" Amend has announced that he will step down from playing competetiv CS, and instead focus more on coaching. The German IGL has more than 10 years experiencing in the Counter-Strike scene. 

kRYSTAL received his most significant achievement while playing under the Imperial banner, the IGL back then won the DreamHack Open Summer 2018. 

Doing this time on the competitive scene, the IGL has produced 0.90 Rating / 0.68 DPR / 67.9% KAST / 0.88 Impact / 67.3 ADR / 0.60 KPR. A stat line that for many would look as underperforming. Despite the IGL only winning one tournament doing his time as a CSGO player, the 29-year-old German still has made an impact on and off the server. 

has played for several teams doing his time as a pro CS player, here's a list of teams:

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Sprout has secured a spot in the UNITED Pro Series Winter 2020 Grand Final after defeating kRYSTAL and company 2-1 on Dust2 (16-6) and Inferno (16-11) in the upper bracket-final. While Sprout now have some time to prepare and practice before the grand final, ALTERNATE aTTaX will have to fight for survival in the Consolidation final where they will face the winner of NLG vs. ttc.

Fritz “slaxz-“ Dietrich finished on top of the scoreboard with an impressive 69-37 score and a rating of 1.44, while ALTERNATE aTTaX’s Kevin “kRYSTAL” Amend finished on the bottom with a rating of 0.72.

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Kevin "kRYSTAL" Amend has parted ways with the organization and team he, for the last year, has represented. He leaves GODSENT's bench and joins his former team ALTERNATE aTTaX instead. "kRYSTAL" was benched at GODSENT mid-November 2020 due to a lack of results from the European roster. Instead of "kRYSTAL" the organization brought in Luka "emi" Vuković as their in-game leader. The team began to show greater results and "kRYSTAL" was therefore never brought back into the roster. 

Whilst not managing the best of results at GODSENT, "kRYSTAL" now head home to familiar territories in the German organization ALTERNATE aTTaX, where he will try his best to show his capabilities as an in-game leader. This will mark the third time that "kRYSTAL" joins ALTERNATE aTTaX where he, this time, will be joining forces with a former student of his in Max "PANIX" Hangebruch as well as a former teammate in Stefan "stfN" Seier. 

The 27-year-old German seems eager and ready to begin a new journey in his career as well as to take on the responsibilities of bringing up young talent in the scene. When playing under ALTERNATE aTTaX from 2012-2014 he was a much younger and more inexperienced player than he currently is. 

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GODSENT

We have sat down with GODSENT’s experienced rifler Jesse “zehN” Linjala, in an interview, where the Finnish player opens up about GODSENT’s ambitions and goals, their impressive run in DreamHack Masters Winter, and also the difference between Kevin “kRYSTAL” Amend and Luka “emi” Vukovic’s leadership style.

GODSENT surprised everyone at DreamHack Masters Winter by putting up an impressive run, even though, coming into the event as the fifth lowest-ranked team out of the 16 attending teams. The underdogs were quickly dubbed as ‘The Danish Destroyer’ after taking down the top trio of Astralis, Heroic and North in strong fashion. 

The 29-year old Finn breaks down their DH Masters Winter campaign by explaining how being huge underdogs and playing with a stand-in IGL helped them to loosen up and establish a mindset where they had nothing to lose.

“When we faced Astralis we knew, that we had nothing to lose being heavy underdogs. However, it’s really easy for us to play as an underdog, because we have no pressure and then basically you can do even the stupidest play and still win a round and get momentum. This is what happened against Astralis, and then we beat North, and then we beat Heroic same way.”

The former HAVU player is confident that the CS:GO world haven’t seen the peak of GODSENT when being asked whether this GODSENT roster can advance and develop into a potential top tier team. The experienced rifler further states that they are looking for a new fifth to improve their chances. 

“Yeah, definitely. We have been talking for the last 6 months, that the next goal for us, is to break into Top 15 and then Top 10. We have defeated Heroic twice in a row, we beat an Astralis team that we never have won a map against, we beat mousesports, G2, fnatic, NiP. The keys for us will be to find to find consistency to actually do this more often. It means, that we have to play more together and have a stable fifth who can also hardcore frag or even carry in some maps if needed.”

I think it’s fair to say that we at moment, are trying out a new fifth for emi. We have agreed that now when we have no more games for the rest of the year, that we want to start off 2021 with a new fresh fifth. The season ends soon and people will bench players and players will be bought out and this is when we strike, so to speak. We are waiting a bit and then we try out a few other options, to see who’s the best fit for us. 

Massive clutch by zehN against mousesports.

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zehN breaks down the signing of emi as a stand-in and explains the difference between him and their former IGL Kevin “kRYSTAL” Amend. 

We had problems signing or buying anyone out of their contract because the season still is ongoing and we needed to have a player within two weeks for DreamHack Masters Winter and BLAST. We had to just take someone who was a free agent and not tied to any organizations, and that’s why we took emi for a few events. emi, didn’t necessarily change a lot, the only thing he did bring, was his own view. We put him on the same spots as kRYSTAL, and emi just adapted and did his own style basically. 

“He’s a different type of leader. He didn’t bring any special, that we haven’t seen before. He’s more strict when it comes to plays and he usually wants to go with his own vision and usually has the last word regarding strategy and ideas. We tried to tell him when a player plays a spot, he gathers a lot of information and where you sometimes can abuse this information doing a game. The difference between them may be that Kevin (kRYSTAL) listen more on what his players are telling him, where emi rather wants to go with the view he has.”

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We asked him which leader style he believes, suits the team the best.

“I think it’s kind of 50-50. Sometimes it’s nice that there’s only one way, but how we have seen this year and where we play the best, is when there is a flow and everyone is listening to each other. Usually, we base our calls on some kind of information or common knowledge of the game. If there is someone having an idea, you just go with it. We have realised this is the best way for us to play since we have beaten really big names. 

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Last week GODSENT decided to bench their in-game leader, kRYSTAL. 

Now the organization has found the replacement for the German. It will be Luka "emi" Vukovic, who will be GODSENT's fifth player in BLAST Premier Fall Showdown and DreamHack Winther.

Luka "emi" Vukovic's last competitive match was for C0ntact in August. The Serbian has previously represented CR4ZY, Valience, Binary Dragons, and iNation.

The organization has confirmed the benching of  “kRYSTAL” after been looking into options to replace the IGL in the last month. GODSENT’s have already taken in Luka “emi” Vukovic to test him for a spot on the starting roster.

kRYSTAL departs GODSENT’s lineup at a time with poor results which have taken a hit on the team, as they were unable to qualify for the Flashpoint 2 event and being placed 11th at DreamHack Open Fall.

What will happen to GODSENT? The questions are many about the Swedish organization. The team's in-game leader kRYSTAL is the latest to find his name in the headlines after HLTV today has reported, that the team is looking to replace the in-game leader.

According to HLTV, the Swedes are testing former c0ntact player Luka "emi" Vukovic as the replacement. The Serbian has been without a team since August.

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Updated: Kevin "kRYSTAL" Amend posted this tweet a short while ago.

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