br0 replaces Brehze in NRG

13-1-2025 19:08

The North American team has expanded its horizons by signing a Danish player.

br0 will continue his career in North America with NRG

NRG has announced the signing of Alexander "⁠br0⁠" Bro, who has been on the sidelines since September 2024 when he was controversially benched in Astralis to make place for Casper "⁠cadiaN⁠" Møller ahead of the BLAST Fall Final.

Astralis got cadiaN in for the Fall Final on an emergency sub. Was it against the rules?

br0 returned to the Danish team's starting five when Nicolai "⁠device⁠" Reedtz was put on the injured list ahead of the PGL Shanghai Major, but did not continue after the tournament in China and became a free agent heading into 2025.

He is now becoming the first non-North American player in the NRG squad led by Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella.

The 22-year-old takes the place of Vincent "⁠Brehze⁠" Cayonte, HLTV has confirmed, who was a part of the NRG squad in 2017-2019 that reached the StarLadder Major Berlin's semi-finals and was transferred to Evil Geniuses.

The 26-year-old returned to NRG in November 2023, but the team has struggled since then, finishing last in the PGL Copenhagen Major RMR and falling even earlier in the Shanghai Major´s cycle, losing in the RMR´s closed qualifier.

NRG is now:

Nick "⁠nitr0⁠" Cannella
Josh "⁠oSee⁠" Ohm
Jadan "⁠HexT⁠" Postma
Jeorge "⁠Jeorge⁠" Endicott
Alexander "⁠br0⁠" Bro

Damian "⁠daps⁠" Steele (coach)

WTF

2025-01-13 19:08

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Never expect this

2025-01-13 19:09

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Terrible move. Brehze was playing pretty well in horrible positions

2025-01-13 19:43

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He was fine but a player like br0 against tier 4 American bums makes this team a ct side nightmare in this level

2025-01-13 20:01

i mean, if you are a player with the history of brehze I'd hope youd be doing a little bit more than "pretty well" vs ECL teams

2025-01-13 20:53

where does ropz look like he's from?

2025-01-14 11:16

Brehze getting picked up by faze

2025-01-15 09:09

ONEST

Interesting

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rip bro

2025-01-13 21:26

WHAT?

brovid in america wtf

Excuse me wtf

WTFFFFFFFFFF

Lmaooo wtf

NRG HAS BEEN INFECTED WITH BR0VID-19

ait bro

I mean go get that bag, but his career is most likely finished rn

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You say it like he ever had a career LMFAO

2025-01-13 19:29

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esportsearnings.com/players/51600-br0-al..

2025-01-13 19:47

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All Im saying is that his stints in Monte and Astralis don't rly count cause both were disfunctional mess of a teams

2025-01-13 19:49

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If you are a professional is basically decided if you can live of it or not. He made 170k in a few years, and you say it doesn’t count as a career?

2025-01-13 19:51

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Nope in tier1 what he has earned is just a penny

2025-01-13 19:52

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So outside tier 1 isn’t a career?

2025-01-13 19:54

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Ok who the fuck remembers whats outside tier1? Unless its a dramagenic scene you won't remember shite about anything outside tier1 maybe except, yeah EspiranTo was a hot prospect until IGL nexa decided to pop off in CR4ZY's Major campaign to catch an eye of G2 Esports and since then the Lithuanian rifler fell off so hard he had to go to the military

2025-01-13 19:57

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bro what are you even saying XDDD this is so cringe I can't

2025-01-13 20:02

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Im just saying the truth nobody's gonna remember what you been doin in tier2 its like you fought for a IBO title in boxing yeah its there but nobody's gonna recognize you as an elite this is exactly what tier2 is, you may win there a lot but nobody is gonna be saying "Look this team is elite" unless you're really fuckin cracked like EspiranTo was in 2019

2025-01-13 20:04

bro there is like 50 pros in tier1 in cs and there are literally MILIONS of players, if you really think that getting to tier2/borderline tier1 isn't an achievement (or as u call it: "having no career") then there is something wrong with u

2025-01-13 20:07

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Im not saying it is not an achievement but in the grand scheme of things ain't nobody remembering you. Do you remember what was siuhy's GamerLegion doing before Rio and Paris Majors?

2025-01-13 20:15

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Siuhy's GL was literally formed during the Rio major qualifiers

2025-01-13 21:06

I actually forgot about that detail

2025-01-13 21:20

bruh your career isn't determined by if you're remembered. It's determined by if its your job

2025-01-13 21:24

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In sports and esports its about legacy, by being a lower tier bum you get no legacy

2025-01-13 21:44

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if you have no legacy but it was your job for 5 years its still a career

Your job is also about legacy. No one will remember you cleaning toilets. :)

2025-01-14 01:30

I never once cleaned toilet for money, try again.

