Winstrike lose team over alleged breaches of contract

31-3-2021 18:20

The squad ranked 22nd in the world claim that there were "constant breaches of contractual obligations" by the Russian organization.

Winstrike's players have unilaterally terminated their contracts with the organisation, declaring themselves free agents, the team's coach, Dmitry "⁠hooch⁠" Bogdanov, announced on Wednesday.

The Russian team, who have been inside the top 30 since February 8, will be playing under the tag ex-Winstrike until a new organisation is found, the veteran coach added.

Team coach hooch broke the news about the departure

"My team and I hereby officially announce that today we have unilaterally terminated our contracts with Winstrike due to constant breaches of contractual obligations by the organization," hooch said.

"We are making no public comment on this topic at the moment since we would like to handle the situation professionally and cannot and do not want to make the details public."

Winstrike entered CS:GO in June 2018 with the signing of the Quantum Bellator Fire lineup, featuring current NAVI member Kirill "⁠Boombl4⁠" Mikhailov. The team have hit a rich vein of form in recent weeks following the additions of former Hard Legion duo Vladislav "⁠Krad⁠" Kravchenko and Igor "⁠Forester⁠" Bezotecheskiy, reaching their highest rank of No.22 at the start of this month.

On Saturday, ex-Winstrike will take on LDLC in their first match in Group C of the Funspark ULTI Europe Regional Series 1, which also includes EXTREMUM and Nemiga. On April 13, they are slated to face AGO in the opening round of the ESEA Premier playoffs after topping Group A with a 7-1 record.

As of the writing of this article, Winstrike have not commented on the squad's announcement.

ex-Winstrike are now:

Aleksei "⁠El1an⁠" Gusev
Viktor "⁠Lack1⁠" Boldyrev
Aleksei "⁠NickelBack⁠" Trofimov
Vladislav "⁠Krad⁠" Kravchenko
Igor "⁠Forester⁠" Bezotecheskiy

Dmitry "⁠hooch⁠" Bogdanov (coach)

wtf kkkkkkk

2021-03-31 18:20

16 replies

They've always been a horrible org

2021-03-31 18:28

13 replies

I mean.... Im surprised some of these smaller orgs are able to stay afloat with how inflated everything is in CSGO.

2021-03-31 18:32

10 replies

Agreed, it's interesting to think about.

2021-03-31 19:45

Bedroom orgs need less money to operate.

2021-03-31 19:52

This isn't a small org, at least it wasn't. They organized Blast moscow. Yeah they didn't had much results, but when this org was created it had a lot of investments. Russian c9 csgo roster, but expanded to the whole org and with added multiple scandals. As always pure management ruins everything.

2021-03-31 19:57

6 replies

Also they organized a tournament like a week ago, so they arent a small org or without funds. Either their priorities were messed up or they just constantly tried to nickle and dime the players.

2021-03-31 20:00

5 replies

How do you think they paid for organising events mens?

2021-04-01 08:35

4 replies

Throwing matches))

2021-04-01 10:13

3 replies

Lmao mens))

2021-04-01 15:04

2 replies

mens(((

2021-04-01 16:52

1 reply

At least the players get a little bit of money this way mens))

2021-04-01 19:54

this is actually a huge esports ecosystem, not just esports club. winstrike has marketing agency, esports arena in moscow, esports club

2021-04-01 11:40

+1 no surprises here i'm afraid :(

2021-03-31 19:46

They are extremely rich

2021-04-02 01:55

Russian orgs...

2021-03-31 18:34

Winstrike on strike, what a world

2021-03-31 19:39

CIS LOL

Why would you marry HenryG? He seems to be so annoying and not even pretty

2021-03-31 19:06

-1 he's def pretty

2021-03-31 19:27

yeah and he's so funny! his jokes always makes me laugh cololsus XD

2021-04-01 07:25

+1 best comedian

2021-04-05 11:29

Fnatic LOL

2021-03-31 19:08

wtf

2021-03-31 18:21

El1an to EXTREMUM -grat EZ MAJORS

if el1an has good english comms that would actually be sick

2021-03-31 18:23

EXTREMUM xsepower 🙏🙏

2021-03-31 18:24

ex-winstrike to extremum

+1 lol

2021-03-31 18:45

+1 or xsepower

2021-03-31 18:39

wtf?

Not the first time win strike did shady business

What else they did?

2021-03-31 18:43

When boombl4 and co. were in winstrike after QBF, they didn't pay them in full.

2021-03-31 18:47

Oh, probably the same shit here. Isnt it possible to sue orh for doing shit like this?

