XPC confirm return with two foreigners

XPC Gaming has announced their return to the competitive scene with a lineup featuring two foreigners.

After going inactive last year, XPC saw their former trio of Cosmin-Mihai "⁠cosmeeeN⁠" Butuc, Cristian "⁠sXe⁠" Niță and Adrian "⁠XELLOW⁠" Guță join Nexus, with Cosmin-Andrei "⁠WHitE⁠" Cetanas and Valentin "⁠SEMINTE⁠" Bodea following suit shortly afterwards.

sXe, SEMINTE and WHitE, all of whom had left Nexus in October, have now decided to play under XPC again alongside two foreigners: Matej "⁠MaTaFe⁠" Fekonja, who represented Slovenia in the online portion of the 2016 World Championships, and Maksim "⁠t0rick⁠" Zaikin, who played for NOTBAD at the most recent CIS Minor.

sXe is part of the new XPC roster

According to sXe, the team decided against building a full Romanian roster due to the current level of the country's scene, which, in his opinion, is "quite low."

"After SEMINTE and I parted ways with Nexus due to bad communication between players and management, we decided to create a new team alongside WHiTE and two other romanian players, but after a while we saw that the current state of CS in Romania is quite low and we felt like trying something new.", sXe said to HLTV.org.

"So we thought about teaming up with international guys who had a bit of experience and that's how we added t0rick and matafe.

"We are practising every day hoping we could achieve something good one day. I am really happy to represent XPC as i think we can reach new heights together."

The squad already made their debut for XPC earlier this month, making it into the Nation Elite Esports Cup Balkan Qualifier grand final—which they lost against Windigo by a 1-2 scoreline.

XPC's new roster looks as follows:

Romania Cosmin-Andrei "⁠WHitE⁠" Cetanas
Romania Valentin "⁠SEMINTE⁠" Bodea
Romania Cristian "⁠sXe⁠" Niță
Slovenia Matej "⁠MaTaFe⁠" Fekonja
Azerbaijan Maksim "⁠t0rick⁠" Zaikin

Romania Ioan-Alexandru "⁠starkiller⁠" Neacșu (coach)

