The Brazilian esports organization officially announced the signing on Twitter, confirming earlier reports that they were targeting the three players. zevy, PKL, and t9rnay will complete Fluxo’s starting five and join Vinicius “?vsm?” Moreira and Lucas “?Lucaozy?” Neves on the CS:GO lineup.

Lucaozy and vsm are the only players left from Fluxo’s previous lineup after the organization benched Allan “?history?” Lawrenz, Adriano “?WOOD7?” Cerato, and Jo?o “?felps?” Vasconcellos to make space for the three new players.

Fluxo also announced the promotion of former analyst Joaquin “?lokomotioN?” Abasolo to head coach. Wilton “?zews?” Prado, the previous coach, parted ways with the organization earlier this month after less than a year in service.

Both zevy and PKL joined Fluxo from paiN after departing the esports organization over the weekend. PKL started with paiN in February 2019 and moved to the inactive roster in February this year due to a myriad of personal issues. He remained on the bench until paiN parted ways with him on Sunday morning.

zevy, on his end, started playing under paiN in August 2022 after a stint with the Sharks. During his time with the team, he rose to be one of the best AWPers in the South American region.

zevy departed paiN on Saturday following the team’s disappointing results after the BLAST.tv Paris Major. The CS:GO player joins Fluxo with an impressive 1.14 overall average rating during his time with paiN and a 1.07 rating on LAN.

During the last months of zevy’s tenure, paiN recorded some disappointing results during events. They were notably eliminated early in the BLAST.tv Paris Major Challengers Stage with a 2-3 record.

paiN also had poor showings in the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice Play-In and Electronic Sports League Challenger Katowice. Fluxo did not fare better during events, leaving the BLAST.tv Paris Major Challengers Stage with a 0-3 record.

Fluxo’s final addition, t9rnay, joins the team from RED Canids. He was a part of the lineup for seven months and, during this period, averaged a 1.18 rating. Besides Fluxo, several other teams approached t9rnay during the offseason, including Paquet��, paiN, and Leonardo “?leo_drk?” Oliveira for his new project.

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The esports organization announced the news via a Twitter post, making it the third change to their lineup this offseason. Gabriel “NEKIZ” Schenato left the team weeks earlier and recently signed with 00NATION, while Wesley “hardzao” Lopes was also taken off the active lineup.

“We took different paths from today, but we can’t stop thanking you for going head-to-head with the best AWPs in the world. vlw for every kill and iconic photo, @zevyfps!” paiN wrote.

Zevy is not expected to spend any time without a team, as he is rumored to be on his way to Fluxo. The organization will also sign his former teammate, Vinicios “?PKL?” Coelho, to their CS:GO lineup.

Zevy started playing with paiN in August 2022 following his move from Sharks Esports. He replaced Gabriel “?nython?” Lino on the lineup and soon became one of the top AWPers in South America. In 2022, he helped the team win events like the CBCS Invitational and Electronic Sports League Challenger Melbourne.

PaiN also reached the grand finals of the Flow FiReLEAGUE 2022 Global Finals and had an impressive run in the BLAST.tv Paris Major Americas RMR. Zevy reached a 1.21 average rating during the event, helping paiN secure a place in the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 and return to the Major circuit.

The AWPer averaged a 1.14 rating while with paiN, recording only three events with less than a 1.00 rating in 2023. The BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Challengers Stage was one of those occasions, with the player finishing with a 0.68 rating.

PaiN currently have only two players on their active lineup: Felipe “?skullz?” Medeiros and Rodrigo “?biguzera?” Bittencourt. They are reportedly targeting C��ssio “?cass1n?” Santos, FURIA Academy’s Kaue “?kauez?” Kaschuk, and Lucas “?lux?” Meneghini from Fluxo to fill their ranks.

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The team were one of the three Brazilian guests in the tournament and were eliminated in the Challengers Stage with a 0-3 record on May 9. According to a recent report, Fluxo intend to skip their next competition to “rest and reset” after their Paris Major run.

Fluxo initially traveled to Europe to participate in both the Paris Major and the CCT Finals two. The team, in addition to Sharks and Meta, were invited to the event following their top-three finish in the competition’s South American ranking.

The organization led by ex-MIBR and SK Gaming player Jo?o “felps” Vasconcellos ended their run in the BLAST Paris Major Challengers Stage without a single series win. After losing to paiN Gaming and Monte on May 8 and finally to MAD Lions the next day, Fluxo were eliminated from the tournament.

Fluxo’s coach, Wilton “zews” Prado, expressed uncertainty over their future following the elimination. Felps was more direct, notifying fans of potential changes, including roster shakeups.

Fluxo reportedly communicated their decision not to participate to GRID, the tournament organizer. The organizing committee is currently attempting to resolve the situation and may invite Corinthians, which placed fourth, to replace Fluxo.

The team could use the time provided by the withdrawal to make changes to their roster ahead of the Counter-Strike 2’s release in Summer 2023.

While Fluxo are not known internationally, the squad have a following in Brazil as a result of their presence in Free Fire. They also began investing in CS:GO in August last year.

