The British Counter-Strike pro had occupied an inactive role in the team since he was benched on March 20, as he had to leave the United States and return to England in order to deal with some issues related to his visa. Upon arriving back home, smooya had his meeting with the US embassy postponed to an undisclosed date, meaning he was left stranded in his home country.
With the US embassy shutting down all non-essential services in the UK amid the country-wide lockdown, smooya is unable to secure his visa and travel across Atlantic to join his team, who were left with no choice but to let the AWPer go.
“Today we are releasing smooya,” read the announcement from Chaos EC.
“The ongoing pandemic has postponed his visa interview indefinitely, therefore, he is unable to compete with the team in the US. Smooya is an exceptional talent, and we appreciate all of the energy he brought to the team.”
Today we are releasing @smooyacs. The ongoing pandemic has postponed his visa interview indefinitely therefore he is unable to compete with the team in the US
Smooya is an exceptional talent, and we appreciate all of the energy he brought to the team
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— Chaos EC
(@ChaosEC) March 30, 2020
Smooya joined Chaos in early January when he was brought in from BIG as a replacement for the benched Gage “Infinite” Green, who was later released from the team. He played an integral part in his team’s success in the early months of 2020, which saw Chaos secure top spot at the FLASHPOINT Season 1: North American Qualifier in mid-February and a top-four finish at the resulting LAN qualifier.
During his time at Chaos, smooya averaged an impressive 1.32 HLTV rating, held a 63.2% map win rate and averaged over 1.00 in 85.3% of maps played.
“Due to COVID-19 I��ve been permanently removed from the Chaos EC roster meaning I��m a free agent,” said smooya.
“Sucks to lose a job because of the virus but it��s how it is sometimes ladies and gentlemen. I��ll be streaming most days and looking to mix/fill for anybody if needed!”
Smooya has yet to announce where he will continue his career, while Chaos EC have drafted in Logan “Voltage” Long as a fill-in for FLASHPOINT Season 1.
]]>- CSGO betting odds: Chaos $1.94 at GG Bet | SNG $1.74 at GG Bet
- CSGO betting lines: Chaos +1.5 at $1.35 | SNG -1.5 at $2.91
- When: January 20, 2020 at 21:00 EST
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CHAOS EC VS TEAM SINGULARITY CSGO WINNERS LEAGUE NA BETTING PREVIEW
Chaos EC and Team Singularity will meet in the closing quarter-finals fixture of the WINNERS League Season 3 – NA Invite Division. The two North American squads will duke it out in a best-of-three (Bo3) series in a bid to secure a meeting with Swole Patrol in the semi-finals.
Chaos earned their spot in the playoffs with a flawless run through the group stage, where they did not lose a single match. While two wins came via forfeits from Team One and Monstars, Chaos made easy work of the other sides, with the only team that caused them any issues being eUnited (22-20).
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Since the WINNERS League group stage finished back in November, Chaos have participated in WESG 2019 NA as well as IEM Katowice NA open and closed qualifiers.
Chaos bested LiViD Gaming (16-2, 16-5) at WESG NA to secure a ticket for the main event and managed to keep their momentum going into the IEM Katowice open qualifiers, where they defeated two stacks and eUnited to secure a spot in the closed qualifiers. There, however, Chaos failed to make much noise, crashing out after suffering 0-2 defeats against Complexity and MiBR.
Chaos finished their busy schedule with a win against New England Whalers on Wednesday, January 15, in round one of the WINNERS League playoffs.
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Unlike Chaos, who cruised through the WINNERS League group stage, Singularity had moments where it seemed like they would not make the cut. Fortunately for Atle “Atle” Stehouwer and his men, everything fell into place when it mattered.
SNG pocketed four forfeit wins against Bushido Boyz, Good Game PR, Team Hyper and Rebirth Esports in the group stage, meaning SNG won only one match against Faintz and lost their two remaining fixtures against MAC-51 and Riot Squad Esports.
Since their last match in the group stage of the WINNERS League, SNG have participated in both stages of IEM Katowice American open qualifiers. There, they defeated Recon 5 and Man I Love Fragging but lost to Riot Squad and Just For Fun, thus failing to lock in a spot in the closed qualifiers.
SNG also made an appearance at Mythic Cup 5 at the start of January, where they lost to Rugratz in the semi-finals. Their poor streak continued at the DreamHack Open Leipzig 2020 NA qualifiers, where they crashed out of the event with a quarter-final defeat to Complexity.
