BIG sign gr1ks; bench hyped

10-10-2025 16:01

The German-majority squad is back to calling in English with the new arrival.

BIG has announced the signing of Belarusian AWPer Gleb "⁠gr1ks⁠" Gazin from HEROIC, where he was benched after playing only two events, FISSURE Playground 1 and IEM Cologne 2025.

The 19-year-old had joined HEROIC from Astrum, and after his benching was allowed to briefly play with GUN5, where he averaged a 1.14 rating in 35 maps before his loan came to an end.

gr1ks loaned to GUN5

gr1ks's signing means Marcel "⁠hyped⁠" Köhn is moving to the bench, and Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz will return to calling in English, something the German team has done in the past when it had the likes of Mateusz "⁠mantuu⁠" Wilczewski or Owen "⁠smooya⁠" Butterfield and Ismailcan "⁠XANTARES⁠" Dörtkardeş on the roster.

hyped had been in the starting five for nine months and averaged a 0.98 rating in his latest tenure after being promoted from the academy team in January, which was his second time on the main team after a brief stint in 2023.

BIG hope to hit the jackpot with the 19-year-old, who was not a good fit in HEROIC, as they have been struggling and are 37th in the HLTV ranking and 38th in the VRS. Recent results include a 9-12th place at Birch Cup, bronze at Urban Riga Open, and 5-8th at Fragadelphia Blocktober, where they were competing with teams seeking to get a berth at the StarLadder Major.

BIG is now:

Johannes "⁠tabseN⁠" Wodarz
Jon "⁠JDC⁠" de Castro
David "⁠prosus⁠" Hesse
Karim "⁠Krimbo⁠" Moussa
Gleb "⁠gr1ks⁠" Gazin

Sebastian "⁠xenn⁠" Hoch (coach)

Marcel "⁠hyped⁠" Köhn (benched)

W gr1ks

2025-10-10 16:01

10 replies

Get rid of prosus and BIG can cookin' something

2025-10-10 16:13

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hes better than jdc just give him decent positions

2025-10-10 16:15

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hell nah jdc is one of the best germans

2025-10-10 20:03

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based on him sometimes stomping bad teams and his few ancient lifegames in the beginning of the year

2025-10-10 23:10

Prosus isn’t the problem In big it was the fact they didn’t have a good awper now hyped is gone big actually gonna get some good results

2025-10-11 02:46

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they have so many more problems than just hyped😭

2025-10-11 15:02

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You worry about Afghanistan bro, don’t think German cs should be your worry

2025-10-12 00:19

afghani cs > british cs

2025-10-12 00:31

British cs 1 major > afghani cs 0 major, although your expertise is playing t side in real life

2025-10-14 22:06

gleb

2025-10-10 17:18

day 30 of begging big to disband

143

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2025-10-10 16:04

He aint wrong tho....

2025-10-10 16:06

im only doing this in honour of my man @biggamer69 he has been awaiting a good transfer for like 4 years now?

2025-10-10 16:07

ty bro, very much appreciated🙏🙏🤝

2025-10-10 17:16

yeah exactly flag his flag has the power to disband germany proper apparently..

2025-10-10 16:08

hyped was the only one doing stuff, i dont get it but lets hope something changes this time

2025-10-10 16:02

nah. hyped and kyuubi were their weakest links by far. i like hyped and he definitely had great games but he was way too unreliable and inconsistent. he's got the most expensive buy and a .98 rating and misses a lot of crucial shots when it counts. i think this is a huge upgrade and makes a lot of sense

2025-10-10 16:26

LOL Hyped was legit deadweight. You can say stats arent everything but 0,98 as AWPer is really bad. He missed most normal shots and had SOME good moments but zero reliability.

2025-10-10 17:10

are you legally blind? he was the worst player rating wise the last month in the whole top 50 and the 4th worst last 3 months…

2025-10-10 18:11

big no longer racist...

no reason to keep tabsen anymore :C

Wtf... racist? Because they tried it with a german roster? Are Aurora racists, too? Or Mongolz, Astralis,...?

2025-10-11 09:40

funnier thing is BIG only won with Xantares too.. so if BIG was a racist team it would be embarrasing for them to only win with a player that isnt even full german

2025-10-11 12:36

I think he meant in the joking way like Launders says. It’s good racism where teams want to build good rosters of their countrymen.

2025-10-11 15:56

Finally Germany cs = dead cs

at least not falcons

The first good decision in the last few years. Nice

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well english has really never worked for them before..

