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Pakistan is in a state to accept the revolution of online multiplayer and video games. But due to the third world problems, the skeptical perception remains at the original head. People hesitate to accept esports as an actual sport. But today we will be only covering the top teams. Know the top CSGO teams in Pakistan as of October 25th, 2016.

Yesterday I did a story on the Pakistan state of Esports, how the community has been building itself, the inception of the events. And how they were able to give tough competitions to the Mongolian powerhouse.

TOP CSGO Teams in Pakistan

Unpredictable I was with the positive response, I have got the story which was viewed interestingly more than 4000+ times now at the time of filing this article. Today, I have chosen once again to take your time and be informative about the top teams in Pakistan in CS: GO.

Game4Glory

Game4Glory is arguably the oldest Pakistani counter-strike team that has managed to stay together through thick and thin. Founded by Zubair “$Bills$” Jafar and Zeeshan “Zeeky” Khan in 2011, Game4Glory has always been one of the best teams in Pakistan and has consistently dominated for the most part even with significant changes to their lineup regularly. The initial lineup consisted of $Bills$, KLnT, RacHeT, AVG and Zeeky.

Now, $Bills$ is no longer part of the main lineup, yet still, manages to stay in the scene partially. The lineup evolved throughout the years, with notable players such as “MDA” and “erazor” being part of it throughout the evolution. The team’s current lineup consists of HARMZ Zeeky Klnt HSB and AVG.

Here’s what Zeeky, the IGL of the team said when asked how he feels about the game and his take on CS:GO as a career.

“It is the most important part of my life. Studying, employment and life, in general, will continue irrelevant to CS: GO it but with CS: GO at least that boring part of my life is not boring. We have been in this game for quite some time and will continue to be in the scene at least for the next few foreseeable years. For each one of us our boring life may continue as usual but our future plans are to bring CS: GO and eSports to a bigger platform in Pakistan.”

Team Achievements:

2016

Finalist of APAC WESG South Asian Qualifier ’16 by Alibaba
Winners of Appbox Gaming Gala ’16 by Gooline GZ Lhr.
Winners of CSGO Ramadan Tournament ’16 hosted by PGL
Winners of Pak E-Sports Expo ’16 at Gooline GZ Lhr.
Winners of NUST Olympiad ’16
Winners of AirNexus ’16
Winners of NaSCon ’16
Ranked 16th-32nd in DreamHack Masters Malmö 2016 Asian Qualifier
Winners of CSGO Challenger Series by ESEM
Winners of ESF Islamabad

2015

Ranked 16th-32nd in DreamHack Cluj-Napoca Asian Pre-Qualifier
Winners of CS:GO Gama Gaming League Fall
Quarterfinalist at PGL eGG Minor India and Middle-East qualifier
Winners of CS:GO Lahore Championship hosted by Cybnetic
Winners of CS:GO Knockout Tournament hosted by A&T Events
Winners of CS:GO Randoms Summer Tournament
Winners of PTCL PGL eSports Kickoff Tournament
Finalists of eSports Gaming League by Team Impost0rs

INtex Revolution

iNtex Revolution was founded in 2008 as a team for Counter-Strike 1.6, which later switched over to CS: GO after the popularity and scene of its predecessor died out. The initial lineup consisted of ShoT, Jwwwd, KriminaLL, traNz and slaayer. Even with many lineup changes, it continued to be a competent team in Pakistan and proved its worth in many local events and also with their performances in international qualifiers. Their current lineup is tranz kriminal umair jwwwd storax.

Achievements:

Counter-Strike Global Offensive Achievements:
Winners of IBA uni’s PROBATTLE 2016 all-star tournament
Winners of FAST uni’s Procom 2016 tournament
Winners of Cafe Amigos all-star LAN Tournament’16
Winners of G6 Gaming zone all-star tournament ‘2015
Finalist of GHQ summer Rage Lan tournament ‘2015
Finalist of CS: GO random tournament by G4G ‘2015
Semi-finalist in Cafe Amigos EID all-star Tournament ‘2014
Semi-finalist of G6-CSGO Rush Tournament ‘2014

Elusive.Pk

Elusive.pk was founded in January 2016, making it a relatively new team in the Pakistani gaming scene, however, that did not stop it from climbing up the ranks and claiming a spot as a top-3 team. The team was founded by Roohan “Naughtyyy” Sajjad along with Fahad “MUSE” Fayyaz and Anas “saeeiN” Baig. The initial lineup was comprised of Zon, MUSE, Naughtyyy, ShahJ and saieeN.