On a more positive note, SNG defeated Rep Gang in round one of the WINNERS League playoffs last Thursday to push their win rate for the last three months to 54.5%.
Both teams made some major changes at the start of 2020. Singularity parted ways with Will “dazzLe” Loafman and Jordan “Zellsis” Montemurro on Friday, meaning they currently have only three members on the active roster. Chaos benched Gage “Infinite” Green and signed the controversial British AWPer Owen “smooya” Butterfield, who left BIG at the start of the year.
CHAOS VS SINGULARITY WINNERS LEAGUE QUARTER-FINALS PREDICTIONS
Esports bookmakers have Singularity priced as slight favourites for the first-ever meeting between these two rosters.
Due to the recent departure of their players, Singularity will play this match with three stand-ins. Shahzeeb “ShahZaM” Khan and Hunter “SicK” Mims are on loan from Complexity, alongside eUnited rifler Kaleb “moose” Jayne.
While those three are without a doubt an upgrade, we have to consider there will be a lack of any real synergy in the team.
Chaos have only one new arrival in smooya, who has averaged a 1.31 rating in his three games with Chaos. That figure leads us to believe he will do just fine with his new team.
This will be a very close bout. While the new additions to SNG could, in theory, carry the team to a victory, we would not count on that happening. Chaos have an advantage in terms of team synergy and that alone should give them the needed edge to win here.
Prediction: Chaos EC to win – $1.94 at GG Bet
]]>Chaos, formerly Quincy Crew, have had a handful of issues to deal with in the early stages of the season. Not only did they start the campaign without a sponsor, the roster was also brimming with internal turmoil which led to the departure of Syed ��SumaiL�� Hassan.
But Quincy Crew overcame their difficulties, were acquired by Chaos Esports Club and qualified for the first Minor of the 2019/20 DPC season. They reached the grand finals at DOTA Summit 11 but had to settle for second place after a crushing 0-3 defeat against Invictus Gaming.
Despite being denied a direct invite to the second Major of the Dota 2 esports season, the talented roster found another way into DreamLeague Season 13 and grabbed the chance with both hands.
A couple of days before DreamLeague Season 13 NA qualifiers took off, Chaos EC announced the signing of former HellRaiser’s offlaner Dmitry ��DM�� Dorokhin to fill the void left behind by SumaiL’s exit in October. With a complete roster for the first time in over one month, Chaos EC entered North American qualifiers with all guns blazing and ripped their way through the group stage, where they swept Fighting PandaS, J.Storm, We Dislike Bears and DoZe without dropping a single map.
Chaos EC entered the playoffs in piping-hot form and met with NA region newcomers Ninjas in Pyjamas. The series went the distance, but it was Chaos who managed to pull away in the third match of the series and seal the win.
Chaos EC reunited with Fighting PandaS in the grand finals only a day after sweeping them in the group stage. Chaos managed to repeat the feat, which earned Avery “SVG” Silverman and his team their fifth clean sweep of the qualifiers and a ticket to the DreamLeague Season 13 Major.
Dmitry Dorokhin deserves all the praise he can get for his performance through the qualifiers. As a player who joined the team just a couple of days before the qualifiers took off, he stepped up and played a crucial role in Chaos’ success. DreamLeague Season 13 will mark DM’s first-ever appearance in a Dota 2 Major.
At the Leipzig Major, which is set to kick off on January 18, 2020, Chaos EC will be chasing their first tournament title since January 2017, when the team then known as Digital Chaos defeated Newbee 3-2 in the finals of ESL One Genting 2017.
The announcement of new Chaos roster surfaced this Monday on their official Twitter account, confirming the club’s return to Counter-Strike esports after stepping away from the scene in September 2019.
“After searching for the perfect fit, we are happy to announce our return to CSGO,” read the announcement, which revealed the new five-man roster of Cameron ��cam�� Kern, Gage ��Infinite�� Green, Benjamin ��ben1337�� Smith, Joshua ��steel�� Nissan, Maxim ��wippie�� Shepelev, and coach Alan ��Shakezullah�� Hardeman.
This will be Chaos Esports Club’s second venture in the professional CS:GO scene after their first appearance in May 2018, when they acquired Enjoy��s roster.
