Sprout sign trio including podi

podi, the two-time bold prediction of 2023, has joined Sprout on loan from ENCE Academy.

The 19-year-old has made the step up to Sprout

Sprout have announced the addition of Kamil "⁠reiko⁠" Cegiełko and Paavo "⁠podi⁠" Heiskanen, with the latter joining the team on a loan from ENCE Academy until the end of 2024. The German organization also revealed the permanent signing of Daniil "⁠Sdaim⁠" Tupov, who completed his trial period.

The news comes shortly after the team removed Anton "⁠Anlelele⁠" Huynh and Emil "⁠sL1m3⁠" Stolz from their active roster following a period of lackluster results and continuous roster changes, during which Sprout dropped down to No. 80 in the world rankings.

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reiko joins Sprout after representing Anonymo since May 2023 before the organization released its team at the end of January. The Polish rifler averaged a 1.13 rating during his Anonymo tenure and has already turned out for Sprout in two IEM Dallas 2024 Europe Open Qualifiers and a match in the YaLLa Compass Spring 2024 Contenders, where the Pole and his team suffered elimination against Alliance.

podi, who comes in as a loan signing from ENCE Academy, has turned a few heads with his performances for the academy squad. He has been playing for the Finnish combine for almost two years and was far and away their best performer, which earned him two nods in this year's bold predictions by Nikola "⁠NiKo⁠" Kovač and Guy "⁠NertZ⁠" Iluz.

Completing the Sprout roster is Sdaim, who joined the team on a trial basis following The Witchers' disbandment in January. He has already played 23 maps for the squad and did enough to convince Sprout to give him a permanent position on the roster.

Sprout are now:

Denmark Rasmus "⁠raalz⁠" Steensborg
Poland Jan "⁠cej0t⁠" Dyl
Ukraine Daniil "⁠Sdaim⁠" Tupov
Poland Kamil "⁠reiko⁠" Cegiełko
Finland Paavo "⁠podi⁠" Heiskanen (on loan)

Denmark Danny "⁠BERRY⁠" Krüger (coach)

Denmark Emil "⁠sL1m3⁠" Stolz (benched)

