Into the Breach sign Qikert as in-game leader

6-9-2023 13:40

The Kazakhstani rifler will take over leadership duties from Thomas "⁠Thomas⁠" Utting.

Into the Breach will be Qikert's first venture outside his home region

Into the Breach have announced the signing of Aleksei "⁠Qikert⁠" Golubev to their lineup on a three-month loan, with the priority option to buy. The ex-Virtus.pro rifler comes in to take over the team's in-game leadership. He assumes control of the role from Thomas following the Brit's decision to take a step back from the lineup.

Into the Breach will now be hoping to regain some stability after a tumultuous summer, in which they lost their British core of Sebastian "⁠volt⁠" Maloș, Cai "⁠CYPHER⁠" Watson, and Thomas just three months after the team's impressive showing at the BLAST.tv Paris Major. The European mix also briefly hosted Adam "⁠NEOFRAG⁠" Zouhar, but he was removed from the lineup and eventually replaced by Kévin "⁠misutaaa⁠" Rabier.

Into the Breach confirm misutaaa addition

Qikert decided to withdraw from Virtus.pro's active roster in August, a choice which stemmed from the team's failure to qualify for the Paris Major. He last saw action at Gamers8 2023, where he helped the Russian squad claim a win over FaZe before being eliminated by G2 in the second knockout round.

Into the Breach will be Qikert's first venture outside his home region in more than six years. He began his professional career with LOG, the team that was acquired by AVANGAR and then Virtus.pro, triumphing at IEM Rio Major 2022 with the latter's core under the Outsiders banner.

Qikert to no longer play with Virtus.pro*

"Signing a player of Qikert's caliber alongside the signings of misutaaa & Bymas shows how big our ambitions are coming into CS2," Into the Breach's team manager, Neil "⁠NeiL_M⁠" Murphy stated. "All three players have multiple tier 1 playoff runs & we fully believe with this five that the team will reach the highest level in CS2. We hope our fans who support our Paris run will continue to support this new chapter in ITB!"

Qikert provided his own thoughts on the move, mentioning his long-standing desire to try his hand on an international team. "I always wanted to try myself in an international team, and this opportunity puts a lot of responsibility on my shoulders that I’m more than ready for.

"I can’t wait to start practicing with the team and feel myself alive again."

Into the Breach are now:

Karol "⁠rallen⁠" Rodowicz
Joey "⁠CRUC1AL⁠" Steusel
Aurimas "⁠Bymas⁠" Pipiras
Kévin "⁠misutaaa⁠" Rabier
Aleksei "⁠Qikert⁠" Golubev

Martin "⁠trace⁠" Heldt (coach)

Thomas "⁠Thomas⁠" Utting (benched)
Gustavo "⁠Juve⁠" Alexandre (benched)

cool

2023-09-06 13:38

7 replies

Jame with 1% of his genius created 2 IGLs and 1 coach. Goat IGL

2023-09-07 11:42

6 replies

Real.

2023-09-07 18:13

Actually funny :)

2023-09-08 16:44

true

2023-09-09 14:43

Who another IGL and Coach?

2023-09-09 17:11

2 replies

Yekindar and Sanji

2023-09-09 18:27

1 reply

Liquid ofcourse hltv.org/team/5973/liquid And Melbet hltv.org/team/12373/melbet

2023-09-11 07:23

what a memories Trace coach

2023-09-06 15:20

Well that was unexpected

panic transfer indeed

2023-09-06 13:44

4 replies

Yeah, but might be a solid W for them

2023-09-06 13:51

Yeah, could turn out great

2023-09-06 16:05

idk man this team looks so scrappy

2023-09-06 17:38

man pana and olympiakos fans are nuts. Are you at least passionate but sort of reasonable?

