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CS:GO News Week in Review: June 26th


Luminosity to sign with SK

Luminosity's Brazilian roster has announced this week that they will be signing with SK Gaming at the end of the month following the scandal involving contracts with the organization as well as LG. SK Gaming Managing Director Alexander T. Müller had the following to say about the move, the full statement of which can be found in the full article:

This was a messy situation and neither party was completely right or wrong here. At SK, we are happy to leave the emotional weeks behind us and are now looking forward to a fresh start and successful future together.

FlipSid3 adds wayLander 

The Ukrainian team has been eyeing Gambit talent Jan "wayLander" Rahkonen as a potential candidate to round out their incomplete roster for a while; now that acquisition has been finally made official this week as both Gambit and FlipSid3 have agreed to the player's buyout, just in time for ELEAGUE as well as ESL One Cologne 2016.

Cologne 2016 update adds stickers, autographs

Fans can now get their hands on team and player stickers for ESL One Cologne 2016 this week following the latest CS:GO update, which also enabled the Pick'em Challenge brackets as well as introducing a new API so third party sites can access those brackets for their own services. For a full list of changes, head over to our update recap, here.

Devilwalk to coach OpTic

The North American team will be receiving much needed guidance from a seasoned veteran, OpTic Gaming revealed this week, after the news was leaked on Óscar "mixwell" Cañellas' Twitch stream that Jonatan "Devilwalk" Lundberg will be their new coach. He will be joining the team in time for ESL One Cologne 2016, one of the most important events of the year.

Worst Players adds CyberFocus, jmqa

Worst Players have now sourced a pair to fill the two vacancies in their roster this week, bringing in Roman "CyberFocus" Dergach and Savelii "jmqa" Bragin. Both players have well-established careers in the professional scene, having played under organizations such as Empire, PiTER, and FlipSid3 Tactics.

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