BIG unveil new academy team

5-2-2021 00:42

The German organisation has finally put together a new roster with top prospects.

BIG announced on Thursday the new members of their academy squad. The five players, all aged between 18 and 19, were chosen after an extensive selection process that began in mid-January.

The initial shortlist consisted of over 120 players who impressed in the German FACEIT hub GoBIG League. The selection panel, which included the academy team's coach, Tugay "⁠TuGuX⁠" Keskin, and BIG legend Fatih "⁠gob b⁠" Dayik, considered several criteria, including potential, tactical awareness and communication skills.

BIG are just beginning to see the fruits of their academy project, which was launched in 2018 to guarantee a steady influx of talent in the German Counter-Strike scene. The previous academy roster, which included current ALTERNATE aTTaX duo Karim "⁠Krimbo⁠" Moussa and Max "⁠PANIX⁠" Hangebruch, peaked at No.80 in the world rankings and won 99Damage Liga Season 15.

"I am very excited to see how the team will develop in the coming months under the leadership of our academy coach, Tugay," BIG CEO Daniel Finkler said in a statement. "He brings a lot of experience from his years as a professional player.

"The goal is clear: We want to prepare these five top talents for a stint at a professional level step by step, together with our partner OMEN, and train their skills accordingly."

BIG Academy, who will compete in the next edition of 99Damage Liga, have the following roster:

Niklas "⁠NIKZEj⁠" Burmeister
Alex "⁠DuubLex⁠" Fominych
Thierry "⁠Sanshine⁠" Müller
Tim "⁠tazmin⁠" Maier
Tom-Niklas "⁠Sw1ft⁠" Ruhnke

Tugay "⁠TuGuX⁠" Keskin (coach)

German cs top 1

2021-02-05 00:42

19 replies

nope

2021-02-05 00:43

5 replies

ez 4 Sanshine

4 replies

who

2021-02-05 00:44

3 replies

Thierry Müller

2021-02-05 00:46

2 replies

they combined the dna of thierry Henry and Thomas Müller might be promosing

2021-02-05 17:45

1 reply

Good one! Literally 'laughed out loud'

2021-02-08 19:02

never

wtf where is the source for this source?

2021-02-05 10:21

keep dreaming

2021-02-05 02:01

6 replies

flair and flag keep dreaming

imagine beign a fan of sprout

2021-02-05 19:39

proportionally more successfull than faze will prob ever be but you keep dreaming maybe you should stick to fortnite and cod

2021-02-05 19:48

how many blasts? how many esl trophies? how many iem trophies? 0

2021-02-07 23:24

did it rly take you almost a whole week to not read a reply properly m8? 0/8

2021-02-08 01:21

mate i have better things to do! I have friends to see and cs to play so go watch sprout lose every match and win 0 titles

2021-02-08 10:30

Fak.

2021-02-05 05:08

XDDDD

2021-02-05 13:18

Sw1ft! Letz go! <3

academy tournament soon

they should do it. get like academy kato and blast and all the events. When we back on lan they can also play there. Also as finals are like normaly later in day they can be like warmup. Doesnt need to be massive prize pool or top casters/hosts running it. Also lets newer casters and hosts have a chance.

2021-02-05 01:13

the thing is it wouldnt be worth the money for the orgs to bring their academy teams to those tourneys... sadly

2021-02-05 01:19

Don't think we should be focusing on academy teams before we have a legitimate pro structure in place first. The sad truth of any amateur player (in any sport/video game) is that they have to live off very little while fronting most of the financial burden into getting into tournaments. Prize purses are not nearly big enough in the T1 scene to figure out how to boost lower level events where teams that may not have an organization can still attend in hopes of not only making their money back but winning money.

2021-02-05 02:28

0 IQ post

2021-02-05 06:40

i think it's the plan anyway, don't remember where i heard this, but they are preparing a new academy league (we already have nip, astralis, and now big, having a new academy team at the same time, it's not for nothing )

2021-02-05 12:41

Navi Junior will win 100% Navi Junior 1st Navi Youth 2nd 😂

2021-02-05 17:09

So this team is going to be calle SMALL

+1 smoll clan!

