Carlos “ocelote” Rodriguez Santiago, CEO of G2 Esports has unveiled the addition of Ilya “⁠m0NESY⁠” Osipov to their active CS:GO division. The ex-Natus Vincere Junior prodigy is expected to replace François “⁠AmaNEk⁠” Delaunay on the main roster, which is yet to be confirmed by the organization.

After a plethora of reports flooded across the second half of 2021, we finally see m0NESY find himself a new home at G2 Esports, a move which was predicted by a majority of the pundits post the conclusion of the PGL CS:GO Stockholm Major where the Nemanja “⁠nexa⁠” Isaković led side were handed defeat at the hands of Na’Vi in the Grand Finals.

G2 Esports have officially entered the roster shuffle towards the 2022 pro season where they surely have signed m0NESY but are yet to headline further changes to transition within the team.

Almost a month ago, a report from 1pv.fr did suggest that G2 were in the race to sign Robin “ropz” Kool and Aleksib “Aleksib” Virolainen which now stands broken as the former Estonian has reunited with his former teammate, Finn “karrigan” Anderson at FaZe Clan although there has been no word around regarding the transfer of the OG’s captain to G2.

With m0NESY on board, G2 Esports will yet again try to fine tune their goals ahead of the 2022 pro season with having nearly missed out championships in the past year most notably the PGL Stockholm Major. With the recent departure of their head coach, Damien “⁠maLeK⁠” Marcel, the German based organization have entered into extensive talks Rémy “⁠XTQZZZ⁠” Quoniam for the head coach role.

m0NESY joined Navi Junior back in January 2020 and has showcased quit an exceptional showing across multiple tournaments and in the European Faceit Premier League which indeed attracted G2 Esports to get him before any team should make their move.

FaZe Clan announced via Twitter that they have completed the signing of Robin ‘ropz’ Kool to their CSGO roster. The first reports of his transfer were published by 1pv.fr and Dexerto in mid-December, signalling towards a move to FaZe Clan.

He then parted ways with MOUZ right at the end of the year, despite having a few months still left on his contract. With this move, it is assumed that Olof ‘olofmeister’ Kajbjer will be moved to the bench, while ropz will take his place in the active roster. Although, this is yet to be confirmed. 

Ropz was a part of mouseports for almost 5 years and won a  plethora of trophies with them. Joining them in early 2017, and being part of their ESL One: New York 2018 run. He also won ESL Pro League Season 10 finals, Flashpoint 3 and cs_summit 5 as part of different renditions of the roster. 

Surprising as it is, FaZe Clan will be ropz’s second-ever professional CSGO team as before mouseports he hadn’t played on a professional level. He was scouted from FPL – Faceit Pro League circuit first and was signed by mouseports at a time when it wasn’t common to pick players up straight from FPL.

But it turned out to be a great signing as he took MOUZ to the next level and cemented himself as their superstar player. 

Ropz has only gone from strength to strength at MOUZ, placing 19th in 2018, 11th in 2019 and 7th in 2020 in HLTV’s world rankings of top 20 players. 

He will be reunited with former IGL Finn ‘karrigan’ Andersen, under whom he played some of his best CS, winning ESL Pro League Season 10 finals in the process in 2019. It will be interesting to see this new iteration of FaZe Clan after a turbulent 2021 saw them go trophyless and only manage a top 4 placing 3 times throughout the year. This was slightly underwhelming as the return of ‘karrigan’ coupled with the signing of Russel ‘Twistzz’ van Dulken had fans hoping for better performances.