G2 announce team built around juliano and zAAz

7-3-2023 18:53

The signing of this roster marks G2’s first foray into women’s Counter-Strike.

G2 have announced the formation of the G2 Oya roster, which is headlined by returning CS stalwarts Julia "⁠juliano⁠" Kiran and Zainab "⁠zAAz⁠" Turkie. Taking up the coaching position is Jimmy "⁠Jumpy⁠" Berndtsson who has previously coached fnatic and North, winning IEM Katowice 2018 with the former.

The return of juliano and zAAz to CS has been brewing for some time, with the latter posting tweets in search of female CS:GO players back in December. They put together a squad to compete in the ESL Impact Katowice qualifiers, but fell to BIG EQUIPA in the second round. The squad have however qualified for the European division of ESL Impact Season 3.

juliano and zAAz have a long history of playing together

The duo already have a storied history in female CS, having dominated the scene for most of their time playing until they transitioned to Valorant upon the disbanding of their XSET roster in 2021. They continued to find success in that game, winning several VCT Game Changers Series under the G2 banner, and juliano was part of the roster that won the Game Changers Championship. The allure of the lucrative Impact circuit has, however, drawn them back to Counter-Strike.

G2 Oya have fleshed out their roster with two players who enjoyed modest success towards the latter half of 2022, Oleksandra "⁠manka⁠" Kruspe and Anastasia "⁠kr4sy⁠" Khlobystina (who also played in XSET). The pair featured for MVP and won multiple ESL Impact Cash Cups, and both played alongside juliano and zAAz in the European qualifiers for Impact Katowice and Impact Season 3. The final player, Alexandra "⁠kyossa⁠" Tykhonska, also has a history of competing in Impact Cash Cups, winning one in October 2022.

"It is an incredible feeling and I’m so excited about what we will achieve," juliano commented in a statement accompanying the announcement. "We have brought together some insane raw talents to complete our lineup and there is no doubt in my mind that you'll see us all lift a trophy together."

The CEO of G2, Alban Dechelotte, added "while the goal is better representation, we know that trophies come to the party when Juliano and zAAz are on the server and we’re confident we’ll experience the same instant success with G2 Oya."

The G2 Oya lineup is:

Zainab "⁠zAAz⁠" Turkie
Julia "⁠juliano⁠" Kiran
Anastasia "⁠kr4sy⁠" Khlobystina
Oleksandra "⁠manka⁠" Kruspe
Alexandra "⁠kyossa⁠" Tykhonska

Jimmy "⁠Jumpy⁠" Berndtsson (coach)

wow

2023-03-07 18:53

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How long was zaaz out of scene? Ps didnt she + Spawn have that csgo recruitment program??😂 Nice.. back to fr€€

2023-03-07 20:29

Pog

2023-03-07 18:54

Flower?

2023-03-07 21:56

washed up, sorry literally 0 chance against Ana, hell, Ana would be actually decent enough for t3 men's team

2023-03-07 18:55

25 replies

XSET used to be better than nigma galaxy

juliano and zaaz step away for a little bit and people already forget that they were so blatantly above every other female player at the time mimi was too, sucks that she stayed on valorant

2023-03-07 18:56

21 replies

Wasnt mimi the best female player for quite some time?

2023-03-07 18:57

8 replies

she was actually in fpl-c and never heard any other player complaining about it so this says a lot about how good she actually was

2023-03-07 18:59

yeah iirc she was like a spot or two away from FPL once

2023-03-07 19:03

Get_right was best player sometime ago now he is destroyed in major open qualifiers

2023-03-07 19:53

5 replies

whats your point lmao

2023-03-07 19:58

4 replies

Past is irrelevant Even last year is irrelevant as evidently s1mple is extremely washed not even top 5 player atm

2023-03-07 20:05

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your comment has nothing to do with my original question lmao

2023-03-07 21:29

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I think what hes trying to say is that- with time we get older and as we get older, life becomes more stressfull more difficult and much more complicated, resulting in us finding new activities, new hobbies, new people and places, and the time we invest in those mentioned activities, reduces the time spent in and out of this video game. With less time invested, we start to "fall off" which results in worse stats, your own motivational loss, teammates enthusiasm... which of course leads the protagonist with two option. Either quit all together and move on, or sell out to an org at 31 years old.

