Media: MartinezSa set to join 9z

28-11-2023 20:47

The Spaniard will complete 9z's roster ahead of the 2024 season.

Martinez will no longer wear the Riders jersey, according to a report

Antonio "⁠MartinezSa⁠" Martinez is set to depart Movistar Riders for 9z, according to a report by SheepEsports.

The change would mark the second in the last month for Movistar Riders, who lost long-time captain Alejandro "⁠alex⁠" Masanet to Ninjas in Pyjamas and brought back David "⁠dav1g⁠" Granado Bermudo to take the reigns.

dav1g returns to Movistar Riders' starting lineup

MartinezSa has been on the Spanish organization's books since August 2022 when he arrived as a replacement for the ENCE-bound Álvaro "⁠SunPayus⁠" García. He has been the team's highest-rated player this year, averaging a 1.11 rating, but results have wavered for the team as a whole.

A title victory at ESL Challenger Melbourne in April and recent 5-8th place finish at ESL Pro League Season 18 are two of the only bright spots in an otherwise frustrating year for the Jinetes, with their online performances often suffering compared to LAN.

9z have been in search of an AWPer since Santino "⁠try⁠" Rigal stepped down from their active roster due to health issues in October. The Argentine organization was originally heavily interested in signing Lucas "⁠nqz⁠" Soares from Legacy, but ultimately lost the bid for the Brazilian sniper to paiN.

paiN announce nqz, n1ssim

With MartinezSa, 9z would be:

Maximiliano "⁠max⁠" Gonzalez
Franco "⁠dgt⁠" Garcia
Nicolás "⁠buda⁠" Kramer
Matias "⁠HUASOPEEK⁠" Ibañez Hernandez
Antonio "⁠MartinezSa⁠" Martinez

Gustavo "⁠tge⁠" Motta (coach)

Santino "⁠try⁠" Rigal (inactive)

excuse me

2023-11-28 20:47

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-headtr1ck +martinez wouldve been better

2023-11-28 21:07

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Martinez deserves better than that Swedish wasteland.

2023-11-29 01:35

nice

Ha?

Nooo

Please

2023-11-28 21:33

lmao

2023-11-28 20:48

would he be moving to south america?

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9z has a project to stay in EU I think, that's why dav1deus decided to leave

I hope they don't become another one of those teams that move to a different region and then just gradually get all their foreign players replaced with local players.

2023-11-28 23:57

That aint gonna happen. 9z really got hurt with david and try leaving, we didnt want them to leave nor did the CEO. We love dgt max and buda.

2023-11-29 01:05

is that a problema with that sir?

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Yes

2023-11-28 21:47

Idk man would you move like across a quarter of the world with almost everything except maybe language being different? I think that would be too much effort to me, even with a promising team signing you

2023-11-29 00:13

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Spanish and argentinian cultures are similar and that doesn't matter because 9z is moving to Spain.

2023-11-29 00:45

Argentinian asado is superior in every matter to every cuisine in the world, and much cheaper. Moving for that alone is already justifiable.

2023-11-29 05:36

2023-11-29 07:38

now u know what all SA and NA teams have to do....honestly i think europeans would suck their a** off if wasnt the center of the world

2023-11-29 12:16

Well they don't move there on a permanent basis. They have their own tourneys, even if they're not as big, but most stay on their home continent

2023-11-29 12:20

They gonna stay in Spain

9z's roster is relocating to Spain in 2024.

2023-11-28 21:09

Nice, since not getting nqz back it's a nice move. Way unexpected but a huge step up for both

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Not for Martinez Movistar is far ahead of 9z

2023-11-28 21:22

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Movistar is an one-time wonder team. It just plays a random LAN event, going deep and becomes a shadow of itself. For him to leave that team is better, and 9z isn't bad at all

2023-11-28 21:25

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random LAN? Check their record. Movistar plays way more tier 1 tournaments and have deeper runs. The only positive factor in 9z are the major qualifiers.

2023-11-28 21:27

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9z is relocating to spain for 2024. 9z vs movistar in spanish leagues will mean movi could get much less relavant due to them not being insta best spanish team of the country. -> less quals, less t1 tourneys. 9z has much more fingers in SA scene, can export talent to europe who are willing to go and getting spanish talents from spain at the same time. movistar is not doing good moves for months, even years. good for martinez to leave, he can always literally always come back.

