BLEED add lauNX on loan*

2-1-2024 16:02

The rifler joins on loan from Falcons for 2024, with a first option for BLEED to buy after the Shanghai Major.

lauNX was benched by Falcons in November

BLEED have signed Laurențiu "⁠lauNX⁠" Țârlea from Falcons, the Singaporean organization has announced.

The 18-year-old rifler has been benched since November 5, shortly after the arrival of Danny "⁠zonic⁠" Sørensen kick-started a run at tier one for the Falcons organization. Before then, lauNX is best known for his role in Sprout's underdog run to the IEM Rio Major in 2022.

BLEED announce hampus signing

The Romanian's arrival brings the new lineup to four, after the earlier signings of Hampus "⁠hampus⁠" Poser, Tsvetelin "⁠CeRq⁠" Dimitrov, and Josef "⁠faveN⁠" Baumann.

Coach Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović confirmed on Twitter that they had approached Max "⁠maxster⁠" Jansson to complete the linup, but the deal was complicated after PGL could not confirm that maxster, Ninjas in Pyjamas' registered substitute, would be allowed to appear for BLEED in the upcoming Major cycle. An approach for Justin "⁠jks⁠" Savage was also unsuccessful, kassad confirmed.

Their alternative fifth player should be announced soon, with the European open qualifiers for PGL Major Copenhagen set to begin on January 8.

Update 16:34 : Coach kassad has tweeted to confirm that lauNX's signing is initially on loan, though BLEED will have first option to buy him out on a pre-agreed price after the Shanghai Major, should lauNX agree.

BLEED are now:

Hampus "⁠hampus⁠" Poser
Tsvetelin "⁠CeRq⁠" Dimitrov
Josef "⁠faveN⁠" Baumann
Laurențiu "⁠lauNX⁠" Țârlea

Aleksandar "⁠kassad⁠" Trifunović (coach)

Literally who? This project started great and promising with hampus but now it's looking like a solid T5 team

2024-01-02 16:04

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kinda, we'll see whos the fifth, maybe Launx will find himself there hes still very young

2024-01-02 17:17

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should me maxxter from what I've heard?

2024-01-02 18:06

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wow great insight did you read the article by any chance?

2024-01-02 18:13

maybe read the full article

2024-01-02 18:20

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didn't have that much time

2024-01-02 19:40

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headline and then straight to the comments. xd

2024-01-02 20:15

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average hltv

2024-01-03 04:13

2024-01-02 18:25

This is a CCT team, doubt they qf for rmr

2024-01-02 18:43

Last one is cypher

2024-01-03 07:44

Launx was pretty promising a little While ago

2024-01-02 17:27

they still earn cash from gaming, not like u bro. Stop hating on them xD

2024-01-02 18:01

It started underwhelming with hampus, he's never had success IGL'ing. Now he's gotta lead a grab-bag of budget benched players? Still underwhelming.

2024-01-03 06:44

All the players have trophies apart from lauNX. If the 5th are a solid player then maybe. Maybe Brollan? I hope not.

2024-01-03 09:55

>started great with Hampus roflmaoo

2024-01-03 13:36

No, no it didn't lol I think cypher is the only one who wasn't benched from a previous team?

2024-01-03 22:38

yeah, and he fucked up ITB by leaving for TSM that didn't achieve anything, and now the same thing for the second time simply sensational

2024-01-04 09:19

Cant fault him for going to a real org(with some hype around it at the time) for definitely better money, and playing with more experienced players. Its just a shame all of those more experienced players are washed now.

2024-01-04 20:52

2024-01-02 16:03

Love potatos

2024-01-02 20:26

its just a loan "lauNX's signing is initially on loan, though BLEED will have first option to buy him out on a pre-agreed price after the Shanghai Major." this is how it should be for new talents to see if they can prove himself. If orgs are so afraid to give new talents chances , at least get loans and see how he does in the team for some tourneys...

2024-01-02 22:19

who?

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The most patriotic romanian!please delete your account

2024-01-02 16:21

2024-01-02 16:25

2024-01-02 17:28

Lol

2024-01-02 17:41

Reasonable pickup, hopefully he has a better crack at it in Bleed

w0w

interesting

bro is washed up already and he's only 18

You first have to accomplish something to become washed

2024-01-02 16:08

lil bro is against washing.