2023-09-06 15:46

wdym the most expected move

2023-09-06 18:43

I expected alpha

2023-09-07 13:07

EU ALWAYS WINS

+Hasteka then they are truly back

Ayo pls don’t, he is biggest pay check stealer

2023-09-06 16:18

Actually a W signing

2023-09-06 13:39

decent roster now

QWICKLY QIKERT

Good choice ngl, Bymas & Misutaa are kinda mehh tho I wish Cypher stayed since this team has 100% more potential than TSM

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TSM pays probably 10x of what ITB pays

2023-09-06 13:46

why cant tsm buys entire core of tsm? too pricey?

2023-09-07 06:51

TSM probably pays more tho

2023-09-07 03:18

Wat

> I can't wait to feel myself alive again bruh VP support role really hits different

imagine hating being VP’s support so badly that you’d prefer to IGL :v

2023-09-06 13:41

sanji became a coach)) I bet norbert will buy out an entire org or something after his stint just to feel good again.

2023-09-06 13:52

broke his hand just to get some time away... sad times man

2023-09-06 15:00

LMAO, sanji, buster, qikert... gl n0rb3r7

2023-09-06 13:49

Playing with Jame for 6 years will do it to you

2023-09-06 15:34

yekindar got lucky, he can get out quickly before its too late although he is rather meh now

2023-09-07 06:53

what

ngl, might actually bring itb back.

2023-09-06 13:40

What da phack?

Huh?

2023-09-06 13:43

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

2023-09-06 13:47

great signature, sign a guy who speaks barely english as an IGL and never been IGL befor, magic

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Idk his english level but he used to call for Avangar

2023-09-06 14:54

What language did they speak in Avangar? Russian Forgive me if there was some international roster

2023-09-07 09:46

yeah obviously he was calling in russian

2023-09-07 18:16

What are you talking about? He is VP's interview guy, his English is very decent

2023-09-06 15:39

His English is more understandable than a lot of UK players I've played with.

That doesnt say a lot

2023-09-07 17:39

Ignorance is bliss for lulquid fans i suppose

2023-09-06 16:17

neither of those things are true

2023-09-06 19:42

He was a second caller in VP, helped Jame a lot. No idea how good his English is but judging from interviews it seems alright.

2023-09-06 21:44

He was an igl in Avangar when Jame went inactive a few times

2023-09-07 13:25

GOAT, he deserves better but lets see what he can do

2023-09-06 13:48

Jame master igl has lead his students to follow in his footsteps. Yekindar and Qikert.

YEKINDAR's a fraud tho :v

2023-09-06 13:54

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how is he a fraud?

2023-09-06 13:58

He’s trash at IGLing. Another egotistical star player that thinks he can do all.

2023-09-06 14:05

cuz he plays with botwaker and fraudsi

His best player is literally washed NAF-FLY lol Give him bunch of tier1 riflers, awper and we can talk.

2023-09-06 14:08

I agree. Let's destroy other career. Patsi was not a god for you while one month ago.

2023-09-06 14:45

whose career was destroyed? yekindar freed from jame's tyranny and was given a lot of freedom in liquid patsi washed since rio major, stealing good checks in liquid, no good team would take him anyway rainwaker from 322 team to liquid, seems good i think it's a win-win situation for everyone

2023-09-06 17:03

Patsi can stay in this team. Still young and getting used to new language+playstyle. No improvement in 4-5 months - easy bench. oSee and fixwaker is arguably duo of worst awper/worst anchor in top15.

2023-09-06 17:14

Calling naf-fly who is consistent good, but refuses to call hobbit a washed up hobbot Your takes are pathetic and embarrassing on every single level.

2023-09-06 18:12

Absolutely true. Overrated player with extremely self-validation

2023-09-09 04:51

doomed roster tbh but i hope it works out 👍🏽

lol

Wish him good luck, you cant hate this guy, such an unselfish player

2023-09-06 13:50

uh... I don't even know how to react. Cool, I guess. ITB really went from British CS' only hope to a pretty random stack bringing people back from "the dead". Some cool people tho, so hope they at least do somewhat ok

Ohhh, interesting, gl hf! P S Lol, just realized he's only 24 years old, really? Honestly felt like he was getting closer to 30, not because of his looks, but because of how much of experience he got and how many events he was part of and got top 3 at. Felt like he's been there forever. GL

Jame system is hard for your back. Buster, sanji and qikert look old as f**. In reality, they are mid 20.