2021-02-05 01:40

lmao

2021-02-05 02:42

Lul

2021-02-05 04:47

good team

they all of 0 rating wtf

since none of them has played in a top german team yet... they had to apply for the casting and then a jury consisting of gob b and so on invited them to play together in a little tourney where they could see them in action and then they picked out the cherries from there

2021-02-05 01:21

Oh ok ty

2021-02-05 02:53

Yeah man, cut some slack for Small Clan

2021-02-05 05:37

BUG academy gl tho

2021-02-05 00:45

very good for cs scene, good job

big academy already looking better than big

Top 3 confirmed

2021-02-05 09:35

cant wait for these new players to do well

i hope they are good players like gambit.Y

2021-02-05 00:48

nice

2021-02-05 00:49

gl bois

2021-02-05 00:52

TuGuX POG But why didnt BIG sign sesL? lol

2021-02-05 00:54

HELAL DAYI

2021-02-05 00:57

worked well last time, gl!

2021-02-05 00:58

cool

2021-02-05 01:03

Duublex and Nikzej new superstars

2021-02-05 01:06

DuubLex is worst fpl-c player

2021-02-05 01:51

who sre these guys

2021-02-05 01:11

#34

2021-02-05 09:12

BIG are a great org, GL lads.

Hahahahahahahaahah

Poh

TUGUX DAYI GL

2021-02-05 01:26

Swift was legendary Swedish player in 1.5/1.6, he played for Nordic division, esu, team9, matrix along side with vesslan

2021-02-05 02:29

sodaH? dukii? xenn? where are these upcoming german talents?

2021-02-05 03:03

jerman cheaters

2021-02-05 03:21

jerman young talents 😡😡😡😡

2021-02-05 06:38

duki an xenn 2 old and in a team sodawho?

2021-02-05 12:17

Reply needs to have actual content, bro

2021-02-05 16:50

sry bro only saw sodaH from urkain and know about sodatex from germany

2021-02-05 19:40

All these academy rosters are shit, none of them ever achieved something

2021-02-05 03:57

12 replies

All except the flair you have

2021-02-05 04:20

Ztr also looked quite strong last game against astralis :)

2021-02-05 06:41

gambit academy fnatic academy produced some good players

2021-02-05 06:39

Yeah Brollan and Golden are from academy team if I remember correctly

2021-02-05 10:08

brollan wasnt in fnatic academy... acor was in north academy

2021-02-05 10:55

Gambit academy was pretty decent

2021-02-05 08:37

That's...the point of academy teams

2021-02-05 09:29

the goal is not for the teams to achieve alot its for the players to gain experience and then jump to established teams

2021-02-05 11:03

the real phoenix O.O

2021-02-05 16:49

You dont understand the purpose of academy teams. You dont understand investment into the future, thats why you cant achieve anything in your life!

2021-02-05 11:27

Damn, i guess im gonna end myself, thanks kind stranger!

2021-02-05 12:23

no problem bro. i hope you woke up

2021-02-05 14:44

GLHF

2021-02-05 04:37

EU coming out with new teams while NA bleeds out

2021-02-05 06:48

Money vs passion.

2021-02-05 07:42

Sad Americans are only passionate for simping out and cashing out while Canadians make big league international moves

2021-02-05 08:03

The last one went really good, I'm looking forward to seeing this one.

2021-02-05 07:54

Nice

2021-02-05 08:12

DAYIII

2021-02-05 09:30

He couldn’t spell sunshine properly? Lol

2021-02-05 10:06

GL :)

2021-02-05 10:09

Sanshine ftw

2021-02-05 10:14

Nice. #goBIG

2021-02-05 10:19

LETS GO DAYI aka TuGux

2021-02-05 10:30

young legends

2021-02-05 10:54

Noice! Let's goo

2021-02-05 11:42

I thought sprout was big's academy team

2021-02-05 11:45

Ezy for dayıııı

2021-02-05 11:46

2021-02-05 12:27

expected

2021-02-05 12:28

Teaching kids how to find bugs to abuse))))))

2021-02-05 13:12

ez for little clan

2021-02-05 17:15

2021-02-05 21:07

Huge honor to have played with Thierry in a team in summer 2018 and meeting him at ESL One Cologne 2018 at the final day <3 Good luck to you my friend!

2021-02-08 02:27