CSGO News: Roster Swaps In Full Force after Katowice

The Major is over, and thus begins the month or so of roster moves for CSGO squads across the world. Teams are making moves, and reports are being released, so let’s jump right in and see where everyone stands.

Mousesports Signs everyone

Yesterday news broke that Mousesports was close to inking veteran IGL Finn “karrigan” Andersen. Karrigan was previously linked to Team Envy, a team for whom he stood in for during the North American Minor. Since then, more and more reports have surfaced that Mousesports is making a major push to steal the IGL away from other teams.

An HLTV report is also placing David “frozen” Čerňanský with the team to replace Miikka “suNny” Kemppi. Additionally, the report indicates that Özgür “woxic” Eker is set to replace Tomáš “oscar” Šťastný.

These moves would leave Robin “ropz” Kool and Chris “chrisJ” de Jong (who is rumored to return from the bench) as the only members from the previous Mousesports lineup returning.

For his part, Karrigan is doing his best to keep us on our toes.

Expect the expected?

— karrigan (@karriganCSGO) March 5, 2019

With these players on Mousesports, the roster would look as follows:

Robin “ropz” Kool

Chris “chrisJ” de Jong

Finn “karrigan” Andersen

Özgür “woxic” Eker

David “frozen” Čerňanský

Likelihood: High, with a chance of above-average T-side executes.

Cloud9 Pursues sunny

An HLTV report points towards Mouseports rifler Miikka “suNny” Kemppi moving across the pond to join Cloud9 CSGO squad. Signed in August of 2017, suNNy has evolved into a decent player during his time with Mousesports.

Cloud9 has been hard at work after their major exit, allowing Robin “flusha” Rönnquist to walk away from the organization after the death of his mother. Jordan “Zellsis” Montemurro is also officially off the roster, with reports placing him on Swole Patrol.

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— Miikka Kemppi (@suNnycsgo) March 5, 2019

If Cloud9 signs suNNy, their roster would look like this:

Miikka “suNny” Kemppi

Timothy “Autimatic” Ta

Will “Rush” Wierzba

Fabien “kioShiMa” Fiey

Maikil “Golden” Selim

Likelihood: Medium, with a 100% chance that C9 is no longer a majority-NA team If it goes through. We've seen EU players hesitant to move to NA, but this one seems feasible.

Grayhound Gaming Benches Sterling

Grayhound Gaming benched Euan ‘sterling' Moore last night after a disappointing Major where they placed 13^th-16^th. This leaves the Australian squad looking for a fifth just hours before their MDL Australia match against Off The Grid. Well, at least Oliver “DickStacy” Tierney got his sticker in the game.

Sterling, for his part, seems disappointed about the news.

Well le benched from grayhounds, looking for new opportunities to continue playing 😄

— Euan (@sterl1ngcs) March 5, 2019

Announcing the departure of the good man @sterl1ngcs

Thank you for everything we've achieved together in such a short period of time.

From stickers to international tournaments and to really great times, everyone here at Grayhound wishes you the best of luck with your future pic.twitter.com/h9QxKgAYbF

— GRAYHOUND.Rivalry (@grayhoundgaming) March 5, 2019

Heroic Benches AcilioN, ink Neo as stand-in

Heroic also made some roster moves this week, unceremoniously benching rifler Asger “AcilioN” Larsen and replacing him with Filip “NEO” Kubski as a stand-in for today’s opening matches of the ECS Pinnacle Cup. In fact, Heroic made it clear that they would transfer AcilioN to anyone who wanted him:

.@AcilioNCS has been benched until further notice. If any interest regarding AcilioN, contact: [email protected] pic.twitter.com/coXulz83TX

— HEROIC (@heroicgg) March 4, 2019

This marks NEO’s first foray back into competitive Counterstrike since leaving Virtus Pro on February 1^st. In the past three months, Neo has posted a .85 rating. Heroic is clearly hoping that NEO can have a return to form under Friberg and Co.

We are thrilled to announce that Filip @neo_fkubski Kubski will be joining us in ECS Season 7 Europe Pinnacle Cup as a stand-in!#BeHeroic pic.twitter.com/qoJhx6TAH3

— HEROIC (@heroicgg) March 4, 2019

Swole Patrol adding Zellsis and s0m

In NA CSGO news, reports have surfaced that Swole Patrol is courting 16-year-old prodigy Sam “s0m” Oh to join their newly rebuilt roster after three of their players left for eUnited earlier this year. Per the report, s0m has been contacted by several other Pro League-level teams.

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— NRG s0m (@s0mcs) March 4, 2019

We're beginning to sense a theme, here.

Hellraisers to bench DeadFox

HTLV is reporting that Hellraisers is planning to bench Bence “DeadFox” Böröcz. With the assumed departure of Özgür “woxic” Eker, Hellraisers roster will look like this:

Abay “Hobbit” Khasenov

Kirill “ANGE1” Karasiow

Issa “ISSAA” Murad

Amiran “aMi” Rehviashvili (coach)