Did FaZe Clan make a mistake by picking up coldzera?

The Brazilian CSGO star had the worst performance of his career with FaZe at ESL One New York.

FaZe Clan had completed the signing of Marcelo “coldzera” David from MiBR, this was announced on Thursday, earlier this week. The Brazilian’s fan following, especially from Brazil, were starved for a long time due to him not being able to play during his benching from MiBR. Fans from all around the globe were drooling to watch the new lineup in action at ESL One New York, where coldzera would make his debut with the European team alongside Nikola “Niko” Kovac, who was expected to be the in-game leader.

Not a bad game from us considering we didn’t pracc Vertigo, was a gamble from us in the veto.

We had our chance on Nuke but the round from Brehze broke our economy and made the game really hard for us but for the first match together was not bad gg @EvilGeniuses
— coldzera (@coldzera) September 26, 2019

High hopes were attached to the Brazilian’s name, he was always put in the highest tier of players, along with s1mple, dev1ce, and NiKo as one the greatest individual players in the competitive scene. coldzera on parting ways with MiBR had promised his Brazilian fans to represent them all, even though he was no longer a part of a Brazilian organization.

In an Instagram post, he had written, “To my Brazilian fans: even though I am no longer in a Brazilian team, I will always represent each and every one of you.”

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After 3 months on the bench im really happy to announce my new home! Im really excited to be part of this great organization and im looking forward to play with this guys! Thanks for everything mibr we made some great memories together and I will always cherish that! Now its gonna be a new challange and im gonna give my best to make it work. For my brazilians fans: mesmo estando em outro time não sendo brasileiro eu sempre vou estar representando todos vocês. Vou dar o meu melhor para trazer alegria para todos vocês novamente! Obrigado. #fazeup

A post shared by Marcelo david (@coldzera) on Sep 25, 2019 at 9:01pm PDT

coldzera, who had multiple Majors to his name in the past during the LG/SK era, was known to pull his own weight and that of his team’s throughout a match. Shockingly, at ESL One New York, in his debut with FaZe Clan, he had the worst performance in terms of K/D ratio in his entire competitive career with only 49 kills and 75 total deaths.

Not only did he have the worst stats in his career at ESL, but also could not help bag a single map for his team at the event. Faze Clan was eliminated from the tournament after losing 0:2 to OpTic, and 0:2 to EG.

Despite their shortcomings, Coldzera remained positive about his team’s performance and is optimistic about his future with the European organization. In his defence, Coldzera mentioned that the new roster did not get enough time to practice, which is an understandable reason for their poor performance in New York.

Although his fans were let down, it is possible that the team can pick things up after their much-needed practice sessions. FaZe Clan will not be playing in the upcoming DreamHack Masters event in Malmo, hence they will have enough time to build up synergies and bounce back stronger.