Transfer Thursday — October 1

Transfer Thursday is a brand new regular section where you can learn about significant transfers, resignings, and line-up changes that have happened in the worlds of CS:GO, Dota 2, and other disciplines over the past week.

CS:GO

BIG XANTARES News

BIG announced İsmailcan "XANTARES" Dörtkardeş is extending his contract. The star player's new agreement will be valid until the end of 2021. XANTARES has been a member of the German organization since 2018. He went through difficult times with them, when the roster almost dropped out of the top 50 HLTV world rankings.

The last few months after the start of quarantine turned out to be very productive for BIG, as the team rose from 30 to 1 in the ranking, and held the position for 8 weeks.

More C9 updates

According to Jarek "DeKay" Lewis' piece for DBLTAP, the 20-year-old American Ricky "floppy" Kemeri has decided to stay with Cloud9. The player will be the fourth piece in the puzzle that Henry "HenryG" Greer is trying to solve. In C9, floppy will have Alex "ALEX" McMeekin, William "mezii" Merriman, and Ozgur "woxic" Eker as teammates. There is no official confirmation Kemeri's signing at the moment. The financial details of his contract are also unknown.

Meet me at the hotel, says NaToSaphiX

Complexity Gaming announced that Niels Christian "NaToSaphiX" Sillassen will take place of Owen "oBo" Schlatter, who left the team last week. NaToSaphiX, rented from Nordavind, has already started playing with his new team. At the moment, the contract has been signed for the playoff stage of ESL Pro League Season 12.

OBo left Complexity as he prefers to play in the American region, so he decided to return home from Europe, where Complexity is currently based. Jason Lake has confirmed that he will help the player find a new home.

ImpressioN to Captain New Asian Superteam

Lions' replacements

Polish professional player Pavel “innocent” Motsek announced that he is leaving MAD Lions active roster. In mid-September, Jarek "DeKay" Lewis announced that the organization was going to move to a completely Danish roster, and Ismail "refrezh" Ali and Rasmus "HooXi" Nielsen from the subsidiary x6tence would replace Pavel "innocent" Motsek and Asger "AcilioN" Larsen.

Dota 2

TNC Predator has parted ways with the Dota 2 team captain Park "March" Tae-won. In a post on the official Facebook page, the club thanked the player for the time spent together and for the innovations he brought to the team's game. The decision to refuse his services was made due to the changed priorities and a different vision for the future of the team.

Team Liquid new analyst

Mathis "Jabbz" Friesel has joined Team Liquid as an analyst this week. He last played Dota 2 in 2018, never finding a new stable roster since. 

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