Twistzz & ropz on FaZe's success in Katowice; options for jks? | HLTV Confirmed S6E8

Twistzz & ropz join HLTV Confirmed to be a part of an unusual 2 + 2 setup while watching EU the RMR (feat. Rushly the observer). In this show, guests and the panel touch on the story of ropz joining FaZe, the team's great success in Katowice, FaZe COVID drama, jks' stand-in tenure, plans & expectations from 2022.
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0:00 - Podcast intro
Hot seat with ropz & Twistzz
3:59 - Introducing the guests
5:40 - ropz joining FaZe
13:40 - Wild ride in Poland
17:05 - Last months of FaZe with olof
18:39 - “I [expected to depart MOUZ] since the lineup was put together ” - ropz
20:23 - Twistzz’s role in FaZe
23:05 - IEM Katowice debriefed by Prof
25:14 - FaZe’s COVID drama
29:09 - jks as a stand-in
39:13 - Grand Final against G2
45:35 - Expectations from 2022
48:55 - Who wants to be a Skinionaire? By BitSkins
Recent news
56:22 - Rushly the observer tunes in
1:00:09 - BIG field krimbo for k1to
1:05:26 - Arena matches the difference
1:12:14 - ENCE trio extend contracts
RMR
1:17:15 - The new RMR format
1:25:30 - Katowice Grand Final
1:28:49 - Eternal Fire
1:32:00 - Is it time for Mirage to go?
1:38:00 - Suggesting map changes
1:41:02 - RobbaN’s role
1:43:10 - Twistzz on “putting Heroic in their place”
1:47:19 - karrigan & nitr0 similarities
1:49:35 - Plans for 2022
1:58:32 - Options for jks
2:00:19 - MOUZ new roster
2:02:01 - Is that a start of a long journey for FaZe?
Parimatch Matchmaker: activities
2:08:30 - Team talks
2:10:12 - Practice matches
2:12:52 - Aim practice
2:18:17 - Streaming
2:19:39 - Travel
2:22:09 - Competition
2:25:40 - Media
2:31:02 - Final words
HLTV Confirmed is a CS:GO (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) talk show featuring Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill, Zvonimir "Professeur" Burazin, and Milan "Striker" Švejda, with guest appearances from community members such as s1mple, device, ropz, Twistzz, karrigan, shox, TaZ, GeT_RiGhT, HenryG, JW, smooya, YNk, Maniac, Pimp, seang@res, CarlosR, and more. The show is based around interviews, breakdowns, analysis, and discussions about the esports and casual side of Counter-Strike.
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[@WayStedYou]

I would like to thank twistzz for getting jks onto faze

[@friendlyneighborhoodtoaste8216]

The way they were interacting, you could tell that twistzz made the most effort to make him comfy on the team

[@DomskiPlays]

Nice try jks :>

[@MaFiaMediaHD]

Also for being the most selfless, and switching up his roles for the betterment of the team and Jks. And still being the top performer in the grand finals. What a guy.

[@generality1369]

@@friendlyneighborhoodtoaste8216 yea not only he got jks at that moment, he also got ropz, meaning he was the one who said faze needs ropz xd.

[@4amv]

@@generality1369 ropz joined faze because he wanted to play with former igl karrigan

[@combatwombat2134]

I really like Twistzz and ropz. I've been a fan of Russel for a few years now and I've thoroughly enjoyed watching him play. He seems to be really comfortable in Faze and it's great to see it pay off! Really great episode, guys. Really looking forward to watching.

[@TheGorio12]

You should improve your vocabulary a bit mate. really really really really

[@combatwombat2134]

@@TheGorio12 I am an eminent fan of Twistzz and ropz. I've been a fan of Russel for a few years now and I've thoroughly enjoyed watching him play. He seems to be exceedingly comfortable in Faze and it's great to see it pay off! Extraordinary episode, guys. Immensely looking forward to watching. Appeased?