2024-01-02 17:09

2024-01-02 16:34

5th maxster inc

its CYPHER.

Please dont

2024-01-02 16:22

they didnt pick maxter because he is listed as RMR standin for nip and that would overcomplicate things 5th is rumored to be cypher

2024-01-02 16:13

cypher...? but... why?

2024-01-03 14:25

twitter.com/kassad/status/17418109784617..

2024-01-02 16:17

Team Solo Mid

now add cypher

well played

2024-01-04 20:40

CCT 2024 9-12th

2024-01-02 16:05

2024-01-02 22:20

Not too bad, like the lineup so far.

2024-01-02 16:06

They are building a fun little lineup, people who hate on it for being 'T2' are just morons

i mean it kinda is true.. this is t2.. For me unless the 5th is gonna be a goat of the game, this is t2.. This is on same level as teams like Eternal Fire , betboom, furia, mibr, GL , Movistars, saw And even most of this would WIN vs this roster for sure

2024-01-02 22:22

This guy was crazy back in Sprout, lets see if he can return to that level again

2024-01-02 16:10

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A team full of players that need to return to their forms = big failure inc

2024-01-02 16:31

Thats what I've been thinking, if this team works out then its gonna be amazing but basically all of these players except hampus are guys who had immense potential but ended up washed and hoping they'd all suddenly return to form seems like a reach to me.

2024-01-02 16:35

true but faveN has been grinding a lot lately his dowfall was because of illness, personal issues and then becoming a father if those are things of the past i really believe he can be a very good player

2024-01-03 15:53

He showed glimpses of potential in Sprout, got overrated at a record pace, got to show his true colors quickly (which was bad) and is now already washed while being 18

2024-01-02 19:33

"lauNX is best known for his role in Sprout's underdog run to the IEM Rio Major in 2022" launx averaged 0.84 that tournament LMFAO

Launx king 👑

2024-01-02 16:19

But he played fine while getting there. I think that is what they are referring to.

2024-01-02 17:02

Yeah run "to" the major

2024-01-02 19:01

this team wont last more than 3 months

2024-01-02 16:12

well what team really does? ... with the exact same lineup. no offense

2024-01-02 18:11

The 5th is François "AMANEK" Delaunay

2024-01-02 16:14

I will lol if that is true

respect major finalist and french swiss army knife

would really round out with a mid played, hope not

2024-01-02 16:23

really nice transfers, I trust this team.

rip bleed bled to deth

Washed

he could work under kassad , i think he needs sombody tough to slap his head when he goes rogue.

2024-01-02 16:18

well he'd better cause he has 1 year to do this as he's actually joining as a loan player instead of a fulltime player.

2024-01-02 16:33

this roster is full of people with missed chances... this team CAN be good but there's so much questionmarks surrounding this roster that i dont think they will be serious competition in the near future - like hampus is a decent IGL but not a super mastermind - faven has a super high skill ceiling but can his team rely on him this time? - cerq was great in the past but his last months in EG he was playing ass, can he recover in a less shitty org? - launx and also cypher (if they really pick him) have been good in the past as well but no are no real star players either

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Tbh every roster built from scratch that isn't filled with star-players is going to be full of question marks, hell, even star-studded C9 with Hobbit, Sh1ro, Elec, Perfecto and Ax1le turned out to be a roster with a lot of question marks, even though HLTV praised the initial roster so much, saying they're going to be insta top3 etc I think all these players have a common trait: They're all SUPER hungry to prove they have what it takes to be at the top. I expect good things from this roster tbh, even though I agree that it is quite a risk. But, as I said, every roster is a risk. Only time can tell how will it work out :)

2024-01-02 16:42

Well who says they can't change players. I think the org stated (or kassad stated) they don't aim for this major, but the next one. They've built something from scratch, now they have time to see who plays well and who doesn't.

2024-01-02 17:08

kassad said it in an interview or podcast. Looks like they first want to build a structure for the org in CS since BLEED is new to the space - and they don't need a multi-million superteam for that. Once the org has systems built, they will make changes if necessary. Personally, I think they will be necessary - at minimum, I don't believe cerq has it in him to make a comeback to his top form.

