The big-name team hopes the new signing will bring new hope to their 2022 run while G2 and MOUZ bring younger players into the mainline team.
2022 begins and teams are now announcing new signings that were under negotiation since the end of last year. Transfers between teams and promotions are part of the new roster announcements. This includes promoting younger players alongside the shift between experienced players and established teams.
FaZe Clan
FaZe Clan has announced that they will be roping in the Estonian rifler Robin “Ropz” Koolinto their lineup for the 2022 season. The announcement was done on their official Twitter channel.
Ropz has famously played with MOUZ for over 5 years and has been crowned as one of HLTV’s top 10 players, as well as one of the best lurkers in the game.
MOUZ has decided to change their roster drastically for the 2022 season, with their parting with Ropz. FaZe Clan is hoping that with his joining, their luck for 2022 will change as their run in 2021 was not the best they had in the past few years.
Ropz joining also spells the end of Olofmeister’s return as he will be benched as the team’s rifler.
MOUZ
MOUZ has confirmed their new 2022 roster – the team has promoted Adam "torzsi" Torzsás from the academy team to the main team. He will be playing as the team’s AWP.
As one of the standout players from MOUZ NXT in 2021, he has achieved impressive numbers as an academy player. He saw a 1.24 rating as well as a 1.42 K/D ratio. He also led the academy team at the WePlay Academy League Seasons 1 & 2, netting the team $45,000 in the process.
Unfortunately, with the joining, another player had to be bumped to the bench – and in this instance it is Frederic "AcoR" Gyldstrand. He joined the team in January last year but struggled to find a big win with the team ever since.
The promotion of torzsi comes at the back of Ropz’s transfer to FaZe Clan. His promotion also signals the start of a replacement search for MOUZ NXT, with Miłosz “mhL” Knasiak as a main target for the academy team, according to Rafael Ferreira, Portuguese CS:GO journalist.
G2 Esports
The team has confirmed that they are signing 16-year-old Russian rifler Ilya “m0NESY” Osipov as part of their 2022 roster. Despite his young age, m0NESY is one of the highly anticipated free agents in CS:GO today.
He started with Na’Vi Junior in 2020, and now G2 Esports is giving the young lad a chance in the tier one competition circuit with this signing. The team hopes with this signing their mediocre run in 2021 will not be replicated in 2022, and they will be hoisting trophies before long.
With m0NESY’s joining, G2 Esports has eight people on their roster. As of press time, no confirmation has been made on who will be bumped off from the main roster lineup for 2022.
