Sangal has announced that Max "PANIX" Hangebruch will be joining their team as the new AWPer, replacing Love "phzy" Smidebrant. Phzy, who had been Sangal's highest-rated player this year with a 1.09 rating, now finds himself on the bench after joining the mixed team on loan from Ninjas in Pyjamas back in August last year. 

Sangal will be hoping that the addition of PANIX will help turn their fortunes around and bring them back to the heights they reached in 2022, where they secured a top-four finish at the BLAST Premier Spring Showdown.

It remains to be seen how the new lineup will perform, but Sangal fans will be hoping that adding PANIX will bring a fresh spark to the team and help them return to their winning ways. The 24-year-old AWPer will be joining Sangal on fire after delivering a 1.24 rating across nine maps.

With recent roster changes Sangal looks as follows:

{cflag:AL} Klesti "⁠stikle-⁠" Kola (coach)

{cflag:SE} Love "⁠phzy⁠" Smidebrant (benched)

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Kevin "kRYSTAL" Amend has parted ways with the organization and team he, for the last year, has represented. He leaves GODSENT's bench and joins his former team ALTERNATE aTTaX instead. "kRYSTAL" was benched at GODSENT mid-November 2020 due to a lack of results from the European roster. Instead of "kRYSTAL" the organization brought in Luka "emi" Vuković as their in-game leader. The team began to show greater results and "kRYSTAL" was therefore never brought back into the roster. 

Whilst not managing the best of results at GODSENT, "kRYSTAL" now head home to familiar territories in the German organization ALTERNATE aTTaX, where he will try his best to show his capabilities as an in-game leader. This will mark the third time that "kRYSTAL" joins ALTERNATE aTTaX where he, this time, will be joining forces with a former student of his in Max "PANIX" Hangebruch as well as a former teammate in Stefan "stfN" Seier. 

The 27-year-old German seems eager and ready to begin a new journey in his career as well as to take on the responsibilities of bringing up young talent in the scene. When playing under ALTERNATE aTTaX from 2012-2014 he was a much younger and more inexperienced player than he currently is. 

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ALTERNATE aTTaX have secured the likes of two former BIG Academy players, Karim “Krimbo” Moussa and Max “PANIX” Hangebruch, who will debut for their new organization on January 17 in the ESL Meisterschaft Autumn semi-finals.

18-year-old Krimbo was BIG Academy’s highest-rated player in 2020, averaging a 1.11 rating over 62 maps, while PANIX averaged a 1.05 rating over the same period, with the team most notably winning the 99Liga Season 15 and placing fourth in Season 16.

The signing marks the end of the first iteration of the BIG Academy project as all of their former players have signed pro contracts with teams around the world. The organization have announced that they will start scouting a new lineup heading into the 2021 circiut.

ALTERNATE aTTaX got two weeks to complete the roster with a fifth player as they are set to face off Sprout in the semi-final of ESL Meisterschaft Autumn on January 17. The squad also holds a spot in ESEA MDL Season 36 EU, set to kick off on January 18.

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