2023-03-08 09:31

Yes thats all nice but still has nothing to do with my original question :D

2023-03-08 09:35

4 years ago? yes Get_Right and KennyS also used to be great, not anymore

2023-03-07 18:58

let's not forget that the female scene is like 5 years at least behind the male one so what you said it doesn't really make any sense

2023-03-07 19:00

5? Mate, it's like 20. The players around in 1.6 would wipe the floor with current female players.

2023-03-08 09:55

i was talking only tournament wise, the skill gap will never even be close

2023-03-08 17:12

Aaah sorry, then it makes more sense.

2023-03-09 08:17

neither of those two were good 4 years ago, it's moreso people coping that posting 1.00 rating on average sometimes is good because they weren't outright shit but the female scene really doesn't take much to dominate

2023-03-07 19:02

Kenny was still good i think, wasnt this his last good year?:D

2023-03-07 19:31

from what I recall, he was mid, then he was good with nexa/huNter until online era began, then he was in the team on name value alone for more than a year

2023-03-07 19:40

kennyS was good up until 2021 2020 he was okay 2019 he was still really good though considering 2018 was his worse year it kinda made this year look better but he hasnt been yknow KennyS since 2014

2023-03-07 21:11

30 year old talent ok

2023-03-08 02:05

yeah and ppl have also forgotten about all the great successful comebacks from retirement/other games. so many of them i lost count after rpk, who was actual toptoptier talent and barely made it...

2023-03-08 11:40

wp Juliano, great first map

2023-03-08 21:11

Biggest 🧢 in the universe

ANa>>s1mple

2023-03-07 19:26

comediaN sweating.

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Hahaha

lmao

2023-03-07 19:07

2023-03-07 19:37

:DDD

2023-03-07 19:56

context? (genuinely curious)

2023-03-07 20:11

comedian lost 1v1 to juliano

2023-03-07 20:15

comediaN really living up to his name LUL

2023-03-07 23:58

1v1 red bull tourney rekted

2023-03-07 21:58

#167

2023-03-07 23:59

Classic)

good one )))

2023-03-07 20:28

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2023-03-07 20:51

KKKKKK

2023-03-07 20:52

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2023-03-07 21:57

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2023-03-08 06:52

Thank You Carlos

You follow him in insta or twitter? He chillin in dubai

Manka means handless in spanish :eyes:

2023-03-08 11:07

we need petra + mimi then nigma galaxy will be worried

+1 petra best

2023-03-07 22:28

Awesome.

Nigma galaxy >>>

actually huge W but i hope juliano and zaaz aren't washed, they're quite old now.

the older you get, the more you should care about hygiene i hope they come to the matches washed properly

2023-03-08 09:20

The usual for g2

''The signing of this roster marks G2’s first foray into women’s Counter-Strike.'' my man not using global offensive anymore

since i dont think they had a 1.6 female team, using "counter strike" (all games) is correct.

2023-03-08 00:38

my favorite grandmas gamers <3

why does kyossa have russian flag on match page? Also Juliano big L, be ready to get spanked by nigma and furia

GOAT IS BACK

Nigma galaxy meeting its rivals again finally

g2 OHHYEAHH

Queeeeeeeeeeeeeeens :3

2023-03-07 19:01

Julia Juliano ? hmmmmmm

LOL Olga is leaving FURIA and they didn't got her? tf G2 what doink

2023-03-07 19:04

juliano, zaaz > all swedish teams

nice finals G2 vs Nigma Galaxy incoming

2023-03-07 19:11

yesss

2023-03-08 09:22

juliano is going to get demolished in this current stage of CS

Female cs resurrection LETSFUKENGOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Not even top 20 in woman scene

Oya oya

2023-03-07 19:13

cool to see

2023-03-07 19:18

ZaaZ THE CHAIN SMOKER

2023-03-07 19:24

hooxi better

2023-03-07 19:25

huh so they left the val team

2023-03-07 19:29

Why would you leave sucesfull valorant carrer for unreliable cs carrer. (Talking about Juliano)

2023-03-07 19:30

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yea thinking the same thing, wasnt she the best in valorant as well?

2023-03-07 19:32

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idk about that but im pretty sure that G2 Gozen has been the best female valorant team for a long time now.

2023-03-07 19:34

Current GameChangers (women's scene) World Champions She came in, won worlds and left Sigma grindset

2023-03-07 19:55

Is there a large skill gap in male vs female Valorant as well?

