Justinas ‘jL’ Lekavicius made a quick return to Counter-Strike, standing in for Owen ‘smooya’ Butterfield’s fish123 roster in a 2-1 defeat to academy roster, G2 Ares, within the ultimate of on-line event United21 League Season 35.
Regardless that fish123 had a significant quarter-finalist in smooya, and a Main-winning MVP in jL, the roster was defeated 5-13, 13-7, 5-13, which means fish123 completed 2nd total.
Why was jL taking part in for fish123?
The roster contains EPIC 45 champion, smooya, IESF EEC Champion, Matas ‘MAGILA’ Magila, former ENCE participant Juho ‘juho’ Lampinen, and former Nexus younger gun Radut ‘7kick’ Dragos Cristian.
The roster was lately disadvantaged of former GamerLegion rifler, aNdu, as he made the transfer to affix s1mple at BC.Recreation. Since then, the roster has used Rasmus ‘kreaz’ Johansson as stand-in, however because the Swede was unavailable, jL was referred to as in on the motion.
Nonetheless, the Lithuanian didn’t appear too rusty within the server, ending with a dead-even 39/39 Okay/D and a 1.06 HLTV ranking.
The stand-in look gave the impression to be a easy one-time factor, with jL’s current tweets reflecting his willingness to grind out content material creation. In a current submit, he emphasised that his time on the bench “doesn’t equal trip.” The Lithuanian was benched by NaVi in a “joint choice,” with jL releasing a video outlining his plans.
jL shared the next in a tweet, exhibiting he’s very a lot dedicated to creating his new enterprise work:
“This may really feel like I’ve retired, however that’s not the case. I’ve all the time loved creating content material, interacting with all of youq and placing smiles on folks’s faces and that’s what I’m going to deal with for now.
“Taking a break from aggressive cs doesn’t equal being on trip for six months after which making a call whether or not I’m coming again or not. I see it as taking up challenges that in any other case I’d’ve not been in a position to attempt as a result of packed schedule.
“I’ve been streaming and importing movies for the previous couple of weeks and wish to thank everybody for the assist you’re exhibiting, I really feel it”
Within the meantime, his former NaVi roster made the semi-finals of IEM Cologne with new signing Drin ‘makazze’ Shaqiri standing out within the quarter-final in opposition to The MongolZ, who had been vital favourites within the match in keeping with esports betting websites.
Actually, in Britain’s smooya he has a compadre in content material creation. smooya is one in every of CS’s most profitable streamers when he decides to activate the stream.
Presently, nevertheless, smooya is headed in the wrong way to jL, emphasising his willingness to grind within the sport and attempt to make it work in a team-based challenge.
Darragh Harbinson is an esports author specialising in Counter-Strike. He has written for Esports Information UK, Esports Insider, UKCSGO, Dexerto, and Rush B Media.