2025-01-14 01:34

you do it for free? xaxaxaxa

2025-01-15 06:08

So wait you don't clean your own toilet? It must smell like shit in your flat. I thought Europeans can clean smth but no y'all are filthy animals

2025-01-15 10:22

nt i call my polish toilet cleaner you do it for free though? Can i call you instead? xaxaxxaxa

2025-01-16 02:23

You're paying for toilet cleaners? Dude Europeans love to waste their money

2025-01-16 02:25

don't even bother trying to teach this dude, he is delusional, which is sadly kinda common in Poland nowadays

2025-01-13 19:58

Hehe okey, I’ll stop :D have a good one bro

2025-01-13 19:59

LMAOO thats less than if he worked a job in denmark with the average salary..... yeah so great, wasted his best years in which he couldve been studying at a university and living life, instead he spent them playing a computer game, making less money than working... now his carrer is ending and NO ONE will remember him in a couple of months/years. he will have to find a another living with no degree and no job experience, we will probably see him working in a supermarket. You guys here are so delulu.

2025-01-14 03:51

Getting paid and move to NA is a life experience he never will forget. Opens for green card maybe. Endless of opotirnires and doors will open for those who are open to it. Not that bad move. Studying in California was my best year in my 20s, might be same for bro

2025-01-14 12:28

1. 7 mill Danish krona is really not that much in Scandinavian countries.

2025-01-14 05:50

If your 40 it’s not, but if your 20 it’s pretty good in 2 years. You think ppl have 32k/month after graduation? ;)

2025-01-14 12:07

No but normal people with a graduation have a lifelong stable income because they have a skill. A CS career is max 8-10 years. It's two completely different things

2025-01-14 12:09

It’s not that he can’t use what he learns now in other line of work. It’s all good experience I promise you

2025-01-14 12:29

Most actually don't have a job. You can gain skills without university. University isn't meant for your average jobs.

2025-01-15 20:14

Some of you say the first thing that pops into your head not to admit being wrong. With Monte, they reached top 6 in HLTV. How is that "dysfunctional mess"? He left because Astralis signed him, not because Monte was trash. And he had a honeymoon face with Astralis improving the previous iteration. He was only replaced when Device IGL run out of steam and they required 1. Not good but far from a "disfunctional mess". And he played great at shangai RMR up until the elimination match. br0 is a pretty decent support player.

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potentially best danish support player now, but I can't think of many rn, maybe magisk but I wouldn't really count him. edit: sjuush prolly better rn, but sadly no team (I heard somewhere that he is going to nip)

I don't think Sjuush is better than br0 right now. We know Sjuush can be better.

2025-01-13 20:27

Im not saying br0 is bad, Im saying he didn't have much of a career for us to say "His career is over" I trust STYKO when he says yeah Monte when he joined was fuckin dysfunctional and I believe thats why sdy left the team, I mean I would've hated playing with fckin kRaSnaL who's a serial yapper, good entry and anchor but a big yapper and a crazy mofo who will peek and die cause he felt like it. As for Astralis, 2 tournaments and everything after that was a mess there was NOTHING in Astralis. br0 never got a real chance, he didn't but I think he should've

br0 didn't play with styko so why are you bringing him up? lmao. Styko's Monte was mostly Polish Monte with Dycha and Hades. He didn't play with br0/sdy and barely played with Woro when they were thinking about disbanding (And Woro was allegedly signed by another team). But that Monte that reached top 6 wasn't dysfunctional at all, otherwise they wouldn't have been top 6 with that roster. Again, you can say "I'm wrong" it doesn't hurt. Or just stay quiet when you fucked up.

2025-01-13 20:18

Oh bro STYKO played in the Woro2k and hadji Monte and he was talking about that team being disfunctional so obviously if the core he was playing with was disfunctional when he joined imagine what was going on when br0 was still onboard? Although the PL Flag Monte had its own host of issues most of them being hades related. Once more never have I said br0 is a bad player its that he never got a real shot and them getting to 6th place with that same disfunctional core is a testament to how weak everyone else was and as soon as everyone got used to CS2, look Monte fell out of relevancy. If you look thourghly you'd also be saying that br0 never got a fair shot at a true tier1 team cause I would not count Astralis as that a real tier1 team cause they missed not just this Major in Shanghai they missed on the CPH one too, if Astralis was not a prestigous brand in CS then they'd have to play freakin CCT

