ISSAA
Issa ISSAA Murad can undoubtedly be called one of the main factors behind HellRaisers' past successes, along with woxic. Before retiring in 2021, he was signed by Eternal Fire, a Turkish organization trying to build a roster as successful as Space Soldiers.
However, within 59 days, the Jordanian player was unable to adapt to Turkey and overcome the language barrier, so he soon left the team.
gla1ve
Astralis captain and four-time Major champion Lukas gla1ve Rossander is one of the most famous Danish esports players. In 2016, before becoming one of the best captains in the world, he played under the banners of Astralis' main current rival - Heroic. During his short time (59 days) in the team, he won two tier-2 tournaments: International Gaming League 2016 and Power LAN 2016.
In early 2017, he was signed by Astralis, and it turned out to be the best decision of his career.
GuardiaN
The nickname of Slovakian player Ladislav GuardiaN Kovács is strongly associated with NAVI and FaZe Clan. But did you know that he also played for VP? It was in 2013, when the CS:GO pro scene was just starting to emerge, luring esports players from CS 1.6 and CSS. The legendary sniper played alongside Dosia and ANGE1, but eventually he only stayed in the club for 46 days. Afterwards, he joined Natus Vincere, where he became a true star.
LUCAS1 and HEN1
00NATION is one of the Brazilian teams that are trying to bring the Brazilian scene back to the level of competitiveness it had from 2016 to 2018. However, it is still too early to call their attempts successful.
ShaZaM
Shazeb ShaZam Khan was signed by TSM closer to the organization's departure from CS:GO. The team did not achieve any significant victories after the successes of the Danish roster with device and karrigan. ShaZam played for TSM for only 28 days, participating in only two small ESEA tournaments. After that, he was signed by Misfits, who also left the discipline a year after TSM.
Now ShaZaM is playing for G2 in Valorant and is doing well - in less than 3 years, he has won almost as much prize money as he did in CS:GO in 7 years.
As for TSM themselves, after the major in Paris, they plan to return to Counter-Strike. Let's wish them good luck.
Epsilon Lineup 2019
Do you remember the Belgian organization Epsilon? At one point, it was home to many famous esports players, including shox, flusha, JW, ScreaM, broky, and others. The club stopped its work in the second half of 2020. Since 2008, the amount of prize money earned by the organization has been $450,000.
One of the latest attempts to assemble a Tier-2 team for the future was in 2019. It included Belgians Stev0se, simix, ritchiEE, dreez, and Brook. But after only 28 days, the entire team moved to Tenerife Titans. Approximately a year later, Epsilon disappeared from the radar completely.
Devilwalk
Before becoming a coach, Swedish player Jonathan Devilwalk Lundberg played for several well-known organizations and won a major as a member of Fnatic. Another prominent club he played for was Luminosity Gaming. When the organization entered CS:GO, they attempted to build a North American roster. NAF also played for LG at the time, but the player from Sweden stayed in the team for only 19 days. This was due to the emergence of a more promising lineup, Keyd Stars.
The decision to sign the then Keyd Stars roster with coldzera and FalleN turned out to be more than successful. The Brazilian lineup soon became the champion of the MLG Major Championship: Columbus 2016, defeating NAVI. It is very unlikely that the North American team could have repeated such an achievement.
The path of many players is not easy, and sometimes they have to change more than one organization before becoming a major champion. The main thing is not to give up, and even in an average roster, to put in the effort to be noticed by a tier-1 organization.
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