prosus returns to BIG's main roster, ScrunK out after a month

22-8-2025 16:27

The German squad undergoes a series of changes after a slow start into the new season.

prosus returns to BIG's main team a year after being benched

BIG have announced several changes in their main and academy rosters: Can "⁠kyuubii⁠" Ali and David "⁠prosus⁠" Hesse have traded places, while Sebastian "⁠xenn⁠" Hoch has been reinstated as the main team's head coach in place of Robin "⁠ScrunK⁠" Röpke.

The coaching staff changes also see BIG Academy's in-game leader, Lukas "⁠FreeZe⁠" Hegmann, become assistant coach to xenn in the main roster.

The changes are the latest in a series of musical chair moves in BIG. ScrunK was brought on in July to lead the restructuring of the coaching staff, only to leave a month later following a mutual agreement that "it wasn't a good fit for both sides."

It seems to be a sharp turn from late last month, when the 30-year-old was positive about the future despite the team's early exit from IEM Cologne. "I'm a pretty optimistic guy, so I'd say hopefully in a few months you will see a different side of BIG when we get to work with every individual in this team," he told HLTV.

ScrunK: "Hopefully in a few months you will see a different side of BIG"

The team has continued to struggle upon returning to tier-two competition, dropping to a team-low 43rd place on the Valve Regional Standings with a 6-13 record in matches in the new season.

Their solution now is to bring prosus back into the team just a month after he was taken off the bench to reform the BIG Academy, coming in place of kyuubii, who goes the other way after joining the German side at the beginning of the year.

Meanwhile, xenn will also make his return to coaching the main team after taking over the job on an interim basis from Alexander "⁠kakafu⁠" Szymanczyk earlier this year, before he was appointed assistant coach to ScrunK and head of the BIG Academy in July.

BIG now are:

Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz
Jon "⁠JDC⁠" de Castro
Karim "⁠Krimbo⁠" Moussa
Marcel "⁠hyped⁠" Köhn
David "⁠prosus⁠" Hesse

Sebastian "⁠xenn⁠" Hoch (head coach)

Bug clan. btw +syrsoN when?

2025-08-22 16:33

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This team will achieve nothing and has for 3 years

2025-08-22 16:29

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unfortenatly youre right. pro cs scene in germany is just dead. even the people who have the potential to go pro would rather work a normal career

2025-08-22 17:18

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I think your country needs to focus on a better academy structure + introduce esports in school rather than trying to have an unsuccessful team in tier1. Not a lot of financial incentives to go pro when you are German compared to if you are from a 3rd world country. edit It's easier to become a doctor and live a upper middle class life in Germany rather than waste your life trying to become pro. Where I'm from it's either work your entire life to still be lower class or try to go pro and earn more than your entire village combined, even match fixing once is like a yearly salary.

2025-08-22 19:06

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You way overestimate germany. The state is rich, the people are not. Germans own less than their neighbours in capital, less homeowners etc. Taxes & duties are massive Housing market is dead & expensive. Its actually hard to get back in job life if you tried to be a pro-gamer for 3-4 years right after school. Me & our company left germany due to all the problems & we are now happily in switzerland without all the troubles. Germany is not in a good spot at all, its not the germany of the 90s & early 2000s anymore. Economy, taxes, medical aid, school, social & pension system are completely broken compared to the 2000s.

2025-08-23 02:32

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Average Switzerland refugee. Quit acting like you lead a worse life as a german university educated person, than in countries like Ukraine, Russia, Mongolia, or whatever country is producing the hotshot talents right now. If I am a german 18 year old and get a degree in a somewhat relevant field, I have almost a guarantee, that I will live a comfortable life. I will probably not get rich, but I can support my family and go on vacation like once a year, Other countries do not have that, and the ESports scene definitely does not have that, So the gamble of trying to go pro makes way less sense in Germany, than in Russia.

2025-08-23 12:42

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Name checks out. If you get a degree in relevant field even in Russia you can support the family and go on vacation once a year, that's not much to boast about. I'm definitely not saying that Russia is better than Germany, maybe "somewhat relevant field" is smaller in Russia and also not everyone can afford to move to a big city where all the possibilities are, but it's definitely not as bad as you describe. CS as whole has just been more popular here for quite a long time, not so much to do with possibilities. Russia has a big tier 2-4 scene, and it's not like salary and guarantees in those small teams are particularly high. You can check the biography of Russian top players, most of them start playing from a very early age, now they even have a defined career path in academies; it's a natural choice to pursue the career in a field you spent most of your life in, not because there's nothing else they can do. There are countries like you describe, but Russia is not the best example.

