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Luminosity Gaming



cold's impact



Going into Cluj-Napoca

Luminosity Gaming

Luminosity’s current squad has been through a turbulent year in both the organization backing them and tournament results. As Keyd Stars, the squad sans Marcelo "cold" David were a dominant force in the North American ecosystem; However, things seem to cool off when they were against international teams. In all the majors, they have consistently manage to make it out of group stage but falter in bracket play. With Caio "zqkS" Fonseca stepping down, it allows for cold to fill the void missing from their line up.



cold's impact

cold has been part of the Brazilian Counter Strike: Global Offensive scene playing for teams such as Dexterity Team and Team Brazil in The World Champions South American Qualifier. On Dexterity, he and his team mates took second to the team he would eventually join in both r1seCup and Liga Games Academy. As part of Team Brazil, his team dominated and cold showed a solid performance throughout his matches. He had two games where he fell a little below his KDA average but overall was very consistent.



After joining Luminosity, cold has proved to be a very consistent player in the many league games. He is also very reliable in clutch rounds, successfully winning over 70% of them. His skill with the AK-47 eclipses that of his M4A1-S and his AWP marksmanship. His consistency is also shown across the map pool with Mirage being his best, and Train as his worst. This may be due to the limited tournaments putting Train in rotation.



Overall a very solid pickup for Luminosity which allows them to have another solid rifler and another person to rely on for clutch moments.



Going into Cluj-Napoca

In their first major under a new organization, the Brazilian squad managed to place second in the first group stage, losing to EnVyUs and easily beating Kinguin. In the second phase of groups, they eked out a tough win against Flipsid3 in overtime on Cobblestone. They fell to the eventual winners, Fnatic, with a meager response on Train and making a strong fight on their favored map Mirage.



In the North American scene, Luminosity has shown to be part of the top four, along with the newly structured Team Liquid, Cloud9, and Counter Logic Gaming. All four teams have been trading maps back and forth in leagues such as CEVO, ESEA, PGL, and iBuyPower Invitational in the past couple of months.



Against Liquid they are a disappointing 3-7; two of their wins coming from two separate leagues across five different maps. In their iBuyPower Invitational match against Liquid, cold had several multi-kill rounds, which, combined with Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo’s AWP, got LG the win after an intense game on Inferno. cold ended the map with an impressive 45-26 scoreline, but had very little impact in the next two maps. FalleN had to carry the team in frags which wasn’t enough for LG to win the series.



Luminosity’s record against CLG is only marginally better at 3-5. Three of those losses came from Cobblestone, proving to be one of their weaker maps. In preparation for Cluj, Luminosity will need to work on improving their play on their weaker maps, and have FalleN and cold perform if they wish to maintain their Legends spot.







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Luminosity’s current squad has been through a turbulent year in both the organization backing them and tournament results. As Keyd Stars, the squad sansMarcelo "cold" David were a dominant force in the North American ecosystem; However, things seem to cool off when they were against international teams. In all the majors, they have consistently manage to make it out of group stage but falter in bracket play. WithCaio "zqkS" Fonseca stepping down, it allows for cold to fill the void missing from their line up.cold has been part of the Brazilian Counter Strike: Global Offensive scene playing for teams such asDexterity Team andTeam Brazil in The World Champions South American Qualifier. On Dexterity, he and his team mates took second to the team he would eventually join in both r1seCup and Liga Games Academy. As part of Team Brazil, his team dominated and cold showed a solid performance throughout his matches. He had two games where he fell a little below his KDA average but overall was very consistent.After joining Luminosity, cold has proved to be a very consistent player in the many league games. He is also very reliable in clutch rounds, successfully winning over 70% of them. His skill with the AK-47 eclipses that of his M4A1-S and his AWP marksmanship. His consistency is also shown across the map pool with Mirage being his best, and Train as his worst. This may be due to the limited tournaments putting Train in rotation.Overall a very solid pickup for Luminosity which allows them to have another solid rifler and another person to rely on for clutch moments.In their first major under a new organization, the Brazilian squad managed to place second in the first group stage, losing toEnVyUs and easily beatingKinguin. In the second phase of groups, they eked out a tough win againstFlipsid3 in overtime on Cobblestone. They fell to the eventual winners,Fnatic, with a meager response on Train and making a strong fight on their favored map Mirage.In the North American scene, Luminosity has shown to be part of the top four, along with the newly structuredTeam Liquid,Cloud9, andCounter Logic Gaming. All four teams have been trading maps back and forth in leagues such as CEVO, ESEA, PGL, and iBuyPower Invitational in the past couple of months.Against Liquid they are a disappointing 3-7; two of their wins coming from two separate leagues across five different maps. In their iBuyPower Invitational match against Liquid, cold had several multi-kill rounds, which, combined withGabriel "FalleN" Toledo’s AWP, got LG the win after an intense game on Inferno. cold ended the map with an impressive 45-26 scoreline, but had very little impact in the next two maps. FalleN had to carry the team in frags which wasn’t enough for LG to win the series.Luminosity’s record against CLG is only marginally better at 3-5. Three of those losses came from Cobblestone, proving to be one of their weaker maps. In preparation for Cluj, Luminosity will need to work on improving their play on their weaker maps, and have FalleN and cold perform if they wish to maintain their Legends spot.Writer: Akasha Editor: NagisamaGraphics: DearDave CSS: FO-nTTaX The world is burning and you rather be on this terrible website discussing video games and your shallow feelings