[@TheGorio12]

@@combatwombat2134 that’s better, thank you

[@sunbae-nim]

@@TheGorio12 what's wrong with the initial comment? just looks like everyday speak?

[@nanoooooo]

@@TheGorio12 no bitches?

[@PiyushOjhaOJ]

man ropz is a qt always smiling like 🙂

[@SilentAttackTV]

:)

[@grantrichards7128]

What's wrong with Ropz face. Did he get into a fight?.

[@zicodennisvalentino748]

@@grantrichards7128 he said that his face got burned by clothing iron when he was little. Doctor recommend him with the wrong skin implant.

[@sadmansakib8919]

Great podcast 👍 .. loved Twistzz and Ropz as guests ... Man I'm getting emotional ...I have been waiting for Faze to win something big since 2019 ... The dream finally came true 😇😇😇

[@niigu]

Me too brother, me too! Sadman turned Happyman?

[@sadmansakib8919]

Yes !!! Happier than ever 😄

[@ragesamuel]

They won 2020 blast

[@sadmansakib8919]

@@ragesamuel but that wasn't a big stage event ...

[@anarmammadkarimov2599]

@@sadmansakib8919 Kato is legendary stage mate

[@AK46_]

THESE CAST NAMES LOL “Former NA player” “No Longer a Baiter” “Nap enthusiast” and by far my favorite “OBJECTIVE_JKS_FAN now” especially with the history spunj and jks had many years ago lmao.

[@DEVILONBOTHSHOULDERS]

these two seem like a duo who can stay together for half a decade and cement themselves as legends of the scene

[@DEVILONBOTHSHOULDERS]

i foresee karrigan ends his career with this 5 man lineup, and he’s gonna devote the rest of his career to developing these three young guns (ropz twistzz and broky)

[@quarterpastbedtime]

This has to be one of the best HLTV confirmed episodes. Feels bad not having striker in it, but the dynamic with these 4 and the topics that were talked about just made this an absolute classic of an episode.

[@Mixu.]

Two people who I love watching/listening in-game and out of game. Great episode!

[@zwryy7622]

Ropz: 🙂

[@rickastley6549]

Great swaps from the wide camera angle to the smaller one when they are talking, good shit Lucas 👍

[@Polyvalent]

Got a good chuckle out of all the bios this time.

[@hakunamatata-zg1oi]

1:15:14 what was twistzz doing there? looked like he wanted to say something or sneeze but immediately went back to the poker face lmao

[@4amv]

He was definitely about to say something 😂👍🏼

[@queenTeigh]

The person controlling him selected an action then canceled it

[@KeefeL]

I think it's to do with the groups being shuffled multiple times

[@Nelex5000]

@@queenTeigh LMFAOOO💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@4amv]

I fucking love these podcasts with the faze bois. Great job guys keep it up 🙌

[@KeefeL]

1:32:50 ropz is referring to the color scheme changes right after they released those new player models... it was not a change they planned, but it was because people could pick the green CT(?) and literally look like a shrub in the old color scheme. The one that comes to mind immediately is the one right outside T bathroom entrance, there used to be this green mossy shrub there and people were literally just crouching in the open with 5 Ts passing them not realising EDIT: nvm i should have watched it for 15 more seconds, cause Prof does point that out

[@LangleyNA]

On the note of Broky interviews. Broky is hilarious. I think there needs to be both interviews. We need Broky to do extended interviews that are legitimate, and then the silly post-game interviews that are _"I just click mouse. People die."_ xD I don't want those to go away until Broky feels he no longer wants to do them that way.

[@PP-xs7hu]

Hes introverted

[@No5712]

idk if you guys read these comments but instead of watching a random RMR match why not watch one of the games they played during Katowice? would be much more engaging for fans and would provide a lot more insight.

[@Roman-ns9qs]

HEY I KNOW YOU IM UR BIGGEST FAN DUDE !!!