2025-08-23 13:10

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St Petersburg and Moscow are hardly representetive of Russia at large. If you come from Chelyabinsk, from a lower class family, I wish you could luck getting an education, climbing the social ladder and escaping poverty. But hey, you do you.

2025-08-23 17:48

Then why the most prominent cs 1.6 nations were Sweden and Denmark, where you could easily surpass the income from gaming with a side hustle in a grocery store? Success of a certain country in a game is mostly determined by game popularity and proper eco-system that allows future pro’s develop. Economic factors play a minor role here.

2025-08-23 15:17

That is true, in the beginning of even CS:GO, nobody was doing eSports as a full time job. It was mostly a sidehustle / hobby. Afaik NiP was the first full time professional team. But yes, Sweden and Denmark are different in that regard, as eSports is way more widely accepted in society and therefore also by parents as a career choice. Germany is significantly more conservative in that regard. I am not saying that economy is the sole factor, but I believe it is a major factor.

2025-08-23 17:50

Rische was the problem

More like BIG joke

2025-08-22 16:43

tabsen at the BIG HQ: We just need to recycle ONE MORE player, I swear. Or coach... Just one more recyle and I am the best IGL, I swear!

2025-08-22 16:56

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Remove tabsen from the team would fix a lot

2025-08-22 18:30

Or nothing at all, who even knows at this point

2025-08-22 23:53

I don´t understand why it is the same over and over again. At some point you need to understand that you need more changes to the same time. I feel like you need at least 3 new players that the playstyle of the hole team changes. For example the time with rigon felt not bad at all because there was on guy with something new to the team in therms of the playstyle. But in the end rigon got slower in the rounds and played more like the others and the playstyle from the other clearly didn´t work. I feel like when a new player comes to the team they say ,, He brings new things or perspektives to the team but in the end it is just gone you don´t see Nothing change. I think the solution could be to start making bigger changes like playling with faven sin and slaxz of course its costy but in the end you have realy something new a lot new players with their own playstyle and then it envolves to something new. Its just the same and if that is now going to continue i may consider cheering for a team that dose not make the same mistakes over and over again

2025-08-26 19:11

after the recent beef between big and syrson, that will never happen again if anything, im surprised he hasnt sued big yet (for those who dont know, they made a documentary and basically made syrson alone responsible for the failures which is kinda crazy)

2025-08-22 17:22

Poor guy, he seemed like a chill and good person

2025-08-22 17:30

Honestly to some extent I understand the criticism. Syrson has the flair of a piece of drywall and that is something some people might take issue with. Throwing him under the bus publically however is completely uncalled for and out of touch.

2025-08-23 12:44

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Nah they decided to +Syrson again. They knew what they signed up for

2025-08-23 12:53

That is because that is the only thing they know how to do. Give it two years and you will see kyubii again

2025-08-23 12:59

+syrson +nex +tizian

2025-08-22 17:28

+prosus is good but i think gob b will return as coach

2025-08-22 17:43

lol

2025-08-22 16:28

why was kyubii playin anyways

-tabseN when? This is utter woke nonsense

Whats woke about it, isnt that completely unrelated?

2025-08-22 16:38

im guessing bc germany is seen as woke in most parts of the world especially US?

2025-08-22 16:44

knowyourmeme.com/memes/sean-dyche-utter-..

2025-08-22 16:52

well so i was half right at least tho lol also dyche being in there is wild af lmao

2025-08-22 16:53

recycling players like this and not disbanding is clearly utter woke nonsense.

germans and humor

2025-08-23 12:45

just disband already zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

just shoot me already

2025-08-22 16:32

Bruh (happy for Prosus and FreeZe tho)

2025-08-22 16:30

Might as well bring back Syrson

sorry but he’s locked in his bedroom

2025-08-22 17:17

worldwide epidemic waiting room

2025-08-22 20:20

Doubt that changes anything at all trash Players and Coaches trading places....

BIG NEWS

Keep recycling a coach that has achieved nothing but repeated cheating bans in his career. Keep an AWPer that cannot perform anywhere near tier1-2 level, which he is constantly proving with zero improvement over the last years. BIG management is the most braindead cs staff on earth.