2024-01-02 23:21

First things first. Kassad stated that he (and BLEED as well) don't want to overpay players. This organization is not C9 - henryg iteration, C9 - current iteration, or Falcons to throw money left and right and see who wants to grab some of it. They have a solid budget, but it will be spent reasonably. Now to your points: - who, in your opinion, is a super mastermind IGL that would sign a contract for a reasonable price, is currently available (no team), or has a small buyout fee? It would be good if you named two, I really curious how many super mastermind IGLs in top 20 teams, maybe only 5, maybe 10, maybe 15? Tell me how many? - who, in your opinion, is a player that a team can rely on and would sign a contract for a reasonable price, is currently available (no team), or has a small buyout fee? It would be good if you named two, And from those two, if you think teams can relay on them, then why they do not have a team right now or a high buyout? - I don’t know if cerq can be good again, but that a risk kassad is willing to take (and this is his job), but whom you would chose instead of him? - who, in your opinion, is a real star player and would sign a contract for a reasonable price, is currently available (no team), or has a small buyout fee? It would be good if you named two, How many "real star players" that are looking for a team are there? If creating a tier 2 team with hopes for more in few months would be so easy and "star players" only wait for someone to giving them contract, teams would pop up like mushrooms, but it is not. It is only easy to spent someone else money.

2024-01-03 00:28

probably arent many other "good" options, only ones off the top if my head are anarkez Awp degster probably wouldnt accept jks didnt accept joel 322 unlucko

2024-01-03 02:12

you make it seem like you feel personally attacked. it was not my intention to trash this roster, i just stated my opinion on them. dont get me wrong, they picked some interesting players, i just think they're missing a "safe" pick or a young prodigy in the mix. first things first, they clearly missed the roster shuffle at the end of the season or planned to create a team of leftovers from the get go. i will make suggestions that include players that already found a team in the shuffle. now to answer your questions. - interesting picks for the IGL role would in my opinion be gla1ve or kyxan. hampus has been an alright pick as well but i wouldve preferred gla1ve if i have to deal with so much questionmarks. - when i spoke about faven being unreliable, i was referencing him missing from almost every important event when he played for BIG. they played with a stand in most of the time. faven is the safest bet in this team if they dont need to replace him regularly. i'm happy with that pick. - instead of cerq they could probably look towards the CIS scene, sure there might be a language barrier but degster, artfrost wouldve been interesting picks. but even the rumored smooya move wouldve been more interesting than cerq IMO - a star player with all your criteria isnt available to my knowledge, you're of course right with that. i feel like nowadays THIS might be where you have to take a gamble and sign a young promising player from a t2/t3 or academy team

2024-01-03 13:14

First things first, again :) I did not feel personally attacked. It just, to me, your comment sounded judgmental: "I would do it differently.", "There are better players than those that BLEED chose.", and no specific explanation of what you would do differently. It would be so much better if you mentioned your propositions just right a way. With doing that, you would show another perspective. After all, we do not know what the current situation is on the CS2 market. When kassad looked for players, gla1ve probably already signed, or at least was in serious talks with ENCE and smooya… Well at this point, he is a risk that unfortunately no team is ready to take, no matter how good he plays in the scrims/faceits (I hope he will get one more f*** chance). And if not those two that have history in the top 10 teams, then the list of alternatives is getting shorter and shorter without any “better for sure” options. And that is what I wanted to point out. It is easy to criticize, but when getting to the details, it is not that easy at all. One last thing: do you really think that kassad would not talk with some of those “better/star” players to try to talk them into trying to do history with BLEED. He has connections; he has knowledge. History shows that he also makes mistakes, but for God sake, he is not stupid. He is not stupid at all.

2024-01-03 22:46

"- who, in your opinion, is a super mastermind IGL that would sign a contract for a reasonable price, is currently available (no team), or has a small buyout fee? It would be good if you named two," This is a massive amount of copium. If you can't build a team worth a damn, just don't do it, and wait for the right opportunity. THIS IS WASTING MONEY this way

2024-01-03 14:03

It is not wasting money. It is called starting somewhere. Do you really think that there are plenty orgs that are willing to throw money like Falcons are doing? We need as many reasonable organization like ENCE, Mouz, BIG, Sprit, maybe Monte, Apeks as well, as possible. They will show us that new, and sometimes old talent that still has something in them, and after some time rise that talent to be great or great again. And that, I hope, BLEED will be in the near future. And if they successed this will be good for everyone. They have to stay afloat as long as they can and not end up like henryg's C9. I really can't belive that you dont see how stupid this "If you can't build a team worth a damn, just don't do it" statment is. What is your definition of "worth a damn"? Top 10? Top 20? FORZE is 30th now, NiP is 25th, Astralis 19th. Are they "worth a dam" or should thay disband because there is no point in having team as bad in Japcsali opinion?

