The profiled North Americans from Extra Salt are, alongside paiN, through to the important RMR event cs_summit 8, that serves as a qualifier for the upcoming PGL Major in Stockholm later this year. The two teams will join superstar teams like FURIA, Liquid, and Evil Geniuses, with the tournament starting on May the 20th. 

Extra Salt and paiN managed to seal their spots by taking down O PLANO and Bad News Bears in their respective matches at the closed qualifier. Both teams were extremely dominant, with both matchups being very one-sided.

Yesterday’s results | cs_summit 8 Closed Qualifier

16-10 (Inferno) | MarKE – 1.59 Rating / 25-14 K-D / 99.6 ADR

16-9 (Nuke) | oSee – 1.52 Rating / 22-11 K-D / 95.4 ADR

16-12 (Mirage) | PKL – 1.43 Rating / 23-15 K-D / 83.2 ADR

16-1 (Nuke) | PKL – 1.92 Rating / 21-10 K-D / 111.9 ADR

FURIA - EXTREMUM - Liquid - Evil Geniuses - Extra Salt - paiN - TBA - TBA

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Bad News Bears

The North American roster has been amazing in the last couple of months, but they haven’t been giving enough attention from the media, even though they have been amazing.

MarKE has been in great form lately, with a rating of 1.10 in the last three months, but the biggest player for Extra Salt has been oSee with a rating of 1.34 in the last three months.

The team has been performing on a high level since the roster was combined four months ago, and this won’t be the last time we will hear from this amazing roster.

In the clip, MarKE is left all alone by his teammates against two opponents. forZe managed to plant the bomb, but the Mexican rifler delivered an outstanding clutch.

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Spray transfers and how to control your spray is one of the hardest aspects in CS:GO, and something even some pros still has problems with. However, it fair to say that Edgar "MarKE" Maldonado from Extra Salt has mastered and finessed how to control every bullet in the magazine. Just look at this inhuman play from his match against Dignitas. 

Team Dignitas

Extra Salt have just announced their newest signing. The fifth player to finalize their roster is confirmed to be Mexican Edgar "MarKE" Maldonado. After benching Ian "motm" Hardy in late February, the team needed a fifth member in order to compete. Whilst it had been rumored that the organization was eying out "MarKE" it has now been officially confirmed on their Twitter page. 

The 22-year-old Mexican in "MarKE" has been sat on the sidelines since his former team Chaos fell apart. With two of his former teammates leaving Counter-Strike to compete at Valorant, "Xeppaa" joining for Cloud9 and "Jonji" forming a new roster at Bad News Bears, "MarKE" was the only player waiting to start a new journey elsewhere. 

"MarKE" now gets the chance to prove himself and re-enter the professional Counter-Strike scene at his new club Extra Salt. His debut is set to be later today, as Extra Salt faces Triumph at 23:00 (CET). 

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Triumph

Extra Salt has according to sources signed the 22-year old rifler Edgar "MarKE" Maldonado, who previously has represented Chaos Esports Club. The rifler will take Ian "⁠motm⁠" Hardy’s place on the roster, as the North American organization decided to bench motm prior to the signing.

MarKE will join the former Cloud9 core in Johnny "⁠JT⁠" Theodosiou, Aran "⁠Sonic⁠" Groesbeek, Josh "⁠oSee⁠" Ohm, who all three joined Extra Salt in December last year, when the org decided to acquire the ex-Cloud9 roster.  

MarKE hinting towards a potential transfer on Twitter

MarKE, who is a Mexican International, has previously played at Swole Patrol and eUnited as a lethal entry-fragger, but it was at his time at Chaos where the 22-year old became a well-known figure on the CS:GO scene. Alongside the newly-confirmed Cloud9 player Erick “Xeppaa” Bach, MarKE won two prestigious events with Chaos, in their victories at IEM Beijing NA and DreamHack Masters Winter NA.

The promising rifler has already debuted on his new team, as he featured on Extra Salt's roster in their most recent matchup at ESEA Premier Season 36. A match, Extra Salt won 2-1 against Rise, and where MarKE ended the match with a 0.91 Rating and a 42-50 K-D. 

It should have been a festive moment, with laughter and joy. It’s the winner interview, Chaos has just won the North American division of DreamHack Masters Winter, the biggest trophy in their short but exciting lifetime. However, the moment and the interview didn’t feel like a celebration as it typically would when a team just had secured back to back championships. On the contrary, it felt more like a farewell party, as it was the last time, we would see this roster.

Last week, it was announced that the organization behind Chaos, has decided to release their CS:GO roster of Nathan “leaf” Orf, Edgar “MarKE” Maldonado, Anthony “vanity” Malaspina, Erick “Xeppaa” Bach and Jonathan “Jonji” Carey.

Read more. “NA organization confirms CS:GO exit”

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The roster of Chaos gave their perception of the situation in the aforementioned interview with the analyst desk at DH Masters. Chaos coach Matthew Elmore explains how NA organizations and sponsors aren’t answering their calls and IGL vanity continues by saying “There is no interest in Counter-Strike at the moment”.

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They looked like a team which have lost all faith in finding a new organization or sponsors, and as vanity says “we have proven us time and time again”.

The Chaos roster gets the chance to make the fairy tale ending when they attend the IEM Global Challenge later this month. The prominent tournament will be Chaos’ last tournament as a team, where the NA team stand as a clear underdog going into the event.

See what vanity and company have to say about attending IEM Global Challenge.

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Jonji

The winner of IEM Beijing NA and the current #18 best team in the world according to HLTV’s world ranking, leaves professional CS:GO. Chaos Esports Club has announced the release of its CS:GO roster by of the end of this year.

The North American organization writes in a press release that the consequences of Covid-19 have been too damaging and “put pressure on our organization's ability to support our rosters and the incredible players behind them.”

This current Chaos roster has presented fine results in their lifetime with the victory at IEM Beijing-Haidian NA as the biggest yet. Xeppaa, vanity, leaf, Jonji and MarKE will get the possibility to make the perfect escape in their last tournament under the Chaos badge at IEM Global Challenge, starting December the 15th.

Watch Chaos secure their biggest win at IEM Beijing.

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