NiKo leaves FaZe Clan to join G2 Esports after months of speculation G2 EsportsBosnian CSGO superstar Nikola \u2018NiKo\u2019 Kovac is officially a G2 Esports player, having left FaZe Clan after over three years with the organization. The former FaZe Clan star and IGL announced his transfer on Twitter in a humorous fashion, seemingly already familiar with the now renowned meme style of the G2 organization. \u201cOne of the biggest signings in CS:GO History! Today, we\u2019re ecstatic to welcome Nikola \u2018NiKo\u2019 Kova\u010d to our Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Roster.\u201d Read G2\u2019s official announcement. At the time of writing, it is not yet clear which member of G2 will leave or be benched to make space for NiKo. Rumors say he will be replacing one of Fran\u00e7ois \u201cAmaNEk\u201d Delaunay or Audric \u201cJaCkz\u201d Jug. \u201cWith this signing, we\u2019re taking a new direction with our team. Over the course of the next few weeks, we\u2019ll be evaluating the team and it\u2019s progress to determine the optimal line-up for each match. We will provide more information on this in the coming days.\u201d I’m really excited to announce that I will be joining @G2esports and I can’t explain how happy I’m that I will be playing with @G2huNter and rest of the guys from now on. I’m coming to this lineup with the goal to bring them back to the top and make sure to stay there. #G2WIN https:\/\/t.co\/2zbFWwsqOd \u2014 NiKo (@G2NiKo) October 28, 2020 He will be joining his cousin Nemanja \u201chuNter\u201d Kova\u010d in the French-Balkan lineup for the upcoming BLAST Premier Fall Series tournament. G2 Esports\u2019s next official match will be on Monday and will see them face off against the ultra-aggressive Brazilian team FURIA. https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarlosR\/status\/1321487031114076162 Rumors of NiKo\u2019s departure from FaZe have been circulating around the scene since September, with constant reports from 1pv.fr and HLTV.org kept updating the situation. HLTV stated that NiKo was set to debut for his new team in BLAST Premier Fall Series 2020 Speculation was then fueled by a tweet made by the mother of FaZe player Marcelo \u2018coldzera\u2019 David asking NiKo to \u201crethink some decisions\u201d -possibly referencing his rumored move to G2. Only a few days ago images of FaZe practicing with Olof \u2018olofmeister\u2019 Kajbjer instead of NiKo started appearing on Reddit. The transfer announcement confirms that olof will be playing for FaZe. G2 will rely on NiKo to replicate their early 2020 success which saw them skyrocket to the top of CSGO team rankings before going slumping and failing to deliver top results. G2\u2019s lineup for BLAST Fall Premier Fall 2020 will be: Nemanja \u201cnexa\u201d Isakovi\u0107 (IGL) – Kenny \u201ckennyS\u201d Schrub – Nikola \u201cNiKo\u201d Kova\u010d – Audric \u201cJaCkz\u201d Jug – Fran\u00e7ois \u201cAmaNEk\u201d Delaunay – Nemanja \u201chuNter-\u201d Kova\u010d – Damien \u201cmaLeK\u201d Marcel (coach) – Richard Lewis gave his thoughts on the move, arguing that NiKo wasn\u2019t the answer to G2\u2019s problems. We\u2019ll have to wait to see who is proven right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NiKo leaves FaZe Clan to join G2 Esports after months of speculation G2 EsportsBosnian CSGO superstar Nikola \u2018NiKo\u2019 Kovac is officially a G2 Esports player, having left FaZe Clan after over three years with the organization. The former FaZe Clan star and IGL announced his transfer on Twitter in a humorous fashion, seemingly already familiar […]<\/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-38729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38729","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=38729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}