dgt's 9z stint ends after five years

"For some time I felt that we weren't going down the same path and that I needed some fresh air and a change," dgt said of his departure from his long-time home.

In his five years with 9z, dgt helped the organization grow into a regular competitor on the tier-one scene

9z and Franco "⁠dgt⁠" Garcia have decided to part ways, the organization announced on Wednesday.

The Uruguayan star left the organization after a whopping five and a half years, during which 9z went from a little-known team to one regularly competing at some of the biggest events in the past two years.

The team first began to make waves with consecutive Major appearances in Antwerp and Rio in 2022. After getting more experience under their belt in 2023, in 2024 they hit their best result with a run to the semi-finals at IEM Dallas, followed by a win at the FiReLEAGUE Global Final.

The organization left the move largely unexplained in its statement. "Following several conversations with the team and the rest of the organization, we have decided to part ways from now on," a translation of 9z's X announcement reads.

"We regret that you feel a lack of information in our communication. It is subject to many factors: the desire of the players, the regulations of the tournaments, the legal agreements in force, etc."

dgt himself took to X to offer some insight and to thank his long-time organization. "Personally, for some time it felt that we weren't going down the same path and that I needed some fresh air and a change," he said.

9z have yet to announce the replacement for dgt. In their last match in the ACE South American Masters Spring closed qualifier, the team utilized the services of coach Gustavo "⁠yel⁠" Knittel in place of the Uruguayan.

9z have the following roster:

Uruguay Maximiliano "⁠max⁠" Gonzalez
Argentina Luca "⁠Luken⁠" Nadotti
Spain Antonio "⁠MartinezSa⁠" Martinez
Chile Matias "⁠HUASOPEEK⁠" Ibañez Hernandez

Brazil Gustavo "⁠yel⁠" Knittel (coach)

Argentina Nicolás "⁠buda⁠" Kramer (benched)
Brazil Gustavo "⁠tge⁠" Motta (benched)
Uruguay Franco "⁠dgt⁠" Garcia (benched)

