Apeks release CSGO veteran shox after two months Jo\u00e3o Ferreira\/DexertoDreamHack Winter 2014 Major champion Richard \u2018shox\u2019 Papillon is without a team after being released by Apeks, the Norwegian organization has announced. When Apeks announced shox to much fanfare on August 11, there was the feeling that the team had genuine dark-horse potential, with the French veteran joining a stacked roster that also included the ever-reliable Joakim \u2018jkaem\u2019 Myrbostad and former NIP AWPer Tim \u2018nawwk\u2019 Jonasson. But all of that enthusiasm quickly turned into disappointment. Weeks later, Apeks pulled the team out of all tournaments after a string of disappointing performances. Despite their blend of talent and experience, the team failed to qualify for the European RMR, ending shox\u2019s perfect streak of Major appearances. At Fragadelphia 17, Apeks could not go beyond the semi-finals after losing to BIG Academy in the last-four stage of the North American LAN tournament. As the end of a Major cycle looms with IEM Rio on the horizon, Apeks have announced that shox will not be part of the squad moving forward, citing \u201ca difference in vision on how to proceed with our in-game team development.\u201d \u201cAfter much deliberation, we have mutually agreed for shox to explore his options,\u201d Apeks said in a statement. \u201cRichard has been nothing short of a stellar professional throughout this process, and we are doing everything we can to help him find a home where he can thrive.\u201d shox, who had joined Apeks after a disappointing spell with Team Liquid, has not given any indication of what he wants to do next. But his sudden availability will certainly lead to rumblings of a possible \u2018French Last Dance\u2019 project alongside players like Kenny \u2018kennyS\u2019 Schrub and Nathan \u2018NBK-\u2018 Schmitt. The latter, his teammate on the LDLC team that won the DreamHack Winter 2014 Major, is currently playing for Falcons. Last month, Karmine Corp president Kamel \u2018Kameto\u2019 Kebir confirmed that the organization is interested in entering CS:GO ahead of the BLAST Major in Paris. He ruled out the possibility of signing a star-studded roster, adding that the organization could either put together a Last Dance project with veterans or sign a team that can grow over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apeks release CSGO veteran shox after two months Jo\u00e3o Ferreira\/DexertoDreamHack Winter 2014 Major champion Richard \u2018shox\u2019 Papillon is without a team after being released by Apeks, the Norwegian organization has announced. When Apeks announced shox to much fanfare on August 11, there was the feeling that the team had genuine dark-horse potential, with the French […]<\/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-37297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37297","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=37297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}