[@ittahadsian3342]

Please bring Thoorin in one day I just wanna watch the world burn

[@zwryy7622]

Nah, Thorin can stay in his corner

[@krazzarkov28]

Faze clan roster is so good now, I feel like the team chemistry is great

[@dalr5803]

Bring launders 👀

[@NawAkz38]

"no longer a baiter" got me in the feelings xD

[@briggan5327]

Get Jks for the next episode lol

[@ColderPls]

Who beat up ropz in the thumbnail?

[@peter_88]

🙂

[@paradoxreboot]

best episode recently! you should get naffany and shox together... see if they understand each other

[@androsp9105]

kudos to kinguin for helping ropz out

[@rfyaaful]

wait what did broky say at the 27:27 break?

[@suyogkhadilkar]

Roll the fuckin' bumper lukas 🤣🤣

twistzz is ez top3 in world. atm top1. ropz got a dope surname, Kool.

[@nmsl9567]

🙂-Ropz

[@piggers3263]

m4a1s is balanced and csgo devs do care about the game therefore it's not a waste of time to play csgo

[@m4a1snerfed]

💩

[@omega9492]

@@m4a1snerfed cant type grown up words?

[@m4a1snerfed]

@@omega9492 💩

[@gangmemberjakub]

Cry about it

[@m4a1snerfed]

@@gangmemberjakub low intelligence reply

[@Jcff342d7eay]

New super team with Snoop? 🤣

[@matthiasfoo1217]

55:05 this was pretty much the general reaction to that news...

[@blvckwidow3999]

Olof was insane in the last months

[@Dean_AZN]

“No longer a baiter.” 😂

[@ramstra4135]

robin is very kool

[@unbiasedjisoostan3716]

okay so Twistzz just basically confirmed that Elige was the problem in Liquid right lmao

[@BobSmith-mj3uu]

time stamp pls :)

[@ad5558]

Timestamp plzz

[@yungzed]

@@BobSmith-mj3uu 1:59:20

[@royalpoop5122]

It's common knowledge that outside of eliges star play, he's the main reason that roster failed die to his fragile ego and passive agressive attitude towards teammates unable to handle confrontation

[@StenGilles]

LITERALLY EVERYONE KNOWS

[@julianwambachsb97]

I will say, AleksiB, huNter, NiKo, Ropz, and m0nesy would have been a freaking insane superteam roster

[@TestTubeBaba]

Hunter And Ropz would be clashing though.

[@kiyu_u6009]

MY TWO FAVORITE :DD

[@WoolleyWoolf]

Rushly - "TO HAVE A WEBCAM MEANS YOU NEED TO HAVE A SHOWER EVERYDAY!" Twistzz - "Well you need to have a shower everyday" LMAO

[@lasklask]

🙂ropz

[@newryan]

1:58:32 Twistzz and ropz suggesting jks to wait, even if there is an offer to join liquid. Twistzz said jks needs a better team and fun people around him. So liquid is not a better team for jks and their members is not that fun? 🤔

[@STOREpappa]

Honestly TL team dynamics does not look great. I don't know of course, I'm just watching through the screen but Elige seems difficult even if he's gotten better. Sure my views are colored by their horrible last project, but it would obviously be a high pressure move for jks. As an org they're expected to perform and get results, and maybe a better fit for him would be something a little more relaxed and with less pressure. jks just seems like a proper kind lad, really humble and not the type of guy to take up space. I'm sure if you let everyone else get their way before you, you'll end up looking worse, like his stint in Complexity. Idk my man I'm kind of rambling but I agree, I don't think it'll be the best fit for him

[@Lekeing]

List of people who have said that Elige is a hard personality to work with: Major winners Stewie2k and Fallen, the GOAT S1mple, brazillian top class support player Taco, and Twistzz (not directly said bht implied in a couple interviews). If I had to guess Shox will soon probably end up on this list, and even though Grim mostly clashed with Stewie, I bet he also clashed with Elige as well. Tl:DR being on liquid is not fun unless you are Adren, Nitro, Naf, or Elige. If ur not one of those guys, prepare to have a hard time.

