{"id":1259,"date":"2019-09-05T16:47:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T16:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/heroic-remove-natosaphix-sign-b0rup"},"modified":"2024-07-20T02:35:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T02:35:38","slug":"heroic-remove-natosaphix-sign-b0rup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/heroic-remove-natosaphix-sign-b0rup","title":{"rendered":"Heroic remove NaToSaphiX, sign b0rup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\r\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heroicgg\/status\/1163838531611049986\">\r\n<blockquote align=\"center\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Heroes rise, heroes fall. Before the season starts, Heroic has decided to let go of our latest addition, Niels-Christian &ldquo;Natosaphix&rdquo; Mohr Sillassen.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nRead more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/knPLGpaZs9\">https:\/\/t.co\/knPLGpaZs9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2HT9GJDEQG\">pic.twitter.com\/2HT9GJDEQG<\/a><\/p>\r\n&mdash; Heroic (@heroicgg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heroicgg\/status\/1163838531611049986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n<script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/figure><p><\/p><p>In a statement by the Heroic IGL BlameF, the fact that &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/heroic.gg\/heroic-bids-farewell-to-natosaphix\/\">roles didn&rsquo;t pan out the way we wanted<\/a>&#8216; was given as the sole reason behind the decision.<\/p><p><\/p><p>NaToSaphiX helped Heroic qualify for ESL One: Cologne, ESL Pro League Season 9 Finals and IEM Chicago, consistently placing within the top eight at the LAN portions of these top tier events.<\/p><p><\/p><p>In recent times, NaTo had the AWP role taken from him, with Patrick &#8220;es3tag&#8221; Hansen making the &#36;4,750 investments. At ESL One Cologne, NaTo explained how the shift in roles was hard to adapt to.<\/p><p><\/p><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<p><em>&#8220;As the AWP, I was playing support for Banana or I was supporting Mid, so I&rsquo;ve got a good understanding of those two areas, but Aps? You never go Aps with the AWP and because of that, I really don&rsquo;t know what I&rsquo;m doing so that&rsquo;s something I need to improve. So it&rsquo;s not the rifle that&rsquo;s haunting me, it&rsquo;s the fact that my roles are so different and I have no experience with them.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\r\n<cite>&#8211; Niels Christian &#8220;NaToSaphiX&#8221; Sillassen, ESL One Cologne 2019 <\/cite><\/blockquote><p><\/p><p>Heroic went on to announce their signing, b0RUP from the Tricked Esports roster that recently entered the top 20 under the leadership of Nicolai &#8220;HUNDEN&#8221; Petersen. Rumours suggest that the Heroic organisation was willing to pay a significant sum to acquire the 19-year-old.<\/p><p><\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/heroicgg\/status\/1163842578023944192<\/div>\r\n<\/figure><p><\/p><p>This change comes as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/cs-go\/heroic-bring-lomme-coach\">Heroic recently brought in LOMME as their new coach<\/a>, replacing peacemaker who was seemingly removed by the organisation for unknown reasons. Following a rebrand and recent success, Heroic have been looking to maintain their top fifteen position to ensure invites to tournaments for the foreseeable future.<\/p><p><\/p><p>Daniel &#8220;mertz&#8221; Mertz, Heroic&#8217;s AWP pickup before NaTo, remains on the bench for the organisation. He may yet return to an active lineup with a Danish shuffle seemingly starting early, with former OpTic players looking for homes and now NaTo has joined the list of Danish free agents too.<\/p><p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In a statement by the Heroic IGL BlameF, the fact that &#8216;roles didn&rsquo;t pan out the way we wanted&#8216; was given as the sole&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":1260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cs-go"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Heroic remove NaToSaphiX, sign b0rup - GINX TV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Heroic remove NaToSaphiX, sign b0rup - 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