Crew Liquid has introduced that its star participant, Russel “Twistzz” Van Dulken, is ready to go away the organisation after FISSURE Playground 2. The crew is at the moment enjoying within the occasion in Serbia and already misplaced its opening recreation 2-1 to FURIA.
Twistzz shall be heading to FaZe Clan, the crew 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 to raise the crew again to the extent that they had loved throughout his first stint, however the transfer has led to drawback after drawback for each Liquid and Twistzz.
The crew headlined by Twistzz and Danish AWP IGL Casper “cadiaN” Moller did not gel; the writing was on the wall after only a few 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 undergo 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 seems to be in main doubt of qualifying for the StarLadder Budapest Main later this 12 months.
Twistzz’ alternative on Liquid is at the moment unknown, though in a follow-up to its announcement, Liquid stated, “We can have extra details about our up to date roster coming quickly.”
Though Twistzz is likely one of the most profitable gamers within the historical past of Crew Liquid, though his second stint with the crew 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 at the moment enjoying in FISSURE Playground 2. It misplaced its opening recreation to FURIA 2-1 regardless of successful map one, Dust2, 13-9. Crew Liquid will now face GamerLegion in its 0-1 recreation after the European crew was handily crushed by TYLOO in its personal opening match.
Making an attempt once more
Twistzz’ return to FaZe sees him re-join the crew lower than two years after departing them. An ill-fated transfer, the Canadian shall be hoping to get his profession again on observe as he hyperlinks again up with Finn “karrigan” Andersen, Helvjis “broky” Saukants, and Havard “rain” Nygaard.
That stated, it’s seemingly that the transfer implies that both rain or karrigan will quickly be departing the crew, given David “frozen” Cernansky’s standing because the crew’s star, broky’s place because the AWPer, and the latest arrival of Jakub “jcobbb” Pietruzewski.
The transfer, which is ready to be accomplished in time for ESL Professional League Season 22, had been closely rumoured in latest occasions, though it was believed to be useless following the arrival of jcobbb on FaZe.
