s1mple breaks silence on return to pro Counter-Strike after finally playing CS2 on LAN GG.BETCounter-Strike star Oleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2019 Kostyljev has broken his silence on a potential return to pro play in CS2 after finally experiencing the changes on LAN. When Valve announced that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive would be making way for CS2, the competitive scene was shaken up. Some rosters were quickly overhauled as some players couldn\u2019t get to grips with the movement and overall gameplay changes. NAVI were also included in that. They saw s1mple \u2013 the greatest Counter-Strike player of all-time \u2013 decide to take a backseat as he wanted to see Valve make some changes. After s1mple benched himself, the Ukrainain\u2019s team went on to win the first CS2 Major \u2013 PGL Copengahen Major \u2013 and the Esports World Cup. There has been plenty of talk about him returning, something he \u201chopes\u201d to do with NAVI. Yet, it might be tough. \u201cNa\u2019Vi doesn\u2019t need S1mple; Sasha needs Na\u2019Vi. There are things that are hard to talk about but the motivation never faded. I\u2019m genuinely very happy with how the guys are playing, but sometimes they lack professional egoism, and that frustrates me,\u201d s1mple said on his official Telegram account following IEM Cologne. The Counter-Strike legend continued, saying he wants to return: \u201cI hope to return someday, I\u2019m tired of doing nothing. And when I come back, I\u2019ll definitely be stronger \u2013 it\u2019s just a matter of time.\u201d The 26-year-old said it\u2019s \u201csad\u201d that he\u2019s not a part of the team he\u2019s been with since 2016 anymore. However, he is pleased by their development and accepted he\u2019s been harsh with criticism. As for his own experiences with CS2, he added: \u201cFirst time playing on LAN, even though it\u2019s a showmatch \u2013 the game feels different, you don\u2019t need to use any extra stuff to help you.\u201d S1mple has competed in CS2 in 2024, when he joined Falcons Esports on loan for a series against Metizport. He didn\u2019t exactly go off as he normally does in that series, having a kill death ratio of 38-49. Though, he\u2019s clearly got a bit more practice under his belt, and now that competitive fire is raging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
s1mple breaks silence on return to pro Counter-Strike after finally playing CS2 on LAN GG.BETCounter-Strike star Oleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2019 Kostyljev has broken his silence on a potential return to pro play in CS2 after finally experiencing the changes on LAN. When Valve announced that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive would be making way for CS2, the competitive scene […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}