[@daanishgupta]

In short some personalities clash on that team. JKS should join EG.

[@niigu]

I agree on this. At first I was sceptical of the EG suggestion, but I actually believe that Stewie could utilize jks far better than any other IGL right now, and with RUSH as one of the worlds best support players he could get the space he needed. I could honestly see that work out.

[@andrewmccain5305]

@@niigu plus Rush played with JKS on Complexity

[@StenGilles]

Hltv the Jks show

[@templarknight7]

get the feeling Twistzz is planning to become IGL after karigan retires.

[@niigu]

Not impossible. He has a very good mind of the game, and his gamesense is insane! Karrigan would be a great coach whenever he retires. I think he has a couple of years left though.

[@okleon]

Watching the voice comms on Karrigan’s video, Twistzz actually chips in a lot and gives great call outs! Maybe one day we might actually see an IGL Twistzz! Probably not any time soon though

[@brendenlim2158]

I mean he’s had the peak nitr0, fallen and now karrigan experience. He’ll be great

[@alamak7608]

@@niigu Time flew so fast, I'm going to be sad when the time comes for karrigan to retire. I really hope for him to win a major at least.

[@niigu]

@@alamak7608 me too. I really think he is able to, still. At the moment he is the best IGL out there imo. Now he has all the pieces he needs to win one. Maybe not in Antwerp, but within a year or two max.

[@amazingd0206]

Ropz is soo cute 🙂

[@kryptik420]

ropz last name is cool

[@ts05pro]

Ropz decision aged like fine wine

[@larsfinlay7325]

poor bubzjki :( can't catch a break

[@prapa5521]

Bromance is real :D :D :D

[@deepfxd8]

Nice podcast but hate when they cut the player off to talk about the game being played on screen(which was a boring game)

[@rinaldsbudevics7115]

nice

[@edvards.krumins]

brokijs godkijs

[@WoolleyWoolf]

Nissan as sponsor lmao

[@andretraa7951]

Ropz cute as f***

[@anonyymikana206]

Breaking news: Snoop dog to become IGL, karrigan benched.

[@tech4172]

Ropz hasnt been the same for a while now imo he seems like hes more into calling now he puts alot of his timeinto that type of shit so throw karrigan as coach and Ropz igl get Yekindar JKS or imo if they could get Naf Faze would be super sick but I dont think Naf will leave NA

[@landongrissom4852]

KarriGOD with the major bby

[@SRPhantoms]

Ropz the whole time 🙂

[@-barndon]

Faze really still the best

[@Scalpelex]

Funny to hear now ropz saying "We are going to lose, it is inevitable". That didn't age well, fortunately.

[@taku1221]

is it just me or does twistzz sound more european now that hes lived there for a while?

[@Nerdywr]

No not rly , still an NA accent

[@taku1221]

@@Nerdywr idk, obviously its still mostly an NA accent, but the t's and the d's being pronounced at the end of words sounds pretty german... or danish which would make sense since hes on a team with karrigan

[@jacobc5747]

he just sounds like a dude from vancouver lol

[@motwhom3230]

they better get jks, mans was key in that win, not signing him is like ruining a major opportunity

[@MusicJunkie37]

:)

[@reikahime]

justice for DELUSIONAL_JKS_FAN

[@yungzed]

y did mouz sign bot NBK instead of jks lmao

[@NSisFTW]

They kind of need at least 1 veteran to help lead all the rookies. NBK is good at helping young players learn CT side. That being said, Mouz could sign JKS is place of Bymas if they want to be more competitive. I don’t know though, they usually would rather bring up academy players it seems.

[@a3-radio]

Also also nbk was a free agent while jks has an undisclosed buyout

[@PP-xs7hu]

They stupid and now they out of EPL hahaah

[@LOWKEYNERO]

Twistzz is still my favorite player. He'll be better than rain soon enough.

