It's been a hectic start for the 00NATION project. Since its launch in September last year, eight players have been on and off the team with none of the initial members of the squad remaining.

The last player to have been part of the team since its inception was Vinicius "v$m" Moreira, who was benched last night.

According to a report on [link:{"url":"https://www.dust2.com.br/noticias/29093/00nation-mira-quarteto-e-comissao-da-godsent","isNewTab":true,"text":"Dust2.br"}], 00NATION is targeting several of the players on the GODSENT roster including Epitacio "⁠TACO⁠" de Melo.

The two remaining players on the active 00NATION roster are:

{cflag:BR} Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David 

00Nation

The Norwegians from 00Nation have completed their starting lineup for the upcoming 2022 season, confirming that Leonardo “leo_drk” Oliveira and Vinicius “vsm” Moreira are staying with the team. The former MIBR duo will join forces with Marcelo “coldzera” David, who headlines the South American roster.  

00Nation has also announced the addition of the 24-year-old coach João "⁠righi⁠" Righi from Team Finest. The talented head coach will take over the whelm of the roster, which also features promising players like Mario "⁠malbsMd⁠" Samayoa and Santino "⁠try⁠" Rigal.

- I think this is my biggest professional career challenge yet, but also the happiest moment in my career. I really believe in the project. And I’m super proud to be working with these hard-working talented people, Righi said in a video statement.

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{cflag:BR} Marcelo "⁠coldzera⁠" David

{cflag:BR} Leonardo "⁠leo_drk⁠" Oliveira

{cflag:BR} João "⁠righi⁠" Righi (coach)

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leo_drk and vsm joined 00Nation back in September 2021 alongside the rest of O PLANO roster

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Fernando “fer” Alvarenga will no be playing with 00Nation in the future, the experienced Counter-Strike player confirms in an [link:{"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OR8hcVAvGk&t","isNewTab":true,"text":"interview "}] with Jean Michel "mch" D'Oliveira. The two-time Major winner leaves his Brazilian countrymen after only having represented the team for two months, where he explains the decision by stating that “we were stressing each other more than we should.

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- It's not cool for me, for the guys, for anyone, and I decided that I was going to play one or two more championships and then tell that it wasn't cool, and that we were stressing each other more than we should - for that reason it was over for me," fer said.

fer joined the Vito "⁠kNgV-⁠" Giuseppe-side in mid-October this year, replacing the Teles twins in HEN1 and Lucas1. The 30-year-old rifler only got to play seven matches with 00Nation, which only resulted in two victories. In the short period, fer averaged a 0.93 Rating / 71.4 ADR.

- We didn't manage to have significant results or anything, but, within the team, I think I was able to help the guys with a lot of things that were lacking, some basic fundamentals of the game, functions that were not very well understood. We talked a lot, kNg is a guy who likes to talk a lot. I think they managed to improve. But in the games, we weren’t able to perform what we did in training – Fer stated in the interview.

00Nation will field the following roster in the future.

You can read a Portuguese piece from ge esports here.

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The Brazilian superstars from O PLANO, led by renowned players like Vito “⁠kNgV-⁠” Giuseppe, Henrique “⁠HEN1⁠” Teles, and Lucas “⁠LUCAS1⁠” Teles, looks to finally have found a new CS:GO home. The star-studded roster has been without an organization since the start of this year when they announced their breakup with MIBR.

O PLANO has been in talks with Nordavind for a potential partnership and takeover of the team. Both media sites inform that the team are in negotiations with the Nordic org.

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The report emerged after only hours of Nordavind having announced the benching of their entire roster. That makes room for kNgV- and company, which could be the second Brazilian roster represented by a Scandinavian organization, with GODSENT’s signing of Epitacio “TACO” de Melo’s CS:GO project in January 2021.

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{cflag:BR} Vito “⁠kNgV-⁠” Giuseppe

{cflag:BR} Henrique “⁠HEN1⁠” Teles

{cflag:BR} Lucas “⁠LUCAS1⁠” Teles

{cflag:BR} Leonardo “⁠leo_drk⁠” Oliveira

{cflag:BR} Vinicius “⁠vsm⁠” Moreira

{cflag:BR} Alencar “⁠trk⁠” Rossato (substitute)

{cflag:BR} Raphael “⁠cogu⁠” Camargo (coach)

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Thursday night/morning featured two fierce playoff matches at cs_summit 8, where we saw EXTREMUM take on the dominant Extra Salt in the early match and O PLANO vs. paiN in the later matchup.

Extra Salt came into the matchup against a star-studded EXTREMUM-side as favourites, owing to their great form lately. However, the dominance was put on a halt, as Aaron “AZR” Ward and his soldiers managed to grab a much-needed 2-1 win.