2023-09-06 14:47

i miss SANJI. sadly he ended his carrer and is a coach for a random team

2023-09-07 21:23

I like this move. I hope it works out for him.

Weird af with his english but he's played with Jame for 6years can go for igl tho

2023-09-06 13:53

Unexpected, good luck though

2023-09-06 13:56

Nice!!! Good luck Qikert!!

Unless they get a good AWP, they won't win anything, sadly.

2023-09-06 13:59

If he can implement successfully the jame system like yeki did then it's not bad move.

2023-09-06 14:01

Good luck legendary Jame's apostle

2023-09-06 14:03

UK CS really made a major quarter final, then the king found out and made them disband cuz UK CS can never thrive

2023-09-06 14:04

What a random mix .

2023-09-06 14:06

Wtf

Xdddddd

man no UK players anymore

2023-09-06 14:09

Just when you thought it couldn't get more random xD

2023-09-06 14:10

In 2 weeks: Cruc1al has been replaced by Smooya

2023-09-06 14:16

thats a crazy move

2023-09-06 14:31

2023-09-06 14:33

good pickups

Good choice, good luck!

2023-09-06 14:37

Excuse me what the actual fuck

2023-09-06 14:48

2023-09-06 14:49

This is so fucking cool

2023-09-06 14:52

Praying for Lyoha to find himself again

2023-09-06 14:53

most random roster change

2023-09-06 15:06

Bruh moment

2023-09-06 15:08

????? what doink

2023-09-06 15:09

HAHAHAH

wow

2023-09-06 15:11

Wild rebuild

what the actual fuck

2023-09-06 15:21

It will be incredible if this team ever does anything. Almost picked a player up for every region of Europe.

2023-09-06 15:23

<29 yo entry fragger <24 yo Igl lol

2023-09-06 15:27

they used to have 20 yr old coach too

2023-09-06 15:33

Odd combo xd

2023-09-06 16:25

Good pick

2023-09-06 15:32

LMAO

2023-09-06 15:37

weird lineup

2023-09-06 15:44

RIP the tiny chance UK CS had I guess

2023-09-06 15:49

interesting lineup

Yo whaaaaaat cool pickup, glad hes got a home

2023-09-06 15:56

major winner

2023-09-06 16:00

What the fuck are they cooking

Actually exited for this ngl

2023-09-08 21:21

ITB > Tier 2

2023-09-06 16:31

TF TF TF This one was unexpected

2023-09-06 16:37

someone who worked alongside one of the best CIS IGLs and won a Major deserves a chance and IGL seems like a good option, maybe the roster lacks firepower but i hope Qikert can make this work

qikert was igl in avangar

2023-09-07 07:04

Wtf? Didn’t see this coming. Kinda weird ngl

2023-09-06 16:38

into the weed

2023-09-06 16:47

ITB needed player as fast as possible. He was on bench so yeah why not. Hope they will move on! GL

2023-09-06 16:48

This aint gonna work at all haha, tier 4 here they come

2023-09-06 16:49

XDDDDDDDDD

2023-09-06 17:00

Pashanoj taught Jame everything he knew > Jame igl > yekindar + qikert now igls + sanji coach Now waiting for buster

2023-09-06 17:34

Unexpected

2023-09-06 17:36

OG version 2

2023-09-06 18:03

definitely one of the rosters of all time gl boys

2023-09-06 18:19

This team has potential. On paper it's better than Gamerlegion whos still ranked #7 somehow.

2023-09-06 18:39

Ok this team is seriously done, I'm kinda sad for Bymas because he looked pretty good after his comeback even though he had such a long break, probably another failed project for the guy.

2023-09-06 18:53