The CCT Finals two would have provided Fluxo with the opportunity to play against tier two squads. Backing out of the tournament means that the BLAST Paris Major was the only international event the team participated in this year.

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The last four series on Tuesday – two elimination matches and two promotion matches – were the matches everyone wanted to see, as Fluxo took on Team Liquid and MOUZ clashed with GamerLegion, with the losers being eliminated from the Major after dropping to 0-3.

After arriving in Paris as the 11th-best team in the world rankings, MOUZ never got their game going and were the first team eliminated from the final CS:GO Major, losing 0-2 (12-16, 5-16) to GamerLegion in a one-sided affair.

In the other elimination matchup, Fluxo went into their series against Team Liquid as massive underdogs and started strong, taking their own map pick on Nuke 16-11.

However, the Brazilian side’s run ended there, as world no.7 Team Liquid flexed their muscles to claim Inferno 16-14 and Ancient 16-13 and so progress to the 1-2 pool of matches on Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, G2 dominated Apeks 2-0 (16-11, 16-3) in their promotion series, becoming the first team from the Challengers Stage to qualify for the Legends Stage of the Paris Major.

The second of the promotion series saw ENCE grab victory from the jaws of defeat in their clash with FaZe Clan.

After losing the first map on Overpass 12-16, the world no.9 rallied to take their map pick on Nuke 16-13, before dominating FaZe on Anubis 16-5 to take the series 2-1.

Even though FaZe lost the series, the best player of day two had to be their star rifler, Robin ��ropz�� Kool, who posted the best kill/death difference of the day at +30 while averaging 103.7 damage per round and recording the highest rating for the series at 1.50.

Below is a list of day three fixtures:

• 1-2 Pool (Elimination Series)

  • GamerLegion ($2.62) vs OG ($1.44) @ 10:30 BST
  • TheMongolz ($4.75) vs Monte ($1.19) @ 10:30 BST
  • Complexity ($2.62) vs Team Liquid ($1.44) @ 14:30 BST

• 2-1 Pool (Promotion Series)

  • FaZe Clan ($1.36) vs forZe ($3.00) @ 14:30 BST
  • Apeks ($1.80) vs paiN Gaming ($1.90) @ 18:30 BST
  • Grayhound ($4.33) vs Ninjas in Pyjamas ($1.20) @ 18:30 BST

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The BLAST.tv Paris Major commenced as all CS:GO Majors do, with the Challengers Stage and a 16-team Swiss system, and day one featured the opening two rounds of best-of-one series.

Coming into the Challengers Stage, G2 Esports, FaZe Clan and ENCE were installed as the three top teams according to the HLTV power rankings, and those teams didn��t disappoint, winning all of their matches to go straight into the 2-0 pool.

Joining those three teams will be the surprise packet of day one, Apeks, who defeated one of the pre-tournament favourites with esports betting sites in Team Liquid (16-12), before going on to become just the second team to record a flawless 16-0 victory at a CS:GO Major, thrashing Grayhound.

On day two, Apeks will face G2 and ENCE will clash with FaZe, with the winner of each best-of-three series earning their way into the Legends Stage as the ninth and 10th seed, respectively.

At the other end of the spectrum, world no.7 Team Liquid and world no.11 MOUZ fell into the 0-2 pool and will be facing elimination on day two when they take on fellow winless teams GamerLegion and Fluxo.

The first of the elimination matches will take place on Tuesday, with Fluxo taking on Team Liquid and GamerLegion clashing with MOUZ as the final two matches of round three.

In helping G2 to their current 2-0 record, Ilya ��m0NESY�� Osipov was easily the player of the day, recording event-highs in overall rating (1.82), kill/assist participation (88.5%), average damage per round (109.7) and impact (1.93).

The star AWPer from Russia produced the best performance of the day against Complexity, where he carried his team to a 16-9 win on the back of 34 kills and nine deaths, earning a massive rating of 2.23 for the match.

Going into day two, eyes will be firmly on the last four best-of-three series, where we will find out who will be promoted to the Legends Stage at 3-0 and who will be sent packing at 0-3.

Below is a list of round three fixtures to kick off day two:

• 1-1 pool

  • Complexity ($2.20) vs paiN Gaming ($1.61) @ 10:30 BST
  • Grayhound ($2.00) vs TheMongolz ($1.80) @ 10:30 BST
  • forZe ($2.50) vs Monte ($1.50) @ 12:00 BST
  • Ninjas in Pyjamas ($1.90) vs OG ($1.80) @ 12:00 BST

• 2-0 pool (promotion series)

  • Apeks ($3.75) vs G2 Esports ($1.25) @ 13:30 BST
  • ENCE ($2.50) vs FaZe Clan ($1.50) @ 13:30 BST

• 0-2 pool (elimination series)

  • Fluxo ($6.50) vs Team Liquid ($1.10) @ 17:30 BST
  • GamerLegion ($2.75) vs MOUZ ($1.40) @ 17:30 BST

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Natus Vincere and Fluxo will kick off Group B with their very first meeting. NaVi are ranked no.3 in the world, while Fluxo are no.28.