Romania Cristian 'sXe' Niță
Cristian 'sXe' Niță
Age:
20
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.08
Maps played:
227
KPR:
0.73
DPR:
0.66
Romania Valentin 'SEMINTE' Bodea
Valentin 'SEMINTE' Bodea
Age:
20
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.01
Maps played:
153
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.68
Azerbaijan Maksim 't0rick' Zaikin
Maksim 't0rick' Zaikin
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.99
Maps played:
73
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.73
Romania Cosmin-Andrei 'WHitE' Cetanas
Cosmin-Andrei 'WHitE' Cetanas
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.96
Maps played:
119
KPR:
0.67
DPR:
0.69
Romania Adrian 'XELLOW' Guță
Adrian 'XELLOW' Guță
Age:
17
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.16
Maps played:
311
KPR:
0.80
DPR:
0.67
Romania Cosmin-Mihai 'cosmeeeN' Butuc
Cosmin-Mihai 'cosmeeeN' Butuc
Age:
18
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.19
Maps played:
251
KPR:
0.83
DPR:
0.67
Romania Ioan-Alexandru 'starkiller' Neacșu
Ioan-Alexandru 'starkiller' Neacșu
Age:
28
Rating 1.0:
0.91
Maps played:
117
KPR:
0.62
DPR:
0.69
Slovenia Matej 'MaTaFe' Fekonja
Matej 'MaTaFe' Fekonja
Age:
22
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.98
Maps played:
53
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.71
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Australia aucs
nice
2017-12-12 23:26
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Other Nununu
2017-12-13 15:13
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eac is better baby.
2017-12-14 00:24
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mmmmmmmmmmm who the fuck cares
2017-12-12 23:26
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Sweden TomodachiOM
You
2017-12-12 23:27
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i dont actually
2017-12-12 23:27
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Sweden TomodachiOM
Why u post here then
2017-12-12 23:28
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To ask "who cares?"
2017-12-12 23:28
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#18
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Sweden TomodachiOM
But then it means you care enough to post here at all
2017-12-12 23:32
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#32
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France 1Faren
Outplayed
2017-12-12 23:57
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not how it works
2017-12-13 00:04
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#39
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Sweden TomodachiOM
You still care thats why u post
2017-12-13 00:15
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Bah we don’t care and by that logic of yours now you care about his comment and his wishes to know who cares about this at all. And i really don’t care just wanted you to know that you are dumb XD
2017-12-13 00:20
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#42
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Sweden TomodachiOM
You really do care as well otherwise you wouldnt reply to my post at all
2017-12-13 00:22
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Europe Culcat
You have issues... perhaps puberty ?
2017-12-13 01:07
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#57
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Sweden HJALLE:D
why do you even bother? :)
2017-12-13 02:18
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#87
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Europe Culcat
Got triggered a bit, you know
2017-12-19 13:09
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#70
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Romania cataswag69
you should care because this team can beat vp easily :D
2017-12-13 09:11
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Azerbaijan ASKEROS
t0rick PogChamp
2017-12-12 23:27
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Poland TrapZ
Foriners
2017-12-12 23:27
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xd
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United Kingdom Weldo
Great title +rep
2017-12-12 23:27
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Australia NasePy
nice
2017-12-12 23:27
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nice country romania, just got rekt by a romanian cheater duo in faceit, great people, would b......
2017-12-12 23:27
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Romania semiscabine
says Germany l0l
2017-12-12 23:43
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Turkey ykiuqs
give me their names and i will kill them
2017-12-12 23:52
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+1
2017-12-12 23:59
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Prove it
2017-12-13 00:24
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1 reply
or?
2017-12-13 02:07
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Sweden Officialf0rest_
who cares about this team? f0rest still legend good day/
2017-12-12 23:28
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Markeloff top1 /close
2017-12-13 00:25
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Romania zeneix
Nice news for Romania, maybe we have in future 2 good teams for fight for a place in Professional League and enter in professional scene. Go NxS, go XPC !!! #HaiRomania
2017-12-12 23:30
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Belarus dsh_
Da, sigur. România über alles! :)
2017-12-13 01:11
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#59
mika | 
Faroe Islands kLango
Good luck cheering for you guya
2017-12-13 02:32
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who?
2017-12-12 23:30
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Australia NotSoMLG
Taric wanna be
2017-12-12 23:31
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matafe who explain
2017-12-12 23:33
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Niceeeee
2017-12-12 23:33
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EZ for turok
2017-12-12 23:35
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Slovenia yung_voodoo
matafe odžgi ga
2017-12-12 23:37
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The shady owner of XPC is back at it again...oh boyy
2017-12-12 23:41
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tier38 paid article 100%
2017-12-12 23:45
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39 actually
2017-12-13 00:47
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They just beat Fragsters, not really tier 38.
2017-12-13 01:21
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Sweden sKeletoN_SN
Who? haha
2017-12-13 07:54
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B1ad3 | 
Romania csf
Fragsters is a tier2 team who beat Heroic and VP, they beat VP 16:4
2017-12-13 13:23
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#77
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Sweden sKeletoN_SN
Who's their best player?
2017-12-13 13:27
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#78
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Romania csf
i think its stavn/froslev
2017-12-13 13:37
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Turkey ykiuqs
niceeeeeee
2017-12-12 23:47
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WHERE IS COSMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
2017-12-12 23:47
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Romania Lucian1947
At Epsilon EU :)
2017-12-12 23:53
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I thought they were all Swedish and he was benched? is he coming back?
2017-12-13 02:07
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3 replies
He's in contract prison with Epsilon, like smooya.
2017-12-13 04:26
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Romania Lucian1947
Epsilon EU is a new team,with smooya,Cosmin and 3 others players
2017-12-13 16:15
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oh thats right...Epsilon is sooo dumb. Their original team was better than their new team, and now the EU team will be better than the shit Swede team.
2017-12-14 21:44
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t0rick god
2017-12-12 23:55
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t0rick batya
2017-12-12 23:56
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Moldova jUMPERiNh0
gl
2017-12-13 00:07
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Romania Darkness-
ez 4 squiky and zewts from xpc
2017-12-13 00:12
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Turkey ykiuqs
honsetly im not mad that they kicked me if they found a better fitting teammate and i see they are doing better lets go xpc
2017-12-13 00:13
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Finland Smoonah
foreigners
2017-12-13 00:13
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#40
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Azerbaijan M1R4CL3
krasav4ik koro4e :D
2017-12-13 00:18
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jackasmo | 
Russia *Tpo-_-JI.b*
Fake tarik :)))
2017-12-13 00:45
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#47
Faceit level 10  | 
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Romania xCold1337
Romania front page :OOOOOOOOOOO
2017-12-13 00:47
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#50
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Belarus Starvoid
who?
2017-12-13 01:12
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GL MaTaFe :3
2017-12-13 01:40
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whoooooooooooo???????
2017-12-13 01:52
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#56
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World fabiesko
Stable tier8 team
2017-12-13 02:08
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wait a minute... that guy doesnt look eurasian ar all
2017-12-13 02:24
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Who?
2017-12-13 02:35
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who
2017-12-13 02:53
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SEXY sXe
2017-12-13 03:38
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who?
2017-12-13 04:01
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dgt | 
Uruguay XEMBAO
lul
2017-12-13 05:12
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Brazil gu1d0
lul
2017-12-13 06:06
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#69
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Luxembourg alex24
tier1 team in 2018
2017-12-13 08:01
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#71
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Kazakhstan altooo
Moi sin torick <3 gorjus im
2017-12-13 10:31
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#72
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Faroe Islands vatarn
who?
2017-12-13 10:33
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- matafe -torick + smooya + cosmeen after contracts end
2017-12-13 13:21
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#76
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Romania csf
just -t0rick/Matafe +cosmeeeN. WHitE is already a really good awper and he's also the Igl
2017-12-13 13:24
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1 reply
I'd take smooya over torick/matafe any day, they need skilled players
2017-12-13 13:47
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foreigners is not a good word to use in title tbh
2017-12-13 13:23
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Slovenia bobar^^
go go Matafe! :)
2017-12-13 14:27
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#83
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Sweden DEFENSE!
Great chance for both of them to gain more publicity!
2017-12-13 17:28
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Easy for Slovenian player MaTaFe, beast because he's from Slovenia. Best player in the whole world, will definitely prove that in upcoming year. Slovenia 2018 TOP #1 incoming
2017-12-13 18:11
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