Team Kinguin becomes G2.Kinguin

11-9-2015 12:45

G2 have announced that they have ventured into Counter-Strike again by completing the signing of Kinguin's team.

The Spanish organisation had been without a CS:GO team since parting ways with their Polish roster in the aftermath of a a failed qualification campaign for ESL One Cologne.

At the time, G2 vowed to "break into the scene again with full force", adding that they were "hard at work" finding a roster that could fly the organisation's colours high.

Team Kinguin becomes G2.Kinguin

It has now been announced that Kinguin's team will be representing G2 going forward as part of a deal that sees the digital game company become the Spanish organisation's title partner.

"All our fans have been demanding a world-class Counter-Strike:GO team for some months already," G2 CEO Carlos "ocelote" Rodríguez Santiago said in an announcement.

"Worry not, today is the day! We are honored to welcome Team Kinguin as our CS:GO team! They will be joining our amazing HotS squad and our LoL team, which, by the way, qualified for LCS last weekend.

"This team has earned the respect of many in the industry by fighting against language barriers and previous misconceptions from the Counter Strike community.

"Counter Strike is about 15 years old now, and the vast majority of successful teams that have come and gone have been all from the same nation or communicated in the same language.

"These guys seem to have challenged these habits. This will hopefully start a trend, and more international World Class teams will rise."

In the last weeks, Kinguin dropped most of its esports sponsorships, but the company will remain heavily involved in esports, said Viktor Wanli, CEO and founder of the digital game marketplace.

"We love the transition of Team Kinguin into G2 Kinguin. Carlos, Jamie and the whole Gamers2 management are great professionals and wonderful people," Wanli said.

"We are excited to work together and bring this team up to its potential. Kinguin will continue to provide the team’s fans and the whole Counter-Strike community with the best possible treatment.

"Make sure to tune in on G2’s website and social media platforms as often as possible for giveaways, contests and player merchandise."

The European mixture, who won Gaming Paradise's CS:GO tournament last weekend, are currently taking part in CEVO Season 8's Professional division. Their next offline appearance will be at DreamHack Open Cluj, the next major, from October 28 to November 1.

TIME IS UP! Welcome Team Kinguin as our new CS:GO-team! http://t.co/ts8825J0Cy #KINGUINHYPE pic.twitter.com/ASsiJhqeBV
— Gamers2 (@FollowGamers2) September 11, 2015

G2.Kinguin consist of:

Mikail "⁠Maikelele⁠" Bill
Håvard "⁠rain⁠" Nygaard
Adil "⁠ScreaM⁠" Benrlitom
Ricardo "⁠fox⁠" Pacheco
Dennis "⁠dennis⁠" Edman

Nikola "⁠LEGIJA⁠" Ninić (coach)

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what

2015-09-11 12:48

9 replies

KINGU :D yeah!!

2015-09-11 12:50

7 replies

WHO CAN EXPECTED ???

2015-09-11 12:53

6 replies

Literally no one :P

2015-09-11 13:01

1 reply

A lot of people actually.

2015-09-11 15:00

EXPECTED *Serious face*

2015-09-11 13:51

who can English...

2015-09-11 14:53

I can because I met ocelote at ESL Cologne. No other reason for him to be there other than to acquire Team Kinguin after it became evident that the actual company Kinguin is dropping esports sponsorships left and right.

2015-09-11 16:58

Expected

2015-09-12 08:20

G2A signs kinguin Kappa

2015-09-11 13:02

expected

unexpected XD

2015-09-11 13:00

whoaa

WAT

WHAT THE FUCK

lul

yay first

expected..........

there goes "the highest payed" myth ;]

I dunno man, G2's League of Legends squad have just qualified for the next split of LCS (the highest-valued and most prestigous league in Europe), could be big money behind them.

2015-09-11 12:51

ocelot is rich as fuck bro xD so...

2015-09-11 12:57

it isnt/wasnt myth...kinguin has just new ceo and he doesnt want to support progaming

2015-09-11 13:03

So if Kinguin no longer wants to have a cs:go team, or be involved in eSports in general, it means that the team wasn't highest paid? where the fuck is the logic?

2015-09-11 13:04

3 replies

they just wanted the sticker money

2015-09-11 13:14

2 replies

if that was the case they would've ditched them after next major not before...

