tabseN: "I wish XANTARES had learned German, but it did not work out"

BIG's in-game leader Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz told about the reasons for Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dortkardes' departure from the team on the HLTV Confirmed podcast. According to him, the Turk had a hard time with communication within the squad since he had not learned German in 2.5 years.

The difficulties in communication would not allow XANTARES to fully adapt in the team, which is why he decided to join his compatriots in Eternal Fire, tabseN believes.

With the communication barrier, we were not able to talk properly together, which is also a huge thing. I can understand how he felt. From my side, I wish he had learned German so I could talk more intensely to him about anything, inside or outside of the game, hang out with each other. Unfortunately, it didn't work out. I really appreciate him trying to do it, it is not easy, it is a really really hard language, you have so many hard words to learn, and even for me as a born German, my German is really bad.

I love XANTARES man, he is a really nice guy and I would've loved to make it work. But his biggest wish was to feel more comfortable, that he can speak more fluently. We have people in the organization that speak Turkish, when he is around them he speaks a lot, but in our team, he cannot talk so much, he cannot really say what he feels and express himself properly. I also feel bad for him. His biggest wish was to go to Turkey, to make a superteam he feels the most comfortable with, and we would never throw stones at him basically.

The Dane Nicklas "gade" Gade replaced Dörtkardeş in the roster. tabseN hopes that together with the newcomer, the entire team will improve their game to make up for the loss of the top-notch rifler.

Of course, since XANTARES is gone, we'll all have to get more frags. We will have more team play, more communication, get easier kills done. Everyone has to put effort into the team, have better grenades, better communication, better team play, with some jiggles here and there, so someone gets an easier kill. Basically, everyone needs to have more kills overall, and of course, we need someone who is going to put up numbers.

The debut match of the updated BIG roster will take place at ESL Pro League Season 14, where from August 27 to 31 the team will compete for the playoffs ticket with Evil Geniuses, FaZe, fnatic, mousesports and NAVI.

Origin: youtu.be