2025-10-10 16:10

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they were top 1 with xantares btw

2025-10-10 16:12

5 years ago, im talking mantuu etc xanti is essentially generational while gr1ks more than likely isnt...

2025-10-10 16:21

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top1 with xantares and top 6 with smooya, even top10 with gade lol. mantuu basically came into a broken team already and he was like half a year in the active roster, i think its not right to judge from that one roster alone. BIG is finally starting to cook again

2025-10-10 16:30

With gade it was even a lineup calling in german.

2025-10-10 16:49

Same with mantuu pretty sure

2025-10-10 17:07

no he does not speak it there was even a seperate article on it lmao

2025-10-10 17:22

Seeing you every where , wtf

2025-10-10 16:56

theres this lil thing called "Reply"

2025-10-10 19:42

Yes, replying every where

2025-10-10 21:09

easy

2025-10-10 21:17

He has no life this guy. He’s home wasting his life living of his parents money not lifting a finger.

2025-10-11 01:33

Does xantares speak german? If not then it worked cuz they had #1 peak with him

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I remember that at the time he joined big he didn't really speak german and even said on streams that he switched his game language to german so he learns the language. Idk if he lived in germany at the time tho

he did not even speak good english at that time if i remember correctly. remember the infamous "i am feeling thank you" interview? wasn't that during or close to his time in BIG. I remember some interview where someone in BIG said they are still deciding if xantares takes english or german lessons.

2025-10-10 16:32

"I'm feeling thank you" happened in may 2017, he joined big in december 2018. 1.5 year so I wouldn't say it was during or close to his time in BIG.

he has the yellow space soldiers jersey in that vid even, looks super young and its like 3 years before they hit no1 lmao

2025-10-10 17:24

from what I remember, he started learning german just for BIG, but it wasnt going very well at all, so BIG was doing a lot of things in english (which xantares also wasnt super strong at at the time). so, BIG just kinda had a star fragger who they couldnt always effectively communicate with. its this communication struggle that also pushed xantares to leave and go make his own turkish team even tho he could have other international success.

2025-10-10 21:50

I'm pretty sure communication wasn't the reason of him leaving BIG if he played for almost 3 years there. He just wanted to develop turkish scene, that's all.

2025-10-10 22:03

Gob b was translating for him

2025-10-11 03:39

Top 1 with Xantares, Cologne final with Smooya I'd argue the language was never the problem

2025-10-10 16:03

they are trying their best to be a shitshow

*successfully

cant wait for them to go back to full german in 3 months

2025-10-10 17:41

You mean aka "Welcome back SyrsoN!"?

2025-10-10 19:11

tabsen krimbo and jdc hate him sadly..

2025-10-10 23:01

makes sense

2025-10-10 16:05

who is 2nd russian speaking guy? gokushima?

u think theyll kick somebody else?

2025-10-10 16:40

electronic igl instead of tabsen for full 5/5 villains roster mb groove coach then or idk who would be actual villain coach prolly more fierce or sth

2025-10-10 23:02

so first furia and mibr now big

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soon aurora

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@nacjac ya banned?

2025-10-11 01:28

no, are you?

2025-10-11 11:32

no but youd deserve it not that i really expected jonE to obviously as hes super right wing himself

2025-10-11 14:38

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if anyone deserve to be banned it is u mr racist fakeflager

2025-10-11 15:00

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so schizo now that were talking to ourself? aha very interesting

2025-10-11 15:52

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no mr @FreePolleChai|Carti i was talking to you regards

2025-10-11 15:59

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when people use PS flags its actually usually for the exact reason to show theyre essentially against racism.. yours on the other hand... also i doubt ive done said or hinted anything even remotely racist for you to see so far...

2025-10-11 16:02

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you did assume im white fakeflager bcs in your eyes black ppl in uganda are too dumb and too poor to use internet so they cannot possibly post on this website thats pure racism my friend hope u will find help Regards

2025-10-11 16:06

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so you actually are? from uganda? cause all people i met like this so far used it as like a joke and in a racist way (bc of the "everyone in uganda knows kung fu" thing movie for example) and in combination with you being against turks... go figure im not saying its not possible just.. yk

2025-10-11 16:13

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so u judge everyone with uganda flag based on your experience with few people? sure man you are not racist

2025-10-12 01:49

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are you from uganda i judge everyone here that way yes bc its fkn hltv man theres pretty much only right wingers on here..