2015-09-11 14:20

Kinguin doesn't need sticker money lmfao. They are way bigger than people think. The CSGO team is more brand awareness than anything to ensure they stay on top and don't get overtaken by sites like G2A, but eSports is expensive so I'm not surprised they ditched the team.

2015-09-11 15:23

your comment makes no sense wtf are you trying to say?!

2015-09-11 13:15

Ocelote used to get 900K per year from his stream and website. Dunno how it is now.

2015-09-11 22:14

2015-09-11 12:49

LOL, and then kinguin to pick up ninjas in pyjamas.

5 replies

2015-09-11 12:55

4 replies

their contracts ends on 2015, and we these failures you never know, + kinguin can pay really good money.

2015-09-11 13:12

apparently they just "droped" the team cuz their new ceo doesnt want anything to do with e-sports but yeah they will pick up nip as soon as the contracts expire...

2015-09-11 13:19

well i haven't read any info about the subject so i don't really know what's goin, i just made a small prediction :D.

2015-09-11 13:30

Kinguin have spent a lot of money sponsoring teams like TSM and ofcourse Team Kinguin and they recently got a new CEO who wants to cut the spending and start making a profit. I dont think they will leave completely but they are definitely cutting back

2015-09-11 13:54

Loled scontent-mad1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpl..

Wow, where did u get this ?

+1 looks really nice

2015-09-11 12:58

Gamers2 fanpage

2015-09-11 13:09

That looks dope

2015-09-11 12:59

Heh not bad

it's not that bad tbh, looks dope. Fox looks like the baws :D

2015-09-11 13:23

looks like they're from animes

2015-09-11 13:37

Top kek

fox at the end hahaha

No more kinguin stickers?

Unfortunately no and probably they are gonna get expensive.

2015-09-11 13:06

nope , cheaper.

2015-09-11 13:21

Why cheaper? There will not be any anymore and many people like kinguin stickers. Maybe the stickers will become ibp 2.0 but without throw

2015-09-11 13:27

just baiting people who have kinguin stickers

2015-09-11 13:28

Ayyy

I got a few just no holo FeelsBadMan

2015-09-11 14:48

LOOOOOOOOOL RIP TEAM KINGUIN

omfg

LMFAO RIP

WELL FUCKING PLAYED OCELOTE BEST

not expected

-fox +schenider

wtfffff

wtf

HUGE pay cut

Probably not, it's a collaboration with Kinguin, if anything they are now making more.

I was right ;)

MY NIGGA POLAND SEEIN INTO THE FUTURE

I'm boss.

Yup but it was obvious after that vid

2015-09-11 13:10

dayum

good luck guys!

sticker prices just doubled lol

lol why would they go in g2?

coz kinguin are leaving esport(not sponsoring TSM and fnatic anymore)

why

new ceo, and they think they dont earn enough from esport(ye wtf?)

[*] kinguin stickers

I believe new executive took over and he's making all these changes. He wants Kinguin making as much money as possible.

used them for sticker money and dumped them lol

wat ???

ScreaM, dennis, rain, Maikelele - GL guys!

lol no fox

Because -fox +someone else Let the holywar begin!

2015-09-11 12:54

Actually no cuz everyone knows -fox + anybody is better :D

2015-09-11 15:25

kek

rofl what

not expected at all

Kinguin saying - fuck you csgo disappointing

exåected

2015-09-11 12:52

-fox +MICHU

whatt

nice

Hope Gay^2 is getting better and better until now

-fox +other player! Portugal is low player only!

nt russian Fox

2015-09-11 15:57

I don't understand Kinguin. Their team is already qualified for the next major, most of the players are fan favourites. They could make so much money but they dump them, wtf?

Kinguin will be sponsoring G2, it means that their logo to be on G2 T-shirts. But G2 have to pay $$$ to the team. That's it. I guess Kinguin know it better than us, what is better for their financial state.

2015-09-11 13:24

2015-09-12 18:39

lmao metal gear rising was not expecting that

best soundtrack

w0w nice , gl :) - maikelele + niko / michu / nex fox sniper and G2 top 5.

GL in future G2

from Kinguin to G2, wtf

rip kingun

no, seriously ??

nooooooooooooo

Kinguin stickers market bout to crash lol

expected as fuck

Rip players, ocelote is gonna fuck them up.