Denmark Anton 'Anlelele' Huynh
Anton 'Anlelele' Huynh
Age:
23
Team:
No team
Rating 1.0:
1.00
Maps played:
458
KPR:
0.67
DPR:
0.66
Poland Kamil 'reiko' Cegiełko
Kamil 'reiko' Cegiełko
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.07
Maps played:
863
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.71
Denmark Emil 'sL1m3' Stolz
Emil 'sL1m3' Stolz
Age:
18
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.00
Maps played:
127
KPR:
0.67
DPR:
0.67
Ukraine Daniil 'Sdaim' Tupov
Daniil 'Sdaim' Tupov
Age:
18
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.98
Maps played:
117
KPR:
0.67
DPR:
0.69
Poland Jan 'cej0t' Dyl
Jan 'cej0t' Dyl
Age:
17
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.99
Maps played:
254
KPR:
0.70
DPR:
0.71
Denmark Rasmus 'raalz' Steensborg
Rasmus 'raalz' Steensborg
Age:
28
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.97
Maps played:
1456
KPR:
0.66
DPR:
0.67
Finland Paavo 'podi' Heiskanen
Paavo 'podi' Heiskanen
Age:
19
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.13
Maps played:
296
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.59
Israel Guy 'NertZ' Iluz
Guy 'NertZ' Iluz
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.10
Maps played:
520
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.68
Bosnia and Herzegovina Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.15
Maps played:
1849
KPR:
0.79
DPR:
0.66
#2
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France Zywalrus
massive
2024-03-16 15:21
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massive L maybe
2024-03-16 16:21
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W*
2024-03-16 16:30
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#3
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ropz | 
Finland wormi
glhf podi
2024-03-16 15:21
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#4
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United Kingdom chrose
God I love podi
2024-03-16 15:22
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How long until someone there gets benched, kicked, or sold again?
2024-03-16 15:22
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11 replies
Sprout could atleast stay german/danish for the sake of national scenes... bc wtf is this?
2024-03-16 15:25
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4 replies
Sprout is a feeder org. Take talent, develop them, and then kick them out if they suck or sell them off if they're good. They're not a serious team. They're basically another Endpoint except their kickings and sellings are so incredibly frequent.
2024-03-16 15:30
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#60
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Germany Jonaah
still a serious business model though
2024-03-16 16:23
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Sprout has always been international wtf
2024-03-16 15:45
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1 reply
Ofc not
2024-03-16 15:49
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until the roster will get good results unlike their roster for the past months
2024-03-16 15:27
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#38
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Ukraine dench1k
1 month max
2024-03-16 15:46
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3 replies
just in time for the annual post-Major rostermania that lasts until Summer)
2024-03-16 15:47
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2 replies
#40
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Ukraine dench1k
we'll see but this team is just a revolving door honestly
2024-03-16 15:48
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1 reply
they're a feeder org like Endpoint and even OG (at this point) so this shit is expected. Only problem is that they do this way too frequently.
2024-03-16 15:51
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#59
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Romania RMS17
1week
2024-03-16 16:23
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Finland Kurkku))
CAMA
2024-03-16 15:22
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#7
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Finland Oppooo
huge
2024-03-16 15:23
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podi top 20 inc
2024-03-16 15:23
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good line up honestly
2024-03-16 15:23
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Not bad. Sdaim hiding?
2024-03-16 15:24
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6 replies
Sdaim never had his face shown in anything.
2024-03-16 15:52
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5 replies
Lol why
2024-03-16 16:44
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4 replies
how do you expect to get his face shown when he's never been in a proper org or anywhere that'll get his face screenshotted? His only known "real team" was playing in fear's mix "The Witchers".
2024-03-16 16:45
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Yes but usually players send pictures to org's to announce. I've heard he's Russian from Crimea who's hiding in general
2024-03-16 17:10
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He's maloros from Crimea who moved to moscow and changed his flag to russian but fear asked him to change it back when he was playing for The Witches
2024-03-16 17:23
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not really, either players have their pictures taken during LANs or bootcamps. Even t1 orgs will just jersey swap their new players. Sdaim never played a LAN and never had a real org
2024-03-17 13:03
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#11
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molodoy | 
Finland aamukunen
Camaaaa podii!!
2024-03-16 15:24
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#12
Faceit level 10  | 
Choco | 
Kosovo cocofanboy
nice
2024-03-16 15:24
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Danny Kruger getting CS strats from his brother Freddy
2024-03-16 15:25
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#15
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Poland NaKii
NAAH WTF IS THIS?
2024-03-16 15:25
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finally reiko left these dead polish teams
2024-03-16 15:26
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2 replies
#85
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Sweden skorpan
Too good for this sprout-lineup though. No better options atm though, so hopefully a good step in the right direction atleast
2024-03-16 20:44
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yeah that's right, but still its a good sign that he finally left polish scene, i expect him to get something better in the future
2024-03-16 21:58
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#17
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Bonfire | 
San Marino twovetti
2 finnish awp prodigies now under Sprout
2024-03-16 15:26
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2 replies
Who
2024-03-16 15:33
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1 reply
#33
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Bonfire | 
San Marino twovetti
Sprout academy awp millert obviously
2024-03-16 15:38
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#20
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zont1x | 
Poland JonaSz_
Reiko w
2024-03-16 15:27
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#22
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Poland nyontc
good for reiko, finally leaving polish scene
2024-03-16 15:28
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Nivera declined?
2024-03-16 15:28
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#24
MAJ3R | 
Afghanistan Udori
Sick roster actually
2024-03-16 15:30
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#25
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Australia Australis
decent lineup fr
2024-03-16 15:31
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sprout actually cooking this time
2024-03-16 15:32
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#27
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Finland Tusku
TORILLE
2024-03-16 15:32
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CAMAA PODIII
2024-03-16 15:33
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#30
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Equatorial Guinea Karlheinz
TORILLE
2024-03-16 15:34
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Good, it was so boring seeing podi stuck in these meaningless united21 and fake EPL tournaments where half the teams are matchfixing, and not even being able to attend qualis for real tournaments because of ENCE already being there. He can really start making a name for himself now.
2024-03-16 15:36
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POG
2024-03-16 15:43
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hehe ppl really thought smooya joining sprout? xd
2024-03-16 15:44
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#36
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United Kingdom SAMER7
great team
2024-03-16 15:44
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#41
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England naDalous
Good luck Podi!!!
2024-03-16 15:49
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#43
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Europe PipyLonTeZ
reiko gonna farm also podi a good addition
2024-03-16 15:50
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#44
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Canada ssau
NiP Poddi
2024-03-16 15:50
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reiko my goat finally gets a chance
2024-03-16 15:51
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Reiko really deserves it, kept getting tossed around tier 3 polish teams despite having a clear higher skill level. GL!
2024-03-16 16:02
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tier 4
2024-03-16 16:03
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#51
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Italy Zambrotta
reiko starplayer in sprout
2024-03-16 16:04
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#52
Faceit level 10 Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Sweden Hasklon
good signings from sprout
2024-03-16 16:09
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#54
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Germany hltvfinest
? where is smoo smoo
2024-03-16 16:20
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W
2024-03-16 16:22
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#61
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Germany Jonaah
looking solid
2024-03-16 16:24
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#63
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Europe LastBlast
podi awp? kappa bar > sprout )))
2024-03-16 16:31
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Sdaim & Podi are good players, rare Sprout W
2024-03-16 16:37
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#68
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Finland n3iki
What's there in for Sprout for loaning podi? Thought they buy players cheap and sell them for profit, or do they get a cut from his next contract for developing him?
2024-03-16 16:44
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#96
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Finland ristonen
maybe too risky to buy straight up
2024-03-18 07:06
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#70
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France d0py
gr8 lineup
2024-03-16 16:45
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Huge W for Finnish cs scene.
2024-03-16 16:49
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Podi lets go!
2024-03-16 16:55
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oh they cooking cooking
2024-03-16 17:05
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Well will last 3 months
2024-03-16 17:56
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#78
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Poland BAN_ANIME
sprout cooking, good for reiko
2024-03-16 18:01
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Let's go podi
2024-03-16 18:11
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Podi is really good
2024-03-16 18:21
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let them cook
2024-03-16 19:09
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Huge for podi
2024-03-16 20:25
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Nice! GJ podi!
2024-03-16 21:04
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Sprout cooking if they let this roster develop for more than 3 months
2024-03-16 22:55
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nice, gl sprout
2024-03-17 00:55
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#90
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Finland KnelI
Podi camaan amazing
2024-03-17 10:44
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#92
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HooXi | 
Estonia Strazla
Go Podi!
2024-03-17 13:09
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GL REIKOOOO AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2024-03-17 15:53
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Noniin
2024-03-17 16:58
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#95
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United States caliprep
who?!
2024-03-18 07:04
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No way they keeping Raalz lololol
2024-03-18 07:09
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#98
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United States doobin
F
2024-03-25 19:44
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#99
rain | 
Finland finboe
F
2024-03-26 23:51
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