{"id":11413,"date":"2020-05-22T01:08:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T01:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=11413"},"modified":"2020-05-22T01:08:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T01:08:25","slug":"jdm64-quits-csgo-to-focus-on-valorant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/jdm64-quits-csgo-to-focus-on-valorant\/","title":{"rendered":"Jdm64 quits CS:GO to focus on VALORANT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh &#8220;jdm64&#8221; Marzano has announced his retirement from <a href=\"\/counter-strike\/\" title=\"CSGO betting sites\">Counter-Strike esports<\/a> and declared his intention to launch a career in VALORANT.<\/p>\n<p>Former Team Liquid and Counter Logic Gaming AWPer made the call on his 30th birthday, saying he had decided to start a new chapter in his life and switch over to Riot Games&#8217; upcoming tactical first-person shooter title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today I turn 30. Been playing CS for about 18 to 20 years now and I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s time for a new chapter,&#8221; said jdm64.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m making the switch to compete in VALORANT and am looking for a team\/org to represent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jdm64 began his Counter-Strike career during the era of CS: 1.6 and CS: Source, when he became a staple name in the North American competitive scene. His early years in the CS: GO scene included stints at mouseSpaz, NetcodeGuides.com and SapphireKelownaDotCom, where his performances earned him contract with Counter Logic Gaming in June 2015.<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today I turn 30. Been playing CS for about 18 to 20 years now and I&#39;ve decided it&#39;s time for a new chapter. I&#39;m making the switch to compete in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayVALORANT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PlayVALORANT<\/a> and am looking for a team\/org to represent. Let&#39;s get creative and build something to remember. Feel Free to DM me<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Marzano (@jdmarzano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdmarzano\/status\/1263190805495156736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>A cool-headed and laidback AWPer, jdm64 led CLG a third-fourth finish at the ESL ESEA Pro League Season 1 \u2013 Finals and a quarter-final appearance at MLG Major Championship: Columbus 2016. Those efforts attracted the interest of Team Liquid, who acquired him in a swap deal that saw Kenneth &#8220;koosta&#8221; Suen move the other way. <\/p>\n<p>With TL, jdm64 enjoyed the most successful period of his career. He won gold at Americas Minor Championship &#8211; Boston 2018 and, alongside Aleksandr &#8220;s1mple&#8221; Kostyliev, helped Liquid become the first North American team to reach the finals of a CS:GO Major tournament when they did so at ESL One: Cologne 2016. TL lost the grand finals against SK Gaming, but the silver medal remains the organisation\u2019s best CS:GO Major placement to date.<\/p>\n<p>After his contract with Team Liquid expired in June 2018, jdm64 spent three months as a free agent before joining Team Envy in September. There, he did not see much success, as Envy failed to make any deep runs at top-tier tournaments. Jdm64 averaged a 1.04 rating during his time at Envy, yet he was benched in June 2019 for Aran &#8220;Sonic&#8221; Groesbeek and has not played a competitive fixture since.<\/p>\n<p>Jdm64 is just one of many CS:GO pros who have made the switch to VALORANT. Michael \u201cdapr\u201d Gulino and Austin &#8220;crashies&#8221; Roberts did just that earlier this month, <a href=\"\/bad-news-bears-disband-csgo-roster\/\" title=\"Bad News Bears disband CS:GO roster\">resulting in the disbandment of the Bad News Bears CS:GO roster<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Team Liquid and Counter Logic player Josh &#8220;jdm64&#8221; Marzano has announced his retirement from CS:GO esports and declared his intention to launch a career in VALORANT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":11414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[626,4,1243,745,1150],"class_list":["post-11413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cs-go","tag-featured","tag-josh-jdm64-marzano","tag-north-america","tag-valorant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11415,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions\/11415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}