2024-01-03 23:09

It is wasting money, the world doesn't need a yet another CCT first round loser team. It wastes money because instead of entering at the right time, with players worth a damn, they will get disillusioned now and leave the CS scene. This is much more damaging. This won't be nearly on the level of the orgs you mentioned. I can't believe you think that statement is stupid lmaooooo yeah, compare a newcomer team to those established ones, and you call others stupid

2024-01-04 09:18

You are right, I should not use “stupid”. “Delusional” probably is also too strong. “Naive” fits the best. Was there at any time a CS team that was created from scratch that was “worth a damn” in your opinion? HenryG tried to do it. He was not even that far in my opinion, but it did not work at the end and lasted only few months. And he overpaid, overpaid a lot. Current squad of C9 maybe it was not so expensive, but cost more then current BLEED for sure, so still it wasn’t cheap. And for now there is no as much of success there, so it might be that C9 management thinks about it as wasting money (they switch their opinion about players fast). Falcons did what they could to get the “stars” players, but you have to have oil money to do it that way. And so, in my opinion, it is near impossible to create a “worth damn” team from scratch without FU money. “Worth a damn” teams are made brick by brick, step by step, by “all-in” moves for 1-2 players, not for whole team. You have to have a plan and money for 2 year in advance and stick to it (the plan, not always to the players you started with), if you want to build something more or less stable. Now going into the “right time”. How can you tell that it is not now? We had a quite unstable CS:GO year. There was no 1-2 teams that dominated, rather all teams had some down results here and there. Falcons with trying to get all the best players are messing up the atmosphere in G2, taking what they can from Vitality (making it weaker) and destroying ENCE. s1mple is taking a break. US team in rebuilding faze. Faze soon to be none existent with all that ownership and conflict of interests drama. And on all of this you have new game of CS2 in which not all players (stars or not) are comfortable yet. Hell, there was no better time to create new team than now. Especially on decent, but limited budget. And to your final point. Exactly this is a newcomer team and with such teams, you can not wish them fast success (because players will be bought out) and you can not wish them complete failure because they will disband. You have to have hopes for mediocre success which it seems in you opinion is not “worth a damn”, on which they can build on and that is exactly what kassad is trying to do here.

2024-01-05 14:21

New CCT contender

2024-01-02 16:27

Ticket to t3

2024-01-02 16:29

Actually a W pickup

This roster has already had at least 4 more news posts than it deserves....

TSM 2.0

2024-01-02 16:32

wooow

when saudis bought falcons launx said enough of this crap im out

2024-01-02 16:38

Mmmmm, more like zonic said enough of this crap you're out

2024-01-02 16:50

he never trained him so i think he is full of crap

2024-01-02 16:51

He had already been stupid enough to deserve being left aside, don't rewrite history. I wish him to rediscover his mojo though, nothing against him

2024-01-02 20:06

france talking about rewriting history, wow

2024-01-02 21:24

Launx king

2024-01-02 22:43

Solid Tier 2 team so far!

2024-01-02 16:39

Solid roster. Cerq deserves a second chance, so does Launx and Faven. They all have been promising and then they found themselves in rosters that didn't quite fit them. Let's see what they can do together now. Who will be the 5th though? I heard rumours about Cypher. If that's the case, then what can I say besides GLHF - seems like this roster can and will do some damage.

2024-01-02 16:40

This team will do better than c9 in 2024.

kassad really wanted to challenge himself with this roster lol. An igl that underwent the NIP abuse until he had to take a mental health break, an AWPer who underwent the same treatment but in EG until he lost all motivation to play, a guy that was on sick leaves half of his career, and a young prodigy with yet again motivation issues and tilt problems. We getting out of the mental asylum with this one

another failed talent

2024-01-02 16:43

Good but this roster wont go anywhere with cerQ

2024-01-02 16:45

If only BLEED can keep their players consistent i think they might be good t2 team

Who is 5th then?

