On Tuesday, the news feed featured two high-profile NA CS:GO players being announced as members of VALORANT sides for two NA organizations. koosta will continue to play under the Gen.G banner, marking an end to a seven-year-long career in CS, while leaf has been officially announced as a member of Cloud9 Blue. The pair join a growing list of NA players who have made their switch to the Riot Games’ shooter since its release.

17-year-old leaf racked up an impressive trophy haul during his time with Chaos and impressed the CS scene in the process with ability and gamesense that are seemingly beyond his years. Throughout 2020, he averaged a 1.14 rating featuring wins at DreamHack Masters Winter 2020 and IEM Beijing-Haidian.

koosta played in one Major, reaching the group stage of ESL One Cologne back in 2016 with CLG and most recently averaged a 1.19 rating in ESL One: Cologne 2020 NA, a 1.08 rating in ESL Pro League Season 12, and a 1.03 rating in Flashpoint 2.

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With Cloud9 parting ways with their former Head Coach Aleksandar "kassad" Trifunović it is no surprise that they are looking for a new Coach to guide the roster. "kassad" said his goodbyes with the Cloud9 organization after a clash with the British in-game leader Alex "ALEX" McMeekin. 

Cloud9's General Manager Henry "HenryG" Greer states, in an interview with Rush B Media, that: 

"While nothing has been made official as of yet, it is no secret that we are in deep talks with Elmapuddy." 

He carries on by praising the young Australian Coach: 

"He's an absolutely fantastic coach and negotiations are going extremely well. I can't wait to update you all later in the week." 

Chris "Elmapuddy" Tebbit isn't without experience as he was hired as Coach for Gen.G. Last December, however, Gen.G transfer-listed both "Elmapuddy" alongside Hansel "BnTeT" Ferdinand, Kenneth "koosta" Suen, and Timothy "autimatic" Ta. 

If Cloud9 succeed in signing "Elmapuddy" as well as newly rumored Erick "Xeppaa" Bach, the future of Cloud9 is without any doubt an intersting and promising one. 

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Another North American organization has put their entire roster on the transfer list.

Gen.G, who peaked on the world ranking as #12 in June, has placed their three remaining players and their coach on the transfer list. 

- Players aren't benched and it isn't VALORANT over CS. We want them to see any offers as we go into 2021. We recognize that it has been a challenging period for professional CS, and we're looking at how the scene develops into 2021. In the meantime, we wanted to make sure to minimize the impact on players, so we have allowed them to keep their options open while still under contract with us." Additionally, "[Gen.G] are willing to waive buyouts if the player[s] wants to go somewhere, a Gen.G representative told Rush B Media.

The players and coach placed on the transfer list are.

Timothy "autimatic" Ta is among the players, who are now on the transfer list. The AWP'er elaborated on Twitter, that he is looking to stay in CS:GO, but that he will also try out Valorant in the coming weeks.

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“I am really shocked,” The words from commentator Anders Blume said it all. OG is on a three-match loss-streak after a disappointing effort against Gen.G.

The disbelief was real after the first map on Train, where Gen.G ran away with a 16-5 victory. Having played their last game in September, and playing with two stand-ins, the expectations for the North American team were low.

But while OG struggled all the way on Train, stand-in Rasmus “kreaz” Johansson made a brilliant debut scoring +10 in K/D-ratio and making clutches like this.

Despite losing big on Train, the odds were still in OG’s favor before the two teams headed out on Dust2. Again OG was having a hard time. On their T-side, they went behind 1-7. Gen.G was constantly in command, and especially Kenneth "koosta" Suen was running the show on both Train and Dust2.

Gen.G finished the match with a 16-10 win and is ready for an exciting match against Virtus.pro in the upper bracket final on Sunday. OG will face Cloud9 in the lower bracket.

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