for Gen.G
Why would they look for a jett player when they have Rhyme
Jerk has played jett two times so why tf would they get him if they're looking for a jett player
If they are going after a jett main, they should go after someone like Koalanoob or Will

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jerk has been scrim with them a few times.

id assume he wasnt going to play jett

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rhyme is not that good on jett

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Free Shawn

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Zexrow would be the perfect option. He’s proven himself as a sentinel player, having some of the best stats. He was the #1 KJ across both weeks of VCT. He seems more motivated than ever to grind valorant, and take his gameplay to the next level. I think going on a team like GenG will also help him learn even more, and with the roster of GenG to back him up I see Zexrow going to the next level.

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Bro what if GenG add Aproto, I love Aproto but I kinda wanna see him win and GenG aren't looking great

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Hopefully GenG can pick up an actual sova main. That role is too important for valorant to not have a good sova. You can alway put Nature back on sentinel/viper role + igl maybe

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rhyme and shawn used to play sova just put one of them on it

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But then we lack a Jett, just like last year after Huynh left. Now we finally have a good performing main duelist and Shawn has been one of the best flex players in NA for months, changing them will give bigger issues to fix

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D1msumboi?

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Koosta will build a team with mOe!

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Come back to CS, Shox/Brehze/Junior will be on the chopping block soon

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He's back in CS:GO

https://www.hltv.org/player/9056/koosta - He's playing under daps' new project 'Orgless.'
Good for him, I don't think VALORANT was his game, he belonged in CSGO but had no offers so he had to go to VALORANT. Hope he succeeds in CS

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Yeah I see his name pop up on steam friends playing a lot of Apex and Lost Ark recently, this makes sense.

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Geng and T1 L org
They were able to make Korea's best team with the annual salary of one North American player
and now geng and t1 NA T3 teams KEKW

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Nvm hes going back to CS

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CS is clearly the better game. That's why I haven't wasted any time playing valorant

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Maybe if he gave it one more day he could have been in 100T now 😂😂😂

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