2025-01-13 21:17

Yeah, you're just dumb lmao. Sdy left because his contract ended and he was playing great. He felt he would find a "top team" (His words). That's it. He didn't leave because Monte was disfuntional or any moronic reasoning you're putting in your head. Br0 left because he was signed by Astralis. Both of them happened in February. Styko joined in May There's no way you can be as stupid as to think you can transfer x situation to another different scenario just because both were under the same logo. And even so. As much as you want to push it, Styko's words were for the team he played half a year with, not for the one he stayed with 1 month with another stand-in and had 1 player already planning to leave to another one. Just admit you're wrong and you were speaking out of your ass because you didn't remember in what Monte br0 played. The term "dysfunctional" is used to state something doesn't work. If a team overperforms for a significant period (in Monte's case long) what people expected from them, there's no way or shape you can call them "dysfunctional".

2025-01-13 21:51

It does not count, period being that Monte with Woro and kRaSnaL was worse than being in NIP. And if your time on NIP doesn't count then his time on Monte can't be counted as a fair shot either. Period, end of discussion

2025-01-13 21:57

"S1mple in Navi stint was in a dysfunctional mess because after war started, Russians had to leave Ukrainian org and he didn't adapt to the international team. What? Navi won the major and was the best team for over a year? Doesn't count" That's how stupid you've sounded all this time. And at this point, you're well aware of it. br0 in Monte was never in a dysfunctional mess. And results prove it. Monte's problems started after his stint and it's normal because they were never a big org that could keep that success after losing pieces. That's factual, not your imagination.

2025-01-13 22:15

Woro and kRaSnaL being a fucked up individuals is my imagination? Damn never knew that, taught me smth new today

2025-01-13 22:22

surprisingly danes coming to NA usually revives their careers

2025-01-13 20:29

Usually it goes good, unless your name is anj xD

2025-01-14 06:44

alright?

2025-01-13 19:10

WHAT.

Oh hell yes br0ther

I don’t see any world where hes better than floppy but they definitely needed an anchor so solid pick up

anything is better than floppy tho?

2025-01-13 19:17

Yeah this guy is tweaking. br0 is a lot better than Floppy.

2025-01-13 19:20

floppy is taking a break for competitive cs

2025-01-13 19:19

brother are u smoking crack

br0 is far better than floppy

2025-01-13 19:30

Bro is x2 floppy for sure

2025-01-13 21:40

My grandma's a better CS player than floppy

2025-01-13 22:03

NA got a new bro! lets go man holy smokes this is awesome! FIT. TO. PLAY.

2025-01-13 19:11

W signing

Interesting change Didnt know brehze was washed :(

2025-01-13 19:12

i know its sad, watching brehze getting benched is like watching your favorite pet being put down

dude was top 3 with the krieg ever since that thing got nerfed he fell off

2025-01-13 23:53

washed since 2020

2025-01-13 20:34

Most random signing ever?

finally, a signing more random than bondik going to tyloo in 2018

2025-01-13 19:13

Fejz and truth As well as Xgod and mou to one three

2025-01-13 20:26

Enjoy retirement home br0

Rip Bros career :(

like staying in Astralis would have been better ? NRG is more competitive in long-term and more upside than Astralis

2025-01-14 11:18

I mean he probably had other options besides Astralis and NRG, I'm glad br0 is out of Astralis and he got a new home, but I think he can do better for choosing NRG

2025-01-14 15:56

my br0 has been saved!

This came out of nowhere

Wtf an NA org other than m80 actually doing a good move

2025-01-13 19:14

NA roster moves been kinda fire lately

Brehze >>>>>> Bro

Get off the crack

2025-01-13 19:42

You have to stop with this mentality that any European rubbish is better than the players we have here in NA

2025-01-13 19:50

The results speak for themselves

2025-01-15 20:21

Last 6 months: Brehze .70 vs top 20, .81 vs top 30 Bro: .94, .94

2025-01-13 22:16

brehze was doing good in NRG, wasn't deserved

bruh

2025-01-13 19:15

always a good move to remove a NA player for a European

what😂

2025-01-13 19:18

NRG kinda cooking with this roster

first of all wtf and second of all brehze was good ??!!

fym he was good??? was the last time you watched him in 2020 or what

2025-01-13 19:27

he wasnt playing bad ?

i mightve made a smol mistake

2025-01-13 19:31

NA IS SO BACK

2025-01-13 19:22

holy unexpected

good for NRG I guess not really for br0 though/

I remember when brehze was good

2025-01-13 19:28

Huh?

