OG benches 2 CS:GO gamers—together with a celebrity

OG is promoting star CS:GO AWPer degster and rifler Adam “⁠NEOFRAG⁠” Zouhar as a part of its roster overhaul forward of the discharge of CS2 this summer season, the group introduced on June 20.

This announcement partially confirms a joint report between HLTV and French web site 1pv.fr on June 19, which mentioned OG would half methods with degster and NEOFRAG to rebuild round its former in-game chief Nemanja “⁠nexa⁠” Isaković, rifler Maciej “⁠F1KU⁠” Miklas, and AWPer Iulian “⁠regali⁠” Harjău.

“It has been a pleasure to have them [degster and NEOFRAG] right here with us, particularly making historical past with our first Main appearances since becoming a member of CS:GO,” OG mentioned in an announcement. “As we enter the brand new season, nevertheless, now we have determined to construct a brand new route for the crew and permit each of them to discover choices for his or her futures. Extra updates across the roster are coming quickly.”

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NEOFRAG had been a part of OG since May 2022, whereas degster joined the European crew in June 2022 and officially in July 2022. Degster has been the perfect participant on OG’s roster since his arrival, having averaged a 1.15 ranking previously 12 months, in accordance with HLTV.

The now-benched duo most notably helped OG qualify for the ultimate two CS:GO Majors—IEM Rio in November 2022 and BLAST Paris in Could—which the group didn’t do earlier than their arrivals.

OG has little to virtually no time in any respect to signal everlasting gamers for its CS:GO roster or go after some momentary stand-ins. The group is slated to compete within the BLAST Premier Fall Teams from July 13 to 23 and the roster lock for the competitors is ready for Thursday, June 22. A minimum of nexa continues to be below contract with OG and regali is a free agent, which is able to absolutely pace up the negotiations.

Concerning the writer

Leonardo Biazzi

Workers author and CS:GO lead. Leonardo has been obsessed with video games since he was a child and graduated in Journalism in 2018. Earlier than Leonardo joined Dot Esports in 2019, he labored for Brazilian outlet Globo Esporte. Leonardo additionally labored for HLTV.org between 2020 and 2021 as a senior author, till he returned to Dot Esports and have become a part of the employees crew.

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