Brazil Gustavo 'yel' Knittel
Gustavo 'yel' Knittel
Age:
32
Team:
Uruguay Franco 'dgt' Garcia
Franco 'dgt' Garcia
Age:
23
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.12
Maps played:
839
KPR:
0.74
DPR:
0.61
Chile Matias 'HUASOPEEK' Ibañez Hernandez
Matias 'HUASOPEEK' Ibañez Hernandez
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.99
Maps played:
280
KPR:
0.66
DPR:
0.67
Spain Antonio 'MartinezSa' Martinez
Antonio 'MartinezSa' Martinez
Age:
24
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.10
Maps played:
467
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.60
Argentina Luca 'Luken' Nadotti
Luca 'Luken' Nadotti
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.11
Maps played:
352
KPR:
0.75
DPR:
0.64
Brazil Gustavo 'tge' Motta
Gustavo 'tge' Motta
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.97
Maps played:
125
KPR:
0.67
DPR:
0.68
Uruguay Maximiliano 'max' Gonzalez
Maximiliano 'max' Gonzalez
Age:
25
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.99
Maps played:
985
KPR:
0.67
DPR:
0.66
Argentina Nicolás 'buda' Kramer
Nicolás 'buda' Kramer
Age:
21
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.90
Maps played:
454
KPR:
0.59
DPR:
0.66
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2025-02-12 22:18
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welcome to furia
2025-02-12 22:35
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#75
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Europe chespiZ
he deserve a better team and luken is sh&t compared to him
2025-02-13 04:04
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agree w/ both of y'all
2025-02-13 17:42
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#2
meow | 
North America TyIer
rip
2025-02-12 22:18
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#4
dgt | 
Argentina tadeuz
today is a sad day
2025-02-12 22:19
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#5
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Brazil kafeNNN
welcome to furia manito
2025-02-12 22:19
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#71
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Brazil Ricardogwz
FURIA 100%
2025-02-13 02:46
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#6
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Europe Jezynt
Tomaszin pls?
2025-02-12 22:19
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#13
Faceit level 10  | 
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Europe PipyLonTeZ
Needed fr
2025-02-12 22:22
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#18
Faceit level 9  | 
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United States OrganHarvester
buyout has to be insane
2025-02-12 22:30
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#20
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Chile BugsonAcid
It's the only good option
2025-02-12 22:31
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$700k buyout
2025-02-12 22:37
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#32
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Europe Jezynt
100k more than m0nesy is crazy
2025-02-12 23:00
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1 reply
Average Brazil buyout
2025-02-12 23:14
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#34
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Brazil joroca
dollars or pesos?
2025-02-12 23:02
9
my child, m0nesy buyout is not 700k..
2025-02-12 23:57
0
5 replies
G2 got monesy from NaVi for 600k
2025-02-13 00:01
9
3 replies
yeah, 300 years ago, when he was just a rookie with potential you genius....today he's a fucking top 2 of 24' player and a solidifed super star with crazy presence, output and clutch capability.... if people were going to use your logic, dgt's buyout would be 1k which is what 9z payed for him to malvinas gaming back in 19'
2025-02-13 00:07
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#80
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Brazil rinma
nobody said monesy's current buyout is 700K. also, his current buyout is probably irrelevant at this point. absolutely no one is paying this amount out in EU nowadays, ie s1mple. yet, South America lives in a bubble. end of thread. next.
2025-02-13 06:47
5
who tf are u arguing with bro? go touch some grass, the darkness of your room got you too angry
2025-02-13 08:04
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#59
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Europe Jezynt
It was when he was last bought by a team, now way tomaszin costs more than the biggest awp prospect since sh1ro joined gambit
2025-02-13 00:11
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#67
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Argentina LuisG
no please. don't downgrade
2025-02-13 02:26
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#7
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Egypt BomberMan_
sell Martinez to a good Brazilian team they are desperate for awpers.
2025-02-12 22:19
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#28
Faceit plus user Faceit level 10  | 
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Spain paggnut
marti is barelly hanging in 9z since he wants to be in spain
2025-02-12 22:46
9
Martinez come save movistar riders 9z put together SA super team with try and tomazin
2025-02-13 10:26
0
rip 9z
2025-02-12 22:20
2
So fucked up, both Dgt and Max deserved way better
2025-02-12 22:20
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welcome tomaszin!
2025-02-12 22:21
3
Sad wtf
2025-02-12 22:21
1
rip 9z, no analyst, no psychologist, no manager, t2 coach, resorting to signing streamer for player just sad
2025-02-12 22:25
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Infocsarg was the first on posted it a few days ago.
2025-02-12 22:23
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#15
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United States ddown
Tomaszin!!!!!!!!
2025-02-12 22:24
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#17
aNdu | 
Estonia omanik
-chelo +dgt inc?
2025-02-12 22:29
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4 replies
andre akkari should have called 9z already to start conversations.... -chelo is a thing furia has been needing for ages already, and when a player of dgt's caliber enter the market, you just gotta take the shot; ain't no way he performs worse than chelo.
2025-02-13 00:02
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2 replies
Fallen and chelo are like boyfriends. Fallen praises him 24/7 while not saying a word about word class players on his team - yuurih and kscerato
2025-02-13 07:32
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1 reply
you are right on the first paragraph, the only reason chelo is there is because fallen told furia to sign chelo when they signed fallen; but yuriih hasn't been world class in a while though, that's another player furia needs to change for someone more consistent; i still feel like the right move back in 24' was -yuriih and -chelo instead of -art
2025-02-13 16:27
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furia has kcerato and skullz. 2 passive players, why would they buy another passive player? -chelo should be the move, but they need an agressive player to fill that void
2025-02-13 12:45
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RIP
2025-02-12 22:35
0
just disband
2025-02-12 22:36
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paiN: -kauez +dgt
2025-02-12 22:38
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#26
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Argentina Vech1
Unfortunately little people have read how the CEO himself has behaved with local sources, he should be the one submitting an apology. Things aside, I don't see how 9z could replace dgt anytime soon. Maybe the main objective should be the signing of Tomaszin...
2025-02-12 22:41
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9z is finished, one less relevant south american team