2025-10-12 02:00

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yes i am why are you changing subject all the time we are not talking about me we are talking about you being racist why are you racist

2025-10-13 01:41

you are talking about that i was talking about you being racist against turks for one amongst other things and from there assuming you had that flag for racist reasons too

2025-10-13 07:13

stop deflecting why are you racist + hating on a country is xenophobia, not racism

2025-10-13 13:52

turks are a people and ethnicity... why are you gae stop deflecting man..

2025-10-13 14:30

hmm no and only u are deflecting man why are you racist

2025-10-13 14:39

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hmm no why are you gae

2025-10-13 14:44

sorry kid i understand you are looking for one of your dads but im not one of them stop deflecting why are you racist?

2025-10-13 15:24

your father and your father in the night fucc fucc fucc and you cry idk man i just love racism so fkn much bro yk like for example i love hating on minorities like turks every day for no damn reason at all

2025-10-13 15:46

meds my gay meds

2025-10-13 16:42

why are you gae

2025-10-13 16:46

Who says I'm gay?

2025-10-13 17:08

furia and mibr what? signing awpers? it happens all the time

2025-10-10 16:24

cis awpers to replace national awpers

so did navi, g2, nip, heroic, og and other teams before and no one talked about it so much.. cis is almost a continent for cs

well because those teams already went international beforehand so not as much shock factor, but yes you are right many cs prospects from the region

2025-10-10 16:34

so eng comms again?

Owen, don't go heaven

im smoked

2025-10-10 16:09

ye but if u smoked.. dozen madduh

2025-10-13 17:23

where do you want me?

2025-10-10 17:26

ct bro ct

Glebstian 'gr1ks' Gazinsteiger famous german prodigy

wtf

yeah calling this fraud a prodigy was too much i think

Glebastian Gazinsteiger bruhhh

2025-10-10 16:23

ure right, kinda silly question kekw

2025-10-10 16:11

kkkkkkkkkkkkkk

gr1ksoN

2025-10-10 16:33

No way, new player in BIG????? Is this real Life

calm down its not -tabsen syrson will be back in 2/3 months max

2025-10-10 16:16

as sad as it makes me i think syrson is done as professional player, he's almost 30, has no team and wasn't in great form the last time he competed

is this just fantasy

2025-10-10 16:25

Still better than hyped

whats the point of their academy team then? just to sign Heroic's leftovers?

academy doesnt have a great awper

ok so get gr0ks who is like the fastest bench in history. surely will work with jerman rigid system with no freedom

worked with smooya tho. i think it's a good move, it's up to them to make it work

2025-10-10 16:35

actually JBOEN is a great awper

Yeah, wouldn't have been mad if they went for promoting him after the major or smth

2025-10-10 17:47

to have hyped until he gets into main roster again obv

money

hyped was from the academy clearly not working well, they need to disband the academy

they only just reintroduced their academy. hyped was from the last iteration.

2025-10-10 16:19

to scout youngins and put them in a contract jail

I knew they are going internatiol again. Prpbly not winning much with this guy and then going to pickup hyped from the bench. PLEASE BIG CLAN Save yourself with the mos obv move: -tabsen

+s3nsey

yes easy top10 jdc s1n s3nsey prosus krimb0

2025-10-11 09:16

bench gr1ks!!

Mantuu died for you guys to speak german, and now you change back?

i mean it obviously has not worked? signing a young awper in such a good form is the best thing they did in years and somehow people are still finding things to complain

2025-10-10 16:37

gr1ks is not even that good though

2025-10-10 17:06

anyone is better than hyped

2025-10-10 18:13

@marc7708

ja ka shit org

LOL facts tho

Hyped for this move

Anything but kicking fucking tabsen

hope he wont get benched after few games

now add better igl

-tabsen now pls it's time , the team needs some fresh ideas and change of playstyle or they will still be stuck in tier2 at best...

They're not even Tier3 rn.

What tier2 buddy? They're losing to no-namers tier4 orgs xDDDDDDDD

2025-10-10 16:59

-hyped is good, but i dont like +gr1ks

+zontix

2025-10-10 16:20

worst way to ruin your career bro

Now please -jdc or -tabsen

Good

-tabsen +s1n / international IGL and this team could actually be fire

The problem is that the players also want to join lol s1n is able to get ez stickers with m80 tho

2025-10-10 17:52

Lol why would s1n join these bots and keep on missing the major?

2025-10-10 19:01

he would never but it would be the only way big becomes relevant again :&

Maybe you're right. Disband & Rebuild sounds much better xD

2025-10-10 19:27

Belarus International Gaming

2025-10-10 16:28

everyone saw what furia did and said "lemme cook"

2025-10-10 16:29

Nah this ain't it big

Big recycle going hard. +syrson when?