2021-03-31 18:55

idk russian law, but if the org was actually breaking contract, I would think it is a possibility

2021-03-31 21:40

russia has no law btw. Money rules here

2021-04-03 05:32

rip el1an

How tf is he rip after that

:( sadge

LUL

2021-03-31 18:22

Didn't Winstrike do this shit once before? Or was it the QBF org. I can't keep track of these money grabbing CIS orgs anymore.

well QBF stole, and now Winstrike as well lul (or most likely hooch doesnt say anything or it didnt say anything on the hltv post)

2021-03-31 18:59

SAD

CIS Omegalul

WTF

what ze fuck

unlochko

expected

El1an free agent btw

2021-03-31 18:25

sad

Haas in Bahrain 2020 or Australia 2018 is sadder :(

2021-03-31 19:54

yes sir, can't deny that

2021-03-31 20:33

Hmm, this is interesting. Team has been on a rise lately.

2021-03-31 18:26

lol?

Qbf 2.0

2021-03-31 18:27

isnt this the team whos coach was cheating for like 100 matches or something? i dont feel bad for these guys.

1. no its not 2. feel bad? why? have u read the article?

no that was Hard Legion, which Krad and Forester came from

2021-04-01 20:35

you are correct and i should of clarified those were the only 2 from the hard legion roster. but as a player you have to know that your coach is exploiting the camera bug because of the information he is obtaining, right???

2021-04-01 23:43

there is no way they didn't know something shady was going on.

2021-04-02 12:30

i mean we can speculate all we want but theres no way to prove in a court of law they knew unless we have access to comms

2021-04-02 12:58

winstrike cis blast premier organizer lol spirit take the money of the team

unfortunate

Lmao idiots. el1an will have a pretty busy email inbox the next few days, I am pretty sure

not really, look at xsepower....

2021-03-31 18:33

xsepower has a contract and has been playing worse lately.

2021-03-31 18:40

maybe your are right...

2021-03-31 18:48

#50

2021-03-31 18:46

lmao

2021-03-31 18:44

El1an join my team

Lmfao what

that's unlucky, they're a solid team

2021-03-31 18:50

it's really sad and bad for cs

2021-03-31 18:53

Damn

2021-03-31 18:56

How could this happen

2021-03-31 19:01

this org always had money problems.

2021-03-31 20:58

Okk

2021-04-01 05:04

Russian orgs be like

2021-03-31 19:05

SCAMAZED

Sick team, good luck, soon better than navi.

2021-03-31 19:15

Fnatic need to pick them up, they are already better than those washed up bots

2021-03-31 19:20

llitteraly the dumbest comment ive ever read

2021-04-01 10:20

Lacky to Vp 6 man roster. To change Qikert for month))

2021-03-31 19:23

They did it before and they'll do it again. This guys will get a better org for sure

2021-03-31 19:26

Good for El1an, now he can get a decent team.

unlucky

2021-03-31 19:28

what

2021-03-31 19:30

save el1an

2021-03-31 19:33

The org didn't share to them the 322 winings from 322 tournaments. SAD KEKW!!

kekw

2021-03-31 19:35

Pog

2021-03-31 19:47

not that pog

2021-04-01 00:21

??? lmfao wtf

CIS orgs

2021-03-31 19:49

Omg what a trash org. It is not the 1st time with them. Hope this roster will not disband

cis orgs

2021-03-31 19:58

wow

2021-03-31 19:59

2021-03-31 20:07

I wonder if they're sticking together. El1an might have a lot of good opportunities coming up.

2021-03-31 20:16

Russian orgs being scammy, unthinkable

2021-03-31 20:19

navi and vp never anyone else idk, spirit?

2021-04-01 07:42

navi is not a russian org at first. there are plenty of them like ws, qbfire, vega, forward gaming and so on and so on

2021-04-01 11:49

who could have thought

2021-04-03 05:34

RIP

2021-03-31 20:47

NICE APRIL FOOLS PRAKN! LOL GOT ME

2021-03-31 20:49

Elian prob going to end up somewhere else now

2021-03-31 21:02

nice

2021-03-31 21:03

sad bad mad

2021-04-01 00:14

ceo kept stealing el1an’s underwear for his patented kiddie undie soup

2021-04-01 07:41

hope they find another org soon, the've been getting some good results

2021-04-01 07:44

wtf? Winstrike picked them up because QBF did not pay them and now Winstrike does the same? What's going on with those Russian orgs.? It's fucking sad.

2021-04-01 11:35

Yo le noob, Well, "picked them up". I don't think a single one of this roster went from QBF to Winstrike...

2021-04-01 19:19

balblna jmqa Kvik waterfaLLZ Boombl4 This roster went to Winstrike because QBF didn't pay them.

2021-04-02 11:48

Another CIS org being utter trash to its players? ...I'm sorry, where's the part where I'm supposed to gasp in shock and horror like this is news to me? I think I missed my cue.

2021-04-01 14:58