2023-11-28 21:59

dude movistar own 9z. If martinez had stayed it was easy spot for movistar riders. Anyway Esl Spain does not exist anymore. The clasico for movistar is sAw not 9z. Riders faced 9z like 4 times and won 3 (only lost 1 in 2 OT). In the other hand, they faced sAw/Giants like 30 times and they are even +/-. The only thing 9z had was SA qualifiers and they'll lost them due to moving to EU (I k they could play those but they would have to travel to SA just to play the qualys). Movistar is a bettter team and org. 9z pay higher salaries thats all. What roster changes did movi bad? - Deathzz was cause of actittude issues. The only move that can be consider as "bad" was sausol cause things didnt work out.

2023-11-28 22:17

lmao how does Movistar own 9z? lost 2-0 against a brand new roster, then won at EPL this year and almost lost with 9z playing with their coach TWICE. imagine losing a map against a team playing with their coach

2023-12-01 17:18

Galicians are wayyyyy inferior than south americans, the only time MR won against 9z it was when they were playing with the coach, lol

2023-11-29 02:23

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Galicia is just a region of Spain, and there are no galicians on the MR roster Also fyi, MR hasn't lost against 9z since feb 2022, and won against them in EPL, where they had their full roster, so I wouldn't say they're "wayyyyyy inferior" Don't get me wrong, I like 9z, but if they bought nqz instead of Martinez, Riders would win 7/10 times

2023-11-29 08:51

Galicians because you all Spaniards hate that, the same way you call them Sudakas we call you Galicians. 9Z won to MR with Luken as awp ... and he's not a main awp, just saying.. the latest games were played with the coach as sub.

2023-11-29 23:02

I've never in my life heard someone call them "sudakas" outside of old degenerate people, so don't say things like that because those are just not true 9z won to MR in feb 2022, in an online game. In sept 2023 they played against each other in epl, where MR won and both teams had their entire roster

2023-11-30 07:16

They arent "Galicians" and they've won majority of times they faced each other. Only lost once in a very chaotic game with OTs. Movistar has played way more t1 events. Better and more deepruns. Better and more stablished org. Better players historically and in the present (Mixwell, Lowel, SunPayus, Smooya, Alex, Mopoz, Steel, AdamS, MartinezSA, etc) Better infrastructure (MEC) Etc

2023-11-29 16:01

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you mentioned lot of no-ones in your "better players historically" maybe sunpayus.

2023-11-29 23:00

All of them are better than the 99% of players 9z ever had. SunPa, Smooya, Mixwell, Alex > try. Mopoz, LoWel and Steel have more history and success in 1 foot than all 9z.

2023-11-29 23:07

all of the ones you mentioned are overrated garbage who were lucky to have better teams, where are them now? Alex in NIP we know it's going to fail, as I said, maybe sunpayus and that's because he went to ENCE, not because the spanish scene itself which is pure garbage.

2023-11-30 01:30

lmao if spanish scene is garbage then Argentinian scene is absolutly dead. try played for tier 2-3 00Nation and 9z Luken is a fraud who never played in the tier 1 scene Meyern got the opportunity on mibr and did shit. How brave are you to talk about spanish scene.

2023-11-30 16:16

Spanish cs is worst than latam cs, I'm not saying latam cs is the best, but Spaniards then to think because they are in EU they are relevant, no, in EU is relevant CIS and Denmark, maybe Sweden, that's about it, rest of them tier 5.

2023-11-30 18:46

Spaniards dont think they are relevant. Its just a fact that they are way better than Latam and its stupid to think otherwise based on all cs history till today. Better players, teams, archivements, etc. Ofc they are nothing compared to big cs nations like Denmark or Sweden but it is normal, cs isnt even top 3 most played game in Spain.

2023-11-30 18:53

stadado to MR then?

yes

2023-11-28 21:03

Why????

i aren't know this

NOOOOO

expected

unexpected. gl!

