Workforce Liquid has introduced that its star participant, Russel “Twistzz” Van Dulken, is about to depart 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 will probably 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 wanting disastrous. Hopes had been excessive on the time that he would be capable of elevate 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 grew to become 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 finally gave up the IGL function, handing it over to former MOUZ participant Kamil “siuhy” Szkaradek, however Liquid’s type has nonetheless barely improved. The arrival of its new coach, Viktor “flashie” Tamas Bea has helped barely, longstanding Liquid participant Keith “NAF” Markovic’s type has improved, however the organisation nonetheless appears to be in main doubt of qualifying for the StarLadder Budapest Main later this yr.
Twistzz’ alternative on Liquid is at the moment unknown, though in a follow-up to its announcement, Liquid mentioned, “We may 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 Workforce 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. Workforce Liquid will now face GamerLegion in its 0-1 recreation after the European crew was handily overwhelmed by TYLOO in its personal opening match.
Attempting 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 will probably 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 mentioned, it’s probably that the transfer signifies 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 current 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 current instances, though it was believed to be lifeless following the arrival of jcobbb on FaZe.
