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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BIG is off a near-perfect start in the Major qualifier at the European RMR tournament, with the Germans posting a smashing 16-3 win over Sangal in the opening round yesterday. The match marked the debut of Elias “s1n” Stein, who is replacing a sick Josef “faveN” Baumann on BIG at the important event.

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The 20-year-old youngster seems to have impressed his captain as BIG’s in-game leader Johannes “tabseN” Wodarz expressed some high praises about s1n after yesterday’s match, saying he already belongs 

- s1n is completely ready for this level, tabseN said to ESL and continued: Mentally wise and how he thinks about the game, he’s very far away from being a beginner, I would say. He’s also very good individually wise. He was very ready to be a part of this – he knew that we would grind a lot and that he was ready to do so.

- s1n came 2-3 days later, so first it was just four of us since faveN was sick, unforturnately. But s1n stepped up immediately, so we had 4-5 days in total of the bootcamp where we were grinding a lot. I think we had days like with 10-11 hours CS each day.

s1n has been one of the bright points on BIG’s academy squad throughout the entire year, having averaged a 1.12 rating over 152 maps. However, it wasn’t written in the cards that he would present such a strong debut performance for BIG as he did yesterday.

1.58 Rating / 75.2 ADR / 16-5 ADR / 94.7% KAST

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The event is going to return after last year's success, where the German duo Elias “s1n” Stein and Tom”skyye” Hagedorn won the vent and the $20,000 cash prize there were at last year's event.

Red Bull FLICK 2v2 Tournament is scheduled to be played from November 19th to November 21 where the winner will be announced.

The organization behind the event has named Nikola “NiKo” Kovac as the official brand ambassador, he will be expected to be the commentator of the games and be the expert insight on the best plays of the tournament.

ENCE, Cloud9, OG, G2, FURIA, and BIG have all received direct invites to the Helsinki invitational and will have to choose two team members to compete. Unfortunately, we probably won’t be seeing the Kovac cousins playing together, because NiKo is the brand ambassador and therefore probably won’t be allowed to compete in the tournament.   

Watch KennyS and JaCkz duo against the German winners in last year’s event here:

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