2023-11-28 20:49

He's playing right now from argentina on my streaming twitch.tv/zack_csgo

So stadodo will take his place in mrs for sure now

KRU should get try and luken

2023-11-28 20:50

they surely do

2023-11-28 22:22

Sad for MRS and spanish scene :(

2023-11-28 20:51

I knew it lol

Worst move for both, player and Movistar, now we take stadodo wahsed-up not even top 3 iberian apwers. I´m so mad and sad.

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unluko, +stadodo is a terrible move

2023-11-28 20:52

I know dude, I just wanted some stability on the team with the arrive of dav1g but now Riders lose the essence, is more a portuguese team. Sad also for martinez because is a terrible move for him aswell.

2023-11-28 20:53

stadodo washed up lol stfu he igled ftw from tier 5 to winning apeks not portugal problem you have no awpers xDD

2023-11-28 21:01

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ftw before him were at his peak mate wdym

they only lost their two best players story and ewjerkz nothing much and then arrozdoce later which was also their best player

2023-11-28 21:02

yeh but they were better before. Not saying he is washed up like my mate said but definetly far worse than martinez and sunpayus

2023-11-28 21:04

Well thats normal, he was very good in 2020 and is now focused in converting to igl, he isnt focusing on his individual anymore being more of a supportive player If you watch ftw games the stars lately are nopeej and pr, he is more supportive

2023-11-28 21:05

if jerkz wasnt on a washed up team he would be better than sunpayus.

2023-11-28 23:04

Must be one of the most biased delusional comments i have ever read and I love jerkz (I would like to have him on Riders over jUST) but SunPayus is 33 steps ahead of him.

2023-11-28 23:09

were at their peak with jerkz, story and arrozdoce. Kinda unfair to compare

2023-11-28 21:13

Delusional stadodo fan detected

2023-11-28 21:19

get colonized xd

2023-11-29 05:33

NIP killed Movistar for an average team. Sucks for Movistar fans

the biggest true of all time

2023-11-28 21:10

Ence kill Movistar, nip only make it worst and this just means disband and go internacional

2023-11-28 23:07

Yes ENCE took their best player, but at least they did something with him: got far in tournaments, won one with MVP and he will be top 10 this year. NIP took alex and gave him barely anything to work with

2023-11-28 23:29

movistar and awpers..

2023-11-28 20:55

Larsen was their bestest awper :D

2023-11-28 21:06

Sunpa > smoya > Larsen > eastor

2023-11-28 23:08

dude i was trolling SunPa > Mixwell > Smooya > Eastor > mopoz (played as second awper) > Dragunov > Larsen (even tho Larsen is a better player overall than Dragunov, maybe even Eastor)

2023-11-28 23:15

What about Shhhack?

2023-11-29 00:08

I think he did not play in Movistar, not as an oficial player atleast (If im not mistaken). But he would be ranked between Eastor and Dragunov imo

2023-11-29 15:52

At least he played ESL Masters Season 1. I assume he got traded along emenk and exerz to KPI when MRS bought the whole KPI roster (the arrival of alex and mopoz)

2023-11-29 21:51

Damn movi are a fun team to watch on LAN. Tough for bladE to rebuild the team.

2023-11-28 20:56

as soon as ALEX left the team, it was over for Movistar.

2023-11-28 21:53

rip movistar riders

best choice 9z could go for.

2023-11-28 20:59

atr bro

Let us keep the gold atleast

2023-11-28 21:00

gl marti You'll missed in Riders :'(

Movie star two times loosing their sniper … sad for them.

SheepEsports are about as reliable as Harumi

wdym, did either of them talk about this move? I thought sheepEsports was only for league edit: my bad bro I commented without even reading article disregard this

2023-11-28 21:08

They do a lot of that "so and so have reached a verbal agreement" stuff, when its complete guesswork.

2023-11-28 21:12

RIP Spanish cs

There are some players to relie on in Spain but not awpers. They are getting stadodo but he isnt good enough for Riders ambitions.

2023-11-28 21:30

The core of dgt + HUASOPEEK + martinezSA looks great not gonna lie

lmao this reminds me of navi s1mple takes a break, they sign wonderful try takes a break, they sign martinez

2023-11-28 21:11

except that martinez>try but yeah

2023-11-28 22:24

try clears

+1 but hes decent so thats ok

2023-11-28 21:15

not really Check try last match and see who retired him :)

its just me or going from MRS to 9Z is kinda of downgrade?

