Tiger joins Rare Atom

22-7-2025 12:30

The ex-DogEvil player will debut at BLAST Bounty S2.

Rare Atom have announced the signing of Junbing "⁠Tiger⁠" Zhen from DogEvil.

The 22-year-old AWPer will temporarily take the place of Aojie "⁠Trash⁠" Tian on the active roster, according to a report by csgo.5eplay.com.

Trash has thus played just four matches in the team before getting replaced. He helped Rare Atom win GangKui Cup Season 1 as the highest-rated player (1.27) before the team flew to Belgrade for FISSURE Playground 1, where they exited in last place without a map victory to their name.

Tiger, who previously fulfilled the sniper role, spent 2025 in DogEvil and averaged a 1.19 rating across his tenure, notably helping the team qualify for MESA Asian Masters 2025, where they placed 5-6th.

The new-look Rare Atom are expected to debut at BLAST Bounty S2, set to being on August 5.

Rare Atom are currently:

YuLun "⁠Summer⁠" Cai
Andrew "⁠kaze⁠" Khong
Junhao "⁠ChildKing⁠" Peng
Yihang "⁠L1haNg⁠" Li
Junbing "⁠Tiger⁠" Zhen

Zhenghui "⁠z8z⁠" Liu (coach)

Aojie "⁠Trash⁠" Tian (substitute)

TIGER

2025-07-22 12:30

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TIGER - uppercut

2025-07-22 12:57

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lol that brings me back a couple decades ago

2025-07-22 14:29

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No need for decades youtu.be/sBNCSeG391Y?si=qusKNuqkjXt-X4qP

2025-07-22 14:46

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I figured it was still popular in current gaming systems. But the last time I did a tiger uppercut was in like 1995 on a Super Nintendo lol

2025-07-22 15:23

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Pretty much same here, SF2 Turbo is what I’ve played the longest and afterwards just sporadically…

2025-07-23 20:12

sonic boom

2025-07-22 16:03

wheres kyousuke

lions, "Tigers" & bears ... oh my!!!

2025-07-22 12:31

Tiger+Childking = new era

tigerking

2025-07-22 14:04

weird move

Trash replaced by a Tiger after 4 days trials

TRASH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

sad trash

Sad Kaze, As an Awper, Tiger will replace Kaze

2025-07-22 12:52

Unexpected, I thought Kaze was the one to be replaced.

JUSTICE FOR TRASH!

2025-07-22 12:33

rip trash </3 clearly lived up to his name

2025-07-22 12:34

It's weird to see Asia have more news than NA on HLTV recently

"Rare Atom have announced the signing of Tiger from DogEvil."

2025-07-22 12:35

Tiger to replace Trash in Rare Atom

2025-07-22 12:38

Again trash move

Tiger from dogevil replaces trash

2025-07-22 12:39

Average counter strike starter nickname

2025-07-22 12:41

This guy is legit, I'm just worried about him replacing Trash instead of kaze

2025-07-22 12:44

Kaze will be off the team eventually. Most likely as soon as trash rejoins the starting roster.

2025-07-22 13:04

t1g3r king of faceit my friend <3<3<3<3

2025-07-22 12:45

JUSTICE FOR THE GOAT TRASH

2025-07-22 12:50

so kaze gonna rifle?

maybe they found out his nickname is too much of a meme

2025-07-22 12:55

Trash performed well in those games and got cut...maybe it was something outside of the game that didnt mesh. Crazy they signed an animal though

2025-07-22 13:00

He is not kicked from the team

Oh good I missed that thanks

2025-07-22 21:54

The article does say the replacement is temporary, but it doesn't give any details beyond that.

2025-07-22 14:51

@Hltv you should probably include the player being replaced in the title. A bit disrespectful if you ask me smh my head.

2025-07-22 13:05

Guys calm down your favorite player "trash" is not kicked from the team. This is only temporary. Kaze will most likely be booted off at some point and trash will rejoin the starting 5.