#expected

it was expected

WTF HAHAHAHAHAHAHA RIP PINGUIN

"the digital game company has agreed to become G2's title partner" so is it called g2 or g2 kinguin? w0t de fuq

Heehe, nice: gamers2.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/c.. Good luck!

really nice :)

EXPECTED

Really? Now we're gonna have those shitty g2 stickers

2015-09-11 12:56

WTF? REALLY? FUCK. FUCK. FUUUUUUUCK

RiP Kinguin

ocelote...

Yeaaa so now kinguin stickers more expensive?

The market will go bananas xD

You'll need to wait a year or two. A lot of people stacked kinguin stickers because it was obvious it was going to happen

2015-09-11 15:53

sitting on 300 Kinguin stickers as we speak, about 50 holos too. Kreygasm.

2015-09-11 22:30

s1ck

G2.Kinguin most likely

-fox +VACTARES Ez Top 1

that would be awesome for Kinguin lol

2015-09-12 18:41

whaaat

Not bad

GL G2 :D

wgo? Good luck guys!

Is This Some crazy HLTV bate?

G2 stickers is ugly as f

kinguin stickers to go up

Yep... Just look market Folie Sticker..

What theee , They will ahve also g2 logo? Ples noo Wtf

G2 is having a rebrand process. New logo incoming.

2015-09-11 13:25

Nice!

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

ocelote´s moneys bitches

Wow! Had a hard time believing that they could earn more money than in Kinguin, but now the opposite is proven. Congratulations to the contracts. More $$$$ =D

i liked kinguin's logo so much, and now they're forced to play under that ugly g2 logo :-(

lol dat soundtrack

GG ocelot money

-fox +Ocelote

nice troll hltv change title

overrated

sick video! :O

Music please?

Jamie Christopherson - Rules Of Nature

2015-09-11 13:47

LMAO

g2.kinguin so gay

Kinguin leaving esports. hmm what is g2kinguin.

2015-09-11 13:05

people going to buy kinguin stickers like idiots no one will want them now anyways have fun buying rofl

WAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!

G2A.Kinguin Kappa

2015-09-11 13:07

Expected, watch 0:14 youtube.com/watch?v=Lha7lnFIv5A

Expected since months :)

2015-09-11 13:11

n1 picture!

Richard Lewis called it a month ago or so

Richard > ALL

2015-09-11 13:18

watch them becoming tier3 team now

still better than Polish G2 lmao

like i care about polish g2 lol

2015-09-11 13:16

We need this wallpaper ! 1920x1080 <3

So the guy who is on the right should look like maikelele? Bad work

Probably the shittiest team name

Why G2.Kinguin and not just G2?

2015-09-11 13:17

Kunguin + Gamers2 = G2.Kinguin Read this post

is the same as tsm.kinguin

learn too read.Kinguin becomes G2.Kinguin

wow still that shitty kinguin in their name :-D

was a good opportunity to get rid of fox before signing new contracts

2015-09-11 13:20

shut up

2015-09-11 13:38

was a good opportunity too give you a brain alepov

2015-09-11 13:22

Expected.

2015-09-11 13:26

annnnnd i sold my kinguin sticker

Fyea bought alot kinguin stickers.

2015-09-11 13:29

wow..

just xD

2015-09-11 13:33

At least they'll have nice t-shirts at lan tournaments. The Kinguin ones were sooo awful

2015-09-11 13:34

totaly Not Expected.

2015-09-11 13:35

2015-09-11 13:41

that drawing is just too good XD

Cannot understand why they are Kinguin.G2?

2015-09-11 13:42

This sucks, no more penguino stickers

2015-09-11 13:44

Holy shit, didnt expect that one

how so? it's been public for such a long time wtf man

2015-09-14 10:47

Ahah New kids on the block

2015-09-11 13:57

Yepyep casual shit right here, it was known for some time now that Kinguin will be selling the team. I also love the fact how the G2 introduction video has some decent clips from everyone except fox who has 3 easy frags and he was last aswell by the way, good job lads.

2015-09-11 14:34

2015-09-11 14:47

Inb4 new meme: T2.Kinguin

2015-09-11 13:58

nah m8 ~ G2.Kinguin

2015-09-11 14:05

The pictures are so cool!

Awesome :3

2015-09-11 14:02

It means even bigger salaries?

2015-09-11 14:03

The price of Kinguin stickers will blow up, I have 11.

KinG2?

