Today marked the day of another big reshuffle in the world of CS:GO.

The German organization BIG presented their new roster, where Josef "⁠faveN⁠" Baumann, Nils "⁠k1to⁠" Gruhne, and Marcel "hyped" Köhn will all leave the active roster giving way for Mateusz "⁠mantuu⁠" Wilczewski, Elias "⁠s1n⁠" Stein, and David "⁠prosus⁠" Hesse.

faveN will step down until the fall due to happy circumstances with him recently being a father, while hyped will return to the academy team. k1to has been transferlisted.

Elias "⁠s1n⁠" Stein, and David "⁠prosus⁠" Hesse both join the main team after a stint on the academy team, while Mateusz "⁠mantuu⁠" Wilczewski escapes his involuntary hiatus away from top-tier CS:GO. The Polish AWP'er was sidelined in the summer of 2022 from OG, after Abdulkhalik "degster" Gasanov took his spot on the team with an excellent stand-in performance at BLAST Spring Finals in Lisbon.

You can read more about how that situation affected mantuu in our interview with him below.

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The Germans from BIG will not have the luxury of having Josef "faveN" Baumann on the server at this week’s Brazy Party, an online event with a strong $333.000 prize pool.

Due to taking time off for his wedding, faveN is set to be replaced by the 20-year-old rifler David "prosus" Hesse, the organization reveals in a Tweet this Wednesday. prosus is already under contract with the German team as he normally represents BIG Academy.

This is not the first time BIG will have to play with a stand-in on the server throughout the last 12 months. Both Elias “s1n” Stein and now full-time member Niels “k1to” Gruhne have stepped in for the action when needed at big events such as BLAST Premier Spring Final and IEM Cologne last year, and also the Major in Rio de Janeiro.

BIG will field the following squad at Brazy Party:

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{cflag:DE} David "prosus" Hesse (stand-in)

The faveN-less BIG squad will start their campaign at Brazy Party against 00Nation tomorrow at 20:00 (CET). 

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fnatic has revealed its new fnatic Rising roster built around the main team’s substitute player, Peppe “Peppzor” Borak, and former team analyst, Kevin “Kevve” Bohlin, who will serve the squad as in-game leader. The Swedish organization states that the academy team will serve as a dynamic roster that will rotate between players and young talent throughout the season.

The roster that consists of young players from Germany, Romania, and Portugal, was revealed just hours ahead of the start of WePlay League. fnatic Rising squad will compete against the secondary teams of several other elite organizations, such as NAVI Junior, Astralis Talent, and Young Ninjas. They will make their debut on Monday at 21:00 (CET).

“Our goal is to operate under one unified structure across the main roster and this new academy team, this will allow us to ensure there is a key transfer of knowledge and experience between the two.”

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