Devilwalk joins Bad News Eagles as coach: \u201cI would regret it if I chose money over my beliefs\u201d Stefan Petrescu\/PGLBad News Eagles have confirmed that two-time CS:GO Major winner Jonatan \u2018Devilwalk\u2019 Lundberg is the team\u2019s new head coach. The news comes as little surprise as Devilwalk had been spotted in Bad News Eagles\u2019 practice server multiple times in the past six weeks. The Swedish coach will fill the slot left vacant by Klesti \u2018stikle-\u2019 Kola, who left the team at the start of December, citing \u201cdifferent visions and aspirations for the future of the team\u201d. Stikle- also noted that he wanted to take some time off to get his health in order after a stressful year. Devilwalk brings in a wealth of experience to Bad News Eagles, an unsigned team that defied all expectations by reaching the Legends Stage of the last two Majors. At IEM Rio, they managed to knock out then-reigning Major champions FaZe before losing to NAVI in an elimination match, bowing out of the tournament in 13th-14th place. Devilwalk joins Bad News Eagles A former CS:GO pro, Devilwalk is the only person to have won a CS:GO Major as a player (DreamHack Winter 2013) and as a coach (ESL One: Katowice 2015). On both occasions, he represented fnatic. \u201cJoining BNE is something I thought long and hard about,\u201d he told Dexerto. \u201cWe don\u2019t have an organization, I\u2019ve been in this position before and it\u2019s not easy to maintain the motivation to keep improving, but through it all they have kept going forward and working hard. \u201cThis really makes me want to be with him and join them on this journey, against all odds. When I first spoke to them at Elisa Masters, we talked about CS philosophy and what they were missing. Listening to them, I instantly felt that I would be a really good fit. I think the potential outweighs payment at this point and that I would regret it if I chose money over my beliefs. That\u2019s why I chose BNE over anyone else.\u201d Currently ranked 17th in the world, according to HLTV.org, Bad News Eagles will be participating in ESL Challenger League Season 44 before the qualifying process for the BLAST.tv Paris Major begins. Esports host James Banks, who is helping the players find an organization, recently rejected rumors linking the team with GODSENT, who announced on January 13 their return to CS:GO with an all-Swedish lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Devilwalk joins Bad News Eagles as coach: \u201cI would regret it if I chose money over my beliefs\u201d Stefan Petrescu\/PGLBad News Eagles have confirmed that two-time CS:GO Major winner Jonatan \u2018Devilwalk\u2019 Lundberg is the team\u2019s new head coach. The news comes as little surprise as Devilwalk had been spotted in Bad News Eagles\u2019 practice server […]<\/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-38059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38059","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=38059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}