I swear they just rotate the same guys in and out over and over again XD

bringing in prosus is not a bad move, but not getting a star awper is weird. ofc they would have to go international with that anyways

2025-08-22 18:59

Berlin International Clown Fiesta

2025-08-22 16:31

xeen? head coach?

yeah, again

Huge

Xddd

BIG will not achieve anything until they get s1n and slaxz

They had s1n, they kicked him, the fucking idiots kicked him. And they could have easily gotten slaxz while he was still on attax 3-4 years ago.

2025-08-23 12:46

so what

Krimbo still in the roster = auto GG

so legit nothing changed. amazing

-prosus +prosus -prosus +prosus -syrson +syrson -hyped +hyped Big eternal loop

-xenn +xenn

2025-08-22 16:35

They should pick up Turkish players. Turkey and Germany are the same country anyway.

2025-08-22 16:37

Xantares and others are placing well and making bookie org money RN so rip that option

2025-08-22 16:39

EF and their academy exist do you think big actually is interested in good and talented players aside from JDC?

2025-08-22 16:55

-prosus +prosus -prosus +prosus -prosus +prosus in 5 months and 2 weeks

I really like this kid. Solid X factor. For any team that needs it. Primarily Liquid.

2025-08-22 18:32

prosus has only been on the main roster 1 time before, same as s1n and hyped

2025-08-22 19:00

big becoming the new fnatic

2025-08-22 16:34

fnatic's at least coming up with *some* fresh talent (and by that i basically just mean matys) instead of recycling the same few players for eternity

2025-08-22 18:03

insert Spiderman pointing meme

Just disband omg

throw out worst leader tabsen and get normal awp for at least top15

Only way Big would improve wih a german player is Primetapz instead of Prosus. Even then not much of an upgrade. Time to ditch the full german team otherwise they will be stuck in tier2

2025-08-22 16:36

It's the calling that's keeping them stuck in t2, it hasn't changed since 2020

2025-09-05 10:36

Yeah Sin and Slax from m80 would be great for them, obuť i doubt they would go to big. Especially as they are basically guaranteed majors and stickers in NA

2025-09-05 14:56

Come on how much do you have to change before you just out the money down and get s1n and slaxz off of m80 It will be pricey as hell but just do it. Please dont actually do it i like m80.

I hope for the sake of them both, that they just decline this offer..

2025-08-26 12:52

I mean they tried everything with the current roster it didn't work out they have to make a change somehow

2025-08-22 16:42

hahahaha, good for scrunk tho

without this org , we wouldnt have something to laught at

Kyuubii is their best player since Faven. Im confused.

idk abt that but hyped needs to go first clearly

He was trash, but somehow it's hard to point out someone better than him on that team (besides JDC)

2025-08-23 05:08

Wait, I actually see something good from the management‼️⁉️

absolute clown fiesta....

what a clown fiesta...

2025-08-22 16:46

Big and Faze in the same situation, where they both keep sabotaging themselves by replacing everyone except the one player that actually needs to be replaced.

i would rather see BIG hire 5 german faceit level 10s than keep recycling these guy

BIG is master in Bullshit-Bingo

Another productive day in the BIG Office.

2025-08-22 16:54

who cares about trash dead team?

2025-08-22 16:58

finally dont have to see these clowns anymore

2025-08-22 16:59

There's at least one german coach left that they haven't kicked?

2025-08-22 17:05

Prosus makes sense, the rest is totally random again and wont have significant impact again. -tabsen +freeze would have been better

2025-08-22 17:06

+gob b +LEGIJA -JDC -Krimbo

-tabsen -krimbo

2025-08-22 17:08

shuffling around the same 7-8 players and expecting different results. - BIG 6head management going with the definition of insanity as their core principle. demonic moves. about to pay of any day now surely.

same problem as faze , need a brand new coach and new igl

2025-08-22 17:21

Ah Xenn. Former cheater and used to steal PCs from lans. What a team.

2025-08-22 17:26

xenn did steal too lmfao? i only knew about that bih marky

2025-08-26 15:44

Is this German humour, quite the joke moves recently by their management

2025-08-22 17:48

Big doing idiotic roster moves isnt recent. They have been recycling players around tabsen for 5 years. Even before that they had roster moves like -smooya +smooya (for 100 maps), or adding denis (29 maps). Look at their roster timeline and laugh. I hope JDC and Prosus leave, then finally disband this mess.

clown show

2025-08-22 17:51

Bro wtf is this org even doing, they faded away from T1 with the speed of light. Hell now they aren't even tier 2 lately, this is SAD.