2015-09-11 14:13

Good news!! :)

2015-09-11 14:17

I wonder what the deal was for kinguin to still keep their name on the team

2015-09-11 14:18

Rip Penguin stickers :(

2015-09-11 14:19

Was he the dennis from sk who part in the iem? In cs 1.6? Plss reply, no kappa, no troll pls

yes

2015-09-11 14:39

Thanks

2015-09-11 16:26

Lol

2015-09-11 14:41

2015-09-11 14:42

interesting

2015-09-11 14:44

nice picture :):):)

2015-09-11 14:52

g2 will become second fnatic soon and own lol and cs champs easy

2015-09-11 14:54

Expected Kappa

WTB G2.Kinguin hentai!

2015-09-11 14:56

Why wait until a quote at the end of the article to tell us what G2 even means? I'm a CS fan, but I'm not familiar enough with gamers2 to know what G2 means when I see it. I've never seen the old gamers2 team abbreviated G2 anyway.

2015-09-11 14:57

disgusting, never supporting them again

2015-09-11 15:16

G2K > G2A Kappa

2015-09-11 15:21

Damnnn :( i dont like this name now

2015-09-11 15:41

+1 bring back our kinguin <3

2015-09-11 15:46

yes pls :(

2015-09-11 16:10

its pretty retarded that they still use kinguin as their teamname while that contract has ended.. kinguin company must be thinking, thx4free publicity.

2015-09-11 16:07

If you actually read the article you would see that Kinguin is partnered up with G2 now,

2015-09-11 17:27

are you mentally challenged? they'll be goin as kinguin they said, just 'g2.kinguin'.. read it?

2015-09-11 18:38

"It has now been announced that Kinguin's team will be representing G2" "G2 have announced that they have ventured into Counter-Strike again by completing the signing of Kinguin's team." As in they'll be playing under G2, so you're wrong. In the article- "We are honored to welcome Team Kinguin as our CS:GO team!" So they're org is not Kinguin, they have just partnered with Kinguin, "Here at G2 we are delighted to unveil Kinguin, the best marketplace for digital games, as our new title partner." Don't say shit like you know what you're saying.

2015-09-11 19:47

you're still blind it seems, hf living meighhttt

2015-09-12 17:04

LOL just gave you a whole load of evidence as to why they have Kinguin in their name and you're still in denial...

2015-09-12 17:56

Ocelote is a god.

2015-09-11 16:15

sad G2 is shit org, and bad publicity for Kinguin :(

2015-09-11 16:17

Thats actually true, they kinda threw away a lot that they had built up these few months, changing brand labels can hurt your image a lot. Their image is what is making them being feared by other opponents.

2015-09-11 16:43

Idk if it's a shit org to be honest. They have quite a lot of succes at the moment.

2015-09-11 17:28

shit org finds shitteam :) wonderfull world!

2015-09-11 18:39

..or communicated in the same language. These guys seem to have challenged these habits so they're all talking in their native language?

Yeah, they took some time to learn all languages and I heard they're communicating just fine!

2015-09-11 16:31

Surely that can't be Maikelele at the end. It looks nothing like him. The other ones are good thou.

Why SK didnt sign em? Or any famous org.

2015-09-11 16:19

SK have a team, and they were originally supposed to join SK, but Kinguin stole them.

2015-09-11 21:13

SK team is t4

2015-09-11 22:39

Lol right? I doubt they'll get dropped tho

2015-09-11 23:16

because famous org doesn't equal good org or rich org, or org with resources. SK doesn't have money or resources to sign a quality team and put them on a big salary.

2015-09-14 10:46

i guess times have changed. Few years ago they were able to sponsor 3 main squads of 3 different games.

2015-09-14 14:04

This was going to happen R Lewis said it on one of his recent podcasts that Kinguin wanted to drop their CS Go team and maybe teams for other games as well. Anyway G2 picked them up and G2 is sponsored by Kinguin so it's almost like the same thing except they will get less money since they're not directly sponsored by Kinguin anymore.

2015-09-11 16:21

It is not true unfortunately. According to a reliable source they'll make even more money in a month than they did before =o

2015-09-11 17:15

More money monthly now.

2015-09-14 10:45

They make way less playing for G2.

2015-09-14 16:37

Dennis looks like a fukboi, please groom yourself better Dennis, that style of facial hair doesn't suit you.

2015-09-11 16:41

G2.Kinguin best anime

2015-09-11 17:10

That's a shame, because G2 can't manage a team to save their lives. Just another organization in it for the sticker money. And wtf is G2 Kinguin? is it like C9 G2A? Where the majority sponsor is named?

2015-09-11 17:11