EXTREMUM – Extra Salt (2-1) | cs_summit 8

13-16 (Vertigo) | {cflag:ZA} Sonic – 1.40 Rating / 26-18 K-D / 91.0 ADR

19-17 (Nuke) | {cflag:NO} jkaem - 1.43 Rating / 35-24 K-D / 101.6 ADR

16-8 (Dust2) | {cflag:AU} Liazz – 1.77 Rating / 26-11 K-D / 107.3 ADR

The later matchup was a true Brazilian derby with the two promising and powerful sides in O PLANO and paiN clashing together at the lower bracket as well. A fight, which the former MIBR roster led by Vito "kNgV-" Giuseppe ended up winning, where the IGL himself was the highlight player for O PLANO. 

9-16 (Nuke) | {cflag:BR} PKL – 1.71 Rating / 28-18 K-D / 120.0 ADR

16-10 (Train) | {cflag:BR} vsm - 1.46 Rating / 24-16 K-D / 102.6 ADR

16-11 (Dust2) | {cflag:BR} kNgV – 1.26 Rating / 24-18 K-D / 87.7 ADR

02:30: EXTREMUM – O PLANO (Lower Final)

02:30 (Sunday): Extra Salt – paiN (5th place decider)

EXTREMUM

Extra Salt

paiN

There has been a lot of talking and waiting, since the news emerged about a new star-studded Brazilian roster, back in January this year. A team, which later on would call themselves O PLANO, “The Plan”. The roster consists of strong and established players like Vito "⁠kNgV-" Giuseppe, Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles, and Lucas "⁠LUCAS1⁠" Teles mixed with some promising youngsters.

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The team has in vain looked for an organization to fund them for some months now, where the iconic org in ENVY, at some time were mentioned as a possibility. However, the Brazilians has announced that they will begin their journey towards the PGL Major without an org, as they state “The mystery is over, today we started this independent project”

The team has started its journey towards qualifying for the next Major in Stockholm in October. So far the results have been mixed, but there is still hope for the new roster. We have gathered highlights from the first matches of O PLANO.

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The former MIBR roster will unite once again after a rather successful period at the iconic Brazilian team.

Following the statement, the team captain Vito "⁠kNgV-⁠" Giuseppe publicized that Alencar "⁠trk⁠" Rossato has been removed from their active roster, owing to Valve’s new regulations concerning 6-man rosters, and the fact that Vinicius "⁠vsm⁠" Moreira is no longer VAC-banned.

- Therefore, we have a new responsibility, to decide who the 5 players will be. As we are a family, making this decision was not easy. Other times they decided to remove the 6th player rule and we chose not to follow this path, because our strength is in the group.

Then, in an act of democracy and humility, we opened a vote and decided to start the championship with “TRK” on the replacement list. This does not mean that we will continue this way until the end of the Major race. We are ready for a replacement anytime we need it.

{cflag:BR} Alencar "⁠trk⁠" Rossato (substitute)

The star-studded Brazilians from O PLANO, led by Vito "⁠kNgV-⁠" Giuseppe and the profiled Teles twins, went official two days ago, as the former MIBR-roster announced their entry on the Counter-Strike, in an alleged “independent project”.

The newly established team got their debut yesterday at the important cs_summit Open Qualifier, which serves as a qualifying event for the PGL Major later this year. kNgV- and company kicked off their new journey with two striking victories against the two strong NA teams in Party Astronauts (former High Coast roster) and Triumph.

In the two 2-0 wins, the highlight players were the former FURIA superstar Henrique "⁠HEN1⁠" Teles and the promising Vinicius "⁠vsm⁠" Moreira. The duo had a very strong showing, where they averaged a 1.29 and 1.31 Rating respectively. HEN1, vsm and the rest of O PLANO will play at the closed qualifier at cs_summit 8, which starts on the 14th of May. 

16-5 (Inferno) | LUCAS1 – 1.75 Rating / 21-8 K-D / 99.4 ADR

16-12 (Dust2) | LUCAS1 – 1.25 Rating / 24-22 K-D / 90.4 ADR

19-16 (Dust2) | vsm – 1.34 Rating / 29-21 K-D / 84.1 ADR

16-13 (Nuke) | vsm – 1.61 Rating / 30-20 K-D / 116.8 ADR

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Triumph

Party Astronauts

Sources state that the possible new Brazilian team O'PLANO is getting closer and closer to finding an organization to support their dreams of creating a new six-man roster. The six Brazilians in question are Lucas "LUCAS1" Teles, Vito "kNgV-"Giuseppe, Alencar "trk" Rossato, Henrique "HEN1" Teles, Leonardo "leo_drk" Oliveira, and Vinicius "vsm" Moreira. 

