The Germans from BIG have been heavily decimated before the important Major qualifier IEM Road to Rio RMR, with Josef “faveN” Baumann missing out on the event due to a “medical situation that requires him to rest at home”.
The BIG Academy rifler Elias “s1n” Stein is set to fill out the void from faveN, the organization confirms on Twitter.
Update: due to a medical situation that requires him to rest at home, we will be playing the RMR with @s1nCS instead of @favenCS. ?
Please give a warm welcome to Elias, and wish Josef a fast recovery! #GOBIG pic.twitter.com/ZhxepecygF
— BIG (@BIGCLANgg) September 29, 2022
Big shoes to fill
With faveN not attending the Regional Major Ranking, BIG will lack a lot of firepower on the server coming from the former Sprout player. Throughout the last 30 days, faveN has been the highest rated BIG member – something s1n also acknowledges.
– I will fill BIG shoes, let‘s give it everything and we will qualify together! So hyped to play this tournament, s1n wrote in a Tweet.
BIG | Active roster
{cflag:DE} Johannes “tabseN” Wodarz
{cflag:DE} Florian “syrsoN” Rische
{cflag:DE} Karim “Krimbo” Moussa
{cflag:DE} Nils “k1to” Gruhne
{cflag:DE} Elias “s1n” Stein (stand-in)
{cflag:DE} Fatih “gob b” Dayik (coach)
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