Into the Breach replace BOROS with REDSTAR after 41 days*

20-8-2024 18:11

The international side has opted for changes just over a month after the completion of the new lineup.

BOROS' time with Into the Breach came to an abrupt end

Update 18:09 : Into the Breach have announced that Hristiyan "⁠REDSTAR⁠" Pironkov will be the man replacing Mohammad "⁠BOROS⁠" Malhas on the active lineup.

The Bulgarian most recently plied his trade for the short-lived 5W lineup alongside Thomas "⁠Thomas⁠" Utting and Joel "⁠joel⁠" Holmlund.

REDSTAR helped 5W to a first-place finish in their debut outing in Regional Clash Arena Europe 2024 with a 1.25 average rating across the event, before the team parted ways after being abandoned by the organization.

Into the Breach have announced the benching of BOROS from their Counter-Strike roster.

In brief comments on the decision, the organization said BOROS is "still a talent, it just ain't quite working," while the Jordanian lamented that it is the "first time I am happy to be benched."

The move comes just 41 days after BOROS was announced as the last piece of Into the Breach's summer rebuild, which saw the British organization bring together Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield, former Guild Eagles duo Dionis "⁠sinnopsyy⁠" Budeci and Flatron "⁠juanflatroo⁠" Halimi, and Nicolas "⁠Keoz⁠" Dgus.

BOROS completes Into the Breach rebuild

In their short time together, a string of mixed results has left smooya's men sitting just outside the top 100 in the world ranking.

The British AWPer has been vocal about the team's lack of results, recently stating in a post-game interview that he believes the team's results and work ethic have been "completely pathetic," adding that Into the Breach would be "top 30 in no time" if "the players are willing to do the hard work."

BOROS' replacement is due to be announced at 18:00 according to the organization's post on X.

Into the Breach is now:

Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield
Dionis "⁠sinnopsyy⁠" Budeci
Flatron "⁠juanflatroo⁠" Halimi
Nicolas "⁠Keoz⁠" Dgus
Hristiyan "⁠REDSTAR⁠" Pironkov

Gustavo "⁠Juve⁠" Alexandre (coach)

Karol "⁠rallen⁠" Rodowicz (benched)
Mohammad "⁠BOROS⁠" Malhas (benched)

LMAO

2024-08-20 15:29

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ITM should sign joel this time! Would fit perfectly their talent strategy

2024-08-20 17:53

Nvm

2024-08-20 22:07

again? Lol I’m not surprised anymore

2024-08-20 15:30

bro doing speedruns at this point

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lol

Changed his mouse again or what

they really needed to emphasize the 41 days kekw

the C9 FNS phenomenon

2024-08-20 15:38

Yeah and the ITB tweet didn't even try to look sad to let him go, they're just like "yeah, bad fit.. anyway"

2024-08-20 16:24

hi mom

2024-08-20 15:31

Understandable, he does not deserve to share air with the legend smooya.

2024-08-20 15:32

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Imagine getting benched for unprofessionalism by a team with Smooya on it

2024-08-21 16:34

boros incredibly managed to be the least wanted person in a team almost entirely filled with players that would be unwanted in most serious teams

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After Joel*

2024-08-20 16:06

He is not a professional troller.

2024-08-20 16:30

in other words, a team full of rejects

2024-08-21 03:05

That bot will never make it

Dude needs to be humble, it's not like he's a superstar.

XD wtf

expected

"Lack of work ethic" could mean anything. Was some user on here that linked to a review of his games and he literally was all aim no brain. Barely threw utility on any map and comparing him to pros it was day and night difference. So I'd say work ethic relates to not willing to change his style and learn the small things needed to succeed. Having insane aim and mechanics is one thing but useless if you can't do basic TP. And I think it's a shame, he has shown what he can do

2024-08-20 15:33

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Smooya mentioned on stream that it’s been more so that he’s consistently late/not showing up to practices

2024-08-20 15:43

Yeah basically learnt nothing from falcons

2024-08-20 16:25

in my opinion , xertion and flamez way better than him and have no issues with their team

2024-08-21 19:19

are you saying they have a lack of work ethic? why else bring them up in the discussion

2024-08-22 11:47

is he an oil prince type or what? seems like a lazy and selfish person to me

IMAGINE BEING KICKED FIRST ON THE SAME TEAM AS SMOOYA holaiy hell

No one has ever said Smooya was not hard working - some just don't like his personality.

2024-08-20 15:48

The funny thing about SMOOYA, is he is actually a pretty good player

2024-08-21 15:17

Changed the mouse again?

Crazy actually ,went from a good player at Monte, to literally getting benched in every team, damn

2024-08-20 15:34

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Curious what is the reason. I would argue skill is not the problem. Maybe nationality (problems with visa or something?) or he is toxic lmao

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Heard something about just being lazy really. Shows up to pracs late, has lowest util usage and couldn't be bothered to learn util etc. Work ethic just isn't there basically.

2024-08-20 15:40

Imagine getting paid for playing video game and still being lazy ass.

