Picture credit score: Group Liquid through X
Group Liquid has introduced that its Counter-Strike 2 coach, Torbjørn ‘mithR‘ Nyborg, has parted methods with the organisation.
Analyst Jay ‘Demars DeRover’ Li can be overlaying as interim head coach whereas the organisation finds an appropriate substitute.
The announcement, made on X, sees the coach go away Group Liquid after lower than a yr with the organisation.
“Thanks mithR on your time at Group Liquid,” the publish mentioned. “We recognize your ardour and assist for the squad. Better of luck in your future.”
The coach additionally made a publish on X in response to the information on-line, disillusioned with the result however eager for the longer term.
“2025 didn’t go as we needed it to,” he mentioned. “I’m extremely disillusioned and unhappy that it turned out this fashion, however I’ll replicate and be taught from this, as I at all times have, and enhance for my subsequent workforce.
“On the finish of the day I imagine that is the most effective determination for each events. And although I might have most popular to remain on board and struggle via the powerful occasions collectively, I totally perceive their determination and had been I of their sneakers, I might most likely have finished the identical.”
MithR’s Tenure in Esports and Group Liquid
MithR has a near-decade-long teaching profession overseeing a number of rosters all through Counter-Strike: International Offensive and Counter-Strike 2. He has beforehand labored for organisations similar to Apeks, Mousesports, and North, courting all the best way again to 2016.
The coach first joined Group Liquid halfway via 2024 and took half in his first event with the organisation in August 2024. His debut with Group Liquid noticed the coach place among the many prime 4 groups on the BLAST Premier: Fall Teams 2024. In the end, Group Liquid positioned sixth at BLAST Premier: Fall Remaining 2024.
Group Liquid has achieved some stable performances below mithR’s steerage. Nonetheless, the organisation has struggled to this point in 2025, together with a Group Stage exit throughout IEM Katowice 2025.