2025-02-12 22:45
0
9z is done but im happy for dgt hopefully he finds an actual good team
2025-02-12 22:47
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WELCOME TO FURIA <3
2025-02-12 22:50
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#31
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Argentina WaSTe_D
Crazy to believe both try and dgt decided to leave on their own
2025-02-12 22:58
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#36
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Spain david98322
+ADAMS???
2025-02-12 23:04
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#37
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Lithuania K0RNe
3 benched players lol, soon the will have more benched than active
2025-02-12 23:05
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#40
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Chile 25thBaam
dgt to paiN to replace kauez would be HUGE, MAKE IT HAPPEN paiN. GOOD LUCK GOAT, U DESERVE BETTER. I'LL BE CHEERING FOR YOU!!
2025-02-12 23:16
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#41
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Argentina Wackgamer
dgt was such a good player in 9z, he made a great effort for 5 years, supporting the team in the good and bad ones, but everything is not forever, it has an ending, and this is what happened today. Good luck for dgt on his career, I will support him, no matter on which team he will be playing in...
2025-02-12 23:16
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#42
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Brazil setsz
welcome to furia dgt
2025-02-12 23:18
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Welcome to Furia manito
2025-02-12 23:21
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#44
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Uruguay BaDiee
THE GOAT.
2025-02-12 23:22
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terrible for 9z but i guess it's deserved, you can't take that much time to make a change to be competitive in T1 and players want to succced. The best to dgt, i hope he goes to Furia or Pain.
2025-02-12 23:30
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#49
donk | 
Argentina Aleeee
They are still stucked in iem dallas 2024. Frankkaster was conpletely blind after that "success". Now you pay the consequences...
2025-02-12 23:44
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oh wtff gl goat
2025-02-12 23:35
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#48
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Cuba Dyabolic
Well, the disband is eminent right? After the last few losses they’ve had… Wouldn’t surprise me.
2025-02-12 23:43
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#50
donk | 
Argentina Aleeee
They will go on, at least for now, they have a huge fanbase and a lot of money behind them. But considering how things went out lately and how valve is destroying tier 2 scene, it wouldn't surprise me they consider exiting cs, sadly...
2025-02-12 23:50
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#92
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Cuba Dyabolic
Well, it wasn’t too long ago when they were competing in T1… But yea, you’re right and pretty sad to see.
2025-02-13 13:36
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#51
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
dgt | 
Uruguay XEMBAO
finally dgt will play in a better team
2025-02-12 23:53
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#53
SPUNJ | 
Bolivia AAK1
thank you @Striker for covering SA scene also :)
2025-02-12 23:57
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#54
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Brazil MrLucas
Pain -kauez? Mibr -exit? Furia -Yuurih/skullz? (No way he fits in chelo's roles) There is no way brazilian teams will miss this opportunity and he ends up on a random tier 2/3 EU org, right?
2025-02-12 23:59
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#60
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Paraguay LifeHater
Finally he left this sinking ship
2025-02-13 00:17
0
-stint -5 years
2025-02-13 00:29
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#62
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Brazil Heineck
F 9z
2025-02-13 01:40
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#63
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Brazil lilpeepBigCityBlues
why are people saying FURIA? surely FURIA wont kick chelo to add dgt while needing a competent awper, right?
2025-02-13 01:41
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#68
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Argentina LuisG
anything is better than chelo
2025-02-13 02:26
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as bad as Fallen is, he's both awp and igl, not the best at any, but decent at both, t1 material awpers are already key pieces in their teams and unlikely to leave, like try, nqz, saadzin
2025-02-13 03:41
0
+tomaszin or +righi
2025-02-13 01:56
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#69
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Argentina LuisG
the only good thing remaining in 9z is out.. they're officially dead. thanks for the hype last dallas!
2025-02-13 02:27
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#70
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
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Argentina ivanpb
-frozen +dgt
2025-02-13 02:35
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wow, well 5 years was a really long time, bestg of luck for dgt
2025-02-13 03:48
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#77
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Sweden Mr_Vista
bro couldnt handle another match with huasopeek
2025-02-13 04:42
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#78
Faceit level 10  | 
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Cayman Islands LasMedicinas
Good luck dgt, great player.
2025-02-13 04:45
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#82
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Canada Nettspend
They should sign luchazin
2025-02-13 07:55
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Who cars
2025-02-13 08:06
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#85
Old school: User been here for more than 10 years  | 
Sweden skorpan
When they finally remove the problem (buda) and adding a great player (luken), then this happens??? Losing their best player. This is like when Red Canids lost dav1deus
2025-02-13 09:16
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#86
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Greece her-1g
complexity are you here?????
2025-02-13 09:20
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#87
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Korea syjeon
well 9z is now fucked, GGs
2025-02-13 10:01
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#89
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Brazil bacuri_fps
Welcome to Brazil dgt. Hope you be successful here
2025-02-13 11:37
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Sad, he was a crucial part of 9z, wish him the best
2025-02-13 11:39
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dgt ---> furia
2025-02-13 14:37
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#95
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Uruguay iNVE14
god player, sad to see the uruguayan duo parting ways
2025-02-13 16:50
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#97
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Uruguay ShubertoN
Finally dgt will stop wasting his talent with 9z lol
2025-02-13 17:48
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#99
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Estonia Kizma
"stint"
2025-02-14 12:35
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