Staff Liquid has introduced that its star participant, Russel “Twistzz” Van Dulken, is about to depart the organisation after FISSURE Playground 2. The workforce is presently taking part in within the occasion in Serbia and already misplaced its opening sport 2-1 to FURIA.
Twistzz can be heading to FaZe Clan, the workforce he left for Liquid in December 2023. His return will see him don the FaZe jersey for the second time in his profession, having beforehand loved nice success with the American organisation between January 2021 and December 2023.
A disastrous second spell
To place it plainly, Twistzz’ second time on the Liquid roster has been nothing in need of disastrous. Hopes had been excessive on the time that he would be capable of carry the workforce again to the extent they’d loved throughout his first stint, however the transfer has led to drawback after drawback for each Liquid and Twistzz.
The workforce headlined by Twistzz and Danish AWP IGL Casper “cadiaN” Moller did not gel; the writing was on the wall after just some months of being collectively, because it missed out on the PGL Main Copenhagen 2024.
Twistzz himself turned the IGL after cadiaN’s departure, however there was little enchancment from him doing so. Though his stats didn’t endure an excessive amount of, the type of different teammates waned and the arrivals of Roland “final” Tomkowiak and Man “NertZ” Iluz did little to treatment this.
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The Canadian star ultimately gave up the IGL position, handing it over to former MOUZ participant Kamil “siuhy” Szkaradek, however Liquid’s kind has nonetheless barely improved. The arrival of its new coach, Viktor “flashie” Tamas Bea has helped barely, longstanding Liquid participant Keith “NAF” Markovic’s kind has improved, however the organisation nonetheless appears to be like to be in main doubt of qualifying for the StarLadder Budapest Main later this 12 months.
Twistzz’ substitute on Liquid is presently unknown, though in a follow-up to its announcement, Liquid stated, “We may have extra details about our up to date roster coming quickly.”
Regardless that Twistzz is among the most profitable gamers within the historical past of Staff Liquid, though his second stint with the workforce hasn’t introduced success, he’ll nonetheless be fondly remembered inside the organisation for the run that noticed Liquid declare the second season of the Intel Grand Slam again in 2019.
Liquid is presently taking part in in FISSURE Playground 2. It misplaced its opening sport to FURIA 2-1 regardless of successful map one, Dust2, 13-9. Staff Liquid will now face GamerLegion in its 0-1 sport after the European workforce was handily overwhelmed by TYLOO in its personal opening match.
Attempting once more
Twistzz’ return to FaZe sees him re-join the workforce lower than two years after departing them. An ill-fated transfer, the Canadian can be hoping to get his profession again on monitor as he hyperlinks again up with Finn “karrigan” Andersen, Helvjis “broky” Saukants, and Havard “rain” Nygaard.
That stated, it’s seemingly that the transfer signifies that both rain or karrigan will quickly be departing the workforce, given David “frozen” Cernansky’s standing because the workforce’s star, broky’s place because the AWPer, and the latest arrival of Jakub “jcobbb” Pietruzewski.
The transfer, which is about to be accomplished in time for ESL Professional League Season 22, had been closely rumoured in latest instances, though it was believed to be lifeless following the arrival of jcobbb on FaZe.
