9z is ready for next month’s PGL Major in Antwerp after a phenomenal comeback at the Americas RMR tournament. The South American side began the event by going 0-2, having fought with their backs to the wall ever since.

Despite the heavy pressure and going head-to-head against strong teams like 00Nation and Evil Geniuses, 9z has still managed to book themselves a spot at the massive Valve-sponsored event taking place in Belgium.

The impressive achievement was secured by Maximiliano “max” Gonzalez and his men through an exceptional 2-0 win against paiN in the 6th place decider match this Friday evening. A matchup, 9z controlled throughout the majority of the series, using their momentum from their victory over EG earlier today.

Watch the thrilling ending to the match and the celebration from 9z in the video below.

9z – paiN 2-0 | PGL Major Antwerp Americas RMR

16-11 (Mirage) | {cflag:AR} Luken – 1.34 Rating / 22-12 K-D / 86.8 ADR

19-17 (Dust2) | {cflag:UY} max – 1.44 Rating / 34-24 K-D / 102.2 ADR

MVP: {cflag:UY} Maximiliano “max” Gonzalez | 1.24 Rating / 49-41 K-D / 89.0 ADR

2nd | {cflag:BR} MIBR (Challengers Stage)

3rd | {cflag:BR} Imperial (Challengers Stage)

4th | {cflag:US} Complexity (Challengers Stage)

5th | {cflag:US} Liquid (Challengers Stage)

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paiN

They came as the big underdogs and took the world of Counter-Strike with surprise when they managed to beat Team Vitality at BLAST Premier Spring Showdown. Later on, they would end up losing to Heroic, a top-three team in the world right now, but that doesn't take anything from their performance. The team even had to play with a stand-in at the tournament.

{cflag:ES} Rajohn 'EasTor' Linato (Stand-in at BLAST Premier Spring Showdown)

Especially Santino 'try' Rigal has been excellent at the tournament. Only 16-year-old the young Argentinian looks very promising for the future. Watch some of his best highlights here.

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After their match against Heroic the coach of 9z Rafael 'zakk' Fernandes commented on the future of the team, which could see the team move to North America or come back to Europe to fight again.

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The news is a heavy blow to the stomach for the South American side, Martin “rox” Molina has been the roster's third-highest rated player in the last three months with a rating of 1.16.

Instead, they are replacing him with the Spanish Rajohn “EasTor” Linato who is currently playing with the Spanish side VELOX, but he will play for 9z in the upcoming BLAST Premier Spring Showdown.

9z will start the event against Team Vitality in the opening match on April 15th, in the single-elimination, best-of-three bracket.

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Sergio Aguero announced last month that the Argentinian football player has founded his very own esports organization called KRÜ Esports. And now can multiple sources in DRAFT5 and cybersport.pl report that KRÜ Esports is ready to enter the CS:GO scene.

Brazilian football star Casemiro has also invested in CS:GO.

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Rumours says that Aguero and his team have signed the two profiled Argentinean players in former MIBR player Ignacio “meyeren” Meyer and Luca “Luken” Nadotti. The two players will be the stars of the team being two players who both have proven themselves on the big stage in their stay at Shark Esports and MIBR.

The rest of the players who are rumoured to join the Argentinian team is lesser-known players in Gabriel “1962” Sinopoli, Maximiliano “max” Gonzalez, Nahuel “nhl” Herrera.

Watch Premier League star Sergio Aguero play CS:GO right here.

The potential roster is rumoured to look like this:

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