2024-08-20 15:47

Even worse is that he had three chances within a year (Monte, Falcons, ITB) and still made no effort to change.

2024-08-20 15:55

dude just wants to shoot heads like scream but at least scream had the work ethic

2024-08-20 16:41

apparently he doesn't show up to pracs and is generally lazy from what I've heard

highly doubt Nationality, because his performance indeed fell off after leaving Monte. In Monte he averaged 1.16 rating In Falcons it already was going down with a 1.08 And ITB stun was the lowest 1.02.

2024-08-20 15:41

players from his neighbour country were successful and manage to won trophies and major . i dont think nationality was an issues here.

2024-08-21 19:42

Racismo

Monte CEO said that he is very childish and hard to control, Woro even said "Good luck to control him" when Boros left for Falcons

2024-08-20 15:56

He wasn't a good player though. He has good aim, that's it. His teammates in Monte even said they were glad to see him leave.

2024-08-20 15:50

Kinda,yes, but i think that Woro(i think he said it,correct if im wrong), and Monte were pretty angry at that moment, cus they had a good run at the major, everything was clicking in the team, and pretty much after the major ,he left,when they could've made some decent runs in the upcoming tournaments, so idk how to react to the info.

2024-08-20 15:51

xertion, flamez and nertz way better than him and manage to got trophy

2024-08-21 19:13

benchros

2024-08-20 15:35

smooya is a toxic crybaby which is why he has failed in every single team he's been on despite having a very high level of individual skill

2024-08-20 15:37

2024-08-20 16:50

Benchros

Get rallen or simple lmao.

Bruh 😭

must be the hardest person to work with

RIP Career

His career may be over. Getting benched by ITB is like getting benched by EG, hard to recover from this.

2024-08-20 15:42

understandable mistake, they thought they were signing cs pro when he is actually nvidia control panel pro

i exhaled very loudly and fast after reading this comment

2024-08-20 16:43

Bro just seems lazy with bad work ethic. Good that he is benched, he should not be as overpaid as these guys are (cs2 pros in general, not itb in specific) if he is not willing to put down the work.

From Falcons bench to ITB Bench LUL

hope rallen gets into roster

2024-08-20 15:44

"Star rifler"

another mouse issue? lol

the Jordanian lamented that it is the "first time I am happy to be benched." Smooya bullying is next level

smooya igling with boros is the worst possible duo i can think of

2024-08-20 15:52

Smooya is not igl it's sinnopsyy.

2024-08-20 16:03

Into the Bench

Damn, I wonder why so many teams are benching boros lmao.

2024-08-20 15:57

"first time i am happy to be benched" Teammate - smooya understandable

2024-08-20 16:02

Gz boros, you managed to survive the purgatory that is playing with smooya and juanflatroo

wdym, thats the dream

2024-08-20 21:47

I had a lot of trust in him, he clearly has immense talent he had to pick himself up and start acting like a pro… anyways welcome Boros jiejie hao

So, I guess he can make a great team paired with Joel

2024-08-20 16:07

imagine navi loaning out s1mple so he could get back in shape

2024-08-20 16:11

smooya and s1mple on the same team 💀💀💀💀💀

2024-08-20 16:13

joke

2024-08-20 16:31

can smooya just try something else ? This game isnt for him

2024-08-20 16:14

The past three teams he's been in has all said the same thing about him now and two of those teams benched him for it. "First time i'm happy to be benched" perfect statement to indicate that he's not willing to change or do better.

2024-08-20 16:15

Dude's a bench collector at this point

2024-08-20 20:26

I would be happy too with being benched if I was in the same team as smooya

2024-08-20 20:42

True actually. Smooya has been benched a lot himself despite putting up decent numbers…

2024-08-20 20:54

They look 3x better with rallen, not surprising

2024-08-20 16:26

Smooya, bro been playing this game for half a decade and accomplished absolutely NOTHING. It's time to hang up the mouse and go back to farming sheep in UK.

Pathetic statement from ITB. We need a video of the whole team publicly admonishing him.

2024-08-20 16:28

I had some questions concerning this team, especially about the single individuals. But this feels just like a mix of shambles.

Mouse issue

2024-08-20 16:34

Lidl is always hireing.

2024-08-20 16:37

Mild shock

Boros has never been good. He's a braindead player who belongs in premier pugs. Hopefully we never see or hear from him again. Just a disgusting player to watch

2024-08-20 16:49

"In brief comments on the decision, the organization said BOROS is "still a talent, it just ain't quite working," while the Jordanian lamented that it is the "first time I am happy to be benched." seems like the inside mental of the team also isn't great. Who would have thought.

hes a lazy mf

2024-08-20 16:56

rallen still benched xd

2024-08-20 17:00

ITB has to stop being so weird in twitter. I get that this makes their public relations more personal with their fans, but the way the handled BOROS' benching with all these little smirking remarks like that he was "just at the dentist" and that "[he's] still a talent, it just ain't working" (without properly saying goodbye and thank you for him) is borderline disrespectful, no wonder BOROS took to twitter to say this is the first time he's happy to be benched.