The only player out of the six players who is currently a free agent is "LUCAS1". The remaining five are said to be in talks with their respective organizations in regards to the new project. Players are hoping to finalize the negotiations in the upcoming days so that they are able to travel to Mexico and take part in the upcoming open qualifier for cs_summit 8. The event is scheduled to take place May 1-2. 

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FURIA

For the first time since the introduction of CS:GO, Valve has changed its policy towards players with a VAC ban.

The change was announced today via Twitter.

On their website, Valve explains the policy change.

- Up until today, players were ineligible to participate in Valve-sponsored events if they had ever received a VAC ban in CS:GO. These guidelines had not seen an update since the game was new and all CS:GO VAC bans were relatively recent. But VAC bans can now be more than 8 years old. So we’ve decided to update them.

Moving forward, a VAC ban will only disqualify a player from an event if it was either received less than 5 years prior or if it was received at any time after their first participation in a Valve-sponsored event (e.g., after participating in a qualifier for an RMR event). Note that VAC bans stay in place with all of their other effects; the only change is how they influence your eligibility to play in Valve-sponsored events.

One of the players, that is affected is the Brazilian player Vinicius "v$m" Moreira.

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The newly established CS:GO project by the former MIBR coach Raphael "cogu" Camargo is according to sources, in advanced talks with the Brazilian organization Flamengo Esports. It’s the Brazilian CS:GO site Baserush who has published a report, stating that the red-black org is close to signing the profiled roster led by Vito “kNgV-“ Giuseppe and “Henrique” HEN1” Teles.

The new project has been rumoured for some time now, but it was first recently that the individuals confirmed the creation of a new superstar roster. The former MIBR roster tried to stay together at the iconic organization, however, the two parties couldn’t agree on a mutual deal, resulting in a mass evasion by coach cogu and the entire squad.

Read more. "Former coach takes the entire roster with him"

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Flamengo Esports already feature teams in multiple esports as in PES, Free Fire and a leading League of Legends team. And if this deal goes through, the Brazilian organization also could compete on the very top of CS:GO, due to the experience and high abilities of the likes as kNgV-, HEN1 and vsm.

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Made In Brazil (MIBR) was the talk of the town in 2018 when they launched as the new Brazilian powerhouse in CS:GO. With legendary players as Coldzera, fer, and FalleN they have fielded some of the best Brazilian players in history.

But in the summer of 2020, it all started to crumble. 

In late 2020 the Brazilian Organization acquired LUCAS1, v$m, and leo_drk and played the remaining year with the three players plus kNgv- and trk on the roster. The new roster played BLAST Premier Fall Series, BLAST Premier Fall Showdown, Flashpoint 2 together. They managed to defeat teams as Furia, FaZe, and OG along the way.

But at the start of this year, MIBR announced that they would look to replace LUCAS1, v$m, and leo_drk.

In addition, the interim coach Raphael "⁠cogu⁠" Camargo also left MIBR. But what really happened?

On Reddit, a user has taken his time to transcribe a long live stream with the Brazilian streamer Gaules, who was joined by some of the main persons around the team. You can read the full summary here.

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The dissolution of the otherwise exciting MIBR roster seems inevitable after several players have left the Brazilian top team and expressed their critique towards the organization. Yesterday, a report emerged, stating that the recently resigned coach of MIBR Raphael "cogu" Camargo is trying to build a new CS:GO team, consisting the former MIBR roster, however, under a completely new banner.

Read more. "Media: Former coach takes the entire MIBR roster with him"

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The players and cogu have expressed a desire to stay together as a team, something MIBR hasn’t felt possible due to inflexibility from the players and unsuccessful renegotiations between the organization and the roster. Something, which clearly explains and supports the rumours about cogu and his new CS:GO project. 

This has meant that Lucas "LUCAS1" Teles has gone to Twitter, exposing MIBR and the alleged renegotiation by criticising the organization. Where further sources also state that no official offers have been made between MIBR and Sharks, in the resigning of Leonardo "leo_drk" Oliveira.

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Mad Lions have been playing well lately, beating strong teams throughout the tournament. However, the Danish firework failed to appear in this matchup and MIBR took advantage of a poor performing Danish roster team by sweeping them 2-0 on Mirage (16-3) and Nuke (16-13).