In the months that followed, Chaos made several changes to the roster and ultimately settled with an all-Swedish team of Fredrik “FREDDyFROG” Gustafsson, Joakim “Relaxa” Gustafsson, Niclas “PlesseN” Plessen, Linus “B??ten” B??t Andersson and Daniel “djL” Narancic.
The team��s biggest and last achievement came at the ECS Season 8 �C European Challenger Cup open qualifiers, where Chaos Esports finished first and earned their spot in the Challenger Cup. Unfortunately, Chaos dropped out of the tournament after releasing their roster on September 3, 2019, eight days before the ECS Challenger Cup took off.
FREDDyFROG, Relaxa and djL decided to remain together and assemble a new roster under team Jalapeno, which finished the tournament in 12th-14th place.
Over two months have passed since then and many rumours have surfaced in that time, including suggestions that Chaos EC could look to North American with a lineup including William “RUSH” Wierzba and Niels-Christian “NaToSaphiX” Sillassen.
The rumours proved to be only half true, as neither RUSH or NaToSaphiX have signed on, but steel, cam and Infinite have all been linked with Chaos before and will be now joined by ben1337 and wippie in Chaos Esports Club’s first venture into the NA CS:GO scene.
Ben’s Anime Team recently finished second at WESG 2019 North America and fifth-sixth at ESEA Season 32: Premier Division – North America. The acquisition of the whole roster also earned Chaos Esports Club a spot at the 2019 DreamHack Open Atlanta, where Ben’s Anime Team were set to compete as a replacement for Cloud9.
The announcement comes less than a week after Chaos acquired the Quincy Crew roster following the release of their former Dota 2 esports team in late October.
The new squad of Yawar “YawaR” Hassan, Quinn “CCnC” Callahan, Jon��? “SabeRLight-” Volek, Arif “MSS” Anwar and Avery “SVG” Silverman just recently finished runners-up at DOTA Summit 11, marking Chaos EC’s first top-three finish in a Dota 2 event since their win at ESL One Genting 2017 under the Digital Chaos banner.
Chaos now have teams in six different esports titles, including Fortnite, PUBG, Rocket League and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege.
]]>They started their group stage in promising fashion by whitewashing J.Storm, but they lost against Team Secret and Keen Gaming on the second day of round-robin games.
Liquid drafted greedily in game one against Keen by putting Shadow Fiend as their off-laner – always a suspect choice for a hero that needs space to farm.
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They lost the opener and then were outdrafted in game two when the other side picked Razor to counter Lone Druid in the laning phase.
Old Chicken, the position one player from Keen Gaming, did a decent amount of roaming to help his team secure kills and towers early in the game.
That result put Liquid into a Lower Bracket battle with Chaos Esports Club, who finished last in Group D.
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Chaos did their homework and made some excellent moves in the draft, first banning Lone Druid and then picking Razor in the first round.
Team Liquid seemed panicked and drafted Monkey King to lane against Razor, which was questionable because there is no way a melee hero can withstand the pressure of Razor in the laning phase.
Chaos pushed the high ground after securing Ursa the Aegis of the Immortal and Liquid did not answer because they had no way to take on a fight.
The South American side gained both the melee and range barracks in mid-lane without any casualties and moved on to break the top-lane barracks.
Liquid were forced to answer their call and started a team fight, but they could not make any kills before sacrificing all their members.
They surrendered after Ursa went for a ��bloodbath�� in their fountain.
Their early exit in Stockholm leaves Liquid in serious danger of missing out on The International.
They have only obtained 525 Dota Pro Circuit points so far and there are only two minors and two majors remaining this season.
]]>Natus Vincere had a tough match against Evil Geniuses and must now face Chaos Esports Club in the losers’ match in Group D at the Dota 2 DreamLeague Major.
NaVi’s lack of hero knowledge was sorely exposed, as Evil Geniuses only had to prevent them from picking Oracle to win the games.
However, they learned something when they lost game three when the opposition’s Viper crushed their hopes of winning because they had no way to counter him.
Natus did try to draft Alchemist in the expectation that both he and Viper would farm peacefully in mid-lane, but Evil Geniuses ran Shadow Shaman into mid-lane as babysitter to zone out Alchemist.
Alchemist had three deaths at the end of the game without killing any heroes.
Chaos Esports Club drafted Troll Warlock – a high tier hero in this meta – as their carry in both games against Vici Gaming, but they lost each time because the opposition understood how to counter him.