[@ganyavladimirov6246]

Что у ропза под глазами? (Болезнь? Или это тренд какой-то?)

[@maartinhs]

Yes its trend go get one! its a scar

[@stvn997]

lucas what are you doing...

[@e6o]

Ropz's english is as good or better than Chad's lol

[@npeswaggyrotmg8926]

Nah Chad is way more concise and confident in his statements

[@STOREpappa]

You can hear ropz struggle to get his words out some times, but his vocabulary is really good. I'm sure his thoughts go in English and have done so for years, but he'll just need to practice it even more. Like long conversations in every day life. Many non-native English speakers (myself included) can have the perfect sentence ready to fire, then I butcher an early word and I get stuck lmao

[@npeswaggyrotmg8926]

@@STOREpappa Okay yeah I can agree with that. He definitely knows his stuff, its just the execution he's got to work on. But who am I to say anything haha I can only speak English.

[@Ints12345]

@@npeswaggyrotmg8926 got to grind those retakes on de_english at 5 in the morning

[@federicob9103]

@@STOREpappa I switched the YT content I watch to 100% English and it improved me a lot on listening and getting on the slang and idiomatic expressions that native speakers use but I still have the same execution problem haha

[@evanangus6576]

why does twistzz sound north european now wtf

[@STOREpappa]

lol it's the same with smooya, their English is coloured by playing and constantly talking with so many European non-English natives on the daily

[@niigu]

:-)

[@KanaalMTS]

Ok

[@DungVu-ct4jx]

why no longer a bait xDDDD

[@DanL604]

Ropz sounds like Elon Musk 🤔

[@jii-ro7083]

JKS should have gotten the mvp of katowice. He was single most important player for Faze

[@philla8916]

Hold my broky clutches

[@jii-ro7083]

@@philla8916 jks had many important clutches aswell and he is a stand in who had to play many different roles. Without his stellar stand in performance faze had 0 chance to win.

[@markusfiskerton5630]

When Chad says Striker is not here, and Striker is right there xD

[@KeilGries]

That's Prof not Striker

[@markusfiskerton5630]

What proof?

[@janci9094]

no

[@daanishgupta]

EG wtf are you doing? Sign Jks ASAP!

[@nbalittlestuff6193]

early

[@WoolleyWoolf]

pokemon evolution lol...

[@nobodynowhere3170]

2nd comment

[@grantrichards7128]

What's wrong with Ropz face. Did he get into a fight?.

[@m4a1snerfed]

m4a1s is overpowered and csgo devs don't care about balance therefore it's a waste of time to play csgo

[@TomHGameplay]

That logic is so dumb you can just use it

[@m4a1snerfed]

@@TomHGameplay people could also use tec9, cz75, mag7, r8, ump45, five seven, p250, scout, aug, sg553, and deagle, yet they all received nerfs.

[@gangmemberjakub]

Cry about it

[@cooperstowe9318]

Cry about it

[@thanhtrungle9221]

you must also notice that the rate of fire for M4A1-s is slower than M4A4 and many pros are switching back to M4A4 (Twistzz, rain, Perfecto, Tizian, k1to, tabseN,...) right. Furthermore, if it is that OP, then why people still switch it for the AK-47?

[@kussbaby]

🙂

[@johnkouba4808]

:)

[@w90213kjfdjn]

m4a1s is overpowered and csgo devs don't care about balance therefore it's a waste of time to play csgo

[@DP-vv7fp]

mad?

[@maxgross9728]

@@DP-vv7fp cmon, don´t fall for this :D

[@omega9492]

@@maxgross9728 but the bot IS mad, why not ask him why

[@gangmemberjakub]

Cry about it

[@m4a1snerfed]

@@omega9492 low intelligence reply

[@slipary207]

🙂

[@troopy4957]

🙂

[@danremirosenvinge3592]

🙂

[@callmecarlul8904]

:)

[@Dean_AZN]

🙂