Ajax and NRG part ways

harsha

May 16, 2017

After a month of what most would call underperformance, especially given the star-studded roster that the team fielded, NRG Esports made their first roster change by parting ways with their young support player, Ajax. After joining the team with harbleu in March, Ajax will now pursue free agency.

I am stepping down from main roster of NRG, I wish them best of luck. I was given option to fight for my spot, but I chose to be LFT now.
— Ajax (@Ajax1OW) May 16, 2017

According to Ajax, NRG's management offered the ability to fight for his position, but Ajax declined and instead chose to look for opportunities elsewhere. Currently, NRG is seemingly trialling several players, but have not yet narrowed down the list.

The move comes shortly after NRG's hiring of Team SoloMid's ex-general manager, Derrick Truong. While the situation between Ajax and Truong is no secret, Ajax notes that the hiring has no connection with his roster spot, and that the decision to trial other supports was instead made by the team.

Ajax's old team, Kungarna, has announced a reformation due to Splyce's closing, but Ajax remains noncommittal regarding a potential spot on the roster. The team previously competed in the NGE Winter Premiere under the Ghost Gaming moniker, where they achieved a top-two placing in a LAN environment.

The NRG Esports roster is now as follows:

André "iddqd" Dahlström (DPS)
Anthony "harbleu" Ballo (Flex)
Seb "numlocked" Barton (Tank)
Tim "dummy" Olson (Support)
Seamus "Seamoose" Anderson (Coach)

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Taichi

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I dont thin Ajax was the problem but something must be done for NRG

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Guinea

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I like ajax, but NRG grego inc? Dude has been teamless for like 47 years now

if i find out who downvoted this you got a pain train comin ur way bud

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Grego was already trialed ages ago

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But he was trialed when he was still contracted with c9 which means a buyout. He's a free pickup now.

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The supports of NRG was lackluster to say the least.. I dunno about Ajax cuz hez more on shotcallinh but Imo dummy is the real problem.. Hez just not at the same level as harbleu or iddqd on their role.. Few fancy youtube vids can't cover the fact that iddqd died as tracer more often than he was in fnatic lol

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So many good players looking for team at the moment, NRG should be able to find someone to fill the spot.

Hope for the best for Ajax though, he seems like a decent guy

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As much as this sucks, I really wanna see old Kungarna play together again.

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Vonethil might be a good fit for this team tbh
Although there may be bad blood between him and iddqd

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No bad blood. :)

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yay , good to know everyone is still friends, just gotta wait for someone to become the leffen of overwatch and super spice up the competitive scene.

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Dummy, Numlocked and Ajax. I've lost faith in those three, bad ults and suspect plays abound. I just hope they can figure shit out sooner rather than later.

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get linkzr pls

#11

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put Seb Barton on lucio
-dummy +Custa OR Hidan
+ryb OR SuperPlouk
+LiNkzr (as projectile)

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numlocked on lucio...
feel like thats been done before :Thonk:

#13

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What a crappy deal. You are fired but if you want you can work really hard to prove yourself to the guys that fired you and get rehired. LOL I QUIT.

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penda

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I think it's more "hey we are going to be trying people out for your spot, if you want, you can have a tryout of sorts to prove if you should keep your spot."

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put Seb Barton on lucio

That was tried and it failed

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Guinea

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Yeah exactly. I think hes just being cynical

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Mendokusaii: Ajax is Masters

Very demoralizing, it's no wonder he quit.

#17

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Joemeister free agent and he already has chemistry with ya boy harb :thinking:

Edit:nvm not today,numlocked said on stream they'll be trialing grego and graceful at the qualifiers tomorrow

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can you guys stop talking shit about dummy or he will go balistic on you in his youtube pub videos

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That's pretty mean dude

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ajax was sprayed and wiped from nrg's roster

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Love what you did there XD

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Hater

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Ok so they now need a lucio i guess,
here are the options from the free agents pool,

Grego
Joemeister
evokji
Vonethil
zave
pookz (granted he was already a part of nrg prior to leaving with gods)
pyyyour
and some other supports( not lucios) that are avalible in the free agents pool are.
B1am
Shake

Finally worst case scenario its NRG they could just poach a player from another team.....

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LEWyyyXd

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IDDQD - DPS
Zave - Support
Mendokusaii - DPS
Harbleu - Tank
Vonethil - Support
RYB - Tank

Almost team VALFÄRD but, i would honestly say this team would work.

#24

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Ajax didnt rank up to GM fast enough afaik

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old meme/10

step ur game up

#26

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fuck

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Ajax just realize that he cant be the problem in the team for the fan!
Numlocked and harbleu are the real problem: no protection for the healers, they are the real problem!
So ajax decide to doesnt fuck up his career and decide to play with some really good( and not only in stream like dummy and harb)
the kungarna!

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!

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poi98

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You should do the same things if with graceful and grego the things doesnt improve :/..... you were a lot better with complexity.
I sincerely hope that with graceful ( player that i adore) and grego things will be better.... i want to see better results/matchs from you guys

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I think Ajax stepped down in a very gentlemanly manner. Props to him for being able to do that.

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Kind of wonder if moving dummy to a flex (DPS) role and have NRG pick up 2 support players would be a good move for them

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They are trialing graceful (assumably as flex dps) this weekend

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Guinea

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Sauce?

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supposedly numlocked confirmed grego and graceful as trials on stream but I don't have the source of the sauce

also 2 posts above my original post there was a reddit article talking about it so that's what I'd reference as the sauce

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the source of the sauce

???

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yeah I know I just worded it wierd

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Guinea

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Oh Grego too. Neat. I hope its true, definitely interesting

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So they deleted all the source references from Numlocked stream in this thread? I posted a link with Numlocks quote in stream from twitch chat and now it's gone....

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