Outcomes have been exhausting to come back by for BIG Clan’s Counter-Strike 2 staff in 2025, however they could have discovered a technique to flip that round within the type of a brand new AWPer. Nonetheless, that new AWPer will imply greater than only a participant change for the German staff.
German AWPer Marcel “hyped” Kohn will likely be departing the staff transferring ahead. Signed in December 2024, his stint on the premium German staff lasted simply ten months, however that’s 4 months longer than his first spell on BIG’s fundamental staff again in 2023.
hyped is being benched by BIG Clan. Picture Credit score: PGL
Though the whole BIG staff has struggled in that point, hyped has been the lowest-rated participant for the German organisation all through 2025.
His 0.98 ranking throughout all matches is especially poor for somebody taking part in the AWP function, so it’s not exhausting to see why BIG would look to make a change to show their fortunes round.
BIG Usher in Gr1ks
The brand new participant coming in is Gleb “gr1ks” Gazin, who HEROIC had benched after simply weeks on the roster. The change is stunning, because it means the staff will likely be calling in English once more.
They’ve performed this on a number of events in CS, and to nice impact throughout the spells with Owen “smooya” Butterfield and Ismailcan “XANTARES” Dortkardes, however moved away from it when Mateusz “mantuu” Wilczewski was benched early final 12 months.
We haven’t switched to English shortly 😴
Please welcome @gr1ks24 as our new AWP 🙏 pic.twitter.com/iLYoEXlLKI
— BIG (@BIGCLANgg) October 10, 2025
Additionally it is stunning because of the means gr1ks was benched by his earlier staff. Solely signed by HEROIC in July, gr1ks was benched by the group simply weeks later, with their coach Tobias “TOBIZ” Theo saying that his “playstyle didn’t totally align with how the staff is shaping up.”
The benching was met with scrutiny, and on the time, many speculated that there was extra to it than TOBIZ was suggesting.
Since then, the Belarusian sniper has been out on mortgage with Russian staff GUN5. gr1ks flourished throughout that mortgage spell, recording a 1.14 ranking throughout all of his video games as he rebuilt his popularity as probably the most promising AWPers in CS2.
BIG will now have every week to mattress of their new participant, they’re set to participate within the Playoffs of the NODWIN Clutch Sequence, which is able to get underway on October 17.