The match began on MAD Lions’ map pick on Mirage, where the Danes have looked strong. There was only one problem for the Danes – MIBR’s strong rifler Vinicius “vsm” Moreira seemed to be completely unstoppable on the first map. vsm led his team to a nearly perfect 12-3 halftime lead, and eventually also the 16-3 win through a 1.96 rating and a 24-8 K/D.

MIBR closed out the series 16-13, after a solid performance on Nuke where vsm once again shined for MIBR.

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MIBR will meet the winner of the BIG – OG matchup in the vital Lower Final, which is played tomorrow at 18:00 (CET).

In yesterday’s matchup between Liquid, MIBR player Vinicius “vsm” Moreira travelled back in time to the early stages of 2020. Equipped with the scoped weapon called Krieg SG553, the Brazilian player dismantled his opponents in an outstanding 4k round.

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In the start of 2020, the Krieg SG553 caused severe frustrations around the CS:GO world due to players, coaches and fans believing that the weapon was way too powerful. That started a movement inside of the community with the aim to nerf the Krieg, which first became a reality in mid-April.

The MIBR player might have commenced a comeback for the scoped weapon of the Krieg.

Team Liquid

MIBR got the perfect start to BLAST Premier Fall Showdown and are through to the quarter-final stage after demolishing FaZe 2-0 on Nuke (22-20) and Dust2 (16-11). The Marcelo “coldzera” David-led team dominated at the beginning of the first map and got a 9-1 lead, but MIBR started to play without fear by turning up the pace and managed to take three more rounds before switching sides to CT, where they came back from 4-14 to take the game into overtime before closing out the game. 

The Brazilians carried their momentum into Dust2 and stormed to a 9-0 lead with the whole squad stepping up. FaZe managed to cut the gap to 11-13, but their hope for a comeback got destroyed in the following round as MIBR shocked them with an eco-round win that changed the game as MIBR took the last remaining rounds before the victory. 

Alencar “trk” Rossato was the top player overall on the server finishing the series with a rating of 1.19 and 81.2% KAST, but it’s worth also mention Vinicius “vsm” Moreira and Vito “kNgV” Giuseppe as they both popped off during the whole game with unbelievable clutches and important plays. 

MIBR will face off the winner of Thursday’s series between Liquid and MAD Lions in a quarter-final clash, while FaZe clan got handed an exit with today's loss. 

FaZe

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The 21-year-old Brazilian is destroying FaZe on their Dust2 map pick and his performance is being praised on Twitter.

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This clash was a replay from the opening round between BIG and MIBR where the Germans took the win 2-1 and today, they managed to do the same. BIG took the victory in two close games on Nuke (16-13) and Vertigo (16-14).

Despite losing the series 1-2, Vinicius “vsm” Moreira finished the match as the top-rated player with the most kills resulting in a 74-57 score, 1.32 rating, and 86.2 ADR.

The Brazilians definitely managed to put up a stronger performance than last time where they only managed to get 20 rounds in total and it seems like they are proving match by match how far they can go.

“We are happy with our evolution since the last game against BIG, we sinned at some crucial moments and today they took it.” MIBR’s coach wrote on Twitter after the game. 

BIG has secured the first seed of the group going into the playoffs. 

The Germans from Berlin International Gaming has impressed in Group B through two strong victories against MIBR and forZe. The duo consisting of syrsoN and k1to tops the rankings and has been two key factors for BIG and their impressive showing so far.

1. syrsoN (BIG) +39 k/d-ratio, 76.4 ADR, 1.39 rating

2. k1to (BIG) +19 k/d-ratio, 88.4 ADR, 1.26 rating

3. mantuu (OG) +35 k/d-ratio, 81.0 ADR, 1.25 rating

4. sjuush (MAD Lions) +26 k/d-ratio, 94.4 ADR, 1.25 rating

5. KRIMZ (fnatic) +54 k/d-ratio, 84.1 ADR, 1.24 rating

6. Brollan (fnatic) +37 k/d-ratio, 84.2 ADR, 1.24 rating

7. YEKINDAR (Virtus.pro) +12 k/d-ratio, 81.4 ADR, 1.21 rating

8. XANTARES (BIG) +20 k/d-ratio, 78.1 ADR, 1.21 rating

9. vsm (MIBR) +25 k/d-ratio, 87.5 ADR, 1.19 rating

10. AleksiB (OG) +16 k/d-ratio, 85.0 ADR, 1.19 rating

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The 21-year old entry-fragger Leonardo "leo_drk" Oliveira has been part of the new-look MIBR team who has been playing very well since they have acquired their new trio in vsm, Lucas1 and as mentioned leo_drk.

In yesterday’s matchup against forZe, leo_drk dismantled the entire Russian team in a beautiful ace on Inferno.

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