The lineup continued to change and the team was quite unstable with players such as Jordream, KanE and fredJ being part of the family for a short duration. The team still managed to be successful despite their shaky lineup.

The current lineup is SaeeiN , MUSE , Naughtyyy, luDaCriS, BravO with Syed Jhangir Gillani (AcE) as their manager.

Here’s what Naughtyyy had to say about CS: GO:

“Don’t let the GGs get to your head, whether favorable or not. The lineup for Elusive.Pk is finally quite stable so we’re looking to improve in the coming months. With the grace of god, we’d like to keep pursuing our dream of breaking the limits to bring the CS: GO and gaming scene to the spotlight in Pakistan.”

Achievements:

The team managed to secure the following places:

3-4th at WESG South-Asia Qualifier 2016
3-4th at Apbox CSGO Tournament by Telenor 2016 (LAN)
2nd at Pak eSports Expo CSGO 2016 (LAN)
2nd at Gooline Gaming festival 2016 (LAN)
2nd at Electronic Sports Festival (ESF) 2016 (LAN)

The three teams, G4g, Elusive.PK and INteX Gaming are widely recognized as the top CSGO teams in Pakistan. Other than teams and organization, Pakistan even have sets of individual talents who have achieved a lot when it comes to winning tournament and contributing their team of their skills. I will be doing another piece shortly on the individual talents in Pakistan.

Feature Image courtesy: Flare.PK

Minutes after Astralis announced their signing of glav1e; it is Heroic now which introduces us their new roster. Heroic now has Niko in their active give after Gla1ve chose to move with Astralis. Not to confused with the mousesports legend Nikola Kovač who plays by the same ign, Nikolaj ‘Niko’ Kristensen was a star player of another Danish lineup Tricked.

“While we are in the unique situation of being masters of our own destiny, we also have to recognize that we are like any other CS:GO team which will see occasional player transfers. As five co-founders, we decided that it made good business sense to sell gla1ve to Astralis. As five players, we agreed that niko is an excellent new fifth man who can fill gla1ve’s shoes,” said Marco ‘Snappi’ Pfeiffer of Heroic.

Heroic now has:

• Marco “Snappi” Pfeiffer
• Michael “Friis” Jørgensen
• Andreas “MODDII” Fridh
• Valdemar “valde” Bjørn Vangså
• Nikolaj “niko” Kristensen

The “change of heroes” as Heroic calls it, was graciously accepted by the team players who are also the co-owners of the brand. Niko, as part of the transfer, will be buying all the shares of the organization from gla1ve. Following which, niko will become an equal co-owner of Heroic. The Heroic squad, including niko, is boot camping in Copenhagen ahead of ESWC this weekend in Paris and the PGL Minor in Bucharest, November 5 to 6.

The Danes and Swedes have undergone a major roster change matching to their equation, we will calmly observe what turns out to be the result of the shuffle for both the sides.

Astralis acknowledged on their facebook official page and website the signing of Gla1ve from Heroic. The shuffle came into the Danish scene after Karrigan was signed in by FaZe last week.Astralis who ever able to enter into the top 8 spot even though having two stand-ins after Dupreeh suffered ill health midway. Astralis now gets a chance to play at the ELEAGUE Major after settling their roster with Gla1ve.

In an official statement he said:

“Since the ESL One Cologne Major my biggest dream has been to play for Astralis and today that dream has come true, It is truly a great honour for me to get the opportunity to play and work with such talented people. Astralis have been through a rough patch lately and I will do my very best to get them back to where they belong. I have always known that someday I would go back to being the in-game leader I once was. I am extremely motivated and I feel ready to show people what I am capable of. This last year has been amazing – as have the last couple of months. I want to thank the guys from Heroic for being so understanding and such great friends. A special thanks goes to Snappi, who I have been playing with for the last year. Good luck in the future with the Heroic project!”

Astralis will be seen playing with gla1ve in the Group C of ELEAGUE, where they will be competing against Natus Vincere, Alternate Attax and SK. They now have dev1ce, Dupreeh, Kjaebye, Xyp9x, and Gla1ve.

Fnatic has revealed to ESL that they will skip the ESL Pro League finals which is scheduled in Brazil, due to personal reasons.

Fnatic even confirmed about the absence of Dennis in the team for the next month that too owing to the fact that its because of his personal issues. ESL confirmed this and looked around for a replacement for fnatic’s spot. But in doing so, they were unable to fill up the slot left by Swedes due to the short notice.

