The former Major winner Janusz “Snax” Pogorzelski has been revealed as a stand-in for ENCE at the upcoming IEM Dallas next week. He will replace the star rifler Lotan “Spinx” Giladi who can’t attend the event due to VISA issues, ENCE confirms on Twitter this Tuesday.
Unfortunately, due to visa issues, @SpinxCSGO is unable to participate in #IEM Dallas.
We will have the Polish legend @cios_snax stepping in as a substitute. Huge thanks for coming in clutch ?#EZ4ENCE pic.twitter.com/HdtIOoUotZ
— ENCE (@ENCE) May 24, 2022
Rumors of complications surrounding Spinx’s participation at the $250.000 event already hit the news Sunday when ENCE IGL Marco “Snappi” Pfeiffer told Dust2.us that “Spinx hasn’t been able to obtain a visa for the US so far, so we might need to play with a stand-in”.
Spinx to miss IEM Dallas due to visa issues
Snax is most known for his time at Virtus.pro, where he and the team were among the very best CS:GO teams in the world. Alongside TaZ, NEO, pashaBiceps, and byali, the 28-year-old Pole also managed to grab himself a Major title at ESL Major Series One Katowice in 2014. He has most recently played for the Polish low-tier team Anonymo.
ENCE, now with Snax on the team, will kick off IEM Dallas against Snax’s old team MOUZ (former mousesports) on Monday next week. The event also features top-tier teams like FaZe, NAVI, Astralis and Cloud9.
Here are the opening group matches for #IEM Dallas! ??
Group A:@FaZeClan vs @LFOcsgo@AstralisCS vs @TeamVitality@G2Esports vs @Movistar_Riders@mousesports vs @ENCE
Group B:@FURIA vs @imperialesports @TeamLiquidCS vs @Cloud9@NIPCS vs @BIGCLANgg@heroicgg vs @Complexity pic.twitter.com/4DVjQCEfJ1
— Intel® Extreme Masters (@IEM) May 23, 2022
ENCE | Active roster
{cflag:DK} Marco “Snappi” Pfeiffer
{cflag:ME} Pavle “Maden” Bošković
{cflag:PL} Olek “hades” Miskiewicz
{cflag:PL} Paweł “dycha” Dycha
{cflag:PL} Janusz “Snax” Pogorzelski (stand-in)
{cflag:IL} Lotan “Spinx” Giladi (bench)
