The Portuguese esports organization SAW has formally announced that its entire roster for Counter-Strike 2 has been sold, bringing an end to an era for the organization, which has spent most of 2025 competing in the tier 2 league circuit. This sale has come despite the organization ranking 22nd in the world rankings for Counter-Strike 2, which is enough for qualification to major events.
A competitive shuffle is happening because of the dissolution of the roster, with the main players within the organization spreading their wings within various top organizations. The biggest move that happened is the joining of Christopher “MUTiRiS” Fernandes, Adones “krazy” Nobre, and António “aragornN” Barbosa to BC.Game Esports, where they get to play alongside the famous veterans Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev and Denis “electroNic” Sharipov. This move is very important to BC.Game Esports since the Portuguese roster provides tremendous VRS ranking points that give the organization an invite to various tournaments such as BLAST Bounty Winter 2026 and IEM Kraków 2026.
The rest of the SAW team members were absorbed into other teams. Joao “story” Vieira agreed on a verbal contract with FlyQuest, while 100 Thieves is pursuing the rifler André “Ag1l” Gil. The sixth man for SAW, Tiago “mowzassa” Rodrigues, was the team coach during his entire tenure.
Although they have received respect for some excellent showings, such as taking 3rd place at the PGL Masters Bucharest 2025, SAW has struggled to maintain tia er-1 placement. It comes as no surprise that they have chosen to capitalize on their roster based on the economics that govern esports, allowing little leeway for poor performance.
BC.Game has a solidified line-up that now has the chance to move ahead with a serious effort into a tier-1 competition, and s1mple has finally welcomed his new players. The new line-up has its first serious challenge at the upcoming IEM Kraków 2026.