Acend enter Counter-Strike with Bulgarian roster

3-11-2025 23:00

The Austrian organization announced its entry into CS.

Photo courtesy of Acend / Philip Stanchev

Acend have announced their entry into Counter-Strike with a Teodor "⁠SPELLAN⁠" Nikolov-led Bulgarian lineup.

The Austrian organization is most known for being the first team to win a Champions title in Riot's VALORANT, and has now expanded into Counter-Strike for the first time in their history.

Acend's first squad features is led by Bulgarian veteran SPELLAN, who is joined ex-500 and Partizan member Kalin "⁠KalubeR⁠" Erenditsov.

The young duo of Dimitar "⁠Skrimo⁠" Yanulov and Kaloyan "⁠shaiK⁠" Borisov will fulfill the rifler roles, while Slaven "⁠AwaykeN⁠" Lyubenov will come in as the team's AWPer.

The team has already played a tournament under the StoichkovPeek moniker and won the Game Zone Masters 2025 in Poznan, Poland, after defeating Betclic in the final.

Acend are:

Teodor "⁠SPELLAN⁠" Nikolov
Kaloyan "⁠shaiK⁠" Borisov
Slaven "⁠AwaykeN⁠" Lyubenov
Kalin "⁠KalubeR⁠" Erenditsov
Dimitar "⁠Skrimo⁠" Yanulov

Tier50

2025-11-03 23:00

152

7 replies

they won Game Zone Masters 2025 and beat betclic in the final

2025-11-03 23:03

4 replies

... so Tier50

2025-11-03 23:08

wow tier49 then

2025-11-04 00:01

who?

2025-11-04 11:55

1 reply

acend beat bectclic, betclic beat mongolz, mongolz beat vitality theyre t1

2025-11-04 12:39

tier500* if you know you know!

2025-11-04 11:26

lol

Disband in a few month cheating and throwing incoming :) again

2025-11-03 23:01

Wow

CCT Contenders?

2025-11-03 23:02

8 replies

CCT season 498 series 318 southwestern Berlin regional runners up

2025-11-03 23:23

6 replies

T.T

2025-11-03 23:37

5 replies

rigon! good to see you men)))

2025-11-03 23:41

Nice to see you, hope you will cheer for me and my albanian mix in the CCT season 498 series 318 southwestern Berlin regional finals men)))

2025-11-04 00:21

3 replies

I would never cheer for anyone else men))))

2025-11-04 00:26

2 replies

men)))

2025-11-04 00:51

rigon my GOAT!

2025-11-04 01:08

322 Contenders

2025-11-04 11:31

Bulgaria mentioned! Welcome to cs boys!! of course most of the comments will be cynical, 322, and critical

yeah because why tf would they start with sth like this??

2025-11-03 23:11

322 contender to 500

SPELLEN MATCH FIX AGAIN PLS PLS

One of the only profitable cs2 teams (Count the words)

2025-11-03 23:04

9 replies

tf u mean they for sure wont be profitable man lol

2025-11-03 23:18

org will ask spellan to fix matches for them :)

2025-11-03 23:33

Did you count the words

2025-11-03 23:38

i just assumed it was meant as 7 or 10 in a total sum..

2025-11-04 00:25

322 match fixing joke

2025-11-04 09:37

i know

2025-11-04 12:37

3 2 2 It's a match-fixing joke.

2025-11-03 23:44

322 i know yes

2025-11-04 00:24

3 2 2 (3)

2025-11-04 05:27

500 cultural impact is insane people see bulgaria team they already think about 322

the ones alleging 322 are likely also cheating in their cs2 premier games

2025-11-03 23:06

are you fakeflagging or why riding so hard for bulgaria against all odds??

2025-11-03 23:19

people see spellan on the roster

thinking 500 is first bulgarian 322 team is diabolical lack of knowledge

2025-11-04 00:33

500, Fate, Skade, Fiend, Windigo, Orbit, E-frag and the list goes on. 500 wasn't the org under which bulgarians built their reputation, that reputation was built over years of hard work.

2025-11-04 00:44

Is this happens because we are from BULGARIA ???

They will continue to match fixing in Valorant, bulgarian matchfixers

2025-11-03 23:05

They were valo world champions and they signed this roster lol

World champions in 2021 (stone age era) and after that they failed to do anything

2025-11-04 07:02

500 spinoff

lets make these guys millionaires too! @ESIC

GL!

dude's first comment on hltv is supporting some fixer frauds quit the scene acend ceo

2025-11-05 18:50

Why do I hear matchfixing boss music?

2025-11-03 23:07

Waste of moneys [*]

the pride of Bulgarian cs

2025-11-03 23:12

waste of money

2025-11-03 23:14

322 KINGPINS, now we just need bubble reunion

2025-11-03 23:15

no sleep, only cs like 500 hours per day

2025-11-03 23:17

a total of one decent player 💔

spellan?

2025-11-03 23:20

W welcome to CS2

More Bulgarian businessmen, nice

322 united

2025-11-03 23:24

With that roster you definitely about to find out CS harder than Valorant.

2025-11-03 23:25

Cologne 2026 Champions or CCT Contenders, no in between

2025-11-03 23:26

4 weeks max

tier 3 at best

2025-11-03 23:27

Tier 322

2025-11-03 23:47

tier farm money

2025-11-03 23:55

Is this happen because we are from BULGARIA?!?!!

2025-11-03 23:59

Spellan still only 27? what haha

huge for 2 bulgarian cs fans

2025-11-04 00:02

TMV's contract runs out and they sign these guys...interesting

2025-11-04 00:05

boss of fix is back suuuui

2025-11-04 00:43

So many lineups en with no org and you choose these guys? I thought Acend were legit

2025-11-04 00:47

Is this happens because we’re from…

Skrimo the headshot machine

2025-11-04 01:03

Bulgaria is a good choice, but the players... where is h4rn / Jorko where is SHiPZ and REDSTAR? This lineup is bad like omfg Skrimo? RLY NGA?

2025-11-04 01:06

yeee i still waiting for h4rn/jorko/shipz to be on teams but CS scene is kinda meme, you need connections and if some soylord says you are "too toxic" you're not finding a team unfortunately

2025-11-04 02:07

True as f*ck unfortunately 😕

2025-11-04 03:31

New generation of worldwide kids… I don’t say nothing bad personality but parents and teachers need to think what they doing about this kids because things it’s not going good like this. This is self-destruction on new generation and this is not accidentally.

2025-11-04 02:03