Vitality\u2019s apEX on why CIS is the \u201cbest region\u201d in CSGO Gambit \/ ESLTeam Vitality\u2019s Dan \u2018apEX\u2019 Madesclaire has been really impressed with the CIS teams and the level of grit in its performances has made it one of \u201cbest regions\u201d in CSGO. ApEX has been in CS since 2009, and has seen regions rise and fall throughout his career. As the effects of the online era are still being felt across CSGO, the CIS region has become a hopeful talking point about the future of the game. But it could be one of those CIS teams that deny the Frenchmen a chance at the $425,000 main event as Team Vitality head into the BLAST Premier: Spring Showdown. \u201cWe are in a moment where the best teams are really young or that just made a change,\u201d apEX told Dexerto. These young teams have been keeping legacy orgs on their toes, and it\u2019s been the \u201cCIS-style\u201d that\u2019s been gradually netting great results. CIS is CSGO\u2019s best region The rise of CIS isn\u2019t surprising for pros like apEX. They\u2019ve been playing with these players for years, with recurring names making themselves known. As the CSGO scene, overall, is experiencing a huge shift of teams and participants, it\u2019s the time to strike for these teams. \u201cWhen you\u2019ve been so successful for so long, you don\u2019t surprise anyone,\u201d apEX said of Natus Vincere (Na\u2019Vi), but was instead impressed by the teams rising up. \u201cGambit they are the team that surprised me the most,\u201d he explained to Dexerto. \u201cI mean we\u2019ve been playing with them in practice a bit before their rising up and to be honest they played really solid Counter-Strike \u2013 with their CIS-style but it\u2019s really good.\u201d BLAST Premier: Spring Showdown 2021 CIS participants like Gambit and Team Spirit come from a region that has healthy pool of players to choose from when facilitating a roster. \u201cObviously CIS region has been rising in the past in terms of number of players,\u201d he said. \u201cSo they have a big pool of players playing CS. I feel like half of [FACEIT] players are Russians or Ukranians, Russian-speaking, and yeah when you have a bunch of players like that, you can pick the best ones.\u201d If Vitality wants to qualify for the BLAST Spring Finals, then they could be on a collision course with Gambit in their bracket. With superstar Mathieu \u2018ZywOo\u2019 Herbaut among Vitality\u2019s ranks, apEX likes his team\u2019s chances against these orgs but know they\u2019re going to have to work to keep up with the players rising up. \u201cThat\u2019s what I like about the CIS region, their people are grinding and grinding,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s a chance to be here in the pro scene, and they\u2019re grinding as much as possible. And that\u2019s what I like to see from them.\u201d Read more: G2 Nexa explains decision to bench KennyS – He hopes that LANs change the narrative once they come back and reverses Vitality\u2019s fortunes along with it. Until then, apEX and his team are looking forward to the BLAST Spring Showdown where they\u2019re going to be tested by some of the world\u2019s best, including those from the CIS region. Dexerto\u2019s Matt Porter contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vitality\u2019s apEX on why CIS is the \u201cbest region\u201d in CSGO Gambit \/ ESLTeam Vitality\u2019s Dan \u2018apEX\u2019 Madesclaire has been really impressed with the CIS teams and the level of grit in its performances has made it one of \u201cbest regions\u201d in CSGO. ApEX has been in CS since 2009, and has seen regions rise […]<\/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-39318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39318","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=39318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}