The teams which got an invitation further denied their presence due to the time frame in which they had to prepare to travel all the way to Brazil to attend the finals. Virtus.pro was also one of the team to get a direct slot in place of fnatic. This leaves the event with 11 teams participating instead of 12.

The ESL Pro League in Brazil will be played this weekend where the following teams will be competing for the championship:

• Group A
  • Immortals
  • Mousesports
  • OptiC
  • EnVyUs
  • Liquid
  • ?
• Group B
  • SK
  • NiP
  • FaZe
  • Dignitas
  • Cloud9
  • NRG

Fnatic, only an hour ago got back KRIMZ in their official lineup and they will be participating at the ELEAGUE Major holding the legend status. As per the organization, they will soon be announcing a stand-in for dennis.

The duo is back! Olofmeister and KRIMZ will be seen playing together after two and a half months gap. Fnatic have officially released in a statement that they have claimed back the possession of their 2-year-old player KRIMZ in exchange of Lekr0 to GODSENT.

The speculations which were doing the rounds since two days finally came to halt after Fnatic and GODSENT chose to officially release the deal on their social networks.

GODSENT revealed on their Twitter handle that Lekr0 already joined their team and is practicing hard to qualify for the January 2017 ELEAGUE Major. Whereas, Fnatic retains their legend status after having KRIMZ back in their official lineup.

In a statement, GODSENT wrote to their fans:

Hello Lekr0, goodbye KRiMZ. Today we are welcoming back Jonas “Lekr0” Olofsson to the GODSENT squad, while saying goodbye to Freddy “KRiMZ” Johansson. Lekr0 was traded to Fnatic as part of the summer’s roster shuffle, but with our recent lacklustre performance, we have concluded that the right decision is to move KRiMZ back to Fnatic in exchange for Lekr0. We are incredibly excited for Lekr0 to be playing on GODSENT again. His performance this past year – also while at Fnatic – speaks magnitudes of his talent, and we are convinced that will light everyone’s spark.

With this move Fnatic regains Legends status for the upcoming 2017 ELEAGUE Major. The new GODSENT team, including Lekr0, is already bootcamping and we will fight with all our heart to reach the Major.

We want to thank everyone at Fnatic for a friendly position in this admittedly awkward discussion and wish KRiMZ and team godspeed in their new lineup.

Tune in for our ESEA Premier match against Gambit at 7pm CET tonight.

Fnatic also shared the swap news on their official Facebook:

We’re happy to announce the return of Freddy “KRiMZ” Johansson to theFnatic Counter-Strike line-up. KRiMZ will be rejoining the team in place of Jonas “Lekr0” Olofsson, who will be traded to Godsent. After evaluating the roster changes that took place this summer, both organisations concluded that a return of Krimz and lekr0 to their respective teams is best for the future success of both squads. With this move we will regaining our Legend status for the upcoming CS:GO major.

KRiMZ joined Fnatic for the first time in 2014, the team went on an incredible run, picking up 2 Major victories among others and earning the title of best team in the world. We are excited to be working with KRiMZ once again.

Unrelated to these roster changes, we regret to announce that our CS:GO team will not be able to participate in the ESL Pro League Finals in Brazil and that we will be playing with a substitute player during ELEAGUE next month, as dennis will not be participating due to personal reasons. We will release more information on our stand-in shortly.

Finally, we would like to give a special shoutout to all of our fans who have stuck with us and our players this year. There’ve been multiple changes to our roster but through thick and thin, your support has always been there and we immensely appreciate it!

GODSENT took charge or Krimz along with JW and flusha two months ago during the summer shuffle where Lekr0 and wenton joined in fnatic.

If the reports of a second potential GODSENT-fnatic swap are meant to be true, Krimz will be making his way back to the Swedish lineup Fnatic swapping his team with Lekr0 who will be joining back GODSENT.

Report by a CSGO journalist who goes by the name DeKay suggests a probable bidding between the two Swedish organization wherein Lekr0 will be transferred to GODSENT in return of KRIMZ.

This rumor can further be muscled by Flusha’s response during his Reddit AMA where he mentioned about Lekr0 being a contender of GODSENT’s lineup if not for KRIMZ.

Fnatic has been struggling since the swap which split the legendary lineup of Krimz, Olof, flusha, JW and pronax. Krimz, Flusha and JW chose to walkout of the organization to join pronax at GODSENT whereas, fnatic took in Lekr0 and wenton as tryouts.

It is official and has been acknowledged by both GODSENT and Fnatic.