Guild Esports has introduced its most modern access into Counter-Strike esports with the disclosing of its new roster, the participants of Bad News Eagles.
Genc ‘gxx-’ Kolgeci, Flatron ‘juanflatroo’ Halimi, Sener ‘SENER1’ Mahuti, Dionis ‘sinnopsyy’ Budeci and Rigon ‘rigoN’ Gashi amazed all people after they have become the first-ever group from the Albanian-Kosovar location to attain a Major qualifier (RMR) again in 2022, after they certified for the PGL Antwerp Major. They’ve considering competed at, and certified for the Legends level in, 3 Counter-Strike Majors in Antwerp, Rio and Paris – incomes prize winnings worth $96,000 in 2023 alone.
What will now be called the Guild Eagles group could be joined with the aid of using a backroom workforce of a number of the maximum well-reputable figures withinside the Counter-Strike community: head educate Jonatan ‘Devilwalk’ Lundberg (the most effective multi-Major winner as each a educate and a player), assistant educate Kevin ‘Krystal’ Amend, analyst Kieran ‘KayJay’ Playfair and with James ‘BanKs’ Banks (the group’s manager) becoming a member of Guild as a representative to help the org.
From humble origins in Kosovan internet cafes to Paris’ Hall de l. a. Pinède, this roster has skilled an superb trajectory during the last 3 years considering their aggressive debut in 2020. They’ve won a cult following in each their domestic location and the broader international with a mixed Twitter, Twitch, and Instagram followings of over 112,000, 297,000, and 137,000 respectively, and their direction to fulfillment and worldwide renown has turn out to be a fulfillment tale of contemporary-day Counter-Strike.
With the backing of holistic training associate Ground+Air, Guild Esports will help this ascension even further, as Counter-Strike esports takes a step into the destiny with the release of Counter-Strike 2 (CS2).
Ground+Air is a overall performance and well being consultancy a good way to be turning in a expert training and training programme to Guild Esports’ CS2 roster, designing a tailor-made state-of-the-art ‘Elite Performance Programme’. Ground+Air has revel in outside and inside esports having constructed and brought Oracle Red Bull Racing’s Performance Accelerator Programme for F1 Esports. Ground+Air brings years of revel in and quality practices in constructing programmes from different sectors; along with elite expert football, motor racing, entertainment, banking and generation to construct a programme designed to reinforce in-sport overall performance with out-of-sport well being.
Guild Esports intends to install this programme to each installed and developmental groups below the Guild Esports banner. The programme will include a mix of one-to-one training and group improvement workshops, brought with the aid of using overall performance specialists from throughout the worlds of training, elite sports, enterprise and esports.
Jasmine Skee, CEO of Guild Esports, said: “With the discharge of CS2, we realised that there has been no higher time for us to boom our presence in Counter-Strike. The trajectory of the Bad News Eagles roster has been inspirational, and embodies the mindset that we cost right here at Guild Esports – we can’t wait to help them on their adventure in CS2 with the assist of Ground+Air.”
Jonatan “Devilwalk” Lundberg, Head Coach for Guild Eagles, said: “We’re surprisingly excited to symbolize Guild in CS2. Throughout our conversations with Guild it’s been abundantly clean that they proportion our vision, and in reality need to assist this roster be successful at the best stage of aggressive Counter-Strike. We’ve had gives from a couple of organizations throughout our time as an unsigned group, however in the end we observed that Guild have been the maximum carefully aligned with what we need to attain in CS2, and have been capable of offer us the best stage of holistic help to assist us compete at our top potential. With what we’ve already visible from assembly the workforce and seeing the facilities, we haven’t any doubt that is in which we belong to attain the subsequent stage in competition.”