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G2 esports IGL, Nemanja ‘nexa’ Isakovic will be sitting out of what could be the last event of the calendar year, i.e. IEM Winter. The serbian has some visa issues that couldnt be sorted out in time and hence, he will have to step away from the $250,000 LAN. IEM Winter starts on Dec 2, a few days after the conclusion of BLAST Fall Finals.

His place will be taken by none other than veteran AWPer Kenny ‘kennyS’ Schrub. The french sniper who redefined how the AWP was used back in the day, has been on the bench since March after G2 decided to reinstate JaCkZ back to the roster. Since then he has been grinding it out on twitch.tv, streaming CS:GO, Valorant, hosting a watch party for the Major and a bunch of other games as well.

Fans welcomed this move as kenny has always been a fan favourite and they wanted to see him at the highest level, at least one more time. G2 will also play the BLAST World Finals at the end of the year, but currently it is unknown whether kennyS or nexa will feature in the squad. G2 recently parted ways with coach ‘maleK’ as well and his place would be taken up by ‘Swani’ for now.

G2 said in their statement that the Serb will be back in the lineup as soon as his issues are resolved. Till then the G2 esports roster will be:

• Nikola “⁠NiKo⁠” Kovač
• Nemanja “⁠huNter-⁠” Kovač
• Audric “⁠JaCkz⁠” Jug
• François “⁠AmaNEk⁠” Delaunay
• Kenny “⁠kennyS⁠” Schrub

• Jan “⁠Swani⁠” Müller (coach)

Brazilian CS:GO Pro, Marcelo ‘coldzera’ David said on his live stream that he will NOT be joining his former teammates for a supposed ‘Last Dance’. Coldzera was part of the Luminosity-SK core that won 2 back to back Majors in 2016. First it was MLG Columbus 2016 and then ESL ONE: Cologne the same year, to cement their position as one of the greatest rosters in CS:GO. 

During their most dominant run, the core of Fallen, fer and coldzera was the most feared trio in CS:GO, fallen with his deadly AWP and IGL-ing, fer with his relentless CT side aggression and coldzera with the ever-reliable clutching and anchoring ability. Coldzera won back to back Major MVP medals in both the majors his side won, and was the first one to have 2 Major MVPs to his name, which was later equalled by Nicolai ‘dev1ce’ Reedtz of Astralis (Currently NiP).

In late 2019, coldzera transferred to FaZe Clan to play alongside his friend Nikola ‘NiKo’ Kovac. It was his first international team and he started off well with a BLAST Pro Series win in Copenhagen 2019. But that would be the only trophy he would get with them. He was subsequently benched in the second half of 2021, after NiKo left and karrigan rejoined FaZe. He had a brief stint standing in with Complexity for 2 months but that didnt amount to anything.

It was rumored by Jaxon that the SK core would reunite for one last time, but coldzera has denied the rumours. On his live stream he said that he moved from Serbia to Portugal and hopes to play on a tier 1 team again which is why he will stay in Europe. 

It is still possible that the reunion might happen, with rumours of Liquid changing their roster it is likely that fallen, fer and fnx may still reunite without coldzera but that remains to be seen.

The first million-dollar art contest of CSGO has come to an end, and the winning entries of the ‘Dreams and Nightmares’ contest have been revealed by Valve today.

The contest received an overwhelming amount of response from the CSGO community, and as a result the number of winners were increased to 17. 

“The CS:GO team reviewed the amazing work from artists and teams from all parts of the globe, and decided that ten winners wouldn’t be enough,” Valve stated in a blog post. “So, an additional seven winning submissions were selected (17 winning entries total) for a grand total prize pool of $1.7 million.”

Valve has also confirmed that 14 out of the 24 participating artists were first-time contributors to the Steam workshop. This speaks volumes regarding the increasing popularity of CSGO and community creations involving the shooter across the globe. 

CSGO Dreams and Nightmares Case

The winning entries in the contest will be introduced to CSGO through the highly anticipated ‘Dreams and Nightmares’ case, the release date of which is still uncertain. 

Here are all the winning entries of the Dreams and Nightmares contest. Expect to see these amazing skins being added to CSGO in the near future.