2023-11-28 21:14

yes it is, but prob got a higher salary. 9z project doesnt look bad either.

2023-11-28 21:34

But if hes moving from spain to argentina i dont see that financially right in any case...

2023-11-28 22:59

9z is moving to Spain in 2024

2023-11-28 23:00

9z’s moving to Spain in 2024, it’ll be fine. The Martinez move just happened to be very convenient since try had to step down due to health issues.

2023-11-29 01:55

Yes, maybe he'll get more money because stickers, but...

2023-11-28 21:35

THATS WHAT I NEEDED TO SEE LETS FUKIN GOOO 9ZZZZZ <33333

2023-11-28 21:28

Martinez is actually very good and sharp with awp

2023-11-28 21:29

And he's good with Ak too and grinding every day, don't know why he didn't wait for better offer

2023-11-28 21:36

unexpected and great adition, wp 9z.

2023-11-28 21:37

Rip but nice for 9z

2023-11-28 21:44

unexpected af,good for 9z

2023-11-28 21:52

Happy for him to escape movibots!

2023-11-28 22:00

This basically confirms that SunPayus is not going anywhere since Martinez was the only obvious replacement in case he left

2023-11-28 22:11

yuh

movistars dispand? spanish cs rip?

2023-11-28 22:18

you embeded the wrong legacy team in the article D:

2023-11-28 22:33

sadge

who cares

2023-11-28 22:45

Pornstar shitters are done. Happy me. Disband.

Movistar pls go international is the only way to survive

They can't go intl if they cannot even pay enough to martinez that he goes to 9z lol. Sad days

2023-11-28 23:58

maybe they dont consider martinez worth it. They offered +10K to SunPa trying to retain him and failed, so yeah, they have the money for the right ones. I suppose they have made also money with Alex departure but dunno.

2023-11-29 23:19

They were top team back then, so probably it made more sense. Zack was joking the other day but he said maybe 9z gives him 4x more, which sound like he mean it, so maybe they pay something around 15? No idea but they downgraded a lot without try and davideus and they need to secure major spot and there's no better awper who can speak spanish, so it makes sense they want to give him a good offer, money wise.

2023-11-30 00:45

Based on what Smooya said when left Movistar, martinez was prob getting paid between 3-4k so it would be 12-16k. What is it actually more than what SunPayus is currently winning, 13k. (atleast he was getting that when he signed with Ence) . Crazy numbers for an org like 9z tbh

2023-11-30 16:08

escaped from movibots

2023-11-28 23:13

Poor movistar riders being stripped for parts. I feel bad for Spanish fans, so much talent on boring international lineups.

2023-11-28 23:19

wait thats HUGE

2023-11-28 23:36

lets gooo

2023-11-28 23:46

DALE TONIIIIIIII

2023-11-29 00:39

Riders just keep getting punched in the face

If martinez accepted the offer it is because he will earn more. But how on earth can 9z pay more than Riders when the Argentine peso is dead? 1 euro = 396 Argentine peso (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

2023-11-29 01:48

396? it´s impossible buy euros or dollars for this price. At least 1:1000

2023-11-29 02:08

they bought martinez with stickers money, maybe one day saw will reach a major

2023-11-29 02:11

yeah makes sense and you still have try on the payroll I hope so. but the eu rmr is so stacked :/

2023-11-29 02:40

youtube.com/watch?v=eQBjQs07wbw&ab_chann..

2023-11-29 05:41

thanks for remind me this diamond

2023-11-29 10:15

Because 9z earns in dollars, not pesos

2023-11-29 03:56

Even tho Movistar is a bigger company their budget for csgo is so small. 9z put all their money in this game.

2023-11-29 23:21

Nice move 9z.

2023-11-29 02:24

me voy a suicidar

2023-11-29 02:33

Martinez aka jametime from Spain. Inflated stats. Good for stadodo tho

2023-11-29 03:39

lel now full RIP for Spain scene sunpayus, alex, martinez i remember lowel and mixwell who left spain scene long time ago sad for them :| but SAW keep the portugese roster and get some good results sametime

2023-11-29 03:50