2025-10-10 16:39

What exactly does this move have to do with recycling? lol

dono bro maybe cos they add him and bench him like 3 times ? same with hyped just a joke org now!!! Rebuild or Die !!!

2025-10-11 01:30

Recycling would be reusing a player, they're signing a belarussian player now. Hope that helps 👍

2025-10-11 02:22

and bench him 3 weeks later to get hyped again :D thats what recycling mean glad i could help my fellow germain big fanboy

2025-10-11 11:50

I mean I'm all for blaming them for the mistakes they did and are still doing. I just find it stupid to already blame them for something that has only happened in your imagination yet. Not really sure how that makes me a fanboy lol

2025-10-13 11:26

They should get Kairon, his German is not the best but he speaks it and can help gr1ks

2025-10-10 16:41

Hyped was pretty good. The real problem (tabseN) is still being ignored.

2025-10-10 16:42

After Furia’s success with molodoy, every struggling org is now trying to save itself by signing Russian awpers, lul

2025-10-10 16:45

desperation move tho. Won't work -> welcome back SyrsoN!

2025-10-10 19:15

bench Tabsen ffs

kick tabsen please

2025-10-10 16:57

Actually swap ATTAX matchfixer for aurora1xscam academy matchfixer xD

Another career of young talent with potential getting ruined by tabsen himself

Someone has to do it

2025-10-10 17:08

Syrson back by Christmas

2025-10-10 17:01

the team needs a shift. - krimbo + some solid rifler. Even from the CIS region. Presus solid for a trial, tabsen to stay to keep the feel of big and JDC can be a tier 1 player at times. +Griks is a very good move, but Krimbo has lost his touch in big, he's stale and could come back later, but he needs a break and BIG need a shift.

2025-10-10 17:04

how can you say -Krimbo when he is the only good consistent player in this team JDC is tier1 player when he faces top100 teams, the moment the enemies can use their brain he is ghosting Also their T Sides and mid round calling are awful, but yeah bench Krimbo!

2025-10-10 19:14

As long as tabsen calls big will not in major range

gg griks for finally destroying your career

2025-10-10 17:11

Why would gr1ks downgrade xd

2025-10-10 17:15

It's a good signing, the only thing I'm worried about is BIG adapting from full German, I think this team just needs time and patience

BIG doing literally ANYTHING but benching tabsen, insane

2025-10-10 17:21

here we go again 1 year later after great success with international lineup breaking into top 20 Big will go german again droping back to top 40

2025-10-10 17:25

Close enough, welcome back SyrsoN

2025-10-10 17:30

yet another genius level move from Berlin International Gigacucks 😂😂😂

2025-10-10 17:33

good change tbh

2025-10-10 17:58

Ah, another temporary BIG experiment. German replacement coming soon

2025-10-10 18:01

the last 2 tournaments saved tabsen from being benched lmao

2025-10-10 18:17

changing to international just for a mid awper

2025-10-10 18:20

Good for him

2025-10-10 18:30

I hope teams like BiG with cheaters in the Coachslot can go down to Tier 123

2025-10-10 18:33

benched within the end of the year calling it now

As much as I respect Tabsen for his talent and impact on the German CS scene, it's time for him to go. I don't think that firepower is the main hindrance for BIG to get stuff done; it's the mental game and calling. They rotate the same player pool for 2 years, and get smashed by banana teams. Tabsen got figured out. I believe they need a new perspective and drive. Why not try s1n and slacx?

2025-10-10 18:34

Sorry for the late reply, but since someone bumped the thread now... It's about the money. I'm assuming its pretty expensive to cut two more of your players if they have 1+ years on the current contract and replace them with not cheap players like s1n and slacx + you need to sell your benched players. Let's be honest: there won't be much interest in this squad lol. Except for Krimbo, but he is 100% staying no matter what. On paper it sounds awesome, but in reality - its super expensive and BIG doesn't make any money from this CS roster, currently it just burns money. Gr1ks should have had low buyout due to being benched and not-so-high salary. But honestly, BIG management gets the "golden bin" across CS management teams in 2025 - absolute masterclass of being awful at decision-making. TLDR: if BIG had tons of "free cash" - it would have been an A+ move, but they don't.

2025-10-12 02:23

aged pretty bad

2025-10-12 21:03

Why? They took a 27-year old dude from their "academy team" to IGL - which take was wrong? That Krimbo is their big asset? If not him, who is their biggest asset?

2025-10-12 21:07