Sprout sign trio including podi

16-3-2024 15:21

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.

Sprout release Anlelele, bench sL1m3

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:

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

Danny "⁠BERRY⁠" Krüger (coach)

Emil "⁠sL1m3⁠" Stolz (benched)

massive

2024-03-16 15:21

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massive L maybe

2024-03-16 16:21

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2024-03-16 16:30

glhf podi

God I love podi

2024-03-16 15:22

How long until someone there gets benched, kicked, or sold again?

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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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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

still a serious business model though

2024-03-16 16:23

Sprout has always been international wtf

2024-03-16 15:45

Ofc not

2024-03-16 15:49

until the roster will get good results unlike their roster for the past months

2024-03-16 15:27

1 month max

2024-03-16 15:46

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just in time for the annual post-Major rostermania that lasts until Summer)

2024-03-16 15:47

we'll see but this team is just a revolving door honestly

2024-03-16 15:48

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

1week

CAMA

huge

2024-03-16 15:23

podi top 20 inc

good line up honestly

Not bad. Sdaim hiding?

2024-03-16 15:24

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Sdaim never had his face shown in anything.

2024-03-16 15:52

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Lol why

2024-03-16 16:44

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

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

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

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

Camaaaa podii!!

nice

Danny Kruger getting CS strats from his brother Freddy

NAAH WTF IS THIS?

finally reiko left these dead polish teams

2024-03-16 15:26

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

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

2 finnish awp prodigies now under Sprout

Who

2024-03-16 15:33

Sprout academy awp millert obviously

2024-03-16 15:38

Reiko w

good for reiko, finally leaving polish scene

2024-03-16 15:28

Nivera declined?

Sick roster actually

decent lineup fr

2024-03-16 15:31

sprout actually cooking this time

2024-03-16 15:32

TORILLE

CAMAA PODIII

2024-03-16 15:34

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

POG

2024-03-16 15:43

hehe ppl really thought smooya joining sprout? xd

2024-03-16 15:44

great team

Good luck Podi!!!

reiko gonna farm also podi a good addition

2024-03-16 15:50

NiP Poddi

reiko my goat finally gets a chance

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

tier 4

2024-03-16 16:03

reiko starplayer in sprout

2024-03-16 16:04

good signings from sprout

2024-03-16 16:09

? where is smoo smoo

2024-03-16 16:20

2024-03-16 16:22

looking solid

2024-03-16 16:24

podi awp? kappa bar > sprout )))

2024-03-16 16:31

Sdaim & Podi are good players, rare Sprout W

2024-03-16 16:37

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?