2023-03-07 20:00

I believe last year some female teams actually won a few decent matches in open qualies to VCT (main circuit), but the gap is still pretty big, imo not to the extend that is visible in CS but still pretty significant

2023-03-07 20:06

that's crazy, legendary

2023-03-07 20:07

based

Best team in valorant gc: yes Best player in gc: no

2023-03-07 20:16

zAAz was with them in Val too until she decide to leave because she wanted to return to CS. They probably have their future already secured as visible faces for G2, so they'll rather play the game they like I guess...

2023-03-07 19:50

G2 pays the big bucks. So they pursure career in the game they actually like... :)

Whats with these team names from g2 like gozen, oya

2023-03-08 07:05

$$$ Reply needs content

2023-03-08 09:58

Cringe

Pls pick kranny too 😭

2023-03-07 19:36

watch the damn video, granny gonna stay in the kitchen, she's overqualified..

2023-03-08 09:18

so basically they went to valorant for money and now came back to cs for money

Weird huh? World is ran by money, and you still wonder why some people are forced into chasing money. Wake up.

2023-03-08 10:00

it's just not a very smart move tho. valorants female player base is way larger than that of csgo, so their female scene will obviously grow at a faster and more consistent pace with way more attention and most likely better production quality since the events are sanctioned by riot themselves

2023-03-08 13:18

31 yo, at the end of her career. Gets offered a better deal, possibly with a better post-player career option. If big orgs put money in CSGO female teams, then it will quickly be larger than Valorant. Can we be serious for a second? Valorant is absolute dogshit. I enjoy all sorts of esports, but Valorant is just fucking stupid. CSGO is a million times better to watch. I have watched CSGO with so many people that didnt know the game or even played games. And most actually found it interesting. It was easy to be drawn into the excitement. Its a good spectator sport. Valorant? Jesus...

2023-03-09 08:23

yeah sure whatever you say

2023-03-09 12:41

2023-03-12 19:09

nice but they'll lose to furia

Women cs for orgs is like giving money to charity. Has nothing to do with buisness (bcz no one gives a damn about fe cs) but good for public image.

2023-03-07 19:41

How can you claim it not to have anything to do with business and admit it's good PR in the very same sentence lmao

2023-03-07 20:21

+1111 Its just publicity…. For that reason i’ll never take an org serious that has fe team also 🤣🤣

2023-03-07 20:31

I do give a damn about fe cs (if its juliano mimi zaaz and ana)

2023-03-08 00:29

Zaaz <3

2023-03-07 19:39

jumpy money farming 💀💀

csgo female scene=snooze fest :S in CS 1.6 era was competitive

we always come crawling back to cs

Why juliano returning? She probably was earning more in valulrant G2

she already won valurant, CS true challenge

2023-03-07 22:11

Both scenes are competitively similar imo

2023-03-07 22:18

CS is getting better, dont think theres been this many ok teams in fem cs yet, 9/12 eu impact team are with orgas too and rest 3 freshly qualified teams might get signed aswell. then you get another player activity boost hopefully after seeing there are orgas willing to support fem cs start of season 1 it was basically only Nigma with an orga in EU, before NaVi and BIG got signed

2023-03-07 22:25

It seems that there is much less orgs willing to get into fem cs which means that fem valulrant is likely more competitive so idk why is she coming back to cs as she was doing well in valul maybe nostalgia

2023-03-07 23:03

first I follow juliano and zaaz for playing cs, then I unfollow for playing valorant and now I have to follow again??? when will this end

Ez 4 kr4sy

Wtf julia

2023-03-07 20:02

good PR bad results

2023-03-07 20:04

G2 is the only org that could made me watch Female CS

Ze Swedish goats are BACK <3

nice

2023-03-07 20:08

hltv wtf. kyossa is Ukrainian

now that's a faux pas if I've ever seen one damn

2023-03-07 20:22

manka goat tho

2023-03-07 22:58

+1 wtf

2023-03-08 00:15

CadiaN on trouble right now

jumpy, nice

2023-03-07 20:38

30yr old talents

2023-03-07 20:43

boomOYA

2023-03-07 20:54

this owns furia and nigma

OYA OYA OYA OYA OYA OYA

2023-03-07 21:06

I read it too fast I combined juliano and zaaz and got Jackz and thought he was playing for G2 again

2023-03-07 22:14

Manifesting Juliano and the girls to win one trophy atleast in csgo post her return , that would make her female goat of fps fr , one and only to win trophies in valorant and csgo

2023-03-07 22:53