Biography
Nicholas “nitr0” Cannella (born August 16, 1995) is an American professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player who plays for Team Liquid as the in-game leader and an entry fragger. He initially retired on August 14, 2020 to pursue a career in VALORANT after being signed by 100 Thieves, but came back to the game following Liquid’s restructuring in late 2021.
Team Liquid have signed Nicholas “nitr0” Cannella from 100 Thieves Valorant, back to their active CS:GO division, the North American organization announced on their Twitter handle. This marks the return of the nitr0 to Team Liquid after stepping down from Counter Strike:Global Offensive in August 2020 to pursue a career in Riot’s first person tactical shooter, Valorant.
After having decided to overhaul their roster for the 2022 pro – Season after their unsuccessful major run, Team Liquid were poised to transition a plethora of changes within their CS:GO roster which saw them move Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo, Jake “Stewie2K” Yip and Michael “Grim” Wince to the bench. This indeed made the way for Josh “oSee” Ohm from Extra Salt who is to replace FalleN on the team’s sniper duties while a surprising move featured Richard “shox” Papillon joining Liquid from Team Vitality who recently signed the ex-Astralis trio.
nitr0 had reportedly been linked to Team Liquid as their final piece to the puzzle under whom the previous iterations of Team Liquid secured championships at the ESL One Cologne 2019, Intel Grand Slam – Season 2, BLAST Pro Series : Los Angeles 2019 and most notably the $1,000,000 Intel Grand Slam – Season 2 after scaling the 4-tournament threshold over Vitality at Cologne’19.
Team Liquid’s plans to restructure comes after the failure to bag events across the past two years having won their last event at the Intel Extreme Masters XIV – Chicago back in 2019.
CS:GO
CS:GO Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO for short) is a computer game from the genre of online tactical shooters. It was developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment and is the fourth part of the Counter-Strike series. The game was released on August 21, 2012 for Windows, Linux, macOS, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. A release for the PlayStation 3 in Europe failed to materialize for unknown reasons. Global Offensive achieved a Metascore of 83 points. Since September 14, 2017, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has also been available in China via the Perfect World client. In December 2018, the game was switched to a free-to-play model, which drew criticism.