2024-01-02 16:53

if the last player is CYPHER this team has potential to punch above their weight gonna be interesting

2024-01-02 16:58

so the cheap JKS version?

2024-01-02 17:01

cheaper, younger and probably better

nobody is better than JKS. He is a God

2024-01-02 17:03

Should've picked mhL as well

he gonna play for 9ine

2024-01-02 17:14

WHEN SIXER?

2024-01-02 17:04

Nice edit

2024-01-02 17:07

solid tier3 contestants, could possibly go 9-12th in cct

2024-01-02 17:10

This team starting to become recycled unfulfilled talent lol

2024-01-02 17:13

Looking like solid tier 3-4

2024-01-02 17:16

Bleed making the same mistakes as OG, fnatic, NIP and TSM

Don't compare Fnatic to this crap pls. Fnatic took 2 young players and one experienced one (3 players on the rise) and gave them a bump to tier 1. BLEED took a couple of players who are on the worst form of their careers. It feels like one of those EU mixes you'd see on HLTV threads

2024-01-02 17:38

decent pickup if he's not going to waste it again. why cerq and not mhl though???

2024-01-02 17:19

One more balkan remaining and the balkan core us completed Dragon good

2024-01-02 17:21

+sergej

2024-01-02 17:25

this went from "infinite budget super team" to very mid real quick

2024-01-02 17:26

I don’t think tsm will sell cypher

Good pickup, asking maxster is bold, sucks he couldn't move up

2024-01-02 17:30

Most mid team ever

2024-01-02 17:48

kassad and cerq getting hired in 2024...lmfao

2024-01-02 17:54

worst mix i ever seen

2024-01-02 18:08

Kassad its a L from the start of any rosters Hampus can be good or also full trash Faven always sick, inconsistent sometimes Cerq is washed like 5y Launx had his moments but sometimes its cold as ice his hands wont work It dosent matter whos 5th this roster is garbage Not even 1 star player consistent At this point TSM, Falcons, GamerLegion or this roster are flip flops. Can be top10 or completely tier4 garbage.

2024-01-02 18:27

gamer legion still top 20 after so much time

2024-01-03 22:20

What a cringe roster

2024-01-02 18:51

2024-01-02 19:14

So far looks like a roster from "worst team wins" fantasy

tier 3 so far

2024-01-02 19:23

This lineup is just kek.

2024-01-02 19:26

Launx is good, NBK didn’t know how to use his skills and it caused him to look bad. I watched him when he was on sprout so I hope he can show some of the form he had back then on BLEED.

Zyphon maybe?

2024-01-02 20:07

rip hampus, rip swedish dreamteam.

2024-01-02 20:51

+jks gogog

2024-01-02 21:19

this lineup scream disband

2024-01-02 21:20

ez LoanX

2024-01-02 21:25

6 teams with 18 years is a lot bro

2024-01-02 21:46

Oof, yeah that is a blow for this project imo, not looking so promising anymore.

2024-01-02 22:30

Good pickup, still has great potential

2024-01-02 23:23

CCT-tier team

2024-01-03 00:26

This lineup vs TSM

2024-01-03 01:20

2024-01-03 06:47

Roster looks actually good, like better than TSM. Biggest question is CerQ. He kinda proved what he is capable off years ago but then he dipped

2024-01-03 01:24

Its the exact same thing as TSM. In fact, would be a close match watching these 2 bargain-bins play each other.

A solid tier 3 team

2024-01-03 04:43

This team is donezo

2024-01-03 06:05

spooke spooke )))

2024-01-03 06:31

Still waiting for launx to ascend

2024-01-03 06:45

Entering Cs2 in Tier 3 form, Bravo. Disband now.

2024-01-03 08:16

Random ass roster with washed/average players Good luck

2024-01-03 08:57

If hampus is the IGL, they will achieve absolutely nothing

2024-01-03 10:18

i love this xddddddd

2024-01-03 10:44

2024-01-03 11:20

Lets see of hampus can make cerq and faven play better than ever

2024-01-03 12:36

gaming is fucking dead

2024-01-03 13:19

I know it's a loan, but talents should never sign for an unproven lineup like this. it's just a waste of time, but that was also already expected when kassad got involved here. Cant wait for him to get kicked and NEVER return to cs.

2024-01-03 13:44