Team Liquid CSGO adds YEKINDAR as stand-in for IEM Cologne 2022 Jo\u00e3o Ferreira \/ DexertoTeam Liquid have brought on former Virtus.Pro ace Mareks \u2018YEKINDAR\u2019 Ga\u013cinskis as a stand-in for its CSGO team during the $1 million IEM Cologne 2022 tourney next month. This comes on the heels of the American org signing former CSGO and Valorant pro Damian \u2018daps\u2019 Steele as head coach on June 19. Only a day removed after benching coach Eric \u2018adreN\u2019 Hoag and French legend Richard \u2018shox\u2019 Papillon from the active lineup. With a 2022 filled with middle-of-the-pack finishes, or worse, General Manager Steve \u2018jokasteve\u2019 Perino landed on a change ahead of the IEM roster lock deadline on June 21. The move left TL without someone to helm the squad and gave in-game leader Nicholas \u2018nitr0\u2019 Cannella one less player to practice with ahead of the stacked IEM event. Team Liquid signs YEKINDAR as CSGO stand-in Team Liquid added YEKINDAR as its CSGO stand-in on July 7 to complete the five-man roster ahead of its IEM Group Stage debut. The 22-year-old rifler ranked 8th on HLTV\u2019s Top CSGO Players 2021 during the height of Virtus.Pro\u2019s form starting that year. The pro was ecstatic to get back to competition ahead of his debut on the blue-and-white. \u201cSeemed like a lifetime of not playing tournaments but I\u2019m back and ready to roll with Team Liquid CSGO at IEM Cologne!\u201d he said. \u201cWish us good luck and lets make the most out of it!\u201d Depending on how daps and nitr0 choose to build the roster after IEM, YEKINDAR could be a strong compliment to American talents Jonathan \u2018EliGE\u2019 Jablonowski and Keith \u2018NAF\u2019 Markovic. Seemed like a lifetime of not playing tournaments but im back and ready to roll with @TeamLiquidCS at IEM Cologne! Wish us good luck and lets make the most out of it! https:\/\/t.co\/XMbBthGzc0\u2014 YEKINDAR (@yek1ndar) June 21, 2022 The addition will give TL plenty of firepower to couple alongside Joshua \u2018oSee\u2019 Ohm\u2019s AWP, with at least three more viable options to take the Big Green. Read more: xQc blown away by s1mple\u2019s BLAST dominance – The Latvian pro will slot in under nitr0 along with oSee, NAF, and EliGE as they look ahead to the $1,000,000 event at the Lanxess Arena. Team Liquid CSGO roster: Jonathan \u2018EliGE\u2019 Jablonowski – Keith \u2018NAF\u2019 Markovic – Joshua \u2018oSee\u2019 Ohm – Nicholas \u2018nitr0\u2019 Cannella (IGL) – Mareks \u2018YEKINDAR\u2018 Ga\u013cinskis – Damian \u2018daps\u2019 Steele (coach) –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Team Liquid CSGO adds YEKINDAR as stand-in for IEM Cologne 2022 Jo\u00e3o Ferreira \/ DexertoTeam Liquid have brought on former Virtus.Pro ace Mareks \u2018YEKINDAR\u2019 Ga\u013cinskis as a stand-in for its CSGO team during the $1 million IEM Cologne 2022 tourney next month. This comes on the heels of the American org signing former CSGO and […]<\/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-39145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39145","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=39145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}