2025-08-22 17:59

Until -tabsen and -krimbo, BIG will continue to achieve nothing.

2025-08-22 18:02

Disband when

2025-08-22 18:25

disband

Nice. Now play him like a GODDAMN X FACTOR ! He is a really REALLY good at that.

2025-08-22 18:31

Time to go international.

krimbo and tabvsen still there gg wp scrunk was the problem pepega kappa

2025-08-22 18:41

when +syrsoN

2025-08-22 18:42

Unlikely. A month ago or so they released a video with which they were trying to put the blame on syrsoN.

2025-08-22 19:15

they didnt really put blame on him, they (especially Krimbo) just did not really speak very positive about him. i personally think he would rejoin BIG if asked

2025-08-22 19:18

They're backstabbing snakes.

2025-08-22 19:25

If you ever witnessed his reactions to BIG being mentioned after the video you would not say that.

2025-08-22 19:26

Any clip or quotes from this?

2025-08-22 21:20

youtube.com/watch?v=2Aan38BkeQY

2025-08-22 21:47

Krimbo cried about Syrson not showing happiness and claimed that this was an issue while he (Krimbo) is the issue... really pathetic Vlog and you see they didn't learn anything since they keep that toxic guy.

2025-08-22 21:46

BIG should disband for doing that to my GOAT. I believe in karma.

2025-08-22 23:17

The day BIG removes tabsen will be the day they actually move forward as an org. That guy is such a bot. Literally the only constant in every single failed BIG team.

2025-08-22 18:57

This org is a joke and lost any remaining respect with that video blaming syrson.

2025-08-22 19:14

there was a rumor shortly after ScrunK joined that they wanted to bring back gob b as coach... i wonder what happens now. -kyuubi +prosus is a fat upgrade IMO but i highly doubt that this will change a lot. i love tabsen and i'm sure there would still be some space for him in a good version of BIG but i still think they need to add s1n and slaxz to bounce back to becoming a solid team again

2025-08-22 19:21

atm S1n would be dumb to join BIG

2025-08-22 21:44

Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz

2025-08-22 19:34

the man that is truly living and more off the land

2025-08-23 17:54

This move will definitely bring BIG back to tier 2!

2025-08-22 20:38

All they really do is just recycle. Lol

2025-08-22 21:09

BIG always forget to throw out the garbage called tabsen out of the house, that stoopid is single handedly ruining everyone else's career

2025-08-22 21:19

Scrunk never stood a chance with BIG!!! :-(

2025-08-22 22:24

I expected changes to come sooner or later. But holy hell, this move is ridiculous. I seriously don't know what is going on inside BIGs management? Come on roman R., please explain. I was hoping that scrunk is the first step to get away from BIGs static playstyle. And that tabsen will be removed from being a IGL.

2025-08-22 22:43

there is one move, i would like to see in BIG: Karrigan as IGL.

2025-08-22 23:02

freeze as assistant coach i cant

2025-08-22 23:54

FreeZe would be better IGL prolly

2025-08-23 05:15

Roman R has to go. Since he is the manager for BIG CS departmend they only do dumb shit.

2025-08-23 13:53

BIG keep doing irrelevant roster changes that will not take them forward at all.

2025-08-23 13:55

idk about skrunk but bringing back admitted cheater xenn is a disgrace. kyuubi, hyped and krimbo all were too inconsistent the last few months. lets hope prosus can be more consistent.

2025-08-23 21:47

Same mistakes over and over

2025-08-23 21:50

Unprofessional fiesta.

2025-08-25 09:58

i have a feeling THIS time big is gonna go big

2025-08-26 09:47

they are just always going to bench everyone but tabsen lol

2025-08-26 15:14

Just disband I'm so disappointed

2025-08-29 14:46

just disband

2025-08-30 00:39

prosus was doing very well in academy, so let's see, but hyped is still an issue, he is just not a "top 20" awp player after all. Not a bad player, but more for t2 teams, which BIG once wasn't. But when you go from top 10 to top 50 in 4 years...

2025-08-31 22:40