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Counter-Strike: SK adds GoodFella; Snajdan inactive

By: Mark Cheben - Published May 18, 2006 at 10:04 AM EDT - Writer Archive
Long time Four Kings stalwart Jonas “GoodFella” Virtanen has left the UK based team and joined SK-Gaming. Virtanen’s contract was sold to SK for an undisclosed fee.
Virtanen had been with Four Kings some eighteen months adding stability to a roster that has seen its fair share of changes in the past few months. He enters into the spot at SK vacated by Mattias “Snajdan” Andersen who according to SK has “decided to take a break from gaming and focus on his new job.”

Both 4K and SK had a tough WEG Masters event. SK's only victory at WEG was at 4K's expense. Many predicted a roster change in SK’s Swedish team following a poor performance in China and Virtanen topped most prospective player lists.

This move brings SK closer together as a team, as Andersen lives in Gothenburg while Virtanen lives in Stockholm with the rest of SK. SK is now in a position where they can put in plenty of practice at Inferno Online, SK’s official café.

According to both Four Kings and SK’s webpage Virtanen will play in his first SK match tonight versus Serious Gaming in the NGL league. Four Kings will be announcing a stand-in player for ESWC UK shortly, and they plan on attending the rest of the events this year. Ed “Hotshot” Harborne, 4K’s manager, confirmed their fifth player situation and commented on rumors that Keir “aKuJii” Mccann is unhappy playing CS.

“No new fifth is confirmed yet, and no, Keir is perfectly happy,” said Harborne. “(He’s) understandably upset about Jonas leaving but these things happen. This game’s adapting all the time and people adapt with it.”

This leaves Four Kings with the following roster:
United Kingdom Keir “aKuJii” Mccann
Norway Thomas “DaY” Rudstrøm
United Kingdom Marc Mangiacapra
Finland Joona “natu” Leppänen

This leaves SK with the following roster:
Sweden Michael “ahl” Korduner
Sweden Christer “fisker” Eriksson
Sweden Jonas “GoodFella” Virtanen
Sweden Abdisamad “SpawN” Mohamed
Sweden Christian “vilden” Lidström

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WHATTT!!!!!!!!
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Congrats Jonas, you deserve it..
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Interesting...
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oh snap
yea
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whoever 4k picks up, i hope it is someone who isn't from finland, norway, or the united kingdom. let's see some cool new flags
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AdY or Kardy for 4k tbh.
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Bad move, Goodfella is not in Sk's league. Should've picked Hyer when they had the chance to.
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Maybe this will bring new life to SK...
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Go SK !
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Very good decision, problems solved:

The will to win is back (hopefully)
Goodfella is finally in a good team
He's from the the same city as the rest of the team

This comment was edited at 05/18/2006 10:36 AM
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snajdan is one of the best, shame he couldn't stay
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sad for 4Kings, now they seemed to be getting really good.

good luck GoodFella
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i think sk is stronger now. btw, we can see tonight goofella playing with the new mates =)
i love morons

I don't think this is sad for 4kings at all, goodfella was usually the lowest fragger, the last 2 4k games iv seen goodfella almost slayered. I think 4kings will become better from this.
Peace
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replace ahl.
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Hyper :(
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I agree with #7 on the picking up Hyper part but I do think Goodfella is a perfect replacement for Snajdan. GF reminds me of Moto almost he isnt a crazy fragger but he is smart and consistant and will just unload on people from time to time. GL to SK
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ahl should inactive , not snajdan , everybody knows how bad ahl is
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I think it's a good move. But not enough to beat wNv/Lunatic
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GoodFella bleh... sNajdan nooooooo!
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4Kings better get Harriman back
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Really will miss Snajdan. I think that they should have got miniw though.


Snajdan was amazing and it's sad to see him go :(
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ohhh, and I thought vilden was from Jonkoping, no?
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ahl bad
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good luck to SK, and good luck to Snajdan - whatever he does
:)
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snajdan was one of sk's mean sources of offense, Goodfella is a very good player but he is not a mad fragger like snajdan making spawn the only real source of frags left in the team. The should have at least replaced him with hyper
kardy > you
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Be nice if 4kings picked up kardy or ady but it is incredibly unlikely
kardy > you
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sucks for 4k, good for sk :(

just when 4k get a stable roster this happens. damn shame.
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In my opinion, SK should have replaced ahl with Goodfella. Then again, who cares about my opinion =P
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snajdan is a loss, that's for sure. will be interesting to see if goodfella will fit in, god he's good.
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Awesome. GoodFella is such a high skilled guy. :D
"Yet, another headshot..."

its kind of a wash in skill snajdan = goodfella

if they replaced ahl with goodfella then it woulda made SK a stronger team
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Element "Go inactive" "bye sk"

Element Join NoA

Snajdan "Go inactive"

Snajdan join xxx
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#26 fisker is the only true "source of frags" of Sk... snajdan was one of the best players of Sk too, so I guess they won't improve with this change.
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lol @ those who think hyper would be a better replacement. If you watched any of Raw-Gaming's past games you would know that hyper isn't really that hot anymore and players such as allen and hyrule are showing him up bigtime. As of right now i'm not even sure if hyper is worthy of being in Raw-gaming...
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#26 SpawN is rarely amazing on T side, normally the fisker face getting it done with the ak47!
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SK|GoodFella

now for

SK|zet
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GoodFella seems like a choice SK would make. He's probably the only really experienced player avalible. I hadn't had anything against quick though. He did great for NoA as a standin
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snadjan is one of the best players in sk .....ahl_is_bad
Goodfella hasnt snadjan's skill


bye bye sk

This comment was edited at 05/18/2006 11:39 AM
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not like they kicked Snajdan out, he's gone inactive cause of his new job, read people READ
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element go inactive , bye sk
snadjan go inactive , bye sk

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looking stronger then ever
and for all the people who says ahl not playing good,
he do things beyond the score board , if he wasnt a good choice for sk they whould have let him go .

This comment was edited at 05/18/2006 11:51 AM
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I think sk is in trouble, nothing against goodfella
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Carazee.. good luck.

#44, back to back CPL champions in trouble.. plz.. lets see how they hold their own at CPL this summer. Anything below top 4 or 5 maybe? and we can worry then.
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goodfella is good, but i would rather have snajdan playing for them :(
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good move, i think making snajdan inactive was very smart
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hope he brings back to the team the selfsteem they need
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#7 Is correct.
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pretty consistent player... remember skolpojkarna vs NiP on de_nuke? wow goodfella.
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