Natus Vincere will be looking to defend their BLAST Premier Fall Final title, having defeated Team Vitality 2-1 in the grand final last year. NaVi have won the last three BLAST Premier finals in a row, as they also took out the BLAST Premier World Final last December and the BLAST Premier Spring Final in June this year. At their last two international events, IEM Rio Major and ESL Pro League 16, NaVi finished fifth-eighth in both, getting knocked out in the quarter-finals. Their in-game leader, Denis ��electroNic�� Sahripov, and the player that many regard as the greatest of all time, Oleksandr ��s1mple�� Kostyliev, haven��t been performing anywhere near their best of late. For NaVi to take out this event, they will need to lift their game.

Fluxo have been climbing the ESL world rankings for the last 12 months. Since this time last year they have improved their ranking from 56 to 28 in the world. Over the last two months Fluxo have competed in six events, winning five of them, including a victory in the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown for North America, which gained them a spot in the Fall Final. The Brazilians are on a three-match win streak after taking out the Fall Showdown.

NaVi come into this series as very short favourites to take out this series, and there is no doubt in our mind that they will be the victor in this series. Therefore, we will be taking them at the rounds line of -12.5.

The best series on the opening day will be saved to last. The world no.9, Team Liquid, will take on G2 Esports (no.13) once again after they met three months ago in the BLAST Premier Fall Groups, where Liquid won the best-of-one series 16-12.

Liquid were in very good form before they got to the IEM Rio Major, winning their IEM Road to Rio 2022 Americas RMR and finishing second in ESL Pro League Season 16. At the Major, Liquid were knocked out on the final day of the Legends Stage after they lost in a very competitive series against Team Spirit. The one thing that seems to hold Liquid back at these big events is that they haven��t won an S-Tier tournament since ESL Pro League Season 11 North America in April of 2020, which is one of the longest droughts for any team inside the top 10 of the world rankings. This Liquid roster have shown glimpses of form that could see them win an event, but they don��t have the quality to finish teams off and win the big series.

G2 Esports have also struggled with consistency over the last 12 months, with the lowest of the lows coming last month when they didn��t qualify for the IEM Rio Major. G2 finished third-fourth at the BLAST Premier Spring Final and ESL Pro League Season 16, showing they can perform at the big events, while they have beaten the best teams in the world many times. G2 will enter this event off the back of a six-week break from all competitive Counter-Strike, which will have given them plenty of time to get ready for possibly their last event of the year. Their newest additions, Justin ��jks�� Savage and Rasmus ��HooXi�� Nielsen, have been with the organisation for just over three months, and these last six weeks will have given them time to mesh with their new team.

This game is a tough one to pick, and the esports betting sites agree. We will be taking the overs in the total maps market as this series looks destined to go the distance.

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The CBLOL, was founded in 2012 as the highest level League of Legends tournament in Brazil and was previously known as the Riot Brazilian Champion League before being renamed the CBLOL in 2015.

As a result of the enormous success, Riot Games franchised the league, and 10 teams became permanent partners in advance of the CBLOL 1 Split 2021.

After a period of two years, it appears that Rensga will be leaving the franchise. Reports revealed that the company is in the process of re-organizing its management structure and will focus primarily on the production of content going forward.

In 2021, Rensga Esports paid Riot Games R$4 million (��643,000) for the CBLOL franchising model when it had just been established. Although it has not been established for certain how much Fluxo paid for the placement, it is believed that the sum is greater than what Rensga paid.

Several credible sources have also revealed that another CBLOL team, the Miners, is in the process of selling its spot in the league and is in negotiations with potential suitors.

It has been reported that certain negotiations have reached an advanced stage; however, the identities of interested buyers have not been made public.

In the event that Miners are successful in selling their franchise spot, it will mark that three different CBLOL franchise negotiations have taken place this year.

In the early part of 2022, Los Grandes completed the acquisition of Simplicity Esports’ operations in Brazil. Included in this were its CBLOL franchise rights.

CBLOL Split 2 2022, which commenced June 11 and is set to end September 3, will be the fourth Brazilian League of Legends split held under the CBLOL banner.

The upcoming CBLOL Split 2 2022 match is between paiN Gaming and LOUD. The odds of paiN Gaming winning are 1.82, while the odds of LOUD winning are 2.00. This match is scheduled to begin on August 21, at 16:25 UTC, which is in four days.

CBLOL’s new franchise partner, Fluxo was established in January 2021 by esports superstars Bruno “Nobru” Goes and Lucio “Cerol” Lima. The company first gained notoriety with the mobile title Free Fire, a game in which its founders rose to fame as streamers and players.

The organization made the announcement about its expansion into Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in August 2022, obtaining EstrelaBet as its primary partner in the process.

It is not known for certain whether or not there are sponsors associated with the League of Legends expansion due to the fact that Fluxo works with different sponsors for each of the esports competitions in which it participates.

The bank Next, the retail giant Casas Bahia, and the TNT energy drink are just some of the organizations that have sponsored its Free Fire roster.

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