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Vici picked both Bane Elemental and Necrophos in game one to prevent Troll Warlock hitting anyone when he used his ultimate skill, Battle Trance.
By sleeping him and disarming him in that mode, they ensured Troll Warlock could only prolong his surviving time while delivering no output damage.
In game two, Chaos lost because Vici drafted Viper. Similar to Natus Vincere, Chaos picked Alchemist to play in mid-lane, but Vici put Morphing there to harass and ran Viper in safe-lane.
Chaos were outsmarted from the off and called GG when they realised they had no way to stop Vici from pushing in their high ground.
Chaos Esports Club vs Natus Vincere betting predictions
After running our eye through the two teams’ recent drafts and performances, we give Natus Vincere a 70% chance to win this match-up.
You can back them for the W at $1.58 odds with GG Bet, but you might want to wait and see who drafts Viper and then opt for that team in the live betting markets.
]]>Vici Gaming start their Dota 2 DreamLeague Major campaign Chaos Esports Club just a few days after taking the StarLadder Minor title.
Vici whitewashed Gambit Esports in the StarLadder final with heavy use of Phantom Assassin, although Paparazi also showed good form with Troll Warlock, Juggernaut and even Sven.
Given that tournament was so recent, Chaos should have a fair idea about who to draft and who to ban.
The other problem for Vici is the 2,600km commute from Ukraine to Sweden, which may leave them jet lagged for the start of the tournament.
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The Chaos roster features W33, who can play a lot of mid-laner heroes such as Invoker, Mepoo, Razor, Windranger and his favourite, Skywrath Mage.
Invoker might not figure in the team’s plans in Stockholm because he is not a tier one mid-laner in the latest patch.
hFn, the Chaos carry player, was picking Luna a lot before Io was eliminated from the captains draft because there was a significant change in Io’s skill in the latest patch.
Without Io in the hero pool, Chaos have narrowed down their draft choices and may opt against picking Luna in this tournament.
Vici Gaming vs. Chaos Esports Club betting prediction
Considering Vici played in Kiev only a few days ago and may be some way short of their best, we give Chaos Esports Club a 70% chance to win this match-up.
Online bookmaker GG Bet is paying very decent odds of $3.82 for the Brazilian outfit to get up.
]]>First off, we have Evil Geniuses – one of the most stable teams on the Dota 2 esports scene.
The North American qualifiers sit third in the Dota Pro Circuit (DPC) standings with 4,200 points after placing third at both the Kuala Lumpur Major and the Chongqing Major.
Arteezy, the carry position player, performed well in each of those tournaments, with his Arc Warden wreaking all sorts of havoc in KL.
That hero was nerfed in patch 7.20, yet Evil Geniuses won on the only occasion they picked him in Chongqing.
Arc Warden has not been sighted in pro play since patch 7.21c was released, so we should expect Arteezy to favour other core heroes in Stockholm.
Vici Gaming only sealed their place at this tournament a few days ago when they won the StarLadder ImbaTV Minor.
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Paparazi’s use of Phantom Assassin was critical, but he also showed good form with other carry heroes such as Troll Warlock, Terrorblade, Juggernaut and Sven.
Fade’s play with Disruptor and Dark Willow was insane and it looks as though Vici will be tough to beat in the draft.
Chaos Esport Club, previously known as Pain Gaming, feature star players such as W33 and Misery.
Similar to Abed from Fnatic, W33 is one of the few players on the pro scene who is making waves with Mepoo.
That gives Chaos the opportunity to out-draft teams by picking Mepoo last if the opposition don’t do their homework.
Natus Vincere might be the weakest team in Group D, but they have improved a lot in the past three months and clinched big results against Gambit Esports, The Pango and Old But Gold in DreamLeague CIS qualifying.
Sonneiko is the key player for NaVi, so we shall wait and see what he does to prepare for this tournament.
DreamLeague Season 11 title odds
$11.00 – Evil Geniuses
$15.00 – Vici Gaming
$34.00 – Chaos Esport Club
$34.00 – Natus Vincere
Group D betting predictions
It looks like a battle between Evil Geniuses and Vici Gaming for top spot, but every team has quality players and anything can happen. Natus Vincere’s form in qualifying suggests they are a very decent chance to squeeze into the top half of the group.
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