most random signing so far

actually good signing for na standards

A dane in NA team? yo what

2025-01-13 19:33

unexpected but highly needed

2025-01-13 19:35

actually so unexpected but lets fucking go br0 :D

2025-01-13 19:40

RIP CAREER BOZO WHY

NRG are cooking

Did not see this move coming. Big W for NRG, wow. That roster doesn't look terrible at all on paper.

this could work out for NRG

2025-01-13 19:55

-osee +hallzerk

na bro slump

Nitr0 and oSee are decent players. Br0 has his moments. Could be a decent team

ngl its a pretty good move from nrg

2025-01-13 19:56

Wow NRG made a positive roster move. -oSee and they could be cooking

Nice move, sad to see Brehze fall down from a top20 player to this

likely getting prepped for more international events now that they qualified for pro league. Although getting rid of your highest rated player confuses me. Perhaps he was unwilling to travel.

2025-01-13 20:05

The first thing I saw about this was a tweet from nrg that was again bye to their old player to make the room for br0, I said nahhhh it's gotta be a different br0, no shot it's THE br0. I'm so confused , this was outta left field lol

Damn this is huge for the boys. I wonder if this is enough to make them become good

2025-01-13 20:09

Such a dumb move, just as they were building consistency they make a change. STOP MAKING CHANGES IDIOTS

2025-01-13 20:14

This is solid I can’t even lie. Excited to see what they can do.

Brehze still play?!

2025-01-13 20:30

hes only 26 and for sure better than hext

Good luck - seems like a good swap

Fantastic signing. They needed more supportive elements and maybe he’ll bring some EU thinking into this squad

2025-01-13 20:36

isnt bro too good for such a low tier team?

2025-01-13 20:41

This is so random but its hype seeing NRG try anything.

2025-01-13 20:42

Bro joined nrg 💀

2025-01-13 20:49

Upgrade or downgrade, serious question

2025-01-13 20:57

Downgrade, col,nouns or astronauts could benefit from brehzee

2025-01-13 21:00

this must be a joke tbh

2025-01-13 21:01

Massive downgrade for br0

2025-01-13 21:03

That’s big bro

2025-01-13 21:13

br0 shoulda join Complexity

2025-01-13 21:15

way too late on this. swear to god i've never even seen brehze win a pug. whenever my faceit 10 friends post a screenshot of them beating a stack of pros brehze is in it

2025-01-13 21:18

tier 70000 gg

finished

Add Yekindar and they’ll be cooking

They mistook bro for jks I think

2025-01-13 21:43

GL BRO <3

2025-01-13 21:59

br0 ended up in NA trying to find a team that wont do him dirty

2025-01-13 22:19

i have bondilk to tyloo 2018 singing vibes

2025-01-13 22:46

shame, Brehze was still capable of quite a bit when he put his mind to it

2025-01-13 23:43

wtf? Brehze was just starting to play better?

2025-01-14 00:33

Cooking?

2025-01-14 00:45

Very random move

2025-01-14 00:49

hold up they might be cooking

2025-01-14 00:54

COOK

2025-01-14 00:55

Next move is -oSee +CeRq?

2025-01-14 06:08

Not a good fit. Br0 is a talented Support/X factor. Playing him like star is only going to detrimental to him and the team.

2025-01-14 08:23

so their roles are Nitro / IGL BRO / support osee / awp hext / Entry Jeorge / Star rifler Imo they need more firepower to achieve anything but it is definitely an upgrade. Since CS2 brehze wasnt in his normal standards

2025-01-14 09:30

Christ... Brehze gone from being one of the best players in the world to being replaced by br0.. His dropoff needs to be studied.

2025-01-14 12:31

#8 HLTV 2019 btw

2025-01-14 12:38

Bigger drop off than markeloff

2025-01-14 13:59

It's not Brehze , it's NA cs as a whole.

2025-01-14 16:17

i guess?

2025-01-14 15:41

wth?? I mean, i wouldn't mind NRG being the next big NA roster but br0 is getting shafted ... I guess earn money while you can and try to get NRG to be relevant or try to do well and get back to a Tier 1 team

2025-01-14 16:34

brehze aug/krieg era hero downfall for abusing noobs weapons, deserved

2025-01-14 16:40

Dont tell me they dont have one promising NA talent to try out for few bucks in hope of improvement? br0 is average at best, yes... vs tier 4 he might do well, but overall it is waste of spot for someone from NA.

2025-01-14 16:41