2024-08-20 17:11

According to several independent sources across 3 different organizations, the way Boros works as a part of a team is straight up disrespectful to his colleauges and employers.

2024-08-20 18:43

Yeah after being around for a while there was plenty of time to understand that he can't act like that. Imagine u just don't show up to work that u get paid for an overproportional amount compared to "normal" jobs. No hate but he had his chances so hopefully there won't be anymore teams ruining themselves by depending on such an unstable character

2024-08-20 21:03

It says thank you on the picture.

2024-08-20 19:38

Rallen is back

2024-08-20 17:20

good move BOROS need to go back to tier4

2024-08-20 17:22

lmao

2024-08-20 17:42

Vitality won cologne while BOROS getting benched. This is a great week so far!

I see what you did there, and I like it.

2024-08-20 17:49

Hava Nagila

2024-08-20 18:38

its time. bring in s1mple

2024-08-20 17:54

Sorry for my boi, but if many fingers point at you, there must be a problem.

2024-08-20 17:59

hltv cba to make another article for the replacement lol. i mean id do that too.

2024-08-20 18:15

REDSTAR's profile is too low to warrant an article of his own.

2024-08-20 18:19

This downfall of BOROS needs to be studied. How can a star rifler dipped so low after 2 years?

2024-08-20 18:16

Too much bullshit events around him. To recover from that or not being impacted by it requires steel mentality. He's young so the outcome is pretty understandable

2024-08-20 18:21

What happend then? Because I havn't heard about thoese events.

2024-08-20 18:44

Got removed from Monte - teammates said "good luck" to whoever picks him up and said he was lazy af Got kicked from Falcons (with added big drama) for being childish and lazy af Got kicked from ITB for being lazy af

2024-08-21 13:12

But this doesn't sound like @Zwenix "Bullshit events" LMAO

2024-08-21 13:15

Rallen jailed.

I really don't know why BOROS and Smooya can't make a formidable duo ReAlLy DoNt KnOw

2024-08-20 18:24

disappointing

2024-08-20 18:31

are they gonna change players every 10 minutes ?

2024-08-20 18:39

all these comments blaming smooya when there is clearly something wrong with boros LOL

can somebody explain me how tf 21 year old faceit player with no pro scene experience is a coach of such a team?

good coach no need to be a good player, it is two different things

2024-08-20 18:56

I remember when Thomas said he had personal problems with Juve as he clearly wanted him out of the squad, which Thomas led to Major quarterfinal, and he stated that Juve's unprofessional behaviour led to even not speaking to him or being rude in many ways rather than straight-up tell he is no longer in future plans of the team. Thomas seems to be truthful and I really like this guy so thats why I'm wondering how this kid can be a coach of such a team. Maybe he is tactical genius or maybe he is just too young or too unexperienced on a pro scene. I think its rather 2nd option

2024-08-22 10:09

Smooooooooya should just join flyquest at this point

2024-08-20 18:52

Would be sick ngl

2024-08-20 19:10

No ty

Why would you ruin a decent t2 team

2024-08-20 20:13

smooya needs to prove he can grow a bigger mustache than alistair

2024-08-21 10:29

Boros not beating the lazy allegations

2024-08-20 19:06

His career started and ended with Monte

Getting a lot of use from that photo huh

2024-08-20 19:18

Funny how the thank u picture really looks like it was made to get it over with because it's like a standard and if u don't do that u kinda start potential drama Like the bare minimum since he was a douche

2024-08-20 21:08

Into The Mid

2024-08-20 19:24

so Falcons kick him, ITB kick him. safe to say he is the problem?

2024-08-20 20:45

Welcome to 322 and radarhack

2024-08-20 21:34

That's world record.

2024-08-20 21:57

Leeeeeeeets freakiiiiiing GOooOOOOOoOOOOOOOOO

2024-08-20 22:00

same issue as in falcons. boros isnt profesionnal, grow up kid !

2024-08-20 22:42

Ay my boy redstar, just won a game with him.

2024-08-21 00:57

Boros trying to beat maikelele's record

2024-08-21 02:19

Imagine getting kicked before the 2 from a fake country.

2024-08-21 04:16

Is there still regional beef over Kosovo? That was such a long time ago...

2024-08-21 05:06

BOROS should just go to university or something while he is still young. Clearly this CS thing is not working out.

2024-08-21 05:03

Even smooya wasn't that stupid

2024-08-21 07:11

WHY NOT RALLEN? COME ON, FREE MY BOY

2024-08-21 09:40

boros join issaa team

2024-08-21 19:54

REDSTAR is a G. dude should have been on a t1 team a long time ago.

2024-08-23 03:19

Where did all the Jordan users go after hearing how much of a loser BOROS is in every team he' played in. Same goes with the people from Switzerland not wanting to talk about Maniac's sexual assault charges

2024-09-12 06:56